Porter Du Hadway Biography
Porter Du Hadway Biography
This image and the biographical text are from the 1875 Atlas of Jackson County Ohio. Spelling and punctuation are as in the original book. The signature is in his own handwriting.
HON. PORTER DU HADWAY,
Of Jackson, was born on the 7th day of April, 1828, in this county. He was the sixth of eight children, whose parents were Daniel Du Hadway and Elizabeth Porter. His father was a native of Paris, France, and came at the age of two years with his parents to Delaware, where they lived till their death near Dover, in that State, his mother living to the advanced age of one hundred and four years. His father was in the War of 1812, at whose conclusion he came to Chillicothe, remaining there one year, the greater part of the balance of his days being passed in Jackson and Vinton counties. His father followed through life the employment of a shoemaker, principally, and as a farmer. The mother of the subject of this sketch was a native of New York, and at the time of her marriage was living in Athens County; then a portion of this county. She came with her husband to Jackson County at an early date of its existence, and died in 1835, her husband dying in 1875 at the age of ninety-three years. The early employment of Porter was on the farm. He lived with his parents till the death of his mother. After this event his father returned to France, where he remained for several years, returning in 1844. At the age of seventeen Mr. Du Hadway began the shoemaker trade. This occupation confined his attention for the greater part of his time up to 1857. In 1847 he came to Jackson to work at his trade, and also attended school under the Hon. J. W. Longbon for about two years, working at his trade out of school hours. In 1855 he began the reading of law, during the leisure hours of his trade, under the direction of the Hon. Levi Dungan. In 1857 he was elected clerk of court, which he held till 1860. In this year he was admitted to the bar after an examination before the Supreme Court of Ohio. He immediately began the practice of law in Jackson, and followed this profession exclusively up to 1873. In the fall of this year he was elected judge of the court of common pleas on the Democratic ticket by a majority of seven hundred in a Republican district, whose majority was about three thousand - second subdivision of the Seventh Ohio Judicial District, composed of Jackson, Vinton, Pike, Sciota, and Lawrence Counties. The judge was married on the 10th day of Sept. 1850, to Mary Morse, a daughter of Eli Morse, and a native of Jackson County. She died in October, 1853, leaving two children. The judge was married to his present wife on the 25th of December, 1857, by whom he is the father of four children. The judge was mayor of Jackson for three terms and city solicitor for two terms. He has never solicited any office except the clerkship of court, which he held in 1857. Politically, he is a Democrat of the Jackson school. He has never been a member of any church, and his religious views are not circumscribed by the doctrines of any church.
The following information is provided by Bob Stancliff, Cincinnati, OH; e-mail: [email protected]
The mother of Judge Du Hadway was Elizabeth Stancliff born October 8, 1790, baptized St. John's Church, St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, NY., died Jackson County, OH in 1835. Elizabeth Stancliff was the daughter of Stanbrough Perigrene Stancliff who was an Athens County, Ohio County Commissioner from 1818 until his death in 1820. Stanbrough also built the
first house in what became McArthur, Vinton County, OH in 1815.
This is proven by Athens County Court of Common Pleas; Minutes Vol. 4, pages 295 and 301; Chancery Records Book 5, pages 254 and 261. This was an action to clear title on property once held by Elizabeth's father Stanbrough Perigrene Stancliff. These court records of 1839 state in part "....Lucinda, Robert, Thomas, Jacob, Betsey, Sarah, Porter, Lydia & Caleb
Duhadway, children of Betsey Duhadway, formerly Betsey Stancliff and daughter of the said Stanbrough...."
This is also documented by our book "The Descendants of James Stanclift of Middletown, Connecticut and Allied Families" by Sherry Smith Stancliff and Robert C. Stancliff, pages 44 to 48, 80 and 81. A copy of this book has been purchased by the Jackson County, Ohio Genealogical Society. It also won the Ohio Genealogical Society First Prize for an Ohio based Family
History with Stanbrough as the subject.
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