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Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds) N00002571 1824-12-25 1873-11-18 Categories: People

Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, native. Married to Lavina Dugan. Father of James S. Dugan, Mary F. Dugan, and Betty Dugan. Banker in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1860. Partner in the Banking House of Thomas Dugan and Co. in 1865. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Ohio in 1865.

Relationships Economic: Jacob Mace (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and farmer) Economic: George Davis (Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker) Economic: Charles Davis (Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker) Economic: Wesley Claypole (Ohio farmer and banker) Economic: Banking House of Thomas Dugan & Co. Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Economic: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Scioto County, Portsmouth, p. 158-59. Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001, County courthouses, Ohio, at Family History Library, Utah, Roll 292, p. 722. KYR-0001-007-0392. KYR-0001-017-0108. Wesley Claypole (Ohio farmer and banker) N00002572 1810? Categories: People

Ohio, farmer and banker. Virginia native. Married to Catherine Claypool. Father of Jane Claypool, Edwin Claypool, and Eliza Claypool. Delegate for Ross County, Ohio, to the Whig Party Convention in 1850. Farmer and banker in Green in 1860. Partner in the Banking House of Thomas Dugan & Co.in Portsmouth in 1865.

Relationships Economic: Banking House of Thomas Dugan & Co. Economic: A. Krebs & Bro. Economic: Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Ohio, Ross County, Green, p. 33. "The Whig Convention," The Fremont Weekly Freeman (Fremont, OH), May 18, 1850, p. 2. KYR-0001-007-0392. George Davis (Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker) N00002573 1832? 1894-01-11 Categories: People

Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker. Ohio native. Married to Sarah Davis. Father of Emma Davis and Charles Davis. Farmer in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1860. Partner in the Banking House of Thomas Dugan & Co. in Portsmouth in 1865.

Relationships Economic: Charles Davis (Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker) Economic: Wesley Claypole (Ohio farmer and banker) Economic: Banking House of Thomas Dugan & Co. Economic: A. Krebs & Bro. Economic: Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Scioto County, Clay Township, p. 17. "George Davis Dead," The Cincinnati Enquirer, January 12, 1894, p. 6. KYR-0001-007-0392. Charles Davis (Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker) N00002574 1833? Categories: People

Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker. Pennsylvania native. Married to Dorthula Davis. Father of Mary Davis, Isabelle Davis, and Maude Davis. Farmer in Jefferson, Ohio, in 1860. Employed William Porter, George Cook, Van Williams, and Stephen Slaughter in Jefferson in 1860. Partner in the Banking House of Thomas Dugan & Co.in Portsmouth in 1865.

Relationships Economic: Wesley Claypole (Ohio farmer and banker) Economic: Banking House of Thomas Dugan & Co. Economic: A. Krebs & Bro. Economic: Jacob Mace (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and farmer) Economic: Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds) Familial: George Davis (Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Ohio, Scioto County, Jefferson, p. 32. KYR-0001-007-0392. Jacob Mace (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and farmer) N00002575 1809-05-21 1895-03-28 Categories: People

Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and farmer. Ohio native. Married to Rachel Mace. Father of Morgan Mace, Ann Mace, and Andrew C. Mace. Farmer in Ross County, Ohio. Partner of the Banking House of Thomas Dugan & Co. at Portsmouth in 1865.

Relationships Economic: George Davis (Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker) Economic: Charles Davis (Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker) Economic: Wesley Claypole (Ohio farmer and banker) Economic: Banking House of Thomas Dugan & Co. Economic: A. Krebs & Bro. Economic: Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Ohio, Ross County, Liberty, p. 27. "Nearing the End," The Chillicothe Gazette (Chillicothe, OH), August 18, 1893, p. 1. "Jacob Mace (1809-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial #67215194, accessed May 9, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67215194. KYR-0001-007-0392. James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) N00001223 1831-01-02 Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, post office clerk, and state official. Franklin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas L. Tate and Nancy Taylor Tate. Married to Lucy J. Hawkins Tate in Woodford County, Kentucky, on June 3, 1856. Father of Howard S. Tate and Edmonia Tate. Clerk of the U.S. Post Office in Frankfort, Franklin County, in 1848. Farmer in Franklin County in 1850. Assistant secretary of state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1854 to 1855 and from 1859 to 1863. Owned two enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860. Assistant clerk of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1865 to 1867.

Relationships Political: Benjamin F. Graves (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Cawein (Louisville restaurant owner and merchant) Political: Thomas Sullivan (Louisville, Jefferson Co) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: George W. Thompson (Parke County, Indiana, merchant, attorney, deed commissioner, and court clerk) Political: William Alexander (Brandenburg, Meade Co. lawyer) Political: James F. Overton (Meade Co. Ky miller) Political: Enos Keith (Meade Co, Ky) Political: Alexander Bell Patrick (Breathitt Co & Cir Ct Clerk, private CSA) Political: Joshua Spering (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and councilman) Economic: Joshua Spering (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and councilman) Political: Theodore Dehon Rand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soldier and attorney) Political: Oscar J. Somes (McCracken County, Kentucky, bank teller and capt 3rd Ky Inf (C.S.A)) Political: Josiah Stoddard Byers (McCracken County, Kentucky, bookstore clerk, midshipman, captain 3rd Ky Inf CSA) Political: Commercial Bank of Kentucky Political: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Political: Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds) Political: Charles James Brenham (San Francisco, California, notary public and commissioner of deeds) Political: Theodore M. Morgan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, businessman and commissioner, captain 98th NY Inf USA) Political: State Department of Kentucky Political: Joseph Tucker (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, resident) Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Political: John G. Douglass (Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney and commissioner of deeds) Legal: John Marshall Harlan (Kentucky atty general, colonel 10th Ky Inf (USA), and attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 22B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No. 1, p. 259. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No. 1, p. 491B. James C. Klotter, "Tate, James W." in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 867-68. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994058, Woodford County Marriages. Portsmouth, Ohio P00002578 Categories: Places

Seat of Scioto County, Ohio. Located at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Scioto River.

38.7317, -82.9977 "Portsmouth" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Portsmouth-Ohio) (accessed July 11, 2017). "Portsmouth, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 20, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Banking House of Thomas Dugan & Co. O00002576 Categories: Organizations

Located in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1865. Partner(s): Thomas Dugan, Wesley Claypole, George Davis, Charles Davis, and Jacob Mace.

Relationships Economic: Jacob Mace (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and farmer) Economic: George Davis (Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker) Economic: Charles Davis (Scioto County, Ohio, farmer and banker) Economic: Wesley Claypole (Ohio farmer and banker) Economic: Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds) Economic: A. Krebs & Bro.

KYR-0001-007-0392. KYR-0001-017-0094. A. Krebs & Bro. O00002577 Categories: Organizations

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, lithographers.

Relationships Economic: Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds)

George H. Thurston, Directory of Pittsburg and Allegheny Cities, and the Adjoining Boroughs of Birmingham, East Birmingham, Lawrenceville, Manchester, Duquesne, West Pittsburgh, South Pittsburgh, Monongahela, and Temperanceville (1860),172. Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio 1861-03-03 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Thomas Dugan,

Wesley Claypole.

Geo. & Chas Davis,

Jac Mace.

BANKING HOUSE OF THOMAS DUGAN & CO.

A. Krebs & Bro. 6th. Pittsburgh.

Portsmouth, Ohio Mch 3" 1861 James W Tate Esq Asst, Secy State

Frankfort Ky Dr Sir

Yours of 1st inst. received and contents duly noted Enclosed find $5 state Tax -- thank you for your attention

Verry Truly Yours

Tho's Dugan

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Ohio

Comr of Deeds Portsmouth Thos Dugan Com IssdMar. 7th 1861