The two volumes of the Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley were published by the Federal Publishing Company in Madision, Wisconsin, in 1905. Assembled by a variety of employed writers who would have traversed the towns and cities of the lower Ohio Valley as both biographers and salesmen. This is volume 1 of the set.
The compilers of the biographies used the equivalent of standardized questionnaires to interview subjects. As a result, the biographical sketches in this history follow a similar format: subject’s name, occupation, place of residence, date and place of birth, education, date of entry into the county, war experience, number of acres owned, date (or dates) of marriage and name of wife (or wives), names of children, and political, social, and religious affiliations. Similar information is often also provided for the subject’s father, grandfather, and even great-grandfather
It was common practice with these types of biographical collections, to include a photograph with the bigraphical sketch if the patron would pay for the addition and supply the photograph. This was done in this volume. Most are small photographs accompanying the biographical sketch itself, with only one full page photograph, that of Hiram Akers between pages 314 and 315. Many of the names in the sketches are not fully included, but abbreviated. See our index below for a complete name of the individual biographies found in volume 1.
Digital Book
Index, Volume 1
We have expanded the index found in volume 1 to include the known name of the individual, whether it was fully listed in the book or not. This has involved research outside the book itself, but should provide a more complete index then the mostly abbreviated one found in the book.
Some of the sketches below are of businesses in the lower Ohio Valley.
A
Adams, John M., 305
Adams, William M., 241
Ahman, Ignatius M., 155
Ahrens, Theodore, 296
Akers, Hiram, 315
Alford, Thomas A., 67
Anderson, George S., 220
Anderson, Jacob, 79
Anderson, J. Richard, 365
Annis, David A., 126
Archibald, John Andrew, 30
B
Badger, George W., 221
Bardes, Louis, 45
Barker, Ralph M., 145
Barnard, Joseph H., 202
Barth, August, 274
Baschang, Jacob, 46
Bauer, Jacob M., 83
Bax, Laurence, 308
Beinkamp, Charles M., 87
Berry, Albert S., 53
Berry, James Lewis, 273
Bitz, Laurence A., 353
Bohne, Ernest Christian, 284
Boluss, Thomas, 379
Bond, Marc L., 95
Bond, Richard Clayton, 94
Bond, Robert L., 174
Bonser, Robert J., 51
Booth, Frederick M., 203
Bosworth, Charles A., 29
Bourland, Isaac N., 403
Bowton, James, 131
Breed, William James, 41
Brewer, John H., 295
Brill, John R., 373
Brimson, Walter Henry, 206
Brisby, Eugene L., 235
Brock, Thomas J., 215
Brown, George Garvin, 282
Brown, Nicholas C., 150
Bruce, Andrew J., 141
Bulthaup, Henry, 104
Buttorff, Porter C., 218
C
Campbell, William, 384
Cannon, Thomas, 238
Cardwill, George Bennett, 223
Carney, Michael, 381
Carroll, John W., 26
Cash, Robert B., 401
Cisco, John M., 185
City National Bank, 380
Clark, George M., 260
Clause, Martin, 66
Clegg, Edward, 209
Cochran, Thomas J., 151
Coffey, John, 49
Coghill, Charles C., 153
Cole, John E., 210
Coll, Bernard A., 209
Collins, James, 48
Collins, Samuel H., 109
Colt, Robert H., 88
Columbia, George C., 85
Comstock, Frank D., 31
Conaway, Charles H., 102
Connor, Fred D., 225
Contri, Louis G., 179
Conway, George Hoagland, 153
Conway, Richard, 156
Conway, Will H., 95
Coolman, Edmund B., 235
Corson, James W., 135
Cottingham, Thomas B., 118
Cottingham, William Alonzo, 127
Coulter, James Poe, 101
Cowen, Benjamin Rush, 27
Cowen, Joseph B., 41
Cox, Joseph B., 360
Cragg, Harry C., 39
D
Daily, John, 409
Daniel, William, 317
Dant, John P., 305
Darling, Andrew Wallace, 139
Daughters, Andrew P., 115
Davies, Charles H., 346
Davis, Clark W., 32
Day Leather Co., 259
Deatherage, George William, 171
Denny, George E., 199
Devous, J. Louis, 397
Deweese, James S., 157
Dilger, Henry F., 214
Dimick, Charles C., 392
Dimick, George F., 391
Doherty, Martin, 408
Drake, Clarence R., 180
Duck, Robert, 133
Durr, Peter W., 38
Durrett, Reuben T., 274
E
Edwards, George T., 396
Elder, Wwilliam Henry, 22
Ellis, James Tandy, 164
Ellis, Robert, 170
Ellspermann, John C., 325
Emmert, Edward J., 108
Enslinger, Frank, 265
Esslinger, Isidor, 378
F
Faller, Edward M., 258
Fegenbush, Charles Jacob, 307
Fisher, Daniel W., 205
Fitch, Harris, 116
Fleischman, Julius, 19
Fogle, Thomas E., 246
Foster, Joseph, 395
Fox, Edward C., 77
Francisco, Hiram, 184
Frohock, Thomas J., 405
Furnish, William H., 172
G
Gaines, Frank H., 142
Galbreath, Elmer E., 35
Gardner, Stonewall Jackson, 268
Gebhart, John F., 272
Gex, John A., 150
Gibson, George H. D., 220
Gordon, Harry L., 20
Gosney, James H., 65
Grabfelder, Samuel, 286
Graham, John Leslie, 181
Grant, Mark, 326
Graydon, Thomas W., 44
Green, Henry, 262
Green, Joseph M., 173
Greene, William H., 99
Griesbacher, George, 362
Grimes, John W., 103
Grose, William V., 244
H
Habermel, John F., 313
Haines, Wesley, 175
Hanlon, Thomas, 229
Hargan, James, 316
Hargitt, Thomas, 130
Harris, John Thomas, 166
Harris, William J., 328
Harrison, Walter G., 242
Hartman, William, 62
Hatch, Harry Sutphin, 196
Hegewald, Charles, 257
Henderson, George W., 80
Henning, Edwin C., 343
Heustis, John E., 125
Hickey, Michael Joseph, 303
Hill Family, 73
Hindman, Biscoe, 289
Hite, William W., 290
Hoagland, Ellen P., 165
Hoard, Garfield, 200
Hoffer, Tobias, 269
Holloway, Orlando T., 26
Holtz, Edward W., 367
Holzhauer, Louis Phillip, 148
Howard, Philip J., 387
Huddleston, Robert F., 122
Huelsmann, J. Henry, 47
I
Ingalls, Melville Ezra, 17
Isherwood, James Walker, 107
J
Jackson, John H., 119
Jacobs, John Frank, 168
Jahrries, Charles August, 324
Jaquith, Orville S., 90
Jenkins, Pleasant, 312
Jett, Albert N., 147
Jeunesse, Remi, 302
Johnson, Charles R., 194
Johnson, Richard, 188
Johnston, David E., 119
K
Kanzler, Christ, 356
Kellner, John Frederick, 280
Kelly, Walter, 149
Kerr, Tony R., 390
Kessler, Anton, 356
Kevekordes, Theodore, 325
Kinstler, Michael, 75
Koch, Andrew, 350
Koch, John A., 355
Kolker, George H., 35
Kopp, William, 300
Kramer, Louis, 372
Kraft, John S., 243
Kratz, Christian, 382
Krementz, Joseph T., 266
L
Laughlin, Charles Edmund, 366
Laut, George, 370
Laut, Herbert S., 371
Leap, John, 77
Lee, Edwin M., 86
Lehmann, Joseph S., 143
Lemmon, Amos, 311
Leopold, Joseph Frederick, 76
Libbert, Edward J., 113
Little, Samuel W., 342
Little, W. Frank, 352
Logan, David A., 406
Logan, John R., 400
Logsdon, James J., 398
Lohstroh, William F., 56
Lovell, Howell Lewis, 42
Lutz, Burdette C., 219
Lyon, Victor W., 212
Mc
McArthur, Peter, 57
McCallister, William, 23
McGehee, W. Smith, 404
McIntire, William, 385
McIntyre, George B., 245
McKinley, George W., 216
McLean, William A., 261
M
Maag, Fred, 40
Manus, Frank, 264
Marshall, Curtis, 189
Marshall, Orrin, 322
Mattison, Hamilton Allen, 336
Mayfield, Frank M., 213
Meddis, Simpson Seaton, 299
Meek, Tecumseh H., 106
Melish, Charles B., 198
Meyer, John F., 123
Miller, Eli D., 354
Miller, George Henry, 71
Mobley, John G., 393
Monfort, Elias Riggs, 24
Montgomery, Harry C., 211
Morris, Raymond J., 233
Morris, Robert W., 227
Moser, George, 264
Muench, Julius, 294
Mundt, Walter, 319
Myerhoff, Charles H., 344
N
Nevitt, George W., 124
New Albany Pub. Lib., 242
Newman, William Pease, 134
Niebaum, Ernest H., 112
Niklaus, Lawrence W., 197
North, Howard J., 138
North, Leonard L., 169
Nowlin, Ambrose E., 84
Nowlin, Charles Whitfield, 132
Nowlin, Robert J., 121
Nye, William S., 317
O
O’Brien, William H., 81
Oertel, John Frederick, 298
Osborn, John H., 363
Ott, Albert J., 338
Owen, William Talbot, 158
P
Parker, Richard T., 68
Parks, George B., 222
Parsons, Byron, 330
Patterson, Alexander B., 110
Peak, William F., 176
Pentland, John A., 36
Perkins, William Thomas, 32
Pernett, John S., 207
Perry, Thomas W., 213
Pfender, Christopher, 69
Poole, Eben C., 328
Poschinger, Mathias, 297
Posey, Frank B., 374
Powell, Joseph P., 178
Prosser, Charles A., 239
Protsman, William O., 140
Puls, Henry A. J., 309
R
Ralston, William G., 348
Ransdell, Benjamin William, 167
Rauschenbach, Theodore E., 368
Rechtin, Theo. E., 358
Rickwood, Samuel G., 349
Rider, Edgar, 399
Riedel, Andrew, 320
Riedel, Daniel, 60
Riedlin, William, 47
Roberts, Clarence J., 204
Roberts, George M., 89
Rogers, John W., 402
Rohrman, John, 293
Rose, Ben S., 351
Rowlett, William Wirt, 270
Ruby, James T., 267
Ruehrwein, William, 38
Rump, Henry, 137
Ruston, Thomas, 361
S
Saunders, James D., 335
Scarborough, James, 347
Schaefer, Joseph, 364
Schenck, Andrew J., 182
Schroeder, Adam H., 359
Schroeder, Charles F., 359
Schwab, George D., 323
Schwan, John A., 371
Schwartz, Hubbard, 54
Scott, Charles B., 230
Scott, Elmer E., 195
Searcy, Bartlett, 163
Searcy, Roger T., 163
Sebree, Frank P., 144
Shanks, John, 120
Shaw, Archibald, 89
Shaw, Clayton Whittemore, 73
Shaw, James F., 78
Sherlock, Ernest J., 321
Sherriff, John T., 88
Shirley, William A., 161
Shoemaker, William M., 292
Shopbell, Clifford, 329
Shrader, Frank L., 228
Shrader, William Avington, 304
Shutt, John F., 237
Shutts, Frank B., 107
Sink, Wymond G., 136
Slider, Edward T., 255
Smith, Edward Q., 369
Smith, Edward R., 369
Smith, Edwin, 96
Smith, Henry J., 98
Smith, T. J., 43
Spaeth, Henry P., 111
Spencer, John W., 377
Spivey, Allen T., 394
Stahlhefer, Harry W., 327
Stanley, Horace Johnson, 29
Stark, William E., 114
Stoner, George W., 208
Stoy, Lewis A., 232
Stoy, Louis R., 252
Stoy, Peter Raymond, 251
Strunk, Ira G., 248
Sulzer, Louis, 191
Sutton, George, 91
Sutton, Harley H., 93
Swales, Francis, 129
Swearingen, Embry Lee, 278
T
Tandy, Cyrus S., 159
Tandy, Nannie S., 177
Tandy, Willis, 165
Thatcher, Frank Spillman, 72
Thomas, John W., 192
Thornton, James Taylor, 61
Thuman, Charles J., 341
Toggweiler, Jacob A., 310
Tucker, Frank A., 34
U
Umbreit, Charles, 250
Utz, William C., 234
V
Van Dusen, Ezra W., 50
Vanosdol, Argus D., 186
Varner, George W., 339
Varner, William T., 357
Vernia, Edward P., 268
Vinyard, Anderson A., 386
W
Waite, Robert W., 253
Waldo, Frederick J., 133
Wall, Michael A., 217
Walter, Frank, 301
Waltz, Solomon Smucher, 287
Warder, Joseph H., 218
Wartmann, James W., 376
Webber, Charles Davis, 97
White, James, 201
Whitney, James H., 33
Wilcox, Frank H., 247
Wilder, Joseph H., 113
Wilkins, John Willis, 383
Wilkinson, Rane Clay, 366
Wilks, William Jesse, 407
Winders, Henry M., 389
Winterberger, Alois, 411
Woolley, Richard Jacob, 160
Wright, Josiah C., 114
Wright, Joseph F., 63
Wright, Samuel F., 59
Wulber, William C., 105
Wymond, Randall J., 110
Y
Young, Bennett H., 276
Young, John J., 186
Z
Zollman, Charles, 216
Source
Federal Publishing Company, Memoirs of the lower Ohio valley, personal and genealogical : with portraits, vol. 1, Madison, Wisconsin : Federal Publishing Company, 1905.