EXHIBIT 24
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                             POWER OF ATTORNEY


  KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned officer
and/or director of PEOPLES BANCORP INC., an Ohio Corporation,
which is about to file with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, Washington, D.C., under the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, a Registration Statement on
FORM S-8 for the registration of certain of its securities,
including Common Shares, for offering and sale pursuant to the
Deferred Compensation Plan for Directors of Peoples Bancorp Inc.
and Subsidiaries, as amended, hereby constitutes and appoints
Robert E. Evans and Charles R. Hunsaker, and each of them, as
his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power
of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name,
place and  stead, in any and all capacities, to sign such
Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto, and
to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents
in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and The Nasdaq Stock Market, granting unto each of
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and substitute or
substitutes, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and
about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
things that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his or
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue hereof.


  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand
this 11th day of December, 1997.



                        1. /s/ BARTON S. HOLL
                           Barton S. Holl

                        2. /s/ NORMAN J. MURRAY
                           Norman J. Murray

                        3. /s/ THOMAS C. VADAKIN
                           Thomas C. Vadakin

                        4. /s/ PAUL T. THEISEN
                           Paul T. Theisen

                        5. /s/ JOSEPH H. WESEL
                           Joseph H. Wesel

                        6. /s/ ROBERT E. EVANS
                           Robert E. Evans

                        7. /s/ WILFORD D. DIMIT
                           Wilford D. Dimit

                        8. /s/ REX E. MAIDEN
                           Rex E. Maiden

                        9. /s/ GEORGE W. BROUGHTON
                           George W. Broughton