Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a typed page giving details of the beginning of a cafe on Front Street, began by a party of Creoles in 1875. Cafe on Front Street; Eugene Hacquard's Gun Shop; festivities; parties
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page.
Pictured are black and white photos of Charles Kinney and Dr. J. R. McClure.
Bottom half of page shows newspaper advertisements for the Strimatter Grain & Milling Company Flour "At All Groceries" and the Portsmouth Engine Company. The First Engine Company was on Seventh (7th) Street, the second was on Gallia Street.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is typed page detailing information about some of the entertainment put on by Anna Dickenson. She didn't stay long in Portsmouth. Shakespeare; Muggs Landing; Hearts of Oak; Monte Cristo; Dane of Denmark.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is black and white photos of E. E. Ewing and Mrs. Mary E. Draper.
Elmore Ellis Ewing was born in Gallia County in 1840. After serving in the 91st O. V. I. from 1862 to 1864, he moved to Scioto County. He married Minerva Folsom in 1865 and became a school teacher. This only lasted a year, and then Mr. Ewing went into the retail business, specifically with a China and Glassware store.
Mrs. Mary Draper was involved in many women's clubs in Portsmouth, most notably the Women's Literary Club,
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page showing black and white photos of F. B. Kehoe Flour, Feed, Lime, and Salt By the River
V. R. Row was born in 1859 in Portsmouth and was a well known lawyer.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Typed page about the Adams Express Company Horses Afflicted with Epozootic (Epizootic) Disease in the 1870's; Ad for Harper & Searl, Attorneys at Law located on Second (2nd) Street. Dan McFarland; Lew Newton; oxen wagon; Henry Buechler; Billy Grooms; Jacob Clough; Harry Johnson; James Fiegler; Iron National Bank; J. N. Lutz Building; Adams Express Company Office
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a program for the sixth annual reunion of the Scioto Valley Odd Fellows Association. The reunion was to take place in Tracy Park on September 1, 1902.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a typed page giving details about "Father" McDowell. He served as superintendent of Bigelow Sunday School when the church was on Second (2nd) Street. General Jackson; Lady Washington; James Hannahs; Mrs. James Hannahs; Commercial Hotel; triplets: Meshach Hannahs, Shadrach Hannahs, Abednego Hannahs
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is two black and white photos of Charles Burt, prominent Portsmouth citizen and the house of Dr. Hemstead (Hempstead). Dr. Hempstead was a prominent physician in Portsmouth in the early 1800's, known for his determination to help his patients. In Nelson W. Evans' History of Scioto County, it was said that Dr. Hempstead would sometimes ride fifty miles just to help a patient.
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Pictured is a typed page detailing routes on Dan Rice's land that circus companies traveled on. Afterward, the land was sold to Yankee Robinson.
Trus Lynn bought white horses that were in high demand for weddings and children's funeral. He owned the Eclipse Livery Barn, where he kept the horses.
Bottom: Advertisement for Massie House: Prendergast & Jennings, Proprietors.
Martin BEcker; horse stables; livery stables
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page. Shown is a black and white group photo of employees of the Ohio Stove Company. The company was incorporated in Portsmouth in 1872. It was organized as a foundry to cast iron stove parts and assemble its line of coal heating and cooking stoves.
Also pictures is a Program for Banquet of the Portsmouth Federation of Clubs to be held on April 15, 1909
