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POWELL - History of Ohio [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:44:58, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: SCOTT - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume 1, page 243 - Chapter IV WAYNES CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INDIANS (the following paragraph mentions a Scott.) After the appointment of General Wayne to the chief command of the legion, Brevet Brigadier-Generals James Wilkinson and Thomas Posey were appointed second in command. Maj. Gen. Charles Scott was to lead 1,500 mounted Kentucky militia. Wayne's army was to be known as the "Legion of the United States." Volume I, page 472 - The chapter EDUCATION AND THE PRESS, Ohio's Public School System, Important Events in Ohio's Education History I find the following information on Scott. The president during this period was William Henry Scott. He was born in Athens County, Ohio, was educated in Ohio University, and after a period in the ministry returned there as professor of Greek in 1869, and in 1872 became president of that school. From Ohio University he was called in 1883 to the Ohio State University as president and professor of philosophy. He had been a successful teacher, and preferred teaching rather than executive duties. However, as has been well said, he exemplified "the genuine philosophy" in accepting and bearing year after year the burdens of a very difficult position, reluctantly consenting to remain in office until a successor could be found. After leaving he presidency he continued in the chair of a philosophy and in 1910 was made Emeritus Professor. He is one of the two surviving ex-presidents of the university. President Scott earnestly advocated increased facilities for education in agriculture, engineering and industrial arts in general, and it was during his administration the Hayes Hall, the original home for the shops and home economics, was erected. Orton Hall also dates his administration. The student enrollment steadily increased during this period, particularly after 1890, as the following figures show: 1884 298 1885 323 1886 331 1887 344 1888 401 1889 428 1890 493 1891 656 1892 664 1893 793 1894 778 1895 805 Volume I, page 480 - The Education and the Press, Toledo University list the following information on Scott: The original name of this institution was "Toledo University of Arts and Trades." It had its inception in 1872 in a gift of 160 acres of land by Jessup W. Scott and his wife, Susan Scott. The estimated value of this property was $80,000. In 1874, after the death of Jessup W. Scott, his widow and their three sons carried out his known wishes by executing a joint conveyance to the trustees of the university of real property in the city estimated to worth $50,000. Volume II, page 61 Josiah Scott was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1803; was graduated with highest honors from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1823; taught classical school at Newton, ,Pennsylvania; taught school in Richmond, Virginia; returned to Pennsylvania and was tutor in Jefferson College; studied law while he was teaching; came to Mansfield, Ohio, in the spring of 1829; in June of that year began the practice of law in Bucyrus, Ohio; state representative, 1840; moved to Hamilton, Ohio; delegate to Second Constitutional Convention of Ohio; judge of the Supreme Court, February 15, 1857 - February 9, 1872; member of the Supreme Court Commission, 1876-1879; died June 15, 1879 Volume II, page 371 (under the heading FIFTH LEGISLATIVE SESSION, December 1, 1806 to February 4, 1807) Thomas Kirker, of Adams County, was the speaker of the senate and Thomas Scott the clerk of this session. Scott had been clerk at every session so far, as he had been of the constitutional convention of 1802. He was a candidate for secretary of state at the preceding session but had been defeated by Creighton. Abraham Shepherd was Speaker of the House of Representatives. Volume II, page 383 (under the heading ADMINISTRATION OF SAMUEL HUNTINGTON - Seventh Legislative Session - December 10, 1808, to February 21, 1809) The advancement of Judges Meigs and Huntington made necessary the election of two others to fill their places on the Supreme Bench. Each member of the legislature cast two votes. There were eleven candidates and five ballots were taken before two of them received a majority of the votes. They were Thomas Scott, of Ross, and Thomas Morris, of Clermont. Scott was clerk of the Senate and Morris was member of the House. Scott had been successively a minister, a tailor, and a lawyer. He had become a lawyer by his wife's reading to him while working at his trade of tailor. He had been clerk of the Territorial Legislature, the first justice of the peace in Ross County, and later prosecuting attorney. he served on the Supreme Bench until 1815. Volume III, page 247 H. E. SCOTT, present state superintendent of banks of Ohio, entered upon the duties of the office with a thorough experience on the practical side of banking, and for a number of years has been one the well known men in business circles in Southwestern Ohio. Mr. Scott was born at Troy, in Miami County, Ohio, was reared and educated there, and for a number of years was one of the officials of the Troy National Bank. From 1913 to 1917 he served as county treasurer of Miami County. During the period of the World war he was office manager for the Air Craft Board of Dayton. After the war he became associated with the De Weese-Talbot Bond Company of Dayton, and was with that concern until February 1, 1921, when Governor Davis called him to the office of superintendent of banks. He is head of a department that has a staff of thirty-three assistants, and his supervision extends over 750 Ohio banks. Mr. Scott married Miss Alberta Stubbs, of Lebannon, Ohio. He is a Rotarian, a Shriner, an Odd Fellow, a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and is a member of the Troy City Club and the Troy Country Club. Volume III, page 262 FLETCHER S. SCOTT. In Licking County, where he has had his home for over twenty years Fletcher S. Scott is known as an attorney and also as a citizen and professional man who has employed his talent and his opportunities in many ways for the community's good. He was born at Kalida in Putnam County, Ohio, in 1881, son of Rev. S. W. and Eva (Algire) Scott, also natives of Ohio. His father, now a retired minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church living at Bemidji, Minnesota, was for a long number of years a member of the Ohio Central Conference. Fletcher S. Scott acquired a liberal education, taking both the law and academic courses in Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he was graduated in 1900. He also attended Denison University at Granville, having moved to that college town in Licking County in 1901. That was the beginning of his permanent residence in Licking county. For some years he was in business at Newark, but since 1916 has conducted a successful law practice in that city and has achieved a favorable standing and reputation as one of the able lawyers of central Ohio. Beginning in 1910 Mr. Scott was safety director of Newark for seventeen months. In the Eighty-third Session of the Ohio General Assembly he served as assistant clerk of the Senate. That long session was memorable to him because of the lasting acquaintances and friendships with a large number of Ohio's most prominent men. From 1912 to 1916 Mr. Scott held the office of Justice of the Peace. All the worthy civic and welfare movements of Newark have readily enlisted his assistance and cooperation. For several years he has been one of the active workers of the Humane Society, serving as attorney for the organization without compensation. He is also interested in the work of the "Charity Newsies," being an active member of that organization which dispenses aid and charity on a 100 per cent basis. This is one of the few organizations of its kind in which there is no law in transmission because of salaries or overhead expenses between the donor and the recipient of funds designed to help worthy persons. Mr. Scott has for several years been a trustee of the Newark Lodge of Elks and is a member of the Kiwanis club. He is a republican. Mr. Scott married Miss Eva Baird. His offices are in the First National Bank Building at Newark. Volume IV, page 443-444 ALFRED M. SCOTT, the present country treasurer of Jackson County, has for many years been actively identified with farming and road contracting. He represents some of the oldest families of Southern Ohio. He was born in what is now the Village of Coalton, adjacent to Wellston, in Jackson county, February 6, 1877, a son of Quiller F. and Sabrina (McKinnis) Scott. His grandfather, Benjamin F. Scott, was born near Parkersburg, in what is now West virginia, in 1820, and was a small child when his parents came to Southern Ohio. Benjamin F. Scott married Martha Sell, who was born in 1823, daughter of Adam Sell, of another prominent family of Southern Ohio. Quiller F. Scott spent his life in the Coalton locality of Jackson County, was a merchant and an active figure in the civic affairs of that community. He died December 29, 1881, at the age of thirty-one years. He married Sabrina McKinnis who is still living at Coalton. Her father, Granville McKinnis, was born at the old McKinnis homestead in Jackson County, in 1823, son of Charles McKinnis, who was one of the pioneers of Jackson County, coming down the Ohio River in a flat boat. Both the McKinnis and Scott families took up land direct from the government. Granville McKinnis devoted his active life to farming, a large part of his farm being underlaid with coal. He married Mary P. Cassidy, whose father, Asa Cassidy, was a charter member of the first Masonic Lodge started in Southern Ohio. Quiller F. Scott and wife had four children: A. B.; who married Jeanette Colard; Alfred M.; G. E., who married Winifred Terole, and has a son, Granville E., Jr., and Q. F., who married Laura Sutcliff, and has two children, Quiller and Bettie. Alfred M. Scott was educated in the public schools at Coalton, also attended school at Washington Court House, and in 1894 was graduated from the high school at Coalton. For about eight years he was associated with the dry goods and clothing business at Coalton, after which he went on the road as a traveling salesman for a wholesale grocery house at Marion. He was on the road a year and then took up the contracting business, and is one of the widely experienced men in concrete road construction. He built the first concrete road in Jackson County. He is still a concrete contractor, devoting most of the summer months to that business, while the rest of the season he uses his teams for farm work. He operates four farms in Jackson County. Mr. Scott was elected county treasurer in the fall of 1922, his two year term beginning in September, 1923. He is one of the very substantial citizens of this section. He is a Presbyterian, a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, and is affiliated with the Jacksonian Club, the Country Club and the Jackson Chamber of Commerce. On May 29, 1904, at Coalton, he married Miss Margaret Hippel, daughter of John and Mary C. Hippel. Her father was born in Germany, in 1838, served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade, and settled in Jackson County about 1859, where for many years he followed his trade. He subsequently acquired a tract of coal land at Coalton, and became one of the leading coal operators and men of affairs in that section. He died in 1897 and his wife in 1911. Their children were: John R., who married Ida Thompson and have two living children, Willard and Florence; W. D., who married Etta Leach and has two children, Arthur and Pauline; Jacob C., who married Allie Sherlock, and has a son, Virgil; Caroline, who married G. E. Christman, and their four children are Earl, Edward, Ruth, and Edith; Mary, who married J. E. Harper; Miss Grace; and Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have one son, Robert K. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:45:04, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: THOMAS E. POWELL - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 6 - 7 with photo THOMAS E. POWELL. In the profession of law and in party politics no name has stood for more of the substantial honors that that of Thomas Edward Powell of Columbus. Mr. Powell began the practice of law soon after the close of the Civil war, and retired only recently, when he had been a hard working member of the bar for more than half a century. His reputation as a trial lawyer was by no means confined to Ohio. Many of his most important cases and his largest fees were in New York. He was democratic candidate for governor of Ohio in 1887, and many times led the forlorn hope of his party in state or district. He was born at Delaware, Ohio, February 20, 1842, son of Thomas W. and Elizabeth (Gordon) Powell. His father was born in Wales. Colonel Powell graduated form the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1863, and in 1866 the same university gave him the Master of Arts degree. He left the university to go into the army as a solider of the Union, and was a member of the Eighty-fourth and One Hundred Forty-fifth Ohio Infantry. He studied law with the late Col. William P. Reid, and subsequently engaged in practice with that prominent Delaware attorney. Almost from the start Mr. Powell's abilities brought brilliant distinction as a trial lawyer. In 1887 he removed from Delaware to Columbus, where the firm of Powell, Owen, Ricketts and Black was formed. For eight years Judge S. N. Owen, formerly of the Supreme Court, was a member of the firm. Mr. Powell's court practice reached to almost every county of Ohio, and he maintained offices in at least five different cities of the state. His favorite work was the trial of cases and particularly cases involving important principles or a large property or human rights. One source of his success was his resort to every legitimate expedient to get his case before the jury at the quickest hour possible. In this he followed a precept of Lord Erskine of England, who is said never to have had a case extending beyond one day's trial. Mr. Powell once tried twenty-three jury cases in eighteen days. He was council for the defendant in the celebrated Deshler will case, involving property amounting to more than $500,000, was attorney for the American Sugar Refining Company of New York, for the Standard Oil Company, the Ohio & Western Coal Company, the National Cash Register Company, for which clients he won a decision in a great patent infringement case. During his residence in Columbus, Mr. Powell's fees from New York exceeded those paid for his services in Ohio. He has tried cases in nearly half of the states of the Union and in all tribunals form the Common Pleas to the Untied States Supreme Court. In one important case tried in New York he was given $600 a day for twenty-one consecutive days, this compensation being left entirely to his client. Mr. Powell began the practice of law at Delaware in 1867, and continued till 1923, when he retired to enjoy the comforts of his pleasant home on East Broad Street in Columbus. Mr. Powell was editor of the history of the Democratic Party of Ohio. In 1872 he took the stump, speaking in the Greeley campaign, and in 1875 was the nominee of his party for attorney general. In 1878 he was candidate for Congress in the Eighth Ohio District, and he headed the democratic electoral ticket of 1880 and 1900. He was delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1872, 1880 and 1884, and in 1885 became chairman of the State Executive Committee. In 1888 he made the nominating speech for Allen G. Thurman at the St. Louis Convention, and he nominated Thomas Ewing for governor in 1879 and Durbin Ward in 1883. He was chosen democratic candidate for governor at Cleveland, July 20, 1887. The campaign was a spirited one, and he made speeches over many important sections of the state. He ran some 7,000 votes ahead of the regular ticket, but could not overcome the strength of the incumbent of the governor's office, J. E. Foraker. Mr. Powell has served as a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and for ten years was a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College. On January 16, 1872, he married Miss Eliza Thomson of Delaware. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #62 ******************************************