SAMUEL HALLIDAY.
Mr. Samuel Halliday came from Scotland, fresh with educa-
tional honors from the University of Edinburgh, and en route
to a professorship in the Ohio University at Athens, had by
the difficulties of travel in a new country been impeded in
his progress, and by one of those strange events in life was
stranded in the little country place of Rutland, where he found
his life work. He was soon engaged in teaching, and estab-
lished a reputation for success in giving instruction to his
pupils. Judge Ephraim Cutler sent his two sons, Manasseh
and William P., to attend the "Halliday School," boarding
them with the Larkins. Gen. Holcomb sent his son Anselm
to be taught in the Scotchman's College at Rutland. Mr.
Halliday married Miss Eliza Parker, a daughter of William
Parker, an intelligent pioneer, thus locating himself as a citi-
zen, he entered into the plans for increasing the public utili-
ties. He surveyed and laid out the village of Rutland, and
surveyed and laid out the lots in, the Miles graveyard. He
was influential in the erection of the two-story brick school-
house. When the county seat of Meigs county was located
in Chester, William Weldon was the first Auditor, and after
one year Mr. Samuel Halliday was elected Auditor, and served
the county in that office for twenty-four successive years. He
moved to Pomeroy when it was made the seat of justice, but
afterwards Mr. Halliday moved to Southern Illinois, where
Mrs. Eliza Halliday died. His sons were engaged in business
in Cairo, having accumulated considerable wealth, and Mr.
Halliday spent a few years with them.
He returned to Ohio, bought a farm in Gallia county, mar-
ried a widow lady, Mrs. Braley, and passed his last days in
comfortable, honorable retirement. "The memory of the just
is blessed."
The brick school-house, referred to above, was used for all
kinds of public assemblies, religious or political, as well as
lectures on temperance or abolition. There was not a meeting
