BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.

Pages 729-730.
 
RICHARD H. TANEYHILL was born in Calvert county, Md., in 1822. He removed with
his parents to Barnesville in 1832. He was married in 1843 to Rebecca J. Judkins,
daughter of Thomas Judkins. His children are ten in number and were born in the
following order: Henry C., married to Anna James; Richard T., married to Mary
Arnold; William S., married to Elizabeth Trott; Francis M., married to Priscilla
J. Winland; Mary B., Eugene, Sarah, deceased; Hettie, deceased; Nettie and Nellie.
He studied law with John Davenport, was admitted to the bar at St. Clairsville in
1847, and practiced law in Williamsburg, Noble Co., Ohio, twelve years. He has for
several years been engaged in horticultural pursuits. He was for two years clerk
of Warren township, six years justice of the peace, and two years mayor of Barnes-
ville. He is best known among historical students and archaeologists by his learned
and instructive essays on historical and archaeological matter contributed to the
magazines, scientific journals, Ohio Valley Historical series, and other volumes
of national circulation and prominence. His series of articles on the history of
this portion of Belmont county, the mounds, forts, footprints, the Leatherwood God,
etc., are the most painstaking, and approach nearer our idea of local history than
any that we have heretofore met with in all our experience. Had it not been for Mr.
Taneyhill, how little of the past of Warren township and vicinity would have been
treasured up? The series of articles as published in the Barnesville Enterprise,
written by Mr. Taneyhill, under the nom de Plume of R. King Bennett, are invaluable.
He is the author of the history of the Logan family in this work.