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THE

BIOGRAPHICAL

ENCYCLOPEDIA

OHIO OF

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

CINCINNATI AND PHILADELPHIA:

GALAXY PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1876.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in

tlie

year 1876, by

CHARLES ROBSON, In

tlie Office

of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington,

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%ractice, w'hich

embraced, as may be readily inferred from

these instances,

some of

the most important civil actions

brought to the attention of the State and Federal courts,

had up

year 1841 wholly engrossed his attention, and

to the

he had kept aloof from right of citizenship.

sometimes

He

had been an independent

Democrats,

supporting

He

Whigs.

politics except in the exercise of his

more

but

voter,

commonly

had acquired an abhorrence of the

institution

of slavery, and this feeling was greatly stimulated by his personal contact with for

one of

in the courts.

it

It

was impossible

energy and force of character to remain a

his

passive witness of the efforts for the extension of slavery in

He

the States.

North, which

gave his support

to the

that time 'seemed

at

Whig

party of the

more favorable

an

to

organized resistance to the growing institution, but even the doctrine of this party failed to satisfy liim. fore,

he united

to slavery

held

and

for a

in a call its

convention of those opposed

further extension.

Columbus, Ohio,

at

in

In 1S41, there-

This convention was

December of

that year,

and

it

resulted in the organization of the Liberty party of Ohio,

and placed

in

the field a gubernatorial

Chase wrote an address

to

candidate.

Mr.

the people, defending the doc-

and purposes of the new

The

cessity for

the organization of a party which should

be

wholly and heartily committed to the complete denational-

A

the slave power.

ization of

second national

Liberty

convention was held in 1847, l^at body he argued against making any national nomination at that time, since it

was highly probable

more general

that a

anti-slavery

sentiment would be created in the agitation of the Wilmot Proviso, the action of Congress

the non-action of the

and

that of the

two other

In the following year, anticipating

political organizations.

Whig and Democratic

parties

on the

question of slavery extension, he issued a call for a “ Free at Columbus, and obtained for more than three thousand voters of all This meeting was both large and enthu-

Territory” State Convention it

signatures of

th'e

political creeds. siastic,

at

and resulted

New

Buffalo,

W’hich

in the

York,

in

holding of a national convention

August of the same year, over

The

Mr. Chase presided.

standard-bearers nomi-

nated by this body were Hon. Martin

Yan Buren

dent,

and Hon. Charles Francis Adams

The

election

of United

States

for Presi-

for Vice-President.

Senator from Ohio W'as ^ combination

appointed for P'ebruary 22d, 1849,

members of the Legislature, w'ho gave united vote, and some of the P’ree-Soil members,

of the Democratic

him

their

W'ho favored their views, Mr. Chase was elected by a hand-

some

majority.

It

should be remembered that the

cratic party of that State

resolution of

its

had

Demo-

just previously declared by-

State convention that slavery

was an

evil.

Mr. Chase sympathized with them in their general views

and supported their nominees for State them distinctly to understand, how-ever, that the movertient, and in 1843 ^ national convention of the he would sever his connection with them should they, in The Committee State or national conventions, abandon their anti-slavery Liberty party met at Butfalo, New York. In 1852 this point was reached, in his opinion. on Resolutions, of which Mr. Chase w'as, perhaps, the most position. distinguished member, had referred to it a resolution which At the Baltimore Convention of the Democratic party a proposed “ to regard and treat the Third Clause of the Con- platfonn w'as adopted approving the compromise acts of trine

political organization.

anti-slavery element in other sections of the North indorsed

whenever applied

of State

policy,

offices; giving

1850 and denouncing the further discussion of the slavery no part of question. Upon this platform Mr. Pierce was nominated The party in Ohio gave in their adthe Constitution of the United States, whenever we are for the Presidency. called upon or sworn to support it.” Mr. Chase opposed herence to this departure, and Mr. Chase withdrew. He it was negatived in the committee, but its author directly urged the organization of an Independent Demoit, and

•stitution,

as null

to the case of a fugitive slave,

and void, and consequently

as forming

moved

its adoption in the body of the convention, and this convention of the southern was done. In June, 1845, and western Ljberty people, which had been projected by Mr. Chase, met in Cincinnati. In his call for that meeting he said that it was designed to embrace all who believe that

whatever

is

worth preserving

in

republicanism can only be

cratic party,

was

and drew up a declaration of

substantially ratified

the Independent

principles,

which

by the Pittsburgh Convention of

Democracy

in the

same

year.

With

this

party he remained identified until the development of a

new and powerful principles

organization,

indoctrinated

with the

he had so long avowed, and which was one

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hes the Bible assumed a more ])rominent place as a part doctrines and the men, the causes and the consequences, he of the regular curriculum, a place whiclt it has ever since re- had heard discussed from his boyhood, and in the reunion Dr. Fisher's views of the of the two branches of. the church he was relied upon as tained, for the advantage of all. increased.

ends and methods of education are contained in several ad-

which he delivered

ilresses

at

and which

different times,

were afterwards collected and published. The very subjects of these are suggestive of broad and careful thought.

They

such as “Collegiate Education,” “Theological

are

Training,”

“The Three

he discriminates

Education” (by which

school and society), “ Female

child-life, the

“The Supremacy

Education,”

of

IMind,”

“Secular and

“ Natural Science in

Christian Civilization,” to Art

-Stages of

Relations

its

These addresses arc eloquent and

and Theology.”

sound.

The most complete

gural, in

which he endeavors to develop his idea of what he

calls the

American

of them, perhap.s,

his inau-

is

The whole

collegiate .system.

address

among and

the most judicious counsellors in the very delicate

difficult

ened

questions that

to prevent

its

impeded

jirogress

its

He was

consummation.

and

threat-

one of the able

committee of conference appointed by the two assemblies,

which reported the plan of reunion in 1869. Nor does he seem to have doubted the beneficent result. In behalf of the committee, he

joint

proposed the resolution

for

raising

$1,000,000, immediately afterward raised to $5,000,000, as a memorial fund.

with

all

His

last

work

to

which he gave himself was to

the confidence and enthusiasm of his nature

prepare a paper for the General Assembly of 1870, an as-

sembly which he was never

Dr. Fisher received the

to sec.

Doctorate of Divinity from Miami University in 1S52, and

Laws from the University of the city of As a preacher, Dr. Fisher must be In 1862, in the midst of our civil war, held to rank among the ablest of the Presbyterian boclv. to the last degree. occurred the semi-centennial celebration of the founding of With all that may be said by way of detracting criticism, it Hamilton College, a memorable occasion, marking the age must still be allowed that our religious communities move

is

The

an argument for breadth and loftiness of culture.

scheme which

it

defends and enforces

and progress of the

noble and generous

institution as with a tall

The address

visible from afar.

is

memorial

of Dr. Fisher

shaft

an admira-

is

ble sketch of the college hisSoiy, iiortraying in picturesque

language the events of

early

its

and

later life,

with enthusi-

the Doctorate of

New York

in

1859.

along a pretty high level of intellectual experience and of religious feeling.

To

which,

demands of our

satisfy the reasonalde

congregations requires a continuous

when we come

to

measure

intellectual exertion,

its

force,

something

is

many poor sennons re and friends, and predicting its future prosperity. “ It was,” preached, but rather that there are so many good ones. But he said, “ amid the smoke and thunder of war that, fifty Dr. Fisher moved above, far above the common level. years ago, the foundations of this college were laid and Within the ample dome of that forehead, you felt, at sight, when they passed away, lo on the hill-top had sprung into there dwelt a jrowerful brain. He brought to his discourses being a power mightier than the sword, more glorious than a mind well stored and well disciplined. There was a fulasm and

faith

commending

it

to the

good

will of

alumni

its

startling.

It is

not a

wonder

that so

:

;

!

its

triumphs.

It

is

amid the heavier thunder and darker ness and richness of thought which

when

clouds of this dread conflict, precious jubilee.

is

we

in peril, that

This thunder shall

])erse before

all

that to us

is

celebrate our semi-centennial roll

away and

the cloud dis-

the uprising patriotism of twenty millions of

freemen and the red right arm of the I^ord of hosts.” w.as indeed light

was

most

to the

an hour of darkness,

nation

as darkness, but

he never “bated one

That

when

jot

the

of heart

or hope,” or failed to act

up

sendee of eight years

Hamilton College, Dr. Fisher was

in

to his patriotic faith.

solicited to accept again the position of pastor

minster Church of Utica,

November

New

After a

by the West-

York, and was installed as

in that direction to desire. fail

to

An

left

you

little

or nothing

intellectual hearer could not

be attracted by his vigor.

His

style

was

sometimes picturesque, almost always clear and

words were well chosen and exuberant.

often bold, direct.

Thus

full

His

and

weighty in matter, affluent in language, with no ambiguity in

expression, fertile in imagery

and illustration, with a manner somewhat au-

voice clear and penetrating, and a thoritative, fir to

not surprising that he was constantly sought

it is

address public bodies on important occasions, a duty

which he always performed with dignity and tion of his hearers.

The

to the satisfac-

subjects of his discourses

were va-

mind was mainly occupied with grand and active and progressive work the church enjoyed the minis- lofty themes, so there was a certain nolileness, freedom, and trations and stimulating energies of this able, active, and power of development, the natural and necessary fruit of his jiastor

8

15th,

1867.

For nearly four years of

rious,

and

as his

BIOGRAI'IIICAL ENCYCLOr.EDIA.

5S

No man

general studies and habits of thought.

Dr. Eisher

listen to

when engaged upon

with which his soul was

tilled,

could ever

those great themes

without a persuasion that he

spoke from absolute conviction of the truth and an over-

dimmed,

ing, the bright eye

the eloquent tongue

His half-executed plans,

incoherent.

mute or

his high expectations,

his large purposes arrested, nothing

with childlike

remained for him but and sweet patience to await the final

trust

the importance of the message he bore summons, which, January i8th, 1874, at Cincinnati, Ohio, embassador of Christ and a “ legate of the skies.” came in kindness to call him home. The temporary torpor His ordinary discourses were full of thought as well as of of his faculties was at once dispelled, the clouds and the feeling. Those who heard the course of sermons on the shadows that gathered about his setting sun have all been

whelming sense of

as an

Hebrews,” and on the “ Life of Christ,”

dissipated, the darkness has passed and light perennial and more remarkable series of discourses eternal beams on him, for, in his own beautiful words, has seldom been heard from an American pulpit. There “Another Teacher, infinitely wise and good, is now leading were puljlic occasions also when he discussed great topics him up the heights of knowledge, and in a moment he has with a fulness and a power that left nothing more to be learned more than men on earth can ever know.”

“Epistle

to the

need not be told

said,

and with

ditors

that a

results of conviction

nothing

that

in the

minds of even

shake, nothing

could

his au-

disturb.

There are several di'courses of Dr. Fisher that would alone make a distinguished reputation for any man, and that are to

be ranked

among

But not

day. ally

is

CHENCK, JAMES

F'., Rear Admiral United Navy, son of William C. and Elizabeth (Rodgers) Schenck, was born in Warren county,

c)

the highest efforts of the pulpit of his

in the pulpit

States

So unusu-

only did he shine.

m.rrked excellence as a preacher combined with an

equal excellence as a pastor, that strange

if

Dr. Fisher had proved comparatively inefficient

his father in 1821,

Military

States

in

Nevertheless he did prove to be an excep-

pastoral work.

Upon

Ohio, January ilth, 1807.

would not have been

it

the death of

he was appointed

.School

to the

United

West Point by

at

his

mem-

guardian and namesake. General James Findley, then

good pastor. He gave living demonstration that ber of Congress from Cincinnati. There was no naval one man may be both great preacher and good pastor. In academy at that time, but having a disposition for sea service, his guardian procured him an appointment as midshipall the families that made up his congregation, his name was March ist of that year he sailed in the Carrying everywhere an atmosphere of man in 1825. a household word. tionably

cheerfulness and sunshine, no one ever met him life

in social

without feeling the charm of his manners and conversa-

tion.

Slow

“ Hornet,” on his till

retired

first

cruise,

and continued

on the superannuated

list,

in the service

January nth, 1869.

condemn and quick to sympathize, shrinking He passed successively through all the grades up to that of wounding the feelings of any, and prompt Rear Admiral. During the Mexican war he served in the of kindness and love, he won the hearts of his Pacific squadron on the staff of Commodore Stockton, and

to

instinctively from

in all offices

people

to a

Never was any pastor more did

most singular degree.

universally beloved.

The

minister most covetous of the love

of his people might well be satisfied with the measure of

A

common

military duty in

with the whole naval force in

After the conclusion of

seizing California.

that struggle

and the discovery of gold, the government subsidized a

pri-

affection

accorded

prince he was, not by

vate line of steamers to carry the mails via the Isthmus of

virtue of

any patent of nobility bestowed by an earthly mon-

Panama, upon the condition of appointing the commanders from the officers of the navy, and Mr. Schenck was detailed

to Dr. Fisher.

arch, but by the direct gift of Heaven, with the royal signet

of the giver legibly impressed thereon; a prince in intellect,

Captain of one of the vessels of the

a prince in large and liberal culture, but

till

a prince in active sympathies,

human to

warm

o',

all

and a great

soon as he could be called home, which was not until 1862,

persistent consecration of the gifts

was endowed earned the

to

title,

was

and

the practical and

and graces with which he

secured the honors and obtained the

in

in

Israel.

re-

Such, most

the merest outline sketched, was Dr.

Samuel Ware Fisher up flood-tide of his

the

these "large and beneficent ends, that he

wards of a prince and a great man imperfectly,

in

all,

and de-

voting his best powers and faculties to the good of It

to the

day and hour when,

at the

and apparently in the meridian and moral powers, he was, by the

influence,

fulness of his intellectual

he held

that pertained

sin-stained, or desjiised,

world and the glory of God.

line, a position

The breaking out of the great Rebellion found Mr. .Schenck in China, Commander of the “ Saginaw.” As

and above

affections,

heart going out impulsively toward

man, however lowly, or

er

1855.

he was promoted

Captain and ordered to the western frigate “St.

Lawrence.”

Here

duty was simifly blockading, and he saw no very active

his ser-

In 1864 he was promoted to Commodore, and in the two attacks on Fort Fisher commanded the third division of vice.

the

fleet,

being his

consisting of seventeen vessels, the “

hottest of the

fight,

officers of a party of

and

lost a third of his

one hundred with

escaped untouched himself. ma.ster at the time

opening of the

leaving him with the bounding pulse of

for the gallantry

first

Powhatan ”

In both engagements he was

flag-ship.

mysterious stroke of an unseen hand, suddenly struck down, life faintly flutter-

to

Gulf squadron, on the

whom

in

men and

the

four

he landed, but

His son, Caspar Schenck, pay-

on the “Juniata,” was wounded on the engagement, and afterwards promoted

he displayed

in the battle.

After the close

tn-J.

lR[E\f..SAKOIU[£[L

WAOSTE

irDSOilllllS,

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SIXTH PBESIDEN'I' Of RAVTITON COI.LEGE

BIOGRAnilCAL ENCYCLOr.^;DIA. some time

of the war, Mr. Schcnck was for the United Stales naval station at

Mound

command

in

City, Illinois,

of

and

September, 1868, he was raised to the rank of Rear Adsixtymiral United States Navy, and upon reaching his in

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to Iowa, where she died, leaving a numerous family. Schenck had several times been a member of the Ohio

moved •Mr.

Legislature, and died, while occiqrying that position, at Columbus, January nth, 1821. His wife survived till 1855.

second year, June nth, 1S69, was regularly retired on the superannuated roll. July 24th, 1829, he married Dorethy

Woodhull Smith, of Suffolk county. Long

A., daughter of

Idand, and

many

for

made

years

his

home

NDREWS, GENERAL GEORGE

In 1836

there.

W., Senator

he brought his family to the West, and took up his home in D.iyton, where he now resides in his retirement. He has had Sarah S., who married Col. Joseph G. Crane, four children

from the Thirty-second District of Ohio, Lawyer,

of Dayton, murdered in 1869 while acting military mayor of the city of Jackson, Mississippi, under the provisional

drews and Anne (Lewis) Andrews; the former

was born

—

government; Jane, married

A. Burr Irwin; Caspai, pay-

to

Navy; Woodhull

inspector United States

of the

S., chief

Such

imperial maritime customs of China at Shanghai.

a

in

September

He

1S25.

His grandfather on the maternal

was a major

An-

in

agricultural

side,

John Lewis,

Revolutionary army, and descended

the

in

'S’ork,

the son of Joel

is

was a Quaker, and was engaged pursuits.

New

Medina, Orleans county.

ist,

from the Lewises of Rhode Island, a Baptist family, whose

Admiral Schenck there is no need to praise. Laudation could only taint.

members took a prominent part in the religious controversies and movements of Roger Sherman’s time. His earlier He has spent his life in the service of his country, and he education was received at the Quaker institution known as the “ Nine Partners’ College,” in Dutchess county. New still lives to enjoy that country’s confidence, and partake of that of

life as

The

facts

speak for the man.

York, and also

the frcedo n he has helped to preserve.

at the

Licking county, Ohio, and in

CHENCK, HON. WTLLIAM

C.,

Member

Ohio Legislature, and General of the State

«

was born

in

Monmouth His

uary nth, 1773.

J

New

county.

p.arents

The

Militia,

Jersey, Jan-

were Rev. W’illiam

and Anna (Cummings) Schenck. nine children.

of the

He was

one of

Dutch

origin,

family are of

but have been in America for nearly two hundred years. Mr.

Schenck graduated from Princeton once came

to Cincinnati,

office for a while,

1793 or 1794, and at in the land

in

where he was engaged

He

and afterwards became a surveyor.

acquired an immense tract of land in the northwestern part of

Warren county,

in the valley of the

Miami, on which he

out the town of Franklin, and established his home. During the war of 1812 he commanded a brigade of militia,

laid

and though not ten other

Indian depredations.

men who had

was

made

In

acquired the hand

projected and laid out the city of

personally

he had a duty

in active service,

guariling against

Toledo

to jjerform in

company with

in the vicinity,

in 1817,

he

but having

the surveys in an unfavorable season, he

stricken with a

swamp

and became so disgusted

fever,

at

the town of

Newark

in

Licking county, Ohio.

married lilizabeth Rodgers, of Huntington, with

whom

James

he had seven children

F. (rear admiral United

general in the

war of the

to

In 1798 he

Long

Island,

States navy), Robert C.

member

(a

of Congress,

England), Woodhull

lieutenant in the United States navy), T. S.

laid out

— William R., Salley R.,

rebellion,

and United States Minister

he

.S.

(a

He

subsequently entered on

During

three years in this place, he established

marked

Linn Argus.

the

ability,

In

and edited, with

1848 the

to

county, the southern one, and

there established

glaize Democrat.

In the

same

same year he was

position.

and again

in

in

1850 was

re-

1858 secured a re-elec-

i860 was re-elected.

quest of Governor Dennison, he to his

The Au-

elected Prose-

In 1856 he was elected to the

lower branch of the Legislature, tion,

counties

Wapakonetta, Auglaize

cuting Attorney for Auglaize county, and in elected to the

was

his stay of

were divided, and he removed

left

In 1861,

at

the re-

the Legislature, returned

home, within two days raised a company of volunand entered the ser-

teers to assist in crushing the rebellion,

vice of the

He was positions

United States with a commission of Captain.

afterward promoted successively to the following :

Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, and Brevet

Leaving the service

Brigadier-General. brilliant

and useful career

tice of his profession.

made Chairman

Jersey,

1S45 was admitted to the bar

once elected Prosecuting Attorney.

thousand dollars.

New

then,

Granville,

at

the practice of his profession in Linn, Allen county, and

on the Democratic

John M. Cummings, of Newark,

in

Norwalk, Huron county.

with the enterprise that he sold his whole interest for a In connection with his uncle. General

He

the Oberlin University, Ohio.

in

age of eighteen, began the study of law

as a soldier,

in

1864, after a

he resumed the prac-

In 1873 he was elected to the Senate

ticket,

and upon the organization was

of the Judiciary Committee

—

that intrusted

with the conduct of the most important matters

member and

;

Salaries, of that

on the Soldiers’ and

Sailors’

Orphans’

Home, of that on Privileges and Elections, and also man of the Committee on Military Yffurs. He is guished

also a

of the Committee on Public Works, of that on Fees

at

Chairdistin-

the bar, and has conducted to successful issues

many important

cases; while, as a public

official,

he has a

Edwin, and Egbert

record free from blemish, and, often under trying circum-

His only daughter married Egbert T. Smith, and

stances, has laborcvl successfully for the interests of his con-

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BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

6o slituency

was

ami the welfare of the general comnuinily.

re-elected

Senate

the

to

October,

in

lie

1875, without

Cincinnati and Lhiiled States Depository by President Lin-

With the outbreak of the rebellion became one of vital

coln.

nati

being the

di,-,tributing

yUNN, ANDREW, was born

M.

D., Surgeon

Ills father, a well-to-do farmer,

traction,

was of Scotch ex-

and owned and cultivated a large and

which was

beautiful farm,

In 1834

and Physician,

Poland, Maine, April 24th, 1S04.

in

son's birthplace.

his

Andrew graduated

Buudoin Medical

at

Reuben

College, under the instruction of Professor

Mus-

1 ).

and was selected out of the graduating class to be one Professor of his assistant dissectors for the ensuing class.

sey,

•sion to

honored him with an invitation

also

Soon

India.

after leaving college

York, and entered upon the practice of

to

go on a mis-

he settled

in

his profession,

New

which

he continued with great energy and success during many years. skill in

He

known

soon became widely

for his

remarkable

midwifery, his record showing the loss of no patient

in a period

embracing

forty years of constant practice.

In

the earlier part of his career his attention was directed to that formidable disease called hernia (rupture), with

which

the ablest physicians and surjeons feared to encounter.

terrible

new

devising

efforts in

affliction

His

point for the armies .South, ques-

soundest judgment to decide correctly between clashing

During

terests.

At the

on deposit.

close of the

war he

retired

of Equalization

nominee of both

by an almost unanimous vote, being the he rendered signal

parties; in this position

pointed Commissioner of Costs and Fees of Hamilton county; also a

member

cinnati.

In

order.

of the

Board of Park Commissioners of Cin-

he became a member of the Masonic

1S45

In

Grand Commander of

he was elected

1871

Knights Templar of Ohio; and about that time also Lieu-

Commander

tenant

of the Northern

.Supreme Conned of

Masonic Rite, 33°.

the order of the Scottish

German works

the world, including English, French and

and

his large private library

especially rich in illustrated

is

.Shakspearian literature.

and found there practice, and has had

for

fiehl

speci.rl delight in

JOSEPH

R.YNE,

IL, an

Ohio, and

is

a

man

of generous impulses,

the society

.\ugust

and education of

the service.

He

for several

was born

eminent

Common

Judge of the Court of gress,

the young.

member

terms a

Elizabethtown,

in

armv.

^^''.VRSON, ENOCH T., was born in Greene township, Hamilton county, Ohio, September l8th, 1822. He is the son of William J. Carson and His maternal ancestors,

Margaret Terry.

came from

settlers in

Virginia, and were

Cincinnati.

father’s farm,

and there remained

years of age,

when he served

on the Cincinnati

at his

&

until

He was

among

in

war of the Revolution, and lost a limb in the was a brother of Commodore William M.

married

Julia,

daughter of John

United States army, and stationed

one of the frontier

posts.

He

at

the regular

Surgeon

Vincennes, then

November, 1851,

died in

having had a large family, most of

in

Elliot,

whom

died young.

bred on his

Harrison turnpike, there making

to

Jersey,

His father was a Major

31st, 1782.

the

three years as a collector of

From 1S4S

of Con-

New

the

he was twenty-three

leisure the deficiencies of his early eilucation

systematic reading.

in the

He

Lawyer and

Pleas of Dayton,

Crane, and of Ichabod B. Crane, a Colonel

up

Mr. Carson

has one of the largest private libraries on secret societies in

Cincinnati,

to

He

the treatment of hernia.

tolls

was ap-

In 1871 he

service to the taxpayers of Cincinnati.

astonishing results in his favorite branch of his profession

first

from the

In 1870 he was elected amendjerof the State Board

office.

A

were crowned with perfect success.

a large and remunerative

Terrys,

in-

sometimes ten millions

his administration

per day were received, and thirty millions were frequently

'

-

office

Cincin-

appliances to permanently cure this

few years since he removed

and takes a

from an

interest.

most perplexing character, requiring the

tions arose of the

Mussey

this

of minor importance

opposition

by

1850 he served ns a

RANE, COLONEL JOSEPH H. and

G., son of Joseph

was born, October Dayton, Ohio. He was a lawyer

Julia (Elliot) Crane,

25th, 1825, at

by profession, and

at

Montgomery county.

one time Probate Judge

for

At the breaking out of the

rebellion he was living in Indiana, and at once Deputy in the sheriffs office of Hamilton county; from December, 1850, until November, 1852, he was in the em- entered the service of his country. He served through the ployment of tha Handiton & Dayton Railroad Comirany, whole war on the staff of General Robert C. Schenck, and and became their first Depot Master at the Sixth Street De- at the close accepted the commi.ssion of Captain, with the pot, Cincinnati. From November, 1852, until November, brevet of Colonel, in the regular army. While acting In military Mayor of the city of Jackson, Mississippi, under the 1856, he was Chief Deputy Sheriff of Hamilton county. 185S he went into the lamp and gas business, in which oc- provisional government instituted for the reconstruction of cupation, after an intermission of many years, he is now. the States, he was assa.ssinated in the street by the notorious He was a man In May, 1861, he was appointed Collector of the Port of Colonel Yerger of the Confederate army.

:Puh Co.

FkOaddvy^-

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOP.EDIA. of cultivated

Cincinnati, and

not only the qualities to endeai'

the dissolution

mind and amiable disposition, and possessed him to his friends but those which distinguished him among his fellow-men. He

also

married Sarah, daughter of Admiral James F. Schenck, 1852, with whom he had two sons that survived him.

in

6i

many

importance.

others of equal

Church

firm has been the architect of the Congregational

Ironton, Ohio

Kanawha

;

Clay Pool Building, Church,

Presbyterian

Charleston, W’est Vir-

many

Niles Tool Works, at Hamilton, Ohio, and

ginia;

at

Indianapolis, Indiana;

at

at

Since

former head of the

of the partnership the

other public and private buildings throughout the country.

He was one of

i^OGSWELL, BEN’JAMIN S., Clerk of the of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County,

Court Ohio,

the founders of the Cincinnati Chapter Ameri-

can Institute of Architects, of which he was Secretary.

the

Political

for several years

he has never sought and

office

never accepted. He entered the Federal army in 1861 and was born, April 6th, 1831, at Oxford, Huron served throughout the war in various capacities, princijrally county, Ohio, and is the son of Benjamin and engineering department. He is a thoroughly publicHe was educated at the in the Susan tBill) Cogsweli. spirited man, and although he has not allowed his name to Ibrldwin University, Berea, and after leaving come into marked prominence, he has been a warm and school became a clerk in the post-office at Berea, where he active supporter of every public enterprise of merit, and to remained until March, 1859. At this period he removed to his active and well-directed labors Cincinnati, the city of clerk’s office department, entered the where he Cleveland, his home, owes not a little of her advancement. In 1872 he was continuing there for a considerable time. 1

County Clerk for the term of three and entered upon the duties of his office, February energy and good business ability, 1873.

elected to the position of years, 9th,

ENTGN, ROSW ELL

the duties of his office to the entire

well calculated to

fulfil

satisfaction of the

community.

He was

IL, County Treasurer of Hamilton County, Ohio, was born, February 27th,

married, April 5th,

Helen M., daughter of Chester Gee, of Thompson,

1855, to

Ohio, and

is

county, being

1821, in that

two children, one son and one

the father of

daughter.

York, followed through

and

NDER.SON, EDWIN,

Architect,

a native

is

Ohioan, having been born in Clermont county on

»

His father died

the 24th of February, 1834.

January,

1841, and

removed

to

in

soon afterwards his mother

j

o

He

engineer.

civil

Here Edwin was edu-

Cincinnati.

cated, with a

view

to

adopting the profession of

devoted special attention while attend-

ing the public schools to mathematics, and

when he

school he continued the study of civil engineering.

some

years he

struction

in

was engaged

left

For

in the business of railroad con-

Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.

In the meantime

he had pursued the study of architecture with Messrs. Hamilton

&

Rankin, of Cincinnati, and

in

1857 he formed a part-

nership with Samuel Hannaford, and

which he henceforward devoted

as architect, to

and

skill.

commenced

The

his

in his

a very extensive patronage.

derson

& Hannaford

While the

firm of

House

;

may he mentioned

the Cincinnati,

senger Depot,

nati

Ohio; ;

St.

at

Hamilton

Cincinnati

John’s

An-

continued, they were the architects of

Among

buildings aggregating in cost over $80,000,000. these buildings

;

the

Cincinnati

& Dayton

settled in

Work-

Railroad Pas-

Turner’s C)|)era House,

German Lutheran Church,

at

and the Jewish Synagogue, Eighth and Mound

at

Day-

Cincinstreets.

Hamilton county

neers to that section

of seven

fifth

—

in

agricultural pursuits,

life

— becoming one of

the pio-

He

the spring of 1806.

subse-

quently located permanently in Greene township, where he

November 30lh, 1830. His wife was a native of Pennsylvania, her parents being among the earliest settlers of Hamilton county, Ohio. She died on resided until his death,

March

There were but limited

19th, 1855.

the

facilities for

early education of Roswell, his instruction being conducted at

a country school-house.

meagre advantages by developed a

When

taste

for

He made

family then

to

confined to this charge

fall

for

farm and cultivated

direction he the meat

moved

his years.

and

The

years.

as the “ .Se\'en-

i

attention being exclusively

it,

hauling

After this he went

wood

to the city in

After five years’ labor

to Cincinnati in 1847,

in this

and embarked

in

and provision business, which he has since suc-

cessfully conducted.

His present establi^hment

182 and 184 M’est .Sixth street. 1

books, and

Harrison tunqiike, and Ros-

two years.

and winter months.

ith

Cincinnati,

what was well known

well took charge of the place, hi

the

to

occupation for seven

this

moved

to

grew w

reading, which

mile House,” situated on the

a

the best use of his

assiduceis application

twelve years old he hauled wood

steadily followed

own name. upon

has attained very high rank in his profession, and com-

mands

ton,

energy

firm continued until January ist, 1871, since

which time he has continued the business

He

business

the

whose parents were Roswell and Ann (McFaren) Fenton. His father, a native of New

children,

irgely of his

means and time

to

advance the

township and of Hamilton county, and was his support of the

government.

is

at

Nos.

During the war he gave

In

Treasurer of Hamilton county, and

interests of his influential

in

1873 he was elected

now

holds that imjior-

BIOGRAPHICAL E.NXVCLOP.-EDIA.

62 laiit

and responsible

duties a ripe

are

affiliations

office,

and brings

knowledge of

to the discharge of

Democratic, and his

first

UCHANAN, ROBERT,

its

vote was cast for

Merchant, was born, on

15th of January, 1797, in western Pennsyl-

the

Ilis political

financial affairs.

vania, of Scotch- Irish parentage

— of Revolution-

James K. Polk for the Presidency. He is lilieral in religious opinion, and generous in impulse, and his career is that of an energetic and prosperous business man, whose conduct,

war stock. The rudiments of an English education were obtained at a country school lout learn-

though without ostentation, has won the great respect of

unsought, for the nearest school was two miles away, and

his fellow-citizens. to

He

was marrieil on February 23d, 1842,

Sarah Bray, a native of Hamilton county, and

the

is

ary

;

that distance the

day

there his

^/^AVLOR, EZRA

Lawyer, was born, July

B.,

1823, in Portage county, Ohio, and

is

New

England

9th,

a son of

The

Elisha and Theresa (Couch) Taylor.

on both sides are of

family

birth, they

having removed from Berkshire county,^ Massa-

and settled

chusetts, in 1813,

Portage county.

in

Mrs. Taylor was a relative of the celebrated General

The

M.assachusetts.

circumstances, and

were oidy

fa.r.ily

in

N.

I).

moderate

Ezra was only able to attend school

during the winter months, the balance of the year being devoted to labor and

toil.

He

went

to the

however, up to the age of seventeen

was obtained by

part of his education exertions.

Every moment

that

daily task and the evening hours all this

common

school,

years," but the greater

his

own

indefatigable

he could snatch from

were devoted

to study,

his

and

He commenced

without the aid of an instructor.

consequence of

his jirofession.

In 1862

Warren, Trumbull county, where he has

since continued to reside, and in

1854 was elected Prose-

cuting Attorney of Portage county (this was, of course, before he

went

to

Warren).

His practice has been very large

bereavement he

this

left

In the year 181

a store in Pittsburgh.

as-

1,

school and entered

when only

fourteen

years of age, he was sent by his employers to East Liverpool,

Ohio, to

assist in a

branch store they had established there.

His stay there was made memorable by a sight of the steamboat (“ the Orleans ”) built on the Ohio

river.

returned to Pittsburgh the same year, and his return

made memorable by

the fact that

— in

partnership with his

himself carried

it

is

first

He also

was on the day before

In 1816 he entered into business for

the great earthquake.

former employers

— and

on with varying success in West Union, Ohio,

it

He was the first Ohio merchant who shipped He had his grain conveyed on flatboats

until 1S21.

grain to Europe. to

New

Orleans, where

boat “ Mary'sville.”

once commenced the practice of

made

Shortly after this his father died, and in

of Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar in 1845, and he

to

In 1808

year from the lime he entered the school he was sistant teacher.

In the year

he removed

walk each

attending the Meadville Acadenly, and in a

reading law under the direction of (udge Robert F. Payne

at

to

this source.

advantages were greatly increased.

educational

He commenced

Couch of

young student was obliged

he sought knowledge from

that

he removed with his father to Meadville, Pennsylvania, and

father of four children.

t

come

ing in his case, as in every other, did not

1823.

In

Charles

1

was loaded on ships

it

for Liverpool.

82 1 he was employed as Captain of the steam-

that

He

year he

Mac.Allister,

continued in entered

of

this

Philadelphia,

grocery business in Cincinnati.

The

position until

a partnership with

into

in

the

wholesale

firm for several years

was largely engaged in the pork -packing business, in addiIn 1825, in tion to the grocery and commission business.

and widely extended he is among the best-known lawyers in the .State, and though regarded as most excellent in all

connection with his partner, he established the Phoenix Cot-

the different branches of his profession, he

Covington Cotton Factory.

;

distinguished as

an advocate.

docket of nearly every court

in

particularly

is

His nanre occurs on the northern Ohio, and few

at-

ton Factory in Cincinnati, and in the year 1828 he built the

About 1825 he and

his partner

formed a business connection with William Tift, and established the first manufactory for producing steam engines and

number of sugar mills for the Southern sugar plantations. The busicases as he. During the late war of the rebellion he was ness was carried on under his superintendence from 1827 During this time he a private in the Home Guard, and when Governor Brough to 1832, when it was discontinued. When the called out the militia during the invasion of Ohio by the was also part owner in four or five steamboats. guerillas, instead of hiring a substhute, he shouldered his sugar mill manufactory was closed he commenced the comtorneys in the State have appeared in as great a

musket and marched

The

to the

defence of the southern border.

was captured by the celebrated and notorious John Morgan, after a hard battle, who took them to Cynthiana, Kentucky, where they were released on parole and returned home. During the construction of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway he served as a Director of that company; and since the completion of the line he has lieen its force

attorney and counsel.

He was

M., daughter of Colonel

and

is

the father of

married

William

two children.

in

1849

Fjazier,

Harriet

of Ravenna,

mission business in his

own name.

It

did not suffice for

him, however, and in 1844 he bought a fourth interest in In 1S60, in the Cooper Cotton Factory, at Dayton, Ohio. connection with William Manser, he leased the Covington Rail Mills, and continued his interest in them until 1872. In addition to all these enterprises, he has, with his various partners, built

no

less

than thirteen dwelling-houses and

stores in difierent parts of the city.

.Secretary

Moreover, he was Presi-

Commercial Bank from 1831 to 1835; was of the Little Miami Railroad Board of Directors

dent of the

—

—

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOP/EDIA. from 1836

Company

to 1S41

was President of \Vhite Water Canal

;

1841, and

in

President of the Spring

still

is

Grove Cemetery Company, which was organized house

He

in 1844.

the Cincinnati Historical Society,

was President of

his

at

President of the Cincinnati College,

is

Academy

elected President of the Cincinnati

and

He was

Trustee of the Cincinnati Orphan Asylum.

is

a

also

of Natural

The

63

made

can be

fact that iron

in

Cincinnati so as to com-

pete with the large establishments of Pittsburgh has long

been manifest

many

in the

prosperous and growing mills in

In this industry Mr. Kinsey labored with-

the former city.

the beginning of the year 1866,

out rest until

when

the

copartnership expired by limitation, and the firm irroperly

was put

company, comprising the original

into a joint stock

owners and others who had long been connected with the it with most tired from business in the fall of 1872, and in the following management of the business, and still conduct December he was elected a Director of the City Infirmary, favorable and growing prosperity. Pie gave up business in Sciences

at

the time of

organization, in

its

He

1835.

re-

he still continues to hold. In 1837 he was engaged to purchase gold and silver for the Lhiited States

which

office

He

Bank.

the duties of this position for

fulfilled

two

he bought over $5,000,000 in He specie and about $1,000,000 in Southern banknotes. was married in October, 1822, to Miss Browning, of Kenyears,

tucky,

and during

who

that time

On

Massachusetts. fill

a

He was

ery,

His parents, Oliver and

land, in the year 1828.

Sarah

Baltimore, Mary-

Kinsey, were members of the

(Griffith)

His mother died when he

Society of P'riends.

not sorry to retire at the close of his term of ser-

liberal

is

now

He

When Joseph was five years old the Richmond, Indiana. His father was a patron of schools and education, giving his boys the to

best advantages the place afforded, which, that early period of

however, was,

history, rather limited.

its

at

Living on a

when out of school “ there must be no idleness ” but

farm, he found constant einployment his father’s

maxim being

—

is

and

is

a

and

is

members and

He

member

also a leading

to

all

money.

of

all

fine,

he

men who

is

are of the

numerous family.

ment of the whole community.

At the age of fourteen he was engaged

he remained two years. the age of seventeen he

he changed

After another year at school,

removed

business. to take

&

About

ir8

Main

Groesbeck, in this

an overland

one of the most

influ-

;

nor

is

League of

he wanting

in the

freely both

his

liberal

greatest

time and

and public-

advantage

and whose personal welfare tends

to the

to

any

advance-

at

to Cincinnati, in the year J.

K. Ogden

street.

laiger house of Clark

to the

Clark

(piently

at

of his

by William Owens, where

1845, and engaged with the firm of

hardware merchants,

great

all

one of those

society,

the retail country store kept

in

public enterprises and charitable institutions,

spirited

in

that

in

of the Industrial

which he contributes In

is

;

all intoxi-

a Vice-President of the Board of Trade,

Cincinnati and the United States

support of

from

prominent leader

business and social relations. ential

broadest sense

its

ardent, energetic, and generous in

This idea was

recreation.

Co.,

a Republican of the

is

in total abstinence

thoroughly and persistently instilled into the minds of his

plenty of time for innocent

&

giving active service in the management of

temperance he believes liquors,

removed

pleasing to him.

kinds of railway supplies and machin-

all

the exercise of religious charity in

cating

with one exception,

tiot

house of Post

“ straitest sect;” in religion a liberal thinker, believing in

reform.

of

Councilman was

interest in the great

In politics Mr. Kinsey

whom,

all

reached maturity. family

and

its affairs.

was only three years of age, leaving a family of nine children,

Ward, where he resides with sons and three daughters.

the Eleventh

family, consisting of three

his

manufacturers of

in

his family in

1868, he was elected to

a term of two years in the City Council of Cincinnati as

member from

He now owns an

IXSEY, JOSEPH, was born

two years with

s])ent

his return, in

vice, as the position of

living.

is still

and

the spring of 1866,

trip to California in

Co.,

ISHER, GEORGE,

Merchant, was born

heim, Rhenish Bavaria, December

&

He came

Booth, subse-

the wholesale

time Mr. Kinsey

&

After two years

hardware

made arrangements search of gold

;

but

to the

United

.States

in

Durk-

25111,

1829.

with his father in

1837, and settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he enjoyed such educational advantages as were afforded by the schools of that city until

He was then apprenticed to the mcrch.ant tailoring 1841. mind and accepted business, and continued in that capacity until the cxiiiration their offer. In the meantime he became acquainted with a of his term, in 1845, "hen he removed to Cincinnati and young lady from Massachusetts, the daughter of E. D. engaged as a journeyman with Samuel Thomas. He left Ammidown, whom he married in Boston in 1851. After the employ of the latter, in 1847, enter that of his patient service as salesman he was admitted as partner in brother, doing Inisiness on Central avenue, and there conthe house of Tyler, Davidson & Co., where he continued till tinued until 1850, when he formed a copartner^hip with he completed in all eight years of steady work. He then /\dam Epply, under the firm -name of George Eisher & Co., bought into the fllobe Rolling Mill Comjrany, the business invested all his savings amounting to $75 in the new being conducted under the style of Worthington 8; Co. enterprise, and embarked in business on his own aecount. having a good

offer to

Tyler, Davidson

&

go

into the old-established

Co., he

changed

house Of

his

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BIOGRAl'IIICAL EXCYCLOI'-EDI A.

64

Here he

and

l)rought lo bear his energy

part of

latter

East Pearl

when

1852,

share in the business amounted to

his

street,

Tlie firm was dissolved in 1854, and

$2800.

who

edness was assumed by our subject,

he w'as not

P>ut

all

paid

its

all

indebt-

liabilities

and found himself about even with the

dollar for dollar,

world.

and by the

skill,

they changed their location to

crushed by misfortune, and

to be-

with characteristic energy set about the restoration of his loss,

and engaged

tliat

est integrity

his

his

own

safe,

brilliant

and demonstrator

turer

has

adherence

won

a

proud position

This success

He

well established.

has served

and advantage

He was

to the public.

Mary Ellen Masury, of Cleveland, and

married in 1861 to is

the father of four

L.,

was born Decem-

children.

and the

to his

own

as a patriotic

M'illiam Ruffin and Elizabeth Rue.

to

though he

for

which, though modest and unassuming in is

all

recognized as the leading house.

The former

was a native of Virginia, who came to Ohio at a very early age, and served with gallantry under

calls

citizen, his best

energies have been given to the furtherance of his business

his operations, he

1S13, in Cincinnati, and was the eighth

22(1,

of eleven children, whose parents W'ere Major

nor deaf to the

spirit,

ber

mercantile and

legitimate pursuits;

and benevolent

CAPTAIN JAMES

I^^UFFIN,

strict-

measure due

in the

in great

is

has never been wanting in public

interests, in

is

City Councils for four years with credit to himself

in the

individual account

close attention to business

community.

upon him

a surgeon he is generally known to be having performed many operations with success; and his reputation as a fine clinical lec-

store,

and by

prosperity,

social

on

As

and

257 Walnut street, in Day’s building. period he has pursued a career of uninterrupted

at his present

Since

in business

instructive. skilful

General

Miami cinnati

Wayne

in

successful

his

campaign against the

After this service he returned to Cin-

river Indians.

and resided there

his

until

death, in

He

1834.

manifested great interest in the public welfare, and was frequently selected for public office, having been Clerk of

Cincinnati and Sheriff of Hamilton county.

His wife, a

native of Maryland, died in 1831 at Cincinnati.

II.WER, PROCTOR, M. fessor of

Surgery and Medical Jurisprudence in

Cleveland

the

D., Physician and Pro-

Medical

October i6th, 1823,

Williamstown, Berkshire

at

county, Massachusetts, and

Daniel died

when

educated

graduating

when

a son of the late

is

Thayer, a farmer of that section,

his son

at the

was born on

College,

was but seven years of age.

who

Pie w'as

Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio,

the scientific department of that institution

in

nineteen

years

old.

Shortly

entered the office of I'rofessor

Cleveland, where he jirosecuting the

same

J-

commenced in

after

the study of medicine,

Medical College,

the Cleveland

from which school he graduated

he

event

this

Delamater, M. D., of

in the class of

unusual advantages

when young, and were pursued

His finishing studies

Cincinnati College, an

wide

James had

educational advancement

by them.

profited

extinct, but then of

celebrity, his

institution

now

mentor having been

Milo G. Williams, an educator of some renown.

At the

completion of his academic career he accepted in 1832 a

& McCullough,

position as clerk in the house of Nesbitt

of

and remained in it one year, when he became clerk on an Ohio river steamboat, upon w hich he stopped two years. In 1835 he began the trade of book-binding, Cincinnati,

and continued

at

it

for four years.

was followed by one of enforced rendering

ment.

1849.

at

in the w'ay of

This season of labor

idleness, acute

rheumatism

impossible for him to engage in any employ-

it

In 1839 he was

made Deputy Clerk under General

Common Pleas, Hamilton Mean- county, Ohio, and remained in that office until 1840, when while he W'as appointed, in 1852, Demonstrator of Anatomy he was made Deputy to Daniel Gano, Clerk of the Superior P'rom 1841 to in the Cleveland Medical College, and in 1856 was chosen Court, and acted in that capacity one year. to fill the chair of Anatomy and Physiology in the same 1842 he served as clerk to Moses Brooks, a prominent became

turning to the office of his preceptor, he

with him

in his practice

named

In the

until 1862.

and Practice of Surgery, which he yet

A

Surgeon

Returning

portion of the years 1862 in

to

the

army during the

and 1863 were spent

w'ar of the rebellion.

Cleveland, he resumed the practice of his pro-

fession in addition to his duties as Professor.

teen hundred lectures delivered by

him

been given from written notes, as he withi a fine

all

he hxs attended to a large medical and surgical

this period

practice.

retains,

During

with the addition of Medical Jurisprudence.

as

last-

year he w'as transferred to the Professorship of the

Principles

command

Harrison, Clerk of the Court of

for a period of ten years.

which position he held

institution,

associated

of language;

and

is

In the eigh-

lumber merchant, and from 1842 of Constable. office

of

of the public. tion

detective.

fidelity

to

and

to the satisfaction

1857 he again

filled

the posi-

1857 to 1858 he acted as the election to the mayoralty of N. W.

Upon

Thomas, he was appointed Chief of Police of Cincinnati, and held that office two years, and was re-selected to the 1863 lo 1871.

master of his subject, the lectures are always interesting and

From 1856

of Constable, and from

discharge of

a complete

to 1849 ''dd the office succeeding years found him in the

of City Marshal of Cincinnati, the responsible duties

a fluent lecturer, is

six

which he discharged with

not one has ever

as he

The

has

filled

its

grave responsibilities during the period from Since his retirement from that position he

others of a public nature, always winning the

good opinion of the public

for his zeal

and

rectitude.

He

BIOGRAPHICAL E^XYCLOP/LDIA. was married on December He was Elizabeth Grindle.

what

1840, in Cincinnati, to

8th,

in jralitics originally

a Whig,

now

the city of Cincinnati

and

same county, from Symmes, its original proprietor, on it. Here he followed, until his death, June His wife was a na1812, the occupation of a farmer.

1st,

settled

death occurring in 1835.

tive of Pennsylvania, her

had few

don, England, June tion

was obtained

studied in

in

London

1st,

Editor

was born

of in

frontier type

He

as a landscape engraver,

subsequently pursued his profession

demand

;

an education, but

P'rancis

order to be ready for better ones.

— irregularly of

nece.ssity

im-

fully

The

— was of the old

but rude as the appointments of this were,

they enabled him to form a strong taste for reading, and

His earlier educa-

1824.

in

school he attended

the

Lon-

Southampton, England.

for obtaining

facilities

proved these

Official Gazette, Patent Office,

Shortly after

in 1790.

in the

wealth and of great social and political influence.

3 NIGHT, EDWARD HENRY,

—

he purchased section twenty-eight of Sycamore township,

this

and has been a Republican ever sinee the organization of He resides at Clifton, and is now a man of that party.

is

65

whetted his ambition

He commenced

in Cincinnati,

which he

for a substantial education,

and eventually secured by

and unaided exertions.

his individual

farm labor early in

life,

and has followed

with some slight interruptions, ever since.

P'or some work being rather limited, he qualified himself to act as a years he was actively engaged in trading and speculating in In 1864 he took charge the Southern States. surveyor and mechanical engineer. In i860 he moved to Lebanon, Warof the preparation of the Patent Office Report, and in 1868 ren county, Ohio, and resided there for about ten months, In the beginning and then returned to his original estate to resume agriculof the classification of the Patent Office.

Ohio.

About

thirty years ago, the

of 1872 he was, at

for that

kind of

it,

foundation, appointed Editor of the

its

His

tural pursuits.

and

political affiliations are with the

lican party,

& &

aspired to public office, and has declined to accept

Co., Riverside Press,

Houghton,

New

his

first

While taking a deep

Cambridge, Massachusetts (Hurd

York), a work in three volumes, con-

has been active in

Repub-

vote was cast for General Jackson.

His principal literary production is a Offcinl Gazette. “ Mechanical Dictionary,” published by H. O. Houghton

interest in civil affairs,

efforts to

he has never it.

He

improve the system of popular

and embracing education observed in his section, and has. succeeded in volume of perfecting it. Though raised in what was known as the poetry published recently in New York, entitled “A Library Seceder Church, and a constant attendant upon worship, of Poetry and Song.” It was honored by an introduction He his religious views are not narrow and circumscribed.

taining 2600 pages, with 6000 illustrations,

20,000 subjects.

He

the compiler also of a

is

He is a man of pleasing in general by William Cullen Bryant, and has believes in religious tolerance. had a greater success than any other collection of poetry social qualities, and of good, strong common sense, and is

on the subject

A

ever published in this or perhaps any other country. vised and extended edition has lately been published.

everywhere respected

re-

His

rity

as

erected the

first

magazines and newspapers, and consist of

year 1801.

He was

chinery and the progress of the useful

may be mentioned

arts.

particularly current “

on ma-

Among

line

these

M.

moved

sterling integ-

married on March 6th, 1855, to Caro-

Bryant, a daughter of John Bryant, an old citizen

of Hamilton county,

Reviews of Recent

Weekly, and monthly contributions to Harper's Magazine on “ The Mechanical Progress Inventions,” in Harper's

and

brick house in Sycamore township, in the

miscellaneous literary productions are to be found in various articles

for his enterprise

His father had the honor of having

a citizen.

who

in the

latter years

of his

and died there

to Platte county, Missouri,

life

in 1863.

of the Century” (December, 1874, to March, 1875), which form a portion of an extended series on our “ Centenary of

CHWAB, MATTHIA.S,

Progress.” More recently he was placed in charge of the arrangement and appointed custodian of the Patent Office

German by

this

Organ Builder, was a in Baden in He was still quite young when country. He was taken to Cin-

in

that city the principal portion of

birth,

display at the

Government building. Centennial grounds,

the year 1810.

Philadelphia.

He was

he came to

Maria

to

married in 1848,

at

Dayton, Ohio,

Richards.

J.

cinnati, his

and

having been born

the widest and truest sense of the

L ^'MIN'GHAM,

FRANCES,

Farmer, was born in

jilace;

October, 1806, in Sycamore township of Hamil-

to pass in

its

in

citizen of the

best interests,

which he might

and

suf-

fittingly

and was the youngest of ten show his regard for his adopted city. His education was a whose parents were James and Jennette thoroughly good one, and he brought to all his enterprises (Parker) Cunningham. His father, a native of and all his intercourse a fine culture and a rare intelligence. Pennsylvania, settled in Kentucky at an early He possessed a fine combination of musical taste, mechani-

children,

tj

day, remaining there, however, only a short time.

moved

identified himself with all

no opportunity

word a

ton county, Ohio,

mi X.3

e-

&

fered

He became

remaining years were passed.

to

I'ort

9

Washington, Hamilton county

He

— the

then

site

of

cal I

aptitude,

and unyielding jierseverance

;

so

when he

decided to enter upon the work of organ building, he

BIOGRAPHICAL EXCVCLOIVEDIA.

66

brought to his work the elements that insure ultimate success.

He

was one of the very

in Cincinnati,

and

to

first

engage

his earnestness, his fitness

ness, his patient industry,

and

his

in the

for

work

the busi-

intelligent perseverance

enabled him, in the development of his chosen

field

of

labor, to attain a celebrity probably unequalled west of the

achieved perfection

mechanism, and the instruments

in

produced by him became famous

their richness of tone.

and

a

into

copartnership with

his

and woollen

Isaac, in the clothing .

the leading partner,

Abraham.

however, under the style of

1.

was soon reorganized,

It

& D.

The

Wolf.

firm relin-

the mercantile business in 1869, and went into the

brokerage

which

line,

line

it

has since continued

to pursue'.

Wolf was originally a W’hig; but when The high places of the Know Nothing party was organized he left the ranks hard struggle, how- of the Whigs and entered those of the Democrats. He

for their delicacy of touch,

prosperity were not reached without a

Abraham and

goods business, under the firm-name of A. & 1 Wolf & Co. This firm was dissolved in the year 1865 by the death of

By hard work and sympathetic study he quished

Alleghenies.

their range

and then entered

1842,

brothers,

In politics Daniel

At one time, after his marriage, while he was at continued in the Democratic faith until the breaking out of work at the foundation of his reputation, his means were so the war of the rebellion, in 1861, and then he considered meagre that one room served for his factory and for the that the time had come to revoke his allegiance to any mere home of his wife and himself. He married early in life party and yield it alone to his adopted country. He was Solomence Yeck, a native of Pennsylvania, and the result earnestly devoted to the preservation of the Union in its inever.

of the marriage was eleven children. after

In the year

1865,

having lived to enjoy to some extent the prosperous

other prominent and infiuenlial citizens of the old Fifth and

member

In politics he

of the church.

;

and

patriotic

public-spirited,

he was philanthropic

in a

large degree, and always gave generously of his means, large or small, to promote the welfare of benevolent institu-

and

to

for

He, together with

the adjacent wards of the city, started and organized the

was a Democrat but he was a patriot, never a jiartisan. He steadily and earnestly worked for the support of the government in its efforts to crush the rebellion, and at his instance three of his sons enlisted in the Union army and Not only was took part in many of the battles of the war.

tions

energy every measure

all his

he died, widely and sincerely

nent and influential

he

and supported with

the vigorous prosecution of the war.

In religion he was a Catholic, and was a promi-

results of his early struggles,

mourned.

tegrity,

meet the

calls of private charity.

first

company

of

home

the “ Stoner Rifles,’’

military.

The company was

armed and equipped themselves at This organization formed the nucleus panies that entered the the hardest

work of

W’olf was elected a

called

and was composed of old men, who

army and

the war.

member

own many of

expense.

their

of

the com-

participated in

In the year

some of

1865 Daniel

of the City (,'ouncil in place of

Benjamin Eggleston, who had been chosen to a seat in Congress. He was put forward by the best citizens of the ward, was elected by a large majority, and performed the by successive

duties of his position so accejitably that elections he has

been kept

in the position ever since.

re-

For

was a member of the Board of City Improvethe present time he is Chairman of the He was born in the town of P'reidesheim, at Finance Committee. He was married in 1847 'o Rebecca Ten cbildren have been born to Rheinpfalz, in that country, on the 2d of April, Bruel, of Cincinnati. His eldest daugh1819, and continued to live there until he was them, and of these nine are now living. fourteen years of age. While still living in his ter is the wife of H. S. Mack, of the firm of H. S. Mack & native town he secured the rudiments of a good, Co., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and his second daughter is four years he

DANIEL,

LF,

Broker,

is

a native of Bavaria.

ments, and

at

;

With

substantial education.

opportunities

came

to

his residence there his school

an end, and such mental training as

he subsequently obtained was wholly due aided

efforts.

to this country,

his father

went

to his

own

the wife of A. Meyer, of the firm of Meis sale boots

and

settled in Stark county, Ohio,

into business as a butcher

butchering business

come up

He

Cincinnati.

in

Meyer, whole-

un-

In the year 1833 he came with his parents

and

TIMSON, RODNEY M., Marietta, Ohio, was lorn at Milford, New Hampshire, on October 26th, 1824. He was descended from John Stim-

where

hotel keeper.

In the following year he went with the family to find a

home

&

and shoes.

;

assisted his

father there in the

son,

to his desires,

and he concluded

Accordingly he accepted a position

to relinquish

in a store at the

at Marietta College,

it.

dazzling

who came from England

chusetts, about 1640.

but the profits of the business did not

1847.

He

then

commenced

He

to Boston, Ma.ssa-

received his education

from which he graduated in

the study of law, and in 1849

P'or six months he con- was admitted to the bar. But his fancy for newspaper life and on these terms, and being greater, he abandoned the law and established the This new work then, in the year 1837, when he was eighteen years of age, Register, at Stouton, Lawrence county. he went again to work with his father, who had gone into received his best energies, and until the spring of 1862 he

salary of three dollars per month.

tinued to

work

in

this

the clothing business.

situation

He

remained with

his father until

gave

his entire attention to that paper.

He

then

moved

to

# 1 .

? I

••

—

.

B I OG R A PH I C A L Marietta, and Rtgister, in that he has

between

published the

Marietla

May, 1872.

until

and study, possessing a

the ensuing

He

carefully selected volumes.

two thousand

be found among them.

The

.Senate as a Republican.

bater, in the current political

1863 he was admitted

universal satis-

tice of his

faction felt by his constituents caused his re-election to the

same

office in

1871, where he served in

all

getic

men

him

as

married twice;

first

He

during his time.

and then again

in 1851,

teaching

in

and

In

of the State.

and entered on the prac-

In the spring of 1865, General E.

profession.

Noyes

after the election of

whom

he had read

to the

In the

was

of 1866,

fall

Probate Judgeship of the

county, he was appointed by the City Council to

has been

vacancy

in 1862.

and

in the Solicitor’s office,

was elected

the

fill

following spring

in the

Solicitor^hip for the term of

to the

in

an orator and de-

movements

to the bar

appointed by him Assistant Solicitor.

one of the ablest and most ener-

in the Legislature

New

law, having been elected City Solicitor of Cincinnati, he

record while in the Legislature was highly honorable, and the record shows

part, as

Noyes, since Governor of Ohio, with

F.

His

four years.

meantime taking an active

the

In 1869 he was elected to the

he was engaged

for three years

schools, continuing also the study of law,

in private

can always

presided over an academy at Lisbon,

In the early part of 1S61 he removed to Cin-

where

cinnati,

over

His contributions, which are many,

are of the highest order.

fall

Hampshire.

Since

fine library of

67

1

been out of business, and has devoted his time

leisure

Ohio State

and

edited

there

which he continued

E XC VCIX) P JiD A

two years.

1869, he formed a law partnership

Retiring from office in

with his father-in-law, and since then has been constantly

fORRILL, HENRY ALBERT, v.X^I

third son of .Stmuel

Morrill

Lawyer,

engaged

the

is

done

and was horn in Potsdam, X'ew York, February 13th,

who

in early life

from X'ew Hampshire to Caledonia county, Ver-

the

They were men

Tilton,

His maternal grandparents, whose

were members of a family prominent

circles in northern

New

riage, settled near the

was engaged

home

in various

varied success, until

the affairs of

his

His

father,

pursuits,

fearless

whom

still

retains that

He

position.

is

a

— and

in political matters,

while holding him-

and outspoken

in

is

delivering his views and senti-

Anna McGuffey,

He

w'as

mar-

eldest daughter of A.

H.

McGuffey, a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati.

meeting with

decease, which occurred about

a

man

of inflexible integrity in

AI.DWIN,

and was endowed with more than powers. At the age of four years, his

Dealer

he remained

until

their death;

His parents were from the

.State

of

seven years. Cat tain Waugh married Miss Goodwho was a lineal descendant of one of the best families Our subject acquired his educathat name in England.

officer

at-

and was there engaged

native town,

win, of

a large commission

house. At the close of his engagement with that establishment he returned to his home, whence, after completing a

preparatory course of studies, he entered D.artmoulh College

North

traction. His mother was the daughter of CajiSamuel Waugh, who enlisted in the Revolutionary war when he was but sixteen years of age, and served as an

tion

in

in

tain

tended also the village school and academy. Conceiving about that period a distaste for agricultural pursuits, he visited St. Louis, proposing to turn his attention to Inisiness,

months

H., Wholesale and Retail

Pianos and Organs, was born

15th, 1821.

who had succeeded to the homestead as head of the household, continued to reside there until he had attained his eighteenth year. During

for six

DWIGHT

Connecticut, and were of English and Irish ex-

then

time he was engaged in working on the farm, and

in

East, Erie county, Pennsylvania, on September

with their married daughter,

this

In 1S70 he was appointed Law, Contracts, and Evidence, in

from the machinations of corrupt partisanship,

ried in 1S67 to

mother dying and leaving a large family of young children, he removed to Vermont to live with his paternal grandparents, with-

work he has

School of Cincinnati, he

ments concerning every important measure.

business

soon after mar-

life,

ordinary intellectual

and

.School,

Presbyterian

name was in

Law

self apart

of his wife’s parents, where he

business

He was

thirteen years ago. all

York.

Law

remunerative

zealous and prominent officer and v'orker in his church

of prominence in church, benevolent, and in Christian enterprises.

extensive and

an

in connection with the

Professor of Mercantile

emigrated

mont, then a wilderness, and there became ultimately the possessors of large and productive farms.

on

carrying

has devoted his entire attention.

His paternal grandfather was one

1835.

of five or six brothers

in

practice, to which, with the exception of the

and Martha Morrill,

principally in the public

and

schools

select

and subsequently entered Oberlin

of his

College.

After spending several years as a student in jireparing for the ministry, on account of failing health he 1

to

abandon

his studies

and

college,

was compelled

and relinquish

his cher-

1856, and graduated with honor in i860. During his! ished object of becoming a regularly educated minister of college course, and also while fitting himself for it, he the gospel. Having thus been frustrated in obtaining the taught school in the winter, and in the summer vacations yrrofession of his choice, he visited Kentucky and engaged in

!

j

worked for hire on the farms, thus defraying his entire expenses, receiving no outside help from any source. After

continued several years in that State and

graduating he at once began the study of law, and during

He

in

teaching music, which he found agreeable, and therefore

then removed

to

in that business.

Ripley, Ohio, and after remaining

c

68

r.

IOC ; u A p 1 1 1

I

'

A

,

i:

nc v c i.o p. p:

i >

i

a

.

there a few years, being engaged in

teaching music, he the idea of entering some profession, and, holding that dewent to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has since resided. sign steadily in view, employed himself in teaching a During the first seven years of his residence in the Queen common school, thus securing the desired opportunity City of the West he was engaged in teaching music in the which enabled him to complete, in a measure, his store of public schools. qualified to

It

know,

has been estimated by those

he has given music lessons

that

than one hundred thousand pupils in

cla'sses,

who to

are

more

and more than

one hundred persons are now teaching music who were one time

way

to sell pianos

This business has gradually

and organs.

now

but constantly increased until

it

extends over ten or

lie began with the determination

twelve different States.

of building up a large business on a basis of

and the

results

tations, his

have

sales

far

strict integrity,

surpassed his most sanguine expec-

and organs being more than

of pianos

double that of any other house

name D. H. Baldwin on

a

bill

in is

a sufficient guarantee that

good

in

every respect as

it

In his remarkable success

the salesman.

not for an instant forgotten

come

had been represented

how

in

is

to

quite

be by

business he has

ardently he desired to be-

Although defeated by position, he has found many

a clergyman by profession.

ill-health

in

attaining to that

opportunities in the church and Sabbath-school to labor for

In July, 1863, he was elected a Ruling

his Divine Master.

Elder still

Third Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, and holds that honorable and responsible position. Since in the

1868 he has been the

efficient

and

tireless

The

of the Sunday-school of that church.

course of drilling, to receive

system of training.

Upon

profitably a higher

the outbreak of the rehellion,

however, he temporarily relinquished his student entered the service of the United States to

maintenance and defence of the Union. private

sioned

and

officer,

and the

83d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he served

the

in

life,

assist in

Enlisting as a

actively during the ensuing three years as a

participating in

at all times,

many

non-commis-

hard-fought battles,

under the most trying and perilous circum-

stances, acquitting himself with intrepidity

The While

the State of Ohio.

every musical instrument sold from his warerooms as

at

In 1863 he began in a very small

his scholars.

crude acquirements, and to prepare his mind, by a consistent

and

efficiency.

acting in a military capacity he was recognized as

an ardent and useful soldier, and upon various occasions

was favorably mentioned by discharge

in

Receiving his

his superiors.

August, 1865, he re-entered the college

beginning of the September term of

this year,

at the

resuming the

prosecution of his former studies, and through indefatigable exertions and economical

Miami

of 1868 at

fall

management graduated

University, Oxford, Ohio.

in

the

In the

following September he received the aiipointment of Professor of

Mathematics

at

the I'armers’ College, located a'

College Hill, Ohio, which position he a period of two years.

filled

with ability for

In the meantime, also, having re-

Superintendent

solved to embrace the legal profession, he studied

printed reports

under the directions of Dickson

& Murdoch,

law

of Cincinnati,

of the Sabbath-schools of the Presbytery of Cincinnati, for

and attended the Cincinnati I.aw School, whence he gradshow that the school over uated April 19th, 1870, receiving his diploma in that year. which he presides had a larger number of pupils than any In the ensuing June, the college session having closed, he other. Every day, at an early hour in the afternoon, he removed to Cincinnati, and entering at once upon the active leaves the cares of his business and devotes the remainder practice of his profession, rapidly secured an extensive and the

year ending May,

1875,

of the day in visiting the families of the pupils of his school,

remunerative clientage.

thus reducing to practice the religion which he iwofesses.

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton county being

On December 30th, 1844, he married Emerine Summers, of Elizaville, Kentucky.

his appointment.

In the

functions of his

it, and in January, 1S73, received During 1873-74, having performed the office with faultless ability and well-directed

he was widely named

as a

tion of Prosecuting Attorney,

Attorney

for

Hamilton county, Ohio, was born

Newtown, Hamilton 20th,

Prosecuting

1842.

county,

they located themselves

in

September

His ancestors were known as

teemed companions of the settlers in the

Ohio,

earlier pioneers

es-

and

fit

candidate for the posi-

in

1875

unanimously

for his present office,

ultimately securing an election by a m.ajority of over five

thousand

in

the county, running far ahead of his ticket.

Nominated by acclamation by the Democratic Convention, elected by an overwhelming majority, he was installed in

new

his

when

tous

now

and

nominated by the Democratic party

southwestern section of Ohio, where that part of our country,

of 1872, the position of

tendered him, he accepted

zeal,

^jERARD, CLINTON W., Lawyer,

fall

office

on January 4th, 1875, under the most feliciThroughout his administration his

circumstances.

so thriving and populous, was sparsely settled and wholly

course and actions have been invariably characterized by a

undeveloped.

fearless

(lerard.

determination to repress the growth and spread of the criminal classes, and an undeviating attention to eveiy detail

lived

His parents were Isaac Gerard and Maria Until he had attained his seventeenth year he

on a farm, engaged

summer

in

agricultural labor during the

season, and in the winter months attending the

neighboring country schools, where he received a limited and preliminary education. He subsequently conceived

and impartial construction of the law, an

connected with the proper fulfilment of his

many

inflexible

important

what may be termed, in the fullest sense of Encompassed with diffithe expression, a self-made man. duties.

He

is

r.Tor.RAPiiicAi, culties

his outset

;it

he met them with vigor and

in life,

— holding

now

determination, and

F.\cvcLnp.Kr)iA. with a

an honorable and im-

— reaps

deservedly the reward of his tireless ex-

These papers were jiublished

in

GEORGE OSGOOD,

Ilis father.

M.

November

Marietta, Ohio,

D.,

in the

to

his practice.

in

York Medical

A\'w

1824 he published in the riiiladclphia yournal of Medical Science a full history of the great Epidemic Fever that visited the Ohio valley and Marietta in 1822 and 1823; and in 1S25, in the Western fournal of Repository.

born

1822 a “ Treatise on

in

Siamese twins, which occurred

that of the

ertions.

'ILDRETII,

the Plant;”

Hydrophobia,” and another on a curious case similar

portant office, an esteemed and prominent citizen, a skilful

lawyer

Drawing of

(>(}

was

In

Medictne, of Cincinnati, an account of the minor diseases

17th, 1812.

In 1826 he became the author of a series

of the epidemic.

Dr. Samuel Prescott Hildreth, widely I

known scientist,

medical

a

as

was born

in

practitioner, author

and of papers on the “Natural and

Methuen, Massachusetts,

I

j

September 30th, 1783, descending from a distinguished New England ancestry, traced directly to Richard Hildreth, who emigrated from England more than two

I

Civil Histoiy of

Washington

County,” printed in Silliman's Journal of Science, New Haven. From that time until his death he w'as a frequent contributor

to

that

on conchological, geological,

journal

j

meteorological and medical subjects.

These were

all

very

I

valuable, especially those treating on the salt-bearing rock

His boyhood was passed on his father’s

centuries ago.

j

farm and

common school. "were made at

in studies at a

in Ohio, and Andover settlement in

His preparations

i

the history of salt manufacture from the

first

he entered upon the study of medicine with Dr. Thomas

His “ Diary of a Naturalist” was exceedingly interesting and instructive. In 1837 he became one of the assistant geologists on the Ohio State Geological

Kittredge, at Andover, North parish.

Survey, and

course

for a collegiate

Academy, but before the completion of

Phillips’

his college training

In May, 1805, not

then twenty-two years of age, he began practice in

Rockingham county.

stead,

New

Hampshire, and he

sixteen months’ residence in this place

Hampafter a

started, Sep-

tember 9th, 1806, on horseback for the West, arriving

Here he remained nine

Ohio, October 4th.

Marietta,

weeks, and then went

to

Belpre, twelve miles distant, to

Here, on August 19th, 1807, he married Rhoda,

practise.

daughter of G.rptain Pardon Cook.

New

at

.She

was a native of

Bedford, Massachusetts, and came to Ohio in 1804

with her mother, then a widow. fifteen

months

in Belpre, Dr.

and there resided wife, a lady of

In 1808, after a stay of

Hildreth returned to Marietta,

his death, July 24th,

until

His

1863.

most estimable qualities and many accom-

plishments, died at the

same

place,

June

21st,

1868.

In

when twenty-seven

that State.

1839 became

in

President of the

Society of Ohio, and delivered before

it,

Medical

Cleveland, as

at

the annual address, a “ History of the Diseases and Climate

of Southeastern Ohio from

its F'irst

Settlement,” which w'as

printed by the society and widely circulated.

In the same year he published a “ History of the Settlement of Belvllle,

Western Virginia,” which was continued through several numbers of the Hesperian, a magazine issued in Cincinnati. In

1842-43 he contributed

Pioneer

frecpiently

to

published monthly in the same his “ Pioneer History,” an octavo

he issued

pages, which was

“an account

of the

first

American

the city.

In 1S48

volume of 525

examinations of

the Ohio valley and early settlement of the Northwest Territory.”

This was followed

in

1852 by his “ Lives of the

Early Settlers of Ohio,” an octavo volume of 539 pages. In 1830 he began a cabinet of natural history, from the

years of age. Dr. Hildreth was Ohio Legislature, and re-elected in 1811. fossil insects, shells and plants of Ohio, to which were At that time he was a supporter of the Jefferson and Madi- addeJ minerals, insects and marine specimens from other son administrations. His unsuccessful opponent in 1811 quarters. In a few years he had gathered four thousand was the late Judge Ephraim Cutler, a Federalist. In later specimens, including many relics from “ancient mounds.” 1810,

elected to the

years both acted in concert as Whigs.

Upon

the expiration

of his second term he declined to act further in that capa-

He was

city.

a

man

of decided political opinions, and of

such unswerving integrity that there was no inducement that could lead him against the right. He was a Republican from the formation of that party, in 1854.

lature of

which he was a member,

in

The

Legis-

1811, elected him

In 1855 he donated this valuable cabinet to Marietta Coltogether with his scientific libraiy, and many rare

lege,

works pertaining to the pioneer history of the West. These occupy a room knowm as “ Hildreth’s Cabinet,” and by this donation he became one of the leading benefaclors of that

He was

institution.

where esteemed

a

for his

man

of sincere piety, and

profound learning and

was every-

his attractive

Collector of Non-resident Taxes, at a salary of $250 per social (pialities. George Osgood Hildreth, his son, was annum, and he held that office for eight y'ears, when, in educated at the Ohio University, at Athens, from which he 1819, it was abolished. Upon leaving this institution he In 1810 he became clerk of the graduated in 1829.

Trustees of the Ministerial Lands, and retained that position until his death.

At home and abroad he was highly

Among

esteemed

for his scientific labors.

were,

in

1808, a “ History of the Plpidemic of the

1807

” ;

in

his publications

entered at once upon the study of medicine with his father,

and soon

Year graduated

1812 a “ Description of the American Colombo,

after entered

the medical depaitment of Transyl-

vania University, at Lexington, Kentucky, from which he in

1835.

He commenced

ciated with his father, at Marietta,

practice at once, asso-

and has uninterruptedly

.

BIOGRAPHICAL E N C V C L O IL:E D A

70

I

continued

it

time, with the

until the present

when he was

four years, from 1S49 to 1853,

exception of in in California,

“gold fever” had impelled him. professional duties upon his return, and

its

skirmishes and battles.

Subsequently he went as

Assistant Surgeon in the Marietta Hospital, Georgia,

he was stationed

in the hospitals

and

of Atlanta until

to w'hich the prevalent

after this

lie resumed

the troops were ordered out of that city, in contemplation

his

continued alone in their performance since the death of his June, 1863, he was appointed

In

1863.

in

father,

aminer of United States Pensioners, and position.

P'or a

the

Ministerial

the

Eirst

Bank;

a

Society

and

National

Bank and

member

of

the

in

as clerk of

a stockholder in

is

Marietta National

the

Washington

County Medical

Putnam

occupies the family homestead on

;

retains that

still

number of years he has acted Trustees of Marietta;

Ex-

street,

unmarried.

is still

march

of Sherman’s

to the sea.

Kentucky, and

where he remained

for

then went to Louis-

about

months

l.

His

regiment was then ordered to the Atlantic coast, and

at his

request he joined

six

it

during the balance of

mington and 24th, 1865,

paired health, he

Hospital No.

in

January, 1S65, and acted with

service in North Carolina, at Wil-

He was

Saulsltury.

at

in

its

and returned

medicine two years.

JOHN

He

two months served in Crittenden Hospital, when he was ordered to Nashville,

ville,

mustered out, June

to Cincinnati,

where he practised

Then, on account of

moved

to

it

his father’s im-

Oxford, Ohio, where the

latter

M. D., was born, Febru- was residing, and followed his profession in that place for ary iSth, 1830, at Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland two years; and upon the expiration of this period located in county, Pennsylvania, and was the third of six Glendale, where he has since lived. He is a physician of children whose parents were A. O. and Maria S. great skill, and his long hospital service in the army has (.Speer) Patterson. Ilis father, a native of Fay- been of great benefit to him and his patrons, as well as to the science of which he is a leading exponent. ette county, Pennsylvania, was a graduate of He is a Washington College, Pennsylvania, and became a jiromi- gentleman of great energy of character, of fine culture and He was a attractive social qualities, and is highly esteemed for his nent clergyman of the Presbyterian church. learned and eloquent divine, and during the last year of public and private services. He is a member of the his life preached at Oxford, Ohio, where he died, Decem- Presbyterian Church, and is a Republican in his political His wife was born at Chillicothe, and affiliations. ber 14th, 1868. was a woman of many virtues and accomplishments. John E. had in youth the advantages of a liberal education, and became at quite an early age a student in Washington ColARD, WILLIAM W., Lumber Merchant, was lege, which he left in 1850, going in that year to Cincin-

I'TERSON,

E.,

I

where he commenced to read medicine with Dr. I. J. Dodge. He remained with this gentleman three years, and in this period attended three courses of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, from which, in the spring of He at once located 1855, he graduated with high honor.

born

nati,

in

Cincinnati as a practitioner, remaining there for seven

months, when he went

to

Pittsburgh,

and followed

his

profession in that city until the breaking out of the rebellion.

In

Assistant

1862

he entered the United

Surgeon, and was stationed

tuckv, having charge of the hospital-boat “

He

remained here about

six

Paducah, Kenftr.

Robinson.”

months, when he moved his

boat to Columbus, Kentucky, where he was stationed for

1811, and was the

fourth

child in

a

whose parents were William Ward and Anna (Spenser) Waid. His father, a native of Vermont and the direct defamily

of

seven

children

scendant of Revolutionary ancestry, followed agricultural pursuits through

and was a man of influence and edu-

life,

cation; he died in East Poultney, Rutland county, Vermont,

1S50.

States service as at

Underhill, Chittenden county, Vermont,

in

July 6th,

cut,

His mother was a native of Hartford, Connecti-

noted for fervid piety; she died, January 3d, 1819.

His grandfather, Hon. William Ward, was one of the first Rutland county, Vermont, and during

settlers of Poultney,

the Revolutionary

war took an

active

and zealous

part, as

Here also he was assigned charge of an officer, in the Continental army in his country’s defence. another half year. the hospital-boat “ N.rshville,” which he retained for six He was a member of the convention which framed the months.

Surgeon

Then he accompanied to

this

boat

as

Assistant

Vicksburg, where he was stationed for a year,

being part of the time

in the hospital of that

city

constitution of the State,

of the Judges of the

and

for six years

presided as one

County Court of Rutland county.

and the twenty-two years he was Judge of Probate

For

for the District

remainder of the time on the boat.

of Fairhaven

went

Peace; and during eighteen years represented the town

to

In March, 1864, he Columbus, Ohio, and was there commissioned as

Assistant Surgeon of the

itSth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,

the

.State

;

served

Legislature.

for

forty

years

as

Justice of the in

Also, for more than a half century,

and, after a short sojourn with this regiment, was placed on he made a public profession of religion, and for nearly forty He was a direct dethe “ Operating Board of Surgeons ” of the 2d Division of years served as deacon of a church. the 23d

Army

Corps, and was actively connected with that

corps during the active campaign against Atlanta, engaging

scendant of General Artemas Ward, of the Massachusetts Continental troops.

He was

engaged

in

labor at an early

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOICLDIA. age, and his elementary education, obtained solely

own

was limited

exertions,

degree and kind.

in

by

his

When

but twelve years of age he was compelled to maintain him-

and up

self,

i8jO remained

to

in

Vermont, employed

He

laborious but honorable pursuits.

then, in

with Horace Greeley, afterward so famous,

on foot

.State

His

the West.

for

dollars, while Greeley’s capital

New

Albion, Orleans county.

He was married, September 13th, i860, to Rosanna C. Jobson, a native of Germany; and again, July i8th, 1875, to Caroline Henzler, of Cincinnati.

in

company his native

left

was nine was eighteen dollars. At York, he was attacked by capital

total

HON. JOHN ative

him

comrade, and, the

he proceeded on

to remain,

This was the

beginning of a friendship between the fortune-seekers that lasted through

and which was abundantly evidenced

life,

by the correspondence and exchanged favors of subsequent

He was

years.

detained

Gaines,

at

three

from

miles

Albion, by sickness, for about one month, at the expiration of which time he found employment as a clerk there, and

served in that capacity during the ensuing three years.

1833 he went by stage

New .sale

to Silver

In

Creek, Chautauqua county,

York, where he established his head-(iuarters for the In 1839 he set out for Cincinnati, and, ac-

of goods.

complishing the journey on in the .spring of 1840,

foot, arrived at

He had accumu

New

York, but had

thing in trading ventures on the lake.

was the measuring and

in Cincinnati

his destination

without a cent in his pocket and with

not even an acquaintance in the town. bated a few dollars while in

His

lost

Captain Calvin Corvin,

whom, two months St.

every-

occupation

first

lumber

selling of

panied on business

to

for

he accom-

later,

Louis, where he succeeded in

At the expiration of two months he returned to Cincinnati, and there engaged in

gaining $300.

with his employer

lumber

selling’

months from

this

on

his

own

Within

account.

time he laid aside a

sum

eighteen

of ^10,000, and

has since continued to prosecute the business in which he met with such speedy and extraordinary .success. In 1856, exhausted by sickness, he was taken to western New York,

presumedly

to die,

and simultaneously was crushed by

Two

astrous reverses in business.

county, where

and county.

poor as upon his

by the aid of a

little credit,

soon again on the

full

of his failure to the

moneyed far-seeing

first

obligation,

tors

Republican party, and

a zealous abolitionist. a pro-slavery

mob

at

for

and lived

in

Rensselaer

Gowey

the son of Hartland D.

was a native of Madison county. New York, and in Ohio engaged in mercantile pursuits in the town of North Lewisburg, Champaign county. His education was acquired

and

University;

at

primarily in the Ohio Wesleyan

the age of twenty he began the study

of law under the preccptorship of Hon. John of Urbana.

1869 he was admitted

In

once entered on the practice of

was

H. Young, and at

to the bar,

In 1872 he

his profession.

elected, on the Republican ticket, to

a vacancy in

fill

the House,

and in 1873 was re-elected for the next full While a member of this body he has served on the Committees on Privileges and Elections and on Insane term.

Asylums.

In

1875, declining a re-election to the

House,

he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Champaign county.

To undertake to estimate the life and career of one so young as he, would be a premature proceeding but, marked as it has been by integrity and the profitable exer;

cise of

that

many

sound

his

abilities, there

can be no danger in predicting

hope of

future will satisfy every reasonable

He

friends.

was married, April 25th, 1867,

to

his

Clara

McDonald, of Champaign county, Ohio.

ELTZER, VAN born still

Politically,

many

he

is

attached

years was noted as

At the time of Lovejoy’s murder by

Religiously, he

believing firmly in the immortality of

communication with friends

is

man and in

advocacy

a Spiritualist,

the possi-

the spirit

land.

S.,

Physician and

Columbus, Ohio,

resides,

August

Seltzer,

31st, 1834.

Surgeon, was

house where he

in the

His grandfather,

emigrated from Germany, and

at

an early day settled in Pennsylvania, where he

engaged

recognized as a is

in

George

the time

His lumber yard

his denunciations of the outrage, fearless in his

bility of

is

dis-

Alton, Illinois, he was energetic in

of true right and justice.

He

father

resumed,

From

now widely

and able man of business.

located at 156 Harrison avenue. to the

his ancestors settled

York.

after his arrival

present day he has never given a is

originally

Champaign December yth, spelled Goewey, in

His mother, whose anceswere natives of Connecticut, was Irorn in Ohio. His

former business, and was

tide of prosperity.

and he

resides,

still

General

Sixty-first

was born

years elapsed before his

arrival in the place;

his

New

he

Lawyer and Represent-

and

and Eliza A. (Willey) Gowey.

health was re-established, and he then returned to Cincinnati, as

F.,

Sixtieth

The name was

1846.

latter not permitting

his journey.

the

in

Assemblies of Ohio,

illness, and rested there temporarily with a friend. Greeley had then but nine dollars left, out of which sum he gave

five dollars to his

71

in

mercantile

business.

He was

the

organizer of Johnstown, Lebanon county, in that State, and

was widely recognized as an able man of business and useHis family consisted of three sons and two citizen.

ful

daughters; his oldest son, Samuel

Pennsylvania

in

1831 and settled

in

Z. Seltzer,

M.

D.,

left

Columbus, Ohio, where

he was engaged in the practice of medicine until his death, His mother, Mary (Tansnacht) Seltzer, of Johnsin 1852. town, Pennsylvania, was the mother of thirteen children.

He was

the third son,

and was educated preliminarily

in

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.LUI A.

72

In 1848 he entered tireless student, and now, at the age of sixty-two years, is a where he remained as a student profound scholar, a man of valuable and varied literary during the ensuing three years. lie then began the study and general knowledge, and one of the ablest preachers of of medicine under the instruction of his father, with whom the Disciple Church. In 1856 and 1857 he served as a

the public schools of his native place.

the Capitol

he read

University,

death carried off his preceptor, in

until

1852.

Later, he entered the Starling College, and graduated from

He

that institution in 1855.

commenced

then

the practice

member from

slavery cause

an extensive and lucrative business.

sesses in the capital

one of the

first

House

three Abolition-

of hts county, and from the earliest days of the anti-

ists

extending over twenty years, and

present time pos-

He was

this county.

of his profession where his father had labored for a period at the

Ohio House of Representatives, from Rich-

of the

land county, the only Republican ever elected to the

was one of

He

porters.

its

most ardent and

has always taken an active part

fearless sup-

in the political

For three years, 1869-70-71, he held the position of Physi- movements of the day, and is widely recognized as a valuFranklin County Infirmary. At able ally by those to whom he offers the assistance of his

cian and Surgeon to the the present time he

Asylum

Physician and Surgeon of the Ohio

is

Deaf and Dumb.

for the

In politics, be

He was

attached to the Republican party.

Minerva

19th, 1856, to

1

is

strongly

married, August

1863 he served

Ohio Volunteer

the 65th

fall

of 1861

to the spring of

army

the PInited States

in

as Chaplain of

commanded by Colonel

Infantry,

Harker, who fell at Kenesaw Mountain, in the division commanded by General Wood. Colonel Harker was a Brigadier-General when he fell. Mr. Burns has probably

Smcltzer, of Zanesville, Ohio.

.

F'rom the

sterling abilities.

held more public debates on religious topics than any other

OOMIS, WILLIAM Seventh

the

was born ruary

Judicial

New

in

Marietta,

District,

Ohio,

London, Connecticut, on Feb-

New

England, and the family date their

dence

in this country

two hundred and

come from England.

back, originally having

of

His parents were natives of

1837.

1st,

Lawyer and ex-Judge

B.,

resi-

fifty

years

In

1840

living

preacher in the West, and

the support of his

to

views and arguments brings a formidable store of natural

and masses of knowledge bearing

talents

directly

preached

for

forty

years,

twenty-four States of

Chagrine

F'alls,

and

He

heavily upon the points held under consideration.

and travelled and preached

the

He now

Union.

resides

has in at

Cuyahoga county, Ohio.

Christopher C. Loomis, the father of the subject of this

Ohio and engaged

sketch, emigrated to

the mercantile

in

William B. Loomis attended the Marietta Acad-

business.

emy, and finished

education

his

at

Marietta

the

^ ARGENT, EDWARD, retired

High

'

After leaving school he assisted in the mercantile

School.

business, but only for a few months,

when he was employed

in the Clerk’s office of this county,

and while there began

tbe study of law, and in

profession, in

he engaged

office

was born 2d, 1820.

In 1832 he

Frederick county, Maryland. with

his

father’s

family

Cincinnati,

to

came where

In 1833 his father died, age he was compelled to begin the busi-

he has since resided.

in the prac-

which he has always been em-

Publisher,

Pennsylvania, April

His father was Rev. Dr. Thomas Sargent, of

1857 was admitted to the bar.

Leaving the County Clerk’s tice of his

Philadelphia,

in

and

at that early

This he did by entering the In 1868 he was elected ness of life for himself. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and District Court, Methodist Book Concern as a clerk. Here and in the which position he filled until 1873, his time then having employ of Mann & Clark, wholesale grocers, he remained engaged in river comexpired. He is now engaged in the practice of his profes- until 1841. From 1841 to 1845 ployed when not on the bench.

and

sion,

Alban and

is

the senior

& Oldham,

lucrative

practice.

of the firm of Loomis, merce, as clerk and part owner of the steamer “ Queen of where they enjoy a large the West.” This boat operated on the Ohio and MissisThis was married in i860 to sippi, running from Cincinnati to New Orleans. adventure not proving altogether satisfactory, and a new

member

of Marietta,

He

Frances Wheeler, of Marietta.

field offering,

B. Smith

&

he entered the book publishing house of W. This firm was then, in a small way, pub-

Co.

lishing “ Ray’s Arithmetics ”

jURNS, REV.

ANDREW,

M. Burns, was born

ness.

in

ing,

Pennsylvania, in the year 1813, July 24th,

and

is

of Scotch-Itish extraction.

While

still

a

Wilson

&

Hinkle.

gent, Wilson

limited

means

originally

throughout his

for life

obtaining

an

a close and

that

of impaired

East Walnut Hills in 1868.

home

family to Richland county, Ohio, then a wilder-

With

By reason

of

Sargent,

health

Mr.

Sargent retired from this house and active business to his

small lad, in 1820, he emigrated with his father’s

education, he has been

and “ McGuffey’s Readers.” this house it was

Hon. Andrew After seventeen years’ connection with Berks county, near Read- dissolved, in 1862, and succeeded by father of

at

&

Hinkle became the

The house

largest

of Sar-

and most suc-

cessful school-book publishing establishment in the

world

;

and, although the world has been scarcely cognizant of the

inOGRAPIIICAL ENCVCLOP/EDIA. fact,

it

has for years been quietly but certainly exerting a

widespread influence of

interests

the

known

Series,” so well

“ Eclectic

The

country.

Hamburg, hoping

Educational

One

attention.

constantly exerted in selecting

from time

to time,

works of the greatest

cedented popularity as those of

of every stranger; but he obtained lodgings at the

this

wig-Holstein,

house, and no gentlemen

of the youth of the land than the

members of

Since retiring from active

is

some

whom

for

society

must provide.

Mr.

])lace

Pattern in his

to deserve

it.

Schles-

The

same house with Moritz, was in his

citing the soldiery to mutiny.

They were betrayed by some

whom

dangerous task of ex-

they had intrusted their scheme,

The house was surrounded

in irons.

by the Austrian soldiers and the keys of every drawer de-

manded

most eminently a

;

but the hostess fainted from terror, and the duty

of answering the officer devolved upon Moritz,

with those

in

life

as

life

who have made the world better by their He commenced business with little of the ad-

at

accompanied by the landlord

were seized and put

lie

an active worker in his church, and has so followed the

great

quartered in a fortress

agent, being quartered at the

Sargent has given his attention more to the amelioration of loyal soldiers to the condition of

with despatches

and combine with the German

revolt

to

Hamburg

induce the Hungarian soldiers of the

patriots for the re-establishment of their lost liberties.

this vast

business

sent an agent to to

who were

Austrian army,

intrinsic worth.

our business history more deservedly rank as benefactors

establishment.

and a passport de-

found the Austrian army

and the greatest care was In 1851 Kossuth and adding to this series, and instructions

Iso school publicationS"on the globe have gained such unpre-

in

the Schleswig-Holstein complications,

to

house of a member of the Revolutionary Club of Hamburg.

million o^ these books were annually put

in the schools over the country;

in some Hamburg, watching

manded

schools of the country, engaged for years almost their entire

be able to work his passage at

He

vessel.

the class-books of the public

as

After weeks of waiting he went to

ticket in the post-office.

good on the educational

for untold

73

^

The

then a youth of eighteen.

who was

carpet-bag containing the

vantage of the schools of which he became one of the most

papers had been placed under a bed, and the youth, com-

extensive and successful builders and p.atrons.

prehending the

During

his

fine

English education, and

may

certainly be justly

arrjong the self-educated architects of their

of Christopher Smith, well

of Cincinnati.

lie

own

fortunes.

married to Mary Smith, daughter

In October, 1845,

known among

the old citizens

has three children and

As

situation,

determined

to

outwit the soldiery.

and beds with his placed sword, Moritz threw the feathers over the bag and thus

long connection with the school-book interest he acquired a

two grand-

the captain ripped

saved

it.

open

jiillows

This failure to secure such

important papers

caused great rejoicing among the Revolutionary Club of

Hamburg, who delegated Moritz Loth papers to Kossuth,

who was

still

in

to

convey these

He

London.

accepted

and was, by the aid of a small boat at midnight, placed on board a steamer bound for London whose captain was a member of the club. He, with his

children.

the perilous mission,

OTII, of

MORITZ,

Hebrew

Merchant and Author, was born

parents, at

Milotiz, in the province of

Moravia, Austria, December 29th, 1832.

He

is

the

twelfth son in a family of twenty-two children, born

of one father and mother. instruction in the

He

received elementary

German, Hebrew and Bohemian

languages, showing remarkable aptitude in their acquire-

despatches, was stowed

among

the water-casks,

where he

remained two long and dreary days, on account of foggy weather, which prevented departure and entailed anxiety

upon the messenger.

After the steamer had passed the

lighthouse the captain ventured to take

Having arrived

in

London

him

last

into his cabin.

a day after the departure of

Kossuth, he delivered his papers to Baron Kemeny, Presi-

ment; but his father died when he was nine years of age, dent of the Hungarian Revolutionary Club in London. and he was soon after thrown upon his own resources. He The latter expressed his pleasure and gratitude, and offered went to Pesth, the capital of Hungary, in 1842, where his him pecuniary reward, which was declined but he rebrother Joseph assisted him to a situation in a lace and quested the baron to procure him a passage to the United ;

ribbon establishment.

Here he devoted

his evenings to a

systematic course of study, and laid the foundation of the extensive culture he attained in after

life.

He

served in

one of the I.andsturm during the revolution of 1848-49; after the Hungarian defeat, in the latter year, Joseph came to the United States, promising to send Moritz a passage ticket if he met encouraging prospects. Moritz was shortly

States.

The

baron's death, a few weeks

later, blasted his

hopes

and he sought and found employment at a caji factory near Regent street, where he remained until the coup d' ctat of Napoleon,

in

December, 1851.

He

resolved to join the

from Pesth to Berlin without a passport, but his recom-

news of the overthrow of the republic by Napoleon caused him to abandon the design, and he shortly after accepted the offer of Lord Dudley .Stuart, who, in behalf of Najioleon and the Emperor of Austria, gave free passage and four jxnmds in money to all revolutionary republicans who would emigrate

mendations from the Republican

to the

directed to

go

to Berlin,

where he would

waiting containing the ticket.

He was

find

a letter in

obliged to travel

Revolutionary Club

at

Pesth secured him friends, and, though he accomplisherl his

hazardous journey 10

in safety,

he

failed to find the passage

revolutionary party at Paris, but the

United States.

He

landed

in*

New

^'ork in

May,

1852, and proceeded immediately to Hartford, Connecticut,

where he found

his brother

doing a flourishing dry-goods

a

BIOGRAFIIICAL ENCVCLOP.EDIA.

74

had been

business, and ascertained that the passage-ticket

and

sent according to promise,

marked “ Cannot be found.”

and continues

long time returned

ability.

own

commenced

master, and

He

to

that

fill

also

is

ators;

account with the fraction of

office

of

which he was one

was President of the

Convention held

with great dignity and

President of the Union of American

Hebrew Congregations,

Joseph offered him a clerk-

own

ship, but he resolved to be his

peddling notions on his

after a

first

in Cincinnati,

of the origin-

Hebrew Congregational

1S73;

President of ihe

first

memorable four pounds, and so successful was he that Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, in 1853 he opened a dry-goods store at Hartford, which held at Cleveland, July, 1S74. He was one of the originwas continued with marked success for four years, lie ators of the Hebrew Union College, established at Cincinnati, and free to all students without regard to race then relinquished the dry-goods business and purchased He was married, Februa'iy 5th, i860, to F'redpatent-right on a spring gun for ^tiooo, which he also or creed. patented in Russia, and for which he was offered ^40,000 ericka Wilhartz, of New York city, and this union is blessed by a family of seven interesting childr l)y a joint stock company; but he believed there was a the

.

greater fortune in

a

and devoted two years of arduous it in the end

it,

beside an e.xpenditure of $7700, to find

laltor,

complete

Ilis

failure.

being thus reduced

capital

to

S1300, he removed to Cincinnati in 1859 and engaged in the wholesale notion business at his jiresent location, 121

Main

Here

street.

won immediate

his perception,

HCPl,

promptness and system

recognition in business circles, and he

rinks as one of the most thorough business

men

now

At the outbreak of the war, in 1861, opened a branch house at Louisville, Kentucky, under firm-name of M. Loth & Co., and the annual sales of two houses soon reached the sum of $1,000,000. At

was born

at

Oak

I2lh,

of

the

Thorjie, in 1

795.

His

1

father with his family landed at Baltimore,

of the

City.

E., ex- Brigadier-General

Militia,

Derbyshire, England, August

j

Mary-

land, August 30th, iSoi, and'after a residence in

[

Queen

RIIESE

Ohio State

he

that

j

city

of five

years

removed

to

Cincinnati,

the

where he lived until his death, November 19th, 1S21. His the education was limited in degree and kind, but he had been the early accustomed to labor, and the lack of school training the Louisville house was more than balanced by his natural powers of observaj

1

j

close of the

war he sold

and commenced also

to

his interest in

draw

in his

1

own

extensive trade at

!

and discrimination. In the peculiar abilities demanded life, and by the requirements and exigencies of from the rapid and continued decline in goods which fob a frontier home, he was excelled by none; u ith his keenreal lowed, and enabled him to give his attention to es'ate edged axe he would enter the wilderness of trees, and from transactions; and streets which were heretofore considered sunrise to sunset cut, split and stack from the stump three unavailable for dwelling and building purposes were, He also manufactured millions of full cords of wood. through his sagacity and energy, made the most desirable At bricks to be used in building the houses of Cincinnati. in the city, and he erected a large number of model dwellthe age of twenty-six he found his father’s estate was insolings for families of limited means, giving each family one vent at the age of thirty-four he could point to it cleared, floor, with all the modern improvements, for its own use. by his exertions, from every incumbrance. He acted at one Apart from business he has devoted considerable attention time as Brigadier-General of the Ohio State Militia, and for to literature, and wields the pen with no ordinary talent, many years was prominent and influential as a zealous upCincinnati.

This policy saved him from the serious

tion

loss

[

by pioneer

[

(

;

j

|

i

He

has been a liberal contributor to the huielite under the

plume of “

noni de

Milotiz,”

ami also wrote

for

it

,

the tale j

entitled

“The

Miser’s Fate.”

He

is

also the author of

He is now holder of anti-slavery principles and measures. from business relations, and widely known as one of

free

the most useful and benevolent men of Cincinnati; he reTale of Real Life,” a work of 377; While in his sides in a superb mansion on Price’s Hill. pages, published by Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati, in thirtieth year he was married to Sarah Matson, daughter which he vividly portrays the misfortunes that befell a of Judge Matson. family through the thoughtless extravagance of the wife and

“Our

Prospects:

!

A

;

This was followed by “ The Forgiving Kiss; Our Destiny,” published by George W. Carleton & Co.,

daughters. or.

of

New York

city.

It is

a

work of even

HELLABARGER, HON. SAMUEL, I.awyer, ex-

greater merit than

Member

the preceding, and has reached the second edition, which is

having a large sale

Though

in

Europe

as well

as in America.

systematically devoted to his mercantile and real

of Congress, ex-United .States Minister

Resident to

Portugal, etc.,

county, Ohio,

December

was born

loth, 1817.

in

Clark

His

father,

Samuel Shellabarger, a farmer, was a native of Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. His mother, qualifications that render him an admirable companion, and an unassuming liberality has won for him fitting esteem. Bethany (McCurdy) Shellabarger, was born near New He was, in 1872, honored by a unanimous election to the Brunswick, New Jersey. His father’s family was of Gerestate interests,

and a

diligent student,

presidency of the congregation

at

the

he possesses social

Plum

.Street

Temple,

I

man-Swiss extraction.

Martin Shell.abargcr, the

founder

BIOGRAnilCAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA. of the family in America, to this country in

who emigrated from

75

and, while thus occiqned, began the study of medicine under

Switzerland

the early part of the eighteenth century,

-

—

was a descendant of Henry Shellabarger (German Schollenhergerj who lived in the Canton of Uii, at the date of

,

Dr. John Kittredge, a practitioner of the town. He afterward attended medical lectures in Boston, and in 1814 took at Cambridge the wished-for degree of M. D. He then en-

the battle at “ Rutli

tered on the practice of his profession at Andover, whence,

at

after a brief sojourn,

Meadow,” in 1307. Samuel graduated Miami University, with the class of 1S41, and subsequently studied law under the instruction of Hon. Samson Mason. Pie was admitted to the bar in 1846, and in 1847 entered on the practice of his profession in Miami county. In 1848, however, he returned to Springfield, where he has more

since resided,

1874.

l.abors u[) to

Washington, to the

the

or less regularly

Pie

District of

is

engaged

now engaged

in

rather delicate constitution, and, in in Marietta,

Salem.

Ifventually

he

November, 1815, arrived Heat once resumed the

Muskingum

the west side of the

and rapidly acquired an

river,

e.xtensive business.

In the

course of the ensuing year he entered zealously into the

Ohio Legislature on the Whig ticket, and served in Legislature under the present Constitution. In to the

Ohio, with his family.

practice of medicine on

professional

in his profession in

enterprise of establishing Sabbath schools, a

ing the

first

l86o he was elected, as a Republican,

to

thinking that a change of climate might be beneficial to his

In 1852 he was elected

Columbia.

he removed

decided to remove to the milder region of the Ohio valley,

young

in morality

and

religion then

mode of instructunknown in the

valley of the Ohio, and thenceforu'ard he filled constantly

Thirty-seventh

Congress; in 1864 was elected, as a Republican, to the

the role of spiritual teacher and guide.

Thirty-ninth Congress; and in 1866 was elected, as a Re-

the

In order to acquire

more fully and clearly some pulilican, to the P'ortieth Congress. In 1869 he was sent, of the obscurer passages of the Old Testament, he took up as United States Minister Resident, to Portugal, but resigned the study of Hebrew, being then forty years of age, and that position in the following December. In 1870 he was within a remarkably brief period was able to read in the elected to the Lorty-second Congress, ’and served through original tongue the worals of eternal life. In 1824 he was that Congress. In this Congress he was Chairman of the elected to the Legislature, from Washington county, Ohio, Committee on Commerce, and of the Select Committee on and, while serving with this body, labored loyally and effiSouthern .\ffairs, and reported from this committee the bill ciently for the interests of his constituents. In 1825 he was known as “the Ku-Klux Bill,” which, under his manage- elected by the Ohio Legislature an Associate Judge of the ment, became a law. During the Thirty-ninth and Lortieth Court of Common Pleas, to which position he was continuLor that Congresses, he was a member of the Elections Committee, ally reappointed until the period of his decease. and was author of and mover of important parts of the first station he was admir.ably qualified by his calm and wellReconstruction Act. In 1873 appointeil by the balanced mind, and by his sound judgment and thorough needed

ability to explain

J

President a

member

of “ the Civil Service Commission.”

knowledge of the

principles of law,

which he had studied

with great care, as also the statutes of the State by which he

OTTGN, JOHN, M.

II C

^c.

,

D., Judge,

mouth, Massachusetts, fath T,

in

was born

in

September, 1792.

was guided. The varied stores of classical and scientific knowledge garnered in his collegiate course and after life, Ply- were often spread before the public in the guise of lectures His delivered in the Marietta Lyceum, and also to the scholars

Rev. Josiah Cotton, was a graduate of Yale

the I'emale Seminary.

At the

incorporation

of the

Marietta College, in 1836, he was one of the original trus-

presiding temporarily over a church in Wareharn,

tees,

he abandoned the desk, and was appointed Clerk

board.

of the Courts in Plymouth

county, which post he

filled for

years. He was a descendant of Rev. John Cotton, one of the early ministers of Boston, whose name he bore,

many

whom

he inherited many intellectual and moral His mother, Rachel (Barnes) Cotton, was a daughter of Rev. ’David Barnes, of .Scituate. His boy-

and from

in

College, and was educated for the ministry. After

characteristics.

and

for several years

Among

was the presiding

officer of the

his other posts of distinction

was

Trustee of the Medical College of Ohio, located nati.

at

that of

Cincin-

Embracing with ardor whatever he deemed would community or country, he acted also as Chairman Whig Central Committee of Washington county, and

benefit the

of the

for several years

discharged with notable ability the duties of

that vexatious post.

As

a medical practitioner he stood de-

hood was passed in the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, servedly high among his brethren, and was often called in where he attended the common schools. He was noted for his council in serious and peculiar cases, not only in Marietta, mild and gentle trisposition, his retiring habits, and a greater but also in adjacent towns, and was a skilful operator in fondness for study than for the rude sports which

occupy the time and thoughts of school boys. tions for college

were completed

commonly

His prepara-

academy

surgery, as well as a successful

simply medical treatment.

manager of

He was

cases requiring

married

in

August,

Sand-

1815, to Susan Buckminster, of fi'anningham, Massachusetts,

wich, and entering Cambridge College at the early age of

whose family was nearly related to Dr. Buckminster, of Portsmouth, and also to the gifted Joseph S. Buckminster, His death was sudden and unexpected, and ocof Bo.ston.

f)urteen, he graduated from that

at the

in

institution in 1810.

He

then became the preceptor of an academy in Larmingham,

BIOGRAnilCAL ENCYCLOr.EDIA.

76 currecl after a Ijrief illness

but the messenger found him

;

ready, “ watching for the coming of his Lord.”

April 2d, 1S47, aged

lie died

fifty-five years.

early

He

life.

determined to act

once upon

at

ance, and accordingly he engaged in

this assur-

attending a saw and

This engagement offered a double advantage.

grist-mill.

not only promised to bring back the departed health, but

It

would

manner

also reinforce in a very desirable

the finances

of the young student, and they were in need of reinforce-

JOHN,

ELCII,

judge of the Supreme Court of pre-eminently in

belongs I I

He

ranks of self-made men. ships of pioneer

born in Harrison county,

The

Ohio, on the 28th of October, 1805. to a great extent, a wiMerne.ss,

of the earliest pioneers it

and transforming

He was

a poor

himself.

matter

The

and productive land.

child of such a household

must manifestly work

prosperity,

certainly

It

how

the task of subduing

with a large family, consisting of seven

sons and four daughters.

who would have

region was then,

and John’s father was one

who undertook

into a cultivated

it

man

would not be

thrust

ardent the parental love or

how

rental wish to

have things better than they are

come

John Welch was one

after.

He

himself.

had early

set

that

father

presented

to

how

upon the family farm

until

for those

work out

to

for

and

his

discouraging the obwith his

he was eighteen years of district school

Country schools

great for scholastic attainments.

in

the

early days did not offer very high or very extended courses of

mill

work did not come

altogether as an inter-

studious mill-hand

stone while

it

would “

was running through the log.”

may, he continued his

And

mill work.

renewing

work and study

this as

it

new

health

and

money, he was also drawing

his store of needful

He

nearer to the object of his endeavors. to

Be

legal studies in connection with his

while he was gaining

so,

that the

is .said

it

saw and then read Black-

set the

and

until 1833,

in the

continued thus

meantime he had

taken a wife, marrying Martha Starr, daughter of Captain

James

Starr, formerly of Connecticut, but at this time a resi-

This marriage took place soon after he en-

dent of Ohio.

gaged

in the

milling business, and on the 3d of June, 1833,

of Athens, where he established his residence, and where he has ever since continued to reside. In the month of November of the same year he was admitted to the bar,

and

at

tice

grew

once began the practice of rapidly,

His prac-

his profession.

and he was soon established

as a pros-

perous lawyer, with import.ant and laborious work always

on

He

his hands.

brought

to the practice of his profe.ssion

same ability, diligence, energy and fidelity th.at had winter months.' The opportunities were not very marked his preparatory career, and they are qualities which

be acquired by attending the country

during the

The

ruption of the legal studies either, and

who town

results

age, and during that interval he acquired such education as

was

ment.

upon him, no when he gave up that business, his family consisted of a wife .strong the pa- and two children. With this family he removed to the

He worked

themselves.

out for

it

his heart on success,

purpose never faltered, no matter stacles

hard hand

finally out of the

He was

of poverty.

shared the hard-

struggled against ill-health

life,

and wrenched success

^

honorable

the

study; and withal, such offers as they did

make

did not

imply that very much of each year should be consumed study, for farm lalior tinues late.

commences

early in the year

Such opportunities

were made the most of

as

were

offered,

When

in this case.

in

the

win ready recognition and yield material immediate a

member

In his

of two years in that body.

however,

gress as the successor of his

In 1845 he was elected

circle of his profession.

of the St.ate Senate of Ohio, and served a term

and con-

he was eighteen

results.

case they were recognized and yielded results outside the

In 1850 he was elected to Con-

Hon. Samuel

term the Congressional

District

During

F. Vinton.

from which he was

years of age John was “ given his time” by his father, and

elected was changed, and in consequence of this fact he

then he began

failed of

in

very serious earnest to obtain the educa-

He

re-election

in

During

1852.

his sitting

in

the

made two important speeches, one that he might earn money, and then, the money earned, he on the Tariff, and the other on the Public Land Question. spent it in the prosecution of liberal studies under the best Both were able, thorough, and marked by the clear sagacity tion

he had early determined

He

auspices within his reach. lege, Oiiio,

and

for

to procure.

had entered Franklin Colby

five years,

taught school

this .system of alternate

teaching and attendance upon school, he maintained himself in

that institution,

and

September, 1828, he graduated

in

from the college with honors.

He had

law as his future profession, and

in

menced

his

legal

Athens, Ohio.

studies under

decided upon the

January, 1829, he com-

Hon. Joseph Dana, of

Excessive study and sedentary h

paired his health long before his course of

completed, and

for

a time

it

seemed

.stiuly

him

that the surest

im-

had been

that his cheiished ]Hir-

pose of becoming a lawyer must be abandoned. cian assured

abits

means of restoring

His his

physi,-

broken

health was to resume the active and laborious habits of his

National Legislature he

and the str.aightforward honesty that characterize the man. The speech on the Public I.and Question attained the honor ofa

jHiblication in full in the

columns of the A'aiional Jn-

telligcnrcr of

Washington.

yestr

1S52 he served as a

Delegate

the Baltimore Convention

which nominated

in

General Winfield Scott

and

in

which

1S56 he was a

that year

until

President of the United States,

member

Ohio

cast the vote of

he was called from the

Pleas.

for

In the

liar to

he was elected Judge of the Court of

He

sat U|)on the

February, 1865,

Supreme Court,

vice

College

of the Pllectoral

John C. Fremont. In 1862 the bench. In February of

for

bench

of the

Common

Common

Pleas Court

when he was appointed Judge Hon. Rufus

P.

of the

Ranney, resigned.

He

'H.

-

1

/

A J

liSRit

t!

.

Eng fly &E Per'®®

RIOGRAnilCAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA. has remained upon the Supreme bench ever since, having

been re-elected term will

e.xpire in

His present

the position three limes.

to

Soon

Eebruary, 1878.

after his election

To

works. ity

77

the nine cellars then constructed, with a capac-

of 9000 barrels, he has added four additional ones w hich,

with the main structure, give a total capacity of 150,000

The

Judge of the Supreme Court, his Alma Mater, Eranklin College, conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D.

barrels.

He

capacity of 1000 barrels each,

as

announces the purpose of retiring from public and

cial life at the expiration of his present if faithful labor, it

offi-

term as judge, and

well performed, earns the privilege of rest,

h:s surely earned

He

35.000 barrels.

and

barley,

his

making

a total

capacity of

has floor room for 125,000 bushels of

cooperage

is

He em-

done on the premises.

ploys constantly a force of from 80 to 100 men, while from

in his case.

it

is 225 feet by 1 10, and four stories 1872 ten other cellars were built, with a

building

In

in height.

35

to

50 horses are required to do the hauling for the estabIn 1864 he erected three large houses on the

lishment.

corner of Fifteenth and

(OERLEIN, CHRISTIAN,

Manufacturer of Lager

Beer, was born in Truppach, Bavaria, 1818, and

is

the son of

May

Conrad Moerlein.

13th,

After

attending the village school until he had attained his thirteenth year,

he learned the trade of black-

smithing, and engaged in firming with his father. His uncle being a brewer, he obtained a knowledge of the brewing business, which proved ultimately to be of great

two

Elm

streets,

cellars capable of storing about

From down

1866,

when

his sales

amounted

to the present time, his

The

under which he

built

3000 barrels of beer.

to

about 25,000 barrels,

annual increase has been about

amounted to over 40,000 amount to over 70,000 barrels. His extraordinary success is due mainly to inflexible integrity, unusual financial abilities, and a thorough 19.000 barrels.

barrels

sales of 1872

tbe sales of the current year

;

knowledge of all the details connected with his vast business. At eighteen years of age he began life on His superb mansion, 16S Mulberry street, Cincinnati, is one In 1873 he was elected his own resources as a bkacksmith, and during the succeed- of the noted ornaments of the city. July 4lh, 1873, ing five years worked in that capacity foi a Prussian dollar one of the Trustees of the Water Works. .service

to

per week. his father,

him.

Later, with a hundred guilders given him by he started on foot to Bremen, with his tools and

knapsack, and after travelling a distance of three hundred miles, reached his destination in safety. On St. John’s day the

ship “ Rebecca ”

was

in

port,

within three weeks for America.

and advertised While awaiting

to

sail

its

de-

the

building, insured as a malt house,

first

fell

from the

weight of grain, over 20,000 bushels of malt being stored

A new

there.

one was then immediately erected,

at a cost

He of over 880,000, with a capacity of loo,oco bushels. was manied in 1843 to Sophia Adam, formerly of Strausburg, France,

who

died during the cholera season of 1849, leaving

whom died in the same year, and worked at his tr.ide, and thus secured sufficient him to defray his passage expenses. After another in 1853. John Moerlein, the surviving child, is now He was again married, a journey of fifty-eight days, he arrived at Baltimore with a engaged in business with his father. three children, one of

parture he

money

to enable

c.ash capital

of twelve dollars, out of which

eight dollars for a passage

Pennsylvania.

by canal and

sum he paid

rail to

Pittsburgh,

But failing to secure work

in this place, he Wheeling, succeeding, however, in finding employment at Hendricksburg, Belmont county, Ohio,

started

on

foot for

in the fall of 1849, to

by

whom

living.

wife,

Barbara Ochalso, a native of Bavaria,

he has had nine children, seven of whom are now George Moerlein and Jacob Moerlein, by his second

and John, by

his first wife, are

now engaged

in busi-

ness with him.

seven dollars per month including board, which salary was increased afterward to fi.^teen dollars per month. He

at

landed

in Cincinnati in

1842, where he

was employed

^GGLESTON, HON. BENJAMIN,

first

Merchant, Leg-

and Newspaper Broprietor, was born at Corinth, Saratoga county. New York, January 3d,

in digging a cellar at fifty cents per day.

In the following October he commenced business for himself on Finley street, and in 1853 sold his blacksmith shop, and formed a co-

islator

partnership with .Vdam Dillman, in connection with

historic locality, but in

1816.

whom

He grew

up and was educated

in that

1831 his parents removed

Hocking county, Ohio, where he engaged in for some years with ensuing May, he conducted the business alone for one the business of the Ohio Canal, then the sole means of month, and then formed a partnership with Conrad W’in- transportation from the Ohio river to the great Lakes. He disch, a competent brewer. In 1855 the manufacture of removed to Cincinnati in 1845, and associated with James common beer was abandoned, and that of lager beer ini- Wilson, a leading merchant of that city. The firm of James he erected a small brewery. the partner.i sold their

tiated.

the

March

beer.

During the winter of

about 2000 barrels,

brewed.

first

while, in

ist

of the

same year

A. Dillman dying

this

in the

year the product was

1866, 26,500 barrel's were

In September of the latter year he purchased, for

sum of 8130,000,

the entire interests of his partner, and

two years afterward erected

the

main building of

his present

to

commercial pursuits, and was connected

Wilson & Co. continued their successful career until the death of James Wilson in 1867, when he was succeeded by his sons, and the style of the firm was changed to Wilson, Eggleston tion

it

&

Co., which

still

has so lom^ sustained.

holds the prestige and reputa-

He

has been identified

a\'ith

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78

nearly every measure for the promotion of the public weal,

widows and orphans of those who had

during the twenty -five years of residence in the Queen City,

for the preservation

sacrificed their lives

He was

of the Union.

renominated

and has been the recipient of unusual marks of esteem from by the Republicans in 1868, and though his Democratic opAmong other positions of trust and ponent, Gen. Peter \V. Strader, bore off the palm of victory, his fellow-citizens. ^

honor, he has been Chairman of the Board of Public Im-

he did not cease

of Council, State Senator, and Representative in Congress. coal famine of 1857 occurred during his term as Chair-

The

his efforts for the iiromotion of the interests

|

of his former constituency, and by his influence at Wa.shing-

provements, Chairman of the Finance Committee, President

ton prevented the obstruction of navigation on the Ohio by ,

the erection of a low bridge, the j

m.rn of the Finance Committee, and with his usual humanity and energy he proceeded to secure an appropriation of

build

it

one hundred

feet

company being required to He was

above low water mark.

largely interested in the Cincinnati LIuonicle, previous to

its

^

$100,000

to relieve the distressed, whicli

purchase of the Cincinnati Times

he obtained despite

in 1872,

and consequently

became a heavy stockholder in the Times Company, of which he was elected President on its organization. He In 1863 there occurred a repetition of was re-elected to the Board of Councihnen in 1S75, and is cents per bushel. this circumstance, and again our subject became the cham- one of the most active members of the Chamber of Com]Mon of the oppressed, and secured a like appropriation, merce, being one of its representatives to the National Board Again during the of Trade. He is still engaged in active business, where his thus averting the threatened calamity. prostration of all branches of industry incident to the out- sterling worth and integrity have won for him the un(|ualithe most determined opposition of interested parties, and re-

duced the price of

;

twenty-five

coal from eighty cents to

'

!

j

break of the war of rebellion, when the families of

who had gone were

left

forth

in

response to their country’s

dependent upon those who remained their

impending

fieil

call

his

esteem of his business associates.

fellow-men

home, he manner

at

devoted himself assiduously to the succor of these

and hapless innocents from

men

women

and hav-

peril,

re.il

that leaves

feeling.;

M. Wagar,

no doubt

and motives.

leaving him two children.

was privileged to disburse to some 3700 families the means to preserve them from actual want until employment could During his official term in the Senate, a bill be obtained.

E., daughter of the late

was presented

in

January,

Opposition was made, and

in the

warm

Ohio

A.SE,

in the

efforts,

ceded

to Cincinnati that portion of the canal

Ohio

river,

extending from

and City Council appropriately

recognized this service by unanimously naming in

it

In

1864 his name was brought before the

Republican Convention of the

First District for the

sional nomination, as the competitor of the late

mon

P.

Eggleston

accordance with a suggestion coming from the

Legislature.

deceased

1S64,

in

John

11

.

Mary

Davis, of Cincinnati, and

Congres-

Hon.

Sal-

Chase, and, having been nominated, defeated his

Lawyer, ex-Judge, Jour-

Representative in the Sixtieth and Sixty-

General Assemblies of Ohio,

Ohio Department of

now Chief

State,

Clerk

was born

in

Hartford, Hartford county, Connecticut, Tunc 29th,

Legislature

too, that the

It

avenue,

first

the loyal press for his unflinching patriot-

ism.

to the

as to his

1837 to L.

In April, 1867, he married

HON. OAKLEY,

encomiums from

Broadway

who

in

vol-

discussion

nalist,

to his

married

union has been sealed by the birth of four children.

which followed he took a leading part, and urged its passage in his usual elociuent and forcible style, winning high was due

minds of any

1S62, levying a tax of three-

quarters of a mill for the relief of the families of unteers.

in the

He was

of Cleveland, Ohio,

ing secured an appropriation of $100,000 from Council, he

this

His intercourse with

characterized by that frank and generous

is

1824.

He is the .son of Amlrrose Case and He was educated preliminarily

(Chapman) Case.

common

Esther in the

schools of his native county; also, fora term, in the

Granville College and the Ohio University, parents having

removed with him

at

Athens,, his

to this State in 1840, set-

Hocking county. On the completion of his course employment in the printing-office of the Hocking Sentinel. In 1845 he became the owner by pur-

tling in

of studies, he found

Democratic opponent, Hon. George E. Pugh, by over 3000 chase of this journal, and during the following thirteen majority, though the district had been consiilered Demo- years was its publisher and editor. The Sentinel was conBeing unanimously renominated in 1866, he was ducted as a weekly paper, and was Democratic in its politics. cratic. triumphantly re elected over Hon. George 11

.

Pendleton.

Congress was characterized by the same

His career

in

less ability

which he had exhibited

in

fear-

the discharge of his

In i860 he was elected Probate Judge of

and served l

in

that capacity for six years,

Hocking county, two terms.

In

856 having read law while holding the Probate Judgeshi|>, ,

He drew and obtained the passage of he was admitted to the bar, and at once entered on the pracmaking Cincinnati a p n t of entry, and secured the tice of his jirofession in Hocking county. During 1868 and first national appropriation for the enlargement of the Louis1869 he officiated as Mayor of Logan, the county-seat, and During the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1871 was elected to the House on the Democratic ticket, ville Canal. he stood firmly by his conviction of right and justice, and and in 1873 re-elected to the same position. In the throughout his career was the arduous su|)porterof measures following year he resigned his seat in the House in order to to secure the back pay of soldiers and the pensions of the accept the office of Chief Clerk of the Ohio Department of other the

official duties.

bill

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whose attendant duties he performs with unexception- low the usual average given to the Whig tickets. Under He was married, January 21st, 1S45, to Mar- similar circumstances he was nominated for the Ohio Asable ability. sembly, and in this smaller field his personal popularity garet A. James, of Hocking county, Ohio, by whom he has He is secured his election against overwhelming odds. living. now are whom of five children, eight had generally recognized as a man of liberal and progressive State,

ideas,

and

his influence

and support has been given to every Lor many

enterprise aiming to i.nprove the public welfare.

ORCHARD, HON. MATHEW,

Judge of the Su- years he was Chief Solicitor, and subsequently a Director, preme Court of Ohio, President Judge of the Court of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad Company. In of Common Pleas of the Third Circuit under the 1867 he purchased the ITarm! Cons/i/ii/ion, jomnal whi.di a.

old Ohio Constitution, and Solicitor of the United States Treasury at

and of the General Land

Office

Washington, District of Columbia, was born

Peckct, Massachusetts, January

His parents

1804.

19th,

in

were Nathan and Mercy (.Ashley) Pirchard, and he was the The family is of seventh of ten children born to them. English extraction, the

founder of the line in America,

Birchard, having arrived in Boston from London,

Thomas

September 19th, 1635, with his wife and six children. His only son, John, became one of thirty-five proprietors of a tract of eighty-one

he has, in connection with his only son, since conducted. In 1S41 he married Jane Elizabeth Weaver, of I’rincc Williams

Lrank

the wife of

11

whom .

management of

the

survive

;

Jane, the daughter,

Mason, editor of the Ckvcland

William A., (he son,

Leader. in the

Seven children were

United States navy.

of the

born to them, only two of is

of Captain William A.

county, Virginia, daughter

Weaver

associated with his father

is

Warren

Constilutiim.

He

served

two years and a half as Master’s Mate anel Ensign United States navy under Admiral Porter.

in

the

square miles of Indian lands in Connect-

New London and the towns Norwich and Saybrook. Pie left a numerous progeny, through whom the name became widely extended. A large embracing the county of

icut,

of

of his descendants are

number

Birchard’s parents

and

removed

to the

settled in Portage county,

of the original proprietors of

Birchard was educated in the period, and

for

Warren.

He

discarded

it,

now

residents of Ohio.

Western Reserve

where

his father

in 1812,

and

at the

commenced

age of twenty

Roswell

to read

.Stone, of

He

October loth, 1834.

W.

Windham township. Judge common schools of that early

studied medicine for a short time, but finally

Lawyer, ex-Mayor of ki]dey,

G.,

Ohio, was born in Ripley, Brown county, Ohio,

became one

a few terms in academies at Boston and

ADAM

’^'^'OLLIN,

Judge

is

the son

Collin anti Sarah G. Collin.

of

Thomas

His grandfather,

Nathaniel Collin, was one of the earlier pioneers

and

who voted

His father was one of seven

settlers of Cfiiio.

the Abolition ticket in

and his house was

for

many

Brown county

in

i8qo,

years the principal depot of the

“ under-ground railway,” and once there the fugitive Was

in

There the lacerated and fealing slave was Warren. During this preparation for the bar he taught sheltered and nurtured and thence on a favorable occasion In 1828 he was admitted was transferred swiftly and silently to the Canadian border. school during the winter seasons. to the bar, and at once entered upon practice with David His mother was a daughter of Rev. James Gilliland, an early law under the direction of General

safe (.piarters.

;

Tod, afterwards Governor of the State, but at that time a young lawyer with distinction yet to be earned. In 1832 Mr. Birch.\rd was elevated

and

in

Common

to the

1836 received the appointment of

General Land Office of the United

and

Pleas bench,

.Solicitor for the

Washington,

.States at

for five years filled this responsible station.

latter portion of this

During the

term he was honored with the additional

appointment of Solicitor

for the

succeed Henry D. Gilpin.

United States Treasury,

In 1841

to

he returned to War-

ren and resumed the practice of his profession with his old |)aitner,

to the

Mr. Tod, but

in the

following winter he was elected

bench of the Supreme Court of

sessing qualities to adorn public

seldom been before the people from home

in

life.

f)hio.

Though

pos-

Judge Birchard has

While absent

for office.

and one of the first Presbyterian ministers, having Red Oak, Brown county, in 1805. His earlier education was obtained in the common schools located in

settler,

settled at

the vicinity of his

On

home.

the completion of his allotted

course of studies he was placed to learn the carpentering trade, but

after

working

at

it

for

several

years,

when

en-

deavoring to save a neighbor’s house while a prey to the flames,

fell

from

its

roof and received a severe sprain in the

back, which compelled him ultimately to turn his attention to another

avenue of

labor.

Being endowed naturally with

considerable oratorical jioAvers, his friends induced him to enter the political arena, and, after filling various minor

municipal

offices,

Deputy United

he received

States

Marshal

in 1861

the aiipointment of

for the

Southern District of

1856 he was nominated by his party as a can-

Ohio. The occupation of this position drew down tqion Though him the bitterest denunciations of the Democratic press, and life-long Demo- thus he was brought more prominently before the public,

didate for Congress against Jo.shua R. Giddings. defeated. Judge Birchard, crat,

succeeded

in a

strong

who had been a Whig district in

greatly reduc-

ing the majority of his popular and celebrated opponent be-

He

steadily

disloyalty

except

particularly in the Sixth Congressional District.

refrained

from

making any

arrests

for

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

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and on account ground placed Shaw on his riglU and Carr in the rear; and was finding the man needed at head-quarters, slapped him on often denounced by those who would not or could not recog- the back; forced him to give up his gun, and led him away nize the fact, that for any illegal arrest made he was liable to a prisoner, while his scores of friends looked on in silence, One arrest made, moreover, un- overpowered by the cool daring of the Marshal and his faithsuits for heavy damages. throu tfc

Jrt*

>

'

•»

s

"T

:

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. which have engaged the

attention of the local coiuts,

While upon

torney and pleader.

the bench his rulings

Miami county, and with John Eberle, of Cincinnati. Immediately after graduating from the Ohio Medical College in 1836, from which institution he took his degree of M. D., he entered upon practice in Piqua, and in a very short time, by his skill

and

has distinguished himself for his ability as a consulting

with Dr. John O’P’errall, of Piqua, Professor

at-

and

decisions confirmed popular opinion of his thorough legal training, and his wisdom in clear and conclusive interpreta-

models of lucid analyzation of tion city,

and application of the and

as a

and care

to

member

fact,

and

tained without interruption for

faultless interpreta-

authorities.

As Mayor

he

se-

patronag^, svliich he re-

more than twenty-five

years.

Although there were many inducements for his withdrawal for a time from his practice, he allowed none to influence

of the

of municipal depaitments, he excited

him

improve the material welfaie of his fellowcitizens. In all his labors, private and official, he has disintegiity, ]i!ayed signal tact and learning, and unquestionable community. entire the of respect the and is rewarded with every

in the discharge of his professional duties,

cured a very large and influential

court sitting in banc, have always been

or to the

juries

His arguments, whether addressed

laws.

tion of the

Ill

effort to

purpose of winning a standard reputation

in his steadfast

for ability.

His

political

cratic.

He became

casting

his

in

1836.

affiliations

were originally Lleino-

a disciple of the old Jeffersonian school,

Presidential vote for Martin

first

Van Buren

In 1848 he was an Elector on the Democratic

and supported General Cass for the Presidency. He was elected from the strong M’hig district, comprising Miami,

ticket,

^OR.SEY,

GODWIN VOLNEV,

M.

Darke and Shelby

D., President

was born

in

counties, a Senatorial delecate to the Con-

new Con.stitution of Ohio; Novem- and though acting and voting uniformly with the Democrats, James Max- he refused to allow himself to be drawn into the weakness vention of 1849, " hich formed the

of the Citizens National Bank, ex-State Treasurer,

Oxford, Batler county, Ohio,

ber 17th, 1812, being the only son of

The Darsey

well Darsey.

of endeavoring to incorporate

family originally settled

mere party

politics in

an

in-

strument which w'as to be the organic law of the whole

Maryland over two hundred years ago, and succeeding generations have continued their residence in that State up to the present time, not merely perpetuating in

State and of all

He

parties.

cessfully through that

introduced and carried suc-

body the present self-regulating ap-

the family name but rendering it one of the mo:^t reputable portionment scheme for State Senators and Representatives, known in that section of the country. The names of Major a scheme which gave general satisfaction to all parlies at that Edward Dorsey and John Dorsey, Esq., appear on the com- time, and which still satisfies them. Prior to the assembling

mission appointed in 1694 to lay out the town of Annapolis, called, “Anne Arundel’s Towne ; ” and it was then

of this Convention each decade witnessed in the State Legis-

shown by

of the most flagrant and indefensible plans for an apportion-

lature scenes of bitter partisan contests,

or, as

in locating the public buildings

records

still

it

was provided,

extant, that “ that part of the lands

as

which

lye

ment of the districts dominant party

on

ye creeke by Major Dorsey’s house, whereby his excellency,

the

G ivernor

Nicliolson,

the

buildings,

and

if

now

in case

any of the said Major’s

lives,

be set aside

ye same happens lottes,

to

to

and ihe introduction

favor and continue the success of

at the

time.

Dr. Dorsey proposed to

Committee on Apportionment the measure now embodied in the Constitution, as a remedy for this constantly-

for public

come within

recurring evil.

propose that land be given

Pie also drew up that clause of Ihe Consti-

him elsewhere for it.” One year afterwards the same gentle- tution, to be found in section vii. of article 13, in reference to men headed a committee which procured funds and built the investiture of associations with banking powers. In the From these memorable Know-Nothing contest of 1854 he was defeated the first Episcopal church in the new city. early Maryland families the name of Dorsey spread exten- for Congress, as was every Congressional candidate of his In 1856 he was a delegate to the Nasively through that State and into Pennsylvania, Virginia, party in the State. and even Kentucky and Dorsey, the father of

Mississippi.

Major James Maxwell

Godwin Volney Dorsey, removed

tional

Democratic Convention

the nomination of Mr.

to

at

Buchanan.

Cincinnati, and advocated

He

w'as again placed in

For one year he lived in the field for Congress, when Mr. Buchanan w’as the standardCincinnati, and then settled in Oxford township, Butler bearer of the Democratic party, and although he ran ahead county. This was in 1810. For many years succeeding he of that distinguished gentleman in his district, he sustained was connected with Miami University, having the care of another defeat. In 1857 he was the Democratic candidate

Ohio from Baltimore

the lands

in 1809.

and the charge of the work of erecting the college

He

for State Auditor,

upon the

ticket with

Hon. R.

P.

Ranney

became an ardent supporter of of Trustees. During the war of 1812 he commanded the -Senator Douglas for the Presidency, and differed with Mr. Odd Battalion, raised in Butler county, which afterwards Buchanan on the question of the Lecompton Constitution rendered valuable services on scouting expeditions in the for Kansas. He was one of the original anti-slavery Demwestern and northwestern parts of the State. It was at ocrats, having been a member of'the Committee on ResoluMiami University that Godwin Volney Dorsey was educated. tions in the Democratic Convention of 1848, which drew Upon leaving this venerable institution he studied medicine up the celebrated anti-slavery resolution of that year. buildings.

acted, in addition, as Treasurer of the

Board

for

1

Governor.

In i860 he

1

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When

the civil

war broke

and before Mr. Lincoln was taking the degree of A.

out,

inaugurated, Dr. Dorsey openly declared himself in favor

course, the degree of A.

of sustaining the administration, and from that time his

he started an academy

were

energies, his influence, his material aid

given in aid of the Union cause.

He

in

in

Upon

at

in

leaving this institution

Savannah, Athens county, which

soon attained a flourishing condition and took bigh rank as

generously

a school

wrote the celebrated

“Statesman Letter,” published originally Columbus, and afterwards

all

receiving subsequently,

B.,

M.

Having, however, previously

instruction.

for

registered for the bar, he disposed of this institution at the

that paper at

Law

end of a year and entered the Cincinnati

every paper in the State, ad-

which he graduated

vocating the formation of a Union party, and which did

During

in 1869.

School, from

this course of

study

more perhaps than any one thing in organizing that party he read law under the private supervision of Judge Stover, lie became a candidate in i86l for State of the Superior Court, and became thoroughly fitted for in the State. He at Treasurer on the Union ticket, and was elected by the memljership of the bar, to which he was admitted. largest majority of any

was again elected 1S65.

On

one on the State

to the

same

ticket.

once associated with

In 1863 he

which he resigned

office,

in

iii

the 8th of January, 1864, he delivered by request

Andrew Jackson

a Eulogy on General

Democratic

During the years 1863 and 1864 he was Chairman

prominently

In 1868

he was chosen by the Electoral College, on the Grant and Colfax

ticket, a Senatorial

Elector, to

till

vacant by the death of Governor D.avid Tod. as a

member

He

is still

a

member

of that

is

in

all

his entrance to

made oughly-read

the place

ticket to represent Cincinnati in the Sixty-first

Chairman of the Committee on Revision, and a member of the Committee on Finance. He is a clear and logical debater, an active worker, and has participated body.

Convention, and advocated the renomination of Mr. Linof the Republican Executive Committee of Ohio.

He

to the

In 1873 he was elected on the

General Assembly of the State, and

same

year was one of the Senatorial delegates to the Baltimore

coln.

F. Boyd, and entered into practice,

position of a leading lawyer.

before both Houses

of the General Assembly, at Columbus, and in the

W.

which he made rapid progress, attaining gradually

served

careful

and

of the Constitutional Convention of 1873, and

distinguished his service in that body by advocating the

it.

He

Assembly since

has the reputation of being

lawyer, familiar with

management

in the

faithful

the proceedings of the

to the interests

of

all

all

a.

thor-

branches of practice,

cases intru.sted to him,

of those

who

seek his

skill

and

confidence.

adoption of reform measures, which he ably and eloquently sustained.

For twenty years he was a member of the Board

OWE,

He was the first President Company, and is now President of The ability of Dr. the Citizens’ National Bank of Piqua. Dorsey, in the profession of medicine and in the field of politics, of education and of business enterprise, may be There are few, perhaps, fairly estimated from this record. who have so well merited the confidence and respect of their fellow-citizens as he, and few have discharged the varied and responsible duties imposed upon them with He was married, June, greater energy or greater fidelity. 1837, to N. M. McCorkle, daughter of Hon. John McCorkle, of Piqua. In 1S56 he was married to L. P. Morof Trustees of

Miami

University.

ANDREW

J.\CKSON,

Surgeon, was born

Paxton, Worcester county, Massachusetts, in

in

of the Piqua Hydraulic

1826.

He

His early years were passed on a farm.

receiv'ed a classical course at Leice.ster

emy, and graduated

During

this

at

Harvard College

in

Acad1853.

year and the following one he took

courses of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,

and afterwards

hospital instruction in

After graduating at the Worcester Medical

New

York.

he was appointed Professor of Anatomy in his Alnta Mater. In 1S56 he accepted the same position in the Eclectic Medical

Institute, of Cincinnati.

Institution

In 1870 he brought out a

“Treatise on Fractures and Dislocations,” and was trans-

row, daughter of D. Tuttle, Esq., of Indianapolis.

In 1873 he wrote a ferred to the chair of Surgery. “ Manual of Eye Surgery,” and has in an advanced state of preparation a general work on the “ Principles and Prac-

IlOYCE,

HON. GEORGE

Legislature,

was born

in

\V.,

Member

of the

Columbiana county.

Ohio

tice of

May own

Boyce, both of

was

a

whom

were of

Irish descent.

The

subject of this sketch has exhibited in-

ventive talent in the construction of instruments, and in the

3d, 1840, being the son of Isaac and Jane (Brady)

father

Surgery,” designing most of the illustrations with his

pencil.

His execution of difficult operations. He has successfully performed most of the great operations in surgery, and many

lumber dealer and a farmer, and was

George W. of them repeatedly. He has frequently been called long highly esteemed by bis neighbors. had meagre advantages for culture in early life, but these distances as an expert witness in malpractice trials, and is He he improved in the highest degree possible. He was am- familiar with nice points in medical jurisprudence. bitious for liberal and substantial culture in the most prac- illustrates his lectures with striking diagrams of his own tical and popular branches, and to this end he entered the make and with crayon sketches rapidly drawn while speak'

University of Ohio,

at

Athens, after attaining his majority,

and sustained himself by teaching.

He

graduated

in 1867,

ing.

He

is

a constant contributor of surgical pajiers to the

Eclectic Medical Joztrual, ’and

an

occasional writer for

1

ENCYCLOP.EDIA.

BIOGRAPIIICAI. popular and

He

scientific periodicals.

distinction in comparative anatomy,

has also acquired

and

is

an active

I

mem-

officer, or

1

Master; and

the expiration of this term of office

at

He was

he was again re-elected.

Dr. Howe stands ber of the Society of Natural History. to-d.ay among the leading men and teachers in his school

appointed soon after his

connection with the order, by the national

officers, as

a

(

;

General Deputy, to organize subordinate granges in Ohio.

and ranks as one of the first surgeons of the I!y the ist of the following April he had organized over His scholarly attainments give him some advan- seventy granges. On the 9th day of April, 1873, ^he mastages over his brethren, being one of the finest speakers and ters of the various subordinate granges in the State (it then most successful teachers of the distinguished medical men being located in the following counties, viz. Stark, Portage, Dr. Howe has a large and valuable practice, Hocking, Montgomery, Clinton, Vinton, Clermont, Greene of the' day. in the ^Vest,

country.

:

and Warren) met at Lebanon, Warren county, and with the is yet in the prime of life, with a fine body and constitution, and with the prospect of a bright and useful career before assistance of Mr. T. A. Thompson, of Minnesota, Worthy Lecturer of the National Grange, organized the State him.

'to

0

'

ELIS,

f

S.

H.,

Worthy Master of

the State

of Ohio of Patrons of Husbandry,

Grange

Grange of Ohio.

Of

Mr.

chief officer, that of

Ellis to

election

was born near period,

Martinsville, Clinton county, Ohio, January 3d,

to

be

its

last

for

this organization

two

same

At the expiration of

years.

March, 1875,

in

his associates chose

Worthy Master,

the this

again nearly unanimously

1 ’*^

for another term of two was born in years. The granges in the State having increased up to Tennessee, and at the age of eighteen removed that time, under his efficient leadership, to over 1 too, with a with his father to Ohio, where, in young man- membership of over 50,000, his labors in this good work hood, he married Susan Lewis, who died in a few months have been incessant, and next to his family and the church Seth’s mother’s name was Anna Hackett, has lain nearest his heart. after marriage. His position as the chief officer who, in young womanhood, married James Moon, and in the State has led to the acquaintance of many of the

His

1830.

Robert

father,

re-elected

to the

position

Ellis,

j

]

from

Soon

after

in course of

time

marriage had one child, a daughter.

this

the birth of this child her husband died

;

men and women

best

in

Ohio, he having

formed acquaintance, more or

in this

capacity

intimate, with persons

less

j

Moon were

Robert Ellis and Anna Their

first

child,

united in marriage.

!

being a daughter, was named Susan Ellis;

in

every county in the State

;

and having the

office of State

Master places the resjionsible duty of representing the order j

their second, being a son,

and

thus preserving the

name

was named James M. Ellis, and the

ness,

Ohio in which

wife,

the

Robert

of

Ellis,

in |

March, 1874, at the age of seventy-nine years and six His widow, Anna, is still living. The early edit-

months.

cation of the .subject of this sketch

was confined

to

National Grange upon Mr. Ellis and his

position they

have first

Louisville,

Kentucky, the

in

filled

St.

at

three meetings of

Loui;, Missouri, the

Carolina, and

Charleston, .South

at

I

the death

the

National Grange, the

was one of unusual happi- second

years and

fifty

was terminated by

in

'

This union, which con-

wife of the other in the family. tinued more than

|

of the husband of one

the

third

at

commencing November

latter

'

At

meeting Mr. Ellis was chosen Chaplain Grange for the next three years. The the biography of Colonel William H. Hill will give the reader 17th, 1875.

this

'

of the National

usual three-months district school of each winter until he

an idea of the business transacted by

reached his seventeenth year, when he had the privilege of

of farmers.

this

noble association

attending for a year in succession the school in Springboro’,

under the instruction of an excellent

instructor, Charles

Kimble, who took great

advancement.

interest in his

RUHL, GUSTAVUS,

At

M.

D.,

was born. May

31st,

the close of this year’s schooling he received a certificate

1826, in the village of Herdorf, in the Prussian

from the Examiners of Warren county, Ohio, to teach

province of Rhenania, where his father was pro-

school, said certificate

good

obtained a certificate in

Rebecca

J.

afterwards

prietor of

who was

was united

in

mines and smelting furnaces.

ceived a classical

In August, 1851, just before

the latter school, he

Tressler,

He

years.

Montgomery county, on which he

taught school six months.

commencing

two

for

He

re-

education at the colleges of

and Treves, where he

Siegen, Muenster-Eiffel

graduated, then studied medicine, philosophy and history

marriage to

born and reared on a farm

at

and

the universities of Munich, Halle

Ilerlin,

and

after

now live, one and one-half having passed the required examinations he was honored From this union they have five with the degree of M. D. He was induced to come to

adjoining the one where they miles east of Springboro’. girls

and two boys, of

geline,

is

practical

whom

America

the eldest daughter, Evan-

married to A. M. Somers. farmer ever since he

himself, in the spring of 1852.

Mr.

Ellis has

commenced

been a

business

ful

in 1848, partly

by the

difficulty of finding success-

the fever of emigration, then at

for

and which was fanned

At the organization of

and

practice in a field already overstocked,

in

its

him by the

height

in

partly by Germany,

inviting letters sent

|

Grange No. 1st,

6, in

Ohio, of Patrons of Husbandry, October him by his uncle, John

1872, he was unanimously chosen to be '5

its

principal

[

Missouri.

Upon

his arrival

Gerlach

llriihl,

a

he started en route

resident

of

for Missouri,

.

BIOGRAPHICAL E \ CYC LO ICE

>4

hut on his

way down

passage was laid up

which he took

and, though not elected, his great popularity in the State

was shown by the heavy vote which he polled, and which was the highest on his ticket.

('oing on sliore he encountered a relative of his mother’s

who persuaded him

family,

lie

city,

opened an

by the exercise of profe.ssional

duties.

Physician of

St.

in a lucrative practice

performance of

in the

He

Mary’s Hospital.

HERMANN, was

’’CKEL,

lectured for a while

Miami Medical College on laryngoscopy and

in the

his

he was Acting

years

several

P’or

that

in

corner of Laurel and Linn

and care

skill

permanently

to settle

office at the

and soon established himself

streets,

A

Cincinnati on account of low water,

the Oliio the boat in

at

I ) I

diseases

father,

of the throat, but refused a chair of Obstetrics, offered him

gist

in

born,

March

27lh, 1826,

Rheinhessen, near Bingen.

in Woellstein,

His John Peter Eckel, was the county drugthis wealthy and beautifully situated little

summer of 1869 he town, and was widely known in the community accepted the editorship of the German Pioneer, a monthly as a gentleman of high professional attainments, magazine devoted to the “ History of the German Inhabi- liberal views and humane principles. His prominent trait tants of America,” for which he had furnished many im- was a tender love for his children, united with a peculiar by several medical colleges.

He

portant papers.

In the

resigned this position upon the con-

clusion of the second volume, in

1870, but continued to

contribute sketches from time to time on topics of interest

Among

these were articles

subjects,

and poems in the

to the readers of the magazine.

on

and

belles-lettres

German

scientific

He

language.

entitled “ Poesien des

issued a volume of

This volume was issued

being his noni de plnme.

York,

in

and are

to

The

being published

He

print.

results of his

work

in a

volker Alt- Americas,” the in

his

and de-

lectures on this topic before different literary

scien'.ific societies.

appeared

New

For years he has turned

the study of yVmerican archaeology,

many

now

latter

in

Several of his poems were published in Dornrosen ” and “ Ileimathgriisse,” anthologies

of German-American verse.

livered

verse,

1871.

Steiger’s “

attention

German

Urwalds von Kara Giorg,” the

first

investigations

entitled “

part of

Die Cultur-

which has already

one of the curators of the His-

is

and Philosophical Society of Ohio, a member of the

ability to

in

ful

impress them strongly with a sense of the beauti-

Hermann had no

Until his eleventh year

nature.

other schooling than that afforded by the country school of

In the spring of 1837 he was sent to Darmstadt, and there undertook the higher curriculum of the “ Realschule,” and afterwards that of “ Polytechnicum.”

his native village.

The

show that he At the desire of his

records of both these higher institutions

advanced and graduated with honors. parents he chose the fields of

He

the usual apprenticeship.

Knonberg, Nassau. of the Medical

pharmacy in which to serve was accordingly articled at

In 1844 he passed, before the Faculty

College of the Grand

Duchy

Hessc-

of

Darmstadt, the examination necessary to qualify him ns After serving in this capacity in

pharmaceutist’s assistant. different cities

he returned to Darmstadt in 1852 and com-

pleted his pharmaceutical course in the laboratory of the

Polytechnic School, under his former teacher and paternal

Moldenhauer. Here in the autumn of American Medical Association, of the Natural History 1852 he had become the dux in his class and the orator for Society and of the Literary Club of Cincinnati, and was one the chemical section at the public exhibition. This duty of the originators of the Peter Clavcr Society, in 1867, for he performed in a manner that elicited for him flattering the education of poor negro children. During the Franco- notice in the Dannsiadt Gazelle. In 1S53 he passed the German war, in 1870-71, he was President of the Sanitary “ Staats Examen,” an ordeal which qualified him to set up torical

.'\id

.Society of Cincinnati,

He was

and

jiresided at the

member

Peace Jubilee

friend. Professor F.

for

himself as a regularly licensed pharmaceutist or drug-

This same 3’ear, 1S53, he came to ,\merica. It was Hermann’s great love of freedom, probably, above everyiners of Public .Schools. Dr. Briihl is a man of scholarly thing else that induced him to come to this country. Soon He is a patient, after arriving in Cincinnati he began work in his profession, culture, both in the arts and sciences. though an enthusiastic, investigator, and his labors have and in a few years, with some of the customary thrift of his For thus far been highly beneficial to his profession, and countrymen, he was able to do business for himself. He has taken a nearly twenty years he has had his store where it now is. through this profession to the public. deep interest in the improvement of popular education, and He is one of the most scholarly and spirited of our German held

in that city.

Board of Cincinnati, and

lately a

is still

all

of his adopted

reforms. He population, and ranks among leading men of his country in and moral welfare Cincinnati. For ten years at least it is but fair to say that manner has earned the he has been the champion of German in the public schools.

many

steps for the material

city,

and

in

esteem of the community.

this

His

with the Democratic party, and

political

in a

German

affiliations

are

number of campaigns

he has been one of the most eloquent and

effective of

its

Mr. Plckel maintains that while English this

country, such a respectable

is

number

the language of of the

German

patrons of the school desire their children to speak and

While absent iir California, in 1871, his read the German that him with the nomination for State Treasurer, be thoroughh' taught,

speakers.

party honored

gist.

one of the Board of Ex.am-

has suggested and helped to carry out has supported

of the University

it

as

is

but just that the

any other branch,

German in

.should

the schools.

BIOGRArillCAL EN’CYCLOP.'EDIA.

>15

15

During the memorable crusade, one of the

first

1874, Mr. Eckel was

in

lS6l he was

In

right of the citizen.

was born

what

against interference by sumptuary enactments against

was termed the

RAH.\M, WILEI.YM

meeting of Germans,

to speak, at a public

and received

York

an intennission of one year he has been a member of that body ever since. Several times he has been favored by the

connected with

member

of the School Board of Cincinnati.

he went

IMr.

He

tion of a skilful druggist.

in

nothing in a half-

but devotes himself earnestly to anything he

latter

While

interest

the true state of the case,

is

it

also true that he has not accumulated wealth to such a

By

degree as most of his countn-men.

his

keen

New

In company with

David

& Graham,

in that place,

and the partnership was

when Mr. Maginnis

retired, leaving

the control of the business entirely to his partner until the

undertakes.

is

to

March, 1845, when

this establishment until

continued until 1850,

way manner,

this

Removing

his education.

city in

Zanesville, Ohio.

to

Maginnis

Eckel has won the reputa-

engages

York, Jan-

Maginnis he started a drug house, under the firm-name of

c.mse of the Gennans, doubtless, above everything else, this in his favor.

Druggist,

New

1839 he entered upon a clerkship in the drug house of Graham & Co., and remained

^

nominations from both political parties. His anti-Catholic and liberal educational views, and his bold advocacy of the

produce

Wholesale

uary 9th, 1821, where he spent his early years

^

first

With

elected a

A.,

Westchester county,

in

admitted Messrs. Willis Bailey and

Graham and

insight,

creased

Under

house.

the

in

associates

his

transactions,

its

J.

D. Porter

to

an

the able direction of Mr.

the establishment

largely in-

and earned the reputation of being

indomitable will and his great pluck, together with his

one of the best and most reliable drug houses in the State. knowledge of German pedagogics, he has probably more In 1847 Mr. Graham married Sarah V., daughter of Dr. than any other member of the .School Board been instru- John Hamm, an ex-State Senator of Ohio, and, under the mental

in eradicating

many supposed

and German methods of teaching.

errors in the English

Although he

administration of President Jackson, Minister of the United

in a

From the date of its organization, in 1864, States to Chili. German in the schools, he came he has been a large stockholder and a director of the Eiret the Germans as an element, but as a National Bank of Zanesville, and was.one of the most enis,

sense, the patron of the

Board not

into the

tion to

for

with a deep interest in the schools and a determina-

citizen,

do

he could

all

therefore, in the schools has

been as an American.

famous Bible question Mr. Eckel made one of efforts against the

On

many

In the

financial ability

continuance of the Bible in the schools.

of the Catholic Church he was one of

its

not a church

of nineteen

member

This position of course makes him a target for

word.

parties; yet the boldness, address as the ability

senior

to the

He

and good humor,

and earnestness of the man, insure

and the requirements of

efficient

executive

industrial works.

His ex-

perience has been a varied and valuable one, and as the

member

of one of the oldest wholesale drug houses

West he has become known to and esteemed by the business community of Ohio and neighboring States. He in the

is

any sense of the

or a Christian in

Ohio Iron Company, of which for He is a gentleman of un-

a director.

management of mercantile and

opponents,

bitterest

members of the Board residence of the archbishop he was the spokesman. visit

was

years he

usually brilliant business qualifications, possessing excellent

his greatest

the great question of the division of the fund in favor

and on the

A

ergetic promoters of the

His work,

highest good.

for their

has at

all

all

ment of

as well

times manifested great interest in the improve-

Zanesville,

street, as well

his success.

section,

year ago, realizing his insufficient provision against the

as

which

and erected a large warehouse on Main

one of the handsomest residences

his

family

now

in that

His' support to

occupies.

meritorious business as well as municipal enterprise has

changes of the future, he began to study modern alchemy,

always been willingly given, and in his entire career as a

and thinks he has

me, chant and private

pher’s stone.

He

from his

ling iron,

rewarded by finding the

bee.n

])hiIoso-

citizen

he has acted

in a

manner

to

now perfected a process for enamel- win and retain the respect of the community in which he own manipulation, without aid from any lives. He has amassed a large fortune, and is at the same

has

This he justly deems the greatest work time one of the most liberal as well as one of the most and thinks “ there is a tide in the affairs of men prominent citizens of Zanesville. leads to fortune,” and believes that a competency now

similar process.

of his that

life,

awaits him and his children. is

yet disposed

to the

Although not a Christian, he view that “ there is a Providence

1

j

that shapes our ends,

Eckel

is

rough hew them as

thoroughly republican, and

in

we may.”

'ale,

Mr.

benjamin

T.,

Farmer, of

Mill

creek

township, near Bondhill, Hamilton county, was

adventurous times |

would is

l)e

a leader of radical forms of right or thought

.scholarly

and has a strong

considerable and belongs alistic life

school of ideas.

itself,

and believes,

literaiy

among

He as

is

the

members of

as full of

he belongs to a family of

his service, with propriety, thirty ye.ars hence.

born

he

the ration-

hope and vigor

noted for their longevity, that his friends and country

demand

;

tendency; has written

as

men may

I

near

1805.

Lewistown,

He was

Delaware,

Ajiril

21st,

the fourth child in a family of

seven children, whose parents were Jacob Dale

and Charlotte (Truitt) Dale. followed through

life

tural pursuits, died in

20th, 1816,

His

father,

who

mercantile, mechanical and agricul-

Worcester county, Maryland, January

where he had

settled

at

an early day.

His

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.LDIA.

ii6

mother’s decease occurred also in Maryland, January 25th,

His boyhood was passed alternately

1823.

in labor

ami

in

study, the former occupying, however, the greater portion

was placed

of seventeen he

At the age

of the time.

to

learn the trade of plastering, in Worcester county, Maryland,

worked at Ohio, and

counties and in Virginia, he

in adjoining

where, and also

He

his trade until 1829.

settled in Cincinnati,

mountains on

wife

his

foot,

moved

subsequently

Ohio

sessor of $igo. at

on

Jones

&

W.

Co. was created, of which he was the principal,

same business so well established In July, 1869, he retired from

down

In the ensuing year he

own

account, carrying

for three years in connection with Julius

V. Thomason.

time the partnership was dissolved,

this

Co. until the dissolution of the latter

by the former copartners.

$1.25 per day, as journeyman.

At the expiration of

8;

house, in July, 1865, at which date the firm of George

for the prosecution of the

established himself in business on his it

of Jones Brothers

At

a six-horse wagon.

On his arrival he found himself the posHe then went at once to work at his trade,

river.

the

having journeyed over the

in

M'heeling they took deck passage on a boat running the

to

and in the following year became “buyer” for the firm of J. D. & C. Jones & Co., of which he was in 1848 made a partner, and continued as a prominent member of this active mercantile firm and that business, in August, 1S46,

business and devoted his attention to the control of his large farm,

located

Committee and Treasurer of the 1869, which

was

management and

Jones’s

He was Chairman

Butler county, Ohio.

Cincinnati in

at

Station, in

of the Executive

Exposition, held in

first

styled the “ Exposition of

The success then achieved in this comway in making the public acquainted with laid the foundation of home manufactories

Textile Fabrics.”

—

paratively small

—

and he sustained the business alone until the year 1852. the products His eldest son, James, then became his partner in business. for more enlarged plans for effecting far more satisfactory Their last important job was the plastering of the fine, large results, and now our industrial expositions have become St.ate House at Columbus, Ohio. He was a citizen of Cin- the well-recognized annual occasions for the exhibition of

when he

cinnati until 1857,

and

home

retired

and

from

his regular business

on

articles of

American

skill

and workmanship,

as well as for

his farm, in Mill

the influx of a large population to our metropolis, curious

Creek township, where he has since permanently resided, engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was Com-

and desirous of seeing and examining the products wrought

his

in the city

settled

principally

missioner of one of the Special

township, and for

In 1S51 he

and served

districts of IMill

years was a

five

Council of Cincinnati. I.egislature,

Road

for

member

was elected

two years.

of the City to the State

Since the expiration

of his term he has declined a renomination for the office.

and

he

Politically,

cast his

first

is

Creek

same

attached to the Democratic party,

vote in favor of General Jackson.

In the

by our skilled artisans, or beholding the progress matters of science.

ment obtained from Cincinnati the idea w hich w into the far-famed “ Centennial

and

the

community

in

which he has resided and the more speedy development of 1828, to

is

ill

develop

Exhibition at Philadelphia

official

candidate of the Independent party, and

position w'as instrumental in

the constitution

making any man

making

eligible to

membership

man

of energy and

President of the

Miami Valley

in recognition of his merits as a

influence he w’as elected

in this

the change in

was married, PJecember 25th,

Insurance Company, in July, 1871, under whose manage-

Deborah N. Millburn, a native of Accomac county, They were iilessed with ten children three of

ment this corporation has become one of the most successful companies of the kind in Ohio, if not in the country its present favorable condition being in no small degree

the interests of his State.

Virginia.

it

In 1S70 Mr. Jones was elected President of the in 1876.” Voting Men’s Mercantile Library Association of Cincin-

had

issue the welfare of

and

not an unreasonable deduction to suggest that our govern-

nati, as the

ultimate

made in made

nation have been

familiar with the realizations of our expositions,

educational, political and religious movements he has always manifested a zealous and generous interest, and has been a valued co-worker in many enterprises which have for

The whole

He

;

them are now

living,

and reside

in Cincinnati.

:

and judgment of its President. was Treasurer of the Cincinnati Board of Trade, and was delegated by the Chamber of Commerce to act as Commissioner of the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition for 1873; and being reappointed he was subsequently unanimously chosen as President of the Board of Commissioners attributable to the labors

In 1872 he

(':-(^ONES,

GEORGE

W.,

is

the eldest son of John

Davies and Elizabeth Jones,, and was born city of Cincinnati

He class

in the

on the 26th of October, 1826.

among the “honor-men” in his Kenyon College, at Gambler, Ohio, in

graduated at

1846, having while a student received the benefits

of the tuition of such esteemed

men

of learning as

for the

Exposition of 1874, and also acted as a

of the Executive ciation,

1849

held

in

Jo'ie'^

married Jane O. N. Tibbatts, daughter

Bishop McTlvaine, President Bronson, Professor Ross and

of Hon. John Tibbatts,

other reputable scholars connected with that institution, at

tucky,

which some of our

ablest jurists

and distinguished doctors

of divinity have received their diplomas. pletion of his collegiate course

After the com-

he entered the dry-goods

member

Committee of the Musical Festival AssoIn Cincinnati in May, 1873 and 1875.

ex-Member of Congress from Ken-

and granddaughter of General James Taylor (now' From the above brief outline deceased) of the same .State. of the positions held by the subject of this sketch, and of his active jiarticipatioii

in the

affairs

of

men, we discover

—

BIOGRAPHICAL EAXYCLOP.-EDIA. have commended

the character and qualifications which

him to the favorable consideration of the community which he still lives.

in

service only less valuable than the excellent service he

rendered

in the

New

ington county.

BENJAMIN,

Revolutionary

Captain,

was horn on the 17th of October, 1745, at LeiHe was of English decester, Massachusetts. grandfather, the

scent, his

settler

first

the

in

town of Hatfield, on the Connecticut river, having come to this country from England when a youth.

and

this

It

fighting stock from the earliest days,

was a

many

founder of the family was

times engaged in

the Indi.an wars that formed so large a part of the history

His son. Captain John

those days.

country in

of the

Brown, the father of Benjamin, served with credit in army during the Phench war, and was present

Colonial

the taking of Louisburg

He

and Cape Breton.

many

at

rendered

war and town of Lei-

years afterwards he represented the

Until he

cester in the Legislature of Massachusetts.

age he shared the usual

thirty years of

England

citizen, a life full of toil

of rugged enjoyment

775) "'hen he had and had a

little

and

rigid

life

reacheil his thirtieth year,

until the year 1817, to

Athens

In the

May

Here he continued

Ames he was one

month

—he participated

historic

in the battle of

was Lieutenant-Colonel, and William Hull,

Bun-

after-

in nearly all

of the battles preceding the surrender of General Burgoyne.

some of these engagements he

specially distinguished

himself by his gallantry and daring.

So highly were these

him appreciated that he wxs tendered the poAide-de-Camp on the staff of Baron De Kalb, who soon after fell at Camden. His self-confidence, however, qualities in

sition of

to his gallantry.

tional ([ualifications

He

distrusted his educa-

and knowledge of the

his residence in

holding various

early years and the successes of his later

and died

Athens

at

the year

in

life,

his

survived him,

1S40, at the ripe age of

eighty-six years.

ONES, JOHN

D., was born near Morgantown, in

cember, 1797, and was the son of John and Elizabeth Jones, being paternally of Welsh an-

of which Dr. John Brooks, afterwards Governor of Massa-

was not equal

During citizens,

had married

In the year 1777 he was commissioned a Captain in Colonel Michael Jackson’s regiment, Massachusetts line,

In

he went

Berks county, Pennsylvania, on the 9th of De-

— the

wards of bad fame, was Major, and took part

prominent

its

failed,

John Brown. October, 1821, when he

to reside until

of

having

son. General

and who had shared with him the struggles of

setts,

also

full

ker Hill.

chusetts,

his

was

following he received the commission of lieu-

of June, 1775

his health

offices

knowing what he had

month

when,

reside with

to

died, full of years and of honors.

cestry, as his

details of military

name would

indicate, with a mixtuie

of .Scotch-Irish blood, derived by maternal de-

done, had helped form the basis of the Revolutionary army. tenant and Commissary, and in the next

He

the spring of 1797, and settled there

in

company with Judge

family about him, he enlisted in a regiment

of Mi.iute-men, and, without fully

1796 he again emigrated,

1799 he removed to Ames township, in Cutler, and continued to reside there

In

temporarily.

remained there only a few

time in the Northwest Territory.

this

reached Marietta

He

in the fall of

February,

In

integrity.

home

seeking a

York.

and

New

of the

and hardship, but

had

About the

the battle field.

and contributing largely to the advancement of the the settlement. His wife, whom he had married in Massachu-

peaceful service also, and during the Revolutionary for

camp and on

year 1789 he removed with his family to Hartford, Wasliyears, however,

R(D\VN,

117

His great-grandfather, David Jones, came to this 1720, and settled in Berks

scent.

country from Wales in about county, whither a large grated,

now little

number

becoming inhabitants of

villages

most part of what

Conestoga valley, and

the beautiful

vicinity of that

of his native people emi-

for the

built

is

the pretty

Morgantown and Churchtown, in the hills known as the Welsh

imposing range of

Being Episcopalians by faith and education coming to this country as zealous members of the “ Church they gave the religious character to the loof England ” cality, which even to this day has not been removed or His father was a native and resident of the impaired. Keystone State, and died at the age of fifty-two years, on the 14th of January, 1816, at Reading P'orge, Chester mountains.

—

county, Pennsylvania, being at that time a farmer and a

member

House of

the

Assembly of

Pennsylvania, but died before taking his seat

in that legis-

recently elected

of the

and therefore declined the offered honor. Two years after receiving his commission as Captain, in 1779, he

lative body.

resigned his commission,

on the 13th of January, 1814, ten orphan children were

left

mourn the loss of parents held in high esteem community of which they had been members. The

the

science,

left the army and returned home, impelled to this step by rea.sons of a personal character.

Patriotism

made him

reluctant to yield his share in the

His wife having departed

this life previously,

in

to

subject

great struggle, and a just appreciation of his high qualities

of these remarks was one of the eldest of this family, and

m.ade his superior officers reluctant to lose his services

while quite young, prompted by ambition as well as neces-

his necessities could not be disregarded,

to provide

for

longer a fighter

means ceased

in

but

and he went home

the support of his family.

to

;

Although no

the field for the national cause, he by no

work

in its behalf,

and

at

home rendered

sity,

with self-reliance and a determination to engage

battle of life

on his

own

account, he

left

in the

the scenes of his

boyhood and went to Philadelphia to learn the mercantile business, and was employed by his maternal uncles, Thomas

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.EDIA.

ii8

and John K. Graham, East India merchants. In September, Jones has ever pursued a methodical and systematic course, 1819, with his older brother, George \V. Jones, he came to managing his business with close attention and upon strict Cincinnati, crossing the Allegheny mountains in the well- principles of integrity; and as a citizen has been associated

known Conestoga wagons,

of

whose

and usefulness

size

and action with the party of progress, being identimany enterprises and public movements which have facilitated the development of the commercial, bankin spirit

perhaps only the oldest inhabitants have a just appreciation, and came down the Ohio river in a flat-boat, bringing a

fied

stock of dry goods and other necessary parts of an outfit to

ing and railroad interests of his city of adoption.

with

of trade, the increased facilities of transacting business with

In 1834 Board of Directors of the Lafayette Bank, and with Josiah Lawrence, Judge David K. Este, lion. S.dmon P. Chase and others, continued in the management of that corporation for many years. He w'as also

those at a distance and the improved condition of afiairs in

a

establish a western

made

their

Thus

store.

young merchants

these

essay in a field of labor at that time of cir-

first

cumscribed dimensions, but which now, by the e.xpansion

the

country generally, has been

with the

enlarged

commensurate

science and capacity of those engaged in

skill,

On

mercantile pursuits.

the

1st

of December, 1820, at the

and partner died,

early age of twenty-four years, his brother

leaving the care and responsibility of a

new

business, in an

undeveloped and almost unsettled country, upon one Notwithstanding

and ine.xperienced.

untried

this

life

firm-name of John D. Jones

&

Co.

its

till

name

of

&

J. L).

his

became

and the business was conducted under the

partner,

&

Dayton Railroad, and took an active part

the construction of that important public benefit

in

also for

many

years Was associated wdth

his

firm-

C. Jones, which was pursued with a steady

Robert Buchanan and William Crossman

of

its

military

post

its

name, while her

P'actor

and Indian Agent.

Jones was engaged

in

and

Charles D. Jones, Lieutenant United States navy, a graduate of the

United States Naval Academy, died, December,

1865, w Idle in the service, having served during the rebellion

on the

frigate

“Hartford,”

wdiile floating the

Mr. Jones

alive

is still

pennant

and living

relieved from his accustomed business respon-

But, to return from this diver-

in business for the

and succeeded by the firms of

Co. and Jones Brothers

&

J.

&

D.

J.

D.

&

C. Jones

born

&

inci-

dent to the demands of an increasing and successful busi-

known

ness of a mercantile firm well and favor.ably out the East and West.

Mr. Jones retired from

p.irlicipation in business in July, 1865,

throughall

active

having been engaged

dry-goods trade uninterruptedly for almost' fifty years,

during which time,

in

addition to the close attention de-

in

own

men now numbered among

the prosperous

When

was

sixteen

was

6th, 1830.

State.

His

and limited

often interrupted,

His labor

he

left

his

school entirely and

entered upon farming as his future occupation, working in the fields in the daytime at

night.

on

until

and

This double labor

in his father’s in a

blacksmith shop

dual capacity he carried

he was twenty-two years of age, and then entered

upon a clerkship board.

are not a few

May

scope to such rudiments as w'ere usually

its

father’s farm.

mindful of his obligations and duties to others; and there

interests,

of Zanesville,

was required during the greater portion of the year on

Ninth

looking after his

Mayor

county, Ohio,

taught in the early country schools.’

he was not un-

in

C.,

Muskingum

early education

heirs, so to .speak, of the parent house, created

name

in

His parents were natives of the same

Co. successively, of which John

years before, and but the substantial changes in

CALVIN

tIBSON,

C.

period of twenty-one

Jones was the senior partner: these mercantile establish-

ments being

manded

19th, 1863;

familiarly

father,

sion to our historical connections, the firm of

in the

wounded

mortally

one of our western pioneers, was United States

as

I).

fell

Chickamauga, on September

the battle of

was born, September 22d, 1807, at sibilities, in the beautiful village of Glendale, one of the from which the city of P'ort Wayne, suburban settlements of Cincinnati.

known

years,

Infantry, a graduate of the

United States Military Academy,

.She

derived

Indiana,

once large family but four sons now

Ohio Volunteer

Jones, 36th

in quietness,

Colonel

continues to be identified as one

still

his

married to Elizabeth Johnston, daughter of the

the

Board of

and of those deceased Colonel William G.

living;

are

Of

managers.

of our gallant k'niragut.

late

in the

;

Trustees of the Cincinnati Orphan Asylum, an institution in

and constant development and attended with uniform prosperity. On the 22d of September, 1823, at Piqua, Miami county, Ohio, the subject of this biographical sketch was John Johnston,

and Henry Probasco,

with which his wife

dissolution, in

1827, at rvhich date his brother Caleb Jones

of the original Board of Directors of the Cincin-

Hamilton

which he has always been most earnestly interested, and

under the

his business

member

nati,

of the

disap-

had scarcely been formed, he with

Thomas Graham, continued

uncle,

member

as yet

pointment and bereavement, happening when his plans of promise and

he was a

Ward By

in

a country store at Putnam,

now

the

of Zanesville, at a salary of $250 a year and strict

economy he managed

from one hundred to one hundred and

by annually

to lay fifty

dollars as capi-

and prominent merchants of Cincinnati and the West who have received encouragement or substantial assistance as

tal

well as good counsel from him, which have keen of benefit

years Mr. Gibson went to Cincinnati and there took charge

to

them

in

their mercantile

career.

As

a merchant

Mr.

for future

business enterprises, w Inch were eventually

happily realized.

After remaining in this store for some

of a large stove warehouse,

which he retained

for

a tw'elve-

BIOGRAl’IIICAL ENCVCLOIAEDIA. month, and then returned appointed Deputy

In 1S63 he

to Zanesville.

was period of over eight years, one of

under Sheriff Wolf, and upon the

Sheriff'

119

ber, 1872, this institution settled

its its

Decem-

In

directors.

and was

affairs

closed,

company with other gentlemen, estabof the Zane House, and after serving a year in this capacity lished a private banking house, under the name of The remained in charge of the house for the same length of Union Bank, with a capital of $100,000, whose business time. Upon leaving this position he opened a general and management were controlled by a Board of Directors, He has occupied merchamlise store upon his own account, which he con- of whom Mr. Huston was President. tinued with prosperity until April 1st, 1875, " hen he was this responsible station, witbout interruption, until the presMr. Gibson ent time, and the bank, now second in size in Zanesville, elected to the office of Mayor of Zanesville. had all the qualities necessary for a successful mercantile has a continually and a rapidly increasing business, the career. He was enterprising and honorable in all his evidence of the growing confidence in its solidity and the Mr. Huston was married, transactions, and gained the confidence of his fellow- wisdom of its management. citizens. He has taken every proper measure, since his June 13th, 1S48, to Rachel A. Ream, a resident of expiration of his term in this office he

was selected

and Mr. Huston,

as clerk

Somerset, Ohio,

elevation to the mayoralty, to increase the material welfare

of the city of which he

and carried career

and

is

an

into

chief magistrate, and has proposed

daughter,

many improvements.

ilton,

is

effect

His entire

may

accomplish by energy.

In

who

died, June

to

25th,

1850, leaving one

subsequently became the wife of

On

of Newark, Ohio.

what a poor boy, with ambition married

illustration of

integrity of character,

who

in

J.

B.

Ham-

October 17th, 1854, he was

Maggie E. Stump, of Muskingum county, who On P'ebruary 7th, 1865, he was Amanda Holmes, of P'airfield county, Ohio, who

died June 12th, 1863.

October, 1862, he was married to Alice Green.

married

to

has had four children to him.

Mr. Huston’s varied ex-

perience has eminently qualified him for the position he at

He

present holds in the business community.

ARCHIBALD

;USTOX,

M., Banker, was born in

liberal ideas, enterprising yet

Perry county, Ohio, at Rehoboth, on April lotb,

who ^

emigrated

settled

^

possessed of a thorough apprehension of

His parents were both natives of Ireland,

1824.

to

permanently

this

country

in

that State.

in

1814 and

He

of an important monetary institution.

attended i

the

management of

details in the successful

Rehoboth common schools during the winter

of the State.

a

man

of

the essential

all

the financial

He

is

aff.iirs

quite largely

and Perry counties, and

interested in coal lands in Jackson

development of the mineral resources

in enterprises for the

seasons and assisted his father in the labor of cultivating a

is

prudent as an executive, and

During the

late

war he rendered material

I

farm during the remaining portions of the year.

His father assistance

in the

work

of organizing, equipping and sending

was a man of moderate circumstances, an industrious and troops to the field. His ability as a business man and the persevering agriculturalist, who had earned the esteem of his integrity of his character has given him a high place in the neighbors by the integrity of his character. M’hen twenty respect of his fellow-citizens, and his labors have rewarded j

Archibald taught school about four months

filled

for

a short time, and

then for

a clerkship in a country store.

November, 1844, associated with J. C. Whittaker, he opened a general merchandise store at New I.exington, which was prosperously conducted for eight years. Mr. Huston then gave up a mercantile career and purchased a farm

in

fully in

the vicinity, and for seven years raising,

In 1859 he .sold his farm and was exceedingly fortu-

to mercantile life,

nate in

management being characterized and prudence. He was elected in the fall of

i860 .Auditor of

Peri'y

expired in 1863. ville

office

Perryton, Licking

county, Ohio.

He

identified with the early history

of the country.

His grandfather was born near

New

dis-

again with his family to Ohio, settling in Licking county in

Purchasing then a

he recommenced stock-raising,

farming.

1836, at

comes of ancestry

during his term, which

County, and most acceptably this

Member

and was related to SenSamuel L. Southard of that State. He removed from New Jersey to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where was born the father of Milton, and eventually removed

his ventures, his

charged the duties of

L, Lawyer and

of Congress, was born on the 20th of October,

engaged success-

and returned by enterprise

fortune.

^I^OUTHARD, MILTON

buying and selling stock, his transactions

being on a very extensive scale.

all

him with a handsome

In

Trenton,

Jersey,

ator

fine

farm near Zanes-

1805. f)n the mother’s side Milton

in

connection with

from the Parnells of Baltimore.

1

.

He

Southard

is

descended

obtained the elements

From 1867 to 1869 he served as Assistant of his education at the common schools of Licking county, Muskingum County, and supervised the col- and when he had reached a proper age he entered the more

Treasurer of

lection of taxes.

For

five years

he acted as superintendent

of extensive coal mines at Lick Run, near Zanesville.

He

advanced

institutions of learning,

the course of study at

and

finally

passed through

Dennison University,

at

Granville,

was one of the originators of the .Second National Bank of Ohio. He graduated from this institution in the year 1861. Zanesville, and during the greater part of its existence, a Immediately after leaving college he commenced the study

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120

He

W. Aldmann, resided, and J. where she proposed to secure for her son a thorough ark, Ohio. In the year 1863 he finished his course of legal literary and medical education. After a residence of five study with the firm mentioned and was admitted a member years in that southern capital, however, she removed to He at once prepared to enter upon the practice Covington, Kentucky. Here he made uncommon progress of the bar. of his profession, and formed a professional partnership with in the neighboring schools, and at the age of seventeen be-

of law, wliicli profession he had decided to adopt.

cluded his reading in the

Wm.

Mr.

&

office of Follett

The new

H. Ingraham.

Follett,at

con-

firm established them-

selves in practice in Toledo, under the firm-name of South-

ard

&

They continued to member

Ingraham.

until 1866,

when

Zanesville,

the leading

practise there together

removed

of the firm

where he has ever since resided.

to

Shortly after

F'rank

Southard

&

under

.Southard,

II.

The

Southard.

firm

He

came

in political affairs,

having contracted a liking

dramatic

a

young people of

respectable

for stage life, oi'gan-

composed of many

club,

the town.

of

most

the

In an entertainment

continues, and

he

organized

the shape of the duties of public office.

in

has been active

that time,

ized

Cov-

free school established in

first

This position he held for three years, and during

given by his club, in 1854, he made his first appearance as Alonzo in “ Rollo, or the Death of I’izarro.” In 1855 he

has practised without interruption, except so far as interruption

principal of the

ington.

of

the

still

came

firm-name

locating in Zanesville he formed a law partnership with his brother,

Carolina, where her brother,

New-

and has always been

a

troupe

for

rendition of “ Uncle

the

Tom’s

Cabin,” then very popular throughout the North, and with it

towns of the West.

visited the principal

After meeting

with great success he returned from his tour in 1857, and,

Democratic party. In the year 1867 he abandoning entir-ely his earlier views and intentions, was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Muskingum County. adopted the stage as a profession. Subsequently, until In 1869 he was re-elected to the same position, and was re- after the outbreak of the Southeim rebellion, he played elected a second time in 1871. While serving his third juvenile and leading chai'acters in many of the large cities term in this position he was nominated by his party to of the United States and of the Canadas. He then conrepresent the Thirteenth District of Ohio in Congress. He ceived the idea of introducing “ hoi'se pieces ” in a novel was elected at the October election of 1872, and in March, and exciting manner, and in 1862, accordingly, opened an 1873, he resigned the office of Prosecuting Attorney to lake engagement in Boston with the celebrated horse “ Minneidentified with the

his seat in the national legislature.

and

He

served with ability

distinction in the Forty-third Congress.

pointed a

member

of the

He was

ap-

Committee on Mines and Mining,

and also of the Committee on Expenditures of the Treasury

He

Department.

took an active part in the House debates

In this line of business he afterward played “star

haha.”

engagements” Albany,

New

in

the chief cities of the country.

all

York, he

first

“ Mazeppa,” and was successful oil

In

Menken as management. The

brought out the in his

fever then attacking the entire

community he

also

em-

on the currency question, and in a speech made on that

barked

issue he reviewed the President’s veto of the Senate Cur-

year as Superintendent of the Ohio River Oil Works, in

He was

also active in opposition to the Civil

and

the measure that

in the

promising venture, and after spending over a

Vanceburg, Kentucky, concluded to return to his former was popularly known profession in order to retrieve his wasted fortunes. In as the Force bill. The course taken by him during his October, 1868, he purchased the lease of the National Congressional term was so satisfactory to his constituents Theatre, in Cincinnati, paying therefor an enormous sum that he was renominated for the Forty-fourth Congress, and a greater amount probably than was ever before paid in a

rency

bill.

Rights

bill,

at the election

to

of 1S74 he was triumphantly re-elected.

of the Committee on Territories, and also a

member

Committee on Revision of Laws of the United

man

In

Chairman

the Forty-fourth Congress he has been appointed

of the

States.

A

honor public seeking

life,

and

is

in

far to find.

fitted

not only to adorn but to

ROBERT EDGAR JACKSON,

ILES,

Comedian and Manager, was born Court

His

at

four years of age,

mercantile pursuits in Virginia. of his father, his mother,

present

lessee.

city,

leased

Wood’s

but eventually sold his lease to

His management of the National until 1870, when he decided to

Theatre was sustained

still

engage son’s

in the circus business.

New

Teacher,

ation.” This, one of the largest

world, was closed

House, Virginia, September 9th, 1834. Robert Edgar Miles, whom he lost

but

the

following year he

the

Culpeper

father,

when

In

Theatre, in the same

In 1873 he opened RobinOpera House, in Cincinnati, and in the ensuing these days such men are worth year opened the New Grand Opera House, in the same In 1874-75 city, of which he is now lessee and manager. he organized the National Hippodrome, Menagerie and Congres.s of Nations, known as “America’s Racing Associ-

of integrity as well as of ability, of strong will and of

honorable purposes, he

way.

similar

was engaged

in

After the death

young and a woman of high

mental and moral culture, removed to Charleston, South

to the

in

shows ever organized

June of the

management. On

latter year,

in the

with great loss

the whole, his checkered theatrical

career has been a very successful one; while, through his various enterprises, he has repeatedly

won and

lost

and

At the present time his labors are entirely behind the scenes, where, and also in the outer world, he is recognized as a fearless, popular and successful recovered princely fortunes.

LIOGRAI’IIICAL EAXVCLOIAEDIA.

He was

manager.

ex-member of

i860, to Emily L.

married, in

Dow,

Cooper Opera Troupe,” one of the

the “

English opera troupes that came to

first

this country.

later steps

21

the musical progress of the

in

He

taken under his influence. organization of a

number of

has a reputation

he has played

“

Kammer

;

the concerts for

city

among the most among the

still

efforts,

which the

churches, and his

in the

concerts,” while they are

interesting of his professional

have been

cit)

has been concerned in the

are also

NDRE, HENRY GEORGE,

Pianist, was born in most delightful of the musical experiences enjoyed by the Nancy, France, in the year 1838. Almost from people of Cincinnati. Of course, in his devotion to music All his energy has been directed to the the first he was destined for a musical career, and he is an enthusiast. his achievements in later life have abundantly establishment of a high art reputation, and the elevation of justified

the plans formed for

He

veloped childhood.

and

family,

at

him

in his unde-

springs from a musical

a very tender age he began taking lessons on

the piano, his father, a fine musical scholar and a skilled player, being his tion

was of the

the highest this

Happily

instructor.

first

and he was trained

best,

and purest standards of

early discipline has been

progress of his professional

his

in

home

instruc-

accordance with

The

taste.

result of

constantly apparent

life.

When

in the

he was fourteen

years of age he was sent to Paris to complete his musical

He

education.

remained

in that great art centre

fora period

of seven years, under the instruction of the best and most

At the end of

distinguished pianists. study, training

turned

and

artistic discipline,

to his native

He

1S60,

He

to the

Paris

and

commenced United

His original plan contemplated only a business

him. itely

friends in Cincinnati, to

Finding a congenial determined not

manently

to return

in Cincinnati

;

which

home to

and soon

men have

for the piano,

and some of them have attained a deserved popularity. Since the establishment of the Cincinnati Conservatory of

Music

— an

which the great

institution

pronounced one of the best of the kind has been director of

piano department

its

Tsubenstein

artist

in this

country

and here,

;

— he

as else-

He

plays only classical

music, and scarcely tolerates any other.

In short, standing

where, he has achieved success.

among

the

first

musicians of the West, he

is

pre-eminently

the pianist of the great city of musical festivals.

re-

to

ROWN, ARCHIBALD GREEN,

Lawyer,

is

a

native of Ohio, and has lived in that State since

States.

He

was born, on the l6th of April, Washington county, Ohio. When he was a year old his parents removed to Athens county, and at Athens he has continued his birth.

visit to

America, and that accomplished he proposed to return to France and resume his labors as a music teacher. Put he

made

the city of his adoption.

composed, but he has composed many pieces

continued thus occupied

when he came

taste in

not only a player of the music that other

is

long course of

left

town, where he at once

give instructions in music. until the year

this

he

the standard of musical

1798, near Waterford,

city his business took

He comes

New

England

defin-

to live ever since

that time.

P'rance, but to locate per-

stock, his father.

Captain Benjamin Brown, having been

after arriving at this con-

born in Leicester, Worcester county, Massachusetts, on the

there, at length

he

of

clusion he began his musical career in America, a career

17th of October, 1745, and served through five campaigns

been l.onorable alike to himself and to the city of his adoption. His first attempts in Cincinnati were devoted

m

to the holding of musical soirees or small concerts, held for

Archibald, attended the

that has

the purpose

masters the

of introducing the

soirees

Revolutionary army.

and died

in

He removed

Athens

to

Ohio

in the year 1821.

common

in the

The

son,

school during his boyhood,

but his early educational coiu'se was not confined to his and quartos, and school studies. On his father’s farm, where his youth was solos for which he has become so famed. passed, he worked hard and many hours each day, but in were the “ Kammer concerts ” of Germany, spile of hard work the studious boy found leisure for reading

— the classical

beautiful

These

the

6arly days,

compositions of the best

sonatas, duos, trios

which only invited guests appeared. In the meantime he and study. He had early formed the purpose of acquiring also began to give instruction to private pupils. His con- a liberal education, and this purpose was his constant inspiat

certs found great favor with the music-loving community, and the annual series came to be looked for with the utmost interest; and partly through their agency his private patronage became large and infiuential. Among the pupils who

ration.

He

had

in

view

all

the time, and, in the resting

work and in the days of attendance at the district school, he worked assiduously for the fulfilment of All this hard work had its result, and by the this object. were many time he had reached the proper age to enter college he was

gained their knowledge under his instructions who are now themselves popular performers and successful

spells

of farm

prepared to do so with credit and honor. He became, in and some who are now among due time, a student in the Ohio University at Athens, and, the most honored and the most successful artistes in the after prosecuting the regular course of study there, graduated country. ith the entire history and development of with honors in the year 1822. Two years later, after teachmusical taste and accomjrlishmcnt in Cincinnati he is ing an academy in Columbus one year, in 1824, he was identified, and very many of the earlier as well as of the made Preceptor in the academical department of the univerinstructors in Cincinnati,

16

BIOGRAPHICAL EXCVCLOP/EDIA.

122 a position which he

sity,

1825 he

left

filled

one year.

for

In the year

the teacher’s chair in the university to under-

take teaching on a larger scale from the editorial tripod. In that year he

commenced

Mirror, the

paper published in the county.

first

the publication of the Athens

For the

next five years he continued his connection with that paper as editor

and publisher, a good indication

that the

new

jour-

and within a brief period after taking his seat with body assumed a prominent position among its members.

ticket, this

He served on the Committee on Public Printing and on Reform Schools, and in various ways has signalized himself by his energy, fidelity and abilities. In addition to his many

other occupations, he has for interests in a

woollen factory,

in

years past held large

a flouring mill, and also in

was at least a fair success. In the year 1827 various agricultural ventures. He is a valued member also was elected to the office of Recorder of of the State Republican Central Committee; and in all Three matters touching the welfare of his State and party is a the county, an office which he held until 1833. He was maryears before the expiration of his term of office he had ceased skilful tactician and an efficient coworker. from his journalistic labors, and his leisure time was de- ried, in September, 1851, to Rebecca Swayne, daughter of voted to the reading of law, to which profession he had de- Thomas Swayne, who died in January, 1854, leaving one nalistic venture

the

young

editor

In the year 1836 he was again

cided to devote himself.

elected to the position of County Recorder, and held the

At the expiration of

office until 1841.

He was

son.

again

married,

Evans, of Spring Valley, by

in

whom

March, 1856,

to

Mary

he has had seven children.

second term he

his

same year he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the Unibegan the practice of law

in

Athens.

In the

LEONARD A., ex-Mayor of .Cinwas born, October nth, 1824, in Cincinnati, and received his education in the common schools. He embraced every opportunity opened to him for the improvement of his mind, and be-

ARRIS, HON.

versity of Ohio, a position he has continued to hold to the

In 1850 he was a delegate to the convention

present time.

cinnati,

which framed the present Constitution of Ohio, and for a term of two years, from 1850 to 1852, was President-Judge For many years he has engaged

of the Athens District.

in

came

the practice of his profession in Athens, and in the mean-

time has been identified with

many

of the interests and en-

velopment of a

by

in time

self application

talent naturally bright a

man

and by the deof culture, the

one of the

scope of whose learning comprehended more than the Eng-

& Cincinnati Railroad Comcompany; he held stock in the first telegraph line through the county and he was a stockholder in the Athens branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and afterwards in the National Bank of Athens. Judge Brown has been twice married. He was first married to Priscilla K. Crippen, on the 8th of January, 1824. She died on the 3d of June, 1858, and he married again, on the 22d of

lish branches of instruction. Upon the firing by the rebels on Sumter he raised a company of volunteers, of which he

March, 1866, Harriet B. Stewart.

served so commendably in the estimation of President Lin-

terprises in

his section

stockholders

pany

ifi

He was

of the State.

the Marietta

until the failure of the

;

became Captain, and tendered his services to the government. These were readily accepted, and the organization was attached

to the

2d Ohio Infantry.

early sent to the front,

Bull

Run.

and participated

Captain Harris

self for gallantry

first

battle of

the action distinguished him-

in

and coolness

The regiment was in the

in the face of the

enemy, and

coln that he was authorized by the Chief Executive to raise

He

a regiment in Ohio.

set

about this task with so

energy that within one month the

ARRETT,

HON. ISAAC

M., Merchant and

Manufacturer, Representative in

the

Sixty-first

General Assembly of Ohio from Greene county,

was born

in

Mahala

Saratoga county.

New

York,

May

His parents were George Barrett and

2d, 1827.

(Merritt)

Barrett.

His education was

acquired partly in the Ohio Wesleyan University, but he did

He engaged

not graduate from this institution. in

mercantile business

at

which he continued

at

subsequently

Spring Valley, Greene county, Ohio, for a period of

about

fifteen years.

ranks was ready for the

eastern

division of the

ville

In 1862 he

Abraham Lincoln Assessor

of Internal

and served

in that

had been driven out of and was assigned to Rousseau’s

the rebels

State,

Buell.

When

General

his forces to prevent the capture of Louis-

by General Bragg, Colonel Harris with the 33d Ohio

occupied Fort Fisher,

the

at

mouth of

Battle

creek, Ten-

nessee, the extreme outpost on Buell’s right flank. position until nearly

After an

attack

burned

all

which

Fie held

surrounded by Bragg’s forces.

lasted

all

day, he

evacuated the

the stores that could not be transported,

was appointed by and united with the army at Decherd, Tennessee, without Revenue for the the loss of a man taken iirisoner. General Buell was well capacity until 1866. satisfied with the conduct of Colonel Harris and his com-

highly remunerative nature.

District,

after

army under General

was massing

Buell

fort,

In 1873 he was elected to the

Kentucky

that portion of the

relations with these businesses are

Columbus

full

Colonel of the

2d Ohio Infantry, and made an honorable record up to the This regiment was withdrawn from

this

of an extended and

He became

field.

much

with

time of his disability.

Also during those years he became importantly identified with the grain trade and the pork-packing business, and his still

new command

House on

the Republican

mand.

Colonel Harris

commanded

the 9th Brigade in the

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCL 0 P.^:DIA. This brigade was

action at Perryville, October 8lh, 1S62.

re-elected to the Mayoralty by a largely increased majority,

and continued while

33d and 94tb Ohio, the 3 Stl' Indiana, lolh Wisconsin and Captain Simonson’s 5th InThat this was a bloody and stubbornlydiana Battery.

composed of the

2d, the

contested fight the casualties of the 9th Brigade will

commissioned commissioned

officers officers

killed,

show

which

field after

and recommended

The United

for the

pointed by the Court of cinnati Hospital,

He

Mayor.

Common

and continues

Pleas Trustee of the Cin-

President of the Cuvier Club, an organization having

is

its

its

members

he was placed in nomination for the Mayoralty of Cincin-

ology and the natural sciences generally.

in April, 1863,

was elected His

by about one thousand majority. officer

He

was soon apparent.

to that imiiortant office ability as

is

object not only the cultivation of sociability

now

in the

advancement of

but the

prime of

life,

amongst

pisciculture, ornith-

Colonel Harris

possessed of vigorous physical as

well as quick mental faculties, and gives promise of

an executive

took every step to see that

the laws governing the municipality

once tendered

at

to serve in that capacity.

for

and

Ohio

In 1873

would have been done had not his health compelled his resignation. L’pon his return home, the latter part of 1862, nati,

First

States Senate confirmed the appoint-

his resignation of the office of

and courage, promotion, which

and

his character

ment, which Colonel Harris accepted, and

the fight for his skill

in his official report for

deserve the high esteem

had formed of

In August, 1866, he was appointed by President

District.

The Colonel was complimented by General

Rousseau on the

office to

Johnson Collector of Internal Revenue

:

wounded, ten; nonkilled, one hundred and

twenty-four; wounded, four hundred and twelve; missing, forty-one.

in

fellow-citizens

his

ability.

four;

and privates

123

greater usefulness to the

still

community which has already so

were enforced; exerted greatly honored him.

every measure for the securing in a greater degree the peace

and

tranquillity of the citizens

by the speedy arrest and prose-

OHNSTON, COLONEL JOHN,

cution of criminals; and using every influence which he

could

command

to

1775, and

welfare of the community which had honored him with the highest gift within

its

prerogative.

the law for the enlistment of “ one

which Ohio sent over

He became also

thousand volunteers

He was

the Cincinnati

families, emigrated

He

at

March,

His

father,

brothers, each

Stephen

having large

from the north of Ireland

after

Trustee of

adopted every measure of

Scotland into-Ireland with the Protestant King William, and

the close of the

its

enlist-

being

precaution and authority to secure a fair expression of the

popular will

American

of

country with his parents

ten years of age.

Johnston, with his

to the field.

the term of

this jieriod, in addition.

Hospital.

to this

and settled in Shearman’s Valley, in the then county of Cumberland (now Perry county), Pennsylvania. His paternal ancestors came from

commanded during

during

came

when about

drafted

hundred day men,” under

Colonel of the 7th Regiment Ohio National

Guards, which he ment.

thirty

As Mayor he

was born near

Ballyshannon, Ireland, on the 25th

increase the m.aterial as well as moral

the polls, and this effort

officers w'ere

in the

was properly recog-

revolution,

rew'arded with estates near Enniskillen,

county of Fermanagh; and his maternal ancestors,

nized in the following resolutions, adopted at a meeting of

named Barnard, were

the leading citizens, held October 13th, 1803:

France

for

Huguenots,

who

fled

from

conscience sake and took refuge in Ireland.

His

of the

early years rvere spent at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the mer-

Resolved, That the perfect preservation of the peace of the by its civil authorities, through the most exciting political contest ever known in this community, is largely due to the

cantile

city

establishment of Judge John

Creigh

— that

place

being the rendezvous of troops enlisted for the war with the

Western Indians. In his seventeenth year he accompanied Samuel Creigh to the West, as an attache of the Quartermaster's department of General Wayne’s army, with a stock of goods for the troops, travelling the whole distance to insured public confidence in the management of his department on the day of the recent election in maintaining order Pittsburgh on foot, in company with wagons loaded with and (juiet, proved his capacity and integrity as a man and army supplies and private property. Pittsburgh at that time, official, and has the unreserved approbation of his fellow1792, was a small unimportant place, without a single brick citizens. building, and consisted of a string of log-houses along the Resolved, That a testimonial of our appreciation of the In January, 1793, he first credit which he has reflected upon the good name of the bank of the Monongahela river. city shall be presented him. came to Fort Washington, descending the Ohio river to impartiality .and

ability with which the Mayor, Colonel Leonard A. Harris, has discharged the duties of his office. Resolved, That his instructions to the police force, relating to their deportment in ])olilical affairs during the canv.ass,

Cincinnati

His messages

good

to the

were instruments of business-like manner. He

City Council

sense, presented in a clear,

husband,

and earnestly advocated the building of a workhouse and hospital, both of which have since been accom-

He

institutions,

They

In 1865 he was

whom

three

flatboat

loaded with

men, himself and one

at

Bourbon Court House (now

Kentucky, having an uncle

at th.at

time a resident of

While there he formed the acf|uaintance of Daniel Boone, who was at that time eng.ige{l in tracing u|)

that county. |

they found on their arrival at Gallipolis.

spent the winter 1794-95

Paris),

are conspicuous ornaments of the city, with

largely increa.sed capacity for doing good.

manned with

female passenger, a P'rench lady from Paris in quest of her

zealously engaged in promoting the interest of municipal

plished.

on a common Kentucky

merchandise,

BIOGRAFIIICAL ENCVCLOP.EDIA.

124 land-lines

and

titles,

and many years afterwards, upon the

Governor of Kentucky, he acted as

invitation of the

pall-

makes an his

him

allusion to the circumstances witnessed by

“ Notes on America.”

Colonel Johnston was

a.

in

firm

Whig, of the Federal cast of political sentiments, and an inwhich had been recently removed from Missouri. timate personal friend of General Harrison, Lewis Cass, Colonel Johnston also while at Bourbon Court House was Charles Hammond, Alfred Kelly, and other prominent men made a Mason in a lodge working under authority of the identified with the early development of the West. In 1844 bearer at the reinterment of the remains of Boone and his wife,

— the

Grand Lodge of Kentucky Soon after being made a Mason he returned to Philadelphia and was for some years in the employ of the government in the war office, of which General Henry Dearborn, United States army, was chief. He freGrand Lodge of Virginia

being not yet organized.

quently saw the father of his country, heard him deliver his last

address to

public

life

;

Congress previous

and was an

Church, and during

he adhered most fervently

He was

and

also

in the funeral solemnities

work.

in all

fifteen

With

beloved wife he established and

his

Sabbath-school

first

Miami county, Ohio, and

in

things endeavored to raise

children

in

the

cherished so dearly.

faith

up

their large family of

and hopes they themselves

Appreciating the inestimable benefits

Not long of a thorough education, he took an

in the winter of iSoo.

to the

one of the founders of the

Episcopal Church in Ohio, being early associated with the

;

and participated

Clay”

venerable pioneer, Bishop Chase, in that primitive and r-pos-

upon the occasion of the inauguration of John Adams and also as Secretary of a Masonic lodge in Philadelphia marched

Washington

of “ Harry

from

taught the

of

life

religion of his fathers.

tolic

memory

in the interest

Balti-

horse-

His ancestors were of the Episcopal

along the route.

of Washington’s retirement from the Presidency;

in

Whig Convention held in way from his home at Piqua on

to the

made speeches

back, and

delegated by the Governor of Pennsylvania on the occasion

in the jnocession

the

all

honor

to his retirement

officer of the military escort of

he was a delegate

more, riding

active interest in the

same year, the subject of this establishment of Kenyon College, at Gambler, Ohio, of sketch returned to the West, where he was employed under which he was one of the first Board of Trustees, and also General Harrison in the superintendency of Indian affairs, occupied a similar official position in connection with Miami He was President of the Hishaving been commissioned by President Madison as Agent; College, at Oxford, Ohio. and in this capacity was charged with the control and care torical and Philosophical Society of Ohio a member of afterwards, in or about the

;

Society of Wisconsin

of the Antiquarian'

of 10,000 Indians, including the Miamies, Delawares, .Shaw-

the

anese, Wyandottes, Pottawattamies, Chippewas,Ottawas, Sen-

Society of Massachusetts, and identified with similar asso-

Historical

;

some Kickapoos, Saukees and Kaskaskias, among ciations in other States; and was, by appointment of James whom Bucking Chilas, Little Turtle, Black Hoof and John Buchanan, President, one of the Board of Visitors to West were the influential chiefs. Previous to coming West in Point in 1859. Two of his sons were distinguished officers Cajitain A. R. Johnston, a 1800, Colonel Johnston had received the chapter and en- in the United States service campment degrees in Masonry at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, graduate of the Military Academy, being killed in the battle and during life continued to take a prominent part as a of San Pasquales during the Mexican war, and St. Stephen member of that fraternal order. During the war of 1812 Johnston, having died soon after that war, and having served he was connected with the army under General William most honorably in our navy. Colonel Johnston was six feet H. H arrison, and afterwards remained on the frontier as two inches in height, erect in form, and with an aspect of United States Factor or Indian Agent for many years, and venerable dignity that commands respect, and with a kinddischarged all his public rluties to the satisfaction of the ness and gentleness of manner which win the regard of all. government and tribes under his charge, but was removed He died in Washington City on the 8th day of February, from office by that uncompromising Democratic hero, An- 1861, at the dawn of our great and memorable rebellion, in drew Jackson, upon his accession to the Presidency in 1829, the eighty-sixth year of his age, possessing his physical and ecas,

—

1

simply because of a difference in political predilections.

Phus ended the

tirit

period

denizens of the forest

in his official

authority over the

mental vigor

in a

remarkable degree

to

almost the day of-

his death.

but afterwards in 1841-42, by appointment of General Harrison, then President, he was in;

trusted with the negotiations for a treaty of cession

gration of the Wyandottes,

“the

last

and emi-

of the native tribes of

Ohio,”

for their removal beyond the Missi.ssippi and in the consummation of this important and responsible matter, which occurred at Upper Sandusky, in this State, he com-

IRBV,

my

TIMOTHY.

case that

in the

first

I

There

is

so

little

have a preference

jicrson, so

that

to

be said

to say

it

in

myself,

any inaccuracies

may

;

pleted the entire

arrangements so faithfully as

to

win the

rest

only upon myself.

I

was born

in

Middle-

town, Connecticut, November i6th, 1797, and left there in May, 1803, with my father and family,

commendation of not only our government but red men, and lived in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, until 1815, about to leave the hunting-grounds to which they except a few months in Springfield. About 1812 I went had become ardently attached. Charles Dickens, the cele- into the Hunt & Co. factory, below Stockbridge, with many brated English novelist, being present on this occasion, other farmer boys, to learn to make wool into cloth, at the

who were

—

BIOGRAPHICAL EXCYCLOIA-EDIA. my

pay of six dollars a month and

we worked up one

lect that ill

My

a British ship.

ticularly to acquire

me

cloth, led

had deserters a

in the processes.

recol-

I

my

business, as well as

his

in

ployes in his business in Ohio and Kentucky.

law

to the study of chemistry to a limited extent.

I

could, for several

I

had many older and more experienced em-

years, but he

trade generally, and par-

in that

and had made and spent a great deal of money.

aided him

coloring and finishing broad-

in

and other business

vast deal of surveying, locating

district,

cargo of Spanish wool captured

zeal for

skill

We

board.

from the British army to instruct us

125

I

studied

Joseph S. Benham, and was admitted by

in the office of

Supreme Court at the May term, 1827, Brown county, I was then trying the land suit of Anthony vs. Henry Avery, of Connectim.achine in the factory. Part of the night and leisure time Kirby, in which I succeeded. cut, was a friend of mine from the year 1S19; I was long his I devoted to reading books from a library to which I had Novels I did not read, because there were none to agent, and managed his affairs in his absence, and we had a access. I

copying out technical terms and definitions to

recollect

me

have before

speak of

day within

at that

and

my

I

employed

believing

near

In a Springfield factory

land partnership.

people residing

more

I

was

and earned money

Pittsfield,

Academy

In the early spring of 1816

I

put what

to a late

States

gave

Bank of the United Land Agent at their Cin-

In 1828 the

period.

me

the appointment of

which agency was

Jones from 1820

for

and about Philadelphia, extending on

when

W. Herman

charge of George

in

and then transferred

to 1830,

to

pay the ex-

Cope from 1830

to

the winter of 1815.

The agency grew

out of the old Cincinnati branch of 1817

to

my my

then considered

I

down

have done a great deal of business

I

in

cinnati agency,

to con-

could do better, was employed in

I

pense of attending the Lenox

big

Ohio, where

It

a month, was offered

at eight dollars

factories

the

a

me

This reading to

control.

to the sports of the boys.

crowds and entertainments. tinue, but

memory when running

to

was very agreehave always had a preference to keep out of

was preferable able,

commit

to

volume of chaptals, chemistry and geology,

in

1836,

to 1820, the assets of

which run

I

was

aiipointed Agent.

into real estate, wild lands,

judgments and mortgages, and which kept on growing by

the head of the Ohio river, accumulations and by further investments down to 1830. making some money by aiding After which the process of realizing and remitting went on the lumbermen, but finding no employment at my trade, until closed up under the subsequent trusts, and I being the which ought to have been in a great state of activity if Con- Manager from 1836 to the final close, with the full approbagress had stood by the factories., as should have been done tion of all the boards and officers I had to do with. I ought

knapsack, and went direct

and down

it

for

to Cincinnati,

I

j

j

at the close

But the policy of a vast

British war.

of the

to

have been

a geologist

import trade has prevailed ever since, cutting off working

as time permitted,

people from the manufacturing employments they are en-

less,

titled to in

in

my

small way, on that policy, as

ever since. that

every well-regulated country.

The import

cannot be shaken

trade off.

and

I

have made war,

had good

I

right to do,

an incubus upon the people

is

Hard times

thing else except the import trade.

matter because

I

will curtail every-

dwell a

I

little

regret the general prejudices of the people

ing no work at

my

taught a school

at

I

this

trade,

I

thing

the

to Cincinnati,

profited by his earnest

As

dead languages.

air,

surface.

and became a student

and learned attention

From

to us.

the Cincinnati College

In the

fall

I

His time

I

went

into

found more desiralde em-

of 1818, before

I

ended

my

minority,

General Lytle was one of the best of men, and

one of the half dozen deputy surveyors

principal surveyor that district, lying Little

be the

to

is,

first

during

all

past time,

making the

One who announced

earth habitable,

arrangement of the earth’s

for the present

Timotiiy Kiruy.

[Died 1874.]

and recorder of

Richard C. Anderson, entries

between the three

Miami. The

Gener.-'.l

for the military

and surveys

rivers,

in

Ohio, Scioto

had done, from 1790 down.

D., Physician,

Wilkersville, Meigs county, Ohio,

and

quite a boy,

where James McClure he reached manhood.

He

also of Ohio.

in

in

24lh, 1835.

to this

Slate

Meigs county,

lived with his parents until

His mother was a native

received a classical education at Ohio

University, in Athens,

came some

settled

was born

May

His father was a farmer, who came

when

in

Anthony and Kirby. Dr. to our little class, and we

lands in Ohio appointed by Colonel

and

that

cCLURE, JAMES, M.

said, find-

entered the service of General William Lytle as a land

w.vs

and

prog-

and parties I

principally devoted to large classes of students in the

a crowded private school until

I

claim,

and accounting

Eaton, Ohio, for three-quarters of a year.

went back

Slack was particularly attentive

surveyor.

I

much

this great science.

the theoiy of north and south currents in the water and in

went back into the country, and

Slack, in a class of three, Vance,

])loyment.

keeping up with

j

the Cincinnati College, under the tuition of the Rev. Elijah

was

in

interest in the science,

beginning, without

its

have so long been a zealot on the subject,

against a suitable diversity of employments.

Thence

on

however,

have taken

I

;

froiri

and upon

his leaving the college be-

a teacher in the public schools of Meigs county for time.

Being of a very studious turn of mind, and

having a great

taste for

reading with Dr. S.

medicine, he engaged in

Day

its

study,

of Harrisonvillc, and afterwards

attending a course of lectures during the winter of i860 and 1861.

He

then resumed and practised medicine in Albany,

Athens county, Ohio,

until

the

fall

of 1863,

when he

re-

turned to Starling Medical College and completed his course of study, and graduated in the S|)ring of 1864. 1864, he entered the

Ohio Volunteer

army

Infantry,

as Assistant

In

May,

Surgeon of the 23d

and was attached

to the

Army

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPH£DIA.

126 of

West

and participated

Virginia,

Cedar Creek,

He He

engagements. August, 1865.

and engaged

was mustered out with then returned to his

his regiment, in

death had, however, not been the direct result of the operation,

home

and though frowned upon

in

Albany

the practice of his profession, continuing

in

there until the

Opequan, unwarrantable on the part of a“ country surgeon,” while the and many other minor medical journals refused to report the case. The woman’s

in the fights of

Berryville, Fisher’s Hill,

fall

of 1871,

when he moved

Ma-

finally to

and practice

in his studies

in

many

quarters, he persevered

until a brilliant success dissipated

entirely the clouds of prejudice.

To-day, his reputation as

and there resumed practice, in which he is now en- an ovariotomist is co-extensive with the circulation of medgaged. He afterwards became associated in partnership ical literature, while his practice extends throughout the with Dr. Samuel Hart, and with him now enjoys a large central and western portion of the United States. Down to rietta,

and to

He

lucrative practice.

Sarah

was married

October, 1866,

in

Greene, of Newport, Washington county, Ohio.

J.

the present time he has performed nearly one hundred oper-

and has reported the subject ably and exhaustively.

ations,

In eighty per cent, of his cases, he has met with complete success

—a

may be awarded

higher estimate than

any

to

other American or European ovariotomist, with but a singl.e

'UNLAP, ALEX.ANDER, was born

in

He

1815.

Brown

Physician and Surgeon,

county, Ohio, January I2lh,

William Dunlap and

the son of

is

Mary (Shepherd) Dunlap, both

His father, a farmer, was one of the pio-

ginia.

moved with

neers of Ohio, having

Kentucky 1796 State

former State,

six years before

He

founders.

years of his

from

freshman and sophomore

the

at

life

in

admission as a

members were probably

its

passed the

college

its

His mother’s family came

Union.

into the

Shepherdstown, of which place the

his parents to

1782 or thereabout, and thence removed

in

to the

natives of Vir-

University of Ohio, in

He

exception.

has outlived denunciation, and in

He

then

He

Society.

Council for lately

the

has also been

made one

of the Judicial

American Medical Association.

been appointed

to

a professorship in

He

Medical College of Columbus, Ohio. natural proclivity for surgery,

the

He

has

Starling

has a strong

which early developed

itself,

and which has been cultivated by close reading and an extensive and varied practice. In “ Gross’s Svstem of ii., he is reported, under the heading “ Lithotomy,” as “ having successfully removed a stone weighing

Surgery,” vol.

twenty ounces,” at the Miami Unicommenced the study person. Also in

of medicine under the instructions of his brother at Green-

re-

pliment of an election to the Presidency of the Ohio Medical

Athens, and his junior and senior years versity, graduating in 1836.

1S68

ceived from the faculty of the State of Ohio the signal com-

the largest this

been very extensive.

ever removed from a living

branch of surgery

Among

his practice has

cases, he has removed the under-jaw, once ligated the comCincinnati Medical College, where he graduated in 1839. mon carotid artery, and once removed the clavicle. He Subsequently associating himself in practice with his bro- was married March 27th, 1839, to Maria Elizabeth Bell, of Highland county, Ohio, by whom he has had three chilther, he continued to reside in Greenfield until 1846, when he removed to Ripley, Brown county, where he was en- dren two sons, one of whom died in childhood the other, gaged in professional labors until 1856. Later he established Charles W. Dunlap, is now associated with him in his professional practice; and a daughter, Mary I-Ilizabeth Dunlap, his office in Springfield, where he still resides. In 1843 came into collision with the fraternity by venturing to remove who was married to William Hamilton, of Springfield.

Highland county, and attended lectures

field,

at the old

exceptional

three times

:

;

an

ov.rrian tumor.

formed,

in a

Although

operation had been per-

this

few cases, as early as 1809, with some success, by

E[)hraim M’Dowell, of Kentucky,

it

had been denounced by

^HACKER, JOHN

the profession and characterized as unjustifiable butchery, and

more than thirty years had been abandoned as an element of medical and surgical art. In the various publications there

was nothing but a brief notice of

the condemnation of the faculty.

performed the operation

summer

in the

tion,

he, not then

jiractitioners,

M’ Dowell’s patient,

finally

after Atlee’s opera-

having heard of the cases of those two traditional report of

apprised of the risk, to undertake the

Surrounded by a few country physicians, he

undertook

the

case,

forty-five

A

few weeks

and the operation was denounced

later the

as altogether

D., Editor of the Medi-

at a point

about twenty ist,

1S33.

John Thacker, was also a physician, whose father moved to Ohio from the State of His

New Vork

father,

at

an early date.

exists a family record

fathers

stances.

On

the paternal side there

which dates back

to 1750.

were highly respectable farmers

On

in

His

fore-

easy circum-

the maternal side the family history extends to

many years the revolt of the colonies, who came from England, and purchased

a period preceding for to a

Mr. Gardner,

and removed successfully a the island

pounds.

M.

Clermont county, Ohio,

and Atlee, of Philadelphia,

months

A.,

born in the village of Goshen,

miles distant from Cincinnati, January

and

case, ventured, at the earnest solicitation of the

tumor weighing patient died,

Two

failure,

Clay, of England, had

and following only the

who was

operation.

in 1842,

of 1843.

its

Nc 7vs, was

cal

for

Island.”

in

Long

Island Sound

known

as “ Gardner’s

His maternal grandmother, whose maiden name

was Lucretia

Willis,

was a cousin of the wife of General

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOILLDIA. In his earlier clays he

Greene,- of Revolutionary celebrity.

common

attended the

schools of his village, and also the

On

^Vittenberg College, of Springfield, Ohio.

the comple-

tion of his general literary education, he commenced the study of medicine under the preceplorship of a second cousin. Dr. Townsend Thacker, of Goshen, Ohio, and

March

number

College.

the reception of his diploma, he, with

The day succeeding a

Miami Medical

1856, graduated at the

1st,

was examined

of other competitors,

order to

an important position in the

for

ascertain his fitness

in

St.

John’s Hospital, of Cincinnati, now known as the Good Samaritan Hospital. On this occasion he was one of the

two

His stay

succe.ssful candidates.

in the hospital

was, how-

Anatomy

the Chair of

and

icine

127

Surgery,

his

In the

tastes.

same and

whose

in

months he resigned

his position in

on the practice of medicine in Cincinnati, where he has While engaged in the .Vsyluin, although since resided. nominally the assistant physician, the superintendence of the entire establishment

devolved on him, the nominal superin-

tendent not residing on the premises, and visiting the house but a few times per w'eek, his

from a half hour

averaging

of Medicine of Cincinnati, and prepared

He

publication in the medical journalsi

and has contributed extensively

W.

Hammond, M.

.A.

many

to

became Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, vice Dr. B. .S. Lawson, resigned, and has since occupied

He

that chair.

has also devoted his attention closely and

persistently to microscopy,

and has probably the greatest

interesting

in

makers throughout the

He

the United States.

possesses also a very large and rich cabinet of microscopic objects,

and the Medical

News

contains a microscopic de-

partment (a need met by no other journal to

in the country),

which many of the most distinguished microscopists con-

tribute.

He

societies, in

is

an honorary

member

of several microscopic

Memphis, San Francisco,

and

etc.,

member

a

is

also of various medical societies.

duration

is

to

D., he

month,

AY, GILBERT OTIS,

Qiiartei'Iy

published in articles

at

its

columns

subjects

of

much

Deaf and Dumb Columbus, was born November 8th, 1834, at

Wadsworth, Medina county, Ohio. belonged

yoitrnal

the

to

His father

profession,

clerical

and,

as

well as his mother, descended from a long line

by Professor

on

Superintendent of the Ohio

Institution for the education of the

for

a ready writer,

New Yotk, edited

and valuable

Academy,

Several of those contributions attracted

Psychology.

lenses of eminent

of fine

both literary and medical

During the existence of the

of Psychological Medicine, of

expended much time and

cultivation he has

In 1871, upon a reorganization of the faculty, he

attention.

proceedings,

its

embodying lengthy discussions from month

journals.

in

the

in

to his taste,

During the early period of

for a time as Secretary of the

he acted

his practice

visits

an hour.

to

Mind

branch of science congenial

institution, a

world of any private individual

At the expiration of ten the a.syluin, and entered

Alpro-

its

was made

of 1867 he

fall

Professor of Psychology and Diseases of the

Physician to the Himilton County Lunatic Asylum, he to that institution.

two terms.

fessorship in consequence of the chair not being in accord-

ance with

number

once removed

through

though he taught anatomy acceptably, he resigned

ever, of limited duration, for, receiving the appointment of at

Med-

the Cincinnati College of

in

lecturing

of sturdy Massachusetts yeomanry.

They

left

that State at

the time of the early western emigration, and he soon

victim to the malarial diseases of a

new

State.

fell

The

a

care

and received highly eulogistic notices from the and training of Gilbert, his only son, devolved upon the of them afterward appearing in an English mother, and to his education she devoted her time and He has also been a contributor to the London energy, supporting herself and him by her own manual Quarterly. attention,

press

—one

Lancet; and

London,

in the

Monthly AFicroscopical yournal of

for .April, 1875, is a

lengthy article written by him,

copied from the journal which

Cincitmati Medical

Xe-uos,

he

at

present

the

edits,

rn the performance of micro-

labor,

and reserving

his

slender patrimony for future use.

The childhood and youth native village.

of Mr.

His attendance

at

Fay were spent

in

her

school was limited to

the winter sessions, but by application

and under the guid-

During the years 1861- ance of his mother, he managed to acquire a substantial 62, he edited the Cincinnati Medical and Surgical News, knowledge of the English branches of study with thoroughand in 1868 was made editor of the Medical Repertory, ness and rapidity. As he advanced to manhood, the w'ellwhich journal he continues to edit, its name having been husbanded patrimony and his mother’s self-denial secured scopic leases of various powers.

changed

to

the

Medical Ncsus.

His vigorous

him increased

editorial

to

down

education.

He

for obtaining a

facilities

comprehensive

Academy, monopoly of the Cincinnati Hospital by a Yale College, and Andover .Seminary, and obtained in this medical college, and was the cause, in a great meas- prolonged course of study a refined, classical, and yet a

writings contributed importantly to the

breaking

of

attended

successively

Phillips

the almost entire single

ure, of the establishment

by the trustees of the institution

of a rule by which college professors were rendered incapable of holding a position

was

the

regular

first

time

in

upon the hospital

And

the history of the hospital that

medical colleges enjoyed

on an equal

staff.

footing.

its

clinical

all

this

the

advantages

During the years 1863-64 he held

thoroughly practical culture. in the

much

institution

He became

success under his charge.

as superintendent,

and had the

The attendance

ith

so

In 1866 he was appointed satisfaction

the completion of the new’ building and

1868.

a teacher in 1862

which has since been conducted w

its

of witnessing

occupation in

in the school has increased

from one

—

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOIVEDIA.

I2S

and fifty to four hundred, and the most gratifying have been achieved by the methods of teaching

luintlred

graduated

results

entering that institution, the subject of the

adopted and carried out by Mr. Fay, self

has proven him-

eminently qualified for the exercise of his responsible

The

duties as superintendent.

public schools, while

and

rotaiy in

is

domestic

its

ized by comfort, health

use

intellectual life of the insti-

been drawn more nearly parallel with that of the

tution has

in

who

its

has been character-

and economy. The industrial system method, and is judiciously arranged Mr. Fay has earned a high

carried out.

efficiently

life

reputation for his skill in the exceedingly difficult as well as exceedingly delicate

youth

who

work of

instructing the unfortunate

are incapable of speech and

which he

hearing, and has

connected

to a lead-

ing position for success in teaching deaf mutes.

He was

raised the institution with

is

married to Adelia C. Allen, of Leominster, August 25th, 1S63, ried

who

Mary

died

in

On

1867.

April

14th

1868, he mar-

Jarvis, of Massillon, Ohio.

J.

American

in 1833,

with the degree of A. B.

Shortly after abolition of

which had been advocated by Lundy in a paper. The Genius of Emancipalioii, for a time published by him in Baltimore, and afterwards revived or continued slavery,

by Garrison

paper, Ihe Liberator, at Boston, in

in a small

1830 (and some numbers of which had been sent to the faculty), had been introduced into the college by the president of the college, Charles B. Storrs, and Professors Eliezer

Wright and Beriah Green, men of eminent

ability,

approv-

ing and advocating the immediate abolition of slavery. trustees

and other members of the

views, with most of the students.

The

earnestly approved.

The

faculty opposed these Sutliff

and a few others

opposition and prejudice by the

opponents to abolition, as then termed, on the part of the trustees of the

time, 1833,

college and the public generally, at that had become so intense that the president and

those professors resigned their places rather than compro-

mise their sentiments.

Lfpon the

commencement

occasion

few anti-slavery men then present formed an

of 1833, the

Anti-slavery Association, with the special object to dissemi-

UTI.IFF,

HON. MILTON, Lawyer

and ex-Chief-

nate intelligence, and enlist an interest in the anti-slavery

was born, October subject throughout the Reserve. Sutliff, who, by his knowlHe is a edge of law, and experience in discussing the question in Samuel and Ruth (Granger) Sut- debates with other students, had, for some time, been thus

Justice of the State of Ohio, i6th, 1806, in

son of the lifif,

Trumbull county, Ohio.

late

who removed

to

western

New York

from

Connecticut, and from thence to the Western Re1S04, and settled on a farm in Trumbull county.

serve in

His Other was a firmer of intelligence and limited education, but

understood surveying and had taught school.

His

mother was a cousin of Gideon Granger, Postmaster-General under Jefferson. tion

were very

memory and

Though

her early opportunities for educa-

limited, she

was a woman of remarkable Her character was marked

extensive reading.

by a devout piety and great resolution.

Her

father

fell

in

the war for independence, and her husband also had been a soldier in the

They had

same

cause,

when only a boy

six children, all sons, four of

of sixteen.

whom became

law-

regarded by the faculty and students as a

vei-y logical

and

able advocate, volunteered his services to disseminate intelligence by lectures and publications on the subject of slavery

throughout

all

the counties on the Reserve.

His

offer

was

gladly accepted by the Association, but they had no funds,

and

Sutlifif

He, however, borrowed money,

was then poor.

and proceeded

to

redeem

his pledge, without loss of time

a notable exception to the saying, “

any time

at

own

his

charges

?

”

Who The

goeth a warfare at

task undertaken re-

quired not only ability, with candor and courage, but a patient perseverance.

The

undertaking, supposed

but a few weeks, required very unexpectedly a its

During

completion.

time

that

Sutliff,

to require

full

year for

journeying on

and achieved distinction in their profession. The horseback, effected anti-slavery organizations throughout means of his parents being limited. Judge Sutlifif received every county on the Reserve, attended with other pioneers his early education in the district school, and by private in- at Philadelphia, in December, 1833, to form the National yers,

struction

from a clergyman

in

the vicinity, from

whom

he

Anti-slavery Society, and being appointed

liy

that society,

acquired some knowledge of mathematics and the classical

debated the relative merits of the Anti-slavery and Coloniz-

languages, paying for his tuition by manual labor. When he was seventeen years old, he taught a private school in

ation

Ohio, and after a few years went to the Southern States to

and lectured on the subject

Societies

with the

Anniversary held

late

Walter P'orward before the

at Pittsburgh, at

Pennsylvania,

in

May, 1834,

Cannonsburgh and Washing-

and teaching for a time in ^^lssissippi and ton Colleges, and discussed the merits of the subject for While teaching there, at his leisure hours he some days with the faculty of Washington College in that continued his reading law, which he had before commenced. State, the college exercises being suspended by the faculty His friends there offered favorable inducements to him for for that purpose. He, at an expense of a year’s time and a permanent residence in that sunny clime, but his northern $200 and up, and expenses, without asking or receiving Then he education and settled aversion to the institution of slavery, any remuneration, completed his undertaking. and a desire to perfect his education, induced him to re- obtained admittance to the bar, in 1834, and at once settled Upon his return he entered Western Reserve at Warren, and engaged in the practice of his profession. turn to Ohio. teach, remaining

Louisiana.

College in

1830, recited

in

two

classes the

first

year,

and

The

battle

for

freedom was afterwards continued, with

BIOGRAPHICAL E^’CVCLOIVEDIA. Chase and Giddings and Wade, and other contemporaries, of quired

The

Ohio, in the vanguard.

came

great triumph

at last, but

by the

to return

-9

home,

order to undergo an examination

in

War Department

with a view to entering the army.

this is not the place for its history.

This, however, he evaded by purchasing a substitute, re-

in the fight until victory

ceiving his exemption pajiers,

Judge Sutlifif continued crowned the gallant host, but the

press of a large professional business, and an indisposition

towards a

political life,

made

his

name

less

conspicuous than

He was

others towards the close of the struggle. to the

Ohio Legislature

in 1S49,

and the Free

elected

.Soil

party,

which party held the balance of power in the Assembly, secured the election of Salmon P. Chase to the United .States

Senate.

1850 he was

In

elected

the

to

upper

house of the Legislature, and the same potent balance of

power compassed the senatorship.

t.aking his seat in

during the

election of

Wade

to the

last

He

February, 1858.

United

served

of which he w.as Chief Justice.

resumed the practice of

and

his profession,

.States

Supreme Bench,

In 1S57 he was elected to the

five years,

In

1863 he

1S72 was

in

nomin.ated for Congress by the Liberal Repuldican party,

but with the Greeley ticket he was alike defeated.

He

now

good

in

health,

his

and

si.xty-ninth

year,

in

the enjoyment of

continues the practice of his profession.

still

is

which he followed the principal

for

Having more than

cities.

undergo

his

final

to

engaging

to his

on his own account. This examination was a and was conducted by a committee of five master-

workmen,

all

in business

practical tailors, duly appointed for that pur-

He

pose, to ascertain his proficiency in his calling.

required to take the

having been ascertained

own

to

hands, being

This process

make

to

the garments with

times under the care and guar-

at all

who

dianship of one of the committee

never

him

to

lost sight of

The

during the entire period of his ordeal. to the

suit

entire satisfaction of the committee,

In 1849

business.

was and

due form, which au-

certificate in

commence

was

complete

for a

be correct, he was required to

and subsequently

cut the cloth, his

measure of a man

full

of clothes, coat, vest, and pantaloons.

suit

larly

Manufacturer,

iji

the

fulfilled

rigid one,

completed

21st, 1821, in the Electorate

travel,

he returned home

examination preparatory

he thereupon received his

was born November

his pedestrian

eight years more, traveliing through

travelling requirements of the country,

thorized

ECK, WILLIAM, Merchant and

and being released from

then resumed

Bavaria, Switzerland, France, Italy and Austria, working all

He him

has acquired a competency, but has never married.

He

military dutie.s.

I's

was regu-

established as a merchant tailor, and he succeeded

beyond

his

most sanguine expectation, being recommended

and patronized by the gentry and

among

nobility,

these the

Germany, and is a son of Freid- celebrated Von Brombach and Baron Von Schwartzenburg, Carl and Mary Magdelene (Hooffman) Beck. beside other high State dignitaries. After conducting the busi-

of Hesse Cassel, rich

His ancestry belonged

the higher class of

to

ness very successfully for three years, he m.anifesled a desire

to try his fortunes in America; so he disposed of his stock, was but three gave his mother the house he owned, and with a little over years of age. His widow survived him forty-two years, and §500 in gold, together with a small stock of goods, bade died January 3d, 1866, at the advanced age of eighty-two adieu to the fatherland, September 15th, 1852, and fifteen

Germans.

His father was a

the age of thirty-four years,

when

printer,

and died

Willi.am

years, retaining her mental faculties 'unimpaired to the

of

life.

When

five

years of age, William

and was most constant

at

was sent

in his attendance until

end

to school,

he reached

the age of thirteen and a half years, during which period he

acquired an excellent

German

At the expiration

education.

of his school studies, his mother jilaced him, 1835, in a carpenter shop, to learn that trade, but on account of ill treat-

days thereafter arrived in

in Philadelphia,

He

one week, October 9th, 1852.

reaching Cincinnati

did not find his line

of business very brisk, the Israelites seeming to

monopoly of the clothing

unacquainted with the English language.

commenced making Fourth

street,

have a

and withal he was

trade,

totally

He, however,

cloaks for Mr. White and Mr. Lee, on

but as his pay was meagre, he concluded to

ment he remained there but two months, and thence re- try something else. Having purchased a lot of shoes, he turned home. He was then apprenticed to a tailor, with commenced the peddling business, but only succeeded in which employment he was well pleased, and he succeeded disposing of one pair. He next undertook to work on overin acquiring a thorough knowledge of the business during gaiters for one Koehler and others, but trade being in a stagthe stipulated three yearn, 1838, which formed his term of nant condition, he answered an advertisement for a gardener service. lie was now not quite eighteen years of age, but at Mount Washington, and undertook to fill that position. a master of his trade, though he could not,

.as

yet, enter into

According to the Gennan laws and immemorial custom, he was required to travel 3s a journeybusiness for himself.

man

tailor for a certain length of time.

out on foot, with his knapsack on

He

accordingly set

his back,

and travelled

through northern and eastern Germany from August 15th, 1838, to January, 1841, working diligently in various cities

and towns. •7

He

was, at the expiration of this period,

re-

The work, however, proved to the city,

too laborious, so he returned

where he became a

cutter in

fjrothers’ establishments until 1857, ne.ss,

on Central avenue,

masquerade costumes. Fifth street,

in

In

when he

Mr. Stadler

&

started in busi-

the line of boys’ clothing and

1858 he removed

where he continued

the

following year leased the adjoining

to

No. 266

same

business, and the

lot,

and erected the

house No. 264, where he carried on a very lucrative trade.

1

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

30 1865 he

In

made

a trip to Europe, in

and on

eldest son, August,

company with

Germany.

of his establishment with a view of returning to

About

that time,

however, the German war Irroke out, and

he abatidoned the idea. corner of

his

his return to Cincinnati, disposed

Plum and

In

i

865 he opened a

store at the

Fifth streets, remaining there one year,

a house on Vine street between Sixth and Seventh, where he opened a restaurant. In 1869 he sold out this establishment, and removed to No. 74 Fifth street, and two years later, on account of the houses being At this torn down, to Longworth and Central avenue.

when he purchased

however, his business did not prove so success-

Latter stand,

removed the same year to No. 264 Vine street, opposite the Public Library, and commenced the business of manufacturing regalia, masonic goods and masquerade ful

;

so he

costumes, which he has

Four years

successfully.

built for his business

Vine and .Seventh an addition

;

streets,

and he now where he ex-

close attention

to

life.

he has

business,

amassed a competency, and he appreciates and enjoys the

He

labors.

his

is

prominently identified with

many of the leading benevolent organizations of among which may be named the Red Men, Odd Knights of Pythias, the Masonic Order up plar, the .Seven

When

1852, he met in

whose

I'uchs,

He was

to

on his way

to the

Elizabeth was on her

sister

So

to

name

in

of

America.

asked to take charge of her, and see that she was

faithful

was he

in

attentions

whom

are

now twenty-two

August,

with him since he

left

to

her comfort, that they

They were

since.

riage February 14th, 1853, and this union, all of

five

now

united

The

mar-

oldest son,

years old, has been in

LDWELL, JOHN DAV,

in

children have Itlessed

living.

the school.

so well

known through-

Ohio, December 28th, 1816.

the year 1814, his mother, Harriet

by the

famous “ his

own

goods

with Professor Thompson, chemist,

at

he was also clerk

;

the

same

place,

and

aided him in experiments that resulted in the discovery of the composition of Blackwell’s matches, facture, about

made until

the year

1832, of the

the

and

first

in the

friction

manu-

matches

in this country. In 1835 he came to Cincinnati, and 1843 eng.aged as clerk on board of steamboats running rivers. After this he was Miami Railroad Company,

chosen Secretary of the Cincinnati, Hamilton

first

&

D.ayton Railroad Comp.any, again entered the service of the Little

Miami Railroad Company, and was then

Greene’s Express, the pioneer organization

clerk in

at

Cincinnati.

Later he became the sole proprietor of the Atlas

and Chron-

icle

This was

newspaper.

the

in

Scott

campaign, and

Murat Halstead, now of the Cincinnati Commercial, then received his first engagement as a writer for a daily paper

He

that

in

paper

subsequently sold out to the Cin-

connection with Judge John C. Wright,

in

Crafts J. Wright, William Schouler, and Luther B. Bruen. On disposing of his interest in the Gazette he served for two

years as Clerk of the School Board of Cincinnati,

when he

resigned on being chosen by the Ohio State Teachers’ Association

yonrnal of Education, which he Subsequently he was Clerk of the City Improvements of Cincinnati, and during two the war Reporting Clerk of the Ohio House of their

to edit

conducted for one year.

Board of years of

In 1850 he acted as Assistant Secretary

Representatives.

In

Wesley Day,

to the

the United States. interes's of the

Since 1856 he has been devoted to the

Pioneer Association of Cincinnati, of which

he remains the secretary.

at

Bay of Baltimore, was captured and placed a prisoner on board of the com-

is

an assiduous student and

accumulated manuscript. He was one period Secretary and Librarian of the Ohio Histori-

a few tracts only of his

ding party

in the

He

collector of the local history of the city, but has published

of Harford county, Maryland, while on a wed-

British,

modore’s

visiting Zanesville with auction

Grand Lodge of Masons of Ohio, and has continued, business by successive elections each year since. Grand .Secretary P'or nine years also of three other Grand Masonic bodies. he was Grand Recorder and Grand Secretary of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States, and also of the General Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons of

out Ohio as the “ Universal Secretary,” was born in Zanesville,

—

—

cinnati Gazette, and became a stockholder and local editor

United States,

way

for nearly

While yet a boy he was employed in the establishment of Mr. Peabody brother of the great banker and philanthropist who was College.

with Mr. Caldwell.

properly cared for during her long and hazardous journey.

have been continued ever

Kenyon

Fellows,

Knights Tem-

Liverpool a gentleman by the

original publisher

the city,

Wise Men, Good Fellows, and the United

Working Men.

three years a student at

was the

Mr. Caldwell was

of Martyrs.”

on the Ohio and the Mississippi

pects to remain during the continuance of his business

reward of

stated that he

is

it

Book

transportation agent of the Little

possesses one of the finest stores in the city,

By perseverance and

of Fox’s “

finding these premises loo

after,

three-story house on the corner of

which he

tombstone

his

conducted very extensively and

circumscribed for his rapidly extended business, he leased a

to

and millwrights of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. John Day, whose name he bears, was the pioneer printer and book publisher of London in the fifteenth century. On

cal

Society,

and

first

Librarian of the Free Public Libraiy

Thomas Scott Key wrote the of Cincinnati, which was organized in his office when he Star-Spangled Banner.” Key gave her a copy in was clerk of the public schools. On the outbreak of the vessel, at the

handwriting.

Scotch-Irish lineage. Scotch-Irish

time

His

father,

James Caldwell, was of

The Caldwells were

who became

of the stock of

the pioneer preachers, educators

rebellion, rally,

on the

first

day of news of need

he headed the movement

organizer of the “

Home

for a

in Cincinnati,

popular

and was the

Guard,” and became Chairman of

—

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.EDIA. more

the

Committee of Safety

w as

effected for the defence of the city.

until a

For three months

he was Volunteer Adjutant General on

Burbank

staff of

By

secretary.

its

organ-

To

Louisiana.

like

avoid arrest he then fled to

December, 1848, landed in New Orleans, ensuing spring, he found himself in

in

In the

Ohio, in very straitened circumstances, and,

ac-

its

and the insurgent forces were scattered

burst,

chaff before the' winds.

America, and

General

He

in charge of the military of the city.

ized the Sanitary Fair, and was

then

perfect organization

131

during that

worked as a farm laborer in Miami county. His He organized the misery was then increased by an attack of ague, and he dethe treasury of the Sanitary Commission. Soldiers’ Family Fund, the Refugee Relief Association, cided to remove to Dayton, where he served a regular and was the active Secretary of the National Union Asso- apprenticeship at the trade of cabinet-making, and afterwards ciation, which was so effective in pubiic meetings and by worked at pattern-making, and made the patterns for the tivity

over a quarter of a million of dollars was placed in

All these services were

loyal publications.

year,

freely volun-

first

His labors were

teered for the public good without charge.

unremitting, his zeal unquenchable, and his services most

Mr. Caldwell was married

efficient.

daughter of Captain William

Their only child died

of the

))resent proprietor

No. 233 Fourth

Mr.

Caldwell

is

in

in

United Brethren printing establish-

Dayton, while engaging

study of law.

the

at

same time

of an attorney, while working assiduously at his mechanical

however,

tinued,

at

work

to

trade until

his

at

County Clerk’s

He was

office.

engaged

afterw'ards

bookkeejier in Dayton until his election in office of

to the

I

Probate Court of

Founder of the

who

Benevolent Union, was born

in

the

position

him peculiarly

parish of

followed the vocation of farming.

and from

his

While

—a

On

all

and graceful address.

subjects his opinions are his convictions, and while

he firmly upholds them, he has the utmost respect for the opinions of those with

thir-

whom

he

may

He

Catholic

Irish

is

endowed

and harmonize large which Inought him prominently be-

when he organized at Dayton the Benevolent Union, an association whose

fore the public in

subsequently went

gift

He

differ.

numbers, a natural

and mathematical education, with some

knowledge of Latin and German.

ardent

varied experience, ex-

located in the vicinity of his home, and there acquired a

1869,

mechan- ramifications now extend over nearly every State in the With him he Union, and into Canada, embracing among its members trade of clock and watch making, and at the many thousands of the most active and intelligent Irish

Clonmell to

ical

1872, and, be-

genial temper, an

wisdom of

tensive general reading, and an easy

in his tenth

seventh until his

for public life

also with the executive ability to control

to

w'as re-elected

in

four years as a

teenth year of age, he attended an excellent national school

substantial English

as a

1866 to the

He

1869, and again

in

nature balanced by the

His parents were Cornelius Dwyer and

lost his father,

con-

member of the Board of Montgomery county, Ohio, and Education in Dayton, introducing many improvements into Order of the Irish Catholic the public schools. He possesses many qualities which fit

Bridget (Burns) Dwyer, people in moderate circumstances,

year he

Probate Judge of the county.

same

sides, served for

Lawyer, Judge of the

P'ethard county, Tipperary, Ireland, February 2d,

1830.

He

1S60, from

w'hich time until 1863 he acted as Recording Clerk in the

Masonic Supply establishment.

street, Cincinnati.

WVER, HON. DENNIS,

in the

Pursuing his legal studies under the direction

occupation, he was admitted to the bar in 1857.

Templeton, of Cincinnati.

infancy.

in

Margaret,

1S45

in

steam-engine used

ment

live

man

with an uncle, a

of notable

genius and unusual scientific attainments.

learned the

same time improved

his education

destitution

and horrible

He enjoyed the friendship and conHon. C. L. Vallandigham, and w’as associated with him in the management of the Dayton Herald and Empire, from 1868 to 1870. In politics he has always

his

naturally re-

been

by attending school and

also through his acquaintance with a circle of scientific

scholastic disputants

who were

often guests at the house of

Having witnessed the

his relative.

suffering attendant

Catholics in America.

fidence of the late

and

on the famine,

s]:)irit

attached

to

the Democratic

party,

and frequently

volted against that tyrannous system of repression of Irish

has acted as Chairman of the Democratic Committees, and

commerce and

been also the representative of his party

Irish manufactures,

which was,

responsible for the calamitous visitation.

member

of the O'Connell Petitioning

and looked

to a

Law

calm and steady policy

in

a measure,

His uncle was a and Order Party,

for a final

ventions.

At the present time he

at the

officiates as

the National Board of Immigration of the

Benevolent Union.

redress

He was

married

May

various con-

President of

Irish

Catholic

9th,

1855, to

of grievances.

He, however, was le.ss circumspect. Fired with an enthusiastic patriotism more creditable to his heart than his judgment, he broke away from the restraining in-

A. Childs, daughter of John Childs and Mary fBingham) Childs, formerly of Richmond, Virginia. She died October i8lh, 1870, leaving issue of five children

fluence of his uncle, and fled to Slievenamon Mountain, to join O’Brien, Meagher, Dahoney, and the army of “Young

three sons and two daughters;

.^nnie

Icelanders ” gathered on the

pikes and clubs.

two other children having

Judge Dwyer is now in the meridian of manhood, and with his acknowledged energy, ability

died in infancy.

mountain, and armed with his Opposed by the strong power of the and

government, the bubble of rebellion shone for a few days,

popularity,

future. j

we

bespeak

for

him

a

distingui.shcd

EXC VCLOP.EDI A.

B lOGR API I ICAL

132 '

‘'/STE,

DAVID

K., Judge of the First Ohio Judicial regarded as a public loss. His career is closely identified wdth aud the oldest representative of the Cin- the growth and prosperity of Cincinnati. He was zealous

District,

cinnati bar,

Ann

son of Moses and

is tlie

New

Este,

make

secure public improvements, and to

in his efforts to

and was born Octo- the city attractive, not alone as a jilace of residence, but as Captain Este, his father, was a good field for capitalists, in tlie way of increasing mercanber 2 1st, 1785. The first building erected by severely wounded at the battle of Monmouth, and tile and commercial traffic. would have died from exposure but for the personal atten- him w'as his own residence on Main street. Subsequently tions of Colonel Hamilton, aide to General Washington, wlio he erected fourteen structures on the same thoroughfare and found him among the dead and dying, and provided him Ninth street, three on .Sycamore street, and one on Fourth He was subsequently street. In 1858 he reared the handsome stone residence on with food and medical assistance. of Morristown,

Jersey,

Revenue under President Adams, and died at West Fourth street, which he now occupies. In the fall David K., his son, received his of 1819 he was married to Lucy Ann, daughter of General She died in April, 1826, having elementary education in his native town, and entered William Henry Harrison. Princeton College, where he pursued the full course of been the mother of four children, three of whom died when In April, quite young. The surviving daughter became the wife of studies, and graduated with distinction in 1803. 1804, he commenced to read law in the office of Gabriel Joseph Reynolds, of Baltimore, and died in 1S69 at the age In May, Ford, Esc]., at Morristown, and after thorough preparation, of forty-seven years, leaving seven children. was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court at Trenton, 1829, Mr. Este married Louisa Miller, daughter of Judge Collector of

the age of eighty-four.

in

He commenced

May, iSoS.

practice in Morristown at

once, and after continuing there one year as a lawyer, he

removed

making

Ohio

Cincinnati,

to

but

;

with the intention of

his practice a very general

one, covering

all

the

courts in that judicial district, including the United .States

Wiliiam Miller, by at the

and

whom

he had .seven children, four living

Judge Este

present time.

now

is

ninety ye.ars of age,

takes a great interest in the course of public affairs.

still

For many years he has been Senior Warden of Christ Church, of

which he

a leading member.

is

and Circuit Courts at Chillicothe, and subsequently Columbus, he opened an office in Hamilton in order to

District at

In the spring of 1814 he located in

be centrally located.

AWREXCE, DANIEL,

and established himself at the corner of Main streets, and by careful attention to his business

Cincinnati,

and Fifth

and the exercise of

rare

legal

1821.

ship continued until

Haines

and

an interest

to

In 1830

in his large

this partnership existed until

family of seven

lie

admitted Ezekiel

Mr. Este was made Presi-

rence, both natives of

from the early

settlers

who was engaged

dent Judge of Hamilton county, and after the organization

county, Ohio, in

of the Superior Court, in 1837, he was appointed

now known

Upon

its

judge.

the expiration of his term in the spring of 1S45, he

and professional

retired from public

life.

His career

at the

profoundly read

in

civil

and criminal law,

his

of the science being constantly improved by continuous research.

He

and gave

to all

He was

attention.

rare

power

sent

it

plain

for the

especially forcible as a pleader,

clearly to the jury

and

and had

analyzation of evidence in order to pre-

and the

court,

forming from

it

a

easily understood exposition of the continuity of

circumstances involved in the case. interpretation of

He was

the law, and logical

in

which were models of rhetorical expression.

skilful in the

his

arguments,

Plis decisions

from the bench were accepted as authority, and were characterized by an entire absence of personal bias.

He was

at all

times firm in his support of the integrity of the law.

These

qualities

won

community, and

for

him

the sincere respect of the entire

his retirement

from professional duties was

whose parents were

New Jersey,

and descended

Commonwealth.

chiefly in farming,

moved

His to

father,

Hamilton

1S17, and settled primarily in the place

He

died in this county, October

His mother’s decease occurred

in

May, 1845.

His early education was obtained in the log school-houses of the frontier settlements, which he attended when not

throe,

was as indefatigable a worker as a student, of the business intrusted to his care his close

of that

Glendale.

.as

22d, 1832.

He was knowledge busied

bar and on the bench was a distinguished one.

children,

Jonathan Lawrence and Tamzon (Massey) Law-

this business relation-

and increasing business,

Manufacturer,

Retired

Cumberland county. New Jersey, 1809, and was the eldest child in a

in

April 7th,

In 1S17 he formed a

Bellamy Stowi>i and

]rartnership with

he soon secured a

talent,

very large and influential clientage.

was born

his

in

farm and incidental labor.

At

the age of twenty-

he took the place of his deceased father as the head home, and for several years managed by incessant

industry to maintain the family in comfortable circumstances.

He was

then engaged continuously in farming until the

spring of 1836,

when he moved

to

Reading and established

himself in the tanning business, which he followed

same jdace

until

1871.

terest in the business

in

the

In this year he disposed of his in-

and invested

his

money

in real estate.

Since then he has not been actively employed in any enterprise of a mercantile character.

successively a

Whig

Politically,

and' a Republican, ami

he has been c.ast

his

first

Adams. Religiously, his feelthe Swedenborgian Church, al-

vote in f.xvor of John (luincy ings

incline

though

his

him

tow'ard

views are not circumscribed by the doctrines of

any particular denomination.

He

was married, November

BIOGRAPHICAL EXCVCLOREDIA. 3d, 1840, to Laura

1.

Fosler, a native of

whose parents were among the

Hamilton county,

earliest settlers of this sec-

one of the

tion of the State, her father being

first

Judges of

vising

33

work secured him the reputation of

and large contracts were placed

in

a ma.ster builder,

hands.

his

In

the

period from 1852 to 1863 he found time fur the study of

He was theology, and often preached. He is a fluent and eloquent Mary P'. (Cortelyon) speaker, and his sermons from the pulpit were very efWoodruff, a native of Plamilton county, whose parents were fective. With an excellent knowledge of the law, he pracBy this mar- tised for some time with success, and for five years acted as also among the first settlei-s of that county. Mary Elizabeth, born October Justice of the Peace. In 1862 he became identified with riage he has two children nth, 1868, and Daniel Lawrence, born January 18th, 1873. the 83d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served the Territorial Court; she died in April, 1865.

again married

March, 1866,

in

to

:

command

with that

He

capacity of soldier and

dual

the

in

chaplain for one year.

is

member

a

of the

Cumberland

Presbyterian Church, and has been an active and consci-

ARTHUR CARR,

iITTER,

I’

Mechanic, Farmer

manner

Abraham and Mary Ann (Nicholas)

great and varied one, his

Ritter.

The

former was a native of Hagerstown, Maryland,

who

succe.ssively settled

and

counties,

until

remainder of

in

Somerset and Westmoreland

he reached the age of

lowed the avocation of his life

a joiner

forty-five

and carpenter.

he was engaged

he

fol-

During the In 1816

in farming.

he went to Cincinnati, making the journey on the Ohio river

on a

hold

effects.

went on

flat-boat,

his

where he

churchman since 1846.

entious

and Lawyer, was born, Februaiy 24th, iSlo, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, being the sixth of thirteen children, whose parents were

He farm

lived

which carried

his family

and

his house-

resided two years in Cincinnati, and then

lican, his

He

a gentleman of great sociability, and to

activity,

who approach

all

life

him.

is

a

Andrew

Repub-

Jackson.

courteous in

is

His experience

while his knowledge, gathered

not

alone from

books, though 'he has always been a close student,

prehensive in

He was

scope.

its

com-

is

married, July 29th, 1830,

daughter of Samuel Thompson,

to .Sarah,

a

is

being a record of ceaseless

who descended

from Price Thompson, a soldier of the Revolution and one of the original pioneers of Hamilton as early as

1

790

county, Ohio, having

Sycamore township, on a section

settled in

of land belonging to the celebrated purchase.

Sycamore township, Hamilton county, until his death, August 17th, 1828. He in

served as captain of a

rifle

company

in the

second war with

ORBERT, JAMES

Great Britain, and proved a true marksman and a gallant

commander.

is

In politics he

vote having been cast for

first

Prior to his departure to

Ohio he served

Justice of the Peace, filling that office for eight years.

was unusually well read

of this position with energy' and intelligence.

He

in

Ohio

He

received

and came

1818 and taught for some years

in

academy

left, at

Bucks county,

at

Lebanon, Warren

in

to

an

having

county,

under his instruction several who have since bemarked characteristics of their parents, of which longevity was one. come men of great distinction in various walks of life, The members of both the Ritter and Nicholas families usually among them the great astronomer. General O. M. Mitchell, attained a ripe age, and were all substantial citizens of the who founded the Observatory at Cincinnati. He cairre to communities in which they resided. Mrs. Ritter was a Springfield in the autumn of 1824, and for several years his death, thirteen children,

n.itive

who

was born

his education at Princeton College,

Pie

and performed the duties

in law,

I>.,

Pennsylvania, February 25th, 1796.

as

inherited the

all

of Kings county, Virginia,

who

emigrated with her

was engaged

in

teaching the languages, and afterwards,

to the bar, was associated with GenSampson Mason in the practice of law. He succeeded May 2d, 1872, at Sharonville, Ohio. The educational fa- Joseph R. Swan as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas cilities enjoyed by Arthur Carr Ritter in early life were very for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Ohio, and was also Profew, but this lacking was made up by his close application bate Judge for Clark county for several years. He was a

parents to Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and was there

married,

when

sixteen years of age, to

to substantial text-books at

laborer

when

a youth, and

home.

when

Abraham.

He was

She died,

an industrious

eighteen began the trade

of a carpenter and joiner, which he assiduously followed for thirty-five

years in

Sycamore township, Hamilton county.

having been admitted eral

man

of amiable disposition, deep religious convictions and

of the purest integrity of character.

His scholastic

ments were of the highest order, and

his literary taste

very

fine.

He was

a

trran

attain-

was

of the most retiring and unob-

In 1864 he turned his attention wholly to wagon-making trusive irrodesty, yet firnr and immovable by love and and general mechanical efforts, and closely applied himself popular favor, or fear of man, in his devotion to u hat he to this business until 1872, when he renounced the cares regarded as the right and truth. He lifted up his voice of active life and retired to enjoy the competency amassed and wielded his pen at an early date against op]rressiotr,

by his enterprise, energy and economy. He had not long pursued the trade of carpentering before his enterprise and mathematical accuracy in making estimates and in super-

when no

small amount of cour-age was requisite to maintairr

his views, but

which have

sirrce

Sampson Mason, who was

a

become popular.

man

rrever

General

superlative

of

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

134

spoke of him

praise,

convened one

whom

denly,

a meeting of the Springfield bar,

at

sympathy and

to pass resolutions of

no mode of praise could

May

15th, 1859,

New

He

died sud-

on the steamer “ Tecumseh,” on the

New

Mississippi river, near

sage up from

flatter.

respect, as

Madrid, Missouri, on the pas-

Orleans, where he had gone \tdth his

wife to bring liome their eldest son,

He was

a long time in that city.

who had been

sick for

He

C. Winans, of Lebanon,

Hannah

C., daughter of Dr.

John

He

machines.

quite an inventor, and has

is

made

several

important improvements in reapers and threshing-machines,

among which may be named a combined reaper and vester, which may be used as a side-delivery reaper harvester,

upon which the binders ride

able reel for harvesters

mark and an

buried with every

of affection and esteem from the bar and community. married, July 31st, 1821,

extensive and flourishing business in reapers and threshing-

;

haror a

to

bind; an adjust-

an improvement

in horse-powers,

While

adjustable side-rest for threshing-machines.

'holding the office of Auditor he studied law, and after

tending a course of lectures received his diploma

at

at-

the

Warren county, Ohio, and with her Cincinnati Law College. Subsequently, while editing the whom survive him, two sons and Chronicle, he practised his profession for a time, meeting

liad eight children, five of

three daughters.

with

fair

success as a lawyer, until he concluded to turn his

more

attention to a business

the present time he

Si OORMAN, CHRISTIAN

in

harmony with

member

his tastes.

At

of the City Council of

L., Secretary, Treasurer

Bellaire.

His more prominent characteristics are energy,

integrity

and a comprehensive knowledge of the require-

also

His parents

were natives of Pennsylvania.

He

was a carpenter. native State until

1834,

attended

when he moved with

ments of business and public 1st,

and resided there for a brief period

school

night-school

in

his

leisure

hours.

in

Wheeling, where he worked until 1850.

He

as a

1846 he settled

ROWN, WILLIAM

journeyman

at

cabinet-

Ohio, and labored as a builder and house carpenter until

expiration of his term.

1842.

In

1861

he

of the

office

by

(Scott)

On

Brown and

son of John

a grandson

is

the paternal side he

is

Scott, of

a grand-

Elizabeth Hutchins, of Norfolk,

His parents were William Ballard Brown, an

agriculturist of

this

the maternal side he

numerous descendants of the Rev. James

Virginia.

filled

On

Prince W’illiam county.

of the Peace, he

the

partner of the firm

of John Cail Scott, of Alexandiia, Virginia, one

re-elected

at

P., senior

Brown Brothers, Abstractors of Titles and General Land and Loan Agents, was born in Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, March 25th, of

at

then removed to Belmont county,

1858, when, after having served as Justice was elected Auditor of the county, and

Virginia.

his

McGrew, and working In

married, April

West

his parents to

journeyman, while attending a

also as

He was

His father

1846, during that time learning the

until

trade of cabinetmaker under John

life.

1846, to Martha Ebberl, of Wellsburg,

Columbiana county, Ohio, where he again attended school until 183S. He then removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

making

a

and General Manager of the Bellaire Manufacturing Company, was born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, October 2Sth, 1825.

gD

is

Brown.

Pickaway and Franklin counties, and Jane in the I lis earlier education was obtained

common schools located near his home, and at eighteen 43d Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, for which years of age he graduated from the High School of Columbody he had recruited a company. He remained in active bus, and devoted the two succeeding years to teaching F'rom 1S62 to 1866 he served in the capacity of service until July, 1862, when he was detailed on recruiting school. service. Subsequently he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Assistant Engineer for the city of Columbus, and at the of the 98 h Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and with that expiration of that time was elected Surveyor of Franklin deputy and entered the army of the United States as Captain

in

the

body look part in the battle of Perryville, in October, 1S62, county. This office he held for a period of six years, while in which engagement Colonel Webster was killed and he his thorough performance of the duties attached to the surwas promoted to the rank of Colonel in the same regiment, veyorship gave a lasting direction to his aims and energies, and remained in active service with it until the command and was also instrumental in fitting him for the profession was reduced to 180 men, when, in the fall of 1863, he in which he was afterward engaged. Being joined by his He then returned to his home and brother, in 1S69, they established the business in which he resigned his position. took a prominent part in the political campaign of 1863. is stiil an active worker, under the firm-style of Brown I.ater,

he installed himself

in

the editorial

chair of the

Be.'mont Chronicle, which he had purchased in 1861, and controlled

its

sold, in 1870.

ized

the

affairs

1873.

publication from the

He

Bellaire

finally

removed

Manufacturing

fall

to

of 1863 until Bellaire,

it

was and

and organ-

this date

Beginning

their business career

nation

of old

he has acted as Secretary, Treasurer specialty, and

and General Manager of the company, which controls an

States, East

on a compara-

by steady application

their dealings, established

integrity in all

connections of any

othc house

land

claims

capital.

they have

in this line their relations

and West.

the largest

of the kind in the State,

Company, over whose requiring an extensive investment of

he presided as President and Superintendent until Since

Brothers.

tively limited basis, the brothers have,

The exami-

attended to as a

extend into

many

In connection with their business

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOIVEDIA. of abstracting they have introduced the negotiation of loans

on

and by

their extensive acquaint-

and persons, and

their very conservative

mortgage

first

security,

ance with

titles

manner of

business, are building

agency

He was

up the most extensive loan

trust

funds in central Ohio.

married, April 30th, 1S73,

Louisa IL, a grand-

investment of

for the

Hess,

daughter of Balser

one of the State;

He

was married

1834

in

Hannah

to

Hill, a

Hamilton county, and daughter of Samuel

native of

earlier pioneers

and

Hill,

settlers of this section of the

she died in 1S43, leaving issue of three children.

was again married

1847 to Jemima Hunt, a native

in

of Plamilton county, Ohio, with

whom

he

is

now

living.

pioneer

respected

highly

the

He

deacon.

135

family of Clinton township, Franklin county, Ohio.

ILLIAMSON, DAVID, Edge

ROWX, JAMES FINLEY, of

Brown

partner of the firm county,

New

stock, his father, P.

He

mon

was educated

at the

schools of Columbus, and subsequently, from

com-

1867

Hunterdon

in

of Revolutionary

John Williamson, having served

under Generals Greene and Washington,

Brown, the senior partner before mentioned, was born in Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, Feb-

He comes

Jersey.

Brothers, Abstractors of Titles and

Commissioners of Deeds, brother of William

ruary 4th, 1848.

Tool Maker, was

born on the 6th of June, 1808,

Revolutionary army and participated

On

of Trenton.

from the

David was descended

the father's side

earliest settlers of

in the

in the battle

Manhattan Island, and on the

to

mother’s side was of English descent. When the boy was was a .student in the Yirginia Military Institute. In three years old his father emigrated to what was then the 1869 he became associated with his brother in the business far West, and with his family settled in Colerain township, 1869,

which, since sustained by them,

now

is

of such a vast

extent.

The

Hamilton county, Ohio. Trees were

felled,

the pioneer

efforts of

first

were directed towards developing a farm stumps uprooted and

all

in

the

the toil

forest.

incident

to a new settlement in those days undertaken and gone M. D., the oldest of nine through with and the result was a pleasant and comfortchildren whose parents were Robert Fuse and able home evoked from the wilderness in a very short time. Mary (Jones) Luse, was born in Butler county, The pioneer’s sons were all stalwart, muscular boys, and with

USE,

ALEXANDER

B.,

;

Ohio, I'ebruary 4th, 1809. of

New

through

life

county’, Pennsylvania,

and

near that

removing

after

he remained there

city,

on the

Miami

I.ittle

to Butler county, Ohio,

Reily, in that county, tant, into

pursuits

Washington

to

for several years,

and

in

and

career

his

connected with public

Later, he re-

on a farm near

1814 moved seven miles

he was more or affairs,

and

dis-

for

a

less extensively

number

of years

His mother, also a native

officiated as Justice of the Peace.

New

river.

settled

Indiana, where he remained until his decease.

Throughout

of

father, a native

agricultural

1806 came to Cincinnati, Ohio, settling ultimately

in

moved

;

His

followed

Jersey,

Jersey, died in Franklin county, Indiana, in 1866.

His early education was limited, and received

their aid the father

accomplished

results that at

first

thought

would seem impossible. In the midst of such experiences and surroundings young David grew up. So far as school opportunities were concerned his educational advantages

limited; but of the education that self-reliance, contact with nature

had

his

share,

full

and

profited

were comes with hard work,

and with natural men, he by it to the utmost. In

1825, in accordance with his

own

ticed to the trade of edge-tool

making

desire,

he was appren-

in Cincinnati.

He

learned his trade, and, as might be expected, he learned

thoroughly, becoming a most

now among

the old settlers

may be found many

He

old axe bearing his stamp.

it

Even

mechanic.

finished

a favorite

has never, in the course of

age of seventeen, on the death of his father,

com- his life, held any public office, but was always active and At the prominent in the ranks of the old Whig party, and still he began life ranks himself as a Henry Clay Whig. When he was

on his own resources as a farm laborer.

While

mon

schools located in the vicinity of his

at

the

home.

in

his

twentieth year he began the reading of medicine, under the

William McGill, M. D., a well-known pracof Hamilton county, with whom he continued his

twenty-five years old he married Elizabeth Huston, daughter of

Paul Huston, an early settler and thriving farmer of

Of

marriage four children, two

instruction of

Hamilton county.

titioner

sons and two daughters, were the result.

medical studies for a period of three years. During this time he attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, fession at

and

in

Mount

cessfully engaged.

in

1858.

in the life

where he has since been sucPolitically, he is attached to the Repub-

tirely

is

which he has been

a

member

for

of the Christian

twenty years a zealous

notable event

In that year he started with an emigrant train for

California, going over the plains

Pleasant,

A

of the eldest son, Paul IL, in the year

1832 entered on the practice of his pro-

lican party, and, religiously,

Church,

occurred

this

unexplored route.

The

and mountains by an en-

train

was attacked by the

Indians and most of the party were massacred.

Williamson escaped and returned entire trip

on

foot,

and arriving

to the States,

safely at

home.

Young

making the

He

is

now

;

BIOGRAnilCAL EN'CVCLOIVEDIA.

136

Recorder of Hamilton County. has been quite prominent

now

first

Deputy

The youngest

son, Albert,

and

in the real estate business,

is

and valuable.

prosperity he

in his brother’s office.

became extensome changes and a continued

dealings with his customers, his trade soon sive

After

finally

admitted

his

son, Patterson, with a

partnership interest, under the firm-name of Samuel

mings Machinist, was born

November

Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia,

in

i6th,

His father was an Irish Protestant and

1809.

His mother

one of the pioneers of the country.

of

Eor the

Son.

first

Cum-

twenty years the busine.ss of

house was mainly in brass work and in the building

this

^UMMINGS, SAMUEL,

&

fire

engines and light machinery.

wholly engaged

It

the manufacture of

in

machinery and stop-valves the most safely conducted

is

now

almost

hydrants, light

fire

for water-works, and is one of and reputable establishments of

New Jersey, and was of its kind in the country. In 1850 he purchased property in At the age of seven young Newport, Kentucky, and has since been a resident of that Cummings left home and commenced life for himself. State. He soon became interested in the civil affairs of Much of the journey afoot, and with no ordinary hard- Newport. He was elected President of the City Council ships, he made his way from his home in Philadelphia to of Newport in 1S69. In 1871 he was re-elected, serving was born

Trenton,

at

English origin.

Pittsburgh.

After trying several things unsuccessfully until

four years.

in all

During

his last term

he inaugurated the

movement for the construction of the Newport Water-works. regularly indentured to James Patterson to learn the lock To him, more than any man, are the people of Newport, and whitesmithing trade. His father had now been some doubtless, indebted for their fine water-works and the time dead, and his mother had removed to Pittsburgh. rejection of the Holly experiment. Since retiring from his M’ith some exciting adventures he managed to move position in the city government, in 1873, interested smoothly on, and, by the time he was twenty years of age, himself in the affairs of his own home and business. In went over

his fourteenth year, he

had learned discharged

And

$200.

first

Mr.

he man-

year’s labor

and

the nucleus of his fortune,

Now,

at

is

that this really

no time

after

he returned

Patterson,

to

foundry of John Tatem.

In

after

married

is

of Mar-

a remark-

certainly ranks pre-eminently as a self-made

is

to-day a fine specimen of a well-preserved

commenced work

business of the

city,

fell

he returned to Pittsburgh; but

He now commenced for himself, & Alexander. He soon

Parker

in

connection with Messrs.

found

partnership and

this

a son of

to his

Pleas,

and Harriet

liri

merly of that section.

was born, June and

by occupation both

in

(Philliiis) Tuttle, for-

His father was a farmer Connecticut and

in

Ohio.

George enjoyed the advantages of being educated in the excellent New England common schools, and also attended the academy, but, the means of his parents being limited, he had to forego the collegiate course, and he owes the

main part of become an employe and studious it

advantage

This was the old brass foundiy and

same house.

is

a

in the

M., I.awyer and Judge

Common

19th, 1S15, in Litchfield county, Connecticut,

to

the lirass

in

1S32 his young wife

GEORGE

of the Court of

his

of the same year he again began business in Cincinnati.

withdraw from

ffUTTLE, HON.

work

to

discouraged, and the terrible malady having prostr.ated the

the

Mr. Cummings’ career

man, with an ample fortune, the work of his own hands, and a reputation of which he may justly be proud.

After this great misfortune, being

victim to the cholera.

in

died of con-

widow

He

He

man.

who

a trip

marriage he removed

after his

Cincinnati, and immediately

to

maduke Doddsworlh. able one.

Eliza Mason,

to

In 1S72 he married the

in 1867.

after did

making

Pittsburgh and resumed

and was soon

Soon

daughter, Sarah.

fall

1838 he was married sumption

parts of the country, with a view to bettering

his condition, for

He

which he kept up

a notable fact

ever have less than the $200.

to different

former employer,

for his

rigid self-culture,

La the course of the

to save

became lie

journeyman

as a

began a course of

aged

and

He now

the obligations of his indenture.

day, which was fine wages for the times.

at a dollar a

for years.

Pirminghani and was

trade, obtained a passable education

his

all

commenced work also

to

in the

own

persevering exertions

He commenced

the study of the law

his education to his

habits.

spring of 1837, in the office of Governor William S.

machine shop of W. G. Berry. The manufacture of locks Hollibird, at Winsted, Connecticut, and in 1841, having meanwhile been admitted to the bar, commenced the pracwas now becoming a more important interest in the West and having become acquainted with a valuable new lock, tice of his profession in Ashtabula county, Ohio, his father manufactured in Cincinnati, he went to Pittsburgh, where \\ith his family having removed to that .State two years he remained several years and established in

the manufacture of this lock.

manently P'ront

to Cincinnati

street

shop,

Alexander soon to

him.

By

returned per-

and commenced business

with

Mr. Alexander

after dying, the business

careful,

his father-in-law

He now

judicious

as

was

in the old

his

partner.

left

entirely

management and honest

previously.

1844,

He

continued there until

when he removed

to

Warren.

the beginning of

In

elected President Judge of the Court of

1866 he was

Common

Pleas,

which position he most ably filled and for which he was most eminently qualified he here gained an enviable repu;

tation with the bar of Ohio.

In order, however, to devote

PuA>.

C9

lUOGRArillCAL LNCVCLOr.LDIA. himself exclusively lo the ]iractice of his profession, he

signed his

office,

January

has been appointed by the mayor of the city to

thus

Ohio, over which the present Chief-Justice of the United States

Supreme Court was then the presiding

convention was composed of the leading

and many of the

best

life,

has been an actively busy one, characterized by

far,

earned.

of the State,

minds of Ohio took part

his

energy, industry, labor well directed and prosperity well

This

officer.

men

tem-

fill

Altogether

Judge.

Police

porarily the office of

Convention of

to represent his district in the Constitutional

Several limes he

of Cincinnati for a term of three years.

re-

In 1S73 he was chosen

1872.

I'-t,

137

in the pro-

Judge Tuttle acted on several of the most important committees, and was prominent in all its councils ceedings.

during

He

and a day.

entire session of a year

its

ANFORD, HON. LORENZO, Member gress,

is still

was born

of Con-

Belmont county, Ohio, on

in

in the vigor of

October l8th, 1829, his father coming from the

crative practice.

same

manhood, and enjoys an extensive and luHe was married in 1852 to Julia, daughter of Jeremiah Sullivan, of Warren, Trumbull county, where

mother

from

Chester

The former was

a promi-

'

MOSES FLEMING, loih of September,

1839, in

common

Lorenzo attended the education

Lawyer, was born

fidelity.

and llnished

schools,

When

Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.

at

the

trust,

which he discharged with intelligence and

duties of

on the

his

nent farmer, and held several offices of

he has since resided.

ILSOX,

and

county,

county, Pennsylvania.

his

twenty-

three years of age he began lo read law at St. Clairsville,

Franklin,

Warren county, Ohio. He is of Irish descent, under Carlo C. Carroll, and was admitted to the bar in In 1856 he entered the political arena as a Whig, 1854. his ancestors having come to this country from county Antrim, Ireland. His maternal grand- and suiiported P'illmore for the Presidency, and was upon ,

Colonel

father,

Bigger, was

John

city,

and

that city,

in

from which in

institution

he graduated

in

'

in

that occupation until

He

enlisted as a jirivate

.August

He

He

following.

company

raising a

i860.

W'as

promoted

ill

Miami University, where he remained another year. In month of August, 1862, he entered the land office of Taft & Perry, and in the month of October following he

his support of

Lincoln

the

He

Law

menced

May

that

School of the Cincinnati College.

State

to

in in

Infantry,

In

1862 he

He

health.

was active and

1864,

ist,

influential in

i860 and 1864, and was one of

in

Ohio which gave the vote of

Mr. Lincoln.

In

1872, he

October,

was

elected on the Republican ticket to the Forty-third Congress from the Sixteenth

he was admitted to the bar, and com-

the practice of law in Cincinnati.

Ohio Volunteer

15th

the electoral delegation from

graduated EL. B. in April, 1864, and in the succeed-

ing month of

assisted

position of Cajitain, w hich he resigned, August

on account of

matriculated at the

home and

First-Lieutenancy, and then to the

to the

After a year passed at Princeton he entered the

In-

and was mustered out

returned

the

for

Ohio Volunteer

17th

the

in

of wdiich he was elected Second-Lieutenant.

In that year he entered the freshman class in Princeton College.

1859, vacating the office in

in

fantry, for three months’ service,

teaching in the Twelfth District School in

and continued

County, and was re-elected

In

it.

Belmont

Prosecuting Attorney for

1861, prior to the exjiiration of his term, to join the army.

.School, of

1857.

he was elected

1857

schools of the

due lime entered the Hughes High

then engaged Cincinnati,

common

the

at

with the

affiliated

Republican party, and has ever since acted with

Warren county, Ohio, while his paternal ancestors settled in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. His father removed from Pennsylvania to Warren county in In 184.7, "’hen Moses was eight years old, he re1830. moved with his parents to Cincinnati. Here he went earliest settlers of

through the course of study

Afterwards he

the Stale electoral ticket.

one of the

Ohio

who

been C. L. Poorman,

opponent having

District, his

ran as a

Liberal

Republican.

1866, he was appointed Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for

1874 he was re-elected, his opponent having been on Mr. Danford is the successor of this occasion H. Boyle.

Hamilton County, which position he held until January, In the month of April in that year he was a candi1869.

constituency and

In November,

In

Hon. John A. Bingham, and has served the

date on the Independent ticket for the position of Prose-

cuting .Attorney of the Police Court. the contest,

and achieved the

position,

He was

successful in

which he held

He

large

skill,

and

as

an orator his speeches

bench, evince an ability

by few men.

accorded him

He

is

for

for his successful

career, as

of Jefferson county, Ohio,

who

held the position for two years.

On October

was married

elected one of the

18

June, 1873,

Board of .Managers of the Public Library

the

trenchant argument possessed

On

In

in

deserving of the credit and esteem

Dodds, under the firm-name of Dodds & Wilson. In the month of .April, 1872, he was elected a member of the Board of Education from the Twentieth Ward, and J.

interests of his

with distinguished

of Representatives, as well as his addresses to the

,

I

at

has a wdde reputation as a lawyer of great

learning and

House

until

April, 1871. After leaving the office he devoted his whole lime and attention to his private practice. On the 1st of November, 1871, he associated in partnership with Hon.

Ozra

ability. *

people

the

it

is

the result

of constantly exercised energy directed by noble purposes.

of

October 7th, 1858, he was married 27th, 1870, he

St. Clairsville,

Ohio.

to

Annie

died, October lo

If.

Cook,

24tli,

1867,

Mary M. Adams,

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOICKDIA.

'38

ENNEDV, JAMES CHARLES, in

M.

D.,

was boin

Butler county, Pennsylvania, P'ebruary iitb,

He was

1S09.

the fourth chihl in a family of

whose parents were Robert Kennedy and Margaret (White) Kennedy. His father, a native of Westmoreland county, Penneight children,

sylvania, followed through life agricultural

Ohio in 181 1 and settled in Brown county, on a He was noted as an intelligent farm near Georgetown. and public-spirited citizen, and fur a number of years held

moved

to

His decease occurred

the office of Magistrate.

in

1849.

His mother, also a native of Westmoreland county, Penn-

was a daughter of Thomas White, a captain

sylvania,

in the

His ancestors on both sides of the

Revolutionary army.

house were likewise identified with the cause of the

patriots.

Until he had attained his majority he assisted his father in the farm labors, having in the

meantime secured

a limited

by attending, through the winter months, the

education

In

sessions of a country school.

1829 he began the study

of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Ivdward ton, at Felicity,

Clermont county, and pursued

assiduously until

In this

1832.

his studies

year he entered on the

of his profession, and, with the exception of two

winters,

was subsequently occupied by professional labors

Felicity until

During the winters of 1837-38,

1854.

however, he attended a course of lectures

the Medical

at

College of Ohio, graduating from that institution.

he settled

in Batavia,

and

in the control of a practice at

He in

In 1S54

since resided there, engaged

h.as

once extensive and lucrative.

has uniformly avoided offices of apolitical nature, but

1847 was elected a

served with

body

this

member for

of the

one term.

Ohio Legislature, and He was also one of

with the insurgent patriots. winter-quarters at Trenton,

in

Washington, they made a

prior to their capture by General

descent on his property, and appropriated to their his cattle

He

and other valuable possessions.

terdon county.

New

own

New

Jersey and

daughter of Rodger Larrison, an active participant

She died

Revolutionary war.

was

cation

and received

limited,

His

1823.

in

the

at

went

whom

Jersey, with

about three years, during

He

years as an apprentice under

Trenton,

New

Jersey, at the

Lambertville,

at

the ensuing year.

Jersey and

in

New York

Up

city,

Hamilton county.

He

;

of

tiade, afterward

New

Jersey,

where

he remained

there

New

1811 he worked in

to

where, July 3d, iSii, he settled ship,

Luke Hebdon,

shoemaking

harness-making

in

he remained

subsequently worked

for three

he engaged also

in his

time attending school for

this

a term of three months or more.

opening a .shoe-shop

schools

While

with Judge John Corryell, of

to live

New

Hunterdon county. for

the

in

earlier edu-

common

located in the neighborhood of his home. twelfth year he

uses

Hun-

died in

Jersey, in 1814, at the age of seventy-

His mother was a native of

years.

New- through

(iractice

in

While the Hessians were

He two

pursuits.

common

took an active part in

removing finally in

later

to

Ohio,

Colcrain town-

travelled west on foot through

to Pittsburgh, and thence on a flat-boat to where he landed July 2d. The battle of Tippecanoe, in the second war with England, had been fought, and becoming imbued with the prevaletit popular excite-

Pennsylvania

Cincinnati,

ment he entered the volunteer service in 1812, under the command of General Hull, and was taken prisoner at the At the expiratime of that officer’s surrender at Detroit. tion of a few weeks he was released on parole, and returned to his home in Hamilton county, where he has since re-

Ohio Legislature to escort sided, occupied mostly in agricultural pursuits. In 1821-22 Hamer, who died of disease he served as constable and assessor of chattel property, and Mexico. He has always mani- in 1823 was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he

the committee appointed by the the remains of General T. L.

contracted on the field in

and

fested a generous

intelligent interest in educational

and

held for nine

years.

He

also

held

at various

times the

Township Clerk and Assessor of Real In 1824 journals many articles, several of which have elicited Estate for Colerain and Springfield Townships. special attention from the leading men of the medical pro- he was elected Treasurer of the .School and Ministerial fession. Politically, he is an inflexible Democrat of the Funds of his township, which office he held for twentyIn 1838 he was elected a director in the ColeJackson school. He was baptized in the Methodist Church, five years. but his present views are not circumscribed by the doctrines rain, Oxford & Brookville Turnpike Company, whose road was then in the course of construction. In 1840 he was of any particular church. elected Treasurer of said company, which position he held, with the exception of a year or two, until November, 1865. public enterprises, and has contributed to various medical

offices

Upon

cGILL,

STEWART,

of trustee.

retiring from said position the

committee (consisting

of the president, secretary and one other director) appointed

was born near Trenton, New Jersey, February iSth, 17S8, and was the oldest of eight children, whose parents

satisfaction that in “ accounts

were

nearly a quarter of a century, and amounting to several

Neill

McGill.

McGill

The

Agriculturist,

and

Elizabeth

(Larrison)

former, a native of county Antrim,

near Belfast, Ireland, was engaged through in school-teaching

man emigrated

to

and surveying, and while America.

He

still

life

a young

sympathized with the

colonies in their resistance to the rule of Great Britain, and

to settle his

accounts passed a resolution expressing their

hundred thousand

dollars,

extending over a period of

no discrepancy had ever ap-

peared, nor had a single dime ever been unaccounted for.”

He

h.as

also settled the estates of

than any other

he

is

man

more deceased persons

in his part of the county.

Politically,

attached to the Republican party; he cast his

first

*•

3P

r

i •I*

f.

;

1

i

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i

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BIOGRAPHICAL EXCVCLOP.EDIA. In 1824 he voted

vote for President for James Monroe.

John Quincy Adams. In 1826 or strong Jackson man and took a leading

he became a

’27

for

part in organizing

the Jackson or Democratic party in Colerain township, and was a delegate to the first convention held by that party in

He

Hamilton countv.

and again

voted for Oeneial Jackson

approving the course

in 1833, not

But

in 1832.

1828,

in

General Jackson had taken, he left the Democratic and joined the Whig party, to which he adhered until it died, In his younger days after which he became a Republican.

he took an active part

belongs the credit of having introduced and maintained noble character of building lor which Cincinnati

that

celebrated and of which

is

it

The

justly proud.

is

buildings

erected by Mr. Wilson are too numerous to be here mentioned in detail ; we give only the following The Ohio Life 8; Trust Company Bank, the Hamilton county Court :

House, the Cincinnati Post-Office, the Jewish Temple, the of Mr. George K. Shoenberger, the Dexter Chapel and entrance to .Spring Grove Cemetery, etc., etc.

villa

although he never sought

in politics,

1833 he was nominated as a candidate lor County Commissioner, but was defeated by a fevv^ votes. In 1836 the Whigs nominated him for the Legislature, but In

office.

He was

he was not elected. afterwards for the same

office,

1824.

was

in

moved from Maryland

He was

tober 5th, 1823, to Sarah Johnson,

widow

Johnson and daughter of Elias Hedges, an early settler from Morris county. New Jersey, who settled at Dunlap’s on the Big Miami

whom

living, a

river,

Hamilton county,

he has had three children, two of

He

son and daughter.

whom

his wife

lost

in 1805,

are

in

still

April,

his son, Amzi McGill, 1854, and has never married again has been twice elected a member of the House of Repre-

into

and has served one term as County

Commi.ssioner of Hamilton County, Ohio, and

has held

He

various other tiusts of greater or less importance.

man

always been a veiy industrious and temperate respects,

and now

at

has

in all

the age of nearly eighty-eight years

earlier education

His in

father, Isaac

was obtained

his native county.

life.

the schools located

in

At the age of seventeen he entered

Washington College, where he completed his studies. Upon leaving school he was engaged in teaching until 1S46,

the

when he

as a volunteer in a

enlisted

from Steubenville, and was assigned

While connected with the

General Taylor and participated

moras

to

Buena

company that went 3d Ohio Regicapacity he was dis-

to the

After serving one year in this

ment.

charged.

.army he served under

in the

march from Mata-

After his return he resumed his

Vista.

avocation of teaching, and in the spring of 1850

moved

to

Harrison county, Ohio, where he taught school and studied

law

enjoys good health and sound mental faculties.

His

Richardson, was engaged in farming throughout his

;

sentatives of Ohio,

Pennsylvania and

settled opposite Steubenville.

married, Ocof Alexander

Law-

Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 25th, His ancestors, four generations removed,

in

at

but as his party

P.,

yer and ex-Attorney-General of Ohio, was born

nominated several times

the minority he never was elected.

•Station,

ICHARDSON, GENERAL WILLIAM

sometimes accepting and

others declining to be a candidate;

by

139

at the

same time

until

Llpon finishing

August, 1852.

Turner he was admitted to the spring of 1853 removed to ^Yoodsfield,

his legal studies with Allen C.

the bar, and in

Monroe county, where he

ILSON, J.AMES cinnati,

1828.

K., .Architect,

is

a native of Cin-

the following year the

filled until

position of Principal of the Woodsfield .Seminary.

Later,

where he was born on the nth of April,

he entered on the practice of his profession, and

Early exhibiting a

was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Monroe county, and was re-elected to the same [losition in 1S57, and again in

decided talent for

drawing, his father (then a merchant of Philadelphia) was induced to remove him from Dr.

1S59, holding the office until

1S61,

Crawford’s school and to place him with Mr.

service of the United States.

Also,

in

when he entered at

1855

the

the outbreak of the

war of the rebellion, he was a Brigadier-General in the Ohio With Mr. Mountain, and subsequently with militia. Immediately after the attack on Fort Sumter he •Mr. Martin E. Thompson, of New York, and with Mr. succeeded in raising two companies, but before he could James Renwick, also of New York, he continued till 1S47, secure their acceptance Ohio’s quota was filled. The when a year’s residence in Europe completed his profes- troops, however, changed the term of their enlistment from Charles H. Mountain, then a prominent architect of the

Quaker

City.

sional studies.

Returning from Europe in the spring of

1848 he immediately sought out his native tablished himself in an excellent practice,

married to Yirginia Keys, of Cincinnati. visited

actively

and

in

Ohio

1852 was

June

once

In 1858 he again

Europe, and from that to the present time has been

and steadily engaged.

profession called

upon

to select

most worthy representative of architecture one would be Mr. Wilson, for

to

nelcy.

months

to three years,

Infantry, of

and with

loth, 1862,

that

ment.

May

right

shoulder

West,

that

casualty deprived

in the

to all others

then

freed

he was

rank proceeded

he was promoted

and

him more than

and were assigned

which regiment

to the 25th

made

Major.

1861, he was promoted to a Lieutenant-Colo-

loth,

as the best

Undoubtedly, were the

some one

three

es-

city, at

2d, at

1863, he the

of

until

May

the field.

was wounded severely

battle

him of the use of

from duty

to

Colonelcy of his regi-

to the

Chancellorsville, his right

January,

1864,

arm.

in

the

which

He was

when he was

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP/EDIA.

140

Camp Chase. failure. The failure did not befall, and after a while the was placed in command youthful firm came to be recognized as one of the best in post, and remained there until the end of August, the city in the extent of its business and its commercial In a steady, safe, sound way, business was good In the fall of the preceding year he was elected standing. President of a court-martial at

detailed as

On

the ensuing February iith he

of that 1865.

Attorney-General of the State of Ohio, and was prevented

with the firm from the

from leaving the army only through the pressing instances of Governor Brough. In December, 1864, he was brevetted

the fact that strict integrity, close application and piudent

command district,

September,

In

Brigadier-General.

he joined

in

command

at

Columbia.

Subsequently he

District of

of the

being mustered out of the service,

after

was appointed

Collector

East South

for

As

his

services

made five

a

in

detached

positions

the sulject of favorable

;

He

brought against him.

Bates,

w ho had

The

part-

nership between Joseph and Charles Reakirt continued- for tw'enty-one years, and in

men

In August,

1865 they sold out.

1874, just thirty years after the establishment of the original

house, Charles Reakirt,

Hale

while, during his

&

Co.

(J.

the head of the firm of Reakirt,

at

Reakirt having died in

the business anew, and

was ever

years of service, no charge of any nature

J.

the active business of his house, and in effect-

all

of inventorying the stock and affixing the prices.

have frequently been

comment

established themselves on the corner of

ing the sale, Caleb intrusted to Charles Reakirt the task

the

commanding

he possessed the confidence and esteem of his

officer

In

and Reynolds streets. Charles Reakirt conducted negotiations on behalf of his firm with Caleb Bates,

transacted

Collectorship and resumed the practice of the law, in which

he has since been successfully engaged.

Bates, and

the

In 1869 he resigned the

Fifteenth Congressional District.

&;

the surviving partner of the other firm,

June, 1866, he

Revenue

Internal

of

in

ihfi

J.

basis of all pro.sperity.

bought out and became the successors of C.

1847 Pearl

Immediately

Carolina, with head-quarters at Darlington.

affording another illustration of

enterprise form the sure, safe

his

South Carolina, and was placed over a sub-

in

with head-quarters

was placed

1865,

first,

is still at

its

1870), ])urchnsed

head, the firm

cupying a commodious building. No. 99 Walnut

has been connected professionally

now

oc-

street.

with various enterprises, and was a director of the Marietta,

&

Pittsburgh

Cleveland

Railroad.

He was

married

in

184S to Sarah E. Smith, of Brooke county, Virginia.

|;RINKERHOFF, JACOB,

EAKIRT, CHARLES the

13th

of April,

C., Druggist,

1821, in

Clermont county, Ohio.

Welsh-German

was born on

New Richmond,

Remotely, he

is

ex-Judge of the Su-

preme Court of the .St.ate of Ohio, w'as born in the town of Niles, Cayuga county. State of New York, on August 31st, 1810. His father, Henry 1

Brinkerhoff,

.

was a farmer,

sylvania, having

of

Penn-

a native of

born near the town of

His mother, nee Rachel Bevier, came from

Gettysburg.

origin, although both his parents

been

His father was a New York State. After a thorough English education, obPhiladelphian, and a cabinetmaker by trade. tained in public schools and at the academy at Prattsburg, Charles received his education at New Richmond, and in Steuben county. New' York, Jacob entered the law ffice county, in 1837 went to Philadelphia to learn the drug business. of Messrs. Howell & Brother, in Bath, Steuben Here he served his apprenticeship and thoroughly mastered 1834. Here he vigorously prosecuted his studies for two

were natives of Pennsylvania.

i

the business he had chosen.

on

own

his

New

At

account.

first

he determined

and

finally Cincinnati

place in which to establish himself.

company with his was begun. The young

therefore, in prise

speak

to locate in

was determined upon

of,

and

torily

to

starting in business implied getting into debt.

So they got into Joseph remained

debt, but in

were not long

in

getting out.

The

place selected was on Third street, opposite

the Henrie House, and

and there

it

there the business w-as established

prospered greatly.

The members

of the firm

elected

Congress on

to

celebrated '

in that office, in

member

bill

party,

known

the

the

of this body he

as “

fall

Democratic

and drew up

of his Congressional career

At the expiraof 1843, he ticket.

elevated

to a scat

became affiliated with David Wilniot the

Wilmot’s Proviso.” At the close

he resumed

his legal practice in until

on the Supreme bench, his

commencing January

and there were not wanting those w ho predicted

position he

was

\\hile

for

Mansfield, in w hich he successfully labored

were young, the place chosen was not a very favorable one a speedy

1836 removed to Mansfield,

for a period of four years.

term

done and arrange other preliminary the Free-soil

while Charles went to Cincinnati to select a proper

location.

performed

tion of his

serving as a

Philadelphia to secure the necessary

stock, have the printing details,

In the spring of 1844,

money

the spring of

on the practice of his profession. He soon acquired reputation as a lawyer of more than average ability, and in the course of a year or two was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Richland County, the duties of which office he satisfac-

as the

brother, Joseph, the enter-

partners had no

in

Ohio, where, in May, 1S37, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of that State, and immediately entered

Orleans, but the uncle’s advice led to the changing of

this plan,

and

years,

In his twenty-fourth year, by

the advice of his uncle, he determined to start in business

qih, 1856.

he was

first

term

In this highly honorable

was retained by the people

for three

successive

LIOU R APli IC AL EN’C VCLOP. EDI A. terms, cos’ering a period of fifteen years;

Judge

to the

to

mention

that a fourth

many

but justice

Reports”

State

of his opinions, delivered during his terms on

Since retiring from the bench he has

Supreme bench.

the

is

it

The “Ohio

but he declined a renomination. contain

and

term was offered him,

law practice, although not as actively as in former years. As a judge he commanded the high esteem of all brought into professional contact with him, and his

resumed

his

integrity

is

He was

without a blemish.

married, October

4th, 1S37, to Caroline Campbell, of Lodi,

Seneca county.

New

on a

who

York,

vember

died

whom

of Detroit,

place, while

that

at

visit,

No-

His present wife was Marion Titus,

l8th, 1839.

four years, when, tired of river

he engaged

life,

in partner-

ship with Mr. Chambers, under the firm-name of Chambers,

&

Stevens

Co., to conduct a dry-goods business at Aurora,

Indiana, the present place of residence of the senior partner.

This house,

we may

having been

and in

Wyman

In 1847

were admitted

1857 the branch house was opened

in

when

doing an extensive business,

is

over thirty years.

in operation

Stevens and Francis

in existence, and, like its

state, is still

counterpart in Cincinnati,

moved

the subject of our sketch

^

1

-

to partneishiji,

Cincinnati,

in

to that

city to assist

conducting the new wholesale establishment, which has

now been

in existence

Thus the old

he married January 6th, 1841.

141

on Fearl

reliable firm of

street over eighteen years.

&

Chambers, Stevens

Co.

h.ns

steadily prospered through the long period of thirty years

by acting on the policy of limiting

TEVEN.S, LEVI Stevens

&

E., of the

of Chambers,

firm

was born in York, August 23d,

Co., dry-goods merchants,

Oneida county, western 1814, and

is

His parents,

of Irish extraction.

Nova

natives of

New

.Scotia,

moved from New York and

State to the western frontier in 1819, in

Dearborn county, Indiana, near what

Moore's

Here,

Hill.

in the

settled

now known

as

backwoods, he became inured

and danger, and acquired habits of self-reliance

to hardship

which have since formed

The

is

a

marked

trait

of his character.

educational advantages afforded by the State at that

early period of

were quite limited and of

history

its

rudimentary character,

strictly

of about

consisting

Of

months’ schooling during the winter season. future merchant availed

three

these the

himself to the fullest extent

by determined perseverance and the assistance of his

;

and

father,

an intelligent farmer, he accjuired a degree of proficiency the English branches and a fund of general

passed current

at that

knowledge

engaged as clerk

in the store of

Glenn, of the firm of William

and the

Rev.

late

J.

in

that

At the

time for a liberal education.

age of twenty, preferring business pursuits

a

to farming,

he

Indiana, in 1839, by

named William

son

engaged

actively

Maria Miller, of Dearborn county,

to

whom

he has had

tw’o daughters,

Mrs.

young man of promise who

A., a

in the

A man

Cincinnati house.

is

now

of de-

cided convictions in matters relating to church and politics,

commands the respect, confidence and esteem who know him. His charily is broad and liberal, as

L. E. Stevens

of

all

evinced by his hearty support of and active co-operation the

management for

the

He

of the Cincinnati Union Bethel.

his estimable lady are also identified

tions

alleviation

the

of

He

elevation of the masses.

with other organiza-

suffering

poor and

also in complete

is

in

and the

sympathy

movements of business men for the extension of commerce and manufactures, and is a director in one

the

w'ith

trade,

He

of the city banking houses.

abstainer from

all

has been

intoxicating liquors,

all his life

a total

and has never used

tobacco in any form, to which be attributes tbe enjoyment of a clear and vigorous intellect and a robustness of health

We

possessed by few of his age.

& M’atson (William more Glenn & Sons, Vine street, who was

L. E.

Charles S. Weatherby and Mrs. M. H. Richardson, and a

Glenn

V. Watson,

was married

.Stevens

one

to the

capital

its

legitimate business, that of dealing in dry goods.

predict

for

him many

years of prosperity and useful activity.

subsequently the

distinguished editor of the A^ort/nuestem Christian Ath'ocate, of

Chicago),

in the village of

of twelve dollars per month at the

many months, however, charge of the

before the

store.

Two

young

It

clerk

was not

and continued

his interest,

a faithful

more

trial

active

years afterward one of the

in the business

till

After

1842.

of merchandising he abandoned

it

for the

and lucrative business of steamboating.

company, of which he and

A

his jrresent partner, Mr. Josiah Chambers, were members, jiurchased the steamer “ Fashion,” for a Cincinnati and Madison Indiana) packet, of which he (

was chosen

clerk.

1845. (I

In this business he continued for

at the

from

legal profession ton,

in

New

that

were William and Anna

After a preparatory course of

seminary

in

Allentown, Tennsyl vania,

institution

city,

with

office of

whom

studies for about eighteen months. that

he

Yoik, and

Selecting the

E.

W.

Stough-

prosecuted

l.is

At the expiration of

time he removed to Ohio, and completed his legal

course of training at

New

1867.

in

he entered the law

York

Washington,

parents

he entered Union College, .Schenectady, graduated

in

Jersey, on Septcndier 28tb,

lance) Shields.

study

born

v\’as

New

Warren county,

had almost

partners. Rev. J. V. Watson, desirous of resuming bis vocation in the ministry, L. E. Stevens purchased, on credit,

Brosecuting Attorney elect

S.,

of Stark County, Ohio,

so large

time that his employers reserved the right to termi-

nate the engagement at the end of any month.

full

HIELDS, ROBERT

Hillsborough, at a salary

— a salary considered

in

the office of his uncle, Joseph

New’ Philadelphia, and was admitted

some Cadiz

in

1870.

Locating himself

in

to

tie

Hance, bar

at

Canton he has there

BIOGRAPHICAL EXCYCLOP.EDIA.

142 successfully followed his profession.

he was honored by election

to the

In the spring of 1871

Mayoralty of Canton,

Reichart, lives at the

Democratic

the finest residences

In October, 1875, he was elected by the

same party Prosecuting Attorney

The

term of two years. upon, January

county, for a

mother

He was

married in 1871 to Clara

A., daughter of Marlin Wikidall, an old

and successful

J!^^ 0 DMANN, CHARLES,

merchant of Canton. I

Bodmann &

li

descent, and

_

o/^^^ODM.\N^N, FERDINAND,

late

Merchant of Cin His

Frankfort-on-the-Main.

near

opportunities for education were above the ordi-

nary grade, and

he

fully

He

improved them.

graduated from B.imborg College

in

1S17, and

then entered a large banking-house, where he was fully fitted for

His

a business career.

father,

Davis C. Bodmann,

February

^

German

cinnati, wa.s born, July l6th, 1801, in a

a Republican

Tobacco Merchant,

the

founder of the extensive tobacco firm of Charles ^

Princip.rlity

with her.

lives

duties of this office he entered

1876.

ist,

for Stark

Brussels, Belgium.

in

daughter, Lauretta Louisa, the

being chosen to occupy that position for four years, on the ticket.

The surviving widow of the late Joseph homestead at Mount Auburn, one of in that section of the country. Her

merchant

successful

Co. of Cincinnati, was of

was born

i8th,

in

1827.

Bodmann, was horn

a

Ferdinand

father,

Llis

in

German

Hagerstown, Maryland,

German

Principality

near Frankfort, on July i6th, 1801, and in 1817 graduated with honor from

Bamborg

College.

He

subsequently re-

ceived a commercial education in a large banking-house in

French correspond-

Frankfort, in which he conducted the

In 1822 he emigrated to this country with his father,

ence.

settling at

moved

Hagerstown, Maryland, but shortly thereafter

re-

where he remained until his death, in s irrow the devastating effect of the Napoleonic wars, deHe left a wife and three children, a daughter July, 1874. termined upon emigrating to the more tranquil Western and two sons, of whom Charles was the oldest. As he grew world, and reached America in 1822 with three sons. His up he was liberally and thoroughly educated, and very wife died

wdio view'ed with repugnance and

in principle,

eleven

years

prior to this event.

Hagerstown, Maryland, he engaged

in

until the

death of his father, about six years

removed

to

promise of

its

He

future greatness.

in

little

erected a large tobacco

on July 29th, he acquired not only

until his death,

close attention to his affairs

a large and profitable trade but a fine reputation as an energetic

and honorable business man.

quickly gave evidence of brilliant business as well as ary qualities.

when he and

between Sixth and Seventh, and

street,

conducted a thriving business

By

after,

Cincinnati, Ohio, then a small town with

warehouse on Main 1874.

Settling

mercantile pursuits

At the time of

his de-

to Cincinnati,

his

He

house grew very rapidly

By diligence and by

and

to

the principal cities line, in

on both

he soon secured

the West,

and raised

wholesale and

sides of

his

house

has been occupied by Charles

He

ness houses and residences.

retail

1852 on a modest scale.

tobacco trade

establishment to pre-eminence

Mr. Bodmann was deeply interested

in

Mason and Dixon's

for Cincinnati the largest

as a

fine busi-

supply them with the utmost

despatch, employing energetic agents and correspondents in

known warehouse on Front

number of

in its line in the M’est.

careful attention, watchful to anticipate

the wants of the trade

those of any other establishment west of the Alleghenies. in the material welfare

one of the

in reputation as

most enterprising and trustworthy

cease the transactions of his house far exceeded in value

of his adopted city, and erected quite a

liter-

established himself in the tobacco trade,

It

The

in that market.

street,

which

for so

well-

long a time

Bodmann & Go., was started witnesses now annual trans-

contributed liberally to the’ actions to the value of over eighteen hundred thousand dol-

and its busine.-.s is still increasing. Mr. Bodmann, who was never married, found recreation from the cares of this W'hen he set out in his mercantile career he acted upon the growing trade in yearly trips to foreign lands. He became sound advice given him by his father, to deal entirely upon an enthusiastic traveller, and his cultivated as well as varied construction and support of public works,

to the charitable

and deserving

a cash basis, and

in this

notes,

and

way

He made no

difficulties.

w’as

and was generous

finding immunity from financial

purchases on credit, issued no

never compelled to request a creditor to

a second time for the

lars,

institutions of Cincinnati.

amount of

his claim.

call

During the

re-

bellion he gave the

tastes

and acquirements enabled him to and unusual incidents which

rare scenes

Asiatic lours presented to him. carried

him

It is

fully appreciate the

European and

his

said that his travels

to nearly every country of the globe,

and being

government a practical support, and did much to encourage enlistments and to relieve the distress of the sick and wounded of the army. He was married,

as clever a descriptive writer as a mercantile correspondent,

December

“A

whom

14th,

he had six childien, of wdiom but two, a son and a

daughter, are

May

1825, to Kate Poplem, of Baltimore, by

loth,

now

living.

1875.

His eldest son, Charles, died on

Bodmann was

leaf tobacco trade of Cincinnati,

sume

great proportions.

The

the founder of the

and he lived

to see

it

surviving son, George,

asis

a

he very often gave through

nati

letters

his experiences to the people of Cincin-

published in their daily papers, signed,

Cincinnatian.” These letters were dated from Jerusalem,

Constantinople, various

cities

in Australia

and

in the great

Polynesian archipelago, and were written in an easy, graceful

and instructive. During his absence was conducted by his partner, 11 H. Hoffman, many years had been associated with Mr. Bodmann,

style, gossipy, sensible

the business

who

for

.

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOIVLDI A. and who completed a partnership relation which was better known to the mercantile world as “ Charles Bodmann &

New York

from

143

any young man

to Cincinnati that almost

money might have been expected

without

to accept.

On

May, 1S75, at June 7th, 1841, on the steamer “ Pilot,” he arrived in CinThe first night in the Queen City the residence of his mother, his entire business was left to cinnati from Pittsburgh. the exclusive control and management of Mr. Hoffman, he spent at Colts’ Temperance Hotel, on Sycamore street. who now conducts it in the same manner and with the same In the early days of Cincinnati this house and its sign were The latter during his landmarks. Of the seven who started from England young spirit as during Mr. Bodmann’s life. mercantile career gained the esteem of the community, not Luke Marvin and himself came to Cincinnati the others

Upon

Co.”

the death of Mr.

Bodmann,

in

;

only as an enterprising and honorable business

He

a liberal and public-spirited citizen. fortune, the benefits of

now

brother George,

man

but as

amassed a large

which he generously disbursed.

in

His

business in Brussels, Belgium,

is

a

gentleman of wealth and social influence, and his mother

and

who

sister,

reside at

Mount Auburn, have ample means.

who succeeds to the entire Bodmann & Co., was born

Mr. Hoffman,

house of Charles

November schools.

control of the in

Cincinnati,

23d, 1845, and received his education in the city

When

eighteen years of age he was engaged by

Mr. Bodmann as assistant bookkeeper, becoming head book-

were dispersed according capital,

one

summed up

five

fancies.

Their joint

in their quarters at Colts,

read: Marvin,

dollar gold piece

to

their

William F. Thorne, one

;

Marvin designing

franc piece.

five-

Danville in the

to start for

morning should have

just five dollars for his fare. Without two suppers and two lodgings would take Marvin paid his stage fare, Mr. Thorne’s five-franc piece.

breakfast, their

Mr. Thorne their Temperance House into the street

bill

they bade each

;

stage,

Mr. Thorne turned

moneyless and friendless.

Opposite the old

other God-speed

;

Marvin took the

National Theatre he found Able Doughty, one of the most

He proposed to work in the establish- energetic shoemakers of his time. was admitted to a part- for Mr. Doughty for his board and lodging. This offer was nership interest, and the firm became that as styled above. accepted. In a few minutes, having removed his trunk to This relation was maintained until the death of Mr. Bod- the .shop and eaten his breakfast, he began his first work in mann. The will of the latter, upon its admission to probate, America. In a short time he had worked out his board for gave evidence of the appreciation in which he held his part- the week. Not wishing to be idle, he worked the rest of ner. Under its provisions, after liberal bequests were made the week for dry goods. To money this was the nearest apto many charitable institutions and individuals, the residuary proach he could then make with Mr. Doughty. At the end estate, amounting to between four and five hundred thousand of the first week, having kept the Sabbath according to the dollars, was devised to Mr. Hoffman. The latter is a gentle- custom of his fathers and his home in Old England, attendman substantially educated, of thorough business acquire- ing Sunday-school and all the services at Wesley Chapel, ments, and in every way fitted to carry out the designs for he made an engagement with Mr. Doughty for six months the extension of the relations of the house prepared by its to take charge of his sales and general business, Mr. Doughty seeing that a young man of such habits was the person to founder keeper within six months of his entrance

ment.

On September

ist,

1870, he

fill

r-'A

'1

the most responsible place in any business.

piration of this time

HORNE, WILLIAM

1 '.,

Wholesale .Shoe Mer-

ford Easton to

work

live in liis family.

land,

November

24th, 1S22.

He was

born and

reared to the shoe trade, his father being a shoe-

maker and dealer before him.

When

he was

thirteen years of age his father died, leaving

the eldest son of a family of seven children. father’s death

he went to Claybrook

trade with his uncle, a

shoemaker of

After his

to finish learning his

that place.

Afterwards

and findings

store

and

to start business

himself on Lower_ Market, with a capital of less than

$500.

Mr. Easton very kindly gave him

he needed

in

all

the assistance

supplying his shop with leather;

Abraham Taylor gave him a Boston, Massachusetts.

modation he needed

letter to

William

This afforded him

in Eastern markets.

and

Mr.

&

Co.,

Claflin all

the accom-

In this shop the

and kip boots were made and sold by the dozen in Mr. Thorne has always been an advocate of ing this time, having read many letters and other favorable thorough, energetic business advertising, which he did accounts from America, he, with six other young men, de- largely at that time, chiefly using the Cincinnati Commerciai, returning to

Higham he worked

him

in his leather

After remaining two years, and having

saved most of his earnings, he concluded for

At the ex-

he made an engagement with Mr. Shad-

at his trade in the

shop of

Mr. Luke Marvin, remaining with him a year or two.

termined to try fortune in the United States. obtaining his mother’s consent, on April

Dur-

Accordingly,

7th, 1841,

he em-

barked on the ship “ Rochester” for America, the Eldorado of his hopes. City of the

first

calf

Cincinnati.

then a small and not very powerful sheet, as the medium.

Thus he soon got

the

name

of the enterprising shoe

and did the business of the town.

His

man

fortunate circum-

that if Cincinnati were the Queen stances now justifying it, on September loth, 1845, he was would be the place for him, he decided married to Sarah E. Collins, member of Wesley Chapel and She proved to be in every city, and nothing could turn him from his daughter of Henry E. Collins.

Thinking

West

to locate in that

it

purpose, although he had two fine offers through the country

sense of the

word a helpmeet.

He now

found

it

necessary

BIOC'.RAPIIICAL

144

new impetus

ENCVCLOP.EDIA.

Binghams of Somerset, England, who in Norman period received knighthood and were Notwithstanding that his business has always been settled for many generations on an estate in the west of in 1851. what is termed legitimate jobbing custom, yet by using great England. The family is of Saxon origin, and therefore had energy in every honorable way he has increased his sales to existence in England before the Conquest. Thomas Bingham enormous proportions, some years reaching $1,000,000. had eleven children his second son, Abel, married Maiy Although he is now ranked among the wealthy men of Cin- Odell, and had a family of ten children. Abel’s eighth .son cinnati, and his career has been one of remarkable suc- was Jonathan, who marrieil Sarah N. Newton, and one of cesses, reverses have not been unknown in his experience. his sons, Jonathan, married Betsy Warner, and his son, He has at least learned that “riches have wings.” Cincin- Elisha Warner Bingham, who was the second son of a family nati has passed through three great monetary panics since of ten, married Miss Perry. Warner Bingham, son of the he began his business career in it, but while many were sorely last-named and father of the subject of this sketch, was born pressed or failed entirely he came through unscathed, with in Cornish, New Ilamp.diire, 1789; his father moved with

to take a larger store, thus giving a

to his busi-

which developed into an exclusively wholesale trade

ness,

family back to the the early

;

a solid business, and consequently a credit sounder, sible,

became an American,

since he

who

visit his

old mother,

trips his

brother Joseph

has

now become

&

Thorne

if

pos-

lie has crossed the ocean thirteen times

than before.

On

living.

came with him

man

the active

and

chiefly for his health

is still

the

first

to

of these

to this country,

of the house of

and

W.

F.

Mr. Thorne has recently brought into the

Co.

W.

business his son,

II.

man

Thorne, a young

of the

full

and business vigor of his father, who is training him by his side that he may, as he has every reason to hope, more than fill his father’s place in business, church and enterprise

Like most mercantile

society.

men

of his times,

always been a

politician, but has

earnest advocate

He

country.

is

of the

its

Sunday-school

Female College;

is

is

;

and an

interests of the

officer in St. Paul’s

Methodist

one of the Directors of Wesleyan

New

eldest,

Hampshire

;

George A. Bingham, a prominent lawyer of the same .State; his sixth son. Judge Edward Franklin Bingham. Judge Warner Bingham was a man of great energy; he led a life of much usefulness to his State, and was held in high

Ed-

repute for integrity of character and purity of motive.

ward

I'ranklin

;

and

successfully,

under able tutorship, prosecuted In 1846, visiting Ohio, he

Always a

consistent, active

temperance man, he was one of the warriors

romantic

in the

temperance movement of 1848, and one of the most ent workers in the recent crusade.

A man

After spending a short time

State.

his studies

became

and

his

whose

persist-

practice

has never varied from his principles, whose motto in busi-

own

brother, Harry, in

when he was admitted at

1st, at

to the bar

so de-

Marietta College he

at

read law under Hon. Joseph Miller,

Young Men’s Ohio,

;

earnest workers of his church.

Harry Bingham, the

lighted with the country that he determined to settle in the

in principle

Vice-President of the

Association

:

Whig

and was one of the earliest supporters of the old Methodist Bethel, having been its SuperHe is now one of the stirring, intendent for nine years. Christian

survive

a leading lawyer, politician. Democrat, of

for three years.

has been eleven years Superintendent

;

now

three of his sons

has been too busy to be a

Republican

best

member and

a

Episcopal Church of

He

fortune.

to

married Lucy, daughter of Captain John Wheeler.

Bingham received his early education at the in his fourteenth year he enpublic schools of Vermont Mr. Thorne tered Caledonia county grammar school, where he zealously

has found most of his education in the school of the world

on the highway

Warner Bingham Only

the family to Concord, Vermont, 1796.

at

New

Chillicothe, Ohio,

Hampshire,

till

1850,

by the Supreme Court of

Georgetown, and commenced practice of law, June

McArthur, Vinton county, Ohio.

the Court of

Common

torney of Vinton county

was elected

to

the

In October, 1850,

him Prosecuting Atin 1851 and 1853, he

Pleas appointed ;

same

after this, office.

At the expiration

of that

time, in 1855, being elected as Representative (Democratic) for

the counties of Vinton and Jackson, he sat in the Legis-

lature during the sessions of 1856

and 1857.

He now

de-

ness has ever been honor, and the key to his success work,

termined to devote himself exclusively to the duties of his profession, and, notwithstanding he belonged to the political

Mr. Thorne has made

party

his

having lived

in

his

mark, and the world

is

better for

which was

in the minority in his district, was, in 1858,

barely defeated in

it.

his

candidacy

for the

Judgeship of the

His party has frequently desired him to put himself forward in politics, but the Judge has rather

Common

I

INCH AM,

HON.

EDWARD FRANKLIN,

Lawyer, and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Columbus, Ohio, was born, August 1,4th, 1828, at

West Concord, Vermont. ancient,

and

in

its

family

is

veiw

many Thomas

different branches has

eminent representatives

in this country.

America he emigrated from England, and settled in Norwich, Connecticut, in

Bingham was Sheffield,

The

its

founder

in

;

1663, being then twenty-one years of age.

He

traces his

Pleas.

sought distinction

He was of

Ohio

in his profession

than political preferment.

a delegate from the Eleventh Congressional District in

1S60

to the

National Democratic Convention at

Wishing a more extended field he removed to Columbus in 1861, and has since been engaged in law. In May, 1873, he was elected to the bench as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. From 1867 to 1871 he was, by election. Solicitor Charleston and Baltimore.

for the prosecution of his profession

of the city of Columbus.

The Judge

has ever .shown great

BIOGRAPHICAL ENX'YCLOILEDIA. and

interest in educational matters,

for

many

years

was mem-

In 1868 he was Chairman

ber of the Board of Education.

He

of the Democratic State E.xecutive Committee of Ohio.

was married, November

21st, 1850, to

Susanah P. Gunning,

of Fayette county, Ohio, and has two sons and two daughters.

The

Bingham

distinguished career of Judge

due

entirely

is

indomitable industry and perseverance, coupled

own

to his

•45

At this time he and purchase of real estate, and commenced the draying business, which he followed

sued

for five years.

this joint enterprise

interested himself in the sale

In 1845 he invested largely in fifth Ward of Cincin-

with profit for six years.

now comprising

property,

the Twenty-

and in 1S47 “Pi "’hh but one exception (that of Ephraim Knowlton’s), the first building. From that until

nati,

the present time he has been a continuous resident of

with unflinching integrity of character.

minsville,

Cum-

largest property- owners.

and has become one of the

The fine hotel on the corner of Spring Grove avenue and Dormann street is a monument of his industry, and has been k^ORM.\NN, FREDERICK, is a native of the State his home for years. A few years ago the cheery helpmate, of Hanover, Germany, where he was born, August who had for so long been a tender companion and wise I

'V

He was

6th, 1820.

I

the second of three children.

counsellor,

left his

side

and

on the mysterious jour-

started

George Dormann and Fredericka ney that leads we know not where, but he hopes with the Hilka, both natives of Hanover, where the former remainder of his family that when the trials and cares of followed through life the occupation of baker. this world are over to meet her on that happy shore where At the time of the death of his father Frederick was in his sorrows are unknown. Twelve children were born to them, infancy. His early education was limited to such studies as eight daughters of whom are still living, while the remainder, were pursued in the common schools of his country. At three sons and one daughter, have departed this life and gone his parents being

X

the age of sixteen he was thrown upon his

own

resources for

a livelihood, and commenced at once an active life in the In 1836, as from pursuit which his father had engaged in.

boyhood and the fatherland he wandered, and eight weeks

he

at

and one day

in the

after sailing

staunch ship “Alexander,’'

length reached Baltimore, landing a stranger in a

strange land, with no friends save the two willing hands

inured to

a country where bread comes but with labor,

toil in

and no words of cheer save those whispered to a brave soul by a dauntless heart, young Frederick found himself penniIn 1838 he went to less, and consequently found work. ^Vheeling, Virginia, remaining there until

when he

1842,

took up his residence in Cincinnati, which has been his

Three years

abiding place ever since.

American shore

his guiding star

a light-haired, blue-eyed fraulein, seas in the

same

vessel, but

for all those

into a

woman when

had been

lost

across the

both to sight and

Frederick gave her his honest heart and

who was

the late Fredericka Brodfuchrer, also a

native of Germany, rolled on,

and a lady of most amiable

qualities.

some home

that they

might truly

nation to have

as

was twenty years ago.

it

some

spot,

her smiles, but

is

what was then an Row and Everett

insignificant street the

Queen

down

City.

the

Ohio

his.

On Western

bake shop again coined

into the capacious pockets of the

home

but a few acres besides.

To

pation as a baker he soon joined that of a grocer,

19

elastic

is

has given him some

has failed to warp his kindly nature or

There

are

few whose

His was a struggle against poverty from the

a struggle intensified but never stopped

Industrious perseverance

merited it.

He

won

at

have

lives

outset,

him health

left

has often been solicited to accept public

has invariably declined, wishing rather than often doubtful honor, the

and

by adverse fortune.

length what he so richly

— a fortune, and, moreover,

its

to enjoy

but

office,

cares,

and

untrammelled enjoyment of his

family circle and the society of a few intimate friends. his political

views he

from the time of his

In

Democratic, and always has been

is

manhood

He

until the present day.

one of the old German pioneers, and belongs

is

to several of

His children have

the different societies of Cincinnati.

all

experienced the Protestant baptism, and his religious opinions are circumscribed by the tenets

and creeds of the Protestant

churches.

MITH,

silver

good

frau

his occu-

and pur-

R.

I’.,

Pennsylvania

Assistant General

Company

for the

burgh Railroad, was born icut,

June 20th, 1830.

of the

&

Pitts-

M'indham, Connect-

in

His

Manager

Cleveland

father,

one of the pioneer merchants of the

to

they rested until enough were garnered to buy not only the

long-coveted

The world

been more actively spent or more honorably employed than

but one master, was

babes and good health, they drifted

and deep

it

harden his generous heart.

strong in these two, and in 1842, with the goods and chat-

pieces,

fire

hard knocks, has often given him frowns when he wooed

no matter how small, a house, be

ever so tiny, over which there

tels,

But Mr. Dormann’s blue eyes of youth, and his step

twinkle with the

call their

This inborn feeling of the German over every other

own.

where the angels dwell.

still

and by-and-by babies came, and with them

the desire to find

it

who had come

In 1840 he was married in Wheeling to this

empty hand.

Time

landing on the

long months, and the maiden had grown

mind

maiden,

after

brought him to the feet of

to

Edwin

.Smith,

city of Cleve-

was a well-known produce dealer and an He was educated in the city schools contiguous to his home, and, after the completion of the allotted course of studies, entered a hardware store as clerk in Newland,

esteemed

citizen.

ark, Ohio.

Returning

tered his father’s store,

at the expiration of

where he served

one year he en-

in a similar capacity.

BIOGRAl'IIICAL ENCYCLOr.KDIA.

146

Tiiere hs remained for a period of two years or more, until

he had attained

employment

majority, then found

his

in a

dry-goods house, where he was occupied during the ensuing In 1855 he entered the service of the Cleve-

four years.

&

land

Pittsburgh Railroad, primarily in the capacity of

burgh, and from last

this point

by a

twenty-five years of his

The

flatboat to Cincinnati.

life

were passed on

farm

his'

near Mount Airy, Hamilton county, Ohio, where he died, January 2d, 1848, at the age of seventy-si.x years. His mother’s decease occurred at the same place in July, 1835.

He was educated at the common schools of the frontier became Vice-President. At the present time he settlements. In 1812 he went to live with John Martin, a the Manager of the road, and is also Director of the Ash- merchant of Cincinnati, and, while serving him as clerk, He was a member of his family for a period of over twenty-one tabula, Youngstown & Pittsburgh Railroad Company. years. In 1831 he became the owner, by purchase, of his lias persistently avoided the turmoil and e.xcitements of political life, and devoted his time and energies entirely to the employer’s interests in the establishment, and continued the Paymaster, subsequently was promoted to an Auditorship,

and,

later,

i-)

conduct of his business in religious

He

aff.rirs.

a liberal co-worker

is

and benevolent matters, and

First Presbyterian

an elder in the

is

He was

Church of Cleveland.

married

and dry goods

business of notions

business,

and

1839 engaged

in

and doors,

During the

until 1837.

succeeding two years, he was interested

the wire-work

in

manufacture of sashes,

in the

which he was occupied

He

Rebecca E.

Peters, of Colchester, Connecticut,

blinds,

and by her has had four

children, three at present surviving.

then, in connection with his brother, purchased a saw-mill

in

1S56

to

in

near Cumminsville, and conducted

twelve years.

^ORBERT, JAME.S L and Hannah

,

Jr.,

(Winans)

son of Judge James L.

was

Torbert,

born

in

He

re-

Springfield, Ohio, .September 27th, 1831.

ceived his education at Wittenberg College, grad-

lS5l,in the

uating in

.Soon after he

went

to

class of that

first

.

New

school.

Orleans, where for a

few years he taught as Principal of the High School.

Hav-

ing meanwhile pursued the study of law, he was admitted to the bar

w.as

and began

practice.

But

undermined by the yellow

in a

fever,

few years his health

from which he had

hardly recovered before he was prostrated with

He was

fever.

of 1S59, his father,

manufacture of Idinds, sashes, doors and frames, while tending also to contract work and building enterprises. mill,

one of the most favorably known concerns of

in this section of the State, is

cally

he

attached to the Republican party.

He was

Church.

kind

Politi-

For over

been a member of the Methodist

married, September 12th, 1833, to Mar-

garet Finkbine, a native of Philadelphia,

and a daughter

of Frederic Finkbine, prominent as an early pioneer and settler of

Hamilton county, Ohio.

typhoid

He

trip.

liut

never

ENN, JULIUS AUGUSTUS,

fully

for

He was a ripe scholar, and an able He was married, November 1st, 1S64, Cincinnati, but had no family. He died

Penn and Philenia (Walriren) Penn.

cD

of /lingering consumption, October 15th, 1S71.

ife

agricultural pursuits,

trips to

Kentucky, removed

was

born

m

Worcester county, Maryland, March 23d, 1806,

and was

tM

fifth

child in a family of nine chil-

dren, whose' parents were

Obadiah Lingo and

Elijah

His

T.

father,

and

1811

in

settled in

Washington Township, Clermont county, Ohio, where he has since resided. He was a soldier in the war of i8t2,

Walriven, in

New

Orleans in a

in

when she

1798 to Ohio with her

w.as but

one year

Franklin township, Clermont county.

James

member

.Sargent, a

tion of Ohio,

and

flatboat, return-

His mother, a native of Mason county,

ing thence on foot.

Manufacturer,

13th,

a native of Frederick county, Maryland, followed

through

and made three

YINGO, CALEB,

May

the oldest child in a family of

eleven children, whose parents were

States Commissioner.

Barr, of

He was

1S18.

several years held the office of United

and upright lawyer.

Attorney-at-Law, was

born in Neville, Clermont county, Ohio,

as soon as he

was able began the practice of law in his native city. In 1S61 he was appointed Mayor of the city, to fill a vacancy,

Mary

is

thirty-three years he has

its

run entirely by steam.

at-

His

having gofie for him; his honored

however, dying on the return

recovered from these successive shocks,

to

Cum-

there, pursuing the

then brought home, which was in the spring

parents

and afterwards

successfully for

its affairs

In 1859 he engaged in business in

and has constantly resided

minsville,

until 1844.

of the

fur several

first

father,

Samuel

old, finding a

Her

home

grandfather,

Constitutional Conven-

years a

member

of the Legis-

same township. On His father, wdio followed agricultural pur- both sides of the house his ancestors were among the pioland. suits through life, removed with his family in 1810 to Ohio, neer settlers of this section of the State, and his forefathers, settling at Cincinnati, where he remained during the winter, on the maternal side, were active participants in the RevoluHis early education w.as liberal, and was and, in the ensuing spring, drew nearer to Carthage, and tionary struggle. He moved to Ohio by the following received at the common schools and high school of his eng.aged in farming. Until he had attained his m.ajority, he asroute by boat to Baltimore, thence with a team to Pitts- native county.

Mary

:

('I'ilghman)

Lingo, both natives of Mary-

lature,

also, in

1798, settled in the

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA. sisted his father in laboring

the paternal acres,

on the farm.

and began

In 1839 he left on his own resources, as

life

a school teacher in Felicity in Clermont county, where he

147

His mother, whose decease occurred

tion.

English-German descent.

employed

as an assistant

Lffitil fifteen

1831, was of

in

was was placed

years of age he

on the farm, and

later

was eng.aged in educational labors during the ensuing two to learn the saddlery trade in Jefferson county, Virginia, While occupied as a teacher, he applied himself which he pursued for about six years. His early education also to the study of law, and in 1 842 was admitted to the was limited, and was obtained at common schools, and by

years.

whereupon he entered on the practice of his profession attentive reading during the leisure hours of his service as a Clermont county. After his admission, in order saddler. In 1835 he moved to Augusta, Kentucky, and to secure the means to embrace more comfortably profes- entered the primary department of Augusta College, the Since then first Methodist institution of the kind established in the sional life, he drove an ox-team for one month. bar,

in Batavia,

he has resided permanently in guarding the interests of outset,

in Batavia, constantly

an extensive practice.

he was associated for about two years

to

shall.

In 1S66-67 he acted for one year as

Ohio

With

District.

has never sought or held public the

But owing

duty,

as a volunteer,

operations.

field of

from a broken

to disability resulting

sequence of a

exception he

At the outbreak of

office.

regiment for the

his

be-

Revenue Col-

this

war with Mexico, he entered the army

and started with

who

which produced Chief-Justice Mar-

longed

lector for the Sixth

At the

in partnership

with Martin Marshall, a distinguished attorney, the family

occupied

leg, the con-

from his horse, he was incapacitated for

fall

and having advanced only

thence to his home.

to

returned

Cincinnati,

In 1861 he accompanied to the

field

Its president was then Dr. Joseph S. TomThere he passed through a thorough curriculum

United States. linson.

During

of literary study, graduating in 1839.

became very

proficient

this

time he

both pure and

mathematics,

in

mixed, a branch of study for which he had early displayed a notable aptitude and meantime by working

He

talent. five

supported himself in the

hours per day

at his trade.

In

days he had proposed to apply his attention to

his youthful

the study of medicine, an intention

whose

origin

is

attribut-

able probably to the fact that in the ranks of the medical profession several

quired

distinction.

members of his family had already acWhile pursuing a collegiate course,

however, he abandoned

this design,

and resolved

to

apply

himself to the study of law, deeming the legal profession

as Captain one more in harmony with his tastes and mathematical company furnished by Clermont abilities. In 1839, accordingly, under the guidance of county to assist in suppressing the rebellion. He was Martin Marshall, an accomplished scholar and legal practishortly after promoted to the rank of Major, and remained tioner of Kentucky, and a member of the family that pro-

the 22d

Regiment of Ohio Volunteeer Infantry,

of

Company E,

in

service with his regiment

the

first

Virginia for

in

months, participating during that time

mishes and minor engagements.

and

to the Republican party,

Harrison.

He

is

widely

the temperance cause,

is

about

five

number of

skir-

first

is

attached

vote for General

as a zealous advocate of

in favor of prohibition,

public and in private orations has earnestly evils attendant

he

Politically

cast his

known

in a

and both

in

denounced the

on intemperance, and originated measures

duced Chief-Juslice Marshall, he began

and in 1840 established his office in Batavia, Clermont county, where he has since resided, engaged in the From control of a diversified and an extensive business. 1845 to 1849 he acted as Prosecuting Attorney of Clermont twice elected to this office. In the

county, having been latter

year he was elected to the Senate of Ohio, and served

for

Also, in 1873, he canvassed Clermont county as a temper-

Democratic

Religiously he

is

He

a Methodist.

was

married December 2d, 1846, to Elisa C. Minor, a native of Clermont county, from whom he was divorced in 1855.

He was

again married, M.ay 2d, i860, to

Mary

1

.

Brock, a

native of Crawford county, Indiana.

to prepare himself

qualified, himself for -ad-

mission,

designed to eradicate the baneful influence of strong drink.

ance advocate.

Within one year he

for the bar.

one term.

In 1858 he was elected to Congress on the

ticket.

Also, in 1866, he

was

a candidate for

Congress, but owing to the increasing power of the Republican element in

The

his district, failed

district referred to

mont, Brown, Highland, district

to

secure an election.

then embraced the counties of ClerFayette and Clinton, while the

from which he had

been

counties of Clermont, Brown, military matters also he has

comprised

the

Highland and Adams.

In

elected

been prominently before the

In 1847 he accompanied to the scene of operations Mexico, the 2d Ohio Regiment of Infantry, and, as

public.

'^'^OWARD, COLONEL WILLIAM,

Attorney-at-

in

Law, ex-Member of Congress, was born in Jefferson county, Virginia, December 31st, 1817. He

body

wxs the

eventful days he

.Second Lieutenant of until

Company

C, served actively with this

the termination of the* conflict.

TJuring those

was employed on the line, under General whose parents were Thomas Howard and Re- Winfield .Scott, from Vera Cruz to Puebla. In September, becca (Likins) Howard, also natives of Jefferson 1861, he accompanied the 59th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer county, Virginia. His father followed through life agricul- Infantry to the field as Major, and remained in service for tural pursuits, and after his removal to Wheeling, Virginia, about eighteen months. In 1862 he was promoted to a died there in 1853. He was originally of English extrac- Lieutenant-Colonelcy. He was with his regiment in Kenthird child in a family of seven children,

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

148

lucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama, and

and remained

engaged in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Crab Orchard, and Stone River, and also in

mustered out

many

ant Postmaster at Columbus, and served until 1869, when he was elected to the Wardenship of the Ohio Penitentiary, an

was

actively

skirmishes and other minor engagements.

he resigned his position

come

In 1863

seriously impaired through the trials attending extraor-

dinary

office

remaining volunteer

last

In the ensuing

him

retained by

fall

officer in the ser-

he was appointed Assist-

until the spring of 1874.

He

subse-

quently returned to Delaware and there engaged in the hard-

by fatiguing marches and exciting

efforts necessitated

ware and agricultural implements business,

lie has always been intimately identi-

service in the field. fied

vice from Ohio.

army, his health having be-

in the

November, l866, when hew.as

in service until

— the

with the Democratic party, and has worked efficiently

continues. In April, 1875,

w.as again

in

which he

still

appointed Assistant

I

to secure

its

welfare and develop

its

His

best interests.

vote was cast in favor of James K. Polk.

He

warm and far-seeing interest in educational and has been instrumental in .advancing many pub-

L. Runyan.

enterprises calculated to benefit the people of his county.

lic

Religiously he a

Columbus, and has since performed the duties He was married, January 5th, 1843, to Eliza

at

of that office. 1

manifested a matters,

Postmaster

first

has ever

man

is

life,

an enterprising

He

and a lawyer of scholarly attainments. January 29th, 1852, Oswego, New York. intelligence,

mind and

and mother or private

in Colchester, Connecticut,

and Christian char-

in her

own household; and whether

in public

she was her husband’s confidential adviser.

life,

She died July 13th, 1875, greatly regretted by the community in which she lived.

was born

January 14th, 1S13.

His parents were James Randall and Joanna (Pemberton) Randall, both natives of Connecti-

was a woman of superior natural and possessed a highly cultivated and refined .She

her a favorite in society, and the idolized wife

D. D., Baptist

Minister, I.ccturer, Editor, Author, etc.,

was married,

extensive information, which, combined with her

made

NDALL, DAVID AUSTIN,

is

citizen,

Amaryllis C. Botsford, a native of

to

amiability of manner, kind disposition, acter,

He

attached to the Methodist church.

of varied experience in

His mother was a direct descendant of

cut.

Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton, D. D., of the old South Church,

When

Boston, Massachusetts. parents

moved with him was instrumental

father

Church of

but two years of age, his

Auburn,

to

New

York, where his

establishing the

in

First

Baptist

removed from Auburn and settled on the west shore of the Canandaigua Lake, about four miles from the village of the same name. In in

this

1821

In

jilace.

th.at

the family

region, dividing his time between school

beautiful

winter and work upon the farm in summer, he passed the

The only periodicals which then reached home were the village newspaper, published at

days of his youth. j

jRR,

RAYMOND, Assistant

bus, Ohio, Dealer in

Hardware and

Implements, was born April

His

father,

as a surveyor

successively in

He

in

Meredith,

New

attended school

in

York,

although constantly engaged

and engineer, was occupied

merchandising and agricultural

year was reached,

also

pursuits.

his native place until his eighteenth

when he moved

taught school for about one year.

to Virginia,

He

and there

then removed to

Mount Vernon, Ohio, where he again assumed educator, and

Agricidtural

His parents were natives of Con-

1821.

2(1,

necticut.

Postmaster of Colum-

the role of

imparted instruction during the winter of

his

secluded

the county-seat,

and the Baftist Register, of Utica,

New

His converse therefore was more with nature than

York.

with books, and those affections

to his

turn to his

and

’early association.s

gave a lasting bias

and a sedate and contemplative

ideas,

mind and musings.

Being naturally of a

reflect-

and inquisitive nature, much of the time devoted by his young companions to fishing, hunting, and the usual sports ive

of youth, was spent by

among

him

either in

reading, wandering

rocks and glens, or in experimenting in his father’s

blacksmith .shop in the rudiments of philosophy and chemistry.

An

interest

in

the

tov\n

library brought into

the

During the ensuing year he remained in connec- f.nnily a quarterly instalment of books, which were always At tion with a jeweler, and in 1842 established himself in gladly welcomed, and read with eagerness and profit. business on his own account at Delaware, Ohio, conducting the age of fourteen he made a public profession of religion, 1840-41.

In 1852 he was elected and December 24th, 1826, became a communicant was repeatedly re-elected, serving Baptist church. In his religious experience, even several terms with marked ability. In 1S59 he was elected early age, a new and powerful impulse was given it

until

Mayor

the opening of the war.

of Delaware, and

Legislature,

and served with

body until 1861. In the spring of this year he was employed as clerk in the Commissary Department at Columbus, and in the spring of 1862 was commissioned by President Lincoln as Assistant

to the

He was

that

spiritual life.

in the at to

this

his

Religion then shed her radiant influence over

his existence,

and the Bible and religious books monopo-

lized his time

and thoughts.

Prompted by

a desire to pre-

pare himself for greater usefulness, the plow was exchanged

then placed in charge at the for the grammar, and he progressed rajridly in his studies. was assigned to duty as Chief Quarter- While in his eighteenth year he took charge of a country master of the depot at Columbus, with the rank of Colonel, school, and profitably to himself and to his pupils sustained (Quartermaster.

Capitol, and in 1864

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mark.

attractive

After

and

school

jT^.I^^/ONES,

academic education in his native and neighboring villages in his own county, he prosecuted and completed his profes-

S

sional education under the careful instruction of Ur. Peter-

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who

those early times ranked high as an eminent

in

New

county.

The second war with Great

Hampshire.

Britain broke out about the time of the completion of his

Devotedly zealous

professional studies.

his support of

in

the cause of his country, he at once tendered to her his ser-

He was

vices.

his commission,

Railway Company, was born

^11

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Pennsylvania,

In her

first

cruise she un-

fortunately encountered a British man-of-war of

on both

sides, she

to Halifax,

many

times

After a gallant defence and

was captured, and with

all

where, after the usual delays, her

and men were exchanged or sent home on parole.

Surgeon Trevitt was soon transferred his services

were greatly needed.

to the

He was

a',

surgeon were

expert

frontier expeditions

he removed with

his thirteenth year, lyn,

where he remained

until

On

the death of

to

Philadelphia,

moved

his

mother

in

In

While

in active

where

his

in

many

and laborious

service.

in his

of

Indeed, from the

to the time of his death,

Andrew Jackson

to

i860 he removed

New

to

clerking until

1856.

Kentucky, where he was

engaged

Louisville,

Ludlow,

to

business on his

in

He

he

accom-

famous Cherokee

the

in

own

same

State,

New

York.

account, as a bookseller,

In 1861 he raised the nucleus of a

and accompanied

company

it

to “

Camp Dick

Robinson,” where he

to duty as drill master.

of the companies, he I,

messenger

as a special

General Thomas

was assigned on the

to

At Crab Orchard he was detailed important despatches from

to carry

General Sherman, and on his return Division Quartermaster,

to duty as Assistant

staff of

General Thomas,

in

which capacity he served

meanwhile

participated in the

until 1873.

as volunteer

aide in the engagement at Mill Spring, and in several other

He

actions.

continued on the

until after the battle at Pittsburgh

staff

of General

Thomas

Landing, then returned to

of the surgeons selected to be present in attendance

Deputy Sheriff of Campbell County, Kentucky.

upon

in,

Co.,

At the consolidation was commissioned First Lieutenant of of the 4th Kentucky Volunteers, which took

was assigned

Upon

the fatal duel fought at Bladensburg between

&

of volunteers, in Covington, Kentucky, and also in Ludlow,

and other campaigns, and was a favorite of that distinguished whom he was devotedly attached. He was one

general, to

In

and here

partnership with the general agent of Johnson, Fry of

in

Brook-

to

when he went

1852,

Orleans, and was there engaged

Company

highly appreciated.

and Indian wars.

war with England

was constantly

moved

his elementary education.

the field in Kentucky.

After the establishment of peace, he was retained in the

panied General

he received

the battle of

peace establishment and accompanied the army

close of the

Louis

Pennsylvania, while he was in his infancy. that city

army, where

Plattsburg and in other important engagements, services as an

26th, 1837.

mother

St.

Later he

her strength and capacity.

officers

May

^'(3

&

Chester county,

in

appointed Freight Agent of the Star Express Company.

on board one of

to duty

commissioned and adopted into the service of the

losses

General Southwestern Passen-

and was assigned

United Slates as a ship of war.

on board sent

B.,

without delay appointed a surgeon, received

those ships that had been extemporized from the merchant service,

SIDNEY

ger Agent of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati

J

surgeon and physician in the town of Boscawen, Merrimac

its

a victim

fell,

the best, the bright-

first,

Mont Vernon,

the family residence at

at

Hampshire, P'ebruary 26th, 1790.

having acquired a good

heavy

where he

at the post

to that remorseless foe, that strikes est

to

I

was born

son,

where he had been assigned

His death occurred on the iSth of August, lS2i,and

duty.

Newport, Kentucky, a step prompted by his failing health. resigning his military commission, he was appointed

Commodores sequent period be was

At a sub-

elected Lieutenant-Colonel of the

Decatur and Barron, on the 22d of March, 1820, and upon the sad duty of assisting in bearing the former

42d Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers, and later was promoted to the Colonelcy by Governor Thomas E. Bramblette,

from the

and placed

him devolved the

fatal

moment

field,

and attending him professionally up

of his death.

to

Faithful in the discharge of every

duty to his country, his noble profession, and to his fellows, alike

upon the ocean, upon the

service against the best drilled

the

tangled

fastnesses,

adroitly

battle-field, in the regular

army

in

the world, and in

selected

warrior for purposes of ambusc.'ide, upon

by the

savage

the pestilential

of the Twenty-third Military District

In the latter part

the position of General In this capacity he

of 1864 he resigned his

to Louisville,

Agent of the

was employed

Kentucky,

Little

until

to accept

Miami Railroad.

1868, at which date

he was appointed General Passenger Agent of the Louisville

&

The duties of that office he perwhen he accepted the position of General

Cincinnati Shore Line.

was suddenly brought

formed

an end, falling a victim while

the faithful discharge

Passenger

in

command

commission, and removed

frontier, his brief but eventful career to

in

of Kentucky.

until 1871, .A.gent

for

the Baltimore

& Ohio

Railroad.

In

BIOC'.RAPHICAL EXCVCLOP.EDIA.

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during the progress of which he

the latter part of 1874 he accepted the appointment to his

in this place,

present position, General Southwestern Passenger Agent for

through consideration for his country’s honor

with head-quarters

N.

in 1856, to

of

&

Pittsburgh, Cincinnati

the

New

Louis Railway Company,

St.

He was

Ohio.

at Cincinnati,

married

Bennett, daughter of a prominent merchant

J.

compelled

to

pursue a

course of policy which destroyed the friendly relations pre-

him and

viously existing between

own government

sought from his

mark of approval of

takable

Orleans, Louisiana.

felt

the Chilian authorities, he

As an unmis-

a removal.

his line of

conduct under the

circumstances, he was subsequently advanced to the consulship of Callao,

While sojourning

Peru.

there,

United States Minister, on account of various

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and Surgeon, with the Peruvian government, retired from his post, thus was born at leaving him, in 1S61, in sole charge of affairs. Shortly Mount Vernon, Hillsborough county. New Hamp- after this, the United .States government, at his own request, (For details of the relieved him of his arduous duties, and he returned to shire, February 7lh, 1809. family see sketch of Henry Trevitt.) He was the Columbus, where he has since lived in comparative secluPhysician

ex-Secretary of Stale for Ohio,

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etc.,

He

youngest of seven sons and two daughters.

sion, following his

of

and Francestown, and completed his literary and profesHe pursued sional courses at Hanover, New Hampshire.

culture of favorite literary pursuits,

town under the instruction of Daniel Adams, M. D., an eminent physician of Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, and at the New Hampshire Medical Institution, at Dartmouth College, where he

ernor

his professional studies in his native

graduated

in 1830,

and subsetpiently he attended the

classes

of the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania.

commenced

In the year 1830 he

the practice of his profes-

sion in Baltimore, Fairfield county, Ohio, whence, after the lapse of two years, he

removed

Ohio, where he was engaged 1840.

During

to Thornville, Perry county,

the practice of medicine

in

his residence at Thornville he repre-

sented his county in the State Legislature for three successive terms,

member of age when

and throughout

time was

that

of his private business

body, having been but twenty-five years of

first

returned.

Crisis, a journal

at that

In the

while conducting

Siiitiiuy till

ils

the

become assured.

and

.State.

Butler, of

and

He was

married

his eldest son,

consists of his wife

for

Ohio, he found

LANDY, HENRY,

it

remove

to

Columbus, where,

&

H.

this

date

down

to the practice

to

1846 he held

England,

field in

During

its

charge of General Moyan’s

regiment, and later was assigned by General Taylor to the head-quarters, thus

Wool.

In 1849, peace being established,

to the civil

practice of medicine in Columbus.

new

Constitution by his

by which the Secretaryship of State became elective, first

to receive the election to that office,

and

in

In 1857 he was 1853 was honored by a re-election. appointed by President Buchanan, Consul to Valparaiso, the chief mercantile port of Chili.

A

revolution breaking out

member

of the firm of

Saw

and

Mill Works, at Zanes-

October

26th,

in the city of

1810.

His

and could point with natural pride

On

became involved

in

to

the death of his grandfather litigation,

and eaused the

His father reared and

liberally

educated his eleven children, and throughout his life was a He accumulated and tender guide and protector to them.

becoming a brought

primarily of General Taylor, anil after-

In 1851, on the adoption of the

he was the

His present family

paternal ancestors were people of distinction in

financial ruin of the family.

State,

still

1839 to Lucinda

and Newark, Ohio, was born

the estate

of General

is

has buried two daughters

senior

Stationary Engine and

after

post he occupied until the close of the conflict.

he returned

management

F. Blandy, Proprietors of the Portable

appointed by President Polk, Surgeon of the army, which

ward

its

publication

and three sons.

an honorable coat of arms.

his

He

John Noble Trevitt.

their native country,

at

in

in the fall of

Columbus, Ohio.

Subsequently, on the outlireak of the Mexican war, he was

staffs,

Its

continued as one of the permanent enterprises of the city

the appointment of Physician to the Penitentiary of Ohio.

of the

Crisis,

Morning News, and continued

success had

Bristol,

of Surgeon

time had a larger circulation

he established

1S67,

ville,

post

the

After the decease of ex-Gov-

affairs.

which

permanently and devote himself exclusively

member

in

management

than that of any other pajier at the capital of Ohio.

the expiration of his term of service, he proposed to reside

progress he served in the

in the

Medary, from 1865 to 1S71 he became the sole proprietor, and assumed the exclusive management of the

necessary, for the proper performance of the duties attached

From

and

In the spring of 1840, having

been appointed Secretary of State

of his profession.

limited circle

physician,

the youngest

this

to his important office, to

consulting

occasionally as

friends,

among a

profession only

received his earlier and preparatory education at Amherst

until

Mr. Clay, difficulties

to this

country considerable means, and upon arriv-

ing here in the spring of 1832, was in easy and comfortable

In the ensuing

circumstances. in the city of

the

New

York, and

Orange Spring mansion

fall

his family rejoined

him

all

rested during the winter at

in

New

Jersey.

Leaving his

parents he returned to England, and spent the winter in travelling, as a

commercial man

in the cut glass business.

In the -spring of 1833 he rejoined his father, and they settled He finally in Zanesville, Ohio, where he has since resided.

was educated

at

Ashton Gate Academy, a private boarding-

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BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA. school

England, whose average

tionary steam engines, portable saw-mills, etc., w'as inaug-

In

urated with a borrowed capital of but five thousand dollars.

he won distinction as a leader, and became pro-

Finally, through persevering industry, inflexible integrity,

of Bedminster,

Bidstol,

attendance was from eighty to one hundred scholars. that school

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Greek and mathematics. To his instructor and careful management, the enterprising partners grasped Now, the products of their shops two in the last-named branch of study, John Lewton, now of a glorious success. Paulton, near Bristol, England, he became devotedly at- of which take rank as the largest and most perfectly ficient in Latin,

tached.

This

—

tutor, a scholar of varied abilities,

though a

equipped establishments of the kind

in

the country

— are

American continent, and are to be “At this time their as a linguist, historian, and theologist, and also for his many seen also in many parts of Europe. When quite a young business partakes of the common malady; they have done admirable personal characteristics. man, so great was his affection for his preceptor, he was in but little, comparatively, since the panic of 1S73, and until the hal)it of walking fifteen miles, on Saturday evenings, in the financial policy of our government is changed, they do coal-heaver’s son, was noted for his intellectual attainments

order to spend with him the Sabbath hours.

After his set-

tlement in this country, the two friends corresponded with

each other

In 1866,

for thirty-three years.

had smiled upon

his persevering labors,

when

prosperity

he again crossed

the Atlantic, influenced almost solely by his ardent desire to

scattered throughout the

not expect their business, or the business of the Slates in general, to be very prosperous.”

career with

political

the

.

.

He

.

entered on his

memorable Whig camjiaign of

1840, and steadfastly supported his party until tion.

He

its

disintegra-

then united with the Republican parly, and from

renew the tender personal associations which in bygone the day of its organization labored earnestly to promote its “ To welfare, and spent his means freely to secure the victorious years had been of such inestimable value to him. grasp the hand, ... to converse with one of the purest and establishment of its principles, and the accomplishment of “ But now, at last convinced that the to whom he has ever felt so its noble purposes. best men that ever lived greatly indebted for the implanting and nourishing in his political principles and policies of the Republican party are young mind those great principles which have been the based on error ruinous to the interests of the mass of the guide of his life, his stay and support through its trying people I have placed myself utterly against it on all vital ;

—

—

He

vicissitudes.

still

lives at the

age of seventy-six years.”

In the spring of 1834 he married Mary Amanda, the second

daughter of Judge Blocksom, of Zanesville, by whom he had seven children, Jennie B., Anna B., Benjamin A., and Harry B. three died in childhood. At that time he formed a partnership with Judge Blocksom in connection with J. T. ;

issues.”

He

stands on the

is now a member of the Greenback party, and same ground with Peter Cooper, Hon. W'. D.

Kelley, Hon. A. Campbell, and other experienced financiers

and statesmen.

His religious

faith

is

based on the Uni-

tarian-Universalist doctrines, as set forth in 1872 or 1873 by

Dr. Bellows, of

New

York,

in the

Liberal Christian.

He

Fracker and Lloyd Dillon, for the prosecution of the furnace

was reared

and John T. Fracker heing continuously engaged in the foundry business of Blocksom & Fracker, the furnace and

with an ever-present

forge department encountered disastrous failure and fruit-

Later, unable to subscribe conscientiously to the doctrine

bosom of the Church of England, and at and forge and mercantile businesses, the firm-style being the age of fifteen years was swayed by deep religious feelDillon, Blandy & Co. Aided by his brother and present ing, painful and distressing in the extreme. The thought partner, Fred. J. L. Blandy, he undertook the management that “endless woe” should exist for so great a part of “ Time and of the mercantile department, and made a success of it. humanity filled him with fear and horror. But Judge Blocksom becoming Postmaster of Zanesville, active physical labor brought some relief, but being endowed dreadful

in the

doctrine

consciousness of responsibility, this

hung

like a

dark

pall

over

my

life.”

absorbed a large amount of capital. The partnership of the Trinity, he left the Church of England. The belief was then dissolved, and he found himself not only penniless of “ endless misery” did not leave him, however, until the but hampered with debts. He subsequently entered again winter of 1S42, when he heard a discussion between Rev. into the mercantile business, possessing no capital of his G. T. Flanders, a Universalist minister, and Rev. Mr. own, and during the three ensuing years prosecuted it very Kellog, a Methodist minister, by which he was led to a very lessly

At the expiration of

successfully.

that time

he engaged in

the foundry business in conjunction with Judge

and

his

two

sons,

Blocksom

careful, earnest

Finally,

and exhaustive examination of the

he became

subject.

satisfied of the truth of the doctrine that

George W’. Blocksom and A. P. Blocksom, ultima'ely, by the infinite wisdom and beneficence of God, being Blocksom & Sons. Subse- good will trium]5h over evil, and that all will be purified,

the firm-style adopted

quent financial embarrassments eventually caused the dissolution also of this partnership,

hanging upon

and he was

left

with a debt

his shoulders of over five thousand dollars. In the spring of 1840 he connected himself with his brother in the foundry business once more, and at a later day added

and in the end brought into the kingdom of heaven. He was married in June, i860, at the residence of Andrew L. Grimes, of Mansfield, Ohio, to Amelia Adeline Douglas, of Lowell, Massachusetts.

By her he had

three children,

Amy

and Douglas Chajmian. Her to it the machine business in many varieties. That venture, decease occurred, December ist, 1867, at St. Paul, Minneincluding the manufacture of locomotives, portable and sta- sota, where she was sojourning for the purpose of strengthLouise,

Nellie

Frances,

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In the following year he

eiiing her enfeebled health.

again married to his deceased wife’s

by

whom

was

Nellie B. Douglas,

sister,

he has had one child, Roswell Douglas.

interests

have won

munity.

He was

for

him

com-

the esteem of the general

March

married,

who

Langlands, of Cumminsville,

loth,

Sarah

1841, to

died without issue, Feb-

October 15th, 1846, to Mary Goodnow, also of Cumminsville, by whom he has had ten ruary 4th, 1843;

children, six of

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.AKEMAN, JOSEPH

whom

are

now

living, three sons

and three

daughters.

Ipswich, Massachusetts, September 19th, 1812,

in

,

now Merchant, was born

F.,

agttin,

and was the second son of Captain Daniel Lakeman and Susannah Lakeman. His father was a

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AMES, ELIAS WILLIAM,

prominent sea captain. From his thirteenth to his fifteenth year he was placed out to live, and

born

Salem,

in

in the s.ame State, in his

Union,

living, are natives also of

followed through

twenty-

Attorney-at-Law, was

Coshocton

county, Ohio,

His parents, who are

February nth, 1837.

subsequently was apprenticed to learn the trade of wagonmaking at Hamilton, M.rssachusetts. He finished his term

of apprenticeship

East

in

still

His father has

Ohio.

His

pursuits.

life .agricultural

preliminary education was obtained in a

common

year, and afterward worked as a journeyman in Boston school located in the vicinity of his home. He then purand Lynn, Massachusetts. H.aving imbibed in early life a sued a higher course of study in the following educational strong desire to make the West his home, he started in May, institutions; the academy, at West Bedford, one year; the first

1837, from Boston with Cincinnati as an objective point, then possessing neither friend nor relative west of his native

He

State.

arrived at Cincinnati, June nth, 1837, with a

of tools, various articles of

chest

dollar broken

bank

of

bill

clothing,

and a

three-

Upon coming

Michigan.

to

Cumminsville he formed the acquaintance of E. Knowlton, who assisted him greatly in his business relations, and was

college, at Oberlin, Ohio, one year; after

the Spring to

Mountain Academy

institution

he

left in

;

and then went

at

Meadville, Pennsylvania, which

1859.

Until he had attained his seven-

Allegheny College,

teenth year he

which he attended

(for a time)

was engaged

in

At the termina-

farm labor.

he returned

tion of his sojourn in the last-named place

to

home, and found employment in teaching in the High instrumental in aiding him to erect a wagon shop, the only School, West Carlisle, Coshocton county, for a term of nine one then in existence at this place, on what is now the north- months, after which he applied himself to the study of law At under the guidance of Nicholas & Williams, well-known east corner of Spring Grove avenue and Ludlow street. In August, 1861, he enthe opening in 1851 of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton practitioners of his native county. Railroad he was appointed Agent of Cumminsville station, tered the Union service as a private in Company K of the and about the same time During

that time

he held the

Road

minsville Special

and

later

was

when he resigned

office also

January, 1862, was appointed by the Governor to a Second

Lieutenancy, and in the course of the s.rme year was pro-

office

made him

also Clerk of the

School Board, and schools.

In

for

He

establishment

schools,

and he was a prime mover

insure

the

1852 a special school

one year each,

firmary,

successful

district,

and served

for a

having established

period of eighteen years.

he was

Hamilton County

In In-

also Clerk of the Board. office,

In 1869 he

which he occupied during the ensuing three is

and served

was elected

engaged

in

years.

At the

the paint and wall-paper

business in Cumminsville, where his integrity of character

and generous

Army

Corps,

at

Vicksburg, and held

this

interest in the local religious

and educational

until

office

regiment returned to the North and was reorganized, division.

He

served three

his enlistment, and- then re-

signed only on account of the sickness of two died shortly after he reached

home

sisters,

in the fall of 1864.

of western Virginia, under Fremont, including Cross

inter-

of the incorporated village of Cumminsville, a position

time he

and winter

serving successively as Di-

for a further period of three years.

present

of

fall

participated in the following battles and engagements

a Director of the

six years;

During the

rank of C.aptain.

in

in

In 1872 he w.as again elected to the same

Mayor

there

Clerk and Treasurer, with but two

1863 he was elected

17th his

to the

1863 he acted as Judge Advocate of the 3d Division,

Township acting with General Leggett’s its months longer than the term of

Mill Creek

days great energy and activity were

those

to

vals of

Latter

moted of

then appointed Orderly Sergeant; in

two years he was Supervisor of

needed

rector, President,

The

years.

term of

Cum-

Clerk in the same body.

in this capacity for ten

for the

two years,

;

and served

He was

three years.

was also elected Trustee of Mill Creek township, serving two years and later was elected Clerk of the same township,

32d Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry,

both.

of Trustee of

District for a period of

six years

for

Postmaster, which

officiated as

positions he held for thirteen years,

his

of the Vicksburg campaign,

vance on Atlanta and

at

in

He those

:

Keys

when he was engaged

time on staff duty; and of Sherman’s campaign,

who

;

for a

the ad-

the actions before that place.

After

army and returned to Coshocton, Ohio, where he resumed the He was admitted study of law under his former preceptors. the capture of Atlanta he resigned his position in the

to the bar in Carrollton,

law course

at

class of 1867. City, Missouri,

the

Ohio,

in 1867, after

having taken a

Michigan University, 'graduating

He

first

in the

located in his profession at Kansas

where he resided about four months,

expiration of which time he returned to Coshocton,

at the

and

in

BIOGRAPHICAL ENX’VCLOP.LDIA. connection with John D. Nicholas entered upon the active

His present honorable position

practice of his profession.

as a leadiii!^ legal practitioner

the legitimate result of his

is

untiring diligence and perseverance, since, defraying in a

i6i

worked efficiently to increase the and happiness. He was married

store of general welfare

1855 to Caroline A.

in

Totten, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has

now

a family

consisting of six children.

great measure the expenses attending his early training by his

own

exert.ons, he

for success

in

was compelled to rely upon himself alone He was married. May 26lh, 1870, to

whom

Cornelia A. Denver, of Wilmington, Ohio, by

had one

ELL,

life.

JOHN EDWIN,

was born

he has

moved

^V

WILLIAM

ELLIS, M.

Pedricktown, Salem county.

Hunt and Sarah

Thomas Ewing, in

D

New Jersey,

in Steubenville, Ohio, in

and

M. A.

Pennsyh’ania, in

graduated also

at

is

of

He

State.

lyih,

decease oc-

father’s

1838,

New

at

Orleans,

Louisiana, he then being engaged trading between Cincinnati

New Orleans. His mother died in Cincinnati, July He received his early education in the public

and

23d, 1875.

schools of Cincinnati, and, at the completion of an allotted

and Hon.

course of .study, was placed to learn the trade of pattern-

educated

Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and

at the Jefferson

His

nth, 1832.

March

curred,

akin to Rev. C.

He was

Ohio.

is

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

in

same

in .\llegheny City of the

of B. A. and

He

D., of .Steubenville, Ohio,

late of Lanca.ster,

Pedricktown,

Jersey, P'eb-

Hunt.

(Ellis)

Scotch-Irish extraction, C. Beatty,

New

was born

His parents were Dr. William

ruary 24th, 1833. F.

A.,

Bell,

to Cincinnati, Ohio, arriving in that city

P'ebruary

T)

v.'lf^UNT, REV. in

His parents, Walter and Jane

26lh, 1831.

child.

Operator in Real-Estate,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August

in

took the degrees

College, Cannonsburg,

In the Latter year he 1853 and 1856. the Western Theological Seminary, Al-

making, which calling he followed he secured employment ilton county,

In this year

until 1853.

in the office

Ham-

of the Auditor of

Ohio, and in the capacity of Clerk and Deputy

remained there

until

March

He

bth, 1863.

then assumed

the duties as Auditor of the county, having been elected to that position at the preceding

At the ex-

October election.

piration of his term he gradually

withdrew from the scenes

In 1848 he had united with the Second Presbyterian Church of Steubenville. He was soon thereafter engaged for a year in clerking in a store, and al.so

of the political arena and

for a brief period in 1851 acted in the capacity of clerk

on

important trusts both of a public and private nature, in the

was licensed by the

conduct and management of which he has evinced invariably

legheny City, Pennsylvania.

In 1855 he

a Ohio river steamboat.

Presbytery of Steubenville, and in 1857 ordained by the

Presbytery of Coshocton

(now

Ohio.

Zanesville),

that date he has continued uninterruptedly in

church

that place.

at

He

Since

charge of the

superintended the erection of a

very handsome village church and parsonage here, and in

its affairs,

official

and engaged

During

ness of operations in real estate.

in the busi-

career as an

his

and public man he has been the recipient of many

the possession of entire capacity and sound integrity. is

a P'reemason of high standing, having attained

all

He

the de-

grees of the several grades, also that of Honorary Inspector-

General of the thirty-third degree A. A. Scottish the Independent Order of

Odd

rite.

In

Fellows he has exhibited a

He

various ways has been importantly instrumental in advanc-

notable zeal and activity.

ing the interests of his church in the region where he lives

several positions of trust in the State, including that of

Grand

and

Master, and at this time

to the

labors.

ability

and

and

zeal

He

Examiner. tion,

In addition to other work, he

h.as

served with

Councilman, and County School

as City

has been a Director of a banking associa-

also a Director of the

Coshocton

G.as

Company,

having been chiefly instrumental in the establishment of that

and of a number of others admirably calculated promote the general prosperity and welfare. He was a

enterprise, to

member of the was a member

Presbyterian General Assembly in 1861 also of the

;

the

Grand I-odge of the United among the number of leading

Hon. Representative

States.

He

is

a valuable

man

and has been importantly instrumental, either as prime mover or as auxiliary, in benefit the

citizens of Cincinnati,

pushing to completion enterprises calculated to

community

in general.

and

Presbyterian Union Convention

of 1867, both of which were held in Philarlel]3hia, Pennsyl-

vania; was elected a

is

has fdled with credit the

member

EART, JOSEPH member

Operator

E.,

Olden

&

Real-Estate,

in

Assembly of 1874, but

His

the fathers of both having died before their births.

was limited

early education

seven-months’ term

to a

at

W'hile

log school-houses of frontier settlements.

Ripley, Ohio, and after a pupilage of eighteen

Teetor, in

The months, during which he made some progress in all its branches, he commenced its practice, and has continued in 797

to

it

up

profession he remained in

his

moved

in

eighteenth year he began the learning of the blacksmith

During

sources and

he remained

for

about six years.

Ohio, where he was engaged

He

Dur-

at his trade until 1863.

ing his residence there he was intimately identified, in various positions, with the welfare of the Carthage schools,

three years acted as a

P'irst

of the

and

for

Township Board

of

In 1863 he entered the Provost Marshal’s office

Education. of the

member

Congressional Ohio District, and remained there,

department,

in the enrolling

for

a period of about sixteen

at this place until

re-

1858.

he did something to increase the

this period facilities

moved developed, and

subsequently

Carthage, Hamilton county,

to

Ripley one year, and then

Xenia, Ohio, residing

to

trade at Mercersburg, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where

with his wife and parents

In the pursuit of this favorite

to the present time.

the

re-

of the profession, then but imperfectly

1848 entered the Ohio College of Dental

in

Surgery, and, after completing two courses, graduated in

1850 from that

In 1854 he was appointed as

institution.

Professor of “ Operative Dentistry” in this college, and has

now completed

his twenty-first year in this chair,

and has

taught longer without interruption in this capacity than per-

haps any one else

now

For the greater part of

living.

this

Dean of the Faculty of this institution, member of the Ohio Dental College Asso-

period he has been

and has been a

was appointed Deputy Sheriff under ciation since its organization in February, 1852, having been Richard Calvin, and held that position for two years. I'rom for twenty years its Secretary. In October, 1856, in co1861 to 1865 he was elected four times successively to the partnership with Dr. George Watt, he became part proprietor From 1866 to of the Dental Register of the IVest, and one of its editors office of Trustee of Mill Creek township. 1869 he acted as one of the Directors of the County Infirm- and publishers, and in a few years became its sole proIn 1865 he

months.

remaining

position ever since, with the ex-

ary; and from

1867 to 1869 officiated as Chief Deputy under Henry Schlotiman. From 1869 to 1871 he vvas Chief Deputy under Colonel Daniel Weber. In 1871

prietor,

Sheriff

ception of a short period.

he was elected Sheriff of Hamilton county, Ohio, and served

devoted more than twenty years of unceasing

two years.

in this capacity for real estate business.

Politically

\Vhig and Republican

May

November

1851, at Carthage, leaving

20th,

He

children.

Ann

married,

first

for

organ of the profession

who

of two

Sarah

to

ITiyden, a native of Hamilton county, Ohio.

for

in

when

it

oil ‘’)W|

'

born, September

county, Ohio. '''‘S

1

D. D.

mained

Dental Surgeon, was

7th, 1820, in Russelville,

Adams

ten years.

moved

to the

in

mountainous

county, Ohio, where they re-

His

father,

who emigrated

Lyman

Taft,

was

the

became

a monthly.

quarterly

until

has been issued

It

In

was changed to the Dental Register. In 1857 Dr. Taft removed to Cincinnati, his connection with the college and this journal having much to do with this change, though for two years prior to this removal he had practised

Xenia.

Brown had

After a residence of two years

place the family

regions of

S.,

effort to

which has been the recognized

twenty years without the failure of a single number.

1866 the

title

his profession

JON.\THAN,

he has

and has

Ohio, and to some extent through

in

Cincinnati, having a business connection

with Drs. George Watt and .Vh'T,

control,

This publication was issued

West.

the

July, i860,

2d, 1847,

was again married, July 26th, 1855,

ICir the past eight years

management and

to the

General

issue

entire editorial

interests of this publication,

he has been attached

and voted

its

this

in the

Krebs, of Washington county, Maryland,

Catherine died

parties,

He was

Winfield Scott.

engaged

In 1875

held

in

J.

Hamill

Previous to his editorial

written a

fession, but

number of

in

both that city and

work on

the Register he

articles in the interests of his pro-

the bulk of this labor

was greatly

inferior to

what he has subsequently accomplished. He kept an accurate record of experiments and modes of practice, which be-

came

of invaluable service to

him

in his

subsequent literary

fourteen he enjoyed but meagre advantages for education,

During the winter of 1858-59 he wrote a treatise on “Operative Dentistry,” which was received so well that has been it was adopted as a text-book in the colleges, and relied on as an authority wherever the science is known.

and

It

a native of Massachusetts,

and

his

England

to

Ohio

in

1818,

mother was a native of Ohio. Both were of New stock, and of Puritan ancestry. Lip to the age of

at that

time entered an academy where he studied two

work.

has been translated into

German and

other languages.

some knowledge of Greek and Latin and of The second edition, revised and greatly enlarged, was issued mathematics. The succeeding two years were devoted to in 1868, and obtained a very large sale. During the last farm labor, and at eighteen he engaged as teacher in a com- twenty years Dr. Taft has devoted his attention and most mon school, continuing in this capacity about four years. earnest efforts towards the organization and support of dental

years, gaining

He commenced and pursued

in this

period the study of natural sciences,

his researches with industry

spring of 1841

and

spirit.

In the

he studied dentistry under Dr. George D.

them as of incalculable benefit for and progress of the profession. He was

associations, regarding

the development

a

member

of the

American Society of Dental Surgeons

in

.

BIOGRAPHICAL E N' C V C 0 P -E D A 1

1S52; became a member oT the American Dental Conits second meeting in 1856; was chosen its Presi-

vention at

dent in 1863, and continued

attendance

in his

at

in 1859,

and was

until 186S,

has been a

Secretary from the date of

its

when he was chosen as its member of the Mississippi and

for tw'enty-seven years,

ha.s

;

Association inception

He

presiding officer.

\ alley Dental Society

not been absent from

its

an-

nual meetings, with perhaps one exception, during that time.

mained there

outbreak of the war,

until the

when he

re-

raised

Comiiany D of the 26th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, of which he became Captain. He was sent with his command to Virginia, where he was attached to the i ilh Army Corps.

twenty-four

its

He

City Engineer, holding the office for several years. j

these annual

many years. He was one of the gentlemen who organized the American Dental

gatherings for

I

.

.

'

In the

autumn

of 1862 he

was detailed upon the

staff of

General Carl Schurz as Chief of Topographical Engineers.

He

participated in the battles of Eredericksburg, Chancel-

Gettysburg, Wauhatchie, Missionary Ridge, and

lorsville,

in

many

other important engagements and skirmishes.

In

His labors have been conspicuous in over fifty different pro- the fall of 1864 he resigned on account of ill health and fessional associations, and has during the past twelve years settled in Cincinnati, where his family had been for some He became the local editor of the Cinciuua/i been in attendance at from fifteen to thirty societies an- time living. In 1S67-68 he was engaged with some of his pro-

nually.

fessional brethren in obtaining the passage of a late the practice of dentistry in the State of

enacted

May 8th,

1868, and

it

law

to regu-

Ohio, which was

has proven, as was anticipated,

of the highest benefit to the public and the profession. act created a

he was

Board of Examiners,

once appointed, and

at

honor ever

since,

to a

membership

this post

he has

in

This

which

filled

with

occupying during the entire period of the

existence of the Board the chair of presiding officer.

In

was appointed Professor of the “ Principles

July, 1875, he

and Practice of Operative Dentistry”

in the

Dental College

of the University of Michigan, where he devotes part of the

time

in

He

professional teaching.

vestigator into the science of dentistiy,

has been a patient in-

and has accomplished

the most beneficial results in his study of the best methods

of treatment.

He

1S65, and

Volkshlatt in

and enterprising new's

He

remained

and

as a graceful writer.

capacity until elected City Treasurer

this

in

himself as a skilful

distinguished

collector

Democratic

Cincinnati, in April, 1S75,

of

Mr. Ligowsky

is

of great natural ability for the discharge of

His

ticket.

a gentleman of scholarly attainments, and

c.ireer as a civil

duties.

official

engineer and journalist was distin-

guished by a thorough comprehension of the character of the to

work committed

perform

to

him, and by thorough competency

His record as a soldier

it.

and he was, while

in the

army, held

a meritorious one,

is

highest estima-

in the

Since entering upon the City

tion by his brother officers.

Treasurership he has given ample evidence of his ability to discharge to

duties,

its

and of

his intention to allow

occur on the integrity of his

no blemish

official c.areer.

has been an earnest advocate of the right

of w’omen to study and pursue

this profession,

and has w'on

the esteem of his fellow'-citizens for his candor, his industry, his public spirit

ten years has been connected with

He

HORNHILL, FRENCH

and profound learning. For seventeen years

he has been connected with the Cincinnati Bethel, and its

Board of Directors.

having been born

hxs aKvays been as conscientious a churchman as an

investigator in the

Hannah living,

domain of science.

Collins, of Ripley, Ohio,

one of

whom

is

Slate,

In 1842 he married

and has three

in

is

a Virginian by birth,

Culpepper county,

on the 21st of September, 1804.

in

He

both native Viiginians.

was received

at

He ;

attended school

then he

left

school

and began the reading of law with Colonel Hall. pursuing

IGO\\SK\ AUGUST, ,

Civil Engineer, Journalist,

'I'reasurer of Cincinnati,

of

His general education

Harrisonburg, Virginia.

was sixteen years of age

there until he

i

that is

Irish-English descent, although his parents were

cl.ildren

Dr. William Taft, dentist.

W., Judge of the Probate

Court, in Coshocton, Ohio,

for

this

After

course of reading for a time he abandoned the

law temporarily and commenced the study of medicine.

This profession seems not to have found favor with him, for Germany, November 22d, 1826, and was when he was seventeen years of age he gave it up and went educated in the German High Schools. Upon to learn the gunsmith’s trade with McGilvary, of Buckingthe close of his school career he studied civil en- ham. He remained with him, working at this trade, for a Chio, was born

in

West-

phalia,

gineering.

one

In 1846 he entered the army, serving

])eriod of ten

years.

Then,

in

the year

1830, he went to

year, the required term for students,

and then assumed Coshocton county, Ohio, and there engaged with his brother his professional duties and received his diploma. This occupied him for about In 1848 in the manufacture of brick. he entered the German navy and served for some years. In two years, when ill health interfered with his business. For August, 1853, he arrived in Philadelphia, and engaged with Percival Smith, map publisher, as the surveyor of Clinton

and Lewis counties.

New

Vork.

Finishing the duties

re-

several years his health remained in an impaired condition.

When West

it

permitted him to resume business he removed to

Carlisle,

Coshocton county, and there engaged

quired of him in this connection in 1855 he went to Madison,

cantile pursuits; from

M isconsin,

and thence

where he became Dejiuly County Surveyor and

to

East Union.

removed

in

mer-

West Bedford, For over thirty years he was

there he

to

—

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.EDIA.

164

engaged

At length explored field. Accordingly, after the expiration of his May, 1875, he was ap- apprenticeship, September 9th, 1820, he applied for admis-

mercantile business in these places.

in

he removed

Coshocton, and

to

in

pointed by the Governor to the position of Probate Judge.

In the to

of that year he was elected, without opposition,

fall

Judicial honors

the office for a term of three years.

fill

followed magisterial honors

his case

in

betore taking

for,

;

sion to the Cornwall

school for the purpose of preparing

This institution was under American Board, and was established

himself for missionary work. the patronage of the for the

education of heathen youth, the children of mission-

and those who had a missionary

his seat on the bench,

aries

of the Peace for

lamented Obookiah was

Democrat, and

money

he had held the position of Justice Politically, he is a over twenty years.

he

belongs

He

” school.

distinctively

the

“ Hard .State

In 1836 he was elected to

Legislature at various times.

the

to

has represented his party in the

of Representatives for Coshocton and Holmes,

House

In the year 1844 he was

and served through one term.

elected to the State Senate for Coshocton

and Guernsey,

He

the school.

at

life

The

in view.

one of the inmates of

that time

devoted himself assiduously to his studies,

own efforts, and in November, 1825, offered himself to the Board for missionary service. Of the obstacles intervening between him and defraying

all

his original

attendant expenses by his

He

there exists no visible record.

intention

was licensed

gospel by the A.ssociation of

to preach the

He was again Hartford, north, P'ebruary 7th, 1826. On the isl of the that body two sessions. House of Representatives in 1863, and con- succeeding September he sailed from Bridgeport for BosIn 1868 he was ton, on his w:y to Nova Scotia, the home of his paternal tinued to sit in the House until 1870. Having supplied himself with a quantity of elected Speaker pro tempore of the House by the unani- ancestors. and served

in

elected to the

mous

On

vote of the members.

He

has been twice married.

November, 1828, he married Sarah WolfenShe died in barger, of Pocahontas county, Virginia. In November, 1844, he married for his August, 1844. second wife Mrs. Ellen Wright, daughter of William Renthe 22d of

frew, an early settler of Coshocton,

who

/s still

tracts for distribution,

and arrived

quent passage of a week,

him

to

for Halifax,

in a

vicinity,

and declining

in

September 14th,

A

passage of two days.

subse-

small fishing vessel, brought

Greysborough, the residence of his

spending a month there relatives,

living.

he sailed

in port after a

relatives.

After

pleasant intercourse with those

to take

charge of a parish in the

he returned to Connecticut.

In

the spring

1827, on the suspension of the Cornwall

school, he

invited to take charge of twelve Indian boys

of

was

and conduct

V.iTr^UBBELL, HORATIO NELSON, Founder and for them to the Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, where they many years successful conductor of the Ohio In- were to complete their education. The journey was perstitution for the Deaf and Dumb, was born in formed by way of the Erie canal, and two weeks were Trumbull, Fairfield county, Connecticut, Sep- consumed in reaching Cleveland. The facilities for travel From a sketch of his life, at that lime were so imperfect and uncertain that, after a tember 9th, 1799. written by Rev. Collins Stone, taken substantially

from the “Annals,” are culled the following

facts

He

:

company

left

course through the woods,

first

delay of several days, the straight

on to

foot,

was the eighth child in a family of eighteen children whose father, Nathan Hubbell, removed from the province of Nova Scotia to Connecticut in 1793. At the age of sixteen

thence, passing through Columbus, to Oxford.

he was bound

months previous

as

an apprentice

to learn the hatter’s trade in

the neighboring town of Brookfield.

About

this

time he

experienced a change of heart, and consecrated himself to a

life

seems

of benevolence in to

the servicr of

His mind

God.

have turned almost immediately to the Christian

taking a

Massillon,

and

After con-

ducting his charge safely to the appointed destination, he returned to Columbus and engaged in teaching. to his arriKal a

struction of the deaf and

community results

An

—an

chiefly

dumb had

interest excited

by the

efforts

A

few

w'arm interest in the in-

been awakened

and matured

of Dr.

in the

into practical

lloge, of Columbus.

act incorporating an institution for this

purpose had just

work as coveted fields of useful- passed the General Assembly and a Board of Trustees been These desires were warmly cherished until Provi- organized, of which' Governor Trimble was {cx-ojjpcio') ness. dence opened plainly before him another sphere of labor President and Dr. Hoge Secretary. It was soon perceived one nearly allied to that on which his thoughts were that its successful operation depended upon the finding a

ministry and missionary

centred.

It

is

related as an evidence of his conscientious-

ness that, although the father

was

distasteful

employment selected to

for

him by

his

him, he yet resolutely and even

cheerfully fulfilled his indentures. tation of missionaries to the

Among

Sandwich

who

should be fully qualified

structor to the deaf mutes.

He

to act as

was then selected

to

fill

in-

that

responsible post, and in March, 1828, went to Hartford to

He

remained

first

depu-

prepare himself for the allotted task.

which

sailed

of the institutions there for about eighteen months, wdtness-

the

Islands,

suitable person

in

one

was Rev. Samuel Ruggles, of Brookfield. From ing with profit the daily processes of school-room instrucman he became deeply in- tion and receiving lessons in signs. On returning to terested in the enterprise, and became filled with an ardent Columbus he opened his .School for the Instruction of Deaf The act incorporating the desire to qualify himself for labor in that new and then un- Mutes, October i6lh, 1829. in

1820,

intercourse with this excellent

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.EDIA. was passed

institution

dumb

mind with regard

to the

papers of the

leading

the

m

insti-

Circulars were

Yet, at

State.

and of these

the close of the

had increased

to

number

pupils that

it

was found necessary

and permanent structure

larger

actual inmates.

spent a few weeks

the appointment, but

declined

that

in

Although not engaged

organizing the school.

It

is

Before

he never ceased

labors designed

to

warm

manifest a

to

relieve

in

conducting such an

est.ablishment

community

in

the enterprise, to gain confidence

pecuniary management,

:

and

last

insti-

by a wise

buildings, to pro-

to erect 'suitable

a comp.iny of

fifty

young persons avho had

or sixty

know’ia not a lesson of restraint before

—

this

all

resulted

He

cure and prepare competent instructors, to maintain order

all

During the

also

in legislative action

engaged with

year of his

life

securing the desired object.

work

zeal in the

was spent

the hour of

its

The

extremity.

which he was led

course of investigation to

collecting material

in

for

“ was a source of great satisfaction to his doubtless contributed

much

him

to prepare

On

death.

the

for his peaceful

be an actor

to

and

a Saturday he completed

which he had followed so many

was himself called

volume

own mind,” and

the misfortune of the deaf mute had up to that time excited

Doubts were entertained respecting the possi-

a

Dying Words of Eminent Persons.” Its design was to present, in marked contrast with every other principle, the power of Christian faith to sustain the soul in

demanded and triumphant

circle of the afflicted in-

jrress

entitled “

work

arranged his manuscript, and on the succeeding

beyond the family

The

of colportage.

preparing for the

in

no small amount of judgment, prudence, energy and skill. Also, aside from the sympathy of a few benevolent persons,

dividual.

in

interest

the unfortunate.

1854 he presented to the General

session of

legislative

a

to erect

to enlist the good-will of the

its

attention

active

tion,

upon the care

not necessary to dwell

and wearisome labor involved

little

city in

in

of pupils

applicants

the

for

tution after

among

He

ware, Wisconsin, then about to be opened.

the

purposes became so crow'ded with the constantly increasing

number of

autumn of 1853 he received the appointment of Superintendent of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Dela-

Assembly a memorial urging the establishment of an institen, and in the course of the second year tution for the education and training of the idiot population Eventually the house rented for school of Ohio, thus taking the incipient steps which have since year, however, the

first

to twenty-two.

were of unsound mind.

tw'o

and was ever ready to aid the pastor and his by counsel and by active co-operation. In the

service, after the close of his connection with the institu-

opening, but three pupils from the vicinity of Columbus arrived,

trustee,

brethren

in-

and explanatory advertisements

extensively distributed in

of

pro-

feasibility of the enterprise

the result of the experiment

shown by

tutions already established in the country.

serted

to

people, their pitiable condition while un-

educated and the entire jected, as

interval

made number

organization efforts were

its

enlighten the public

deaf and

During the

in April, 1827.

wliich elapsed before

165

in

Monday

the scenes through

On

others.

the morning

of January 19th, 1857, he suffered with severe paroxysms

His disease, an

of palpitation and distress.

affection of the

not easily persuaded to commit their children to the care

He called his family was approaching a climax. around him and took leave of each member; he sent mes-

of strangers where the prospect of their receiving benefit

sages to the absent, to his former pastor and to the church,

bility

of his education, while parents and guardians were

was so problematical.

In January, 1851, he resigned his

position as Superintendent of the institution, but at the retpiest of the trustees

continued to perform

its

duties

till

the

During many of the twenty-two years connection with the institution he had discharged the

heart,

for

which he expressed

his

unabated

He

affection.

of his love for his family, of his faith

in

sjioke

Christ, of his

readiness to depart and of the blessed society he should

succeeding October.

soon

of his

was

While being removed from

join.

reclining, to his bed,

he ceased

a sofa, to

on which he

At

breathe.

his

combined duties of superintendent, steward and treasurer. funeral a discourse was delivered by his former pastor. Rev. Within this time 462 deaf and dumb children had, for Henry I.. Hitchcock, D. 1 ).. from Revelations xiv. 13. On periods varying in duration, enjoyed the privileges of in-

The

struction.

institution,

sane pupil and two

idiots,

from the small beginning of one

had grown

the country, and had blessed with

to

men

forth

sonville,

Knoxville and

sprung the

si.ster

to

found schools

at

It

had educated

Indianapolis, Jack-

Louisiana, and

schools of

in

beneficence nearly a

its

generation of the deaf mutes of the State.

and sent

be the fourth

from these had

Iowa and Wisconsin.

But his

and usefulness were not confined to the institution under his charge. He was one of thirty-one persons who, influence

in

1839, united to form the

of Columbus. interest,

Second

I’resbvterian

Church

In that enterprise he took a deep and active

and, as primnrily

it

labored under

many

embarrass-

ments, contributed liberally of his means to advance welfare.

Eor many years he held the

offices of elder

its

and

a subsequent

acter

and

Sabbath a discourse, portraying

labors,

was delivered

his life, char-

language

in the sign

in the

chapel of the institution, by the superintendent, to a deeply interested

and

xxxvii. 37.

affected assembly

of pupils, from

ably energy, combined with Christian

him

stacles only stimulated

of his

life

needed than

and warm bears

No

the

other

and earnest purpose

on missionary ground, and

its

Ob-

and more

po.sses.sed a heart

benevolence

testimony.

his early

])rob-

benevolence.

to greater exertions

That he

determined perseverance. disinterested

Psalms

His most prominent characteristic was

entire

proof of this to

of

current

spend his

actual devotion to the

is

life

diffi-

and self-denying labor of relieving a class of unfortunates upon which has fallen a pall more dreadful than cult

heathenism

itself.

His

efforts

for the relief of idiots, for

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i66

church and

(lie

neglected and ignorant in his imme-

for the

neighhorhootl,

diate

confirm

also

monument which he

has

the

of his labors for the deaf

left

mutes of Ohio and the great West will long remain reflect

honor upon

among

jilace

memory and

his

to

to attest his title to a

On

the real benefactors of mankind.

called

to

Portland, Maine, at

The church members

testimony.

the day

church of the denomination. nently successful

and and build up another In this work he was emithe desire of pastors

there, to organize

and

;

after a pastorate there of ten years

he was again compelled, on account of the health of his family, to remove. He came West, and after sojourning in

Pittsburgh for a year and a half, and finding the climate Deaf and Dumb, January 23d, 1857, a West beneficial, he accepted the call of the Vine Street series of resolutions were adopted which adverted in glow- Congregational Church, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the year ing terms to his career as a Christian and philanthropist, 1867. In 1873, being very much reduced in strength, and and expressed also the profound regret of all at his un- health very precarious, he removed to a prairie city, and as

of his funeral, at a meeting of the Instructors of the Ohio Institution for the

expected and unwished-for demise.

pastor of the Congregational

he labored,

HENRY

4th,

for a

year and a half,

returned to Cincinnati, which is now his Early in 1875 November permanent home. Mr. Moore quite early developed literary Pennsylvania. By tastes, and for several years indulged literary habits and

D., was born,

Philadelphia,

1822, in

in Springfield, Illinois,

work,

time his health was completely restored.

during which

OORE, REV.

Church

in a sort of invalid

reason of constitutional weakness, and frequently

pursuits to the extremity of health-prostration.

recurring sicknesses during childhood and youth,

of fourteen years he

his

was interrupted

education

from school and sojourns

by withdrawals

country places with

in

was

At the age

a poetic contributor to the Satur-

day Evening Post and Saturday Courier, of Philadelphia. In Allibone’s “ Dictionary of American Authors,” his name

He, however, notwithstanding these occurs in connection with a variety of literary work of imin the excellent academy of James portant character and extended usefulness. As a preacher Goodfellow, in Philadelphia, for a collegiate course of he has always been favored with a large share of the symstudy, and at the early age of fifteen years was ready to be pathy and attention of the communities where he has lived. friends of his family.

drawbacks, was prepared

entered in the University of Pennsylvania, for which dis-

He was

tinguished school his parents had designed him.

Though

liberal

doctrine, even

in

Orthodoxy, so that sometimes

to

the very verge of

his friends

have expressed

compelled, however, to pursue his further studies privately,

solicitude concerning his soundness in the faith, yet he has

which he did with some degree of thoroughness under the direction of the celebrated clergyman, Rev. Samuel B.

maintained a true evangelical charity and given utterance

Wylie,

1 ).

D., at that time Emeritus Professor of

the University,

in

and

Languages

Teacher of Theology

also

to

such

graduates of the University as sought to pursue the Divine

Under

study.

his collegiate

Wylie’s culture Mr. Moore prosecuted

Ptr.

and

divinity studies,

and

at

the age of twenty

At the

years he was a licentiate in the gospel ministry.

to

thank him

for his

will

sympathy with the wandering and

is

weary is

large,

and

his

chi'ldren of the

Father will impress any listener

hearing him, even for the

large,

and he

straints

is

time.

first

and prudencies which would separate the minister

from the “ publicans and sinners.”

Any

would be welcome to him if he could, by such or any means, reach the ears and hearts of men with the message

remarked: “Mr. Moore, your son Henry

of truth and of

redeeming

love.

These

warm genial bearing made Mr. Moore extremely popular

quent earnestness of address and a

towards the people, have

at

and learned preacher.

that

time the most distinguished

Mr. Moore entered the active mindenomination, after

having

served for one year as assistant pastor to the Rev.

Thomas

H. Stockton,

Congregational

at that

in his

work

and" beloved by thousands of admiring friends.

time pastor of the Independent Church,

corner of Eleventh and the year 1853 he

characteristics of

Christian and ministerial character, together with an elo-

which Dr. Wylie was the

pulpit or platform,

kindness and care of his son’s educa-

be a good preacher, but he will make a very poor

in

is

impatient of those churchly rules and re-

Covenanter,’’ that being the denomination of Christians of

istry

who

His charity

Christian church of any name, or synagogue of the Jews,

In the course of the interview the venerable and

facetious doctor

ministry throughout.

men

Wylie

close of his studies Mr. Moore’s father called on Dr.

tion.

His love of

to a true evangelical

Wood

was pastor

streets, Philadelphia.

of the

Church (Congregational), Philadelphia. left

Philadelphia, on account of

for

climatory change, and

North Church, Portsmouth, pastorate there, during

ill

In that year he

health and the necessity

accepted the

New

Until

Second Independent

call

Hampshire.

of the

Old

After a short

which time the present elegant and

spacious house of worship of that church was built, he was

ONFORT, HENRY

A.,

House of Refuge of at

Fishkill

August

6th,

Plains,

Superintendent of

Cincinnati, Ohio,

Dutchess county.

1835, and

vi'as

the

was born

New

York,

the oldest of seven

children whose parents were Albert H. Monfort and Elsie (Wiltsie) Monfort, both earnest memHis father, a native bers of the Dutch Reformed Church. of New York, has been engaged through life in agricultural

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCL 0 P.L;DIA. and now

pursuits,

resides

on Long

native of Dutchess county, also

His mother, a

Isla’nd.

is still

living.

His

clays of

home

New

Pelham,

in

167

Hampshire, with

young wife

his

while Cleveland was a small village, and lived and labored

boyhood we.e passed alternately in working on a farm in there and elsewhere in northern Ohio, for the glory of God the summer months and attending school during the winter. and the welfare of his fellow-men, till his early death, in While in his eighteenth year he became engaged in teach- 1837, among those who knew and loved him best. His ing school, an avocation which he followed during the widow, one of the Dana descendants, survived him but one ensuing two years.

The

next two years were devoted to

year.

and

Intelligent

beautiful,

the business of photograph itig, at the expiration of which

Christian grace can bestow, she

time he engaged for a period of four years in merchandis-

of her family and friends

In 1857 he

ing.

moved

to the

West and

Mil-

settled at

loving husband

in

with

all

labors

and

that

affection

and the worthy companion his

all

endowed

was the centre of

of her

and their

trials,

waukee, Wisconsin, where he found occupation in teaching memory is fresh in the hearts of the Lake Erie pioneers, In 1858 he removed to Cincinnati, among whom in the Cleveland Cemetery they have long for about one year.

and upon

his arrival there

became connected as an employe rested. The three children were separated by this bereave& Co., where he remained ment, and PIdward was reared in the family of Alexander He then moved to Poughkeepsie, Garton, a farmer near Oberlin, tilt he was sixteen years

with the house of John Route until the winter of 1861.

New

York, where he devoted

his attention for

mercantile pursuits, afterward leasing Laurel

one year

to

Bank Semi-

old, all

when he determined to obtain a liberal commenced to attend the

hazards, and

education Filyria

at

High

Delaware county, New York, an establishment School, then a prominent institution in northern Ohio. which was conducted by him during the following two Here he fitted himself for college, working his way as best years. In April, 1864, after removing to Cincinnati, he he could, his inheritance being but little more than an unnary, in

was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Cincinnati sullied and beloved name. Leaving there with the higliest House of Refuge, and in May, 1866, was appointed Super- honors, he, in 1849, entered Western Reserve College, intendent and .Secretary of the same institution. That founded by his father, and pushed his way on till a quarrel office he has since continuously filled, a convincing proof among the professors, followed liy many of them resigning, of the efficiency of his management and of the esteem in induced him and others to go elsewhere, and he chose old which he is held by the able board that controls the work- Yale, entering the same grade class which he left, after the ings of the establishment. During his years of control of usual severe examination. He graduated in 1853. Rethe House of Refuge 2744 children have passed under his turning West he taught the academy in Talmadge, Ohio, supervision, and of this number, the majority being of the for a year, and then went to Cincinnati in 1854 and comcriminal classes, it is estimated, on accepted data, that at menced reading law with the firm of Ferguson & Long, lea-st 2000 have been thoroughly reformed and led to conteaching in the daytime in the public schools and studying duct themselves with honesty and industry; while the at night. He was admitted to the bar in 1856. After various arrangements and the general management of this several months’ attention to office practice with his precepinstitution of Cincinnati are scarcely equalled in similar tors, he commenced, in 1857, as partner of Henry Snow, establishments in any part of the United States.

member

of the Congregational Church.

He

Politically,

is

he

a is

not attached blindly to any party, always votes for those

upon

whom

he can place reliance as loyal and energetic and has never yet attended a public political

citizens,

He w.as married in February, i860, to Ophelia Hunting, a native of Cincinnati, and daughter of the late Richard G. Hunting. meeting. S.

Esq.,

which firm continued successfully

when Mr. for

Bradstreet

his future

removed

to

of

Vicksburg,

1867, lamented by

all

who knew

proper attempts

I

I

over two years,

Joseph, Missouri,

who her.

died

The

in

August,

certainty of

coming war induced his return to Cincinnati, late in i860, where he has since resided, practising his profession. A leading object of his life has been to aid and promote all to

advance

religion,

general welfare of his fellow-men.

fxAD.STREET, ED\\,\RD P.AYSON, was

for

In i860 he was married to Mrs.

home.

Fraisse,

Dolabella

St.

morality

Early

in

and

the

his residence

he was an active member of the Young Men’s and one of the founders and early Ohio. He is a lineal descendant in the seventh presidents of the Cincinnati Gymnasium. In 1866 he was generation from Simon Bradstreet, one of the elected a member of the Board of Piducation, and aided in colonial governors of Massachusetts, who came the plans and movements for establishing the jiresent public June

5th,

over with

born,

1830, at Vermillion, near .Sandusky,

in Cincinnati Chri.stian

Association,

wife, the noted poetess, Anne library. In 1867-68 he was a member of an association of England in the “Arabella Stuart.” gentlemen whose object was to create a public sentiment in sketch was the second son of the late favor of enforcing law and order on Sunday, and with his his

Bradstreet, in 1630, from

The

subject of this

Rev. Stejrhen

1 Bradstreet, the pioneer clergyman of Cleveland, the founder and long minister of the First Pres-

byterian

Church

.

in

that city,

who removed

there from his

associates devoted

much

time and labor to the cause

quiet way, with excellent results.

was one of

the trustees of the

in

a

P'rom 1869 to 1871 he

Homoeopathic

P'ree

Dis-

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOP.EDIA.

i6S

1S71-72 be was President of the Ohio De-

In

pensary.

partment of the National Capital Life Insurance Company, till

was merged

it

Penn Mutual Company.

in the

same year he was chairman of a was

object

to unite all

candidates for city

been

good

offices,

whose

a teacher in the

He

Young Men’s

has

Bible Society

1865 he was appointed .Superintendent

In

one term,

as teacher

;

lege (1821-22).

citizens to vote for the best

for years a director of the

of Cincinnati.

fifteen

and one year spent

In the

private organization

regardless of politics.

age of

A

at

home

age of seventeen,

at the

in preparation

for

Yale Col-

specially favoring Providence gave

common

and surveying, so

algebra, trigonometry

him

school able to introduce him into

one he had the opportunity there

that

in a class

make

to

of

himself ac-

advance of the usual district These facilities, coupled with the township library, which was pretty thoroughly explored, constituted mainly the intellectual nutriment and stimulus of his youth.

(juainted with these sciences in

school course.

Church Sunday-school, and has rearound him a corps of remarkable teachers, till the school has become celebrated The opportunities for college culture were eagerly emfor successful efficiency. During the same period he was braced and richly enjoyed from 1822 to 1826, when he elected anil served as vestryman, but declined re-election. graduated at Yale, after which he was a member of the In 1870 he was one of the founders of the Church Guild Theological .Seminaiy of Yale University two years; was of Cincinnati, and continued one of its foremost members then ordained as a home missionary, July, 1828, and came of

Paul’s Episcopal

St.

mained so ever

and

since, gathering

mission work, during

especially in

officers,

In 1872 he was

years of successful existence. first

of

its

three the

Society for Pre-

to aid in establishing the Cincinnati

vention

its

among

Cruelty to Animals, and has ever since been one

£)f

officers,

gratuitously.

to

Ohio

in

Having

September ensuing.

-spent about

dusky City, and

years

five

Austinburg, he accepted

a

as

p.astor

as

call

church of

of the

Professor

Oberlin

to

devoting his time and professional services

College, where he has resided since September, 1835.

He

has

has been for years one of the trustees of

two

years in missionary labor, chiefly in Ashtabula and San-

been ardently devoted

his

to

chosen

vocation, but

Arch Masons. In nevertheless he has found some time and abundant energy From 1851 to 1872 he was again elected Director of the Gymnasium, and to devote to other objects of public interest. since 1874 has been its President, and has aided in making 1854 he was a director of the Cleveland, Norwalk & Toledo the famous Kilwinning Chapter of Royal

it

now

and best

the largest

prominent features of the

country and one of the

in the

During the yellow fever

city.

Memphis he devised and superintended

plague

in

cinnati

and

incited in

New York

and other

in Cin-

cities the

“ Bal-

In

Railroad.

the

he edited the

of literary labor

line

Oberlin Evangelist eighteen years, and wrote for larly

during the other

he has written ten volumes

regu-

it

Since 1S63

six years of its existence. in exposition of the

Scriptures,

lot-box charities ” on election day, by which about $20,000

embracing the entire Old Testament, except Job, and also

was

the entire writings of the Apostle

and

realized for the orphans

also a large

sum

Southern flood.

In

To

Yale Club.

rest except

in

and afterwards

elected

1875

President of the

attend to these various interests, in addition

demands of

to the

sufferers,

Cincinnati for the victims of the great

in

a large practice, has left

summer

little

time for

In politics, his party has

vacations.

until lately offered small inducem.ents to seek for personal

preferment, but in

seemed about tional

when

1874,

the

new Ohio

Constitution

be adopted, he was a prominent condi-

to

candidate for

Common

Pleas Judge, and no doubt

would have been nominated and elected had the constitubeen adopted. There are few harder or more success-

tion ful

workers

at

the bar, and he finds in rotation of outside

duties the recreation that too

many

seek only in the foibles

of fashion and the dissipations of city

ment. part.

John

in

Of

course, being a

New-Englander by

by vocation, he

was a devoted

warmly advocated

Whig

anti-slavery

the principles of his

party

On

has been twice married.

married Alice Welch, of Norfolk, Connecticut.

1844, he married his present wife,

who was

was born

at

retired

Gallipolis, Ohio,

he

business world.

until

1822.

time spent in the

district

Connecticut, where

As soon in

as

he was old

farm labor, except the

winter school

:

acted

He

She died

Mrs. Minerva

as pupil

till

the

Steamboat-man,

February 2d, 1820.

His father dying when he was a child he had valuable part of his schooling

work he was occupied

He

on the 14th of October, 1843, leaving him six children, of whom only two are now living. On the 21st of March,

re-

resided to

Norfolk, Litchfield

he was about one year old the family in

man, and

the 27th of July, 1830, he

When

Colbrook,

faith.

since then he has labored in the ranks of that body.

early to shift

to

and

till

county, Connecticut, on the 24th of April, 1803.

moved enough

at

birth

D. Penfield.

life.

Professor in Oberlin Theologi-

Seminary, was born

Testa-

1840; then with the anti-slavery party until the Republican party was organized, and ever with the

,

cal

New

education, an Ohioan by adoption and an Oberlin Professor

523 ONN.XLI.Y, AUGUSTUS, HENRY,

fOWLE.S,

the

In politics as politics he has not taken an active

for

himself, so obtained

Until he

the most

among men

in the

was eighteen years of

age he worked on a farm and otherwise for the support of his mother’s family. his condition

Now

thinking that he could better

by some river occupation, the Ohio river then

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.LDIA. being the great trade channel

surrounding country,

for the

he commenced his eventful career as deck-hand on the steamer “ Tribune,” working two years in this position. Being temperate, industrious ana trustworthy, at the end of

he

hard service

this

was made watchman on the

169

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Ohio from 1S18 to

to

1822. During his early childhood his parents removed Columbiana county, Ohio, w’here, when quite a youth,

he entered the

Dr. Benjamin Stanton, of Salem,

office of

In

Ohio, as a student.

1835,

when he

w’as

less

than

worked along twenty-one years of age-, he graduated with credit at the from the various steamboat ranks until, in 1842, he became University of Pennsylvania. In May of that year he went commander of the “ Win. Phillips.” When a mere boy to Cleveland and at once entered upon a successful prache had formed the determination to be a captain of one of tice. In 1837 he was appointed Resident Physician to the the beautiful floating palaces on the Ohio; at this his good Philadelphia Hospital, where he remained but a few mother laughed, thinking it a boy’s dream, yet the good months, when he resumed his practice at Cleveland. In The October, 1S38, he was married to Elizabeth S. Maule, of lajdy lived long after he had gained the desired goal. “Win. Phillips” he ran for two seasons on the Wabash Philadelphia, formerly of Richmond, Virginia. In 1843 and Kanawha rivers, owning a small interest in her through was attacked with a pulmonary disease, which threatened Selling his interest in this permanent loss of health and compelled him to abandon the the instrumentality of friends. He settled in Cinboat, he immediately purchased another, building, equip- lake region for a more genial climate. His health was impaired, ping and running, in all, on the Ohio, Mississippi and their cinnati in October of that year. tributaries, nineteen boats, over a space of twenty-two years. he was among strangers, but by a strong energy and the In 1863 he went to Pittsburgh and built the “ Paragon,” at help of his devoted wife his circumstances, at first discour-

From

“ Tribune.”

this

time he gradually

This boat he

a cost of S66,ooo.

once put, without

at

in-

surance, into the Missouri river trade, running from St.

Louis

Fort Leavenworth, chiefly in private business.

to

In

1864, having had a fortunate season, he sold the “ Paragon,”

enough

Now

handsomely on her.

realizing

to satisfy

having accumulated

a reasonable man, and risks being very

great on available steamers, the captain determined to retire

from river business fine

accordingly he purchased his present

;

This

farm near Morrow, Ohio.

farm in Warren county.

Having

is

said to be the finest

farm in the most

his

desirable condition, and having gathered every convenience

and comfort around a himself

quiet

and happy home, he found

the expiration of ten years yearning for a

at

little

of the old excitement and fascination of the river; accordtng'Xi

1874, he bought the “

ttt

Donnally thinks

hard

that

Mary

Miller.”

work, correct

Captain

habits,

strict

economy, with the exercise of a few grains of common

He

aging, soon brightened. in the

associated himself with others

conduct of the City Dispensary, a charitable medical

institution,

cians.

with no compensation to the attending physi-

They

also organized a

summer

school of medicine,

which was carried on successfully for years; and in 1852 The prevalence of organized the Miami Medical College. cholera from 1849 to 1852 entailed upon him very great labor, but

he

only a single day from sickness.

lost

Ail

through the twenty years dating from that time he labored unremittingly as a practitioner, as a medical teacher and as “ Mendenhall’s Vade

a contributor to medical journals.

Mecum

”

was one of the most

ever published. of the his

successful books of the class

In the year 1870 he was elected President

American Medical Association, and shortly before

decease had conferred upon him the high honor of a

fellowship in the Obstetrical Society of London.

His repu-

an obstetrician was indeed world-wide.

During was President of the Cincinnati branch than lucky stars or so-called strokes of fortune. His was of the Union .Sanitary Commission. Dr. Mendenhall fell not an even plain road to fortune twice he lost all that he a victim to overwork. He was stricken down with an athad gathered in years of toil, and his history is that of few tack of apoplexy in the year 1872, from which he never other men of his trade although some have made fortunes, fully rallied. He subsequently visited Europe for his sense, have

more

to

do with the accumulation of wealth

tation as

the rebellion he

;

;

few have served apprenticeships

He

this craft.

and has

in all

the hard grades of

married Elizabeth Smith, of Marietta, Ohio,

six children living.

health,

and died

sixty-first

after his

year of his age.

He was

promptitude, and despised one

unsparing of himself, and

June 4th, 1874,

return,

who

man

a

in

the

of indomitable

was ever was so systematic

shirked duty

in his practice

;

and continuous that the amount of labor he accomplished was the astonishment of his profe.ssional brethren. His

% ENDENHALL, GEORGE, I I

at

1814, his parents being

-

Quaker

May

5th,

Aaron and I.ydia Men-

His descent runs down from the early

denhall. “

Physician, was born

Sharon, Beaver county, Pennsylvania,

settlers of

Pennsylvania, one of his pater-

nal ancestors having taken a prominent part with

William Penn

in the

His mother was a 22

“

Elm Tree Treaty”

sister of the

with the Indians.

Hon. Joseph Richardson,

love for his profession was such passion.

that

His greatest happiness was

in

amounted

it

its

practice.

to

a

He

never used tobacco nor alcoholic stimulants, nor would he,

from conscientious motives, prescribe the patients, excepting

in

latter

for

treme reluctance, from fear of the formation of an habit.

He was

firm as a rock

modest and kindly

his

very rare cases, and then with ex-

as

a

for

woman

;

the right; free

from

evil

but gentle, all

vanity.

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.LDIA.

170

hating pretence, with an exceeding love of truth, a warm,

A

loving heart and the most delicate sense of honor. fessional brother said of him, he “ never

knowing a man whose

of

commanded

virtues

and

pro-

had the privilege

talents so

strongly

in

1838 was re-elected. for

filled

presidential vote

was a

In 1S40 he was elected to and

one term a seat

Vv'hig

up

was

State Senate. His John Quincy Adams.

in the

cast for

to the formation of the

first

He

Republican party,

with which he has been prominently connected ever since.

his regard.”

His familiarity with accounts has led to his appointment as an Examiner,

AN, JAIMES fjjll

V

ex-State

Auditor, was born, October 19th, 1808, in Berk-

to visit the various counties of the State to

look over the books of their auditors and treasurers. a profoundly read lawyer, a careful

and

He

is

imp.artial official

county, Virginia, and moved with his parents and an enterprising and energetic citizen, and is generally Ohio in 1812, settling in P'airfield county. respected officially as well as professionally. Here he remained until 1818, when he went to S’ Franklin county, where he obtained his education UPPER, BENJAMIN, was born in Stoughton, the common schools. Deciding upon following the pro-

Ov in

Lawyer and

II.,

to

when

fession of law,

Massachusetts, in 1738.

eighteen years of age he selected as

the

Judge O. Parish, of Columbus, witli whom he In 1828 he was admitted to the bar, having passed

his preceptor

read.

a very meritorious examination.

he was married in that place,

Anna

more

rapidly than

professional calling until 1850,

&

dent of the Bell'efontaine

and administered office

is

large and remunerative.

General.

the

Settling

and entered upon

office

his

living in

Ohio Land Company.

Its affairs

he managed,

Marietta from 1788, in which year he assisted to

hold the

He

pointed Judge, he presided until his death in June, 1792.

continued

when he was

in

his

first

Civil Court in the

Northwest Territory.

Ap-

elected Presi-

for six years the duties of this important

Goodman was

news reached Marion for

1785 he was appointed to survey

usually the case, be-

ability.

He

then

re-

RIGHT, ROBERT,

signed the presidency of the road and resumed practice.

that

In

Indiana Railroad Company,

with care and rare executive

Colonel

served throughout

lands northwest of the Ohio, and helped to form

of that year

Davis, of Marion, Ohio.

he opened an

practice, which,

came both

to

November

In

He

Revolutionary war, and became Brigadier-

trying a case in

that Fort

court

when

the

^4 III

Sumter had been taken and

President Lincoln had called

for troops.

He

i

p^ii'ents I

his

asked

and was granted a continuance of the cause, and en-

Portage

'

county,

Manufacturer, was born

Ohio,

June

2d,

1809.

in

His

were residents of Pennsylvania, whence

father, a farmer,

removed

to

Ohio

in

1800.

His early education was received at the county school, in Hocking county, whose winter sessions

Ohio Regiment. He set about had its ranks full, he attended until he had reached his eighteenth year. and was appointed its Captain. He went with his com- During the summer months of those years he was engaged mand to Camp Jackson, where he was elected Major of the in farm labor. Later, he also taught school for two or He was thus employed regiment, which was shortly after ordered into Western three terms in the winter season. Virginia, where it formed part of McClellan’s army. Mr. as a farm hand until 1835, but during the latter years of Goodman participated in the battle of Rich Mountain, and that time was engaged in agricultural pursuits on his own From 1835 until 1842 he was interested in the within a few weeks was commissioned as Lieutenant-Col- account. listed as a private in the 4th

raising a

company, and

onel, being

in

a few days

advanced eventually

to the position of Colonel.

construction of the

Hocking Valley Canal, having secured a

Romney, Winchester, contract to finish five miles of this enterprise, partly in Court House and Fredericksburg. Athens and partly in Hocking county. From 1842 until Charles City Blue Gaps, agricultural pursuits, and In the latter he was wounded in three different portions of 1835 he was employed entirely in larger portion of the Hockthe purchased year latter in the physical on account of his the body, and in July, 1863,

He

served gallantly in the battles of

of the property in injuries, was honorably dis- ing Falls Mills, securing the balance Governor Worthington, of by built was mill This 1862. Brigadier-General war brevetted charged. After the he was During 1863 he Ohio, about the year 1818, and remained in the possession for distinguished services on the field. was nominated, without his consent, and elected as Auditor of his family until 1855. Since its sale the present owner disability,

resulting from his

upon the expiration of his first has continued to conduct its affairs, and in connection with position he conscientiously it is extensively interested in farming and stock-raising. was re-elected. In this term and ably discharged the duties devolving upon him, and The farm operated by him at the present time has been in earned the esteem of the entire citizenship of the State his possession since 1829. In 1844 he was elected a Jusof the State of Ohio, and

His

political

career

without regard to party

affiliations.

commenced early in life. Whigs to the Legislature,

In 1835 he was elected by the serving in the lower House, and

He also Peace, but resigned this office in 1846. served two terms of three years each as County CommisIn 1850 he was appointed by the Legislature sioner. tice of the

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOP.EDIA. Associate Judge of the Court of

lature

Common

Pleas,

and served

In 1852 he was appointed also by the Legis-

three years.

one of the trustees of the Ohio University,

Ohio, a position which he

at

Athens,

for several

Slate of

1866 he has been a director in the

Since

National

He was

holds.

Logan Branch Bank of the

years a director in the

Ohio.

still

P'irst

was elected a member of

the Ohio State Senate, being the Republican elected from that district, and served in that body during one term. In the year 1859, after his fir.st

return from Minnesota, he

was elected Lieutenant-Governor

He

of the State, on the ticket with Governor Dennison.

served for two years.

In 1862 he received from President

Bank of Logan, and is a stockholder in the Lincoln the appointment of Minister to the Argentine Re& Hocking Valley Railroad. He is interested public. During his official residence at Buenos Ayres he the building development of the town and in its was successful in settling all the old claims due American

Columbus also in

His present residence, the hand-

several improvements.

somest place of

Logan, was completed in 1873. October, 1840, to Elmira Hamblin, by

kind

its

He was married in whom he has had four Of

in

and one

children, three boys

girl.

sent from

he held In

ROBERT

Buenos Ayres

Thirteenth Ohio District, was born on the

for the

26th of February, 1821, at

Mount

Pleasant, Jeffer-

son county, Ohio.

Both

of Pennsylvania.

His father was a Quaker, a

his parents

hatter by trade, but eventually

were natives

gave up that occu-

pation for that of a farmer, and died in 1838. is still

the age of eighty.

living, at

boyhood, attended

having obtained the

came

full

His mother

Robert, in his early

school in his native place, and

district

benefit of their resources

commenced

in

Mount

Pleasant.

This position

resigned and returned to Ohio.

he was reappointed by President Grant to the

position, but resigned again in 1871, returning

home

In February, 1875, ^6 received from

January, 1872.

President Grant the appointment of Collector of Internal

Revenue of the Thirteenth Ohio and

he

that position

Mount Vernon,

District, at

He

holds.

still

an earnest stump-

is

speaker, and does effective

work in political campaigns. December, 1843, to Fleanor Hogg, daughter of John Hogg and niece of old William Hogg, of Brownsville, Pennsylvania.

He was

married on the

l

ith of

and

the study of

HFNRV,

FVIS,

medicine under the instruction of Dr. William Hamilton, at

when he

he be-

a student in Franklin College, at Athens, Ohio,

shortly after leaving college he

Mr. Bellows, President of the

to

Mr. Kirk’s residence there.

until 1866,

1869

Revenue same

C., Collector of Internal

in 1814 and were abandoned by Over nineteen thousand dollars were

our former ministers.

soldiers, during

*IRK,

over four hundred thousand dollars;

to

United Stales Sanitary Commission, for the benefit of our

two are lawyers and the third a farmer.

the former,

amounting

citizens,

these claims originated

was born

Architect,

of Wight,

Isle

After a time spent thus in preliminary

in

Newport,

November

England, on

loth,

study he entered the old University at Philadelphia, where

1834, and

he attended lectures

place, acquiring by industry a substantial educa-

Then he

left

he was twenty years of age.

until

the University

and

at

once removed

to

county, Illinois, where he began professional practice. practised there for a short time, in the fall of 1843,

profession pursuits in

T.

and

when he abandoned

to

He Ohi

the practice of his

1844 engaged in mercantile He formed a partnership with

in the spring of

Mount Vernon.

W. Rogers

when he returned

the dry-goods business, but the associa-

in

ended by the death of Mr. Rogers. When it terminated he formed a partnership in the same business with John Hogg, his father-in-law, and this continued until the tion

year 1853,

when

the firm sold out

and he left that branch In 1857 he went to Winona, Minne-

of trade permanently. sota,

and was associated with

estate, business interests

State causing

mained

him

there

ever

a

cpiestions, left

the

when

since

He

member

disagreeing with

and the associations

to return to

positions abroad.

and was

his brother as dealers in real

Ohio

except

in

his native

when holding

official

has always been active in politics,

of the Democratic party

his

in

1858, and has re-

party on

the Missouri

the

till

1854, but,

currency and

slavery

father’s

Democratic party.

In

1856 he

in

these schools until four-

when he removed with

family to Toronto, Canada,

From

years.

this

was apprenticed

schools of his native

the

remained

teen years of age,

his

where he resided two

place he went to Hamilton, Canada, and

to learn the trade of a builder

and

mill-

wright, and in this occupation continued three years and a half.

came

In 1858 he

making

until

Illinois,

and

to Cincinnati,

When

1861. enlisted,

the

and followed pattern-

war broke out he was

under the

first

private in the 41st Illinois Volunteers.

lime appointed

to

call

in

arms, as a

He was

in a short

Orderly Sergeant, and subsequently pro-

which position he served

moted

to a First-Lieutenancy, in

fifteen

months, and then was compelled to resign on ac-

Upon

count of failing health. to Clinton,

De

as a carpenter

Witt county,

and builder

until

time.

he

where he was engaged

1866.

He

resumed

then removed

pattern-making,

when he commenced

archi-

and has continued thus engaged up

to the

which he followed tectural drafting,

leaving the army he returned

Illinois,

back to Cincinnati, where

Compromise was repealed he present

Democratic ranks, and has ever since been an

earnest opponent of the

He

tion.

Fulton

attended

He

until

is

1868,

a skilful and rapid designer, his plans

displaying originality and fine taste in their arrangement

and adornment.

He

is

a member,

in

excellent standing,

BIOGRAPIIIC;\L ENCYCLOP.EDIA.

1/2

of the Architectural Chapter of Cincinnati, and

is

patronized by the builders and capitalists of that

city.

place of business

No. 163 Central avenue.

at

is

liberally

lie

He

fessional circles,

as a

public

is

then returned to Ripley and pursued a

course of professional studies under his father,

was

dentist,

married, July 4th, 1862, to Kate, daughter of Patrick Develiii, Esq., of Dublin.

He

of Cincinnati.

Ilis

highly esteemed in social and pro-

gentleman of energy, culture, and

spirit.

who was

and whose profession the son had decided

In 1861 he entered upon his

From

Ohio Dental College. with the degree of D. D.

Immediately

S., in

course of lectures at the

first

he graduated,

this institution

the

a

to adopt.

month

of February, 1864.

graduation he entered the army, and

after his

continued in the volunteer service until the close of the war

born

THO.MA.S

M.

II.,

D., of Canton, was

Cannonsburg, Washington county, Penn-

in

sylvania,

March

on

were John

parents

Ilis

1839.

W. and Nancy (Hanson)

Having acquired education

25th,

its

Phillips.

rudiments, he finished his

at Jefferson Literary

College, located in

Selecting the medical profession, he en-

his native town.

tered the office of Dr.

George H. Cook,

in

Cannonsburg,

in

After leaving the

1865.

in

IIILLIP.S,

army he returned again

to

Ripley, and engaged in the practice of his profession in con-

This association continued until

nection with his father.

There he reto Vernon. and then he removed to CinThere he has ever since remained, engaged in a

when he removed

about 1867,

mained practising cinnati.

grew rapidly

practice that

member

until 1871,

to

He

large proportions.

is

a

of the Mississippi Valley Dental Association, and

of the society of the class of 1864 of his

Alma

Male/-

1859, where he pursued his studies until the winter of 186263, when he matriculated at Jefferson Medical College,

Philadelphia, from which he graduated in the spring of

li^ICHMOND, JOHN

Previous to graduating, however, and during the

1864.

summer

of 1863, he entered the United States service for

At the expiration

nine months as an Assistant Surgeon. his term of service

he completed his course

receiving his degree, again joined the

at Jeffer.son,

army

the 13th of

He

of

He

been natives of Ayrshire, Scotland. at

then located himself

at

successfully practised there until his removal to Canton in

During

his residence in Pennsylvania,

he became a member of the State Medical Society, and since locating in Canton has connected himself with the Although but lately settled in District Medical Association. Canton, Dr. Phillips’ professional ability has been duly recognew abode, and he has acquired a good share

nized in his

of patronage, and ranks in that town.

While

among

is

after

Seminary

cal

at Princeton,

New

New

and

Jersey,

he was licensed by the Presbytery of

in April, 1871,

New

Brunswick,

at

In the year 1872 he was called to

Jersey.

the charge of the congregation of

Hope Church, Columbus,

Ohio, and was ordained and installed on the l8th of April, 1872.

He

fulfils all

to

occupies the position of pastor there, and

still

the duties of his sacred office in such a

win the confidence, esteem and love of

nth

married on the Princeton,

New

of

May, 1871,

all.

manner as He was

to Julia E. Phillips, of

Jersey.

a general

women.

is

He

February, 1868, to Irene Lindsay, of

in

studied

and

the ablest of the profession

his practice necessarily

one, his special aim

was married

He

the University of Toronto, Canada,

leaving that institution, he entered the Theologi-

West Middletown, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and Trenton, the spring of 1869.

Ayr, Ontario, Canada.

As-

Surgeon of the 79th Pennsylvania Volunteers. In capacity he rendered valuable service until he was mus-

tered out in September, 1865.

in

of Scotch descent, both his parents having

is

and

in 1864, as

sistant this

M., Clergyman, was born on

May, 1848,

the treatment of diseases of

LENNERHASSETT, HON. HARMAN, born

West Middletown, Pennsylvania.

in

Hampshire, England,

in

1767.

was

He was

descended from a noble Irish family, and his parents were in England on a visit at the time of his birth. He was thoroughly educated, and grew

up an accomplished and scholarly gentleman.

C'YjMOODWARD, WILLIAM HENRY, I I

II

New

England

nativity,

Dentist,

having been born

at

is

of

Nor-

wich, Connecticut, on the 12th of January, 1843.

At the death of

his father

he inherited a large

estate,

but

he became politically involved in the troubles of Ireland,

and disposed of

it, taking up his residence in England. Here he married into a family of distinction, his wife being ward, were both descended from the old Revolu- Margaret Agnew, daughter of the Lieutenant-Governor of tionary stock of Connecticut, his mother belonging the Isle of Man. Being too free in the expression of his the same family as that from which General Winfield republican views, he found it advisable to leave England.

His parents, Caleb and Amanda (Scott) Wood-

to

Scott

was descended.

moved

to Ripley, Ohio,

In the

year 1850 his parents

and there he received

education in the schools of the place.

In

re-

his general

He

1858 he went stay

through a course of special studies with General

arrived in

social position

Ammen, and

in

New York

in

brought him

at

New York

arrived in the

was

1797, where his wealth and

once into prominence.

brief, as

same year.

His

he departed for Marietta,

He

soon after purchased a

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP-EDIA. Ohio

plnntation on an '^lantl in the

“ Blennerhasselt’s

Upon

Llancl.”

considerable sums

river, since

famous

improvements, and lived a

in

the old law, and during the late

as

at

he spent

island

this

Camp

Dennison.

war was Hospital .Surgeon was

O.i the 12th of October, 1S75, he

elected as a Republican to the State Legislature of Ohio.

of

life

173

and a fine He has at all times been closely identified with educational a very hospitable neighbor, and kind matters, and has been a faithful advocate for the cause of the unfortunate. The splendors of his temperance, having at no period of his life imbibed liquor

He was He was

elegance.

musician.

a

man

and charitable to home and the delightful he was the

of literary

of which

as a beverage.

in prose

profession has not impaired either his physical or mental energies.

In 1805 Aaron Burr visited the island and

and

verse.

first

met the owner.

Thirty-nine years of incessant labor at his

life,

have been celebrated

features of the social

centre,

brilliant

tastes,

During

opened

his

successful physicians of

dazzling southwestern scheme, and from that

moment

the

his

the

Rachel

He became

was doomed.

proprietor

great

involved

in

supervision.

McGee

some of the

his practice

intriguer

The

and most

ablest

Hamilton county have studied under

He was

Wilson,

who

married January 3d,

1833, to

died June 29th, 1839.

He

af-

home was invaded by terwards married Catherine V. Cosbey, in November, armed men, and his family subjected to insult. The 1840, who died May 3d, 1859. On April loth, 1S60, he property was much damaged. The owner was tried for was married to Sarepta Robinson, widow of Samuel Slaback. “ Burr Conspiracy,”

beautiful

his

This was only the beginning In 1S75, having sold their property in the town of Montmisfortune followed upon gomery, Sycamore township, Hamilton county, Ohio, they

was acquitted.

treason, but

of a long succession of troubles

and

misfortune,

he died

;

poveity,

in

the

in

island

purchased a comfortable residence in the town of Madeira,

of

His accomplished wife survived him Columbia township, where they hope eleven years, dying iii New York, in 1842. Not a vestige der of their lives. Guernsey,

in

to

1831.

spend the remain-

remains of their once happy home.

^LOWERS, JOAB .LYLOR,

JOHN

E.,

M.

D.,

was born February

R.,

M.

D., was born in

Lisbon, Ohio, July 25th, 1836.

15th,

nally a Methodist preacher,

lSo 3 in Bourbon county, Kentucky, near Cynthi,

Of

ana.

a family of ten

He was

eighth.

children he was the

gaged

in

Nancy of Cumberland

Perry

county, Ohio.

the son of Ralph and

(Stewart) Naylor, both

natives

years in that county, emigrated to Kentucky,

His father being a man of strong

mother died.

came

to

Ohio and

settled in

at

the

Delaware, Ohio,

and commenced the study of medicine under the guidance In 1855 he attended a course of lechis father in 1853.

tures in the Starling

anti-

Medical College, and subsequently en-

tered the office of Professor

slavery opinions, and opplosed to raising his family in a slave State,

in

medicine in

educated

where of ^

his

He was

New

father, origi-

in later years en-

the practice of allopathic

Ohio Wesleyan University,

county, Pennsylvania, who, after a residence of

many

was

His

J.

W.

Hamilton, in order to

In August, 1857, he was appointed Apothe-

study surgery.

Clermont county, where

cary of the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, which office he was passed at hard work retained until, in 1859, he received the appointment of Ason his father’s farm, and his education was obtained at in- sistant Physician to the Ohio Penitentiary, under Dr. J. WIn the following year. Dr. D. R. Kinsell, a tervals in attending the ordinary country schools in the Hamilton. vicinity. At the age of seventeen he began learning the homoeopathic physician, was appointed successor to Dr. trade of tanner at New Richmond, Ohio, which he diligently Hamilton, while he was retained and placed in charge of He then availed himself of the pursued till he was twenty-one years of age, when, on ac- the surgical department.

he

lived until his death,

The

early

life

which occurred August 25th, 1827.

of John E. Naylor

;

j

I

]

!

^

count of impaired health, he was obliged to abandon

He now

devoted himself to study, and succeeding

fying himself, he beg.in, in

1831,

in quali-

teaching school,

favorable opportunity thus presenting itself for the thorough

it.

and

\

'

investigation of the its

new

during the intervals of his labor attended a course of study

He

Lane Seminary, preparatory to the reading of medicine, which he had selected as a profession. Soon after he en-

In 1861 he graduated

at

tered the

Ohio Medical College,

anrl

graduated from that

;

!

system, and was soon convinced of

great superiority over the allo])athic practice of medicine.

remained

at

the hospital with Dr. Kinsell for two years.

in Cleveland, Ohio,

at

and

the Western Homoeopathic College, in

the following February entered

on the general practice of his profession in conjunction with

Two years later he was professionally engaged Dr. Kinsell. Montgomery, Hamilton county, alone. In 1872 he foioned a partnership with Dr. A. O. Ohio. In the fall of the same year. Dr. Duncan having Blair, a well-known western pioneer of the Hahnemann been elected to Congress, transferred his practice to Dr. school. He served one week during the war of the rebelNaylor, who has continued the duties of his profession in lion. At the present lime he is a member of the City Montgomery and the adjoining counties, up to the present Council of Columbus, was elected President of the Homneoinstitution in 1836,

practice with Dr.

lime.

and the following summer commenced

Duncan,

at

For several years he was Surgeon of

Militia,

under

pathic Slate

Medical Society

in

1875,

nominated

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

174

by the Republican party of well as Secretary of the National Association of Superin-

for the office of State Legislator

Franklin

county in

married

1875.

in

l86j

to

Louisa R. Conners, the daughter of an old-school physician.

Mr. Stevenson

tendents. ail

is

man

a

of rare culture, and has

the qualifications necessary to take rank as a leading

For twenty years he has devoted his attention improvement of the systems for popular instruction,

educator. to the

in that time has accomplished reforms

and

•TEWART, GILBERT HOLLAND, born

Boston, Massachusetts, on the

at

He

March, 1847. well as of

New England

New birth,

15th of

England stock as both his father and

His father was engaged

Maine.

and

of

is

mother having been natives of the State of

his

pursuits,

Lawyer, was

in

mercantile

1851 removed with his family to East

in

Cam-

was four years old, and shortly afterwards he commenced going to Putnam When he was thirteen years of age he entered the school. Cambridge High School. His course of study there occupied four years, and at the end of that time he left the High School and entered Harvard College in the class of 1868. At

bridge, Massachusetts.

He

that time Gilbert

Law

Harvard

Leaving school now, he went

Gallon, Ohio, where he arrived on the 19th of

and hegan the study of law

in the office of

May

studied with Mr. Carhart until

was admitted remained

as a at

member

Gabon,

of the bar

H.

[tily,

have been placed ally, or as parts

mentioned.

Since his ad-

in a flourishing condition,

and individu-

of a general system, they receive the highest

commendation of

all

who

take a deep interest in the cause

Mr. Stevenson

of popular instruction.

is

well and honora-

known to all the leaders in this cause, not only in his own State, but through the country at large, and his voice is bly

potential in the important proceedings of the State Teachers’

In

as well as the National Superintendents’ Associations.

1856 he was married

to

Rebecca McConnell.

Then he removed

continues.

still

P.

In politics he

was born

in

IL, Merchant, of Cincin-

Youngsville,

Warren county,

Pennsylvania, January 14th, 1840, being the son of Dr.

and then

Columbus, and there formed a partnershi|r with R.

Woodruff, which partnership

nati,

Columbus, Ohio.

the practice of his profession,

in

NDREWS, WILLIAM

to

1867,

C. Carhart.

5th, 1869, at

until .Ypril 15th, 1873, practising alone.

to

is

vent to the superintendency of schools at Columbus, they

School, and was a student there for

a period of six months.

He

name

the public wherever his

and developed

merit the esteem of

utility as to

studied at the college until the year 1867, and then en-

tered the

He

methods of such practical

at

J.

Andrews, who settled in Pennsylvania William H. left his home at the

an early age.

age of fourteen years, and went to Jamestown, York, where he obtained a clerkship in the dry-goods store of Will & Stevens, where he remained until 1861. He then returned to Pennsylvania, and engaged on his own

New

Clara L. Ogden, daughter of Professor John Ogden, of

account in the same line of business, and soon after opened In 1865 he sold his intera branch store at Akron, Ohio.

AVorthington, Ohio.

ests in

is

a

He was

Republican.

married, June 22d,

1875, to

Ohio, and concentrated them in the oil region of Pennsylvania, and there did a very large and lucrative busi-

TEVENSON, ROBERT

W., Superintendent of Public Schools of Columbus, Ohio, was born near

same

Zanesville in the

State, July 1st, 1S33, de-

ness; and in 1870 he opened a wholesale and retail drygoods house in Titusville, the metropolis of the oil country. About the same time that Mr. Andrews commenced business in Titusville, the oil excitement was running high,

by occupation a farmer, and his mother was the

which caused the emigration to the place of first-class and his success was far beyond his expectation.

daughter of a Reformed Presbyterian clergyman.

mained there

His father was

scending from Scotch ancestry.

until 1S73,

when

the

oil interests

citizens,

He

re-

of the place

for him to remain, and in the removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and purchased in 1854, after pursuing a very thorough and comprehensive the business and stock of Messrs. Johnson & Co., Nos. 76 course of study. Upon leaving this institution he com- and 78 West P'ourth street. Prior to the time that Mr. menced the study of law, engaging at the same time in Andrews took charge of the' house it had not been very teaching school. In 1855, before he had completed his law prosperous, but is now the leading dry-goods house in the course, he was appointed Superintendent of Public Schools city, and doing, with perhaps one or two exceptions, the hlr. Andrews’ of Dresden, and continued in this position until 1S60, when largest business west of the Alleghenies,

He

was prepared

for college

by

his grandfather,

and gradu-

ated with distinction from Madison College, Antrim, Ohio,

he was appointed

which he held

for

to

the

same

eleven years.

office

at

Norwalk, Ohio,

In July, 1871, he

was

ten-

dered the position of Superintendent of Public .Schools the State capital, accepted duties, which he still fulfils. and President of the Ohio

it,

and entered

at

once upon

at its

were no longer an inducement fall

of 1S73 he

store

is

salesrooms on 75 feet wide by 150 in depth, with and the services of 150 hands are required to

three floors,

run the house.

Although

customers from top

He

has been both Treasurer

none are suffered

.State

Teachers’ Association, as

mony being one

to

to

this

house

is

literally alive

bottom and from morning

go away

dissatisfied,

with

until night,

peace and har-

of the supports of the institution.

Besides

1

^ctXaxyPid> Qj PhiLad‘^

r.IOGRAPIIICAL ENCVCLOP.EDIA. this

Mr. Andrews has a branch house

store,

50S and Fourth

10 Vine

5

which

street,

at

Nos. 506,

almost as large as his

one requires the services of

This

street house.

is

Mr. Andrews was thrown upon

seventy-five hands.

his

own

Possibly the trials of youth de-

resources at an early age.

17s

esteemed for his man.y sterling characteristics. he

is

though he

is

known

county

—

1824 cast his vote

in

Politically

Al-

for Cl.ay.

as a Democrat, he nevertheless enjoys

Republicans of Hocking

of the leading

confidence

the

and

a Democrat,

in fact, of the entire

Congressional District

at large,

At all events his as a reliable and well-meaning public gentleman. He was business capacity was soon made known. While he has married in March, 1823,10 Sarah Friend, w'ho died October been unremitting in his attention to business, and quick to 4th, 1S64. He was again married, December ayih, 1864, veloped the character of the future man.

perceive the wants of the public, he has always maintained

a quiet demeanor.

Ilis private character is

in point of business

integrity the record

of none

Mrs. Sarah Payne.

stands

Mr. Andrews was married, October 2d, 1S62,

higher.

to

exemplary, and

EMANN, JOSEPH ANTHONY,

to

Banker,

Jrmes IE Eddy, Esq., of Warren, Warren county, Pennsylvania, by whom three children have

merly prominent Gennan-American

been born,

Osnabriick, in the late

Rose,

daughter of

W'as born in the

'

all living.

cember T'

town of Oesede, near the

13th, 1816.

church, he

made

(for-

Publisher,) city of

kingdom of Hanover, De-

Destined by his parents for the

his studies at the “ Gynnnasiitta

EDWARD,

ING,

Lawyer, was born e city Carolintim," founded by Charlemagne, in the year 808, in of New' York, in March, 1795, '"id w-as the fourth the city of Osnabriick one of the most celebrated colleges son of Rufus King, the distinguished statesman of Germany where he acquired a thorough knowledge of

—

—

and Senator.

In the year 1815 he settled him- the Latin, Greek, French, and English languages, mathe-

self at Chillicothe, in the practice of his profession, matics,

and was noted in

He

politics.

was

for his

for

many

eloquence years in

at the

the

and

and church).

history (both secular

The young

bar and student, however, did not relish the idea of finishing

Senate and theological studies, and notified

his

liis

parents accordingly.

House of Representatives of Ohio, and Speaker of the Having read American history, he became thoroughly imbody. In 1831 he removed to Cincinnati, where he bued w'ith a love for freedom and republican institutions.

latter

“

died February 6th, 1836.

We

Germans,” said he

July 4th, 1844, only to obey.

We

in

the land of our fathers

had no pow'er to decide our own good, For the love of freedom we left the land

our own w elfare. Pioneer and Farmer, was of our birth, friends, relatives, all that was dear to us, to county, Ohio, January loth, 1803. gather here, in a strange country, the fruits of liberty, so

ALEXANDER,

y'TfM

Cl

afterw'ards, in an oration delivered

“have learned

I I

His

/Ill

father, a native of Virginia,

Ohio

tied in

and a farmer,

set-

His mother was a member

in 1802.

magnanimously

offered to the oppressed of all the world.

make ourselves acquainted with the a language, the law's and the institutions of this our selfHis early education, of a very chosen new home.” This desire for freedom, coupled with very early day. limited kind, was obtained in a country school, and during romantic ideas of the adventurous life of the early pioneers (-

of a family w'hich found a

While

quite

krbor of the farm, and for

many

winter evenings.

home

in

young he

Kentucky

assisted in the

years was thus constantly

Through the winters of 1837-3S-39-40 he was

engaged

a flour mill, and in the latter year

Logan, Ohio.

Here he

w'as

our special duty to

at

employed. in

It is

moved

to

elected Justice of the Peace,

of America, the imagination of which

is

generally

more

brightly colored than the reality afterwards proves to be, left

him no

rest at

home, and he made

his parents

acquainted

with his intention to emigrate across the Atlantic.

They,

however, tried to persuade their son to remain with them,

and served for three years. In 1843 he w'as elected County and choose some other vocation, but his mind was fixed, and Auditor, and performed the duties of that office for five con- he carried his inclinations into effect by severing the ties

Through these years he which bound him to the land of his ancestors. On May 1st, In 1851 1837, he embarked at the harbor of Bremer-Haven and Board of Equalization, and was sailed for fair Columbia’s shores. After a tedious and stormy

secutive terms, of two years each.

retained also his position as Justice of the Peace.

he was elected to the

.State

same

In 1852 voyage the ship “P'avorite” entered the Chesapeake Bay office in 1858 and in 1869. he purchased a farm near I.ogan, and has since continued to early in July of the same year, and on the 3d of that month In 1873 dropped anchor in the harbor of Baltimore, where she had to reside on it, and to superintend its management. he was elected to serve on the Constitutional Convention. lay for quarantine duties until July 5th. On board the sliip re-elected to the

One of the oldest inhabitants of memory is a perfect storehouse

the

of interesting and valuable

tion of the birthday of this republic,

German emigrants witnessed

for the first

and

time the celebra-

their hearts

throbbed

and development, and through- when they beheld the decorated and illuminated city in the town and the environing region he is revered and distance, which they w'ere not allowed to enter and share in

data concerning out his

this section of the State, his

its

history

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

176

The

the joyful proceedings.

Mr.

next day they landed.

Professor Beleke, paid a visit to him,

when

who endeavored

to squelch the efficiency of the

the professor

tem, he resigned

in July,

advised him to go to Cincinnati, where he might complete his studies at the “Athenreum,” the Catholic seminary of the diocese

— now the

St.

Having, how-

Xavier College.

no further means, Mr. Hemann had to work a month on the canal, near Hagerstown, Maryland, to earn sufficient ever,

money

enable him to

to

period he

joined

wagons, and

make

in their

company

traveled on the National

mountain-

large

crossed the Alleghanies, and

Being the

Ro.ad to Wheeling.

who

only one in the company

After that

the journey.

an emigrant-train of

could speak the English lan-

Hemann had to act as interpreter for the rest, and buy the provisions for them, for which he was held in After a prolonged high estimation by his companions. voyage, which to the young tr.aveller was highly interesting, as he was enabled to study the romantic scenery and the people of the country through which they travelled, he

guage, Mr.

landed safely

in the port of the “

Queen

City of the West,”

on the 7th of October, 1837, buoyant with bright

spirit,

and

Provided with

a good, cheerful outlook for the future.

credence which Professor Beleke had given him to

letters of

Dr. Joshua Young, afterwards Bishop of Erie, then prefect

Athenaeum, he was welcomed

at the

he continued Ferdinand

his studies

at the

withdrew

Athenaeum), as teacher of the Catholic p.arochial school

other,

were

to

modify their system, and adopt that of comparative

went back again

which period he several of the

were then

class

citizens of Cincinnati,

He

others,

then became

schoolmaster’s “ bacillus,” and opened a drystreet,

removed

opposite Twelfth street, which,

corner of Linn and Laurel Here he made the acquaintance of a prominent

1848, he

gentleman,

his talents in a

the

to

who animated Mr. Hemann

not to bury

dry-goods shelf, but to go into the literary

and while on a journey

new city,

which

John H. Koehnken, and

Siefert,

goods store on Main

He

Rising-Sun”

now most prominent

sitting to study their English.

tired of the

during

for five or six years,

also kept an evening school, in

such as Uncle Joe

Mary’s

the principalship of the St.

to

Here he remained

school.

in

tui-

Mr. Hemann, however, quit the public schools, and

tion.

pursuit,

in the large hall of the then “

upon a system of com-

insisted

the next year,

summer

Catholic school in the upper portion of the

and of the school-trustees on the

Germans

the

The Germans kept up their own schools until when they induced the majority of the trustees

structions.

in

which he opened

the one part, :

education, whilst the board wanted separate in-

parative

half.

German

from the public schools, and organown, and Mr. Hemann was appointed The differences between Mr. Hemann and the

Principal.

Canton, Ohio, where he remained about a year and a then returned to Cincinnati and took charge of the

commoThe Germans

city.

their children

Germans on

literary

the

at

sys-

the celebrated Germ.an-

ized schools of their

of the Rev.

call

when

the then quiet annals of the

in

streets.

Kuehr (whose acquaintance he made

1841,

trustees,

whole

English school struggle ensued, which caused great tion

seminary, where

he followed a

till

however, from the majority of the school

Differing,

to

Ilemann, who brought with him prominent credentials

to his native country in the

of 1850, subject to his instruction by

Wahrheitsfreund, the the United States,

home and

first

German

was purchased

for

letter,

the

Catholic newspaper in

him.

He

then hastened

took the publishing of the paper in his

own hand

;

Main and Thirteenth streets. This and on the 12th of October, 1850, he began the publication school became the nucleus of the second German Catholic of the Cincinnati Daily Volksfireund, one of the principal congregation of Cincinnati, which in the next year founded German daily newspapers of the country. Originally neutral the .St. Mary’s Church, at the corner of Thirteenth and Clay in politics, it afterwards, when the Demokratisches Togetavern, on the corner of

streets.

In Cincinnati, at that time, the question of intro-

blatt,

ducing the German lg,nguage as a regular branch of instruction in the public schools was agitated with great vehemence,

party,

Ohio passed a

Ohio.

and

after a severe struggle the Legislature of

exist,

one of the organs of the Democratic party, ceased to and when the Volksblatt went over to the Republican

became the leading German Democratic paper of Mr.

Hemann

was, however, veiy conservative in his

common

views, and when, in 1863, the waves of political agitation

schools of Cincinnati to have that language taught in the

ran high, which towered in the nomination of Clement L.

law, making

the duty of the trustees of the

it

schools under their care.

Accordingly an examination

among

teachership was advertised, and

also

Mr.

Hemann.

Frederick Gei-stsecker, time, and

had

it

‘‘Rast' ich, so rost' ich

have

lost

celebrated his

certificates,

German

was

traveller,

examination at the same

not been for his inherent impulse, which

drove him from place

and

The made

the several candi-

and received

dates that passed successfully,

for

to

!"

place, according to his motto, (If I rest, I will rust

1

),

he might

himself in the school-room of a Cincinnati school,

Vallandigham, then an exile

in

Canada,

for

governor of

Ohio, he declined to advocate Vallandigham’s election in his

paper.

This caused a

spirit

of opposition

among

his

which led Mr. Hemann to dispose of his inthe Volksfireund, and to retire from a long and

subscribers, terest

in

eventful literary career, in successful.

Being yet

which he had been prominently

in the

prime of his

life,'he

did not

withdraw from business altogether, and therefore, in lS 65 embarked in the life of a banker, in which he is at Mr. Hemann has also present still successfully engaged. want

to

,

would now be minus

the world

able writings.

Mr.

Hemann

his

numerous and valu-

shortly afterwards received his

appointment, and accordingly began the organization of the first public

German- English

school

in

America

— 1840.

been very active

in the fostering of charitable

tional institutions in Cincinnati.

books were very scarce

In 1840,

in this city,

and educa-

when German

he was the

first

mover

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOP/EDIA. the organization of a library society, the “ Schul

for

Lese Verein,” which was years,

in successful operation for

many

laid the foundation for

and has

The founding

cated citizens.

und

many

of our best edu-

of the Catholic Institute, in

—

which magnificent building one of the chief ornaments of our city is the “ Grand Opera House,” and the “ Mozart Concert-Hall,” was prominently the work of Mr. Hemann.

—

He was

one of the

also

Pioneer Society,” of

first

this city,

projectors of the

and

the

first

man

German

‘‘

to urge the

ing,

and sought

177

and obtained a position There he rose

after

in the office

of the United States Marshal. tion of Chief

mained shal’s

Deputy Marshal, and At and entered the

Hamilton county ing year, and

the mar-

Auditor of

there in the follow-

left

In

California.

to

left

of the

office

He

as a deputy.

went

he

that time

until the year 1863.

office,

to the posi-

position he re-

in that

January of the

following year he returned from the Pacific coast, and went

He

to Philadelphia.

obtained a clerkship there, and con-

and then he went again There he entered the office of the Clerk of first volume. He was married at Canton, Stark county, the United States Court, and remained there until the l6th At that time he w'as elected to the position Ohio, on the 28th of January, 1839, to Ann Margaret, of April, 1S74. daughter of John B. Deville, who emigrated from Hachy, of City Clerk, for a term of two years. In all the posiTheir happy union tions he has held, he has devoted his entire energies to the Province Luxembourg, Belgium, 1831.

publication of the historic monthly magazine, the Deutsche

tinued to

Pionier, published by this society, of which he edited the

to Cincinnati.

was

with

blessed

eleven

children

—

six

and

sons

five

fulfil its

duties until 1S67,

proper performance of his duties, and has

won

his

way

thus

daughters, and seventeen grandchildren, five of the children

far in life

by the sheer force of his energy and

being married

severance.

He was married, on the toth of May, 1859, to Brinkmann, of Cincinnati, a woman of strong

at the present time,

January, 1S76.

Mary

B.

who

energy,

has, by her

warm and

faithful per-

judicious support of her

husband’s enterprises, aided in no small degree in his advancement.

PROAT, COLONEL EBENEZER, was

born in

Middleborough, Massachusetts, in 1752; received a good education, including a knowledge of surveying, and, after service

lESER, FREDERIC,

the revolutionary

in

war, was appointed Surveyor for

Rhode

Island,

He

northwest of the Ohio. From the Indians he received the name of “ Hetout,” or “ Big Buckin the territory

is

the son of John Jacob Fieser and Augusta Pie received his education at the Wolfen-

Fieser.

schools

biittel

in token

eye,” figure.

This

is

admiration

of their

of his

said to have given rise to the

commanding name “ Buck-

By Governor

eye,” as applied to nativ'es of Ohio. first

Sheriff of

quite young, his

St. Clair

Washington county.

Dur-

and Brunswick College,

in

his

His mother dying when he was home possessed no longer its former attrac-

native place.

tions,

he was appointed

Editor and Banker, w^as born

Brunswick, October 15th, 1S17.

in Wolfenbiittel,

and

in

1836, while in his nineteenth year, he emi-

grated to America, landing in Baltimore, Maryland.

There he remained about one year, engaged during that time in militia. He married In later life he followed farming. In 1839 he moved to the West, and the sale of pianos. Catherine, daughter of Commodore Abraham Whipple. desiring to hold a situation where his natural talents and He died very suddenly in February, 1805. attainments would find a proper sphere for exercise and deing the Indian troubles he was conspicuous in organizing

velopment, attached himself to the Oh/e Eagle, a

newspaper, published in Lancaster, Ohio.

was moved

journal Cl

||^jot>MER, RICH.\RD C., City Clerk of Cincinnati, was born in Philadelphia, on the 6lh of April,

f

1838.

He is

of Swiss descent, his parents having

been natives of Switzerland, this country,

and

year 1832.

He

who

emigrated

to

settled in Philadelphia in the

received his

education in the

from

retiring blatl,

its

to

Columbus, and

editorship, he

in

Columbus the

politics, the

bookkeeper

in

a leading boot

and shoe house.

tinued in that position until June,

He

con-

857 wh.en he gave up the quiet of the counting-house for the excitement of “ railroading.” The panic came, and Western railroad enterprises

felt it

23

heavily.

He

i

>

thereupon gave up his new

call-

editor of the Volks-

among

the

many

investment of

its

its

its

also a

by

German

its

in

honesty of pur-

varied information, and through

matter, in securing a foremost jilace

journals of this section, and, as a iirofitable

kind during an extended period of time in

the State capital, stands confessedly alone.

A

pajrer that has

enjoyed a prosperous career of thirty-two years ficiently,

])aper,

Independent

career.

IVestbote has succeeded,

the excellence of

that city. Two years later, in 1856, he removed from Philadelphia to Cincinnati, and there became salesman and

IVestbote,

which has had a highly successful pose, by the reliability of

in

became

that

following year,

In September, 1843, in conjunction with Mr. Reinliard, he started

public schools of Philadelphia, and in

1854 he left school salesman and bookkeeper in a grocery store

in the

German

1841

a paper of great influence, published in Cincinnati.

and engaged

as

In

testifies suf-

without the need of other testimony, to the business

capacity of

its

conductor.

In 1868 he became a

the banking-firm of Reinhard

&

Co.

He

member of

has been so com-

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178

member, has deservedly secured a high and hor.or.able position in professional and in social circles as well. Fully performance of puldic duties. For nine years, however, he awake to the importance of obtaining worthy men in office, has been a member of the City School Board, and for six he watches with keen interest the events of the hour, and pletely engrossed in his journalistic labors that he has been

able to give, comparatively speaking, but

years, from 1865, held

by election

its

time to the

little

He

presidency.

is

a

stockholder in several of the manufacturing enterprises of

Columbus, and,

ways,

in various

to

is

He was

ness interests of the city.

identified with the busi-

married, June 25th, 1845,

Louisa Schode, a resident of Dayton, Ohio,

who had

emi-

Neuwied, Germany, to this country. family consists of one son and one daughter.

He was

December

married,

4th,

Anna

1873, to

of Cincinnati, Ohio.

UTCHINS, ROBERT GROSVENOR, the

^?^^AFT, HON. CHARI.es BHELPS,

Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and also the Woodward High School. He and at Williams College, while his professional course was then became a student in Yale College, and grad- divided between Union and Andover Theological Seminauated

from

that

whence he graduated in was admitted to the bar

at

Columbia College,

May he

In the following

1866.

and

Cincinnati, Ohio,

in

Subse-

1864.

in

institution

at

once

entered on the practice of his profession, in which he was until

Berlin, Prussia,

He

October of the same year.

pursued an additional course of studies

at

Phillips

and from

at

afterward

the University of

this institution passed, in

March,

He commenced

ries.

lyn,

New

Here he remained

York.

spending the ensuing year

Paris, P'rance,

in

he made the

tour of Italy, and finally returned to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1869.

He was

then successively associated

in

Murray C. .Shoemaker and Hon. Edward P'. Noyes. In the fall of 1871 he was elected by the Republicans to the State Legislature for two years, and served as Chairman of the Committee on Common Schools. While acting with that body, he rendered valuable service in the codification and enactment of partnership, for the practice of law, with

the existing system of the school laws of Ohio.

of 1872 he was nominated to

fill

In the

an election.

He

Mr. Hutchins has been very suc-

and

still

Fortunate in having secured not

subsequent training

at

home and

wise and profitable use of his

abroad, he has

abilities

by rendering them subservient

to his

made

a

and attainments, and

own

welfare and the

improvement of the community amid which he

is

a valued

as well as

a pulpit orator.

divine.

He

has

won

the

by his sincere regard

temporal welfare, and by his

Few men

in the clerical profession

Ohio stand higher in public estimation than does Rev. Mr. Hutchins. He was married on November 27th, 1862,

in

to Harriet P.

James, of West Killingly, Connecticut.

ARROWS, REV. ELIJAH PORTER, of

Hebrew Language and

Professor

Literature in Oberlin

Theological Seminary, Ohio, was born, Januaiy 5th, 1805, in

Mansfield, Connecticut, his parents

having been Nathan and Sophia (Hanks) Bar-

in lanuary,

only a thorough elementary education, but also an excellent

and eloquent

affection of his congregation

for their spiritual gifts as

He was

rows.

of the

of influence and merit.

seven years, and

work, and has established his repu-

fall

same year, formed a copartnership with his father, Hon. Alphonso Taft, widely known as an eminent jurist, and since that date has remained an active member of the law-firm of A. Taft & Sons. He was one of the originators of the Zoological Garden of Cincinnati, and is now one of its directors. In March, 1875, became one of the proprietors of The Cincitinati Volksblatt, a German newspajrer

for

occupies.

the vacancy in Congress

had previously,

assumed

cessful in his ministerial

caused by the resignation of Hon. Aaron F. Perry, but failed to secure

year,

Congregational Church of Columbus, Ohio, the position

P'irst

which he

love

After

more than a

then (October 27th, 1872) entered upon the pastorate of the

tation as a learned

U. D.

little

the pastorate of the Bedford Congregational Church, Brook-

1867, to the Heidelberg University, Germany, where, in the J.

his ministerial labors at Fitchburg,

Massachusetts, but after a

following December, he took the degree of

October,

His preliminary studies were pursued

ancestry.

city,

quently he attended the law school

engaged

Pastor of

Congregational Church of Columbus,

First

Ohio, was born, April 25th, 1838, at West Killingly, Connecticut, descending from English and Scotch

Lawyer, wa

born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 21st, 1843 He attended the common schools in his native

V

Sinton,

daughter of David Sinton, an influential and honored citizen

His

grated from jjresent

denounces or supports in accordance with the knowledge and views which he brings to bear upon men and measures.

prepared

for

a collegiate course

of study in Baltimore, and entered Y’ale, from which he Upon leaving college he went to Hartgraduated in 1826. ford, Connecticut,

Grammar

where he became Principal of the Hartford

School, and in that capacity employed himself

from 1826 to 1831. He was ordained to the ministry in June, 1832, and during the years 1835-6 was Pastor of the In 1837 First Free Presbyterian Church of New' York city.

he was elected

to

the Chair of Sacred Literature in the

Western Reserve College, and 1852.

He became

Literature in

remained

filled this

Professor of

professorship until

Hebrew Language and

Andover Theological Seminary

as such until 1866.

in

1853, and

In 1872 he w'as chosen to

fill

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA. the

same professorship in this capacity

and

in Oberlin Theological

Seminary,

connected with that

institution.

is still

179

vacating this position returned to private practice.

In

October, 1855, he was admitted to the local Federal Courts,

Mr. Barrows -takes rank among the eminent theological and is without a superior in the

and

professors of the day,

each tribunal his very marked ability and refined deport-

knowledge and interpretation of the Hebrew language.

ment won bar. His

in

1868 to the Supreme Court of the United States.

In

him the admiration and esteem of bench and extensive. is varied and As a great literature and the anti(|uities of those lands which were the criminal lawyer he has achieved renown and success, not It is in scenes of the events spoken of in the Old and New Testa- only in Ohio, but in most of the Western States. In addition to being a graceful writer upon theo- this class of cases that his astonishing power as a jury lawments. His varied talents, broad learning, logical and historical subjects, he is an effective speaker, yer is best displayed. with the rare power of holding the attention of those whom keen perceptions and scope of eloquence render him almost

He

is

learned in

all

that relates to sacred geography, sacred

He

he may be addressing.

completed the “ Commentary”

for

practice

irresistible as

an advocate

and there are but

;

fe\v causes

American Tract Society, New York, which, by the celebre tried in the West wherein he is not retained. He death of Dr. Justin Edwards, was left unfinished, and is devotes himself chiefly, however, to important civil questhe author of a “ Companion to the Bible,” a work on tions, the law of corporations and of insurance receiving of the

” Sacred Geography and Antiquities,” a “

Memoir

He

Everton Judson,” and some smaller works.

members of the

the most influential and learned

of Oberlin College, and has the affection of

he has the admiration and esteem of

Two of his rebellion,

of Rev.

is

sons served in the Union

one remaining four years

all

its

sistent

faculty

tion

students as

who know

him.

army during the recent

Army of the PotoArmy of the Cumber-

in the

mac, and the other three years in the

Mr. Logan was an early and per-

his greatest attention.

one of

advocate of codification

has been

in

Ohio, and since

closely identified with

He

secure thorough and lasting legal reforms. ocrat in politics,

and

in all strongly contested

services are invariably

of oratory

make him

demanded by as

adop-

is

to

to

Dem-

a

campaigns his His

his party.

gifts

popular on the stump as he

and prove him

effective in court,

its

movements

all

be an invaluable

is

ally.

He was married March 9th, 1829, to Sarah Maria Lee, He has been offered the nomination of his party for Conwhom he had ten children, all gress, or as one of the Judges of the Superior Court, but

land.

of Hartford, Connecticut, by but one surviving.

has declined any political preferment, believing that he has

abandon the important interests which his Being in the prime of to his care. i-JS: Ip/^OG.VN, THOMAS A., Attorney-at-Law, was born life, in the front rank of American lawyers, known at home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 25th, and abroad, and admired wherever known, hisTriends inr yJI G His father was C. A. Logan, an actor dulge the most exalted expectations of his future. 1829. cDr no right

(3

clients

to

have committed

ia

who

(n,

hip of that body,

returned to that city to enter

to

a physician

was prepared for college at Buir Seminary, in Manchester, Vermont, and that done, he entered as a student at Middlebury College. He graduated at Middlebury in After leaving college he W'as employed for a period 1850. Island.

He

is

is

schools, he

was induced by Mr. Louis Ballenberg, Manager of the Cinthen newly organized.

to

district schools

and

companied by physical training

favorite pupil of the celebrated Carl

Rufus

Consul

Slates

His early education was mainly ob-

He

which he became the

His father was

themselves prominence and distinction, he

was a farmer’s son, and was born

in

during

United

Cleveland, Ohio; and another brother

of the art.

five years,

Eng-

Mead, Professor of Hebrew Literature in Andover Theological Seminary. Like so many of the New England men who

would have

an organization led by so competent a master

New

six brothers,

Nicaragua; another, Martin L. Mead, M. D.,

in

about

in a

born in Cornwall, Ver-

of his

gladly accepted, seeing in this acceptance the advantages he

filled this )iosiLion

prime of

Rhetoric, in

a

is

mont, on the loth of May, 1827.

After

York, where he believed he could secure a more rapid

advance

in the

Piofessor of .Sacred

Oberlin Theological .Seminary,

garden con-

certs,

in

is

excellent

and

facility

performed principally

playing a number of years

He

exponents.

age of six

developed, thus early, an

and very readily acquired

taste,

New

in

its

manhood, and labors still with unabated enthusiasm field which has already covered him with distinction.

Miclxiel took his

January ilth, 1849.

instruction

years.

Conductor of tne

Grand Orchestra, was born

Cincinnati

first

Violoncellist,

At the end of that time,

Middlebury College, holding

longer.

Then,

in the

in 1852,

Long

he became a tutor

that position for

two years

year 1854, he entered as a student

Andover 'rheological Seminary, and graduated there

at

in

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212

of that year he was elected a Representative to Con-

In September, 1858, the year after his graduation

at

the

Andover, he became pastor of the Congregational Church

at

gress from the Twelfth

the

counties of Coshocton,

1857.

He

South Hadley, Massachusetts. pulpit of this church until

continued to

November, 1867,

holding the positions of Secretary and

same time

at the

member

fill

of the Board

Mount Holyoke Eemale Seminary. December, 1867, he was installed as pastor

of Trustees of

month of

Ohio District, then composed of the Knox, Hoimes and Tuscarawas, and 1834 was re-elected to the same position. He was a

Whig

in his

political principles, but

although his

district

In the

was overwhelmingly

of the

such was his popularity that he was elected each time by a

New Hamp-

Olive Street Congregational Church in Nashua,

in

fall

hands of

in the

During

triumphant majority.

his political opponents,

his first

term of service in

church

Congress, and at the January term, 1834, of the Supreme

October, 1869, w’hen he entered upon his duties as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in Oberlin Theological Semi-

Court of the United States, Chief-Justice Marshall presiding,

He

shire.

continued his service as pastor

that

of

until

nary, a department of Oberlin College,

In

dbntinues to occupy.

D. to

assume the presidency of that

he declined. lin

still

he received the degree of

1871

from Middlebury College, and

1 ).

position he

which in

1S74 he was invited

institution,

an honor which

In addition to his duties as Professor in Ober-

Theological Seminary, he has acted for six years as

associate pastor of the

He was

Oberlin.

Second Congregational Church

married on the 5th of August, 1S58,

he was admitted as an attorney and counsellor of that court.

About the same time he argued

orally before the

cause.

In 1S44, the M’hig party being then largely in the as-

cendant

in the

.State,

he was unanimously nominated by a

State convention of that party for the office of

Preferring the quiet of domestic

Ohio.

of superintending the education of his two sons, and tired of the turmoil and excitement of the political arena, he respectfully but firmly declined the flattering distinction of-

him by

He was

his fellow-citizens.

architect of his

own

Sharpsburg, Mary-

December, 1796. He was the eldest son of Christian Spangler and Annie land, on the 24th of

Spangler,

Episcopal

this great

He

his self-directed

that early day,

Ohio.

in

was favored with

and he was not slow

limited as they were.

Tiring

to profit

In early

clerking in

life

Zanesville,

lilieral

primary education, to which the subject of

the business of

this

by

means of

sketch had

his ojiportuni-

he was engaged

in

father’s dry-goods store.

his

length of the monotony of a shopkeeper’s

at

life,

about the year 1S21, wdien twenty-five years of age, he entered

upon the study of the law under the direction of Hon.

Alexander Harper, long a distinguished Judge of the Common Pleas Court and subsequently a member of Congress.

At the term of the Supreme Court held

at

Cleveland

chancery

ical

in this State.

In 1S30 he

friends for a seat

was put in the

in

nomination by his

at

success.

that period,

all

the important cases of his time in

cu])ied never failed to elicit the

when professionally warm commendation of

who

witnessed his unassailable deportment.

ried

December

whom applied themselves He died at Coshocton on

whom

he had two sons, Elher-

to the

study and practice of law.

the afternoon of Saturday, Octo-

ber i8th, 1856.

C^^LIPPART, JOHN HANCOCK, .State

Muskingum

he came within a very few votes of

removed to Coshocton, Ohio, was thenceforward until the day of his death his permanent residence. Professional business poured in upon him from the start, and veiy soon after he settled in Coshoc-

Secretary of the

Board of Agriculture, was born near Canton,

.Stark county,

Ohio, his parents being Henry and

Eve (Henning)

polit-

In 1S32 an eligible opening offering for increase

Klippart, on

July 26th,

His paternal grandfather came Lafayette, and at the war married a Virginia lady and

18S6 he moved

to Stark county,

He was

settled in

brother to Marshal

spicuous in the battles fought by Napoleon.

take a leading part in politics. In

Maryland.

to

first

to

Flanders and afterwards

escape persecution.

They

In

Klcber, so con-

Mr. Klippart’s

maternal great-great-grandfather was a Huguenot, family fled,

1823.

America with

Ohio, with his family of six

children.

to

to

close of the revolutionary

wdiich

he was called u]5on

alt

was mar-

ington T. Spangler, and Alexander H. Spangler, both of

of professional business, he

ton,

He

oc-

3d, 1828, to Elizabeth Grafton Etherington,

of Baltimore, Maryland, by

Legislature, and though the in

eng.aged in

the locality in which he lived, and

After his admission to

opposing party was strongly in the ascendant county

His strong phys-

manners, and his joyous humor.

for his wit, genial

the bar he at once entered on the practice of the law at Zanesville.

by

in

1S24, Mr. Spangler rvas admitted as an attorney-at-law and solicitor in

He became

after years.

a good 6 el/es Ictlres scholar, a pro-

found lawyer, and an eloquent advocate.

He was

ties,

college.

members of the Methodist ical constitution harmonized admirably with his clear and Church. In November, 1872, the vigorous mind, and in social life he was esteemed and admired

free access,

efforts

at

his energy,

zealous

then a frontier and important town at

was never

want was more than made up by

industry and perseverance in

family removed from Maryland and settled at Zanesville,

even

emphatically the

In his youth he had not the

fortune.

advantages possessed by many.

f-^^CILER, DAVID, ex-Memberof Congress and But at

Governor of

and desirous

to

fered

Attorney-at-Law, w'as born

life,

in

Elizabeth Storrs Billings, of Andover, Massachusetts.

G

same emi-

nent jurist a case on appeal from Ohio, and gained his client’s

to

whose

Pennsylvania,

settled in the vicinity of

Har-

BIOGR API ICAL EAX'VCLOP. EDI A.

21

I

risburg, the capital of that State, in the cemeteries of

the family

name

Henning

of

which

frequently to be met with.

is

Until his ninth year Mr. Klippart attended

the

common

“subscription” schools, taught by Irish schoolmasters.

was sent

his tenth year he

engaged

in

making and

to

the two succeeding years he

and

weaver “

tilling

&

Kuntze,

was employed

in

wool-carding, in the store of

Stark county, remaining

Louisville,

in

During

quills.”

1836 he was placed as an errand-boy

in

Gorgas

In

with an aunt, and was

live

He was then engaged by a whom he stayed only a short establishment of Sala & Kline, of Canton,

with them only a few months. brother-in-law of

time, entering the to learn the

Zerbe, with

I.

Erom drug business, and to “ read ” medicine. he acted as clerk in drug and dry-

until the fall of 1847

1S40

goods stores

in Massillon

and Mount

E.aton,

Wayne

county.

His report, which is and very important, was printed in the “Ohio Agricultural Report,” for 1859. During the war he disease then prevailing in that State.

quite voluminous

was frequently despatched by Governors Tod and Brough, with important messages for the armies from Ohio, to Nashville,

Cold Harbor, and elsewhere.

of Agriculture at Washington, to

report of his lour of observation, printed in the “

meantime

in the

&

as a subcontractor

Pennsylvania Railroad,

Wayne & Chicago

Fort

on the

now known

Railroad.

line of the

Ohio

as the Pittsburgh,

In this connection

all

the profits of his entire mercantile career tvere swallowed

ractised in

His Ohio Agri-

cultural Report,” for 1865, contributed largely,

was not

if it

the sole cause, to the introduction of the Percheron horse

More than two hundred thousand

fronr France.

was assigned

In

1

Great Britain and the countries of continental Europe.

1849 he was appointed Postmaster of Osnalwg, Stark county, having been engaged until 1852.

in-

and practical agriculture,

as well as to observe the systems of agriculture

worth of these horses are now

engaged

examine the European

stitutions for teaching theoretical

In 1847 he married Emeline Kahn, of Canton, and entered the dry-goods trade on his own account. In this line he was profitably

1865 he was de-

In

puted by the State Board of Agriculture and the Department

Hayes appointed him

his term,

and he

as Assistant State Geologist,

This

to the agricultural portion of the survey.

appointment he held with distinction

tion, in

dollars’

In 1869 Governor

Ohio.

in

when

until the expiration of

the corps was continued under a reorganiza-

which the agricultural department was omitted, the

Legislature being

more

and promot-

interested in developing

ing the interests of the mineral than of the agricultural re-

company with Daniel Gotschall, and after- sources of the State. In 1873 Governor Noyes appointed M. Webb, he edited and published the Mr. Klippart as one of three Commissioners of Fisheries, Democratic Transcript, at Canton. In the following year he assigning to him the duty of ascertaining the feasibility of removed to Cleveland and edited the American Liberal, a replenishing the streams of Ohio and Lake Erie with fish Upon of species adapted to these waters. His report made such an journal whose existence covered only a few months. impression on the Legislature that an act was passed authorits demise he was associated with Thomas Brown, editor In 1853,

up.

in

tvards wdth John

and publisher of the Ohio Farmer, and sustained

this rela-

December, 1856, when he was elated Corresponding Secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, an office which he has occupied uninterruptedly up to tionship until

At the same time Hon. Salmon

the present time.

then Governor of Ohio, tendered Librarian, attention

many

him

the position of State

which he declined, preferring to the

years he

wider

field

P. Chase,

to give his entire

of agricultural science.

was a constant contributor

For

to the agricultural

and many of his essays on agricultural and translations from German and French agricul-

izing the appointment of a commission, with an appropriation of 810,000, to build hatching-houses

Governor Allen selected him

as

and conduct them.

one of the commissioners.

Although poverty and the lack of proper school deprived him in early

life

facilities

of the advantages of a systematic

education, his persistent effort in devoting

all

his leisure

time to study secured him a knowledge especially of scientific

matters,

in politics

which

is

comprehensive and thorough.

he has never been a partisan

While

in the strict interpre-

word, he has always allied himself

press of the country,

tation of the

topics,

ganization which protected American labor, fostered and

tural writers, are to

be found scattered throughout the several

annual volumes of his reports to the Legislature of Ohio. In l86o he published an exhaustive treatise on the “ Wheat Plant,”

which was the

tematize the

known

first

attempt in this country to

facts in relation to this

.sys-

important cereal,

and of which three large editions followed each other rapid succession. practical treatise

in

Two years later he published a very on the “ Theory and Practice of Farm

Drainage,” two large editions of which have been issued by

Robert Clarke the

&

last-named work

industries,

and developed American

His religious views are

to

no special creed,

to

be governed by any tenet or

church, and that,

his belief

if

it

is

being

true

stantly apparent in daily acts. scientific agriculture,

and

is

liberal, th.at

true religion

many

is

set of tenets established

and

sincere,

He

is

it

will

not

by a

be con-

a devoted student of

recognized as an authority in the

settlement of disputed questions relating to are quoted in

re-

and he conforms

influential

European

it.

His wiitings

publications, that

and among on the wheat plant having been wholly reprinted abroad. This He has been honored by his election as a member of the text-book on drainage in the Ohio Central Acclimatization Society of Prussia, and of the ImIn 1S60 Governor Dennison ap- perial Agricultural Society of France. The California

Co., of Cincinnati, the largest

most substantial book-publishers

Agricultural

promoted American sources.

to that or-

is

the

College.

in the

West.

pointed Mr. Klippart as one of the Commissioners to

visit

Massachusetts, and examine into and rcixrrt upon the cattle

Natural History Society elected him a corresponding ber,

and the same courtesy and acknowledgment of

mem-

his

in-

1

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.-EDIA.

214

valuable services was extended by the Cincinnati Natural

In 1856 he was Secretary of the Cleve-

istory Society.

1

ings; the unearthing of thousands of

warm, incubating sands

the

‘

blue racers’

eggs in

’

of the old bluff ; the periodical

land Academy of Science, and subsequently was enrolled a shaking with fever ’n ager all are as events of member of the American Association for the Advancement day.” Toledo was then the market centre, and for ‘

’

:

of Science, and

the meeting of this organization, in 1874,

at

he contributed a paper on

Flatygonus Couipressus."

lie

is

Vice-President of the Natural History Society of Columbus.

The

have been so important

labors of Mr. Klippart

domain of

been extended

him by American and

to

have not been undeserved.

In

in the

which have

agricultural science, that the honors

foreign societies

the important offices to

all

which he has been appointed, he has discharged the

duties

devolving upon him not only with the highest degree of skill,

esteemed by the entire public in

justly

is

He

but with the greatest fidelity and intelligent care.

who know

those elsewhere

wagon with two pairs of oxen, loaded with wheat, to Raymond’s mill, spending four days in the trip, and receiving for the grain from fifty to less regularly, in driving a

my

for scribbling,

of school compositions on the horse, the sheep, the use of

tobacco, intemperance,

applied

less

to

the

Operator

Real Estate, Farmer, Author, was born j!| '

in

Cana-

me

earliest rec-

Hemlock Lake,

among

of water lying

the “ Ball

and dales

a romantic sheet

and the barren,

Hills,”

stony peaks of the surrounding elevations, were to him

And

miliar and beloved sights.

Honeoye, with

His mother died a few months

of Connecticut. birthday,

cupied the position nine years of his

to

New

Ohio

his

for the

York.

in a

after his

father in

Lake Shore

settlement was

In

who

&

in the

moved

township of Chesterfield, near

new and abounded

hunting

The

hardships and pleasures incident to a frontier

home

in the

West, and the transforming of a quarter-section “ .My recollections

of wild land into a well-cultivated farm.

of that farm are vivid.

it

to ‘

The

driving of two, and sometimes

break up the virgin

;

by

tlesnake

;

‘

poems, the

was

first

in

entitled

residts of his

his

farming opera-

possessions there and pur-

chased another farm of one hundred and sixty acres near the city of

Toledo, which step, as shown by after events, was a

wise and profitable venture.

In the succeeding winter of

1851-52, having “finished his schooling,” which embraced

But persisting steadily

to his health.

in his tactics to secure

the desired end, he ultimately

“at the case,” about one-half the time, the remaining half

soil

;

the cutting

his

on business of the

in travelling

ing ” for the payier

;

and also

for

It

a time he copied telegraph

despatches from the reading of the operator. in this capacity

office.

apprenticeship that he began “ paragraph-

he wrote out the

last

While acting

annual message of

President Fillmore, a task which occupied the greater portion

of a

cold night in

December.

fellow-workers in the Republican

Browne (“Artemas Ward

His associates and

office

were Charles F.

”), Charles R. Dennett, since

an

and poling editor of considerable note, and James A. Boyd (“ Sandy”), the high ground for his foreman, an accomplished job-printer. Before the ex-

razor’ gr.ass on the prairies,

through water, half knee deep, to

bitten

his

In the spring of 1851 his father,

Chesterfield, sold

was during

;

toils,

stacking

The Western Wilds.” in

Of

Star.

becoming discouraged over the tions

In the

Sunset,” a prose sketch of about half a

the Toledo Republican, and

in

game

usual

and

came out

wild

therefore the ordinary pastime, often a profession.

in

ensuing ten years spent there were accompanied with the

’

at

an undertak-

printed literary composition ap-

first

Penysburg

in the

being employed

was

blue joint

print

“A Golden

Fulton county.

country was

‘

column,

now

The

of

in so great

the term had the honor of writing the valedictory.

“

bud.

became an entered apprentice Michigan Southern Railroad was not to Myers & Riley, in the office of the Toledo Republican. probably even under contemplation. From early in 1852 until the spring of 1853 he worked there

made

oxen

not be

in the

thenceforward oc-

February, 1842, the family

the western boundary of Lucas county,

three, pairs of

would

the following year

canvas-covered wagon drawn by four horses,

then in existence, or

A

favorite

cost

was only a moderate knowledge of the common branches of education, he began to cherish the design of becoming a printer. of female head of the family. The first That intention was, however, opposed by his father, from a fear that the confinement of office life would be detrimental life were passed in Lima, Livingston

and

again married to an estimable lady,

county.

his

tradition, traced their

to

and were natives of the State

origin to the Pilgrim Fathers,

fourth

the course of the winding

shaded banks, was one of

its

His parents, according

fa-

that the

embark

to

I

During the winter of 1850-51 he attended a school

peared,

His

purpose

this

Fairbanks, publishers of

Sylvania, conducted by A. B. West, and at the close of

at

New

York, October 13th, 1833.

thought seriously

For

resources were not sufficiently extensive

financial

following spring his

of the Genesee.

haunts.

in

I

This nipped the enterprise

dice, Livingston county, in the western part of

ollections are associated with the hills

&

Messrs. Scott

than ten dollars.

ing.”

RANSOM ERASTUS,

and which

etc.,

time of having printed in a book.

for a

and by the Blade, who informed me

this State,

of him.

had an early penchant

I

manuscript collection being a series

first

that time to enable

iICHARDS,

”

cents per bushel.

.seventy-five

My

G)

on the farm, he was engao-ed,

years, in addition to his labors

more or

yester-

several

becoming impaired, he was and a change of clithe spring of 1S53, George G. Lyon, one

the constant fear, during haying time, of being

piration of the year, his health

mas.saugers,’ a species of short, dark-colored rat-

advised to seek another

the contending against annual fires on the open-

mate.

Early

in

field of labor

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP-LDIA. of the editors of the

ment on the

staff

Toledo Blade, offered him an engage-

the

of that paper, as Local and Commercial

meantime

ried,

215

—

mar-

Maryette Bush, eldest daugh-

13th, 1855,

week eight to ter of Dr. B. H. Bush, one of week being then first-class wages for “ profes- Toledo and Lucas county, Ohio. He was then released from the articles of his

Reporter, with the salary of five dollars per

He was

credit of authorship.”

lost all

December

the pioneer physicians of

ten dollars per sionals.”

apprenticeship bond with Mr. Riley, and accepted the situ-

on the Blade.

ation

new

After a

months on the

of two

trial

theatre of action, however, his health continuing poor,

he was compelled

summer and

AYS,

Proceed-

to quit the business altogether.

ing northward, he spent the

received

the island of Mackinac, finding occupation while there in a

With

conducted by P'redeiick Hoitt.

grocery store,

health

him he returned to Toledo, and passed the winter in the employ of Joseph R. Williams, soliciting subscriptions for the Blade, in which he met with ordinary success. In December, 1854, he again secured a position on the Blade as Local and Commercial Editor, with J. R. Williams, restored to

afterward

President of

the

He

held

connection with any paper, except as an occa-

and correspondent.

edited and published the

first

near the

He

resided.

and on

that

of

life

engaged

He

as a

served as a clerk in the Treas-

Montgomery county, Ohio, during

the years

In 1873 he was elected Auditor

Co., Dayton, Ohio.

the Democratic ticket.

1855, he

In January,

ALL, FLAMEN,

connected himself with the Masonic order influential position

among

task of organizing the Northwestern

one of

Since

its

was born

six sons, the others

in

to Clifton,

institution at the

Ohio Masonic

'

menced

in Cincinnati,

end of

his

Ohio,

the only surviving

having died

where he attended the

Kenyon

In 1854 he entered

his

is

in infancy

In 1843 his parents removed

or early childhood.

village school.

College, but

left

that

second collegiate year and com-

the study of law in the office of Chase

&

Ball.

At

the age of twenty-one he received the degree of Bachelor

Relief Association of Toledo, for the insuring of lives on the co-opeiative plan.

Jr.,

February lith, 1837, and

Subsequently

In the spring of 1871 he Iiecaine an active worker

brethren.

education.

clerk in a country store, remaining thus

Montgomery County on

on a farm of forty acres homestead has since permanently

1858, and rapidly gained an

in the

man &

in agricultural pursuits

city,

in

He When

1870 and 1871, and during the succeeding two years was engaged as bookkeeper for the banking house of Harsh-

business directory of Toledo,

Ohio, printed in the columns of the Blade.

he engaged

school

was born

7th, 1842.

over a year, since which time he has had

little

no

sional writer

common

a

three years.

this

post for a direct

A., County Auditor,

eighteen years old he started in active

urer’s office of

Michigan State Agricultural

College, as proprietor and editor-in-chief.

WTLLIAM

Montgomery county, Ohio, June

part of the fall on

organization he has served as

of

and Treasurer of this institution, has received and disbursed over $25,000, and has been instrumental in securing a membership of 1700. For ten years he was Master of a Lodge, and at the present time officiates as Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, for the Third District. Secretary

Laws from

the law department of the Cincinnati College,

and was admitted

to the bar in

thespringof 1858.

In i860

he formed a copartnership with his father, under the name of Ball

&

Ball,

which

firm existed until the war,

when, de-

siring to respond to President Lincoln’s call for volunteers,

he gave notice to his partner of his intention to enter the army; but before leaving for the field, the firm’s practice of a monument to the memory of deceased Masons buried being large, and his senior partner unable to attend to it unin Forest Cemeteiy, Toledo, and thus far has met with entire aided, he recommended his friend, Isaac M. Jordan, Esq., success. He has an extensive acquaintance among Masons as his successor, with whom a copartnership was formed In 1871 he set on foot a plan to raise means for the erection

throughout the State, and is widely and favorably known as an energetic and useful coworker and associate. During

1870 he wrote and published Early Masonry in

“An

Jordan

— Flamen,

one-third interest in the business.

Mr. Ball

under the name of Ball

Historical Sketch of

pense raised a

Northwestern Ohio,” a pamphlet of

elected Captain.

full

&

company

I'ailing to

of infantry, of

Jr.,

retaining a

at his

own

ex-

which he was

procure the acceptance of his

company by Governor Dennison, Ohio’s quota being full, years he has been a regular contributor to the Masonic Re- and knowing that Kentucky’s quota had been refused the viei.K), published at Cincinnati, Ohio. Since December, 1867, government by Governor McGalfin, Captain Ball marched he has devoted the greater portion of his time to the busi- his company from Cumminsville, where he recruited it, to sixty-four pages,

ness of buying

which had a good

and

Also of

late

selling real estate, with an office at

No.

local sale.

Colerain township, where he took possession of the Meth^

19 Campbell Block, Toledo, Ohio.

The

'

follow ing

once an amusing and an instructive reminiscence of his ary career

;

“

One

literary effort in particular

ber, written several press,

and

finally

do

I

is

at

liter-

remem-

years ago, that went the rounds of the

returned to the starting point, having in

odist

camp-meeting grounds, and whither he induced

six

other companies to encamp, promising to procure their ac-

ceptance by President Lincoln, to be credited to Kentucky A committee was despatched to

as a part of her quota.

Washington, and through the influence of Secretary Chase

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOIAEDIA.

2i6 and Captain

Ball’s

father,

who was

company and

those

the President,

who

Camp

vrhere

at

Captain Ball

Clay was established, and the

ist

Captain Ball was offered a

and 2d Kenfully organ-

staff position of

whichever

a Republican.

is

1872 he took a promi-

In

nent part in organizing the Liberal Republican party, and

encamped with him were accepted by was chosen ordered them to proceed to Columbia,

tucky Regiments were speedily recruited and ized.

United

that time

Southern Ohio, Captain Ball’s

District Attorney for

States

Presidential

Ohio, on the Greeley

elector for the

First

now

is

for

and thriving

the past six years in Avondale, a beautiful

suburb of Cincinnati, and

District of

Captain Ball has resided

ticket.

actively eng.aged in the

practice of his profession in his native city.

of those regiments he might desire, but declined promotion, preferring to remain with the

whom had

not a few of

men whom he had

recruited,

enlisted with the understanding that

ORGAN, GEORGE

he would command them. Captain Ball elected to serve in the 2d Regiment, of which Colonel William E. Woodruff,

W., Eawyer and ex-Member at Washington, Washing-

of Congress, was born

of Louisville, an experienced officer, was chosen to com-

ton county, Pennsylvania, on the 20lh of Septem-

mand.

ber, 1S20.

These regiments were assigned

Kanawha

valley.

campaign

in

to active duty in the

West

After serving through the

education

'Virginia

Brigadier-General Cox’s brigade, the

1st

2d Kentucky Regiments established a reputation lantry which was maintained to the end of the war.

These

common

schools of the neighbor-

hood he entered the Washington College. Before

and

for gal-

After obtaining the rudiments of his at the

he had entered on his sixteenth

year he

commenced a

became a

brilliant and memorable one. His brother had organized a company to when Captain Ball, being physically disabled from the ef- assist Texas in securing her independence, and in this fects of typhoid fever to keep up with his regiment, and not company George Morgan enlisted as a private soldier. In

military career, which, in later

life,

regiments, in January, 1862, were ordered into Kentucky,

he made a

desiring to be under pay without rendering to the govern-

this

ment a quid pro quo, resigned 1S62, and before fully restored

grades of Sergeant, Second and First I.ieutenant,

his

commission.

May,

he was appointed

to health,

by Mr. Lincoln an additional aide-de-camp General John E. Wool, and assigned

to duty

Major-General Irvine McDowell, with

whom

staff of

Major-

turning again to

on the

staff of

he served

until

was relieved from command of the 3d Corps, Army of the Potomac. Cincinnati at that time was threatened by General Kirby .Smith, who had successfully raided

Kentucky.

through

Secretary

Stanton

sent

for

and asked Captain Ball if he would like to assist in defending his fireside, and on receiving an affirmative reply wrote with his own hand an order to the AdjutantGeneral

to

absence,

who

tendered then in

Captain

give

his

services

command

Ijim as aide

Ball

thereupon

on

a

Lew

Major-General

to

leave

Cincinnati

to

of

and

Wallace,

of that city; General Wallace appointed

and with

his staff,

whom

the expiration of his leave of absence.

made him

days’

fifteen

jtroceeded

the bearer of his

official

he served

until

General Wallace

report

of the siege

fine

record, passing through the until, at

the age of eighteen, he reached the rank of Captain,

commanded

gallant officer

th.at

service

United

in the

army, with the rank of Captain, on the

.States

In

the military post on civil

life

he went

Galveston island. to

and Re-

Ohio, and in the year

He had de1843 settled at Mount Vernon, in that State. termined on adopting the legal profession, and now commenced course,

in

earnest the study of the law, completed

was admitted

his preceptor.

to the

his

bar and became the partner of

In 1846, however, he

left

the conflicts of the

room to participate again in those of the battle field. He went out to take part in the Mexican war as commander of the 2d Regiment Ohio Volunteers. He served under General Taylor until the time of his regiment had expired. In the winter of 1846-47 he was appointed Colonel of the new 15th Infantry, which he commanded under General For the gallantry of his Scott until the close of the war. services at the battles of Contreras and Cherubusco, in the latter of which he was severely wounded, he was brevetted Brigadier-General in the regular army at the age of twentyseven. The war ended he returned home and resumed court

and immedi.ately upon Captain Ball’s the practice of his profession; but another interruption arrival in Washington he was appointed by General Ilal- came, in a shape which attested the high esteem which his In 1855 leck a member of the commission to investigate the abilities and accomplishments had won for him. surrender of Harper’s Ferry. Captain Ball accompanied he was appointed Consul at Marseilles, which position he of

Cincinnati,

General McDowell sent

to

investigate

to

.St.

the

Louis, whither that officer was

cotton

frauds.

While awaiting

orders he served as Judge- Advocate on the staff of Major-

General Cox, then in

and subsequently,

until

command

of the

District of Ohio,

the close of the war, as Assistant

Judge- Advocate of the Department of the Cumberland, on the staff of Major-General George the

of

war Captain Hon. Oran

Ball married Follett,

Kate

H. Thomas. Follett,

of Sandusky, Ohio.

During

youngest child In politics.

filled

most creditably and

satisfactorily.

In

1858 he was

transferred from the consular to the diplomatic service, as

Minister Resident at Lisbon.

went again broke out,

General

of

to in

at

field.

From

When

the

1861, he entered Jhe

volunteers.

Division of the

Sherman

the

Army

Vicksburg.

of the 1st Corps of the

He

diplomatic service he

war of the rebellion army as a Brigadier-

had command

of the 7th

was with General was promoted to the command

of the Ohio, and

He Army

of the Mississippi, and was in

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.EDIA. command

of ihe

Hindman,

he resigned, he

politics,

wing of the army

left

army and returned

the

left is

at the

taking of Fort

In 1863, on account of

Arkansas.

in

healtli,

ill

home.

to his

In

1865 he was candidate

a Democrat, and in

He was Governor of Ohio, but was unsuccessful. on the Democratic ticket, to the P’ortieth Congress, and his seat was contested by Hon. C. Delano. He was re-elected to the Forty-first and again to the Forty-second

were devoted year

“ Bedford,”

March

various vessels

and

abilities

Mount Vernon, where he has

the successful practice of his profession.

in

on the 7th of October, 1851,

ried

good

After leaving Congress he re-

strict integrity.

turned again to

a record of

to

since resided

He was

mar-

Sarah H. Hall, of

business,

ing to

was born, March

i' c.

it,

and has ever since carried it on successfully, addit had run some years, a lumber department.

after

In 1865 he purchased his partner’s interest, and

^ a time

means and an extended reputation

German

He was

origin.

edu-

settlements were forming,

and when

the facilities for anything beyond rudimentary instruction

were not obtainable

when

the days

in the

Western Reserve.

These were

the course of study, usually pursued in a

backwoods school, was covered by “ Dellworth’s ArithHe metic,” “ Webster’s Speller” and the “Testament.” left

Aurora when a young man and went

to

Kentucky,

where he worked in various capacities, hut mainly as an employe in a tobacco factory. In 1832 he went to Cincinnati, and was engaged in a tobacco factory at the corner of where “

F'ourth

and Main

of the

Times, was his companion.

second cook dollare a

streets,

Up

month.

and also

capacity,

to

as

He

year.

In

cabin

1834 he became at a salary of five

boy on various boats.

own account occurred

bought three gallons of whiskey

giving the colored steward,

and backer

in

who

more, perhaps, by the

his

own

tance.

business to the boat “

His

life.

wife $10,000. in the

management

always pursued

life

He

he

1847

when he suffered but now is amply

insurance

is

;

1^15,000,

and that of

his

upon his own judgment and believes that if he had

relies entirely

of his affairs,

this course

He

measure of success.

he would have enjoyed a greater is

now

fifty-five

years of age and

the possession of a strong and vigorous constitution.

in

He

is

nati,

now

the only steamboat-joimJr in business in Cincin-

and looks out

for a happier termination of his active

career than that of the builders and joiners

rounded him.

He

is

a substantial

who once

sur-

in

his

won

the

citizen, liberal

opinions and generous in his impulses, and has

He was married in 1842 afterwards marDunn, who died in 1849. ried Fannie A. Perdum, who died in i860. In 1865 he was again married, his wife being Harriet L. Dumont, daughter of John J. Dumont. respect of the entire community. to

Mary

J.

ATHEWS, REV. JOSEPH McDOWELL,

safely did after

land county, Ohio, was born

Mathews,

rowing the

boat

entire dis-

D. D.,

President of Hillsborough Female College, High-

The

He

Renown,”

years,

he carried no insurance

Virginia,

accompanied the proprietor of the Rising Sun, where they got out the timber for

factor)'.

rise of the river in

During eighteen

the

for thirty-

In the spring of 1836 he was employed in a blind

and sash

fire,

acted as abettor

to this enterprise, eleven dollars.

which he

Cincinnati,

he

thirty years

His

went eighty miles up the Ohio and laid up for the winter, and Mr. Ehler was obliged to buy a skiff in order to reach .

During the

on he has been burned out seven times; and

it

did by the flames.

cents

lars, after

His

as a boat-builder.

business has been interrupted by misfortunes, which, how-

and opened a bar on the steamer “ Lady Byron,” and netted on these three gallons twenty-six dol-

seven

sole

1835 he served in this culinary

venture in business on his

same

Invisible Green,” latterly

steamer “ Champlain,”

in the

now

him ample

mainly from

cated in the district schools of his native State, at

when pioneer

is

covered with policies on his establishment as well as upon

beth Annawald, of Pennsylvania, and both his parents were of

company with Mr.

1820, at Aurora, Dear-

.J

(.

This

His mother was Eliza-

loth,

born county, Indiana.

O) G-

1849, when, in

until

proprietor of an enterprise which has secured to

lost

Steamboat-joiner,

per month.

the Missouri river on

in

Horsley, he started in the carpenter and steamboat-joiner

has carried

HLER, ELIAS ANXAWALD,

on the

Mr. Ehler worked as carpenter on

20th, 1840.

ever, he gallantly surmounted.

Zanesville.

In the

as a carpenter

at a salary of forty-five dollars

was unfortunate, sinking

vessel

elected,

made was

providing comforts for his mother.

to

mentioned he was employed

last

for

Congress, where the record he

217

December

also a native of

ginia, followed

pursuits;

he moved

to

in

8th, 1804.

through

Kentucky

\’ir-

mainly agricultural

1814 and settled

Fayette county, where he resided until his demise,

ber i8th, 1814.

John

father,

Augusta county,

life

in

Augusta county,

His

in

Decem-

His mother, Sarah (McDowell) Mathews,

Burke county. North Carolina, was a daughter of Major Joseph McDowell, who served valiantly and efficiently as an officer in the Revolutionary army, was a a native of

work and brought During the yellow fever member of Congress during the Presidencies of Adams and epidemic, in the same year, he made a trip to New Orleans Jefferson, and was general of the old-time militia of North on the “ Renown,” and upon his return to Cincinnati he Carolina; he died in Iturke county. North Carolina, in worked as an apprentice in carpentering, at which he con- 1801. The oldest child in a family of four children, his finished the joiner

the vessel to Cincinnati in 1837.

tinued until 1839.

28

His surplus earnings during these years

earlier years,

up

to the

age of eighteen, were passed

alter-

LIOGRAPIIICAL ENCVCLOIVEDI A. iiately in fair

working on a farm and

elementary education.

acquiring at school a

in

In 1822, his literary attainments

and varied store of learning, he asand found employment in teaching a subscription school at Pisgah, Woodford county, Kentucky. At the expiration of one year, spent in imparting instruction, he became a student in the academy of Dr. Louis Marshall, located near Pisgah, and in the three years

the boundaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church,

he joined while

His

in his eighteenth year.

life

which

has been

constituting a useful

one of great usefulness as a Christian counsellor and as an

sumed

educator, while his career in public and in private circles

the role of educator,

has been a centre from which has radi.ated in all sea.sons

and

directly

times and

at all

an amount of good whose beneficial influence, indirectly,

is

Swayed

of incalculable value.

by quick and generous sensibilities, he has

won

the esteem,

love and confidence of all who have been brought into conThe following tact with him; in social life he is pleasant and courteous; and mathematical studies. season was consumed in visiting friends in Virginia, his conduct, viewed from a political standpoint, has ever whither he travelled with a view to strengthen a rather im- been based upon a jiure and disinterested love of his In 1827 he settled in Hillsbor- country and an inflexible determination to resist the atpaired condition of health. ough, Highland county, Ohio, and took charge of the Hills- tenqrls of all to undermine the unity of the republic. He borough Academy, an institution founded by Governor was married in 1828 to Elizabeth A. Barry, daughter of

passed in this establishment pursued an exhaustive course of

classical

Allen Trimble, General citizens.

Through

extended

to

McDowell and

other prominent

the acceptance of the invitation then

him, accordingly, he became the

tendent of the academy.

Until

1831

first

Superin-

he was assiduously

Andrew

Clermont county, Ohio, and a of Batavia, Ohio,

who

sister of

He

then joined

of Dublin,

in

Kentucky.

fruits

of his second marriage

He

had no

he had been stationed, and performed ministerial duties

the benefit of the

as

an itinerant clergyman, he was removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained

for

one year.

In 1834, his health

being in a very precarious condition, he settled on a farm

lished

child.

;

By

stopping there.

his

two children were the

;

After remaining for two years in Chillicothe, Ohio, where

Ireland, a

she was born in Ireland

the

cured favorable attention as a local preacher

Judge Philip Strong,

died in 1858; and again, in 1869, to

the discharge of the onerous duties of that

in

position.

died in 1S52; and

1854, to Mrs. Martha P. .Sanders, a native of

Mrs. Mary B. Harmar, a native Ohio Conference of the daughter of a British army officer; During several preceding while her family was temporarily Methodist Episcopal Church. years he had preached more or less regularly, and had se- first marriage he had one child

engaged

who

Barry, a native of Virginia,

again, in

by his third marriage he has

was the author of two small works

young: “ Letters

to

for

School Girls,” pub-

by the Methodist Book Concern

in

Cincinnati, in

1853; “Sermons to .School Girls,” published by the Methodist Book Concern in New York, in 1867.

near Hillsborough, and there rested, for the purpose of regaining his

lost

energies, until

started, as a private enterprise, the

In this year he

1839.

Oakland Female Semi-

and succeeded in ol)taining a charter With the labors incident to the superschool he was intimately identified until

OMERENE, JULIUS

nary, at Hillsborough, for the institution.

intendency of 1857.

He

this

afterward took charge of Hillsborough T'emale

College, an institution established by the influence of influential

and public-spirited

citizens of the town.

i860,

relinquished the superinlendency, and, re-

turning to Kentucky, took charge of the Jessamine Female College, at

Nicollettsville,

Of

Kentucky.

that institution

he had charge until 1863, when, the events of the affecting its status,

civil

he returned to Hillsborough, Ohio.

in Salt

C.,

Attorney-at-Law, was

Creek township. Holmes county, Ohio,

June 27lh, 1835. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and his father was a farmer in com-

^

fortable circumstances.

the

In the

numerous and highly important duties atposition there he was steadily occupied until

when he

^

many

discharge of the

tached to his

t

born

name

erica, his paternal

His

is

the only family of

that has emigrated from

grandfather having

come

France to this

to

Am-

country

with General Lafayette, and at the close of the war settled He attended a district Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.

in

school in his native place until he was seventeen years of age, in the meantime working on a farm during the summer

war months. In two terms

He in

then pursued a course of higher studies for College, employing himself in

Mount Union

same year he took charge of a private the intermediate terms by teaching school. After passing .a Hayesville he taught for instruction for a subsequent term in the academy at Holmes county. In the meantime, after a second in- two years in a select school in Middletown, period of nine years. study of law in the commenced he summer of In the 1857 of Hillsborough Female vitation, he accepted the Presidency Millersburg, under College, and of this celebrated institution of learning has the office of Hoagland & Reed, in the course of the

boarding-school, and there administered

since ably acted as chief and head.

of A.

M. was conferred on him by

Kentucky;

his degree of

The honorary degree whose

the Augusta College, of

preceptorship he remained for one year.

attended the Ohio State and Union

Law

He

then

College, at Cleve-

D. D. was conferred on him subRe-

land, where, at the expiration of one year, he graduated in In the following November he entered on the June, 1859.

atmosphere within

active practice of his profession in Coshocton, with Colonel

sequently by the Ohio University, at Athens, Ohio. ligiously, his sentiments find a congenial

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA. whom

Josiah Given, \vilh

He

1S61.

he was connected

which date he associated himself with B.

him continued

when

May,

until

then practised alone until September, 1862,

professional

his

labors

He

Lee, and with

S.

May, 1868, him and E. T.

until

the present Law firm, consisting of

Spangler, was formed.

at

has a leading practice

November and December.

March

13th, 1865, for gallant

and meritorious conduct, he was promoted from the Colonelcy of the 183d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry to

He was

the rank of Brigadier-General by brevet.

mustered

out of the service in July, 1865, and subsequently resumed

and practises his profession in Columbus and in the United States He was married, the Northern District of Ohio.

the practice of the law in connection with his father-in-law,

Supreme Court

Court for

Franklin and Nashville, or Brentwood Hills, Tennessee, in

in the

courts of Coshocton county,

the

219

at

April 8th, 1S62, to Irene Perky, daughter of Dr. John F.

Hancock

Perky, of Findlay,

whom he was associated until December 22d, 1S67. When in partnership with General B. R. Cowen, now with

Secretary

Assistant

of

the

he

Interior,

established

in

bank with which he is still connected. of the house is Hoge, Sheets & Co., and

Bellaire the private

county.

The

present style

& Cowen,

was formerly Hoge

new

to the addition of

former name, owing

the

partners, having been adopted July

>OGE, GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON,

1st, 1869. He is also President of the Belmont Glass was born near Belmont, Belmont county, Ohio, Works and of the Bellaire Street Railroad Company, an February 22d, 1832. His parents, Asa Hoge enterprise projected and put into operation in a great and Asenath Ann (Mead) Hoge, were natives measure through his efforts. He is Register in Bankruptcy of Loudon county, Virginia. His grandfathers for the Sixteenth Congressional District, having been apwere Isaac Hoge and Samuel Mead. His father, pointed to this position by Salmon P. Chase, Chief-Justice.

yet living, has resided in the State from territorial times.

His

earlier years

his father

sparsely

had

were passed on the prternal farm where

settled

settled

when

the surrounding country

wilderness.

He

attended

schools located in the neighborhood of his

was a

common

the

home, and was

Pie

has also been

several, times

member

a

of the City

and of the Board of Education, and has held

Council

He

various other public offices.

is

interested in the build-

ing and real estate development of his town, and was an

coworker

efficient

in

the

establishment of

He

the

Bellaire

also educated partly in a private school at Barnesville, Bel-

Manufacturing Company.

mont county.

National Glass Manufacturing Company, and was instru-

schools in

>§54 he taught the counties of Guernsey and Belmont.

commenced

In 1852, 1853

the study of law in the office of

in public

He

then

mental

Hon. Benjamin

works.

He was

until January,

1862,

when he

the

in

Water-

December loih, 1857, to Mary Hon. Benjamin R. Cowen.

married,

Cowen, St. Clairsville, and was admitted to the bar, T. Cowen, daughter of December 3d, 1855. He was then professionally occupied Belmont county

also

in securing the establishment of the Bellaire

S.

in

interested

is

w.is ap-

pointed Chief Clerk of the Secretary of the State of Ohio,

where he remained

until his enlistment in the

He

1862.

July 8th,

entered

the service

Company

B, in August, 1862, he

and mustered

moted

to

the

On

Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. ant,

Union army,

in

was elected

of the 6th

Army

Corps.

He commanded

his regiment in

and was three times wounded, while upon two other occasions his clothes were pierced with

several engagements

On

the evening of the 5th and the

evening of the 6th of

May

at

;

was

at

Cold Harbor, June

ist

Peter>burg; participated in the

May

19th, at

Winchester; and, September 21st and Hill.

9th to the

and 3d, and on the 22d

movement

July 9th; was present, September

action at I'isher’s

morning and

he was engaged in the battles

of the Wilderness; served at .Spottsylvania, 2th

in the

First Lieuten-

22(1,

On October

at

Monocacy,

Opequam,

took part

or

in the

19th he served at

Cedar Run, and was a participant also

at

the battles of

the Cincinnati

1840, at

22(1,

His father was concerned

German Revolution

of 1848, and

when

the

persecutions were instituted he was compelled to

June 25th, 1863, he was proa Captaincy, and served in Virginia and Mainland

Corps, and subsequently was attached to the 3d Division

I.OUIS, Manager of Grand Orchestra, was born, July Frankfort-on-tbe-Main.

as such.

November, 1864, to the command of the 183d Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. From July, 1S63, until March, 1864, he was with the 3d Army

1

ALLENBERG,

organizing

until transferred, in

bullets.

I

126th

seek an asylum

commenced

his musical

direction of his father, efforts

1852, he spent

Cincinnati, in

Mr.

M.

J.

leader in the city ability as a

band.

skill

United

Louis

States.

a musician, and his

flute.

tliree

first

Upon

his arrival in

years

in

mercantile

Strobel, the most ])rominent orchestral

at that time,

discovered Mr. Ballenberg’s

musician and induced him to take a place

He

first

came

the place of the chief

and

the

who was

were on the piano and

service.

his

in

education in Europe, under the

on the

flute.

flutist,

being a player of unusual

In 1863 Henry

leadership of the orchestra at

Hahn assumed

Pike’s ffpera

under him Mr. Ballenberg commenced

engagement.

He

in

into requisition as a substitute in

remained with

burning of the opera house,

in

this

1866.

his

taste

the

House, and first

regular

company until the During this period,

however, he made a number of tours through the country in

connection with Grail’s Italian Cfpera Troupe.

He was

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOIAEDIA.

220 for

some time engaged

He

of Mr. Colville.

manage and supply

OiJ Drury, was under the management

witli the orchestra at the

when

or National Theatre,

it

then arranged with R. E.

his orchestras, a position

Miles

J.

to

which he has

for him the management of Grand Opera House. He has, how-

and which secured

since held

the orchestra at the

many engagements

ever, during this arrangement fdled

other

llute soloist in

Opera Troupe

After

is

home

visits

talent,

He

out this idea.

to

new

director of the

and

and took immediate steps

UGGLES,

I-ION. BENJAMIN, United .Stales Senand second President Judge of the Third Circuit of Ohio, was born at Woodstock, Wind-

ator

now

now who intended

to the

property.

He became

its first

series of concerts.

The

this first venture.

took every step which in his judgment

numerical strength of the orchestra, the con-

tion,

is

now

held by Michael

fine discrimination

made

Ballenberg has

and has the

company

many dismaying

this orchestra

classic

The

are filled by gentlemen

His

music.

efforts

it

gains in

leading positions

who have

a high

Mr. Ballenberg has a large stock of

music and musical

self with creditable

obstacles Mr.

an established institu-

satisfaction of noting that

reputation as soloists.

Brand, a

and unquestioned musical

public esteem and confidence daily. in the

be educated for the

1872 the Cincinnati Orchestra, with

After eneountering

genius.

sons should

his

This intention was thwarted by the

gave

ductorship of which

gentleman of

that

literature,

enthusiasm

to the elevation of orchestral

have secured

admiration of the lovers of the

and has devoted him-

him the respect and

for

art in Cincinnati.

in

means were

when Benjamin was

Brooklyn Academy, and

all

He

swept aw.iy.

eight years old, leaving his family

Benjamin studied

circumstances.

straitened

loss of his

surety for a neighbor, and by the

default of the latter his

died

His

moderate circumstances,

in

ministry.

would increase the artistic ability of the organization. Today it takes rank as the leading orchestra of the West, and is doing great service in developing and improving musical taste and culture in Cincinnati. Mr. Ballenberg is yearly adding

was a farmer

father

a large body of in-

once enlisted by the splendid success of

Mr. Ballenberg

county, Connecticut, February 21st, 1783.

This town was originally named Roxburry.

violinist, as

favor and support of the patrons of music in that city were at

ham

to carry

Mr. Ballenberg had

organization.

thirty-six performers,

in 1S61

as

engaged a number of superior musicians,

in

influential

was married

Pennsylvania.

leaving the support of his

difficult art of controlling

strumentalists,

He

Sarah R. Campbell, of Plain Grove, Lawrence county,

of the Thomas’ Orchestra to

and secured Mr. George Brand, the talented mastered the

of the Board of Health of Youngs-

one of the more prominent and

is

citizens of that flourishing town.

Cincinnati he conceived the idea of organizing a first-class orchestra of

member

a valued

town, and

During a tour with the English

cities.

his father died,

family to him.

he

the

at

graduation from this in-

after his

stitution

he read law wdlh Judge Peters, of Hartford, Con-

necticut,

and was admitted

he moved

to the

bar of that

In 1807

city.

Ohio, settling in Marietta, Washington county,

to

where he pursued with great success the practice of his His profound learning, his skill and care as a

profession.

power

counsellor, his

argument,

at

public attention, and he carved his

rank of the

and conclusive

for rapid analyzation

once commanded not only professional hut

wmy quickly

to the front

In 1810 he was elected by

jurists of the day.

the Republicans in the Legislature to succeed Calvin Peas

Judge of the Third Circuit, and was the second incumbent of that judicial office. Shortly after he moved

as President

from Marietta to

went

St. Clairsville,

to Connecticut,

She died

his wife to Ohio.

He

again married. to

make

in

open court as

and

in the

year 1S12 he

where he was married, and brought 1817, and in 1825 he

in

lacked the

gifts

was

of an orator, and failed

that impression of substantial ability as successfully in

chambers.

He was

not distinguished as

an advocate, but as a consulting attorney he had, perhaps, few superiors

In 1815 he was elected by

in the country.

the legislature to the United Slates Senate, and resigned

’^UNNINGHAM, JOHN geon, was born

in

S.,

Physician

and Sur-

Beaver county, Pennsylvania,

to enter

upon

his

new

duties.

February 4th, 1833. He is of Scotch extraction, and received his elementary education in the

large constituency in Ohio, he

common

he rendered valuable,

if

State and the nation.

He was

schools located

in

the vicinity of his

home, and also in the Poland Academy, Ohio, and the Allegheny College, in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

He commenced and graduated sylvania.

the office of Judge, after having ably filled

the study of medicine at Cleveland, Ohio,

at the Jefferson College, Philadelphia,

Since 1862 he has been engaged

in

Penn-

iirofessional

Youngstown, Ohio, where, and also throughout the surrounding country, he is esteemed as At the present time an able and reliable practitioner.

and successful labors

in

it

was twice re-elected

United States Senate, and during his career

in

Washington

that

his

to the

in that

body

not brilliant, services both to his

president of the caucus held

nominated William H. Crawford, of

when

Georgia, for the Presidency, at the time

and Jackson were

for five years,

Being very popular with

in the field.

Buren and Judge Ruggles were

Clay,

Adams

At that period Martin Van political friends,

and quite

an extensive correspondence was carried on between them during the campaign.

Chairman of

llie

The Judge was

Cuinmiltee of Claims

in

for

a

long time

the United States

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOP.EDIA. Senate, and was favorably spoken of in 1S40 for the Vice-

Presidency, being strongly sup|iorted

When

throughout the country.

and gave

fifty

by several journals

years of age he retired

political

more

especially to the cultivation of fruit.

mental

life

of

was

instru-

at times writes with ability for her

husband’s newspaper.

P'or a time, after the expiration

term as Senator, he was President of the Bank

last

He

Clair.sville.

St.

He

and zeal. He was married, December 28th, 1871, to Martha Craig, of that city, who is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan Female College, of Delaware, taught the Cambridge High School, and the duties of that office with intelligence

introducing to the growers of that section some

in

of the choicest varieties. of his

and

his attention to his farm,

from

221

died, aher a

brief illness, at

residence in that place, on September 2d, 1S57.

his

^i^^AVLOR,

BYRON,

J.

Lawyer and

born, April 26th, 1835,

Judge

^

Ruggles enjoyed

Guernsey county, Ohio, upon

the Senate,

reared.

in an eminent degree the confidence of and was greatly respected in his professional and private career. He was a firm believer in the great truths of Christianity, and exerted wherever he went, or

wherever he was known, an excellent moral influence. He was liberal in his views and generous in his impulses,

and contributed ments

the

in

When

citizens.

advancement of

to the

he died

all

worihy move-

well-being of

the

of

interest

the

Slate

fellow-

his

man

an able

lost

intelligence that he

While teaching he

training,

was

Politician,

24th, 1842, being one of nine sons

whose parents

were natives of Virginia, but were raised

Ohio.

in

His father was a farmer in moderate circum-

who during

stances,

engaged quite successfully

the latter portion of his

common and

received his education in the

and

When

in a

newspaper

office,

and

fession for

as

a private, serving with

Upon

now

leaving this institution he read law

Law

School

in 1866,

in that city.

and practised

at

his pro-

In the spring of 1S75

Cambridge, where he became one of the

to

jjroprietors of the

and influence

Guernsey Times, contributing

as a writer,

and

fine business tpiali-

a manager, to secure the great prosperity that journal

He was

enjoys.

E. C. Ceilings, of

married on the 8th of May, 1S73, to

Camden,

New

Jersey.

W.

85111

that

He

four months, the term of his enlistment.

turned to Cambridge and re-entered the newspaper

cELROY, ZENAS COLLINS,

re-

1866

he

became

associate

the

Physician,

horn

in

father’s side

he

having come

to this countiy

is

a

Belmont

On

county on the 2d of September, 1815.

office,

of

editor

native of Ohio, having been

I

his

of Irish extraction, his father

is

from Ireland

in the

year 1790, and settled in 1803 in Ohio, where he

teaching in the winters in some of the county and village In

and

his skill ties as

Allegheny College, Meadville,

afterwards

some years

he returned editors

steadily labored for a collegiate

D. Taylor, of Cambridge, Ohio, and graduated

J.

where he remained a few months,

Ohio Volunteer Infantry

schools.

to teach,

eighteen years old he became an apprentice

and, the rebellion having just begun, then joined the

command

and

assiduity

was very soon able

select schools,

taught by General George

for a time at a school

Hoge.

life

David

the practice of law.

in

was

he

school educa-

and attended during portions of each year Madison

the Cincinnati D., Editor and

which

common so much

liamsburg, Ohio, of which he was superintendent for several years.

with

born near Fairview, Guernsey county, Ohio, July

Fairview,

and when twenty commenced life as a tutor, conducting village schools, and subsequently the Union school, of Wil-

Pennsylvania.

^AVLOR, DAVID

received a

and studied with

tion,

College,

and society a beloved member.

He

was

Editor,

'''sar

at

first

engaged

in farming,

and subsequently entered the

Guernsey Times, a journal started by Mr. John Aiken in In 1868 he obtained a partnership interest in this 1824.

ministry and labored for over thirty years in the Methodist

paper, and held

of Maiyland.

it

until

January

1st,

time that journal steadily advanced

the duties of this office for a term of three

In January, 1874, he re-purchased his former in-

schools of the region, and those opportunities were by no

its

Examiner,

terest

in

graceful affairs, in

circulation.

filling

the

and

He was

Guernsey Times.

in influence

and greatly

ajipointed County School

Mr. Taylor

is

an easy,

forcible writer, thoroughly versed in political

the discussion of which he has been,

great issues l>rising

The mother of Dr. McElrcry was a native The time of his youth was not a favorable

Episcopal Church.

in the region where that was compelled to content himself with such opportunities as were afforded by the district

increa.sed

years.

1872, during which

were

at stake, very

prominent.

newspaper man, thoroughly alive

influential journal,

and has

He

to the

is

for acquiring

means them

brilliant.

until

whenever was jdaced an enler-

needs of an

in this professional labor

a high as well as extended reputation.

one

youth was passed.

earned

In .May, 1875, he

of this

an education

He

Such

as they

were he made the most of

he had reached the age of sixteen, and then he in a store

position

in the capacity of clerk.

he continued

twenty-seven years of age,

all

system of self-culture, and then

to

the

perform

The

until

duties

he was

time pursuing a rigid

commenced

the study of

medicine with Drs. Boerstler and Edwards, of Lancaster,

was appointed Postmaster of Cambiidgc, and discharged Ohio.

Afterwards he entered the medical department of

BIOGRArillCAL E.NXYCLOr.EDIA.

222

the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated there in the

He

year 1845. tlie

Newark, Ohio, and

settled in

He

practice of his profession.

Zanesville,

remained

and then,

for a period of five years,

in

grew

until

became very

it

in

Newark

removed to and where his

1850,

where he has ever since resided,

practice rapidly

there began

His repu-

large.

tation, not only as a practitioner, but as a contributor to the

was the

Muskingum County Medical which body he has read many of his papers

President of the

first

Society, before

He

previous to their imblication.

C Jiresponding is

also Physician to the

He was

is now Academy

Secretary of the

married

Home

a Fellow and the

of Medicine, and

of the Friendless,

etc., etc.

year 1846 to Elizabeth Alice Block-

in the

som, daughter of Hon. William Blocksom, of Zanesville.

medical journals of the day, has extended to Europe, where his name and known to the

his contributions

been an industrious writer the

London medical

to

medical literature are

For the

profession.

for the

ten years he has

last

American

The purpose

press.

papers has been to explain the phenomena of

and

disease,

on a purely physical basis;

bring physiology, pathology and

domain of physical or exact

life, in

He

is

wasted

tissues, as they are

among

the

and

;

that

the separation from the general debris oi the in functional duty, of the special

Merchant, Iron

12th,

1821, in Gallipolis,

Ohio, his parents being of French descent, and the

ceived a

claims to have

discovered the function of the lymphatic system that function

was born, September

health

therapeutics within

science.

J.,

Master, Steamboat Proprietor, and Hotel Keeper,

other words, to

in

FRANK

AXES, CAPTAIN

as well as for

of his published

place,

first

He

of that town.

settlers

re-

education in the schools of his native

fair

and when thirteen years old went to Portsmouth, started in life by becoming a clerk in the store of

where he

Charles A. M. Damarin, one of the most honorable and

He served him faithmanhood, some eleven years alwith the ingoing stream of together. In 1846 he became associated with his former and place. And that, seemingly, the only proper place employer in conducting a wholesale grocery business, and and time in a living human body is jirst where it actually continued in the same very successfully for about ten years, occurs, to wit: just before entering the right auricle, on and retired v/ith a competency. He was subsequently inits path to the lungs. The lymph, as it is called, he duced to embark in a rolling mill and other iron interests, claims, is the exact analogue of a vegetable seed, animal and while so engaged built two of the first stone-coal fureggs, or other germ, and fulfils all the ends actually accom- naces in southern Ohio, and manufactured the first stonematerial in which each organic structure stores up the force for

own

its

new material, and its union new material at a proper time

reproduction from

plished by either, or

all

of them, in the preservation, per-

petuation and multiplication of their special forms, or types, in

organic

life,

every requisite

animal

or vegetable;

condition

for

and exactly

assimilation

the

fulfils

know

is

during

actually occurring in our

And

life.

identity through

own

life,

bodies

is at

;

is

it

the

while the physical

once a necessity and guarantee of

and hence of immortality and a future

Dr. McElroy finds

all

the time

all

with changing material, which

undisputed possession of each individual

individuality,

which we

satisfactorily accounts for that personal

it

death of the parents

lives,

from boyhood

state.

impossible to reconcile the entity, or

to

coal iron in that section.

business he I^ad

much

Being the pioneer

to learn

;

the undertaking, leaving

and reap where he had sown. interested

in

steamboating,

in this line of

and he found

did not, by any means, prove remunerative.

new abandoned

of

materials to the types and forms of structure of the bodies

of living beings during their natural

upright citizens in the community.

fully

it

his enterprise

He,

therefore,

to others to prosecute

In 1859 he became actively as clerk on the “ Grey

first

Eagle,” Captain G. Donnally, the pioneer boat in the trade

between Pomeroy and Cincinnati

;

and subsequently

a similar position on other crafts.

“ Imperial,”

and three

In

commanding and running her

years.

He

finally sold her,

less,”

which he ran

for

Cairo.

She made

trips

filled

1862 he built the

and

for

between two “ Peer-

built the

a few years until she was

lost

on the Gulf, and was the

near

first

to

Alabama river for a He afterwards commanded different garded and insisted upon in and out of the profession, with part of the season. now known facts of the unity of materials and forces run- boats in various places until 1867, when he built and comning througlf all organic life. So-called disease, or diseased manded the “Alaska” in the Cincinnati and New Orleans action in living bodies, cannot be anything else than modi- trade, continuing therein until 1871, when he concluded to fications of processes natural in health. Acute disease, so- leave the river. He then became interested in the Crawcalled, being for tbe most part in the interest of continued ford House, where he remained until the autumn of 1873, life, by removing, by combustion, or peroxidation, structure when he resumed command of the “Alaska” in the same almost personality identity of so-called disease, as

which has

lost

its

physiological

dynamic

now

capacities;

re-

and

enter

rade,

Montgomery, continuing on

until

Mi.ssissippi

modifications of the structural arrangement of the m.aterials

n

composing

living

tissues,

her loss by sinking near Tiptonville on the

This ended his steamboat career, and, May, 1874, he again became proprietor of the Crawford as demonstrated by House, where he is now engaged in operating it as a firstTo Captain Oakes is undoubtedly due the conservative tendency, class hotel.

chronic diseases, so-called, depending for the most part on

actually

the

changed or lost functions, has also a and are not, as generally regarded, enemies

to

life.

He

credit of

river.

having been the originator of the Jackson county

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BIOGRArillCAL ENCYCLOI’/EDIA. Mone-coal iron business; be being the

first

to

223

|

the feasibility of

making

M ells &

demonstrate entered the wholesale grocery house of Bishop, Co., in which his father

He

iron with this variety of coal.

For many

was the senior partner.

exacting daughter subsequent years he was constantly occupied by for the firm. salesman head as acting business duties, of Charles Oscar Tracy, one of the most prominent citizens When the new house, R. M. Bishop & Co., came into exand lawyers of that section. istence, in 1855, he was admitted as a partner, and since ^

was married

in

Portsmouth, Ohio, to Frances

II.,

j

that date has

devoted his time and energies, with

ULLEX, THOMAS,

and excellent administrative Contracting Builder, of Cin-

county Monaghan,

Ohio, was born in

cinnati,

His family,

Ireland, July 22d, 1839.

who were

of Scotch descent, were of the agricultural class in the

He

north of Ireland.

of his native country

until

attended the schools 1854,

when he went

alone to Toronto, Canada, where he continued his studies for a time.

In

trade

penter’s faithfully

at

1855 he apprenticed himself to the carM'ardsville, Canada West, and served

through his

full

term.

After

became a

1858, he removed to Cincinnati, where he

neyman

at his trade,

and so continued

through

having served

he enlisted that

until the

jour-

outbreak

Promptly on the

of the war of the rebellion, in 1861. for volunteers, in April,

expiration, in

its

for three

term enlisted

call

months, and the

in

54th

Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in September, for three war; and, having re-enlisted, served until the muster out of his regiment, September 15th, 1865. He participated in every engagement in which his regiment took part, and was with General W, T. Sherman in all his memorable campaigns. After the war he returned to Cincinnati and engaged in business on his own account, and soon became one of the most reliable, active and skilful builders of that city. His career has been one of uninterrupted prosperity, and he has contributed much to the improvement of the city by the erection of substantial and

years, or during the

public

elegant

buildings,

The commodious

stores

and private residences.

building erected for the City Infirmary,

various model public school buildings, and dwellings of the

leading and opulent citizens attest his

skill

has never aspired to nor accepted a political

and

He

taste.

office.

mirably for the responsible position in which he

placed.

is

trade of this house, under able and systematic

The

agement, has within the past few years increased extent that are

him ad-

qualifying

abilities

tireless

keen perception

interests of his firm, his

assiduity, to the

its

man-

such an

present business relations and connections

unsurpassed

amount of

to

value in

for

western country, the

the

having aggregated about

sales

tliree

millions of

In April, 1871, he was elected, as a Democrat, to the Board of Aldermen from the Eighteenth Ward, by a dollars.

ward constituted the strongest So notable and efficient body that in 1873 he was again

large majority, although that

Republican section of the

were

his services in this

urged

city.

After reluctantly consent-

renomination.

to accept a

ing to meet the desires of his fellow-townsmen, he was reelected

He was

by a handsome majority.

then

elected

President of the Board, and bore himself so excellently

while acting in

this

mously re-elected

At the expiration of

absolutely declined

1875, he

term, in

1874 he was unani-

capacity that in

to the chair.

a re-election.

his

In.,

same year he was elected President of the Board of Trade, of which he had been a member for some time, and which is composed of the leading merchants and He was also appointed by manufacturers of Cincinnati.

March of

the

W.

lion. G.

missioners.

1875, one of the Park Comnot a brilliant reasoncr, he possesses

C. Johnston, in

Though

that intuitive perception of right

one

an instant

to grasp in

subject,

and draw

all

a conclusion

and

justice

which enables

the essential

which

is

points of a

seldom erroneous.

Prompt, far-seeing and active as a business man, nothing escapes his observation, while his merits as an administrator are certainly

second

to those of but

few men.

Though

he has not yet reached the meridian of life, his enterprise and energy have secured for him that recognition which places the

himjn

Queen

the foremost ranks of the self-made

men

of

City.

AVIS,

SAMUEL,

member nati,

LSIIOP,

WILLIAM

of the

retired

Chamber

was born, P'ebruary

Massachusetts, and

T., Merchant, ex-President of

is

Merchant and of

Commerce

1st,

senior

of Cincin-

1802, in Brighton,

a son of the late

Samuel

I

Board of Aldermen and President of the Board of Trade, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Elizaville,

Fleming

He

county,

Kentucky,

April

The latter energetic man of

Davis, a resident of Quincy, Illinois.

the

was during business,

who

took a

life

a high-toned,

warm and

leading

interest

in

all

Hon. R. M. public measures which tended to develop the resources of Bishop, whose sketch appears in this volume. the country; he had removed to the West as early as 1835, His father moved to Cincinnati, March 1st, 1848. He was whither he was shortly followed by nearly all his children. educated in the common schools of this city and also in the His son, Samuel, embarked in the provision business in Woodward College. While in his seventeenth year he Boston when only twenty years of age, which he pursued 29th, 1835.

is

the oldest son of

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

224

successfully in that city for fifteen years, meanwhile, in 1835,

bate Judge for Washington county for a period of one year,

opening a branch house

and then resigned the position

After conducting

Cincinnati.

in

both establishments for about two years, he discontinued his

removed to Cincinbecame a permanent resident. In ad-

business in Boston, and with his family nati,

and

thereafter

dition to his extensive mercantile pursuits, he devoted a

many

member

From

now

devotes himself exclusively to his

his earliest years

he has been an ardent lover

of music, and at the .age of thirteen was a constant attendant at

King’s Chapel, Boston, prior

formed by

was

that organization,

elected a

member

” in

Handel and Haydn Society

the rehearsals of the “

ever per-

to the first oratorio

He

on Christmas night, 1815.

of that society in 1825, and became

subsequently connected with other musical societies both

Boston and Cincinnati. cially

Throughout

during those seasons

when

entire

his

life,

in

Whig

years the Chairman of the

also interested for over twenty years,

office.

order to take up the prac-

In politics he was originally a Whig, and he was for

sion.

On

relinquished, and

in

has continued to reside in Mari-

etta ever since, in the uninterrupted practice of his profes-

large portion of his time to agriculture, in

which he was but which he has since

He

tice of his profession.

Committee.

Centr.al

the organization of the Republican party he

He

of that organization, and

still

has been counsel for the Marietta, Pittsburgh

Company

land Railroad

since

its

became a

remains a Republican.

He

formation.

& is

Clevea stock-

holder in the Marietta Chair Company, and also in the

He

Marietta Union Bank.

was one of the organizers of the

He

Noble County National Bank.

has been twice married.

who

In 1838 he married Grace Dana, of Newport,

died in

1854; in 1855 he married his present wife, Jerusha Gear, daughter of Rev. Mr. Gear, of Marietta.

espe-

mo-

the cares of business

nopolized his time and attention during the long hours de-

voted to

it,

he has ever resorted

the concord of sweet

to

sounds, both vocal and instrumental, as a means of relaxation life,

and he

and even now,

relief;

still

at his

continues his musical studies, and takes delight

He was

both as a performer or an auditor. to

advanced period of

Martha Glover,

married

in

1824

Some time after her decease, he was married Mary A. Davis, a native of Boston.

in

1856

in

He

27th, 1S45.

Attorney-at-Law, was born

Adams

Jacksonville,

county,

was the

of eight children,

Ohio, January

sixth child in a family

whose parents were Francis His father, a

Shinn and Sarah (Moore) Shinn.

native of Culpepper, Virginia, followed through life

He moved

the occupation of tanner.

principally

to

to

Ohio about the year 1825, and settled at Hillsborough, whence he removed to Jacksonville in 1840, or thereabout; he settled in West Union in January, 1846, and there resided He was for four years an until his decease in June, 1851. Auditor of Adams county, and was .widely known and .\RT, THOMAS W., Lawyer, was born on the esteemed as an upright and useful citizen. His mother, a 27th of February, 1816, at Grandview, Washing- native of Adams county, Ohio, died in May, 1869. He was ton county, Ohio. His mother, Mary Cochran, engaged more or less regularly in farming occupations until was a native of Virginia, and his father, a Penn- his majority was attained, while his early education, which

e

sylvanian by birth, though of Irish parentage, re-

was comparatively thorough, was obtained by

moved

tions

century, settled

was married

in

Ohio in the early part of the present on some land beside the Ohio river, and to

the

year following his arrival.

Thomas

Evart received such early education as he obtained in the

common

#

granddaughter of Dr. Phineas Holden,

a

of Dorchester, Massachusetts, a stern revolutionaiy patriot. ,

HINN, JOSEPH W.,

When

schools of Washington county.

teen years of age he in the office of the

remained

until

left

he was

six-

school and entered as an assistant

County Clerk,

Marietta, where he

at

he was twenty-one years of age.

He was

appointed Clerk of the courts of Washington county in De-

He

cember, 1836.

continued to hold this

office until 1851.

versity,

his

own

exer-

In 1866 he attended Miami' Uni-

and perseverance.

and during the ensuing eighteen months pursued a

regular course of classical study. this institution

In January, 1868, he

and entered the Ohio University,

at

left

Athens,

where he remained as a student for about four months. Subsequently, on account of illness, he was compelled to In the summer of 1868 he was nomireturn to his home. nated by a Democratic Convention as Clerk of the Court of to

Common fill

Pleas,

that office.

and

At

in

this

the succeeding

fall

was elected

time he was the youngest of five

a member candidates put forward for the desired place. He was rewas held in 1850. elected in 1871, and, after retaining the cleikship six years, On the expiration of his term of office as County Clerk, he vacated the office in February, 1875. During the years inwas elected Probate Judge of Washington county. In the tervening between election and vacation he applied himself

While he was

still

County Clerk he was elected

of the Constitutional Convention, which

meantime, while

had been

in the

prosecution of his

official

duties, he

diligently pursuing a rigid course of legal study,

reading law under Judge Nye, and, while attending the Constitutional

Convention

at

Cincinnati

practise in the courts of Ohio.

He

in

1851,

was

.admitted to

held the office of Pro-

to the to

study of law, and in September, 1874, was admitted In February, 1875, contract for

the bar.

building the

new Adams County Court House,

structure, the cost of the erection of

a magnificent

which was defrayed

mainly by the individual subscriptions of the people of the

BIOGRAPHICAL ENXVCLOIVEDIA. This he did, no other person offering to take the was limited by law to an ex-

county.

contract, because the county

The

penditure of $10,000.

down

energies

greater portion of his time and

he commenced the study of law with his father,

!

in

Politically,

its

mean

support talents ot no

His religious views and sentiments are in harmony with the He was married, Presbyterian Church.

March

E. Wright, a native of

8th, 1870, to Sallie

county, Ohio, whose demise occurred

November

He was

15th,

1856, the date of the

was afterward engaged

and then practised alone

in professional

May, 1868.

until

At

two years, he

that date

associated himself in partnership with Julius Pomerene, the firm thus constituted

fession

Court !

Brown

at

and also

and

has an extensive

practises his pro-

environing region, and before the Supreme

Columbus. In the year i860, on motion of Hon.

lid-

win M. Stanton, he was admitted an attorney and counsellor of the

iSlh, 1871.

the

in

He

exists.

still

practice in Coshocton county,

order.

teachings of the

le

En-

j

he sustains the creed of the Democratic party, to

1

Coshoc-

he remained

his jjrofession

connection with his father until decease.

at

to the bar in 1853.

labors in conjunction with his brother for about

through the opposition of Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties.

and has brought

was admitted

in this city

upon the active practice of

latter’s

^

Con1874 he was a candidate before the State Democratic vention for Clerk of the Supreme Court, but was defeated

and

tering

:

In

general practice of his profession.

in the

ton,

'

voted to the supervising of the construction of this monument to the county's enterprise, while he has been constantly

engaged also

Subsequently

there until 1851, the date of his graduation.

’

the present time has therefore been de-

to

225

Supreme Court of the United

District of

He was

Columbia.

States at

May

married.

Washington,

25th, 1868, to

j

again marrierl, September

Adams

Swearingen, a native of

county, in the

LARK, REV. RUFUS

G°-

1874, to Laura

W.,

same

State.

May

ffl

R.

W.

He was setts,

class of 1865,

at

and graduated from that

Upon

full

New

General Theological Seminary of 1868, and during minister in Calvary Church,

he graduated sistant

New

in the

St.

Hampshire, moving

York, from which

that year officiated as as-

in

186S to 1871 he was Rector of

mouth,

same

city.

From

John’s Church, Ports-

in the latter

year to Co-

lumbus, Ohio, where he immediately entered upon the rectorship of Trinity Church,

which he

still fills.

Dr. Clark

is

an

eloquent divine, and has labored with great success in his various positions. in a successful

He

combines two very essential

worker and organizer, as well as an earnest piety,

and

education

He

Virginia.

the

in

in

Belmont

5th, 1816, his father

common

being

mother of

his

received his early

schools of Belmont

county, which he attended during those portions of the year

when

his assistance

was not required

When

vation of his father’s farm.

followed the bent of his ambition, and

law with Nathan Plvans,

at

in the culti-

nineteen years of age he

commenced

to read

Camliridge, and for two years

assiduously, under the capable direction of this gentleman,

pursued his studies.

When

twenty-one years of age he was

admitted to the bar, and removed

he entered upon the practice of failing

at

once

to

Toledo, where

His health

his profession.

him, in 1838 he returned

to

Cambridge, where he

practised with his brother for about one year, and then settled in

From 1840

McConnelsville, Morgan county, Ohio.

until

December, 1S58, he was professionally engaged in that place. He practised mainly alone, having been for a few years asso-

and impresand ciated respectively with Isaac Parrish and with Judge Wood. regarded with the warmest affection by In 1858 he went to Zanesville, where he has ever since been

He

is

qualities

being an excellent parish

mini.stry, that of

sive pulpit orator.

Loudon county,

institution in the

leaving college he entered the

Lawyer, was born

March

a native of Pennsylvania and

Walton Clark.

and thorough course of

E.,

county, Ohio,

Williams 'College, Massachu-

having pursued a

collegiate training.

ANS, EZRA

New

29th, 1S44, being the son of

Clark, D. D., and Eliza

educated

\

Rector of Trinity

Jr.,

Church, Columbus, was born in Portsmouth,

Hampshire, on

Helen King, daughter of a distinguished lawyer of Newark, Licking county, Ohio.

is

a

man

attractive

of the most sincere

pursuing his professional calling.

his parishioners.

when he resigned of Morgan county.

1853, bate

^ PANGLER, ETHERINGTON Law, was born

in Zinesvillc,

T.,

Attorney-at-

Muskingum

county,

the Court of

kingum

Common

counties,

and

P'rom the

fall

of 1851 until

he was the Judge of ProIn 1861 he was elected Judge of

that office,

Pleas for Morgan, Noble and

Mus-

ret.ained this office until his resignation

26th, 1831. His parents were of its duties in 1866. On October 31st, 1S43, I'c was marDavid Spangler, cx-member of Congress and ried to Mary Lawrence, who was born in Pennsylvania, lawyer, and Elizabeth Grafton (Etherington) but rearerl in Ohio. During the late civil war Judge Evans

Ohio, January

Spangler,

When

a

native

of

Baltimore,

Maryland.

took an active part on the side of the Federal government,

moved to Coshocton, Ohio, and rendered material aid in raising and equipping volunteers, common schools until he had at- and in organizing the fizd, 78th, 97th and I22d regiments

a year old his parents

where he attended the

tained his sixteenth year.

higher studies ia

29

Kenyon

He

then pursued a course of

College, at Gambler, remaining

from Ohio, as well as the 159th Ohio Regiment, and was cliosen

r'irst

Lieutenant of

Company B

in the

last-named

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.EDIA.

226

was a sound lawyer, and an honest man at the politics. He has always been an anti-slavery man, and since and on the bench, and a firm believer in the precepts the organization of the Republican party he has voted with that party. He was married in the year 1862 to Minerva and principles of tlie Christian religion. E. Tenney.

legimeiit

;

bar

JOHN MILLOT,

'LLIS,

Professor of Mental Phi-

losophy in Oberlin College, was born, of

England parentage,

Jaffrey,

at

New

New

NDERSON, THOMAS

'yj'f

born

Hampshire,

on the 27th of Marcli, 1831. He continued to live there until he was nine years of age, and

removed

then

Among

with

his

parents

when he

life were the habits of same which are developed not so much as habits talent

the earliest habits of his

thrifty industry,

nature of the children of

as a part of the

New

England,

He

was industrious with his hands, but he hail a brain which would not be idle; meanwhile manual labor by no means knowledge he filled the measure of his desire or his capacity

him while a student in this coland gave him an exfoundation upon which to build his reputation in

still

This

only a boy he entered Oberlin College as a student.

went through the

creditable manner,

1851.

He

then

course of study there in the most

full

and graduated from the

commenced

institution in

a course of theological study,

which he prosecuted, with continued interruptions in the way of teaching and other forms of work, until 1857, when During six months he graduated in that department also. of this time he was engaged as a teacher at Lapeer, Michi-

gan, and then he took the position of Professor of Ancient

Languages

Mississippi

in

College,

of Mississippi.

labors

were of the most complete and most His attainments were solid and varied

and he possessed

a high order,

to Oberlin

back

two years and on the 12th day of June, 1871, was admitted to the bar at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and on the 22d day of the same month entered into partnership with his former legal preceptor. Colonel Taylor, and ever since has been engaged in practice with him. Mr. Anderson is a young application for

that rare

fill

He came

the chair of Greek.

to

occupy.

his profession, a large

reputation as an attorney. tastes,

in all its

;

he has

places. ligent

Beyond such

back as an

citizen,

a gentleman of cultivated

is

law

universally esteemed,

and

manifold branches; he

is

a gentleman of integrity and excellent moral character.

^jORDON, W.

Subsequently he was

for the past ten years

Painesville,

been

and other

he has taken no part

in

J.

M., Chemist, was born on the 25th

of December, 1825,111 Somerset county, Maryland.

When

very young he removed to Baltimore, and

there obtained his education, general and scientific.

to his

in-

part as belongs to the earnest, intel-

and conscientious

He

to study with zeal the science of

his talents of

In connection with his duties as Pro-

fessor in Oberlin College,

and care in

faculty, without

teaching from the profes-

preaching in Olrerlin, Cleveland,

and continues

his learning, skill

and lucrative prattice, and an enviable

satisfactory na-

sor’s chair, he has been largely engaged in teaching from

the preacher’s desk.

usual talent in the profession he has chosen,

and has already secured by

his

In 1866 he was ordained as a

minister, and since then, besides

;

man of more than

This

and

transferred to the chair of Mental .Science, and that position

he continues

On

the

College, where he had graduated

seven years before as a student. structor, to

High

School department of the Cambridge Lbiion .Schools.

which the most exalted talents and the rarest accomplishments are of little worth in the teacher’s possession, the faculty of imparting successfully and happily to others what In 1858 he was he had himself come in possession of. c.illed

After leaving college he

before studied, concluding his labors as teacher in the

is

position he continued to occupy for three years,

ture.

an attorney.

as

der whose directions he pursued his reading with intelligent

course of collegiate study.

full

plan was early formed, and early carried into execution, and

He

years

taught school for two years in the counties in which he had

gaining everything for himself that the

after

beginning with a

while

to

could afford, he set to work to supplement

must have, and that,

secured

22d day of June, 1S69, he became a student at law in the office of Colonel J. D. Taylor, of Cambridge, Ohio, un-

;

district schools

until 1865,

College, in the

lege a thorough English education,

a carpenter, and his

penter-shop, learning and prosecuting his father’s trade.

Mount Union

entered

His application, and the possession of apt

State.

for study,

who are not born to wealth. His father was cellent own earlier years were passed in the car- coming

especially those

in -Sewellsville,

Belmont and Guernsey county schools

Oberlin.

to

IL, Attorney-at-Law, was

Belmont county, Ohio, June 6th, 1847. His father was a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of Ohio. He attended the

(5/A')

,nd

His education was conducted with a view a practical chemist and druggist,

becoming

he studied chemistry under Professor W'illiam E. Aiken,

the University of Maryland, the oldest medical college in In the year 1848 he removed to Cincinnati, and he State. if

pct'itili.itipd

t

this

1i

imspi f

i

11

th e

drup’

business there, and

he carried on successfully and with but

tion for a period of

of the time

it

twenty years

was conducted

in

;

little

interrup-

although during a portion connection with chemical

manufacturing, having established a laboratory for the production of chemicals and pharmaceutical preparations generally.

Gradually

this

br.anch of his business

grew

into

—

BIOGRAnilCAL EXCVCLOP.EDIA. proportions of great magnitude and importance, and

he some time ago added another, supplied with

al-

and most improved appliances.

his business as apothecary, his business

though he continued

as manufacturing chemist

became

latest

and most important developments

in

the latest

all

Besides these, he has in

operation numerous mills and engines for grinding drugs,

the one most wddely iden-

with his name, and the one from which the most imHe has always kept well up portant results have followed.

etc.

tified

with the

227

For many years he was President of the Cincinnati

College of Pharmacy

chemical

lishing the

was one of those engaged American Pharmaceutical Association ;

in estab-

was

;

for

and has always, in the production of new and valu- five years Recording Secretary; for one year Vice-President, able articles, been in advance of most other manufacturers and in 1S64 President of the association; and has always He was the first iri the United States to been in the largest sense identified with the most advanced in the country. produce glycerine as a commercial article, and it is said that scientific and literary interests of his profession. At one science

;

he has been longer engaged in the manufacture of it and has produced more than any other manufacturer in the world

time he edited a pharmaceutical paper in Cincinnati.

and the glycerine which he makes

the city of active

is

;

is

universally acknowl-

one of the most comprehensively

men, and

men

activ.e

finds time to

He

in Cincinnati,

participate intelli-

German or French production, gently and effectively in matters of public interest. He is a and only equalled by one made in London. He has taken prominent member and an active worker in the church, and, the first premium in every instance when exhibited in com- in short, occupies a higli place in society, as a Christian, a edged

to

be superior

petition with

to either

production of other manufacturers.

the

A

business

man and

a citizen.

number of years ago he abandoned the general drug trade, and devoted himself exclusively to the chemical manufacturing business, and ever since then the productions of his labora-

and

tory

its

branches have occupied his attention and his

energy almost exclusively, except so of foreign drugs was concerned.

ammonia from

Gas Works, and he gaged

in

article is

is

is

man in the West who is The material from which

the only

one which had always been held

to

He

This remarkable

traction.

is

of P'rench ex-

man was

reared in the

country, in the poorest circumstances, and abso-

en-

While

lutely without training or education.

the

be

Inventor and Manufacturer, was born

L’ Assumption, forty-five miles from Montreal,

Canada, April 15th, 1812.

manufacture of

to the

the waste liquor at the Cincinnati

such manufacture.

produced

at

Within the past few years

he has devoted himself quite largely sulphate of

AN, JOHN,

far as the importation

his seventh year

he was placed under a farmer, with

in

whom

I

it

was arranged

that

he should remain

until the attainment

j

In the manufacture of glycerine he

waste and worthless.

!

also utilizes material

which was before held

to

be worthless;

of his majority.

In course of time, however,

having subjected him

to

this

master

treatment of an unwarrantably

[

this is the

waste material from .stearine candle factories, and

brutal

nature, the surrounding neighbors interfered in his

j

he now pays large sums not a cent to any one. prise,

he

is

now

for

With

what a few years ago yielded his

customary

restless

enter-

introducing an article of lampblack pro-

duced from natural gas, whicli

is

said to be superior to all

others in the manufacture of ink for engravers, lithographers,

and

all

tracts

others

who

require especially fine inks.

and sugar-coated

pills

P'luid ex-

have been favorite productions

behalf and ])laced him under the charge of the Sisters of Charity of Montreal.

managed for the

to secure

some

an amount of earnings

support of his father’s family.

for five years at a salary of

of

vhich he

sufficiently

ample

At the age of sixteen

he entered into an engagement with a tinner

employ

him

W'hile there the Sisters guided

in the pursuit of various occupations, in

to labor in his

one dollar per month

was wdth this sum he was required to clothe himself. He subwas used sequently began the performance of extra work, the proas an explosive. He made it in small quantities, under the ceeds of w'hich, together wdth the earnings of his wife, were name of “glonoine,” to meet the demands of the honiceo- from time to time put away safely in an iron Irox. At the pathic practitioners, by whom it was employed as a remedy termination of his apprenticeship he, assisted by his em-

with him

;

and among

his other enterprises, years ago,

the manufacture of nitro-glycerine long before

for the

headache.

it

His large manufacturing business, con-

ducted with consummate shrewdness, caution, prise

had

and

integrity, has

obstacles,

been greatly successful

;

but he has

some of them of no small magnitude,

counter and overcome.

to en-

ployer,

fires

occurred in his labora-

resulting in each case in disastrous losses, far exceed-

ing the amount of the insurance.

These

in

no way em-

embarked

in

tbe tin trade in

Montreal, Canada.

Being endowed with great natural mechanical ability, his entry into life, if not made under very auspicious circumstances, w'as at least characterized

For four successive years, beginning dustry.

with the year 1868, destructive lor)',

skill, enter-

His

first

venture

for

by

ho]->eful

energy and

himself was, however,

unsuccessful by the cholera scourge of 1832. failure

he resumed

his

in-

made

After this

former subordinate position, and was

thus engaged as an active employ^ until

1835,

when by

the

barrassed or hindered his progress, however, and in eacli

death of his uncle he

case he immediately rebuilt

and went on with his work. grew, one laboratory, although a very large

on the outbreak of the Canadian rebellion or patriot war, he

As

connected himself with the fortunes of the insurgents.

one, was insufficient for the requirements of his trade, and

the battle of St. Charles he disbursed ten thousand dollars

his business

fell

heir to a large fortune.

In 1837,

At

;

;

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.LDIA.

228

money

of his

at

1838, forces,

St.

and

in obtaining supplies for the patriots;

in

Eustace, was captured by the governmental

and subsequently sentenced

Three

be hanged.

to

jail at

misfortune overtaking him

new imOnce more,

second patent.

result of a

was again compelled

partnership associati^/U, he

in his

carve out for himself a

to

Montreal, and, after

arrived in

.ship,

proved range,” the

new avenue many days of incredible hard- in commercial life. Then was inaugurated one of the mo.-.t New York State. Upon his arrival in Troy, remarkable periods of an uncommon and peculiarly active

days before the appointed time of execution he escaped from the

City he began with an attempt to introduce the “

New York,

he learned that a reward of four hundred pounds had been offered by the Canadian authorities for his capture, dead or alive. Ilis large estate was then confiscated, and still remains in the hands of the government of Canada. The “ patriots ” were pardoned in 18.47, since which ti^ie he has made several visits to Canada and secured extensive trade arrangements with

business community.

its

Shortly

the face of the greatest opposition to sheet-iron

in

life;

ranges, stoves

and heating apparatus, he began

to invent

range and stove fixtures of every kind, patented them, and introduced them everywhere into the Union army.

During

those days of continuous activity, until the close of the war, lie

invented and patented twenty or more ranges and heat-

ing and cooking appliances, and did over a million and a

“ Wherever the Union army was found, there was also found an iimumer-. worked at his trade until 1842, when he was induced, under able quantity of Van’s army ranges, heating stoves, campfavorable circumstances, to remove to Cincinnati, Ohio. fixtures, and galley and naval stoves.” Notwithstanding 'I'here his superior skill placed him in a very advantageous the great successes then and there encountered, and the jiositiou as compared with the ordinary workman, and he vast amount of business done with the United Stales forces, after the fi.isco

which had resulted

ment, he brought his family

in his

Troy,

to

temporary banish-

New

obtained a desirable position as foreman of the

lie

remained

He

until 1846.

for sheet-iron

and

ac-

con-

filling of large

His success within the

work.

tin

own

then initiated on his

count and responsibility the taking and tracts

stove and

tin,

Lockwood & Burton, where

steamboat-furnishing works of

year in this department of business was so great that he was

enabled

to

purchase the entire interests and establishment

That business he prosecuted

of his former employer.

until

1S49, the date of his removal to St. Louis, where he con-

Mormons

tracted to supply the

at Salt I.ake

needed by them from the Gentiles. after

making

he had

this contract

with

warehouses with

— of these three were consumed

goods

for that trade

in the

memoralile conflagration which occurred

on the following

goods

all

Within seventeen days

filled four

May

fund of resource, that has, apparently, yet

however, placed him on

liy fire

in St.

Louis

His unflagging energy and vast

lyih.

his feet again

hours he had contracted for

new

;

to desert

him, soon,

within twenty-four

and within an

liuildings,

incredibly brief space of time hS’d his large trade again un-

der

full

way.

In 1851, during another cholera epidemic,

he was forced by the errors or dishonesty of his partner

make

to

Some

an assignment for the benefit of his creditors.

of these creditors were Cincinnati men, and they, having (like all others with

dence start

in his

whom

integrity

he had dealt) unlimited

and business

afresh in Cincinnati, in

roofing business.

ability, assisted

1852, in

the

Here again misfortune

again by the hands of others.

tin,

partner.

Once more a

similar causes interposed

confi-

him

visited him,

In 1853, after

to

stove and

making

strong efforts to better his condition, he returned to

and made a new venture, with

and

several

St.

Louis

his former head-clerk as a

repetition

occurs of past events

between him and success.

After

a short career, replete with incident, in Chicago, Illinois, and

other ]ilaces, he again settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. at

r.ange,

and

in

opening business

in the

he was again constrained

During the course of

men

those

first

whom

with

in

initiate a fresh departure.

1864 to

that year

he purchased the interests of

he had been connected during the

progress of the rebellion, and founded a business under the firm-style of

Van &

During the ensuing two years,

Sons.

which held several heavy

losses,

occasioned by one of his

employes, various changes occurred in the house, and in

j868

it

conduct

assumed the its affairs

style,

simply, of John Van, under

whose

have since been most successfully prose-

His sheet-iron range,

cuted.

and

widely' as a fraud,

is

now

at

one time cried down

bitterly

sold in vast quantities through-

Maine

out the entire civilized world, and from

to California

countless imitations of his inventions are daily sold and used.

He

is

the inventor not only of the sheet-iron range, in

forms and with

all

its

vaiied appliances,

also of

b.it

all its

many

other valuable and useful articles connected with the kitchen

and culinary department.

hundred pounds

much he

as seven

His ranges weigh from a few

to six tons each,

thousand dollars.

and It

cost in

may

some

cases as

truly be said that

one of the most remarkable business men of the time

is

unable to read or write a single word, he has, as his checkered history indicates, often been the prey of designing

and vet

at

the present time, having valiantly

couragement amid

his misfortunes,

all

startling reverses that

Few men have

spirits

life

afforded

him

tion of even merely a versatile talents

him

as

far

more than

in

the front

of Cincinnati,

Had

but his

favoralrle opportunity for the acquisi-

thorough elementary education, his

would more than probably have secured

fer

high a position in any professional line as he has as a

man

of business.

He

has more than an ordi-

nary share of the mercurial versatility of the Gaul, and a

Queen share

;

been endowed with such excellent

executive ability or such inventive genius. early

men

off dis-

and triumphed over

men, he stands to-day

rank of the more influential leading Ohio.

warded

would have beaten down

the majority of business

While attained

Muscatine, Iowa, he had invented and patented his

wrought-iron

half dollars’ worth of business in them.

York, and there

also of the national

politeness

and

full

sociability cf the

Xnljraved ly J C Buitie

£IKlA§E.,®o®it Telegraph, the Baptist paper for the

and published

in

the denomination,

B.

lisher,

October

i,

it,

at

making 1835.

Brandon, under the patronage of his

first

Among

issue as editor

and pub-

leading objects in this

undertaking were, the moralizing and humanizing of the

June,

Christian church and world, as in relation to slavery, human There he entered into a law partnership with F. H. Hurd. slaughter, rum, tobacco and licentiousness. He had been He has remained at Toledo ever since, and his partnership among the first, if not the first, publicly to advocate total

with Mr. Scribner,

the firm separated,

and he removed

to

Toledo,

Hurd still continues, the style of the firm being Hurd & Scribner. His success in his profession

has been great, and he

is

recognized as one of the leading

abstinence from 1

in

health,

all

alcoholic liquors as beverages for peojrle

and especially

in

the spring of

life.

This was

done through the Castleton Statesman and Vermont

Tele-

During the twenty-seven years since he graph, previously to his purchase of the latter. He afterentered the profession, he has been engaged in some of the ward became convinced, and taught, that bad eating is as notable legal Cases that have come before the courts in great an evil as bad drinking and exemplified his doctrine lawyers of Toledo.

;

which he has cally

a

he

is

member

prising

While mittee.

a

practised, in

Ohio

by several years of

October, lS67,he was elected

mal food Sylvester

in

Holmes, Wayne, Knox in the

Politi-

State Senate from the district com--

Democrat, and

of the

Toledo and elsewhere.

and

Morrow

counties.

Commember of

Senate he was Chairman of the Judiciary

In the spring of 1S73 he was elected a

change 1

le

—

in

faithful practice, in refraining

accordance with the views of Epicurus and

Graham but became convinced

in

;

this

regard could

was the procurer of

lature, of the

from ani-

first

that

any desirable

only be effected gradually.

the passage, by the

Vermont Legis-

resolution by a State Legislature, instruct-

He was also nominated for ing Senators and requesting Representatives in Congress, to Supreme Judge on the same ticket with Governor Allen, use their endeavors for the abolition of slavery and the trade and was defeated by only a small majority. The practice in the District of Columbia, and the suppression of the the Constitutional Convention.

He assisted, as the only delegate from all his strength and energy. inter-State traffic. Toledo Mutual Life Insurance Vermont, in the formation of the American Anti-Slavery Soattorney at Toledo for the Cincinnati, ciety, in Philadelphia, in December, 1833; and in the

of his profession does not absorb

He

is

also Director of the

Company, and

is

.

—

—

R

—

BIOGRAPHICAL EXCVCLOP.LHIA. spring

following

He

McDowal,

with John R.

away with

State

first

endeavors

morality

expose and do

to

and

prostitution in general,

human

and

wars

persecutions,

'

sympathized and co-operated

in his

and

libertinism

Vermont, the

in

org:inized,

Society auxiliary thereto.

233

applied good will;

is

and salvation.

:

— whereas is

and enlargement, elevation

charity, peace, enlightenment

in the

destruction

practiced humanity;

is

That, possessing brains, practicing mu-scular

^

church

At the end of

in particular.

and

six years publishing of

intellectual

and

activity

the voice of a that a man ; ”

listening to

—

j

the

Telegraph as a religious paper, he parted with his

man

morally cultivated conscience, “ a

re-

is

want of agreement in faith and practice these qualifications and actions constitute true manhood and That evidence is in the use of means for human enlargement and general positive, genuine, needed usefulness. improvement. He published the Telegraph two years more and better than authority that the true teaching is by ligious brethren, for

—

j

:

longer in the interests of morality

— of humanity.

When

Horace Greeley, Albert Brisbane, George Ripley, \\ illiam Henry Channing, and others were advocating fourierism, he gave in his adhesion to what seemed to him the more beneficent philosophy advocated and practiced by Robert

Owen.

January

l,

1844, he started

weekly journal, at 29 Ann Ignorance the Evil motto

street,

Regenerator, a

the

New

York, under the

That

the presentation of evidence.

erned by authority

is

be led and

to

be taught and gov-

to

stumble

to

in

darkness

:

|

while to be taught and governed by evidence,

and

to

walk

That

in light.

fear

is

to

be led

a bad, vitiating motive;

is

a brutal restraint, necessitated only by ignorance; and that its

exercise tends to the augmentation and -perpetuation of In regard to creative, controlling, governing

the ignorance.

—

—

— Knowledge the Remedy

At power ruling, regulating force he holds and teaches that that creators the end of six months, he removed to Ohio, and published where the power is there the responsibility is that in a log-cabin, on Fruit-Hills farm, in Warren county, till are to be held accountable for their works of creation March, 1856. He was prevented continuance in publishing, parents are to be held accountable for, and to, their children by the death of his oldest son, Carlos, who had just arrived that the controllers of human interests the orderers, the are to be held at maturity; whose assistance as a practical printer, as a regulators, the disposers of human destinies sympathizer in his father’s advance-views and as a useful accountable for their use of power. He derives the highest and promising writer, was indispensable to success, against motives for human improvement from the purest, most unthe odds he had to contend with in surrounding and attend- adulterated materialism the idea being that as the organizaDuring all these twenty years tion is, so the manifestation must be that the purity, the ing adverse circumstances. of publishing, except the six months in the city of New excellence, the goodness, of the propagated, depends on :

;

;

—

—

—

:

York, he clung

to the soil,

to obtain his bread

— that

much

from which, as

as possible,

he might the better maintain his

rectitude, his fidelity to his convictions, as a public teacher

During the

and exemplar. friend

was

past

Mr. Murray’s position as

in

to define, or designate,

relation to existing religions.

His inquiring friend was permitted

to apply to his case, if

he pleased, the term. Radical Protestant

— his

that to define any religion

for

pose;

—just

is

to destroy

M. D. Conway

as

it

belief being

any good pur-

declared, in one of his late

lectures in Cincinnati, that to define a

god

is

to destroy

and taught much longer and plainer than has Mr. Conway. Mr. Murray accepts, takes and carries to its legitimate conclusions, the old-time pulpit-preaching

—

imical, antagonistical

that the

:

— not

yet altogether

and morality are

that religion

in-

works of the moralist are

preventive of the works of the religionist

equal-^;?«/ tnaterially, then morally and intellectually

confusion

—

—and so the works

purify

to

:

poisoned

demonstrate these distinctions

:

that religion, in ac-

is

by purifying the poisoned

waters which flow from them

teaching and practice

is

curative processes

—

all

deavor, fatal

human

sacrifice;

subsists

prevention

That here

are throughout their entire ;

while more or

circumstances.

30

causes

strifes,

law

;

these respects

—

— on :

will be futile en-

this

that all

for

for

woman

materialistic

human

many years been an man before the

law-making sex.

— the equal virtue

and attainments

His views

writing for the consideration of the late

in-

years, fcr the impairment, the vitiation, the

ill

will

jealousies,

in

in this regard

on human ignorance;

hates,

beings

with

intellectuality, of talents

in

this materialistic

that without this,

less they are also the creators of

— regardless of

were presented

and

existences, the creatures of cir-

Mr. Murray has

and of equal virtue

and

;

religious or other

illusion.

poisonous trees by

That

re-

flames pa.ssions, excites prejudices, creates

neighborhood;

to purify

it

:

quires

—

the

basis— is the only ground of charity cumstances

work of undertaking

that such

Against the Ohio Constitutional Convention. movement, which has been going on during the

in the

is

fountains

of morality

to

absurdity,

to think of purify-

—

their manifestations

paths, separated by an impassable gulf; into adverse ways, to opposite results: that it is important to hold up to view,

:

is

it

—

ing bodies by attempting to purify “ minds,” “ souls,” “ spirits,” purifying organizations by attempting to purify

advocate of the equality of

cordance with the etymological meaning of the word, heathen original, ties, tethers, binds, enslaves that

That

putting darkness for light

is

of the religionist must be preventive of the works of the moralist that religion and morality lead into parting-off

and

that as are the parents

:

attending circumstances being

-all

purifying the fruits borne by them.

it

a belief which Mr. Murray has, in substance, entertained

given up by religionists

—

autumn, (1875,) a visiting first by creation, then by culture.

know how

inquisitive to

these qualities in the propagators so will be the children

religious

past

ten

corruption, of

and bad

our National and State Constitutions and

enmities,

from time to time addressed protests and remonstrances to

statutes,

he has

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOP.LDIA.

234

Congress, the Ohio Legislature, and the State Constitutional

Mr. Murray

Convention.

effective writer

;

In person, he

is

is

an original thinker; a vigorous,

a dear, forcible, demonstrative reasoner. tali,

Now

sinewy and energetic.

in his

seventieth year, he manifests no abatement of interest in en-

human improvement

terprises for

ory

no impairment of mem-

;

no lack of intellectual force. In 1827, Mr. Murray married Catherine Maria Higgins, of the Baptist Society, ;

where they both had grown

in Orwell,

gether thirty-three years,

woman

till

of sterling qualities

They

up.

lived to-

She was a

her death in i860.

— of inherited and cultivated exSix — (Carlos Orson, children.

Fremont was in command. Early in 1862 the regiment was under General Tope in the capture of New Madrid ami Island

Number Ten.

on the

staff of that

After

he was for a brief period In October, 1862, Noyes was commissioned Colonel and took command of his regiment, tliis

officer.

left the service. He took an active luka and Corinth under General Rosecrans, and under General G. M. Dodge in the operations

his

superiors having

pal t in the battles of

against Forrest

and other

rebel generals in the

Tuscumbia

The regiment was under Sherman in the famous Atlanta campaign. On the 4th of July, 1864, while most valley.

They had nine

cellencies.

gallantly leading an assault upon the enemy’s works at Marsena Messer, Charles Burleigh, Rachel Robinson, Rose- Ruffs Mills, Mcojack Creek, Georgia, he was severely linda Bascom and Ichabod Higgins) grew to maturity. wounded, and suffered the amputation of a limb upon the All these, except Carlos, have married and are raising fam- field. Five weeks later he endured a second amputation at ilies of children. In 1865, Mr. Murray married lanthe Cincinnati, which would have ended his career but for a Poor, whose sympathies with his tastes and teachings, and vigorous constitution and a frame hardened by healthy labor whose personal, practical loving-kindnesses he recognizes and temperate habits. In October, while still on crutches, and appreciates as protractive of his days of enjoyment, he reported for duty and was assigned

—

to the

and helpful

in

any remaining usefulness.

Camp on

Dennison.

his part, elected

By

the

EDWARD FOLLENSBEE,

ernor of Ohio from

1872

to

Haverhill, Massachusetts, on

Gov-

was born

1874,

at

October 3d, 1832,

and is the son of Theodore and Hannah Noyes. At three years of age he was left an orphan and was then taken charge of by his grandparents at East Kingston, New Hampshire. At twelve years of age, on the death of his grandfather, he was taken into the

when he

recommenda-

General Sherman and others he had been brevetted

Brigadier-General, to take date from July 4th.

fOYES, HON.

of

solicitation

City Solicitor for Cincinnati,

resigned his commission in the army. tion of

command

While there he was, without

In 1868 he

was elected Probate Judge of Hamilton county, then a highly lucrative office. In the fall of 1871 he resumed the practice of the law in Cincinnati, the nomination for

and the next year received

Governor by the Republican

made

canvassed the State, and

party.

He

a most brilliant campaign,

and was elected by over 20,000 majority. He is a natural orator of a poetical temperament, overflowing with humor, gifted with the power of pathos, and with a clear, ringing, musical voice. These qualities told with great effect during

Hoyt, of Newton, New At thirteen the youth took care of twenty head the canvass. Fourteen years previously he had come into of cattle, worked on the farm in summer, and in winter made the State a stranger, a young man without means but he a daily pilgrimage of four miles and daily cut and piled his soon made hosts of friends by his sunshiny, happy disposiAt fourteen years of age he tion, his kindly, courteous manners, and generous, enthusihalf-cord of swamp maples. was apprenticed as a printer in the office of the Morning astic ardor in all good things, and now he had attained the Star, published at Dover, New Hampshire, where he re- highest honor within the gift of the people of the great Comfamily of his guardian, Joseph

Hampshire.

;

mained four years and then, desiring a liberal education, prepared for and entered Dartmouth College, where he graduated high in his class in 1857. At this period he began the study of law of Stickney years a

at

& Tuck;

member

Exeter,

New

the latter,

Hamphire,

for

Accidentally visiting

speeches by the

main, where he continued the study of law in the

demanded

of his

profession

ciously,

tocsin of

Curwen. in

and the way war sounding

of the Union.

On

office of

In 1858 he began the practice

Cincinnati. to success in 1861,

Business opened auspi-

seemed

short,

he volunteered

when

the

in the service

the 20th of August the 39th

Ohio

In-

to

spirit

civil

and

Major.

opponents and his

He

was among the same time

at the

political rights for the colored race.

for

Governor

He, however, received

Republicans

On

Governor Noyes was

his

advocate a general amnesty, while he

was again a candidate feated.

of

of conciliation.

the

in

in the Legislature for the

son Proctor, of Kingston,

New

He de-

1873,

unanimous vote of the United States

February 15th, 1S63, he was married

to

Hampshire.

.Senate.

Margaret Wil-

He

is

now

en-

John Croeslieck as Colonel, A. W. gaged in the practice of law in Cincinnati, and, enjoying a Lieutenant-Colonel, and Edward F. Noyes as high reputation as a lawyer and a man, commands a large

fintry took the field witli

Gilbert as

was defeated by Governor

half a million. The administration many marked by generous treatment of

first

&

years later he was again nominated for

Allen in a majority of but a few hundred in a vote of nearly

Cincinnati in the winter of 1857-58 he was induced to re-

Tilden, Rairden

Two

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BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.LDIA. ^OLLIMS, CHARLES

t

Mason

Maysville,

I

He was

1S34..

in

in

the sixth child in a family of

were Richard ColHis and Mary A. (Armstrong) Collins.

eight children v.’hose parents lins

New

father, a native of life

IL, Lawyer, was born

county, Kentucky, April 15th,

235

His con-

considerable reputation as a writer for the press. tributions both in prose

numerous, and he

and poetry have been varied and

a standard

is

among

his fellow-citizens

in matters of literary criticism.

Jersey, followed through

the profession of law, and also for a time was engaged

In iSoi

mercantile pursuits.

Clermont county, Ohio, with

Richard Collins moved

to

whence,

in

his father’s family,

AITE, HON.

he removed to Hillsborough, Highland county, in the same State ; subsequently he settled in Maysville, Kentucky, where, and also in the former place, he became well

known

as a successful

and

first

President of the Maysville

decease occurred

at his

C.

Ohio, in 1855.

H.

&

Lexington Railroad

his education at

Collins’

mother, a native of Mays-

His paternal grandfather, John settler of Cler-

maternal grandfather died in 1851.

education was liberal, and received at the

Maysville Academy, where he graduated in 1850, at the youthful age of sixteen.

bookkeeper

in the

After his graduation he became

house of John

W.

merchants, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ellis

&

Co., dry-goods

At the expiration of one

year, spent in this establishment, he

began the reading of

under the supervision of Thomas J. Gallagher, a prominent attorney of the Queen City. During the followlaw,

ing four years he devoted himself sedulously to of his text-books, and in

the course of the ensuing year he

at

Batavia, Ohio.

a period of two years. settling in Lexington,

labors until

1864.

In

was elected Prosecuting

Attorney of Clermont County, and served In 1858 he

in that office for

moved

where he was engaged

Morrison

Yale College, graduating there-

from in the class of 1837, among whose members were

Hon. Edwards Pierrepont and William M. Evarts. Immeupon the study of the law with his father, and remained there until October, 1838, when he removed to Maumee county, Ohio, continuing his studies in the office of Samuel M. Young, a promidiately after leaving college he entered

He

nent attorney of that section. of Ohio in October, 1839;

was admitted to the bar which date, however,

prior to

he had formed a business connection with his preceptor,

under the firm-name of Young lasted until 1852.

He

&

W'aite,

represented the

which

parlner.ship

Maumee

district

in

the lower branch of the Legislature during the years 1849

and 1850, and after the expiration of his term, in the latter he removed to Toledo, where he has ever since rethe study sided. In 1858 he associated Richard Waite with him,

1855, after passing the required

examination, was admitted to the bar

he died,

Chief-Justice;

completed

was an early and widely esteemed

Jlis preliminary

he was

1857

old homestead, in Clermont county,

county; she died in 1838.

his

year until

14th, 1869, in his eighty-third year.

Kentucky, was a daughter of John Armstrong, a prominent merchant and one of the pioneer settlers of that

mont county, Ohio;

latter

December

ville,

Collins,

Waite; the former was a Judge of the Supreme 1834 to 1854, and from the

Court of Connecticut from

his

;

LL. D.,

Supreme Court of the United States, was born, November 29th, 1S16, at Lyme, Connecticut, and is a son of the late Henry Matson and Maria

brilliant legal practitioner;

he became also a general of militia, served in the Ohio I.egislature through three terms, was a member of the Kentucky Legislature also through three terms, and was the

MORRISON RENNICK,

Lawyer, and the present Chief-Justice of the

after life,

to Missouri,

in professional

In January of this year he returned to

year,

under the name and

style of

continued until 1874.

M. R.

pendent conservative Republican, sional

regular

District

&

R. \Vaite, which firm

In the year 1862 he ran as an inde-

of Ohio,

against

in the Tenth CongresJames M. Ashley, the

Republican nominee, and also against a regular The election, however, resulted in

Democratic opponent.

Ashley’s being chosen by a plurality of 1127 votes over

Ohio and established his office at Hillsborough, Highland Waite, although in an actual minority of 4105. On each county, where he has since resided, the fortunate possessor subsequent election Ashley lost ground through the active of a highly remunerative legal business and the respect and and repeated oratorical assaults of Judge Waite, who threw esteem of the bar and the general community. In 1866 he the whole weight of his influence against him until he was was the Democratic candidate for the position of Common finally defeated. In November, 1871, Judge W’aite was Pleas Judge for Highland, Ross and P'ayette counties. selected by President Grant as one of the three counsel to Politically,

he

is

a supporter of Democratic principles and

represent the United .States before the Tribunal of Arbitra-

measures, while his religious convictions are embodied in the

tion, at

formula of the Methodist Church.

William M. Evarts and Caleb Cushing.

His

integrity of character

Geneva, Switzerland,

his

associates

being Hons.

In this position

demeanor is pleasant and affable, he acquitted himself admirably. He returned from this and professional attainments are of a high duty in November, 1872. During this same year his Alma order of merit. He was married in 1857 to Mary E. Tice, of Mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor Bethel, Clermont county, Ohio, a daughter of C. C. Tice, of Laws. During the following year he was elected a an early pioneer of that section of the .State. C. H. Collins, member of the Convention to Revise the Constitution of the in addition to his high standing at the bar, has acquired State of Ohio, and on its organization was elected President is

unassailable; his social

and

his literary

BIOGRAPHICAL EAXVCLOP.LDIA.

236

On

of that body.

January 19th, 1873, on motion of Caleb at law

Cushing, he was admitted to practise as a counsellor in the

Supreme Court of the United

States;

and precisely

one year thereafter he was nominated by President Grant as

and having been con-

Chief-Justice of that august tribunal,

firmed by the Senate he took the oath of

Outside of his profession he

1874.

office,

March

4lh,

regarded as a close

is

student, and consequently of considerable attainments, being

Me was

especially versed in constitutional law.

September

21st, 1S40, to

married,

Amelia C. Warner.

home, and with

his father’s

left

which time proved

abilities,

have been well founded,

Mount Vernon, where

started on foot for

resided, determined

to

his elder brother

the battle of

fight

own

confidence in his

full

to

Here he

life.

arrived on April 2Sth, 1817, and entered the town with but

With

twenty-five cents in his pockets.

sistance he soon gained a situation

his brother’s as-

the office of the

in

County Clerk of the Court, and by close application duties of his

Deputy Clerk, and had to

to the

soon secured the appointment of

position

work of the

also the

devolve upon him.

His

official

clerk chiefly

him

duties brought

in

contact with all the prominent lawyers of that day in this

and by

part of the State,

'URTIS,

HENRY BARNES,

and Attor-

Capitalist

ney-at-Law, Mount Vernon, Ohio, was born near

New

the village of Champlain,

His

ber 28lh, 1799.

in

York, on Novem-

father, Z.irah

Curtis, son

and

himself

their

youthful

mind being

later,

study of the law.

an early age entered the Conti-

at

nental army, under the

command

of his father, and also

fired

and

as a student,

a]iplied himself diligently to the

On December

was appointed

for-

corder,

While

which he retained

for

Hosmers, among the oldest families of Connecticut, and

and

who

lucrative practice, the proceeds of

brother,

Keokuk, Iowa,

in

Hon. Hosmer

the

Henry VlII.

the age of eighty-five.

1S74, at

younger brother. General Samuel R. Curtis,

manded

at the battle of

Council

Bluffs,

years.

His

Pea Ridge

December, 1S66,

parents

Charlotte, Vermont,

His

who com-

the age of sixty-one

moved from Connecticut

first

at

in the late war, died at

at

and afterwards

on a farm on the waters of

died

Curtis,

to

Champlain, settling

to

that lake, near the village of the

vantages and from which all

first

settled

there,

the family

and the opportunities of receiving an

education were very limited

but with that energy and

;

in-

domitable perseverance which have since characterized his pursuits in the struggles of to his studies,

life

he applied himself diligently

and was thereby enabled

tion superior to that generally obtained

period, and

during the

Vernon.

this first

an educa-

by the youth of that

was further perfected by private

year of his subsequent residence

While pursuing

sible assistance

to gain

his studies

to his father in

continued until he arrived

at

his

at

he rendered

farm work.

the age of seventeen,

how

well he ac-

many

Supreme and United

counties of the .States

admitted to the United

h.alf

Courts

at

Supreme Court

.States

and

after

besides the

.State,

He was

Columbus. at

Washing-

having served

for one-

a century in his profession he formally retired from

the practice of law in

December, 1872.

July 2d, 1823, he

to his present wife, then Elizabeth

Durham

county, England, but

at

Mount

is

a Republican of the

at that

Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio.

in

Whig

While always

Hogg,

for-

time residing In politics, he

and was an active organized the Republican

school,

the convention that

party in Ohio.

identified with the party,

he

has ever preserved his independence and avoided the character of a partisan

private citizen the politician

and and

;

preferring the reputation of a

solid business

man

good

rather than that of

office-seeker, the arena for which,

often solicited to enter, he always declined.

though

In the session

of the winter of 1840-41 he represented his county in the

Board of Eiiualization, and for over twelve years, was a trustee of the Central Ohio Lunatic

State

Mount

lately past,

pos-

to derive

extending over

tuition

all

him

to

the ad-

His reputation soon gained him a practice

who knew worker

all

for

lawyers of that day, and the result shows

merly of

when

knew

quitted himself.

same county, where the family resided when Henry left home. His father afterwards moved to a farm in W'ashinghis ton township, same county, where he died in 1849, but a small hamlet

position,

which enabled him

was necessary

it

was married

Newark was

him

possible benefit, to be able to successfully cope with the

years later to a small farm on the waters of South P'ork, in

eighty-eighth year, respected and beloved by

to

procure a fine law librarv, of which he well

ton on January 9th, 1863,

liini.

once gave

at

admission to the bar he soon acquired a large and

after

same name. In 1S09, when Henry was in his tenth year, the family removed to Newark, Licking county, Ohio, occupying two and a half months in the removal, and some the

it

This was

over seven years.

of material aid to him, as

traced their ancestry beyond the reign of

he

yet a law student

the responsible position of County Re-

to

merly Phalley Yale, was a descendant of the Yales and

His, elder

of the .Supreme

Court, and, having passed with credit to himself, was ad-

Colonel Sheldon’s regiment of dragoons, and remained

His mother,

he was ex-

9th, 1822,

amined by Judges Peas and Hitchcock, mitted as a practising lawyer.

the service until the close of the war.

for

and his with the glory and honor of

served as a warrant officer in Captain Webb’s company, of in

won

the profession, he entered his brother’s office a few years

war, was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut,

and

and prompt

business,

in

esteem and confidence;

friendly

of Jothan Curds, a captain in the Revolutionaiy

the year 1762,

his readiness to please,

and accuracy

attention to

strict

Asylum, acting

for a greater portion of the

This was

dent of the Board, and for the

when he

that

institution

last six

time as Presi-

years the reports of

have been written by him.

To him

the

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOP.-EDIA. credit

stands

for the selection of the beautiful site

due

is

he gave

all

whereon

College, towards the construction of which

Kenyon

would perWhile a member of

the material aid his circumstances

mit, in addition to his personal work.

the Board of Trustees of that learned institution he intro-

some opposition, carried through the resolution recommending a survey of the surplus lands, w’hereby they were brought into the market and were made producduced and,

income

In 1848 he organ-

to the college.

and was appointed President of the Knox County Bank, of Mount Vernon, with a capital of ;^loo,ooo. This establishment was a branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and ized

its

He

tality.

elegance and hos]u-

one son, Mr. Henry

Lambton

is

Curtis, of the

two daughters, Mrs.

J.

noted for

law firm of Devin

During

existence, a period of nearly twenty years.

JOSEPH DANIEL,

'ORD,

a A~ ^

of Toledo, Ohio,

of the State Board of Control, which was created organic law of the

and

.State

Bank

of Ohio

financial learning,

quence displayed mentary laws organized the

and

Huron

and

C. Devin,

the

the

in

for the abilities

strictest

proceedings.

Knox County

and

elo-

legislative in

observance of ParliaIn

1865

Mr. Curtis

National Bank, of Mount Ver-

non, one of the foremost institutions of the

with a

city,

youngest son of Daniel

kJ

was a farmer by occupation, and an

a position he has continued

to

fill

effort, in

State

and of

liberal,

and

Ann his

Arbor.

practice in every-day

&

life,

Hampshire, at the

His instruction was

culture in

sciences, as well as in those branches

New

Winona, and

at

literature

and the

which are called into

was thorough and comprehensive.

leaving school he entered the office of Messrs. Baker

Collins, attorneys, Toledo, as a law student, in the spring

assistance, both

organizing and equip-

ably conducted ever since, with the exception of one year,

present time.

to the

war he gave great aid and

pecuniarily and by personal

broad and

at

early

received his education in the

Normal School of Minnesota,

Michigan University

Upon

and Betsy H.

.

cestors resided,

at the

B.

who was a native of New Hampshire, where for many generations his anHis father,

P’ord.

He remained with them until 1S67, when he was admitted to the bar, and immediately commenced practice, which has been most profitable and most honor-

and was unanimously chosen President,

capital of 8150,000,

late

for its

25th, 1841, in

county, near Bellevue, in that State, being

member emigrant to Ohio. Mr. Ford under the common schools of his native

— a body noted

which were

at its meetings,

form and conducted with the

During the

Curtis, J.

Prosecuting Attorney

was born, June

organization he was an active and influential

talent

&

C. Plimpton, and Mrs.

wife of his son’s partner.

he continued to hold the presidency during the entire term of

its

has, residing in the city,

elevated ground and

after

tive of a large

its

237

of 1865.

Union army, and in maintaining when he travelled in the Northwest for the benefit of his public sentiment in support of the war. Holding the office health, during 1869. In January, 1S71, he became Prosof United States Commissioner for the Northern District of ecuting Attorney for Lucas County, Ohio, and has ever the United States Courts, his judicial functions were often since filled that high and responsible station. In that called into requisition in support of the same cause. In the capacity, single-handed, he has conducted examinations and ping companies

for

the

appointed by the' President a

spring of 1873

of the Board of Visitors at

West

work.

He

able assistance in

its

member arguments,

and rendered valuhas ever been one of the

Point,

foremost citizens in giving encouragement and substantial aid to

all

projects having in

of his adopted city to

;

view the material advancement

not only in helping to build railroads,

increase the business of the city, but especially in the

cause of education and in making permanent improvements

in the

most important criminal

trials,

against the

members of one of the ablest bars of the State, embracing some of the most talented attorneys who have ever various

appeared before any bench in

this

country.

In a great

majority of the cases he has tried, he has secured convictions, against the

most ingenious defences and against the Mr.'p'ord, in addition to

most powerful array of counsel.

and argumentative ability, is remarkably skilful in the shape of private residences, warehouses and public as an examiner and as an analyzer of testimony. His buildings, all of which are noticeable not only for their political affiliations are with the Republican party, of which solidity, but also for their elegance of design and architec- he is an active and influential member. In 1867 he was tural beauty,

many

he himself having made architecture one of

tury in active

his

After having spent three-quarters of a cen-

studies.

life,

the marks of

which bear

lightly

upon

him; and having won the well-earned confidence, esteem and friendship of his fellow-citizens, both poor and rich, he still

continues to devote a large proportion of his time to

business,

which

Personally, he

is is

rendered necessary by his large wealth.

a genial, social gentleman; kind of heart

and easy of approach from all numerous friends he is enjoying

;

that ease

him, after his valuable services,

“Round

Hill,” near

and surrounded by at

his

his

and comfort due beautiful

Mount Vernon, which

is

his forensic

elected City Solicitor of South Toledo, and was re-electcd in

1870.

tially,

his duties,

and so impar-

without fear or favor, that the people honored him

with a re-election in 1873, and another in 1875.

He

is

generally esteemed for his eminent talent as a lawyer and for his faithful

services,

and

it

is

(piite

very large constituency destine him for sible public trusts.

He was

first

probable that his still

more respon-

married to Sarah E., eldest

daughter of Lorenzo L. Morehouse, of Waterville, Ohio, on

home, June

situated on

In 1871 he was chosen Prosecuting Attorney,

and so ably had he administered

I2th, 1865.

This lady did not long survive, having

been in very delicate health prior to her marriage.

He was

BIOGRAPHICAL EXCYCLOP.LDIA.

238

again married, October I2lh, 1870, to Grace Greenwood

not accepted, while, as a substitute, he was granted leave

Moore, daughter of John A. Moore, a leading dry-goods

of absence by General Sherman.

merchant of Toledo.

his

home on

Thereupon he started for whose captain,

the steamer “ Continental,”

John McClay, who had noticed with concern

his serious

exerted himself to the utmost to aid in re-establish-

illness,

MAJOR JAMES SHARON,

ISIc,

of

line

&

Wise

Parker,

of the firm of ing his health, and through his humane efforts probably Manager of the Memphis saved him from death. After passing through a sickness of was born in Mercersburg, two months, and being discharged from his office in the

Co.,

steamers,

Franklin

February

Pennsylvania,

county,

8th,

army, and also receiving highly honorable mention from

boyhood he moved with his General .Sherman, he began to look around again for a new who are now living at Westwood, near place in the business world. Five months after the battle parents Shortly after settlement of Arkansas Post he found himself commander of the Cincinn.ati to Cokunlnis, Oliio.

While

11^30.

in his

—

—

there, necessity compelling tions

tion

him

upon

to rely

his

own

exer-

and resources for a livelihood, he obtained the posiof Messenger in the Ohio State Senate. That jiosition,

secured through the influence of Hon. David Barnett, he

two

for

filled

James

years.

J.

Faran, of the Cincinnati

Inquirer, was then Speaker of the House.

when

At

a.subsequent

steamer “ Eclipse,” a position obtained through the friendly of James

offices

W.

Gaff,

Thomas

and William E.

Gaff,

In this new river venture he was very successful. Under him th'e “ Eclipse ” entered the Government service •

Gibson.

but within a brief period took

fire

and was shattered by

explosion, at Johnstonville, on the Tennessee river.

While

years of age, he resolved to seek his

he was in Washington, District of Columbia, attending to

fortune in Cincinnati, and after travelling on foot to this

the settlement of the claims of the “ Eclipse ” with the

period,

citv,

halted

canal.

at

fifteen

the

Old Mansion, or

There he met a

who induced Henry

House, on the

friend in the jrroprietor, Mr. Kelsey,

Valett to secure for him a place in his

hat store, where

brother’s

Hummel

he was soon

inst.alled

as

an

Government, an

was made by a host of

effort

and others

friends

to

his

army

induce the Government to appoint

him Postmaster of Cincinnati, Ohio. In that step, however, success was not achieved, as, owing to divers reasons,

At the present time he is at two dollars and fifty cents per week and his he could not accept the position. While thus employed he obtained, through the in- a member of the firm of Parker, Wise & Co., and is ManI'or the past four fluence of an old friend of his family Colonel Latham, ager of the Memphis line of steamers. ex-United .States Senator from California the agency for years he has occupied a place in the City Council, and re-

employe board.

— —

Company, which, was an important position. The

the Great Western Stage

in those

stages,

little

building, formerly standing near the

used as the

office.

five years, until

his behalf,

W. of

tion

office

position,

Gibson House, was

crats

of his

This position he held for a period of

and secured

for

him a place under General

At the

for ten years.

his disposal,

and afterward

filled

many

offers

placed

various offices in the

steamboat business until the breaking out of the

He

expira-

of that time, having been offered* favorable terms in

the river service, he accepted one of the at

P.

Railroad Ticket Agent, the duties

he performed

civil

war.

then received a Lieutenant’s commission in the loth

Regiment of Ohio Dennison.

Volunteer

Infantry,

from Governor

Sixty days after the receipt of his commission

he was appointed by the same

Regiment Ohio Volunteer

official

Infantry.

cently vvas renominated by the Republican party for the

same

Colonel Latham again interested himself in

Strader, as General

which

days of

old frame

Major of the 4Sth

On

the

day that

and was flatteringly endorsed by the Demoward without opposition. He ran on the

Republican ticket in the

fall

of 1875 for County Treasurer,

against a Democratic m.ajority of 7000,

a majority of 1483, which

may be

cation of the high estimation in

He

has

filled, also,

First Vice-President

merce, and a valued the Tennessee.

and was elected by

taken as a sufficient indi-

which he

is

generally held.

several corporation offices, and

of the Cincinnati

member

Chamber

of the Society of the

His private and also

is

of

now Com-

Army

of

his public career has

been made notable by various remarkable exhibitions of friendship on the part of strangers

whom

and

friends.

All with

he has been brought into contact have apparently

sought, often wdth

aims and

zealous

perseverance, to advance his

to further his interests.

C. D. Millar, of the Cincinnati

Through

the influence of

Commercial, and William

marching orders were given he was offered one-third of the Porter, foreman of the same journal, two of his brothers, entire ownership in a steamboat, the offer being based on who had moved to the city in hopes of bettering their forhis desired resignation of his position in the army. After tunes, obtained desir.able places in the printing department

One of these brothers. Captain Robert now commander of the steamer “ James D. Parker,”

rejecting those proposals,

he accompanied his regiment to and was connected with the Army of the Tennessee until the occurrence of the battle of Arkansas Post. There, on account of sickness, he offered his resignation,

of the Commercial.

the

Wise,

desiring to return home.

an admirably liberal view of the opinions and failings of his

field,

Colonel Cockerill, father of John

and

is

is

one of the most popular and successful captains on

the river.

Warm-hearted and generous

to a fault,

he takes

A. Cockerill, one of the editors of the Cincinnati Inquirer, fellow'-beings, and is widely and affectionately esteemed for his brigade commander. But his resignation was his loyalty in friendship and his genial manners and dis-

was then

1

BIOGRAPlilCAL ENCYCLOl’.EDIA. Ile.possesses excellent business qualifications,

course. in his

he has conducted, has uniformly secured the end

to time, in

and years

administration of the various affairs which, from time

view and had

He was

his labors

crowned with gratifying

married June 7th, 1S51,

to

success.

Jane E. Voids.

239

became impaired, and he was com-

that his health

pelled to bid a brief farewell to his pen and voice and seek relaxation, but only to seek another

and

less exciting field

This he found in the capacity of an explorer, becoming one of a party who visited the extreme head-waters

of labor.

and

of the Mississippi

St.

Louis

rivers.

Returning home,

he entered vigorously into the discussion of the issues before the country, and witnessed with pride the success of his

1

EID,

W

1

IITEL.A.W,

Journalist, Author,

and Lec-

Resolving to

cause.

try his fortunes

as a legislative cor-

was born in Xenia, Ohio, in October, 1837. respondent, he visited the capital of Ohio. He had written 1 is parents were Robert Charlton Reid and a series of letters upon his Northwestern trip for the CincinMarian Whitelaw (Ronalds) Reid. The father nati Gazette. Finally he effected an engagement with the of the former was a native of .Scotland, who emi- Cincinnati Times, at five dollars a week, to furnish a daily turer,

grated to this country toward the close of the

and

century,

settled in

Some

Kentucky.

last

years later, about

letter

—a

Soon an

considerable fraction less than a dollar a day

came from

offer

!

Herald for the furdollars a week and then

the Cleveland

hundred acres of land upon the nishing of a daily letter at fifteen and removed thither with Ids another from the Cincinnati Gazette, with a proffer of eighteen dollars. Here he displayed his remarkable facility as family. It is related of him that being a stern old Covenanter, and a condition existing in tbe deed to his property a correspondent, and he underwent a dry but severe literary which required him to ferry the Ohio river once every day, discipline that amounted almost to drudgery. At the close he disposed of his interests there sooner than violate the of the se.ssion he was given the post of City Editor cf the iSoo, he bought several

present

site

;

of Cincinnati,

Sabbath, and removed to Greene county, where he became

Gazette.

one of the founders of the town of Xenia.

his

This removal,

from one point of view, was not very fortunate for him or

Whitelaw was

his descendants.

fitted for

Hugh

college under the

This position he held

famous campaign

upon

until

West

in

war correspondent.

his career as a

when he His

entered

letters to the

“Agate,” have passed into

Gazette, over the signature of

The

McClellan commenced

Virginia,

Aide to General Morris, and with the rank of Captain, was given him. Having had a stern principles. The tutor was a trustee of Miami Uni- taste of active service in this campaign, he returned to Cinversity and Principal of the academy at Xenia. Under his cinnati and wrote leaders for the Gazette for a time. .Soon discipline the pupil was well drilled in all that was neces- he resumed bis position of war correspondent, this time tutorship of an uncle, the

Scotch Covenanter, and a

Rev.

man

M'Millan, also a

history.

position of Volunteer

of scholarly attainments

sary for his entrance into a collegiate course of studies.

He upon

Rosecrans, and bearing his old rank.

the staff of

Miami University at the age. of fifteen, and in his Being now fairly established as a great journalist and most knowledge of Latin ranked with those in the higher classes. successful war correspondent, but brief allusion will be He was graduated with honors in 1856, and soon after was made to his subsequent connection with the Western press. made Principal of the graded schools at South Charleston, His correspondence was copied in every paper throughout He was chairman of Ohio, his immediate pupils being generally young men the length and breadth of the land. older than himself. The fruits of his labors here confirmed a committee of correspondents that interviewed General entered

grade of scholarship.

his claim to a high

He

saved enough

from his salary to repay his father the expense of his senior In the year 1857 he bought the Xenia

year at college.

and

two years led the life of a country editor. Before this date he had identified himself with the Republican party, and had stumped for Fremont for the A’ettis,

in the next

Presidency.

He was now

thoroughly inspired wdth tbe

love of journalism, and was rapidly fitting himself for a greater field of labor.

a subscriber of' the

rank among the lation

He was

an admirer of Greeley and

The

Tribune.

Nei.vs took a fi)remost

political journals of the State,

doubled under the new management.

friend of

Salmon

paper outside of

Abraham

P. Chase, his Illinois that

Lincoln, and

of a Lincoln

its

was

the

first

and

its

Although a

Western news-

advocated the nomination of

influence caused the nomination

delegate to the Chicago Convention.

afterwards became

a firm

circu-

friend

of the President.

He He

entered so warmly into the exciting political events of those

Halleck when the

men

had a

latter

difficulty

with the “-gentle-

of the press,” which ended in their withdrawal from

In the spring of 1862 he visited Wash-

the military lines.

ington, and while there

leading

St.

offered the

gave him an

Learning

management of a this,

the proprie-

sooner than lose his valuable services,

tors of the Gazette,

foundation

was

Louis newspaper.

interest in their establishment.

prosperity.

financial

of his

Washington correspondent of the

This laid the

He became

Gazette,

appointed Librarian to the House of Representatives. latter

he resigned

intimacy of the

in

rriost

1866.

He

eminent men

Washington, and became tion of the battle of

war correspondence.

his

in the national councils.

7 ribii/ie branch

warm

friend.

His

Gettysburg was his grandest In

The

enjoyed the friendship and

Horace Greeley began to admire his genius, and Failing in prevail upon him to go to New York. asked him to take charge of the

the

and was also

tried to this,

he

office in

descrijreffort

in

1865 he went South with Mr.

BIOGRArinCAL ENTYCLOlMiDIA.

240

Chase on a tour of observation, and on

War;

a book, entitled “After the

his return published

a Southern Tour.”

It

critics,

reflex of the condition

of the South at that time.

he was seized with the notion to become a cotton end in view, in the .spring of 1866 he

planter, and, with this

leased

plantations

three

Concordia

in

Natchez, with General Francis .speculation

the

Herron

J.

promised great success

destructive

Editor-in-chief was enabled by the generous

capitalists to obtain

ofl'trs

of

Many

complete control of the paper.

and was considered a fair thinking men predicted failure, and many of the best friends During of the young editor had their misgivings. The political

was well received by this tour

The

;

Parish,

opposite

The

as a partner.

but about picking time

and

literary world watched and but few now withhold

Personally the editor

versatile

is

with lively interest,

man.

their admiration of the

most courteous, gallant

is

and a welcome guest

ing,

a writer he

his course

in the

in his bear-

As

most refined society.

and vigorous.

His private character

army worm made its appearance. One- is above reproach, and aside from the attacks made upon was saved, but even this him in his profession, nothing harsh is ever said of him.

fourth only of the promised crop

brought them out without it

Not discouraged, he

loss.

tried

Alabama, and again failed even worse During this experience he had not relin-

again, this time in

than before.

His spare moments were devoted

(piished literary work.

“Ohio

to compiling

the

in

WGr.”

This work, comprised

His scholarly attainments are

far above those of the average and he has frequently addressed, by urgent re-

journalist,

His lecture upon “Journalism”

quest, learned societies.

In 1872 he

has been delivered before various associations.

prepared an address,

at the request of the

Regents of Dart-

two octavo volumes of over one thousand pages each, mouth College, entitled “ Scliools of Journalism.” In 1873 much statistical and biographical information. he delivered the “Scholar in Politics” before a college

in

contains

Much of

its

of the contents

may

authorship was a

be classed as history.

record of no other State approaches is

not a

are

compendium of dry

depicted,

many

The

task

society.

heavy one, and the written war completeness.

in

it

statistics,

correspondence

interesting

away

valuable details laid

It

war scenes reviewed, and

captain ROBERT

but vivid

for the

future historian.

g' r

4 If |l

In 1868 the unsuccessful cotton planter resumed his position as

leader writer for

the

During

Gazette.

wrote up the great impeachment

trial

this

time he

I Jjl

O c

of President Johnson.

Soon Mr. Greeley successfully renewed his offer to the young journalist to enter the staff of the Tribiiae. His salary was only exceeded by that of the founder, and he

live,

was subordinate only to his patron. In 1869 he was installed as Managing Editor, and immediately commenced

until

tled

Commander,

and

was

W., Steamboat Owner

born

Mercersburg,

in

Pennsylvania, September 13th, 1839, and

when

young moved with his father, William Wise, to Columbus, Ohio, where he remained four years. He then went to Dayton, in the same State, to quite

and remained there five years. on a farm near Bloomington,

assisted in

cultivation

its

he reached

His father then Illinois,

and attended the

He

his thirteenth year.

set-

and Robert

district

at that

gaged with Charles Merriman, of Bloomington,

schools

age en-

to learn the

and worked with him four years, when obtained. The columns of the Tribune., always teeming he went to Peoria, Illinois, and was there four years occuwith the progressiveness of civilization, were now freshened pied as a journeyman printer. In 1853 he came to Cincinwith the advanced thoughts of a little army of literary men nati and found employment on the Cincinnati Commercial, and women captained by the new Manager. The origin- holding his connection with that journal until the breaking to strengthen his staff with the best journalistic talent to

ality of it

thought and the versatility of the contributors

The pen

a magazine as well as a newspaper.

statesman, the poet, the

artist,

be

made

of the

the political economist, the

preacher

—

were contribut-

printing business,

He

out of the rebellion.

enlisted as a private in the 6th

Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving and three months.

The

in the

army

three years

business of railroading claimed his

two succeeding years after his return and upon the expiration of this period he w.as no longer sunk in the individuality of Mr. Greeley. became Second Clerk on the steamer “ Lady Franklin,” It was no longer a partisan journal, full of the caustic utter- and acted in that capacity one year, when he accepted the essayist, the agriculturist, the

ing articles of

moment

ances of the founder.

Men

creed read the 7 'ribune, and

Founded and

all

to the entire country.

of every political and religious it

commands

attention during the

The Tribune from

the respect of

all.

the field,

position of First Clerk on the “ Rebecca,” and held

two

years.

the “

Emma

The ensuing two

years he

was

First

it

for

Clerk on

and during a corresponding period was Captain of that boat. He then built defeat and death of its founder, who was nominated for the the splendid steamer “James D. Parker,” of which he is Presidency. The young journalist had new honors waiting still part owner and Captain. There is no vessel engaged for him. Of course the idea of a thoroughly independent on the Western rivers which is more complete in its accomjournal did not meet the views of all who were interested modations or more elegantly fitted up than this one, and Reid.

in the

The

built

radical

by Greeley,

change

it

has been modernized by

in the

Tribune dates from the

Tribune, and a struggle took place which attracted

the attention of the intelligent people of the whole country. It

ended

in

a decisive victory for the

new management.

immediately

certainly

P'loyd,”

after

none commanded by a more

tlemanly officer than Captain Wise. line

making regular

trips

efficient or

His boat

from Cincinnati

to

more genis

one of a

Memphis.

He

LIOGRAPIIICAL EXCVCLOr.EDIA.

241

has had a thorough experience of river life, and is one of wealth and honor, add lustre to local history and honor to the best known of the Cincinnati boat owners and com- the wider annals of national prosperity.

On

manders.

January

daughter of Charles

had four children,

21st, 1865,

Tempk,

all

he was married to Sarah,

of that city, by

whom

he has

surviving.

ANNOTTA, SIGNOR

A., Composer,

and Director

of the Western Conservatory of Music, was born

Capua,

in

(^y>’ALL, JOHN born

Manufacturer of Furniture, was

C.,

England

in

commenced

In 1821 he emigrated

in 1816.

with his father to America, and settled in Cin-

Ohio, where, after obtaining a

cinnati,

fair

edu-

cation in the schools of the city, he learned the

In 1837 he upholstering and bedding business. purchased the establishment in which he had learned his Since this period he has been constantly engaged

trade.

in the prosecution of his business,

He

and merited success.

great

with him,

No. iS East Fourth

at

Within the past

ability.

])loyed in

street,

James

S. Grisard,

Italy.

troduced to the American jjeople,

house has been em-

homes

men

etc.,

at

the hour of rest a

are readily

and

easily

use of in one

For a period covering

all

that time has never

own

ac-

been connected with

a case at law in which he has acted either as plaintiff or defendant.

He

thinks

that “reasonable

men should

be

He

in

by that instrument

left

Naples, with several friends, to

men

“honest

process of law

will ;

meet

their obligations,

dishonest

men

he

able, without

when

attacked by

all

During the war of the rebellion

several heavy contracts in his department, entered

filled

into

that

can, in the majority of cases,

avoid payment of their just dues, even the powers of the court.”

if

asserts

with the

government, supplying

the

navy on

the

western rivers and shipping vast quantities of bedding to

There

he became Director of the London Italian Society of Music,

and made

his debiit in the musical world as a composer, producing, on two days’ notice, a “ Funeral March,” which

was received with warm commendations. In 1S63, when the great Italian general and republican. Garibaldi, came to London and was received with such wide spread demonstrations of favor, he composed for his reception “ The one of

Exile,”

Subsequently,

most favorably received productions.

his

the Garibaldi receptions in London, he

at all

“

Exile ” was dedicated to his

The

Grace the Duke of .Sutherland,

he

range of combina-

to the conception of the

attend the famous World’s Exposition in London.

supplied the music.

morality,

in-

In 1861 he graduated as a composer, and

the following year

lawyers, or application to court,” and, illustrating his view

one phase of commercial

first

never became a great piano

able to settle their differences without the intervention of

of

was

Boston, by Gilmore,

to his pupils, preferring to leave the vast

unaided mind.

about forty years he has transacted business on his count, and in

and musician.

at

a

performer, Mercadante having refused the use of the piano

of his invention may-

when made

another.

the leader

a performer on this instrument he

tions suggested

guise, they conceal the characteristic points belonging to in

As

of lim-

of

metamorphosed, and are accordingly valuable, inasmuch as

them when serving

only of his entire family possessed

fine business

day becomes

they answer two ends, while,

He

he was one of the

maestro composer, Qaverio

young man of

five years the

comfortable bed; his lounge,

was decided.

Naples, and there

at

that time

Grisard, and

the lounge, book-case, wardrobe, sec-

retary, or chair of the

During

.

of the great

pupils

favorite

Ammaella,

Pietro

St.

remained eight years.

&

The whole philosophy :

Conservatory

life

eleventh year, accordingly, he entered the

his

in

Mercadante.

in the expensive habits of life in the

means.

composition, whereupon his profession for

While

and two years

notable work in musical

first

marked talent for music. During his second year at Naples he became one of the most skilful French-horn soloists in

invented with the design of bringing about a radical change

ited

the study of music,

has recently associated

manufacturing “ Hall’s Patent Folding Furniture,”

be thus described

His early education At the age of eight he

meeting uniformly with

of Indiana, under the firm-style of Hall thus secured as a coworker a

in Naples.

produced his

later

1841.

Italy, in

was acquired

for the hospitable reception

as a

mark of appreciation

given by that nobleman to the In 1865 he was induced, by

distinguished Italian leader.

come to York he engaged vocal pupils, and in iSfifi

the success of several of his friends in America, to this country. in

the

After his arrival in

instruction

of private

New

where he became connected, as a vocal teacher, with the New England Conservatory of Music. About this time he introIn 1868 he visited Cincinnati. duced to the lovers of music of the city the great concerts

moved

to Boston,

He is a zealous and steadfast and an earnest worker in his church. At the age a la Julien organization, with fifty musicians. This venof twenty-one years he made a compact with himself never ture was projected and inaugurated prior to the attcinjits to drink intoxicating liquor, swear, or use tobacco in any made by various maestri and to the first visits of Theodore the Brooklyn Navy-yard. Christian

form, and has yet to reproach liimself for having broken any

To

one of

its

Queen

City justifiably point

agreements.

such

men

with an

the citizens of the

honest pride;

the

record of their lives, beginning in obscurity and ending in 31

Thom.as. to sustain

tory,

But, failing to meet with the success necessary

such a venture and the success of his conserva-

he returned to Boston

peared

first

in

1869, and

in his true role as the

in

this

city ap-

composer of “ The Peace

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOIAEDIA.

242

grand march, inlroduced by Gilmore

P'estival,” a

third concert of the great Jubilee.

This, the

first

the

at

original

and together have since conducted the business, building stationary, steamboat and portable engines, saw-mills, mill

composition produced on that occasion by Gilmore, was

machinery and general foundry work.

received with marked favor by the vast concourse of as-

Portable Engine, invented by Mr. Griffith’s partner,

sembled

patented, and a decided increase in business

and admirers of music, and

critics

commendations

siastic

“ a complete

as

elicited enthu-

and magnificent and here

production.”

Later, he returned to Cincinnati,

succeeded

establishing

in

now

Music, over which he

the Western

Conservatory of

The

presides as director.

finest

voices and musical talent which this city has produced have

New

shops were

new

built,

A

there

horizontal, the engine vertical,

is is

no

strain

;

was

result.

short description of the

Engine may not be out of

Vertical Portable boiler

was the

purchased, increasing

tools

the manufacturing facilities.

In 1S70 the Vertical

place.

and so placed

The that

and

the wearing parts are cast steel, light

come from under his tuition, and the adoption of the true durable; the points gained are strength, simplicity, safety Italian method there is due entirely to his efforts. Mr. Griffith was married. May 20th, 1S38, Before and durability. the appearance of Thomas he met the need of the general to Eliza Lee, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, who died in community, and introduced the Symphony concerts, lie 1872. He was again married, December 27th, 1873, to also

Gn

gave

first

Kammer

Con-

“ Soirees,”

etc.

people of that city the “

to the

“ Musicales

the

certs,”

Reunions,”

the opening of the

the

Cincinnati Exposition he ap-

first

peared with “ The Exposition March,” prepared for the occasion.

he

met with an enthusiastic reception.

It

appeared

Cincinnati

in

with

In 1875

pupils

his

opera

in

“Alidor,” an original composition by him, which placed his reputation as a is

a

musician on a solid pedestal. dealing with

opera,

historical

the

“Alidor”

personages and

doings of England under the reign of George

1

He

.

has

composed many songs, marches, masses, etc., all are characterized by a commendable degree of cellence and originality. Several of his musical works

also

which

now

vogue

in

production

testify to the

esteem

connoisseurs of the old world.

has served

is

is

to

Brown Manufacturing Company,

is

Director of the

The honorable

diffi-

have brought

now County Commis-

is

looked up to as a leading

county.

whatever he un-

years as Trustee of the Water-

works;

position he

business, but also in society,

is

man in the city and now holds, not only in

due

to unflinching deter-

mination to do and have done what was right.

of exare

ICKMAN, FR.'\NKLIN

which he is held by the He is a worthy pupil of the

Petersburg, Virginia.

in

whose only

a musical enthusiast of the highest stamp,

ambition

fifteen

and

is

in

business

to

He

him the success deserved. sioner;

be honored by his work.

J.,

Lawyer, was born

He was

fitted

in

for college

Petersburg Classical School, under the

at the

in-

struction of Rev. Fh D. Saunders, late of Phila-

great Mercadante, wholly devoted to his noble profession,

and

in earnest

close observer, perseverance under

and a

and constant attention

culties

Europe, and by the frequency of their

in

Thoroughly

Ella Cochran. dertakes,

and in the same class with General Roger A. Pryor. At the age of sixteen he entered the junior class of Brown’s University, Rhode Island, delphia,

among his classC6x and ex-Lieutenant-Governor

graduating with the salutatory honors;

mates were the Hon.

THOMAS,

ijaRIFEITll,

November

Manufacturer, was

At the age of seven he removed with to

One year

Oswestry.

dence with an uncle

in

born,

Warwickshire, England.

7th, 1817, in

after this

Manchester,

his family

he took

who

resi-

in 1827

emigrated to America, taking his nephew with

him,

first

and then

to Philadelphia

three years he was sent to school. ing,

which was the groundwork

cation,

he was

Sinclair

He moved as

self-taught.

& Moone,

Ebert

&

in

Outside of

where

for

this school-

for his future business

edu-

In 1830 he was apprenticed to

manufacturers of agricultural machinery.

to Zanesville,

journeyman

to Baltimore,

Ohio, in December, 1838; worked

Dillon’s edge-tool

factory;

then with

Whittaker, machinists, on Sixth near Main

being there employed

street,

building machinery for their

in

new

shop, on South Fifth street, which was started by him on

Christmas day,

1S40.

He worked

as

foreman for two

vears, then as junior partner about eighteen months,

March, 1858, he and Mr.

Wedge

and

in

purchased the property.

S. S.

He

read law in the

Hon. Charles S. Bradley, late Rhode Island, and was there admitted.

Chief-Justice of

Francis Wayland, of Connecticut. office

of

the candidate of

th-

Attorney-General.

for

of the

In 1857 he was Democratic party of Rhode Island In 1858 he

Board of Visitors

at the

was appointed a member

West Point

emy, and was also appointed Secretary, and was the author of the report of the Board 1858 he came

to

Military Acadin that

capacity

that year.

In

Cleveland and engaged in his profession.

In 1861 he was sent to the Legislature, and in that body was Chairman of the Committee on Railroads. At the close of his legislative term he formed a partnership with the

Hon. R.

P. Spaulding,

and resumed the practice of

his

1867 he was appointed District Attorney for Northern Ohio, but resigned in 1869, in order to devote

profession.

In

himself exclusively to private practice. of

well-known

literary tastes,

He

attainments, which only serves to extend a the law.

is

a gentleman

extended reading and

classical

knowledge of

This, taken in connection with exemplary habits

t

;

BIOGRAPHICAL EAXVCLOP.EniA. and high moral character,

all

resting

religious basis, gives promise of the

upon an

alike eventful

intelligent

most honorable

was

results.

the

at

and

243

His

creditable.

residence

of an

first

rest

by the wayside

Henry Hoffman,

uncle,

in

was married to Annie E., only Dutchess county, near Ithaca, New York. Here, to his daughter of Robert Neil, of Columbus, Ohio, and has three amazement, he was solicited to take charge of the district school, and although having had but limited educational children now living. In December,

1862, he

I

advantages himself, he, with characteiistic self-confidence, accepted the situation, and during two quarters sustained the

ALLMADGE, DARIUS,

Banker, and one of the

in

1S25, in

was born

far

West, as

New

in

est child in

He was

the young-

a family of fourteen children, and

an orphan

left

Schaghticoke, Rensselaer county.

York, June 30th, 1800.

when

He

but ten years of age.

a direct descendant of one of four brothers

was was

He subsequently returned to farming, and company with a friend, started on foot for the Ohio and Kentucky in those distant days were

role of educator.

founders of the “ Western Stage Coach Company,”

On

denominated. ellers this

who emigrated was

purchased a

reaching the Allegheny river, the travskiff,

and continued

stream until they arrived

at

down

taken on a keel boat

their

down

journey

where passage M.aysville, Ken-

Pittsburgh,

the river.

and who are supposed to be the tucky, was reached April ist, 1825. Here he at once enprogenitors of all the Tallmadges in the United States. One gaged in driving horses to the New Orleans market, but the of these brothers settled in New Jersey, there striking from emoluments of several trips proving meagre and insignifithe family patronymic one / and the d. From this branch cant, he relinquished that business without having in any from Wales

to this country,

sprang the popular Brooklyn minister. Rev. T.

Among

Talmage.

the

names of

De

Witt

the original rrantees, or

perceptible

way

bettered his fortunes.

He

then, through the

generosity of a Kentuckian, Mr. Blanchard, was enabled to

New Haven, in purchase a horse and dray, with which he labored for six James Tallmadge. The months; at the expiration of that time he removed to Tarlhistory of the latter is unknown, but several of the descend- ton, Ohio, and began the business of buying and driving ants of Robert have resided in New Haven, in unbroken horses to New Orleans. In Clinton, at a later period, he succession, from that time to the present day, a period of came in contact with William Neil, of the Ohio St.age Comnearly two centuries and a half, while many have I'emoved pany, and after brief negotiation, was employed as agent to various portions of the Union, and filled places of honor of the company at a salary of four hundred dollars per and trust in the civil and military service of the country. annum. His tireless industry, unswerving fidelity and purchasers of town

lots at the

settlement of

1639, were those of Robert and

The descendants

many

have removed from the old home of their ancestors are

who now

numerously represented among the respected citizens of

New

of

of the collateral branches

York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Ohio and Michigan the two latter .States having towns named in their

—

honor,

viz.

:

Tallmadge, Ottawa county, Michigan, and Tall-

madge, Summit county, Ohio.

many

It

is

a source of pride that

habitual promptitude soon produced their legitimate result his salary was increased to twelve hundred dollars per annum, and his field expanded so as to cover half the State.

After serving as agent for a period of six years, he took an interest in the company', and also became sole proprietor of what the company deemed its “ poor contracts” in Southern

Ohio, and from which by unremitting Labor and attention he

William Neil, who had inhonor and responsibility under both State and national vested but three hundred dollars in this enterprise, was for governments, not one has ever betr.ayed his trust, or brought ten years his silent partner, and ultimately retired with a while

of the family have been called to fdl places of

reproach upon the name.

remarkable

The

longevity also of this family

reaped a munificent harvest.

share amounting to twenty-five thousand dollars, in addition

not a single head of family, in the lineal suc-

to the

cession which has been traced, has died at a less age than

while.

seventy years; and the aggregate age of the five generations

vant,

is

is

three

:

hundred and ninety-six

years, or an average of over

seventy-nine years for each person.

ment was

Darius’

first

employ-

that of a teamster, hauling bricks during the con-

heavy dividends which he had received

“Mr. Tallmadge, D.

W.

in connection with

Dcshler, and

in the

W.

mean-

S. Sulli-

Peter Campbell, of Columbus,

Peter and John Yoorhes, of Dayton,

J.

S. Alvoid, of Indi-

and K. Porter, of Wooster, Ohio, inaugurated the Western Stage Company. Their operations were

anapolis, Indiana,

struction of the great cotton factory df Schaghticoke,

and at first entirely confined to the State of Indiana, but the wagoning goods advancing tide of civilization, with its railroads and other from Troy to M hitehall, a distance of one hundred miles. improved modes of Irav'el and transportation, crowded the His next venture made him a tiller of the soil, on the farm company successively into Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas, of an elder brother, but quickly discovering the incongruity enjoying, however, in each Stale, a period of success and of this vocation, and “ quite tired of farming, and restless, prosperity. This company was truly regarded as the most anxious to get away, and see if something would not pre- influential and powerful corporation in the Western States,

when

sent

but twelve years of age he engaged in

itself that

faster,”

would enable him

to

make money

he disregarded the w,nrnings of

a

liitle

his brother, and,

bidding farewell to the old farmstead, began a pilgrimage

holding a monopoly in those sparsely settled regions equal to

that

country.

of any railroad

The

enterprise

now running through was very remunerative

the to

its

same pro-

BIOGRAFIIICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

244 jectors,

having

‘

paid for

itself’

without a dollar being

in-

vested by the owners of the stock, and was closed with princely returns

Init

years since, their property for dis-

five

being very valuable, consisting as

tribution

Des Moines, Sioux

Indianapolis,

estate

in

Bluffs,

and other places along the route of

began

to

murmur

did of real

City,

Council

their early opera-

When

which they had invested.”

tions, in

it

staging in Ohio

collapse as a remunerative business, the initial

of the

the country,

coming California gold

and

fever spread through

he, ever ready to take advantage of the

opening of any new and lucrative enterprise, immediately sent one hundred horses across the plains,

around the Cape

and

fifty

to the land of fabulous treasures.

to

He was a valued member of the Masonic and through life was noted-for his punctilious

enemies.”

organization,

devotion to

more_ important requirements

its

and was a

;

prominent feature of the assemblage gathered together on the occasion of the laying of the corner-stone,

new

therhood, of the

In February, 1873, three months subsequent

Ohio,. first

by the bro-

Central Lunatic Asylum, at Columbus,

own

attack of pneumonia, at his

sick-bed, he

to the

request, while on his

was baptized by Rev. T. R. Taylor, of the He was married at the age

Methodist Episcopal Church. of twenty-one, to Sarah A.

stages

who

These

amiable

resided near Ithaca,

Wood, daughter

New

woman, and

Christian

member

a

of Jonas

She died

York.

Wood,

in 1S49,

an

of the Methodist

About eighteen months afterward he

horses, sent to California for the purpose of establishing a

Episcopal Church.

stage route there, were taken across the plains by his young-

w.as again married, to Elizabeth

Creed, of Lancaster.

He

James .Vugustus Talhnadge, who never returned, had two sons, one of whom, as before stated, died in South but went to South America, and died in Valparaiso, Chili, America; the other, Theodore Tallmadge, is now a resident in the twenty-fourth year of his age. In 183J he removed of Columbus, Ohio, and well known and respected in Lanest son,

and there in 1847 projected a branch of caster, and throughout the State of Ohio. He died at his Bank of Ohio, of which he served as President, rooms in the Tallmadge House, Lancaster, Ohio, on March and also during the existence of the charter of the .State 27th, 1874. Numerous obituaries, sketches, editorials, etc., Bank, served as a member of its .State Board of Control. were published, concerning his life, works, and eventful By his nicety of management in monetary matters while career, after his demise. The obsequies were of the most to Lancaster, Oliio,

the

.State

thus employed, he acquired the reputation of being one of

impressive nature, while the

the most accurate financiers in the

attracted

In the course of

.State.

time and events he passed through

sever.al

periods of per-

sonal pecuniary embarrassment, “ any one of which alone

would have crushed an ordinary man.” ever, he

surmounted

own financial money and Labor

not only recovered his

Toremost public

willi

both

enterprises

for

the

through his individual

benefit

instigation

Ultimately, how-

and

adversities,

all

in his later years

prosperity, but in carrying

town.

of his

and exertion

out

was al]

It

was

that

the

were primarily developed, and he was ever

parts of the

;

Episcopal Church

and

at

At

pathetic.

Lancaster, Ohio, was forcible, eloquent

the grave the

Masonic

ritual

was con-

ducted by Judge Virgil Shaw, Past Master of the Lancaster

Commandery.

JOHN ELLIOTT,

l^UNT, HON.

General of the Ohio

in the front

rank, with voice, hand, and money, in the maturing of

Toledo, Ohio,

projects destined to contribute to the safety

diana

“ For

all

and the surrounding region .and the discourse preached by Rev. J. R. Boyd, March 29th, 1S74, in the Methodist city

magnificent mineral resources of Hocking and Perry counties

solemn funeral ceremonies

a large concourse of people from

and welfare of

— within

etc.,

was born

the

fort

Pioneer, Major-

ex-Postmaster of

militia, in

— April

P'ort

llth,

Wayne, 1798.

In-

He

was the seventh child in a family of eleven chilwhose parents were Thomas Hunt and attention and labor to its material advancement, or employ- Eunice (Wellington) Hunt, of Watertown, near Boston. ment to more men needing it because of their impecuniosity.” His father was an active participant in the first battle of the Again, “ Much of the prevailing taste exhibited here, much Revolution, at Lexington, and was wounded in the action He was also one that is beautiful and healthful in artificial additions to the at Bunker Hill, Boston, Massachusetts. natural advantages of the city, have resulted from the exam- of the foTlorn hope under General Wayne at the storming ples and the labors of Mr. Talhnadge in being really the of Stony Point, on the Hudson, and was there wounded by his fellow-citizens.

more than

truly said, Lancaster never

had a

pioneer in these matters.

He was

especially in middle

His private

life.

it may be who gave more

forty years,

citizen

exceedingly benevolent, charities

were boun-

Churches and benevolent societies ever found him

tiful.

liberal.

Want

ot

education alone interfered with a demon-

dren,

conduct,

and

afterward

his

was ordered with

notable natural capacities only in the practical pursuits of

take possession of

would have been great life.

A man

in

any sphere, hut could show

of strong prejudices, firm convictions, intense

purpose, large heart, strong will, and unimpeachable integrity,

he was kind and true to

his friends,

while unrelenting

was

and meritorious commissioned

successively

Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel of the old Continental hirst Infantry Regiment, by

most remarkable natural power of mind.

then commissioned

M.ajor by General Washington, for gallant

He

stration of a

He was

a bayonet in the calf of his leg.

from 1803 miles

named

it

St.

this

Jefferson.

Subsequently he

Detroit, Michigan, to

Louis, .Missouri, where he

to 1807.

from

Thomas

his regiment from

city,

Dn

commanded

the banks of the Missouri, fifteen

he constructed a cantonment, and

Bellcfontaine.

In

.St.

Louis, also, he died, his

^

7

BIOGRAnilCAL ENCVCLOr.EDIA. him

faithful wife following

to the

demise; they both

after his

grave about three months In later

Bellefontaine.

lie in

years a cemetery was laid out about eight miles back of St. They left a family Louis, and is known as Bellefontaine.

The

of eleven children.

eldest,

Henry

J.

Hunt, who

at that

time was nineteen years of age, went with three h renchmen in a pirogue from Detroit, Michigan, to St. Louis, Missouri, leaving the subject of this sketch and the

rest of the

children

with various relatives scattered from Fort Wayne, Indiana, In 1812,

to Boston, Massachusetts.

when

his brother-in-law.

and smoke-stacks, recesses buffalo

245

and

forests

whose gloomy cat and the all this and

in

prairies

and rank grass the wolf, the wild were, now the sites of teeming cities

:

more, do those simple words evoke from the historic past,

and give food

for grave,

He was

sweet thought,

May

to the patriot

of

Mary Sophia Spencer, sister of Mrs. General Cass, wife of General Governor Cass, of Michigan, at whose house the marriage cere-

to-day.

mony

married.

took place

Justice Waite,

she

;

now on

29th, 1822, to

a second cousin, also, of Chief-

is

the bench.

Dr. Abraham Edwards, of D.ryton, Ohio, was appointed Surgeon-General to the army of General Hull, John Elliott

Henry J. Hunt, in Detroit, HuH’s surrender to the British army under General Brock. He was present also at the retaking of Detroit, Michigan, by General Harrison. While went

to live with his brother,

in

his

the children, sent least

him

Sandwich, Canada,

to

His student

Michigan.

life in

He

was the

first

beholder

of the landing of the celebrated travellers, Lewis and Clark,

from

the Pacific

their three years tour to

Maumee

In 1816 he settled in

Wood

Ocean

City, then

in 1S06.

the capital of

Miami of the Lake, and there, same State, has since permanently resided. His first vote was cast at the Presidential election in which Hem-y Clay figured, and was given in favor of that and

county, Ohio, on the

Toledo,

in

the

in

was born, March, 1755, in Fauquier county, His father emigrated from Ireland, and

Virginia. his

mother was of Scottish descent, her ancestors

having been among the

in ex-

was embraced

the schooling ever received by him,

all

within the limits of one year.

lution,

to secure at

Canada, as well

one of the Pioneers

of the valley of the Ohio, and a soldier of the Revo-

as a father to

an elementary education, no schools being then

istence in as

who was

fourteenth year, his brother,

GENERAL SIMON,

^ ENTON,

Michigan, and witnessed

first

settlers of Virginia.

His parents being in middling circumstances, he was employed

till

the age of sixteen years in the cultivation of corn that period an incident occurred

At

and tobacco.

changed the destiny of

his future

A

life.

which

neighbor’s son

had married a lady to whom he was attached, and with him young Kenton had a series of personal rencontres which terminated in the complete discomfiture of his adversary,

who

no signs of

exhibited

combat, determined him to

life

flee

at

the close of the last

from home without even

He

seeing or consulting his parents or friends.

crossed the

views concerning the proper policy of the American nation

^1 Ise’s Ford Allegheny mountains, April 6 th, 177G changed his name to Simon Butler. Having met three men who were preparing to descend the Ohio river, he joined

are expressed in the code and principles of the Jeffersonian

them, being possessed of a good

eminent statesman

;

Presidential election

he subsequently voted in

Democratic element.

ensuing

at the

favor of General Jackson,

He was

and

his

twice elected to the Senate

and with them proceeded

rifle,

the fruit of hard labor,

as far as Fort Pitt,

now

Pittsburgh.

of Ohio, and was elected a Senatorial Delegate to form the

Here he formed a friendship with the notorious Simon Girly, Constitutional Convention in 1849-50. For a period of who was the means, at a future period, of his rescue from eight years he held the office of Postmaster of Toledo, Ohio, the Indians, when doomed to the stake. Accompanied by and was elected Major-General of the Ohio militia, by the a single companion, he descended the Ohio as far as the I.egislature in 1S37, since

which time he has lived

in retire-

mouth of

the Great

Kanawha

ment, secluded from the ceaseless whir and turmod which

river, they built a

characterize the rapid and marvellous development

selling their peltries to a

of a

people and interests whose incoming he has seen, whose

growth he has noted with an licitude.

Thus he expresses

intelligent

and unflagging

himself, white with the

so-

snows

this

river,

and ascend!. ig the Elk

camp, and passed the winter

French

point until the spring of

Indians, the party

became

trader.

in trapping,

They remained

at

1773, when, attacked by the

separated.

Kenton with a com-

panion, both being wounded, reached the mouth of the Great

their

wounds.

where they met another party who dressed Here they entered the employ of Mr. Bris-

But a few simple words, yet they hold to a reflective mind, the varied incidents and circumstances of his career and life being passed in swift review, a wondrous kaleidoscope where are seen vivid pictures of adventurous pioneers

coe,

who was

then endeavoring to form a settlement on the

and

hostile Indians, British assailants

ers,

log school-houses

learning in marble and in everlasting granite, great states-

In I 774 > joining a trapping party, proceeded to the Ohio. an Indian war being imminent, he with others repaired to Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, having Fort Pitt.

men of the olden time, lonely rivers whose very courses were almost unknown which are now crowded with sails

ployed as a

of

many

at the

years, loved, esteemed,

head of

this river,

I

and revered

shall

:

“

I

was born

ere long be buried at

its

foot.”

now

and American defend-

replaced by stately institutes of

Kanawha

river,

Kanawha, contemporaneously with the lounding of Wheeling, Grave Creek, and Long Reach. Kenton, with his first earnings, procured a good rifle, and immediately flreat

raised an

army .s])y

to chastise the aggressors,

to

Kenton was em-

precede the troops and report the condition

BIOGRAPHICAL EXCYCLOP.L;r)IA.

246

After the enemy had been chastised, a treaty but finding the fort in a quiescent state, he returned. Durwas made with them, but no sooner had the troops with- ing the invasion of Kentucky by the British and Indians in drawn than the treaty was brohen. Colonel Lewis was now 1779, he was appointed a Captain, and, commanding an sent to chastise the enemy, Kenton being again employed as active and numerous company of volunteers, he distinguished On his discharge from this service he resumed his himself in that campaign. After this company was disbanded a scout. old pursuits of trapping, in the course of which his party, he remained in the employ of the several stations till 1782. with the aid only of their tomahawks, cleared a small piece At this period he heard, for the first time, of his longof ground, which they planted with corn, and which yielded abandoned parents, and of his former opponent, who had

of the country.

them a supply of

This spot, called Kenton’s

edible.

thi.s

recovered from the

He

mutual encounter.

effects of their

was about one mile from the present town of Wash- now assumed his own name, and, after commanding another He passed the winter successful expedition against marauding Indians on the ington, in Mason county, Kentucky. Station,

named

Stoner, about forty-five miles south

with a

settler

of his

former locality, and

the

in

spring,

the American

revolution being in progress, and the natives stimulated by

men

the British to destroy the infant settlements, the white

Great Miami, he concluded to

A

spot on Salt river.

houses,

cleared

make

a settlement on a fertile

few families joined him, reared block-

ground and planted corn, which being

gathered, he concluded to

visit

His glowing

his parents.

Kenton joined Major (afterwards descriptions of the fertility of Kentucky induced his parents General) George Rogers Clark, sent out by Virginia to pro- to accompany him on his return, but his father died ere the Kenton again accepted the position of spy journey was accomplished. He remained at Salt river till tect the settlers. or scout, and by his faithful discharge of his arduous duties 17S4, and thence removed to near Maysville, where he proved himself worthy of the confidence reposed in him; he formed the first permanent station on the northeast side rf were obliged

to flee.

was always successful meditated attack, and

in

giving the fort timely notice of a

to assist in

He

preparing fir defence.

Many

the Licking river.

spot; and the

emigrants were attracted to the

Indians were kept

at b.ay

by the

activity

and

Okaw, intelligence of the master-spirit of Kenton, who was ever His opponent was someor Kaskaskia, where they surprised the French commander foremost when danger threatened. and took possession of the fort. He was then despatched to times the celebrated chief Tecumseh, whose tact and innext accompanied Major Clark on an expedition to

ascertain the strength of the fort at Vincennes,

accomplished, after three days’ lurking

he sent one of

hfs

in the

which having neighborhood,

companions with the intelligence

while he and another repaired to Harrodsburg.

to Clark,

He

next

he was sometimes powerless to conquer. In 1793 Major Kenton joined the army under General Wayne, which was variously employed. Emigration now set in, as the Intrepidity

dian wars had ceased, and large numbers settled on the

joined several expeditions under Daniel Boone, and signal-

banks of the Ohio.

ized his courage to the. entire satisfaction of that celebrated

estate

pioneer.

In

1778 he was one of the company with Alex-

ander Montgomery and George Clark

in

an expedition

to

Ohio, with the avowed purpose of obtaining horses from the Indians.

Proceeding cautiously to Chillicothe they

with a drove of horses, captured seven and

made

fell

in

for the

But the Indians soon overtook them, killing Montgomery and capturing Kenton Clark escaped. After unheard of tortures, he was doomed to the stake, from which fate he was rescued by Simon Girty, previo'usly mentioned, who persuaded the Indians to carry him to Smdusky. On river.

;

his

way

thither,

the compassion of the celebrated

Logan, was excited

in

his behalf,

Canadian Frenchman appeared dusky,

who succeeded

in

and

at

chief,

his instigation a

at the council of

Upper San-

having him taken to Detroit and

war to the British. Here he was lodged in the -fort, where his health was soon restored, and where he earned some money through dint of hard delivered up as a prisoner of

as

Kenton was regarded

he was ignorant of the law and

ests.

as a large real-

owner, yet his land-claims failed one

how

after another,

to protect his inter-

In the year 1800 he abandoned the

had rendered tenantable by settled

on

Mad

General of

river,

militia.

Ohio.

his

In 1805 he was

In 1813,

soil

which he

courage and endurance, and

when

his old

made

Brigadier-

companion. Gov-

came to Urbana at the head of the Kentucky Kenton could no longer remain inactive, but became

ernor Shelby, troops,

a

member

of the Governor’s military family.

He

crossed

accompanied General Harrison and Governor Malden, and thence to the Thames; was present

the lake and

Shelby to

and played his part with his usual intrepidity. Here ended the military career of General Simon Kenton,

in the b.attle,

a

man who

probably passed through as great a variety of

border adventures as any of our most renowned Western pioneers. length,

This condensed narrative, were

would form a volume not

most marvellous

fiction.

Before

it

prepared

at

less

interesting than the

his

death the govern-

ment granted him a meagre pension, which secured him His hospitality he grew restless, and forming a plan of escape, in company from absolute want in his declining years. with two companions, effected his object, being assisted was always commensurate with his means; during his prosthereto by a lady of the neighborhood, the wife of an Indian perity his house was ever open to the wealthy emigrant He was a member of the trader. After a journey of thirty-three days they reached the or the benighted traveller. work.

falls

Passing the winter of 1778-79 mostly in inactivity,

of the Ohio, July, 1779.

foot to

Vincennes

Kenton thence proceeded on

to join his old

comjranion. General Clark,

He died in Methodist Church, which he joined in 1810. Aprii 3CI, 1836, aged about eighty-two.

Logan county, Ohio,

BIOGRAnilCAL ENCVCLOr.EDIA. MICHAEL,

Manufacturer, was born at Top, Stark county, Ohio, January iSlh, 1821, being the son of Abraham and Elizabelli (Kr)'der) Halm. Mis means and opportunities for Plain

days having been

school

passed

in

for Ulysses

since recognized as his

ing in his studies

and the

S.,

He

name.

shown

marked

a

has been ever

latter

graduated

hav-

in 1843^

mathe-

jiroficiency in

his

matics. He ranked twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine, and was made a brevet Second Lieutenant of infantry, being

Bucyrus,

attached very soon after as supernumerary Lieutenant to the

education were very limited,

obtaining an

was made out

247

Crawford county, Ohio. When he attained his majority he 4th Regiment, stationed at that time in Missouri. In the went to Columbus. This was in March, 1842, and he there summer of 1845 he accompanied this command to Texas, commenced his apprenticeship to the cabinet-making trade. where it joined General Taylor’s army, and on September

On

January

has

ev'er

1844, he started in business for himself, and

1st,

since continued

While he has had

it.

encounter

to

made

30th was field

a

full

His

Lieutenant.

May

of battle was at Palo Alto,

service on the

first

and subse-

8th, 1S46,

and has been the victim of some mis- quently he participated in the engagements at Resaca de la In fortunes, his career as a manufacturer may on the whole be Palma and Monterey, and at the siege of Vera Cruz. lie started in busi- .\pril, 1847, he was appointed Quartermaster of his regicharacterized as a very successful one.

many

trying obstacles,

no

ness with

having

in

and energy. He secured them entirely within three

capital but skill to repay

years,

and he sustained a

conspicuous gallantry

for

at the battle of

his losses

del

were largely above

at

his insurances.

City of

Molino

First Lieufor his

con-

Chapultepec, to date from that engagement, which

thousand dollars. occurred September 13th, 1S47.

loss of thirteen

In 1861 his establishment was a second time burned out,

and

ment, and

In 1856 his factory was destroyed by duct

comfortable home. lire,

loans,

Ray, September 8th, 1847, he was made a the meantime secured to himself and family a tenant on the field. He was brevetted Captain

and was able

After the capture of the

Mexico he returned with

his regiment.

In 1848

Since he married Julia T. Dent, sister of one of his classmates.

then he has prospered by a

strict attention to business and In 1852 he accompanied his regiment to California and win patronage by turning out a Oregon, and while at Fort Vancouver, August 5th, 1853, During the rebellion he served was commissioned full Captain. On July 31st, 1854, he resuperior quality of goods. in the Union army for eight, months. He has held few signed and removed to St. Louis, cultivating a farm near places of public trust and responsibility, but where he has that city and engaging in business as a real estate agent. served in an official capacity, he has discharged his duties In 1859 he was emplo.yed by his father in the leather trade

through a studious

effort to

with intelligence and

He

fidelity.

is

quite largely interested

and President, in a number of prosperous business corporations, and is an enterprising and public-spirited citizen. He was married on March 14th, 1844, to Mai-y A. Markley, and has two married daughters as a stockholder. Director

and one single

;

He became

dren.

religious in early

and

life,

five

and

grandchil-

attributes all

temperance, religion, and devotion to God.

his successes to

He

also three single sons,

has given for charities and benevolent purposes thou-

at

Galena,

he took the

Illinois.

command

Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion of a company of volunteers, with whom

he marched to Springfield,

an aid

to

being there retained as

Illinois,

Governor Yates, and acted

of Illinois volunteers until he

as mustering officer

became Colonel of the

21st

Regiment, his commi.ssion dating from June 17th, 1861. He joined his regiment at Mattoon, organized and drilled it

at

Caseyville, and then

crossed into Missouri, where

it

formed part of the guard of the Hannibal and Hudson Rail-

sands of dollars, and has thereby, while helping others, en-

road.

riched himself with a consciousness of having

at

He was on

command

July 31st placed in

of the troops

could for the amelioration of the condition of his fellows.

Mexico, forming part of General Pope’s force, and on August 23d was promoted Brigadier-General of Volunteers,

He

the commission dating back to

has been an

chairs to

its

Odd Fellow

and received

all

its

for

many

honors, and

done what he

years, passed all is

its

sincerely devoted

principles of “ visiting the sick, relieving the distressed,

inforced shortly after by

On September

burying the dead, and educating the orphan.”

land, on the 25th.

ducah announced

ULYSSES

United Point

States,

S.,

eighteenth President of the

was born, Apiil 27lh, 1822,

Pleasant, Ohio, descending

ancestry.

He

at

from Scotch

passed his boyhood in the village

17th,

and assumed

at

mouth of

the

His proclamation that he

General

He Jeff

accomplished

at re-

General McClernand’s brigade.

had nothing

mouth of the the Cumber-

to the people of Pato

do

but should deal only with armed rebellion, abetters.

who were

Cairo,

at

6th he seized Paducah, at the

Tennessee, and .Smithland,

vjR.ANT,

May

once the command of the troops

\\

ith

opinions,

and checked the advance of the Confederate

Thompson on October at

the

battle

aiders

its

21st, 1861

;

of Fredericktown,

this

being

Missouri.

of Georgetown, Ohio, whither his parents

removed and by the appointment of Hon. Thomas L. Harmer, Congressman, entered the Military Academy at

When

in 1823,

Missouri in the following December, Grant was assigned to

Mest Point

the largest districts in the West.

in

1839.

His name originally was Hiram

Ulysses but the certificate of appointment to the academy

Halleck assumed

command

of the Department of

the control of the District of Cairo, which

the

head of 15,000 men, he

started

was then one of

In February of 1862, at

on

his

memorable march

mOGRAPlIICAL ENCYCLOP/EDIA.

r48

Henry and Donelson.the former of enemy in the actions of Raymond, Jackson, Champion’s river, and the latter the Hill and Big Black, and preventing the junction of the Con-

for the capture of Forts

which commanded the Tennessee

Cumberland. The gun-boats of Commodore P'oote, assisted by Grant’s army, compelled the surrender of Fort Henry on Fort Donelson was only captured after a

P'ebruary 6th.

severe engagement on

February 15th,

•

forces

which the land

in

The

under Grant distinguished themselves.

title

of

“ Unconditional Surrender Grant,” which he bore through-

His terms of capitula-

out the war, dates from this event.

General Butler being, “

tion to the rebel

No

other than an

unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I

The

move immediately upon your works.”

propose to

capture of this stronghold, and a very large portion of defenders,

may

be regarded as the

Grant became the hero of the day,

of the Federal arms.

and the admiration of

triumph

substantial

first

its

his martial skill

was no

less

general

than the admiration for the terse and pointed manner in

which he couched the terms cf

missioned Major-General of Volunteers

rendered

in these

He was

capitulation.

com-

for his great services

engagements, the commission dating from

I'ebruary l6th, 1862, and in a very few days an

army of

40,000 men, which had been sent up the Tennessee by

General Halleck, was jilaced under his command.

memorable

battle of Pittsburg

Landing commenced

at

On May

burg.

on July 4th

it

1

oners of war.

he

8th, 1863,

laid siege to that city,

and

into his hands, together with 27,000 pris-

fell

I'or that strategic action

he was promoted

to

the rank of Major-General in the regular army, and in the

succeeding October assumed the

command

of the Military

Division of the Mississippi, which then comprised the de-

partments

commanded by Sherman, Thomas, Burnside and

Hooker.

His reinforcement of Sherman on the Big Black

enabled that General

river

to drive the

Confederate forces

under Johnston out of Jackson, Mississippi.

Chattanooga

being threatened by Bragg, Grant concentrated his forces for

its

defence, carrying by assault the Confederate positions

on Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, respectively,

Upon

on November 24th and 25th. forces

was

Grant sent

relief to

closely invested

by Longstreet, who was quickly com-

Congress

pelled to retreat.

in

its

Grant

honor of

in

his

thanks to him and his army.

day-

similar measures.

1863-64 passed medal be struck for Gen-

sess,ion of

a resolution providing that a gold eral

the retreat of Bragg’s

Burnside, then at Knoxville, which

The

break on April 6th, 1862, when Grant’s army which was preparing for an attack on Corinth was

federate Johnston’s forces with those of Pemberton at Vicks-

achievements, and returning

New York and Ohio passed On March 1st, 1864, Congress revived

the grade of I.ieutenant-General, and President Lincoln at

surprised by an

once nominated General Grant for the position, the Senate overwhelming force under General A. S. Johnston and confirming the nomination on the following day. On his routed from its camp with heavy loss. Grant did not arrive arrival in Washington March 9th, 1864, Grant received his on the field until 8 A. M., when he succeeded in re-forming commission from the President, and on the 17th issued his itself

the lines, and having been reinforced during the remainder

first

of the day by General Buell, renewed the battle himself on

mand

the following morning, completely defeating the

enemy

at

general order announcing that he had assumed comof the armies of the United

States, with his

head-

quarters in the field, and until further orders with the

Army

every point and recovering the prisoners and stores which

of the Potomac.

had been

lion that

lost

on the previous day.

In a few days he began

This was the

first

one General commanded

time during the Rebelthe national troops;

all

had and with nearly 700,000 men at his disposal. Grant planned retreated after the battle, and in the latter part of May, 1862, two campaigns which were to be directed simultaneously succeeded in driving them from that stronghold. By the against vital points of the Confederacy. One of these camrecall of Halleck to Washington on July nth Grant became paigns was to be under General Meade, with orders to commander of the Department of Tennessee, with his head- operate against Richmond, then defended by Lee; the other quarters at Corinth, and on September 17th he ordered an to be under General Sherman, and to be directed against advance from thttt place to intercept General Price, who Atlanta, defended by General Johnston. At midnight on had concentrated a large force at luka. Here on Septem- May 3d, 1864, the advance was made towards Richmond, ber 19th a hot battle was fought, and a complete victory for and the army under Grant of 140,000 men pushed into the the siege of Corinth, to which the Confederate troops

the Federal arms gained. to

obstruct General

crans in

command

Grant pushed

to the

Ohio

river

Bragg’s force, leaving General Roseof Corinth, where he was attacked by

Wilderness and commenced that series of

ments which are better known

Lee was apprised of

this

terrible

engage-

Seven Days’ Fight,

as the

movement on

the 4th, and boldly

the Confederates, Price and Vandorn, and succeeded in re-

taking the offensive tried to strike the Federal forces on

pulsing them with heavy

their

tion of Grant’s

October 8th, and routed

and compelled

General Buell with a por-

loss.

command his

Bragg

intercepted

command

in a hot

his retreat to Fast Tennessee.

1862 was devoted by Grant to

at

Perryville

engagement,

The

fall

of

the reduction of

efforts for

Vicksburg, the Gibraltar of the Mississippi, which were unsuccessful.

In

December he moved

east side of the river, defeating

his

in the

army down

the

ensuing April the

march.

The immediate

which temporarily

foiled

result

army between Lee and Richmond. vance by the vania,

and

left flank,

was a bloody

battle,

Grant’s attempt to interpose his

He made

being again met by Lee

after a terrible struggle,

a second adat

Spottsyl-

which was only a

partial

he repeated the movement and was again confronted by Lee on the North Anna river. A fourth advance

success,

brought him before the impregnable

rifle-pits

of Cold Plarbor,

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOIAEDIA. anil

an unsuccessful assault on these, he once more

after

crossing the James river, sending a despatch to the Government at Washington, “ I

moved

his

army by the

left flank,

249

government, and the people.

Although

was

their report

favorable to annexation, the Senate refused to confirm the

During 1872, the

treaty.

last

year of his

first

term as Presi-

summer.”

dent, the Court of Arbitration, which, with the approval of

His losses in the campaign from the Rapidan to the James, covering the period from May 3d to June 15th, amounted to 54,551 in killed, wounded and missing, while

the English Government, had been appointed to decide the

propose to

fight

out on this line

it

takes all

if it

When

Lee's losses were about 32,000.

Grant made his

advance towards Richmond, he announced that fact by despatch to General Sherman, who then opened his camfirst

Alabama claims, concluded their labors at Geneva on Se])tember 14th, awarding the gross sum of $15,500,000, to be paid by the British Government to the United States for damages fitted

American commerce by Confederate

to

The

out in British ports.

cruisers

treaty with Great Britain

his historic “ March providing for this international arbitration was negotiated movements being foiled, with by the cabinet appointed by President Grant. The President Lee still in the open field before Richmond, with which he enforced the provisions of the 14th amendment to the Conhad con.stant communication, the problem of the war in stitution, and on October 17th, 1871, suspended the writ of Grant’s estimation was narrowed down to the siege of Peters- habeas corpus in the northern counties of South Carolina, While this siege was in pro- which had been the scene of what are called the Ku-klux burg, which he now began. In the same year he appointed a Commission on gress there were other diversions of the campaign in Mary- outrages.

commenced

paign against Atlanta, and

Grant’s flanking

to the Sea.”

Service Reform, which devised a plan for rendering

land and Virginia, in which Sheridan figured prominently.

Civil

Johnston in Georgia was unable to check the advance of

the civil service of the

Government more

efficient; this, after

command. General Hood, trial, has been abandoned. On June 5th, 1872, the National was compelled to evacuate Atlanta and lost his army before Republican Convention, at Philadelphia, renominated PresiNashville. The siege of Petersburg ended after the Federal dent Grant by acclamation, Henry Wilson, of Massachuvictory at Five Forks. In April, 1865, Richmond was setts, being selected as nominee for Vice-President. Horace evacuated by the Confederates, and I.ee retreated westward Greeley and B. Gratz Brown were the candidates of the toward Danville closely pressed by Grant, who finally com- Liberal Republicans and Democrats. The result of the pelled his surrender at Appomattox Court House on April election was a popular majority for Grant of 762,991 over 9th, Sherman forcing Johnston’s surrender only a few days Greeley. The Forty-second Congress doubled the President’s before. These unconditional surrenders of the only two salary, making it $50,000 per annum, increasing the salaries Sherman, and

Confederate

his successor in

organized

then

forces

On

closed the war.

sioned General of the United States

the

field

virtually

War ad

interim,

12th, 1867,

when

suspended Secretary Stanton from

of the Vice-President, Speaker of the House, Justices of the

Supreme Court and Heads of Departments 25 per

office,

sanction the removal of Mr. Stanton.

he acted

President Johnson

tion until January 14th, 186S, the Senate

rjlLI.MORE, ELISHA E., Wholesale and Retail Li Hardware Merchant, was born in Clinton county,

holding the posi-

having refused

to

I

New

President Johnson

York,

May

desired Grant to retain the office notwithstanding the action

of Connecticut,

of the Senate, but the General clo,sed a tangled correspond-

1793.

ence relating to the

announcing his

May

vention on ballot, the

affair

refusal.

in a terse

and very plain

Chicago, made, on the

unanimous choice of General Grant as

for President of the

fax as his associate

vote was as follows

its

first

nominee

United States, selecting Schuyler Col-

on the

ticket.

The

result of the electoral

Grant and Colfax, 214; Seymour and President Grant after his inaugural commenced

Blair, 80.

;

to carry out the policy of reconstruction of the lately rebel-

23d, 1812.

His parents, natives

moved thence

to

His father was a farmer

cumstances.

letter

The National Republican Con- naiy

21st, 1868, at

cent.

Army, Congress having

On August

created the rank for him. as Secretary of

i}i

July 25th, 1866, Grant was commis-

He was

the

in

New

York

moderate

in cir-

recipient of the ordi-

education obtainable in the country schools of his day,

and pursued

his studies

during the winter, while

in the

mer_ months he assisted in the labor of the farm. attaining his fifteenth year he

“ Black Rock,”

now

went

to

sum-

Upon

what was then called

a portion of Buffalo,

New

York, where

he found employment as a clerk in a store with the firm of

McPherson

&

At the expiration of seven years spent he was offered a position as bookkeeper and

Bird.

in this capacity,

which Congress had mapped out. In 1871 he salesman in the hardware store of Patterson Brothers, in urged the annexation of Santo Domingo, and secured to the Buffalo, which he accepted and occupied for about one United States a lease of the Peninsula and Bay of Samana year. At this time, 1835, the firm opened a branch house lious .States

for fifty years, but

cerning Santo vote of

its

it

being claimed that the treaties con-

Domingo had

not been confirmed by a popular

people. President Grant, in conformity with a re-

in Zanesville,

Ohio, and he was intrusted with

ment, the firm then consisting of Patterson Fillmore, .'nd John

B.

Graham, of

solution of Congress, appointed a commission to visit .Santo style of Fillmore, Pattersons

Domingo and 32

report

&

its

man.age-

Brothers, E. E.

New

Co.

upon the condition of the country, two years Mr. Graham purchased the

York, under the At the expiration of interest of Patterson

,

BIOGRAPHICAL ENX’YCLOP.EDIA.

250

was continued under the name of quished for the business of the lawyer. He was successful Three years later he became the owner, in the practice of his profession, and grew rapidly into the by purchase, of Ids partner’s interest, and sustained the busi- favor of a large and influential class of patrons, so that in a ness alone until 1863, when he associated with him his son, comparatively short time he was in the enjoyment of an exWilliam A. I'illmore, and his nephew, William A. Cassel, tended and lucrative practice. He continued his residence adopting the firm-name of E. E. Fillmore & Co., by which in Miami county, and was several times called upon to fulfil Brothers, and

&

P'illniore

the firm

Co.

the house has since been

For eight consecutive

known.

years he was a Director of public schools, and in 1859

To

elected County Commissioner.

was re-elected

in

He was

vacating the office finally in 1869.

been one of

the latter position he

1866 was again re-elected,

1863, and in

Rank

organizing the First National

instrumental in

of Zanesvdle,

down

In 1857, in connection with other co-

to the present time.

workers, he assisted in reorganizing, under the

name

of the

Ohio Iron Company, an iron works which had previously Of that company he was

been projected and established.

and ultimately he was selected

elected a Director,

Presidential chair, an office

stiil

held by him.

Its

the

many terms during which he held

formed

all its

duties in the ablest

to

fill

the

dollars,

has over a half million of dollars invested in

its

and

and throughout

and most

all

he per-

that office

satisfactory

man-

In 1854 he was elected Sheriff of the county, and held

ner.

the position until

In i860 he was elected Probate

1858.

During

to the position in 1S63.

the six years that he served in that capacity his official acts

were such

as to

Judicial honors

win the highest commendation of

were accompanied by

all parties.

and he rose

military,

He was

to the

rank of Colonel

in the

year 1838 to Maria Ludlow, of Cincinnati

in the State militia.

;

married five chil-

dren, four sons and one daughter, resulted from the union.

The company The daughter

started with a capital of seventy-five thousand

now

the duties of Justice of the Peace there,

and has Judge, and was re-elected

Directors from the date of organization

its

"'‘is

died in childhood, but the sons

Hon. Joseph E. Pearson being the

all

survive,

third.

works.

products find a market throughout the entire Western

country. He is also a stockholder in the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley Railroad, of which he was a Director from

1870

He

to 1873.

house on Main

ments of the

.street,

city,

He

in the State.

interests of his

AJOR, FR.VNCIS W.,

has recently completed a very large wareZanesville,

and

which

is

county, KenGeorge Major, was a native of Virginia, and removed with his father to Ken-

one of the orna-

as a mercantile building unsurpassed

in

years at the Frankfort bar.

He was

man

minister of Zanesville.

in his

are

him

now

By her he has had

five children,

living; of these, one son

as a business partner; another

house as a clerk; the third

is

is

is

asso-

employed

studied

1790,

origin,

Of

family

and of very ancient lineage, tracing

his

four

is

of Nor-

its

ancestry

Archbishop Major (pronounced Manger), of Rouen, the uncle of William the Conqueror. The Archto

bishop, on account of Papal despotisms, abdicated his sec,

and removed

of Guernsey, where he met with

to the island

and formed an attachment

a daughter.

The

children Francis was the only son.

back directly

ciated with

law, and practised for

tucky

many

of Rev. William Arthur, a prominent and able Presbyterian

whom

father,

town, and owns a very handsome country

married, August 30th, 1836, to Margaret Arthur, daughter

of

His

tucky.

intimately identified with the real-estate

is

residence, situated on the outskirts of the city.

thi'ee

Physician and Surgeon, was

born, April 2d, 1814, in ITanklin

who was

for a lady

renowned

by the name of Guilte,

and accomplishand without the sanction of the church they were married and raised a large family of children, some of whom

ments

|j^

E.VRSON, JOSEPH, Lawyer and ex-Judge

of Pro-

greatly

for her beauty

;

accompanied the Conqueror

to

England, where they

re-

Miami County, Ohio, was born, in 180S, mained. From one of the family sprang Sir Mathias Major, at Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. who obtained a grant of arms (see “ Patronymica BritanHis early education was obtained at the common nica ” ), and was lineal ancestor of Richard Major, Esq., of schools of his native place, and when he had ar- Hurdsley, Hampshire county, England, whose daughter, bate for

{'0

rived at the proper age he was apprenticed there to learn the trade of saddler.

When

he was nineteen years

old he removed to Ohio and settled at Troy, in Miami

county; there he worked industriously at his just-acquired trade, but

he was equally industrious aside from

chanical calling.

All his leisure lime

was occupied

his

me-

in

add-

ing to the limited education he had heretofore been able to secure.

After a while he began to read law in the hours

when he was

not working at his trade.

thorough and the bar.

The

he was admitted to making saddles was then relin-

effective that eventually

business of

His reading was so

Dorethy Margaret, married Richard, afterwards Lord Protector

Cromwell.

After

Richard Major migrated

the to

restoration

America and

town, Virginia, in the year 1660.

of Charles settled in

Francis, the

fifth

scent from the American founder of the family, and

name heads

this article, after

institution

Paris,

in

1834.

He

nerative practice until 1847,

same

State

;

in

de-

whose

and graduated from

soon afterwards located

Kentucky, where he enjoyed a very

ton, in the

.

completing his education en-

tered the Transylvania Medical College, that

11

York-

select

when he removed

in that city

in

and remuto

Coving-

he remained in the prac-

BIOGRAPHICAL encvclop.l;dia. In that year he removed

tice of his profession until 1861.

251

Mack &

immediately entered the house of

wards Mack, Stradler

&

In 1S64 he was banished from the State of Kentucky on account of his sympathy with the cause of the rebellion, al-

mained

salesman until 1870.

though he had committed no overt

greatest inconveniences

to

Lexington, and remained there for a period of three years.

He

ment.

against the govern-

act

then took up his residence at Hamilton, Ohio,

as a travelling

Co.

among Western merchants he soon their youths’

and boys’

— the

Brothers, after-

In this establishment he re-

In travelling

discovered one of their

necessity of going East

Then

clothing.

for

was only one

there

and speedily gained an extensive professional practice, and house in Cincinnati doing but a small business in that line At Hamilton he has continued to none in St. Louis, and, in fact, little of the trade was supa wide circle of friends. He occupies a high and enviable position plied anywhere in the West. This induced him to plan the reside ever since. establishment of a manufactory of youths’ and boys’ clothing is a man of cultivation and learning, and in his profession ;

;

eiijoys the confidence

and respect of the

Ann

In 1840 he married

died in 1847, leaving him two sons. his present wife, Ellen

community.

entire

F. Smi.h, of Paris,

Kentucky; she

In 1854 he married

C. Dudley, of Cincinnati, and the

of this marriage has been two children, a son and a

fruit

on a scale suited to the demands of the West.

in Cincinnati

During

salesman in 1865 he became acquainted with and married Sarah Wolff, of Mount Vernon, Ohio.

his

travels as a

'Ihe following year this

good lady

L. Katzenberger, of Cincinnati.

daughter.

approved by his

OLDSHITH, ALBERT,

Wholesale Clothing Mer-

chant, was born in the city of Hanover,

Germany.

In 1SG8

died.

he was again married to Carrie Katzenberger, daughter of

own

capital,

was formed.

His business plans were

who

joined him and the house of Katzenberger

his father-in-law,

Their capacity

at

&

once with

Goldsmith

supply the want long

to

felt

goods soon became known, and in a few trade sprang up far beyond their expectations,

in this line of

His father, Moses Goldsmith, was a successful months their Hanoverian merchant twenty years ago, after which induced them in 1871 to add to their firm Mr. L. putting his estate and business interests in the Loeb, a merchant of large experience and considerable hands of his children, he retired from active life. means. After the success of this house was seen to be as;

This

The

is

a practice largely in vogue in parts of Germany.

parent gives up his entire estate to his children, secur-

ing a sufficient amount against uncertain changes, on which a certain annuity port.

is

A similar

be paid by the children for his sup-

to

many

plan might in

The

in this country.

instances be followed

subject of this sketch

is

the youngest

of a family of six children, and until the age of fifteen most

of his time was spent in school.

was put

in

Leaving

he

his studies

a mercantile house to learn business.

For

this

business education and learning his father paid a regular fee,

which practice yet

and other

exists to a very great extent in that

Germany and Europe

parts of

At the

generally.

age of eighteen he entered a dry-goods jobbing house

Hanover

which position he occuBefore Prussia extended her authority

as a travelling salesman,

pied for six years.

over the kingdom of Hanover

man

in

starting in

any business

it

was customary

regularly authorized board. ried out in

and

for the

remarkable

Mr. Goldsmith now began

thrift

to

sider the propriety of emigrating to the United States.

make

cities, first

but this establishment has

house of the kind of any im-

portance west of the Alleghenies.

The manufacture

of

and boys’ clothing has become one of the large business interests of Cincinnati, and in it this house takes the youths’

They now give employment to five or hundred men, women and children, and extend their

position of pioneer. six

trade over the greater part of the Territories and Western

and .Southern

in

Mr. Goldsmith

States.

social associations,

is

a

the societies of the church of which he

ber.

Few men,

certainly fewer

member

of

many

and has held many prominent positions is

an active

hardly yet passed into the prime of

commencing

such a late date

at

mem-

life,

in

and this

country, can present such a career of business success, or position in business

and

social circles.

fitness before a

This wise regulation was car-

and doubtless largely accounts

opportunities to

position as

its

by travel and work, and

to his ability

and although a slow process, it proreliable and skilful race of business men,

American Germans.

and other Western

maintained

young occupy so enviable a

all pursuits,

duced a superior,

nati

to serve a regular apprentice-

ship, perfect himself in his trade

undergo an examination as

for a

sured, other establishments of the kind started up in Cincin-

of

IGELOW, LORIN, M.

D., was born in Vermont,

He

February 12th, 1792. tion.

His father was a

a larmer.

is

of English extrac-

])reacher, a

mechanic and

His early educational advantages were

con-

few, but at the age of eighteen he attended the

The

Chesterfield

great fortunes in the dominions of

King William are few and far between. The man of moderate means seldom, and the poor man never, rises there. Through the urgent demands of a brother who had jireceded him and his own ambition, he at length determined In 1864 he landed at Cincinnati, and to come to America.

Academy,

in

New

Hampshire, where

he became acquainted with the languages. for the profession of

Having

a love

medicine, he resolved to enter upon a

course of study. Having accomplished his purpose, he commenced to practise in Westmoreland county, Tennsylvania. Twelve years of his early life were passed in Pennsylvania, but he had formerly resided in Ohio. He returned to Ohio,

BIOGRAPHICAL EA’CVCLOP.EDIA.

252

and

on the same farm

settled

Palmyra, Portage county,

at

where he now resides with a son. 1814 to Amy H. Oldham, a native of

He was married in New Hampshire, and wdrom

six children blessed the union, only three of

sons

— survive.

and

is

now one

In politics he

and

’51

He

all

practised at Palmyra with great success,

of the most venerable of

he represented

its

retired citizens.

During the years 1849-50

a Democrat.

is

—

his

fellow'-citizens

the

in

State

Legislature, and assisted in the adoption of the revised State

He was

Constitution.

and

as a

part

in

member

quite prominent

in

local politics,

of the Legislature performed an important

the regulation of the school

law, an

which was the subject of much agitation

loaded with iron and ready

the freight for that

made much

river.

He

took

;

The

to

descend to Louisville.

to

have him continue on the boat, and offered him a

captain desired very

clerkship; so he continued on to the port aforesaid, and,

“keeping boat” a few weeks, was discharged. Thus his keel-boating; and now, in the year 1876, he con-

after

ended

himself to be the

fidently believes

strong, hardy, daring race of

merce of

the

Ohio

valley in

last

men who

survivor of that

carried on the com-

keel-boats, propelled

against

the current by long poles, with heavy iron sockets on the

He

lower end, and a round smoothed knob, turned from the

at the time.

root of the laurel, to

the

of 1818,

fall

Orleans

Ohio

descend the

hand arriving at Cincinnati port was discharged and preparations

instrument

was twice married.

OUDON, JAMES,

to

a situation on the boat as a

Farmer, Major-General of the

fit

the shoulder, on the top end.

and also

trips to

In

New

what were then designated broad horse-boats,

in

On

afterwards called fialboats.

work

he made

in 1819,

both these occasions he had

his

way home on

in

the printing of a newspaper at the

and Henry county, Kentucky, October 2ist, two savage nations of Indians. He made many other trips 1796, and was the oldest of three children whose to that southern centre in the same class of boats, and was parents were John Loudon and Dorcas (Master- always lucky enough to find a steamboat to return in. In son) Loudon. His father, a native of Washing- 1820 he associated himself with William Butt and David born

State

Militia

and ex-State Senator, was

foot through the wilderness

in

ton county, Pennsylvania, follow'ed through pursuits,

to

and was a

the battle of Fallen Timbers.

Kentucky, where he had

life

agricultural

under General Wayne,

participant,

He

settled

died in Henry county, in

grandfather w'as actively engaged

in

1794.

His paternal

in association

patriots during the Revolutionary struggle.

with the

His maternal

Ammen in

July of that year the Benefactor

sold his interest to one of his partners,

of General Washington, and was intimately identified with

tinued for

His mother was a native of

efforts.

made

its

appearance.

His

connection with the paper continued one year; he then

removed

and

village

This was the pioneer newspaper of Brown county.

grandfather, John Masterson, w'as one of the body-guards

colonial measures

little

of Levana, two miles below Ripley, on the Ohio river, and

to

Georgetown, where

many

its

Although

years.

been excessively limited

in

and the paper was

publication was con-

had

his early education

both degree and kind, his read-

Washington county, and one of a family whose male mem-

ing and .study and one year’s drilling with the composing-

bers w'ere prominent

stick at the type-case, together with

throughout the troublous period of

In 1806 he

uprising.

moved

with his mother to

Brown

vation, counterbalanced

to a

keen powers of obser-

considerable degree the lack

1822 he taught a country school,

county, Ohio, settling at a point distant about six miles east

of primary training.

from Georgetown, on the farm of Neil Washburn, whence,

with more satisfaction to his employers than to himself.

at the expiration of four years,

to Arnheini,

Brown

he and the family removed

county, where a farm was rented and a

residence maintained for a period of about two years.

His

the

fall

In

In

of this year his friends elected him to the office of

In 1824 he was re-elected to the 1826 he was elected Sheriff of Brown

Coroner of the county.

same

office.

In

County, and re-elected to the same position in 1828, thus whereupon the family serving his county as Coroner and Sheriff eight years. He moved to River Hill, on the Ohio river, a short distance was married, July nth, 1826, to Elizabeth Chaj-man, a below Ripley. Here he made his home during the ensuing native of Brown county, Ohio, a daughter of Henry Chapfourteen years, employed in laboring on the farm, and man, one of the early pioneers of the country, who came during the summer months of five or six of those years in from Kentucky in 1800. He was a native of Pennsylvania In 1831 he clerking in dry-goods stores, while river occupations con- and an active participant in the war of 1812. sumed his time through the winters. His first boating was was employed in a dry-goods store in Georgetown. In the

mother was then again married

to

Joshua Jordan, one of the

earlier pioneer settlers of the country,

on the Ohio, he made a next

fall

in the

old keel-boat line.

trip to the salt

he made a

trip

In the

fall

of 1813

works on the Kanawha river; the from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh, and

attempted to go to the head of navigation on the Allegheny river,

but after getting up about sixty miles found there was

not water enough to allow the boat to pass over the shoals; so the boat had to wait for a rise in the river, and the

went back

to

Pittsburgh.

Here he found

his

men

old boat

spring of 1832 he

about four miles

left

agriculture, taking a to the business.

finally

1835

hand himself

many of lower House

In 1S34

be a candidate for the

he

Georgetown and settled on his farm, and engaged in general

.south of this place,

consented to stand a

he was re-elected

to

the

in

any branch incident

him to Ohio Legislature;

his friends urged

of the

poll,

and was elected.

same

place.

In

This year

trouble arose between the authorities of the State of

Ohio

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253

and those of the Territory of Michigan, in regard to the A long and threatening cor-

General Grant, which event terminated the war.

northern boundary of Ohio.

retirement

respondence was kept up between Governor Lucas and the Governor Lucas Department of State at Washington.

tranquil

which

called an extra session of the Legislature of Ohio,

met

General Loudon

at this session

|une of that year;

in

took a very active part in support of the claim of Ohio, and He was greatly indorsed the course of her Governor.

from

last-mentioned

the

and secluded

home

life in his

Since his

he has led a Georgetown. He

office at

a firm believer in the Christian religion, but never at-

is

tached himself to any particular denomination.

From 1S24

i860 he was a “ hard-money Jackson Democrat.”

to

Since

the outbreak of the rebellion he favors the Republicans.

pleased to see in the course of a year Michigan Territory

changed and admitted into the Union agreeing of course to the boundary

as

one of the States, as

lines

WiVlEATMAN, HON. THOMAS

claimed by

This forever settled that vexed question, leaving Ohio in possession of the mouth of the Maumee bay and

I ;

L

was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July Sth, 1S05. was the only son of Griffin Yeatman and His father, one of the early Jane Yeatman.

He

the ground on which the beautiful city of Toledo stands.

In 1836 he was again elected to the lower

General Assembly.

At

this session

and probably did more than any one William Allen,

House

of the

he took an active

March

United States Senate.

pioneers

part,

else, in electing his

Ohio, was born

of

March

county, Virginia,

8th,

1770;

what

2d, 1837, having been previously elected by the Legislature,

June 27th, 1793, Queen City of the West,

he was formally commissioned Major-General, by Governor

of a few thousand inhabitants; he

friend,

Vance, and given

to the

command

of the

In 1S42 he was elected to

Militia.

8th fill

Division

Ohio

a vacancy in the

Banker and

H.,

Bresident of the Cincinnati Pioneer Association,

Ohio.

arrival,

initiated in Cincinnati,

in it

is

in

at

now

Westmoreland

the

time of his

justly entitled the

was scarcely more than a village was the first Free Mason

Ohio, and remained an active

ber of the Masonic organization until

mem-

the day of his de-

Ohio Senate, occasioned by the resignation of Senator cease, March 4th, 1849; he held various offices of trust in P'oose, of Clinton county. In 1843 he was re-elected to the city, and for twenty-seven years served as Recorder of the same position and served two terms, during 1843-44-45 Hamilton County. His son, Thomas H. Yeatman, received and ’45. In 1849 he was elected a delegate from Brown his education under the tuition of Rev. Joshua H. Wilson, county

man

Convention was made ChairCommittee of Finance and Taxation, and suc-

to the Constitutional

of the

cessfully carried through the

;

Twelfth Article, and

He

a part of the Constitution. every township in his

district,

it

became

addressed the people

and urged them

When

the adoption of the Constitution.

in

to vote for

his labors termi-

Edmund

Caleb Kemper and

Seminary;

at

dent Elijah Slack, his

Harrison, of the Lancasterian

the age of sixteen he graduated, under Presiat the

Cincinnati College.

He

then

left

home, and through the assistance of General William

Henry Harrison, afterward President of the United States, the appointment of Midshipman in the United

received

nated with that deliberative body he returned to his farm,

States navy.

intending never again to mingle in the arena of politics;

sea at once, he received orders to report to Captain R. T.

nor would he,

Spence, of

if

it

had not been

for the terrible rebellion

Subsequently, at his expressed desire to go to

New

York,

in

command

of the corvette “

Cyane,”

news a vessel captured with the “ Levant ” from the British by that Fort Sumter was fired upon, and that the wicked war the United States frigate “Constitution,” off the coast of had begun, he declared his ardent love for the “old star- Africa, in 1815. The “Cyane” was then on the point of spangled banner,” and, like his political godfather, “ Old sailing, and, wasting no time, he reported himself as Hickory,” swore “ By the Eternal, the Constitution must ordered, and within thirty days from the time of leaving that

came upon

the country.

From

be preserved.”

that time

denunciations of the rebel in

his

power

country.

to

On

spirit.

the arrival of the

he was outspoken

in

South or North, doing

Cincinnati

travelled alone over the mountains

all

horseback

the

encourage the patriotic sentiment of the

In 1863 the Republicans and Union

men

of his

Senatorial district held a convention to select a candidate for State Senator,

and

vote for that position.

—having — was on

his

West Indies and

on

high seas journeying toward the

the African coast, where the ship

was

eventually detained, in the suppression of the slave trade, for

more than a

year.

On

his return to the

United States

in his

absence gave him a unanimous

he was again ordered to the port of South Africa and

On

being notified of the action of

West

Indies, in

1822 or 1823,011 the frigate “ Constella-

and took early tion.” He then accompanied the United States Minister, steps for a vigorous canvass. Although he had to encounter the celebrated Joel R. Poinsett, of South Carolina, to Vera a Democratic majority of some 1500 votes, he was elected. Cruz, en route to Mexico, and w’as for two years in active He took his seat in January after the election, and for two service under Commodore David Porter, the hero of the years gave his best efforts to the cause of the country. He “ Essex,” at Valparaiso, who had charge of the “ Moscpiito was the sitting member of his district in the Ohio Senate fleet” in the West Indies; was shipwrecked on the United the convention, he accepted the nomination

when

the

news was received that General Lee, of the Con- States schooner “ Terrier,” off Wilmington, North Carolina. had surrendered himself and command to On his return to the United States, having served over five

federate army,

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

254

years in the navy and narrowdy escaping a watery grave, he

township. Perry county, Ohio, for the perioa of a year.

again took up his residence in Cincinnati, Ohio

the conclusion of this term of teaching he began to turn his

from the naval service and entered into business broker, on Third street, in

retired

;

as a

life

He was

1828 or thereabout.

the initial introducer into this street of the hanking busi-

whose

ness,

Wall

vast

street of the

He

West.

was

&

Voorhes

branches of

Many

him,

of the works erected by

In iSjl he purchased the

for the past

in

still

site

remained there

faithfully in his

removed been

profession.

many

one

In

Here,

in

Tennessee, he served

United

as

States

in

Assistant

home

Ohio, and

in

in

1868 was elected President of the

Cincinnati Pioneer Association.

In the

of 1869 he w-as

fall

elected State Senator from Hamilton county, Ohio. ginally a

member

of the old

Whig

Ori-

school, in politics, he

has of late years pursued an independent course, and on the

Independent

ticket

of 2500 votes.

was elected

He was

to the

Examining Surgeon

Whig

to the State capital.

He

at

has always taken an active

His early allegiance was given

to the

and ever since the breaking out of the war of the rebellion he has been a steadfast member of the Repub-

He

party.

lican trict

party,

was chosen Elector of the Twelfth Dis-

of Ohio in the year 1868,

when General Grant was

In 1847 he married Susan E. Shaeffer, daughter of F. A. Shaeffer, of Lancaster, Ohio.

elected to the Presidency.

The marriage has been blessed by twelve Lodge whom survive.

Senate by a majority

initiated in the Lafayette

fair to

Lancaster, and continued to hold that position until he re-

interest in politics.

After the close of the rebellion he returned to his

Columbus.

In the year 1862 he w'as

Pension

States

moved

Vicks-

to

of labor, he bids

field

Lancaster.

at

appointment of Government Purchasing Agent burg.

For

establish very soon a professional reputation equal to that

Treasury Agent for that place, and afterwards received the at

removed

later they

a more extended

appointed United

phis,

year 1854, he

in the

1870 he formed a professional partnership with Dr.

Kinsman, and four years

which he enjoyed

twm years

his residence of nearly

Then,

ing successfully, and securing a very extensive patronage.

Mem-

During

practice.

years the scene of his father’s work.

from Washington, District of Columbia, to North Bend, Ohio.

commenced

a period of eight years, laboring

Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, which had

to

for so

for

of his pres-

on the way

in Cincinnati, w'hen

He

twenty years he continued there, laboring hard and labor-

He was

forty-four years.

Perry county, Ohio, and there

erset,

it

of the marshals wdio received the remains of President

William Henry Harrison

to

versity of Maryland. Here he graduated in March, 1847, and immediately after his graduation he returned to Som-

ent residence, just below the city, which he improved and

has resided on

Then he went

Ohio.

Shield, and

use in the city and are a recognized source of wealth to

and the county.

Lancaster,

at

period con-

conjunction with other business men, are

in

Boerstler,

&

tributed in a highly important measure to the commercial

prosperity of Cincinnati.

Dr.

at a later

which eventually con-

industry

For a time he studied under the direction of

followed.

Baltimore and entered the medical department of the Uni-

it

Co., in the manufacture of steam engines, sugar-

etc.,

which he has since successfully

attention to the profession

the

nected with the firm of Yeatman, Wilson

mills,

made

extent, since acquired, has

At

children, nine of

of Free Masons, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1829 or thereabout,

He was

and has taken the council degrees. 1S27

to Elizabeth Hartzell, of Cincinnati,

to celebrate their golden

and

married

in

hojies to live

^‘ONELSON, REV.

wedding, which takes place Feb-

was

ruary 8th, 1S77.

born

April

in

17th, 1825,

graduated

PARK SHATTUCK,

P'ranklin

and

is

of Scotch origin.

the University of

at

M., Physician and

geon, was born on the Carroll

Carrollton,

1st

county,

Columbiana county, Ohio. John Wagenhals, came

in

His

at

was then

wdiat

father, the

to this country

Rev.

from Wit-

temberg when he was eighteen years of age, and soon afterwards began a long and honorable career as minister

of a Lutheran Church.

people,

much

ministrations.

connected w sylvania. literary

ith

On

still

among

lives

his

the mother’s side

Dr. Wagenhals

is

the family of Governor Snyder, of Penn-

In his early

education

at

life

the

he received a sound German institution

Capitol University of Columbus.

was

He

beloved, and assisting occasionally in pulpit

intrusted with

which

is

At the age of

the charge of a school

in

now

the

fifteen

he

Hopewell

Auburn,

New

York, became a minister of the Methodist Epis-

Sur-

of March, 1825,

He

Michigan, and,

after taking a theological course in

AGENHALS, PHILIP

D. D..

Massachusetts,

county,

His

copal Church. of Michitran.

order to assume

first

station w'as at Lansing, the capital

1856 he moved

In

the

to

Delaware, Ohio, in

Presidency of the Ohio Wesleyan

Female College, where he officiated with notable success a period embracing more than seventeen years, graduating in that time eighteen classes, numbering in all over for

three years,

hundred students. under

attendance

at

During the major portion of these

admirable and thorough management, the the college was larger than that of any similar

his

Through his labors in this field he won an enduring reputation as an excellent instructor, and to-day is widely known and recognized as one of the leadinstitution

in Ohio.

In 1873 he resigned the presiing educators in the State. dency of the college and accepted the position of pastor of

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA. St.

He

Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church, of Toledo, Ohio. is

now

Presiding Elder of the Toledo District, which

25s

cupies, and, in addition to the careful conduct of an extensive

and lucrative private practice, presides also over the

management of a private hospital for the treatment of distwenty-five charges and pastors, seven of which are located eases of women. He is a member of the American Medical His degree of D. D. he received from Indiana Association of the Ohio State Medical Society, of which in the city. Asbury University, and is noticeable as being the first hon- he was formerly President, and of the Cincinnati Academy He is also a corresponding member of the orary degree conferred upon any alumnus of Michigan of Medicine. University. He is favorably known as a facile writer, an Zanesville Academy of Medicine, and a corresponding and able divine and a ready speaker and preacher; and, while member of the Northwestern Medical Association his charges and sermons bear convincing evidence of close corresponding member of the Van Wert Medical Society. Their study, careful arrangement and conscientious research, he He was married in 1853 to .Sarah A. Chappelear. embraces a large part of northwestern Ohio, including

;

;

dispenses entirely with manuscripts while in the pulpit, pre-

more

ferring, as a

and touch

effective

means

his listeners, to deliver

He

discourse.

wa^

a

member

to gain the

them

end

in

view

late

Judge

daughter of Samuel she

is

He

Dexter,

Dexter,

Michigan, and

of Boston,

EID, REV. ALEXANDER M’CANDLESS,

the

Pn. D., Proprietor and Principal of the Steu-

grand-

P'emale Seminary, Ohio, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, April 20th, 1827.

benville

Massachusetts;

Hon. Nicholas Dexter, of Chicago, and possesses powers of mind scarcely inferior

to those of that

noted

the wdfe of Dr. G. S. Mitchell, of Cincinnati,

in the guise of a

also to

sister

Illinois,

is

of the General Conference

in 1868, and took a prominent part in its deliberations. was married in 1S51 to Katharine Dexter, daughter of

Dexter, of

only child

Ohio.

His

father,

Henry Reid,

as

also of

mother, Jane piety,

was so

(M’Candless) sorely

well

Reid, a

woman

Obstetrics

of

and

A., A. M., Clinical

M.

D., Professor

Midwifery

the

in

Medical College of Ohio, a distinguished physician of Cincinnati, Ohio,

was born

county, Virginia, April 28th, 1829.

in

Erederick

His

father,

Jacob A. Reamy, a native of Virginia, was of Erench extraction; his mother, Mary W. (Bonifield) Reamy, also a native of Virginia,

While

quite

was of Scotch-English

young he moved with his parents where his mother still

to

origin.

Ohio and and

of notable

with rheumatism that for

afflicted

twenty years she was unable to walk or

THADDEUS

f^jEAMY,

Beaver county,

and favorably known a Presbyterian elder of unimpeachable rectitude; his Pennsylvania, was

citizen.

to

move from her

He

was educated at Cannonsburg, in the Jefferson College, and at the Allegheny Theological Seminary.

chair.

Upon

relinquishing school

he engaged

life

in teaching at

Sewickley Academy, Pennsylvania, associated with Rev.

Joseph

S. Travelle,

and there remained

for several years.

In 1855 he went to Europe for the purpose of extending his

sphere

of

foreign travel. of

knowledge and

He was

married

finding in

Mercer county, Pennsylvania.

improvement

in

1855 to Sarah Lambert, In October, 1856, he

became associated with Rev. Dr. Charles C. Beatty in the where his father’s decease occurred, at the age of eighty- management of the Steubenville Female Seminary, an intwo years, in 1872. In the spring of 1854, at the com- stitution over which he has presided as proprietor and pletion of the usual course of studies, he graduated at principal for several years past. During the nineteen years settled near Zanesville,

Starling

resides

Medical College, in Columbus, Ohio.

Subse-

quently he received from the Ohio Wesleyan University the

hundred and

degree of Master of Arts.

of boarding pupils about ninety;

sor of Materia

pupils that have attended here

In 1857 he was elected ProfesMedica and Therapeutics in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, which position he occupied for two years. In 1861 he was elected a member

number of numbei whole number of

of his connection with the seminary the average pupils has been about one

is

the

fifty;

the

over four thousand.

He

received his degree of Doctor rf Philosophy (Ph. D.) from

Washington and

Jefferson College.

In 1875 he went as a

from Muskingum county, and delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Assembly at London, during the same year was appointed Surgeon of the I22d representing the Northern Presbyterian Church. After the Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In 1865 he was close of his labors with that body he made an extensive of the

State

Legislature

elected Professor of the Diseases of in Starling

him

Medical College.

until, after

his return

Women

and Children tour of the continent, visiting P' ranee, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, after having journeyed through England and While abroad, in 1855, he was the European corthe spring of Wales.

This position was held by

from Europe,

in

1870, he removed to Cincinnati, where he was immediately

respondent for two newspapers, and for

elected Professor of Obstetrics and Clinical Midwife

written

Hospital.

more or

less regularly for the

many

years has

general press.

Of

his

and Gynaecologist for the many brilliant sermons several have been published, and in These positions he now oc- a printed form elicited warm encomiums from many cpiar-

the Medical College of Ohio,

Good Samaritan

,

in

BIOGRAnilCAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

256 ti

The

rs.

following condensation of facts is gathered from “ Nineteen years ago Rev. A. M.

various reliable sources

Reid, Ph. D., and

number

:

who had been

wife,

teaching

for

a

became con-

of years in Sewickley, Pennsylvania,

nected with the institution (Steubenville P'emale Seminary),

and

number of

for a

To

hands.

in their

was not easy

years

its

management has been

active

take the place of Dr. and Mrs. Beatty

but Dr. and Mrs. Reid have demonstrated

;

and responsible situation by

their entire fitness for this high

marked success in government, struction, and in making the seminary a

and

discipline

the most

home

real

in-

for its

In the curriculum of study, in the method of

pupils.”

teaching and

acknowledged improvements they have

in all

m.aintained their position with unvarying energy, and kept the seminary in

its

original

which has been one of

religious influence, tures,

its

notable fea-

has been maintained without the slightest abatement.

“ Providence brought

Mont

Switzerland, on

spoke

and leading position; while the

together two

stranger

tourists,

in

Dr. Comingo, on his return,

Blanc.

Dr. Beatty of the pleasant meeting he had with

to

Mr. Reid, and

Mr. Reid, with his

this led to the relation.

and earnest devotion

standard of scholarship up to

to his

Death has made few

a serious case of sickness.

and

Pestilence

worthy also for

known

of

visits.

is

note-

women,

sensible, intelligent

character;

ready for emergencies; occupying

abreast of the limes; positions

as

mind and symmetry of

of

breatllh

The seminary

it.”

average of scholarship and character.

its

graduates are

Its

showing

have spared

fire

and

responsibility

usefulness

country, as wives, as mothers, as teachers.

over

all

the

Its religious in-

fluence has been wielded in a manner, and with results

and

direct

after revival

indirect,

from usual or common

far

has swept

it

with beneficent

effect

;

:

revival

ingathering

has recalled the careless and the unthink-

after ingathering

ing; twenty per cent, of the pupils have yearly been brought

within the sheltering portal of the church, while, in

been scrupulously freed from or ecstatic

tion

and

The

character.

nature of the pupil spirit

all

means used and blessed have ever

these awakenings, the

is

devices of an emotional

all

education of

the

spiritual

here inevitable, from the constitu-

The prominence

of the school.

given to

Bible instruction, the family prayers, the half hours for

work, has kept the

devotion, the weekly prayer meeting, the prayer meeting

demands of the

the

calamity

and rare aptness

fine literary taste, ripe scholarship, love of

for teaching

remarkable for the exemption from disease, death and it has enjoyed. Long years have passed without

is

age.

dawn

the

at

of the

new

motto

year, the

for

the year,

Gifted with the faculty of examining a case from different

the serious word, the gentle reminder, the frequent visits

standpoints; uniting gentleness with firmness, the family

of the pastor, the Sabbath services

type originally impressed upon the school has been pre-

to

served.”

estimable wife has in countless ways and

Ills

guises assisted importantly in the arduous yet pleasant

home and

of preserving and developing the

by her plans

and

for social

aesthetical

work

family feeling;

culture, in the

way

of frequent opportunities for social intercourse, the monthly

observance of family and school oc-

birthday fetes, the

speeches, the

anniversaries, post-prandial

casions, special

cultivation of plants

and flowers, and the love of nature,

fostered by frequent rambles in the lovely glens around

and on the health-giving

Steubenville across

the

river.

Together Dr. and

guides of the seminary, have,

acknowledged, ever kept stitution

:

to give solid

in

mind

now moulding

the

the high aim of the in-

culture, refined

Christian character to those under

of Virginia,

everywhere cheerfully

is

it

hills

Mrs. Reid, as

its

the third generation,

This .seminary,

is

remarkable on ac-

have been found

all

history

and

excellent prin-

Its

an ardent lover of pure, strong

cipal,

literature, poetiy,

essays, finds, perhaps, his greatest pleasure

in

teaching Latin, Greek, astronomy and literature, branches to

which he devotes

work.

and

his

his special attention in his class-room

personal

But, perhaps, his

influence

work accomplished by

best

is

most

lectures

his

to

felt

the

whole school on a great range of subjects of importance These are such subjects to all well-informed people. as the “ Current news of the world, culture, manners,

men and women a

powerful

of note,

influence

art,

in

and well-informed, and so society.

And

besides

manners and true subjects connected with

roof.

—

be means of grace greatly blessed.

the

fitting

them

these

culture

— have

girls

to

earnest

his

spiritual

exalted Christian character

These exert

science,” etc.

making

thoughtful

be forces

in

addresses

on

— the

need of an

a moulding power the

measure of which eternity alone can

reveal.

count of the widespread and plainly discernible influence

which

it

has so beneficially exercised throughout a long

array of years

— an

influence

which has controlled with ad-

mirable results not only individuals, but also institutions,

New

England,

homes and churches,

in

Southern and Western

.States, in

lands and in the the river, the

isles

of the sea.

canal-boat and

in

the

Middle,

the Territories, in foreign

In

the

its

earlier days,

when

lumbering stage-coach

^TANTON,

IION.

EDWIN

M., LL. D., Lawyer,

Attorney-General and Secretary of War, was born at Steubenville,

Ohio, in 1S14.

lie

was of Quaker

descent, his grandparents having been prominent

and widely respected residents of New England, and noted for their anti-slavery opinions. Ilis have advanced so wondrously, the Atlantic, the Pacific, the early education was acquired chiefly at Kenyon College, Gulf and the lakes meet here in their representatives. “ It which he left in 1832, when advanced in his junior year.

were the only means of afar;”

transit, “ its

while to-day, even when

daughters came from

facilities

for education

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BIOGRArillCAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA. lie then pureued a course of legal studies, and, upon

completion, became a resident of

member

parations for the active campaign of 1862 he pressed vigo-

its

of the Ohio bar, and later a

very

through

often

of the State

Union, and proffering needed and shrewd officials with whom he was brought

Throughout the

into contact.

self to the cause of the

selfishness

entire war he devoted himUnion with an earnestness and un-

only equalled by his masterly ability, untiring

energy, never-failing resource, undaunted courage and grand

Federal Government had the power, and that

should Grant secure a victory

it

was

When

confidence in the triumph of right. pressed to several

was well

exigencies

civil

counsel to the various

by Buchanan before the meeting of Congress, he advised him to incorporate into his message the doctrine that the It

was

night,

entire

sending important telegraph communication

;

to all parts of the

and decided measures; wdien consulted

duty to coerce seceding States.

the

occupied in attending to the military and

Buchanan he secured, by the able exercise of talents natural and acquired, a wide and honorable reputation as a scholarly, enterprising and energetic citizen and practitioner; in i860, under the above-mentioned administration, he was appointed Attorney-General of the United States. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he advised the Government to institute without delay prompt

and,

rously,

Prior to the administration of

Pennsylvania.

257

its

members

officer to negotiate

for the country

Lincoln ex-

of the Cabinet his intention, at

Richmond,

to

permit that

terms of peace with the Confederate

momentous period, he held the Attorney-Gene- Generals, he steadfastly opposed such a measure, declaring and fearless patriot was greatly needed bluntly that no one had the right to attend to such matters Government at that time. After taking the oath of but the President; from this resulted the order to Grant inhe said to a friend “ I have t.aken the oath to sup- structing him to hold no conferences with Lee except on

that, at this

ralship, for a true in the office,

:

my

port the Constitution of

country

;

that oath

intend to

I

Ably did he keep

questions of a purely military nature.

Subsequent

to the

his

surrender of Richmond, Lincoln was about to permit the

pledge amid the en ruing treasons and perils that environed

assembling of the rebel Legislature of Virginia by General Weitzel Stanton, however, apprehending peril, opposed it

keep both the

in letter

and

in spirit.”

Union; unveiling treacherous

with his stern rebukes earn.estly

he blasted them

;

Cabinet he constantly and

in the

;

officials,

earnestly,

advocated swift and decisive action, denouncing

propriations were

the unwise temporising spirit manifested by several high officers fearing to

commit themselves too openly; was General Seott;

closeted in council with

members of

the

Peace Congress;

with the Republicans

in

regarding Toucey, Secretary of the

Navy, was inspired by

who

E.

M.

endeavoring to subvert the Government.

for

loyal

purposes, and, on

daring

to

cause

When

conduct of Colonel Anderson

at I-’orts

tendered his resignation the great

Montgomery

Office until the

was E. M.

Blair,

Finally, the quarter

to

at

Lincoln, saying that

and he consented

to

disbandment of the army.

its ulti-

When

the

M'ashington he

President, however, induced

his determination,

Stanton that rose and with fierce loyalty abashearties, and probably on the same formed a part of the force under the command of GenAfter be had received the amount of eral Pope which drove the enemy out of New Madrid, extortionate terms. five

dollars

for

service

this

!

anticipated about that time, a large

sixty-five dollars,

he started

for

Toledo, and after his arrival

there eng.aged in the lumber forwarding business, assisted

by

P.

M. Dinger of

New

Vork, and others, and by means

of Philadel[)hia, Boston and Albany houses, established an extensive trade.

He

built at this city sever.al vessels,

being the schooner" Benson,” and sent her the

first

to sea;

vessel leaving the lakes, loaded with grain,

direct to Europe.

He

also built the schooner

one

she was

bound

“A. L. An-

and which, Island oners.

in April, crossed

Number Ten,

He

the Mississippi and captured

together with several thousand pris-

remained under General Pope

evacuation of Corinth by Beauregard.

until after the

In July, 1862, he

]ilaced in command of the Ohio Brigade, which soon became among the most famous in the Western army. This brigade was composed of the 27th (Fuller’s), 39th (Governor Noyes), 43d (General Wager Swayne), and the 63d (Gen-

was

BIOGRAPHICAL EXCYCLOICL DIA. At luka

Sprague).

eral

only to see

brigade came to the

this

close, but at the battle of Corinth

its

it

fight

played

Fuller was specially

so conspicuous a part, that Colonel

teaching school

295

the

in

same county, and

and Ross

in that

county found steady occupation as an educator, for a period of lour years.

In

the

year of his experience as a

final

commenced the reading of law, under the superMcDowell and Collins, of Hillsborough, and in

mentioned by Generals Hanley and Rosecrans, and he was

teacher, he

afterwards promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General, for

vision of

command

1845 attended a course of lectures at the law school of

fought Forrest at Parker’s Cross Roads, Tennessee, driving

On the 25th of December, 1845, he passed the required examination, and was admitted to the

In December, 1862, his

services at this battle.

across the Tennessee river, capturing seven pieces of

him

and three hundred and

artillery

In March,

sixty prisoners.

Cincinnati, Ohio.

He

bar.

then opened a law office in Hillsborough, and

1864, he crossed the Tennessee river with his forces by

entered upon the practice of his profession, ])rimarily, for

night and captured Decatur, Al.abama, at daylight, which

In the Atlanta campaign his

one year, as a member of the law firm with which he had begun his studies, afterward alone until March, 1873, '"’hen

Kenesaw

he took into partnership with him his present law partner,

place they strongly

fortified.

brigade was conspicuous at Resaca, Dallas and

Mountain.

Early

he was assigned

in July

Army Corps. command bore

and

for his services in this battle

an important

part,

he was subsequently made

He marched

M.ajor-General by brevet.

command

In the battle of

of the 4th Division, l6th Atlanta, on July 22d, his

at

to the

with Sherman to

the sea, then from Savannah, Georgia, to Raleigh, North

war

Carolina, where Johnston surrendered, and the

After being honorably discharged

from

the

closed.

service,

he

returned to Toledo, where he resumed the mercantile busi-

and

ness,

He

is

the

now one of the leading merchants of that city. senior member of the firm of Fuller, Childs & Co.,

is

one of the largest boot and shoe houses

He

Customs

also Collector of

is

in the

for the Port

Northwest.

and

District

of Toledo, having been aitpointed to that position by Presi-

dent Grant.

In politics he

was married

in

1853 to

is

a staunch Republican.

Anna

B. Rathbun, of Utica,

He New

Henry M. Huggins,

promising young lawyer of Hills-

a

borough, under the firm-name of Matthews Since his entry into professional

life

&

Huggins.

he has resided ])erma-

nently in Hillsborough, and there conducts the affairs of

a very extensive clientage,

Mayor

two years he

h'or

of the town, and served

To

Judge, his election dating from 1854. he was re-elected

He

years. fied

in

officiated

as

years as Probate

three

the latter office

i860, for a further period of three

has always been more or

less intimately identi-

with the educational ami public interests of his native

county, and

is,

and has been, uniformly a valuable and

zealous co-laborer in

all

measures and enterprises designed

with a view toward develojiing fruitfully the more impor-

and county. His political views and sentiments harmonize with the formula of the Demotant resources of his .State

cratic parly,

and he

cast his

first

Presidential vote in favor

Van Buren, in 1S40. P'or fifteen years he has Deacon in the Presbyterian Church, and in it is

of Martin

York.

been a

warmly esteemed

ATTHE\Y.S, HON. ex-Mayor,

‘’"414’

ALBERT

G.,

Lawyer, ex,

Hillsborough,

of

Highland

i

for his

moral and upright course of

life.

January Slh, 1846, he was married to Margaret J. McDowell, daughter of his old preceptor, Joseph J. McDowell.

county, Ohio, was born near the aforesaid town,

March

31st, 1819.

He

was the sixth child in a whose parents were

family of twelve children,

His life

)jOHNSTON,

John Matthews and Mary (Hussey) Matthews. North Carolina, followed through

Mayor

father, a native of

mainly agricultural pursuits;

June, 1805, he

in

moved

August

His name

17th, 1848.

the annals of the early growth and

Highland county; he was

for fourteen

also Justice of the

prominent

number of

years

Peace and County Commissioner.

His mother, a native of Tennessee, a daughter of Chris, Hussey, one of the adventurous pioneers of Greene county, Ohio, died April 22d, 1866. his days

Until he had attained his majority,

were passed alternately

in

laboring on his father’s

farm during the summer season, and through the winter months. literary

study

county, Ohio.

at

He

Hillsborough

in attending school

also passed

Academy,

one term in

in

Highland

In December, 1840, his store of scholarly

attainments having assumed

fair

and

in

years one of the

Associate Judges of that county; and for a

was

is

cestry originally

dimensions, he engaged in

C.,

Merchant and

eleventh

came from

His an-

the north of Ireland,

settled in Cincinnati at an early date; in fact,

they were

development of

initial

W.

of Ohio, was born in that city, in 1829.

to

Ohio, settling in Highland county, where he resided until his demise,

G.

of Cincinnati, under the present constitution

among

its

pioneers.

After having en-

joyed the advantages afforded by the public schools of the day, he learned the trade of a house and sign painter, and

own account, conwhen he became en-

then embarked in the business on his tinuing to follow his trade until 1850,

gaged

in

mercantile pursuits.

In

1856 he changed the

character of his business into a dealer of fire-wood, and

subsequently added coal, and this avocation he has ever since followed, uninterrupted by official

duties.

He

has

always been attached to the principles of the Democratic party.

At an early period he served

it

as a

member

of the

Executive Committee, of which body he was several times

Chairman.

In

1859 he was elected a

member

of the City

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOP.EDIA.

206 Council from what

is

he was chosen

l86i

now known as tlie Eiglith Ward. In time. In 1833 he purchased the Ohio Eagle, at Lancaster, member of the .School Board, and which he edited for five years, spending his winters at the While

served for four years.

in the

Board he was nomi-

nated as the Democratic candidate for City Auditor, but failed to

be elected, the entire ticket being defeated.

he was elected, by a City Council which was

1871

member

to him, a

cally

opposed

The

following

of the Board of Health.

he was chosen

year

to

the

responsible

position, by a vote of the people, of trustee of the

works

for the

term of three years

in April, 1873, w.is selected

Mayor of

for

and while

;

Water-

in that office,

Democratic candidate

as the

He was

Cincinnati.

In

politi-

returned by a majority

of upwards of sixteen hundred over an able and popular competitor,

had

previously been m.ayor.

No Democrat

that office for the period of ten years.

filled

In 1872

was the chairman of the Hamilton county delegation

lie

to

who had

Democratic State Convention-

the

and the Presidential

electors.

Cleveland, which

Presidential Conven-

selected the delegates to the National tion

at

In 1875, his term as

mayor expiring, he was unanimously nominated by Democracy for re election. This was the first time

the in

twenty years that the party had nominated a candidate for re-election.

It

was

r.atified

by the unusually large majority

State capital,

where he was Clerk of the upper House of It was here that he began to exhibit the

the Legislature.

ability that distinguisheil him in after life. He was a member of the lower House in 1838-39, being elected to represent the counties of Fairfield and Hocking, and was an outspoken and vigorous legislator, e.specially upon financial questions. He was afterwards elected State

financial

Auditor, in recognition of his services, although he was

He

held the

office for six years,

term thoroughly reorganized

and the

at the

office

of his party.

beginning of his in

business

its

and introduced many excellent reforms of an en-

details,

He made

during character. acts,

official

and

his annual

an enviable reputation by his

keen scent

in detecting corruption,

dodging tax-payers.

In this

sented claims against

among

reports are

valuable historical papers of the State. a

men

opposed by some of the leading

bitterly

the most

Especially had he

and

in

hunting after

way he discovered and

pre-

300,000 acres of canal lands, the

owners of which had successfully eluded the tax-collector

He

for years. in

way

earnestly set about to reform the loose

which the public money was handled, and

to introduce

a

would hold the State officers to strict accountability in receipts and expenditures. Opposition ceived. Wdiile he has been thus active in political life, he met him at every point, but it became weaker and weaker, has been a very industrious business man, taking much in- until his efforts met with success. As one result of this terest in everything of a commercial character that is de- reform, 1,020,000 acres of land were added to the taxable list. The .State was finally freed from pecuniary embarrasssigned to forward the interests of Cincinnati. of 6397 votes over a most worthy competitor, this majority being nearly fourfold as great as he had previously re-

financial system that

ment and her

credit restored,

to the sterling integrity

ROUGH, JOHN, was born

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