First Saw Daylight was an interesting article we ran across several years ago. When working in genealogy, people donate boxes and boxes of unique things such as magazines, newspapers, and old photos. This was found in a box of newspaper clippings.
The unknown newspaper article is from February 2, 1888, and was continued from the last issue. It is about where some of the prominent citizens in Lawrence County, Ohio, were born and the year in some instances. I hope you enjoy reading the First Saw Daylight series as much as we did!
Where Some of our Prominent Citizens In Lawrence County, Ohio, Were Born
SOURCE for First Saw Daylight: An unknown newspaper article from February 2, 1888, continued from the last issue.
ADAM WELLER came from Bavaria in 1832.
MAT MEEKS was born in Scioto Co. in 1834.
DR. MORRIS’S career began in Morgan Co., 20 miles from Marietta.
AUDITOR BARTRAM was born in Pittsburgh in 1830 but has been a citizen of the Buckeye state since ’45.
JUDGE G.W. THOMPSON is a native Virginian, born in Harrison Co.
TREASURER HAYES is an Adams County man.
His son, THOMAS J. HAYES, was born in Cincinnati.
A.R. JOHNSON is one of the few westerners among us. His birthplace is Springfield, Mo.
F. DEMARO was born in the District of Marseilles, France, in 1820 and has lived in Ironton since ’52.
SHERIFF FISHER is a healthy specimen of Auglaize Co., O., stock.
In Noble Co., near Middleburg, Ohio, GEN. ENOCHS first beheld the light of day.
D.C. McCONN’S native village of Washington, a small town in Guernsey, Co., Ohio.
J.T. McKNIGHT is happy to give Millersport the honor.
LEE MOORE comes from Portsmouth, Ohio, being born there in 1838.
COL. FRANK JONES, the city janitor, was born in Norfolk, VA.
M. SCHREIBER’S native place is Offenback-on-the-Main, Germany.
E. BIXBY is a Vermonter. He came from St. Albans, his native town, in ’33, traveling from Lake Champlain to Buffalo by canal, thence to Cleveland by boat, to Columbus by a canal, and to Ironton by stage in 1854.
JOHN PETERS, SR., came from Fayette Co., Pa.
REV. JONATHAN THOMAS was born in Mirddionshire, Wales.
DR. D.C. WILSON has always been a Lawrence Countian, born in Burlington.
T.I. MURDOCK is a native of Kingwood, W. Va.
CAPT. I. B. MURDOCK, of the wharf boat, also hails from Kingwood.
REV. G.W. BURNS was born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio.
R.W. ROBERTS, the well-known butcher, came to this the home of his adoption, in 1850, from Denby, North Wales, where he was born.
H.D. NEWCOME comes from the prosperous locality of Madison, Lake County.
The County of Cardingoan, Wales, gave us D.W. RICHARDS and D.T. MILES.
W.P. SMITH was babe on the banks of the Schuylkill at Port Carbon, Pa.
B. GARVEY was born in St. Johns Square, in Limerick, Ireland.
CAPT. G.W. SAMPLE first saw the light on Soldier’s Run in Adams County.
CASHIER MATHER, of the Second National Bank, was once a babe at Brooklyn, Conn.
J.H. EMMONS is a New Jerseyite, born in Morris Co. and raised in the iron works of that region.
CAPT. J.H. HOLMES names 2nd Street, Pittsburgh, as the place and 1830 as the time. He was raised on a farm, ran off at ten years, and followed the river ever since.
A.H. MITTENDORF was born in Scioto County.
T.R. HALL looked on this troublous sphere for the first time on a Jefferson Co. farm.
REV. HERBST, of the Lutheran Church, comes from Brooklyn, the City of Churches, where his father was a minister at the time of his birth.
DAVID and J. H. NIXON are natives of Lawrence County and the ancient city of Burlington.
DR. J. M. WHITE was once a rising babe of Clay Co., Ky.
PETER ROGERS is a rare and jolly specimen. He was born to English parents in France, 150 miles away from Paris, where his father was engaged in an iron mill. He left France at five years and came to America when he was 16.
B. BUTTERFIELD, the well-known grocer, is proud to be a genuine Buckeye Yankee. He comes from Green Twp., Scioto County.
REUBEN WALTERS first saw the light on a farm near Reading, Pa. He followed the Schuylkill canal for 14 years and worked on a farm before entering the iron mills.
A.J. BRUMBERG is a native of Neustadt, Prussia. He came to America in ’72.
C.A. HUTSINPILLAR was born near Gallipolis.
COL. EVAN WILLIAM’S birthplace was Baltimore, Md., which city he left in childhood when his father came to work in the old mill.
J.D. FOSTER points to an old iron furnace near Hollidaysburg, in the Allegheny mountains, as the spot.
E.H. JONES, born in Gallia Co., close to Centerville, was raised in Kentucky.
W.C. AMOS began living in Mason Twp., right where W.W. Wiseman lives but not in the same house, he grew up at Patriot, Gallia Co., and moved to Etna Furnace in ’54.
GEO. B. DAVIES came from his first home at Rumney, Monmouth shire, England, to Ironton, in 1854.
…to be continued (It is unknown how long the First Saw Daylight series continued. If anyone has any information about this series, please comment below as we’d love to hear more!)
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