Robert Dafford paints Clarence Carter & Carl Ackerman on the Flood Wall, Portsmouth, Ohio.

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Robert Dafford paints Clarence Carter & Carl Ackerman on the Flood Wall, Portsmouth, Ohio.

Photo courtesy of the Scioto County Visitors Bureau.

This file appears in: Southern Ohio Museum & Cultural Center

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
“The Kricker family’s long-term faith in the economic strength of Scioto County is a matter of historical record,” noted the Portsmouth Daily Times in May of 1978. Edmund J. Kricker, the seventy-nine year old chairman of the board and chief…