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St. Louis
Blackwell Gang of Counterfeiter’s
Beasher Miller was a native of Ohio and on 17 Feb 1887, he was arrested for petit larceny and became an inmate in the Lawrence County, Ohio jail. Why I am including this story because In the column for discharge, the date was 14 May 1887 and he had run off from Blackwell Chain. After reading the following story, it sounds like Beasher (also spelled Beecher) Miller was also staying in our county jail, perhaps a witness against the Blackwell Gang.
George W. Schachleiter
George William Schachleiter was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in October 1843. In 1862 he settled in Ironton. He was steward and head waiter on steamboats and in principal hotels. In 1867
Kansas and Our County
Dr. Sloan and Ed. J. Sloan of Bartramsville, in this county, passed through here on the Fleetwood last Tuesday night, on their way to Kansas, where they intend to procure some land, settle and work out their fortunes. They are both high minded, intelligent young men and deserve success. We are sorry to lose them from this county. They take with them two horses and a wagon, and at St. Louis they will abandon railroads and rivers, and go it alone in their wagon.
William P. Ellison
“My name is William P. Ellison,” said he to a Republic reporter, “and I live on my farm, two miles from Robertson, Franklin county, forty-one miles west of St. Louis. I was born in Burlington, Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1817,
Obituary of Commodore W. F. Davidson
Commodore Davidson was born February 4, 1825, in Lawrence County, Ohio, his father being employed on the Ohio Canal, also giving a portion of his time to duties as a local Baptist preacher. The boy had scant opportunities for education, but took to his father’s avocation,