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Portsmouth is a city in and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, United States. [5] Located in southern Ohio 41 miles (66 km) south of Chillicothe , it lies on the north bank of the Ohio River , across from Kentucky and just east of the mouth of the Scioto River .
Conley was born October 17, 1941, in Portsmouth, Ohio, to Glenna Ruth (née Davis; 1918–2002) and Arthur Conley (1910–1989).When he was 14, his father lost his job with the railroad, forcing the young boy to move in with his older sister in Jamestown, Ohio.
James W. Newman was born March 12, 1841, in Highland County, Ohio, and moved soon thereafter to Portsmouth, Ohio. [2] He attended public schools in that town and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1861, where he was Sigma Chi. [1] He did not serve his country during the American Civil War.
William Lynn Ogg (May 17, 1937 – September 10, 2020) was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1995 to 2002. He also served on the Scioto County Commission and on the Portsmouth City Council. [1] [2] His district consisted of Scioto County, Ohio. He was succeeded in 2003 by Todd Book.
The Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, is a membership library and museum founded in 1817. The research library and Randall Gallery are open Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m. Masks are ...
Born in Portsmouth, Ohio, he graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1939. He received his B.A. from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, in 1943, where he was initiated into Sigma Pi fraternity, and his LL.B. from Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1947. From 1942 to 1944, he was in the United States Marine Corps.
Paul Edmund Bierley, the son of William and Minnie Bierley, was born in 1926 in Portsmouth, Ohio. [1] He married Pauline in 1948, with whom they had son John and daughter Lois. He lived much of his married life in Westerville, Ohio. Pauline died before Bierley, who died on April 9, 2016.
Barbara Robinson was born and raised in Portsmouth, Ohio, and had no brothers or sisters. [1] Her father died when she was three. Robinson's mother, a schoolteacher in Portsmouth for forty-nine years, got her interested in books, and she began writing very early. Robinson attended Allegheny College, where she received a bachelor's degree in ...