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preme court, under special act of the legislature, allowin g him to apply for admittance, and to practice, before naturalization, and practiced law in Massillon until 1853. Ile, then came to Columbus, and for two years practised, in partnership with Thomas Sparrow, and afterwards with udge R. B. Warden.

In 1855 he was married to Louisa. M. Silbernagel, the daughter of Jacob Silbernagel, an old and influential German citizen of Columbus.

In 1861 he was elected a representative in the general assembly from the county of Franklin, on the Democratic ticket, and took a prominent part in that body, and was re-elected in 1863. On the fourteenth of December, 1864, he resigned his seat that he might more fully devote himself to the practice of his profession.

Columbus contains a large German population, and as a member of the board of education, Mr. Dressel has exercised a thoughtful supervision over the schools. Being a fine scholar, Mr. Dressel possesses a natural and highly cultivated taste for music, and for some years has occupied the position of musical director of the Maennerchor of Columbus. Mr. Dressel is one of the most popular and successful German stump orators in the west, and his services are in great demand by his party during political campaigns. He is. a man universally held in high respect by his fellow citizens, and a good lawyer.

SAMUEL GALLOWAY was born March 20, 1811, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His parents were John and Margaret (Smith) Galloway.. His ancestors on the maternal side emigrated to the United Colonies early in the eighteenth century, and were then recognized as connected with that portion of the people usually called Scotch-Irish. They belonged to a good old Presbyterian stock. He lived in his native town until near his majority, obtaining his education in the schools there, and on the death of his father, who was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church, he removed to the State of Ohio, to make his home among relatives in Highland county. From his home he entered Miami university, Oxford, and graduated with distinguished honor, in the class of 1833, and immediately entered upon the study of the .law at Hillsboro. He did not at once complete his legal studies, hut accepted, for a term, the chair of Greek in his Alma Haler, Miami university, and went from there to South Hanover, Indiana,. to enter upon the congenial pursuits of literature and language. His success in teaching these departments is attested by his colleagues. He soon renewed and completed his preparation for the bar, during which time he became zealously identified with the Washingtonian temperance movement, of which he was a most eloquent advocate.

He was admitted to the bar, and, in 1843, .began the practice of the law with Nathaniel Massie, of Chillicothe, and was distinguished as an eloquent advocate before a jury. During the same year he was chosen, by tile State legislature, secretary of State, and, removing to Columbus, he entered upon the duties of his office, with e added responsibility of commissioner of common schools.

In his first report he began arranging the chaotic materials found in the crude, imperfect, and very partial reports of the county auditors and school boards, and, in conjunction with Prof. Calvin E. Stone and Horace Mann by personal exhortation and stirring addresses, successfully put in operation the system of popular education in the State, of which the people of Ohio are so justly proud.

When the slavery question loomed up, in 1832 and 1840, he promptly ranged himself in the anti-slavery ranks, though never identified with the "Liberty party," and with patriotic veneration he did not sunder the tie that bound him to the Whig party. From the outset of his political career he began to make his mark. As the eloquent speaker, he is most vividly recalled by those who knew him. No description can convey a just idea of his manner and style. No man could sway more successfully the feelings of a crowd.

In 1854-5 he represented the Columbus district in congress, and in two other congressional contests, his personal popularity was demonstrated by a large vote, irrespective of party ties. In congress, he added renown to his name, as the advocate of freedom in Kansas, and his speech on the Kansas bill was a theme for eulogy in this country, and in foreign periodicals, such as Blackwood, and the North British Review. He took a prominent part in the Ohio movement, originating in Columbus, which nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at the Chicago convention, over both Chase and Seward, and in the correspondence with Lincoln after Judge Swan's defeat for renomination, in 1859, by the ultra wing of the Republican party. During the war, Mr. Galloway received a commission as judge advocate for the examination of military and naval prisoners at Camp Chase, and in that service he continued until the close of the war, the duties of which office he performed faithfully, "with malice towards none, and charity to all." He filled the position of trustee in several of the benevolent institutions of the State, and at the time of his death, was trustee of the deaf and dumb asylum. Mr. Gal-. loway, as a lawyer, had great power with the jury, especially in cases where his wit and inimitable humor was brought into play, and his fame as an orator will never die. That his great services were not more fully recognized by those he raised to the highest seat of power, is another illustration of the ingratitude of party leaders.

He died in 1872, at Columbus, in the fifty-first year his age. He was a prominent member of the old school Presbyterian church, and often a representative in its ecclesiastical bodies.

JAMES A. WILCOX was born in Columbus, on September 23, 1828. He is the only son of the late P. B. Wilcox, hereinbefore mentioned. In 1841 he attended school at Milnor Hall, Gambier, and completed his education at Yale college, in the class of 1850. Upon returning from college he read law under his father, and was admitted to the bar at Delaware, in 1851, and at once entered upon the practice of law with his father, at Columbus, and, in due time, established a good business. He was city solicitor of Columbus from 1854 to 1859, and, at the request of the city council, compiled, for

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publication, the city charter and ordinances, which had never been collated, but lay scattered through the various journals of council.

In September, 1872, while in full practice, he was appointed, by Governor Tod, colonel of the hundred and thirteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, then organizing at Camp Chase, near Columbus. Having, as a matter of recreation, given some attention to military tactics in previous years, he was soon able to bring his regiment into a fine state of discipline during the time it was stationed at Camp Chase, Camp Zanesville, and Camp Dennison.

On December 27, 1862, he was ordered from Camp Dennison to Louisville, Kentucky, where danger was anticipated from a raid by Morgan. In January, 1863, he moved his regiment from Louisville to Muldraugh's Hills, a wild region thirty miles south of Louisville, on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, where he remained about a month, guarding the reconstruction of the railroad trestles there, which had just been destroyed by Morgan. Then he was ordered back to Louisville, and from there to Nashville, Tennessee, by river, forming a part of a reinforcement of about twenty thousand men sent "to the front" under General Crook, and from Nashville to Franklin, Tennessee.

Soon after his arrival, he was prostrated with camp fever, and lay for about two months in hospital at Nashville. Being entirely incapacitated to endure the exposure and hardships of a soldier's life in the field, and his father, having suddenly died in the meantime, he resigned, in April, 1863, and returned home.

Finding the practice of law dull in those war times, he accepted the office of United States provost marshal for the seventh (Columbus) district, where he served until September 3, r864, when, without any solicitation on his part, and upon the urgent recommendation of Governor Brough, who was much dissatisfied with the conduct of that branch of the service, he was promoted by the secretary of war to the office of United States assistant provost-marshal-general of the State, which also embraced the duties of superintendent of recruiting and chief mustering and disbursing officer; and, afterward, when General Cox took his seat as governor, he was also assigned, in his place, to the command of the military district of Ohio.

In these several capacities he had charge over all the camps and troops in the State, as well as of the draft, arrest of deserters, recruiting and equipping new regiments and forwarding them to the field ; and, upon the close of the war, of receiving, paying, mustering out and sending to their homes all the Ohio troops—duties which were difficult and arduous, and, at times, when political excitement ran high, not without peril to those who enforced military law.

He pursued a steady and firm course through all the difficulties of the situation, guided by his knowledge of law, as well as military affairs, and integrity of purpose, so that even the most " disaffected " had no just cause to complain of his administration, or of the extraordinary power in his hands.

At the close of the war, on October 19, 1865, he was mustered out of the service, having been brevetted brigadier general by the department, " for meritorious ser vices in the recruitment of the armies of the United States," forwarded to him with the complimentary notification that his office had ranked second in the United States for promptness, fidelity, and efficiency in its management.

He immediately resumed the practice of law in Columbus, which he pursued with fair success, gradually building up a good business, and was appointed United States commissioner for the southern district of Ohio, in 1869. In August, 1872, he accepted the position of general attorney of the Columbus & Hocking Valley and Columbus & Toledo railroad companies, tendered him by their president, M. M. Greene, gave up his practice, and has since devoted his time to the duties of that office.

In 1874, he compiled the "Railroad Laws of Ohio," with annotations of the decisions of courts, which was published by Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati; and has proved a valuable assistance to lawyers and others engaged in railroad business.

In 1853 he married Lucy, daughter of Joseph Sulli want, of Columbus, and has four children—a daughter, Mary, tarried to A. H. Morehead, son of the late Governor Morehead, of Kentucky, and three boys—James B., Starling S., and Sherlock A.

He is a member and vestryman o f Trinity Episcopal church, in the room of his father before him.

HERMAN B. ALBERY was born in Wayne county, Ohio: January 23, 1826. Has parents were Peter Albery and Esther (Braun) Albery, and he came with them to Je Person township, Franklin county, Ohio, in 1828. was brought up on a farm, and, from the time he w able to do anything, engaged in all the work incident to farm life and labor. He was educated chiefly in commo schools, supplemented by some academical or select school advantages, and private instructions under the tuition of a fine scholar and teacher, Uz Freeman. Mr. Albery taught the common school in his home district, in Jefferson township, in the winter of 1844-5; also taught district school in the winter of 1848-9, in Jefferson township, Franklin county, and in the winter of 1852-3 in Jersey, Licking county. He went to the State of Kentucky in the spring of 1846, and during the year 1846, and part of 1847, had charge of a school in Bourbon county, Kentucky, called "Cane Ridge Seminary." He resigned his position in that school and returned to Ohio in 1847. He went to California in March, 1850, and returned in 1852, with the benefit of a good deal of roug experience in his quest of the golden fleece, and but lit tle else, except improved health. Mr. Albery had read a very little law previous to his trip to California. His first regular study of the law, with the expectation of becoming, at sometime, qualified to practice, was in 1852. Then Judge Joseph R. Swan and Hon. John W. Andrews, at the time partners in the practice, kindly loaned him, some elementary books, and he has ever since gratefully regarded them as his first preceptors in the law. But in June, 1853, he was appointed clerk of the probate court

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of Franklin county, Ohio, by Hon, William R. Rankin, then judge of that court, and from that time until his admission to the bar, he prosecuted his legal studies under Judge Rankin and Fitch James Mathews, afterwards judge of the Franklin county superior court. Mr. Albery was greatly assisted in his studies by the use of books, which he was unable to buy, from the library of Messrs. Swayne & Baber. He was admitted to the bar at Columbus in the fall of 1855, and, except during .the time he was on the bench, has practiced in Franklin and adjoining, counties. He held the position of clerk of the probate court of Franklin county under Judges Rankin and Jamison nearly three years. He was appointed a member of the board of school examiners of Franklin county in 1855, and resigned after holding the office for a little more than a year. He was elected judge of the probate court of Franklin county in October, 1857, and re-elected in October, 1860, serving two terms.

On retiring from the office of probate judge, in February, 1864, he engaged in, and has ever since devoted himself to the practice. He was appointed director of the in Ohio penitentiary by Governor (now President) Hayes, 1876, and held the position two years. He is one of the trustees of Green Lawn cemetery. He was married to Julia Frances Smith, October 14, 1847; she died April 14, 1865. He married his present wife, Clara Smith, July 2 9, 1867. He had two children by his first wife—Faxon F. 1). Albery, a lawyer, and William H. Albery, assistant cashier of the Commercial bank. He has no children by his present wife.

Judge Albery enjoys a large practice, especially in the settlement of estates and chancery business, and possesses the universal respect of the community.

JOHN M. PUGH, son of David Pugh and Jane (Murphy) Pugh, was born November 7, 1823. His parents were among the pioneers of the country. His father emigrated from Radnorshire, Wales, in 1801, and in 1802 first settled in what was then Ross county, now Delaware county, which was then a wilderness, and had the township named Radnor, after Radnorshire, Wales, and in 1814 moved in what is now Truro township, Franklin county, Ohio, eight miles east of the city of Columbus, on what is now Broad street, and was largely engaged in farming. He died in 1857, in the eighty-ninth year of his age.

Judge Pugh received an elementary education, in the common schools, taught a year, and in 1848 commenced the study of the law, in the office of Samuel Brush, in Columbus, and was admitted to the bar in 1851, and the same year was elected clerk, for Montgomery township. In 1853 he was elected auditor of Franklin, and reelected in 1855. Upon the expiration of his term, as auditor, he entered into the active practice of his profession, in the city of Columbus.

In 1863 he was elected to the office of probate judge, and has since been re-elected four times, filling the position, which requires large business qualifications, in a great railroad centre like Columbus, fifteen years in succession. On the expirati0n of his last term, he opened a law office in Columbus, in partnership with his son, John C. L. Pugh, a graduate of Princeton College, and the firm is largely employed in business connected with the settlement of estates. Judge Pugh has been prominently identified in many of the most important public improvements in central Ohio, and always takes an active interest in every thing that will tend to the development of the interests of Franklin county.

For ten years he was the treasurer of the Franklin County Agricultural society, from 1861, and was made its president, subsequently. In 1874, he was elected a member of the State board of agriculture, and in that position has done much to improve the State fair at Columbus. In 1875, he was appointed, by Governor Allen, one of the trustees of the State reform farm, near Lancaster, reappointed by Governor R. B. Hayes, and, again, by Governor Bishop. Judge Pugh ranks as one of our most public-spirited citizens, with an indomitable perseverance, that promises success in whatever he undertakes. He was married, December 25, 1851, to Martha F. Cook, of Delaware, Ohio, who has had by him eight children, seven of whom are living—four sons and three daughters.

JAMES L. BATES was born near Canandaigua, New York, June 4, 1815. His father was Stephen Bates, and his mother Naomi Bates; the former from Granville, Massachusetts, and the latter from Guilford, Connecticut, both descendants from old revolutionary stock. His grandfather settled in New York, in 1790, where he was born.

He was educated at the Canandaigua academy, and Geneva college, New York; read law with John C. Spencer two years; came to Columbus in October, 1835, and read a year with Orris Parish and N. H. Swayne, and was admitted to the bar in the winter of 1837; commenced practice, and formed a partnership with N. H. Swayne, in the spring of 1847, which continued until he was elected, in 1851, on the adoption of the present constitution, judge of the common pleas, for the third subdivision of the fifth judicial district, composed of the counties of Pickaway, Franklin and Madison, and was re-elected in 1856, and 1861, the last time without opposition—a handsome compliment in a district politically against him, serving thus fifteen years continuously. Judge Bates made a safe and excellent judge, was a sturdy worker, and alone did the business of the three counties, satisfactorily, without allowing the docket to accumulate, with undisposed business. The population of the district has increased about thirty per cent. since he left the bench, and the judicial force tripled, but the docket is not kept down, as it used to be, under the old-fashioned system, of compelling every case to be tried, continued or dismissed.

Judge Bates held the office of director, of the Ohio penitentiary, from 1866 to 1874, and was a member of the board of education, of the city of Columbus, from 1844, six years, consecutively, being secretary of the board, the first four years. He was active in advancing the city school system, of Columbus, to a high state of perfection.

On October 18, 1837, he was united in marriage to Miss Maria Kelley, eldest daughter of Hon. Alfred

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Kelley, one of theablest and most prominent men in Ohio.

Since Judge Bates has retired from the bench, he has principally been employed in the management and set' tlement of large estates involving the interests of minors and widows, without engaging in general practice. His straightforward honesty and known integrity especially qualify him for trusts of this kind, and the community where he has lived over forty years, fully appreciate the fact.

LORENZO ENGLISH, son of John English and Laura (Sweet) English, was born in Herkimer county, New York, May 22, 1819, on a farm, and lived thereon until the spring of 1837, when he removed, with his father's family, to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, traveling, all the way in a wagon, the bad roads of that day. He worked, then, for two years, at ordinary labor, such as driving a team between Mt. Vernon and Newark, hauling produce to the canal, and returning with goods.

Having had the advantage of a good common school education in New York, he determined to pursue a college course, went to Oberlin in the spring of 1839, worked for .his board at the college farm, and taught school in the winters of 1839-40 and 1840-41,• and graduated in. August, 1843.

He came to Columbus in September, 1843, studied law in the office of Edwards Pierrepoint, afterwards attorney general of the United States, and was admitted to . the bar in September, 1845, by the supreme court, at Mt. Vernon, Knox county, 'and entered. at once upon the practice of the law, at Columbus. He formed a partnership with B. F. Martin, in 1847. In 1850, he was elected . mayor of Columbus, and held the office, by successive re-elections, until the sping of 1861, once as an independent candidate, beating the regular nominees of both the Whig and Democratic, parties—a decided proof of his popularity with the mass of the people. Mr. English, after retiring from the office of mayor, occupied the same office with Judge J. William Baldwin, though they were never partners. His practice has continually been on the increase, as he enjoys the confidence, especially, oLthe business men of the community, as a wise and safe legal adviser, in whose hands his client's interest will never suffer from neglect.

Mr. English is an industrious lawyer, preparing his cases carefully, and presents them forcibly, to the court and jury ; is popular with his brethren of the bar, and is employed, on one side or the other, in most of the important cases in the Franklin common pleas court.

In the spring of 1869 he was elected to the city council from the fourth ward, (which is politically opposed to him), and county treasurer in October, 1870, by eight hundred majority, where there is over one thousand, eight hundred majority for the opposite party politically. In the congressional election of 1878 he carried, as an Independent .candidate, the city of Columbus by forty-two . majority, though the Democratic State ticket had eight hundred and sixty-six majority at the same polls.

Mr. English was married first, in: September, 1852, to Cynthia A. Cole, who died in 1855, and a. second in April, 1859, to Mary Keen. One child by the fi., wife and five by the second are still living.

The chief cause of his success in life 'lies in the fan that he has been the architect of his own fortune, ani that he is always true to his friends, and his con ficheen cannot be shaken in those he knows, by the tongues, evil disposed mischief makers.

STACY TAYLOR, son of Stacy and Ruth Taylor was born, August 6,. 1806, in Loudon county, Virginia, and was educated at Locust Thicket Academy, near Hillsborough a Quaker school. He was married in May, 1820, to Mary Hollingsworth ; he taught school, and moved to Clarksville, Clinton county, Ohio, where he took charge. of a graded school, in December, 1826. He remained there two years, and moved to St. Marys, Knox county, in 1828 ; he commenced the study of law with Judge Brown, of Dayton, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court in circuit, in 182–, Judges Hitchcock and Jones on the bench. He was elected circuit judge by the legislature, in 1830; resigned in 1835, and was elected to the house of, representatives in the general assembly—the sole member from the counties of Darke, Shelby, Mercer, Allen, Van Wert, Putnam, Williams and Lucas, on the Whig ticket, and re-elected in 1837. He was the first mayor of St. Marys, and practiced law there. In 1846, he removed to Columbus, and has practiced law there ever since. Mr. Taylor is a veteran practitioner before justices' courts, where he especially delighted in pricking up the young fledglings of the bar, making their debut before his favorite .court, in which his opinions were wont to carry the weight of law. He is one of the few old pioneers left, and is still in a good state of preservation, in his seventy-third year.

WILLIAM DENNISON was born in Cincinnati, December 23,1815. His father was a native of New Jersey ; emigrated to Ohio, and became a prominent business ma in the Miami valley ; his mother was of New England descent. He graduated from Miami University with distinction, in 1835, and became a student in the office of Nathaniel G., father of George H. Pendleton; he was admitted to the bar in 1840, and soon thereafter married Anne Eliza Neil, daughter of William Neil, of Columbus, and commenced the practice of law in that city, which he diligently pursued until 1848, when he was elected to the senate, on the Whig ticket, from the district. composed of the counties of Franklin and Delaware. He was nominated. for president of that body by his party, and came .Very near being elected, and during his service in the general assembly took a very prominent and influential part in all its proceedings.

In the spring of 1850 he resumed his law practice, and in 1852 accepted the presidency of the Exchange bank, of Columbus; was chosen president of the Columbus Xenia railroad, and from that time forth became actively engaged as a director in all the railway lines centering in Coltimbus. His prominence in the politics of the State and his popularity with his party increased constantly. In 1859, after a warm contest with his distinguished opponent, Judge Rufus P. Ranney, in which he held a series of joint debates, the result of which wonderfully

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surprised even his political friends ; he was elected governor of Ohio by over fifteen thousand majority, succeeding Salmon P. Chase in 1860.

During the war of the rebellion he gave his most vigorous support to the cause of the Union, and by promptly filling the call for troops did much to make Ohio's reputation in the war, and saved West Virginia from the control of the Confederate government, by sending thither Ohio volunteers.

He was president of the convention which renominated Abraham Lincoln and made Andrew Johnson vice-president, mainly by the unanimous support of the Ohio delegation.

On Montgomery Blair retiring from the. cabinet as postmaster-general, Governor Dennison was. appointed his successor. President Johnson retained him in that position, but differing with the president on his southern policy, he resigned, and returned to his home in Columbus, and passed several years in private life.

In 1875 he was appointed, by President Grant, a member of the commission to examine into the financial affairs of the District of Columbia, and in this occupation aided in bringing something like order out of chaos.

Governor Dennison is a man of courtly manners and dignified presence, and popular with all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. He is now living at his home in Columbus, and possesses the universal esteem of his fellow citizens.

JOSEPH H. GEIGER was born November 11, 1818, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; was educated at the academy of Alfred Brooks, in Harrisburg, and graduated in September, 1836; went to Philadelphia and read law with John M. Read, then United States district attorney, and afterwards chief justice of Pennsylvania. He came to Circleville, Ohio, July 1, 1836, and read law with

Judge John L. Green eighteen months, and was admitted to the bar at Cincinnati in 184o, and elected prosecuting attorney of Pickaway county in October, 1840, and served one term. In 1850 he was elected senator from Ross and Pickaway, on the Whig ticket. He came to Columbus in March, 1852, to practice law; formed a partnership with Elijah Backus, esq., and has lived here since. He was appointed clerk of the United States circuit court in June, 1862, and held the office twenty. months.

General Geiger is one of the most effective speakers at the bar, and possesses great powers of wit and ridicule. He is a formidable opponent before a jury, and a favorite speaker with the people,, before whom he is often invited to lecture on temperance and other topics. It is sufficient to draw a large crowd anywhere to let it be known that "Joe," as he is familiarly called, is going to speak. He has been married three times.

LLEWELLYN BABER was born at Ronton, a country seat in Jefferson county, Virginia, near Summit Point, on August 3, 1823, being the only son of Rev. James Baber, an old school Presbyterian minister, and of Maria Jordan Llewellyn, a woman of sincere piety and great intelligence. His maternal ancestor, John Llewellyn, came to America with Lord Baltimore in 1634, and the family settled in St. Mary's county, Maryland, at the organization of. the colony, where they held large grants of land. Richard Llewellyn, his grandfather, removed from Virginia to Kentucky, in 1818, and died there, in Louisville, in 1832. His father was born in Hanover county, Virginia, in 1794, and was a descendent of the earliest English settlers. He died at Columbus, Ohio, in the seventieth year of his age, August 19, 1863, his mother having died in Virginia, October 6, 1850.

Col. Baber's education was conducted by his mother until he was nine years old, and by his father subsequently, who was a fine classical scholar. While his father was in charge of the Presbyterian church at Carmichaeltown, Greene county, Pennsylvania, he was sent to the academy, in 1836-8; and to the thorough drilling in Latin syntax and Greek roots, received from its worthy principal, Mr. Lochran, and his assistant, Mr. McFarland, since a Presbyterian minister, he owes the habit of investigating-everything thoroughly, until the facts are dug out. In 1838 his father returned to Jefferson county, Virginia, and his preparation for college was completed at the' Berryville academy, Clark county, Virginia, and at two private schools, taught respectively' by Messrs. Caldwell and Hitchcock, both graduates of Amherst college, Massachusetts, and thorough teachers in mathematics and the languages. In June, 1831, he entered Princeton college, New Jersey, in the sophomore class, half advanced, and graduated in September, 1843, with the honors of Greek orator.

On leaving college he came to Columbus, Ohio, and commenced, in January, to read law in the office of N. H. Swayne, now an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, whose wife is a relative. His going to Ohio was decided by a mother's influence; she belonged to the old school of Virginia emancipationists, and under the belief that civil strife must eventually follow in the slaveholding States of the South, unless the institution was put into process of extinction, desired her son's destiny to be with the far west. Columbus was comparatively a small town, when he entered upon the study of the law, in the office of Swayne & Bates, but the holding of the supreme court of the State, the United States courts, and the sessions of the legislature, brought Ewing, Stanbery, Walker, Wright, Spalding, and many other distinguished lawyers, to the capital, and afforded a diligent student most excellent opportunities for preparing himself for practice.

He was admitted to the bar at the December term, 1845, of the supreme court, on the circuit of Lancaster, Ohio, after a rigid examination.

He first commenced practice in Piqua, Miami county; in May, 1846. He removed to Xenia, January 1, 1847, and remained there until 1850, when he opened a law office in Columbus, and in January, 1853, became the law partner of N. H. Swayne, on the election of James L. Bates, esq., to the common pleas bench.

For seven years he continued in the laborious practice of the profession, in the firm of Swayne & Baber, which was engaged in most of the important cases in court. The preparation of cases for trial, by hunting up the

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testimony, arranging the evidence, and securing the witnesses, devolved mainly on him, as junior partner. He also took an equal part in presenting the authorities, and arguing the cases in hand, in connection with Judge Swayne, a discipline and experience which have been of infinite service to him, professionally. In the spring of 186o, the partnership was dissolved, and in the fall of that year, Col. Baber was engaged in stumping the State, as one of the presidential electors on the Lincoln ticket. From boyhood he had always evinced a decided taste for politics, and was a decided Whig, but conservative in his ideas.

In 1846, during the Mexican war, he .took sides with that wing of the party which was in favor of prosecuting the war vigorously, and holding the party in power responsible after it was over; consequently he was a warm supporter of the nomination of General Taylor for president, and labored to secure it. Dissatisfied with the "old fogy" doctrine of the danger of the .acquisition of territory, he wrote, on July 2 2, 1846, at Piqua, Ohio, an article for the Ohio Statesman—the Democratic State organ, then edited by the Messrs. Huswells—in favor of the acquisition of California, by treaty, and the application to the territory acquired, of the provision of the ordinance of 1787, forbidding' slavery, arguing that the South had no right to complain that slavery was prevented from being introduced into territory where it did not exist, as it was a State, not a national, institution. This article was written before the introduction of the Wilmot proviso into congress, and was published over the signature "H," in the Ohio Statesman, August 28, 1846; under the editorial head. This doctrine was practically carried out in the admission of California as a free State, and thus opening up the great Pacific slope by a railroad across the continent.

Before the nomination of Taylor and Fillmore by the Whig national convention, at Philadelphia, in an article advocating their nomination he set out a table of the probable electoral vote by States, which was afterwards verified in detail by the returns, except that Taylor and Fillmore carried Florida, which gave them three additional electoral votes. His subsequent course as president, in opposition to Toombs and other ultraists, proved that, like "Old Hickory," he would stand by the Union at all hazards. In 1853, upon' the repeal of the Missouri compromise, Col. Baber, who had been secretary of the old Whig State central committee, labored for a co-operation of all the opponents of the repeal in the anti-Nebraska movement. In 1855 he declined to support Chase for governor, on account of his course when elected United States senator in 1849, under the Townshend and Morse bargain and sale. He refused to affiliate with the Know-Nothing movement, and was one of the few hundred old Whigs of Franklin county that stuck to their allegiance to the last.

In 1859, when Chase, Seward, Bates and Cameron were rivals for the presidential nomination, the thought occurred to him, after reading the Douglas-Lincoln debate, reported in the Chicago Tribune, that Abraham Lincoln would be the most available candidate. He communicated this opinion to Hon. Samuel Galloway and it was agreed that he should write Lincoln on the subject, which he did. Lincoln responded in a letter, dated July 28, 1859, disapproving of the action of the Republican convention, repudiating Judge Swan for a judicial decision, urging that the Republican national convention should take a conservative course in making the fight against the extension of slavery, adding that he "was not fit for president." This led to his invitation to Ohio, to take Olt in the gubernatorial contest in 1859,. and the subsequent publication of the famous Douglas-Lincoln debates, by special invitation of the Republican State central committee State officers, in all of which Colonel Baber's active agency is well known. The nomination of Lincoln at the Chicago convention was owing to the movement in Ohio, and the strong support she gave him in that body. In the presidential election he carried the State by over forty thousand majority.

At the commencement of the war, Colonel Baber was appointed paymaster in the United States army, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel for military services. He was stationed first at Washington, then ordered to Cumberland Gap with General George W. Morgan, and finally to New Orleans, in October, 1863, where he remained on duty until June, 1864, spending a large part of his time in the field with General Washburn in the Bayou Teche country. From New Orleans, he was transferred to Cincinnati, and put in charge of Camp Dennison until mustered out. He took an active agency in securing the nomination of Andrew Johnson for vice president in place of Hamlin, which was effected. by the solid vote of the Ohio delegation in the Baltimore convention in 1864.

He sympathized with the Philadelphia convention movement, in 1866, believing the only wise plan was to adhere to the old " Lincoln policy." It being ignored by the Republican leaders, in their fight against President Johnson, he, with others who had voted with the Union organization, in 1867 supported the Democratic ticket, assisting in defeating negro suffrage by fifty thousand majority, and securing the election of Allen G. Thurman to the United States senate, in place of Benj. F. Wade. Since then, Col. Baber has been an active member of the Democratic party. He was elected a representative in the general assembly, from Franklin county, in October, 1869, and took a prominent part in the proceedings. On September 24, 1871, an act was passed, introduced by him, to protect political organizations from fraud in their primary nominations, which, under the familiar title of the " Baber law," is used largely by both parties in their nominations, especially in cities. In 1873, he was chosen a delegate, from Franklin county, to the constitutional convention, and took a prominent part in its debates and proceedings. The judicial article adopted being, substantially, his proposition, introduced early in the session.

In 1875, as a member of the executive committee of six, appointed at a meeting of the bar of the State, to secure judicial relief, he drafted the constitutional amendment creating the judicial committee of five, with like powers as the supreme court, to dispose of the old business on the docket of that court, then five years in arrears.

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By his activity, the amendment was submitted by the legislature, with only two dissenting votes, and indorsed by all the judges of the supreme court, in a correspondence with the committee, recommending its adoption. It was printed on both party tickets, and ratified by the elections in October, 1875, only ninety-eight thousand votes being cast against it, out of six hundred thousand polled, the only amendment to the present constitution ever ratified. It proved a most salutary relief. The commission appointed, cleared up all the old cases adjudged to them within the three years.

On the resignation of his seat in congress by Hon. Hugh J. Jewett, at the Democratic minority convention to fill the vacancy, he received seventy-three votes, to seventy-five cast for Hon. Win. E. Fink. He is still practicing law in Columbus, and has the reputation of being an able orator and debater, as well as an industrious lawyer.

HENRY C. NOBLE was born in Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1826. His parents were John and Catharine (McDill) Noble. His father and grandfather, originally of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, emigrated to Ohio in 181i, from Hagerstown, Maryland. In March, 1832, his father and family removed to Columbus, Ohio, where they resided until 084o, when they removed to Cincinnati. In 1845 the family returned to Columbus, and again to Cincinnati, in 1846, whence, after a few years residence, from 1846 to 1851, they finally returned to Columbus.

Henry C. Noble attended such private schools as were then to be had, in Lancaster and Columbus. Upon removing to Cincinnati, in 1840, he attended the Cincinnati college, and for the first time, had the benefit of wider instruction. Prof., Orsmby Mitchell, afterwards distinguished as a general in the war of the rebellion, was his instructor in mathematics, for whom he formed a warm attachment, and to whom he attributes a great influence in forming his character.

In 1841 he entered a store in Columbus, for a year, to acquire knowledge of practical business, but cheerfully returned to the Cincinnati college, where he continued until the spring of 1843. He then entered the junior class, in Miami university, and graduated in 1845; came at once to Columbus, where he has ever since resided, and, in the fall of 1845, commenced the study of law with Edwards Pierrepont and Thomas Sparrow, who were then partners. After a few months, he entered the office of Henry Stanbery, who had just been elected the first attorney-general of the State of Ohio, and completed his law studies with him, and remained in his office until he left Columbus. He was admitted to the bar on the fourteenth day of December, 1848, by the supreme court of Ohio,. and has continued in the practice without interruption ever since. In the beginning of his practice, Mr. Noble had a large number of patent cases in the United .States courts, then -held in Columbus. After these courts were removed, he gave up the practice, and has confined himself, with very few exceptions, to the practice of law, Franklin county, and his own cases in the supreme court of Ohio.

Henry C. Noble was married on the twenty-eighth day of September, 1848, to Elizabeth J. Edmiston, the daughter of Dr. John M. Edmiston and Matilda J. (Gwynne) Edmiston, who were among the first settlers in Columbus. Mr. Noble's practice was a very general one, including some important criminal cases, until 1876, when he retired from general practice, confining his attention to special cases and business affairs: He was city solicitor for a short time in 1856, and trustee for the Institution of the Blind from 1866 to 18.78, during which time the main building was erected. Mr. Noble, from the time he commenced practice, .devoted himself exclusively to his profession, and . his successful career is another example that the law bestows its favors chiefly on its own devotees. The universal respect in which he is held by all classes of the community, and the confidence his brethren of the bar place in his varied and high legal integrity, are the just rewards of a life devoted to the duties of his profession. Mr. Noble is a zealous and active member of the First Presbyterian church.

FITCH JAMES MATHEWS, son of Matthew Mathews and Lucy (Kilbourn) Mathews, was born at Worthington, Franklin county, Ohio, November 17, 1818. His father was from Milford, Otsego. county, New York; and his mother, a daughter. of James Kilbourn, from Connecticut, one of the first settlers in that part of the country. His father moved to Columbus in 1822•, and formed a partnership with Jurl Brothers in the mercantile business.

Young Mathews went first to a school supported by private subscription, and taught by Cyrus Parker, and completed his education at Gambier, in 1838-9.

In the fall of 1839 he commenced the study of the law with P. B. Wilcox, and in 1841 was admitted to the bar. He formed a partnership in the practice of the law at Columbus, with A. B. Buttles, and then with William R. Rankin, in 1850, and after Rankin was elected probate judge, in 1851, with Samuel Galloway, which continued until he was elected judge of the superior court, in April, 1857. He was re-elected without opposition in April, 1862, and resigned shortly afterwards, his health being very bad, and removed to Dayton, Ohio, where he died, May 4, 1866.

Judge Mathews was an excellent lawyer, and possessed in a large degree the confidence of the people. He. had an affable manner, which endeared him to all who knew him. He performed well his duties on the bench, and his decisions bore the impress of a fairness and honesty, that satisfied even the litigants and their counsel of the impartiality of. his judgments. His death, at the early age of forty-eight, caused universal regret in his large circle of connections and friends.

Judge Mathews was married three times: On October 13, 1842, to Louisa, daughter of William W. Irwin, a distinguished lawyer of Lancaster, Ohio ; on September 7, 1847, to Elizabeth Ralston, and on May 30, 1857, to Augusta Parrott, of Dayton, Ohio. The only surviving children—Edwin Parrott, Lucy Kilbourn and George Thomas Mathews—are the issue of the last marriage.

BENJAMIN:F. MARTIN was born on the twenty-second of June, 1819, in. Columbus, Ohio. His parents, William

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T. and Amelia Martin, were pioneers in the city of Columbus, having emigrated from Bedford county, Pennsylvania; in 1825, first to New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county, and, early in the spring of the same year, to Columbus, which had only been laid out in the spring of 181a. He received his early education mainly in the common Schools, and attended the Blendon academy, at Westerville, Franklin county, now known as Central college. After leaving college he was appointed clerk of the city council of Columbus, in 1840, and continued, by reappointment, until 1857. He was also deputy clerk of the court of common pleas, and while prosecuting the. duties of that office, he read law with Judge Mathews. He finished his course of reading in 1847, and in November of that year was admitted by the supreme court, and -commenced the practice of his profession in partnership with Lorenzo English, which partnership continued nearly twelve years.

In the fall of 1850 Mr. Martin was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, on the Whig ticket, and reelected again in 1852. The old system of criminal law was then in force, and in the discharge of his duties, as prosecutor, he never failed on account of his indictments not sticking.

He continued the practice of law until August, 1865, when he was appointed; by President Johnson; to the office of collector of internal revenue for the seventh district of Ohio, which he held until 1869, when he was removed by President Grant. Mr. Martin has dealt -largely in real estate in and about his native city, as his many " additions to Columbus " bear evidence. He. has faithfully and honestly performed the various public duties and trusts committed to his charge, and 'won :a high reputation for his integrity and qualifications in the Management of large monied interests.

JAMES OVERTON REAMEY, son of Col. Daniel Reamey and Susannah Lyne Starling, was born in Henry county, Virginia, October 17, 1832. His father was of French Huguenot descent, and from 1559, when they gave in their adherence to the " Confession of Faith," set forth by the national synod of the reformed churches in France, took part in all the bloody contests in France, under the Protestant banner. After the repeal of the edict of Nantes, in 165'5, Jean, second son of Ravul De Reamey, of Piccadilly, with other exiles, settled in South Carolina, about 1690-2. Pierre, son of Jean, afterwards removed to Loudon county, Virginia, and is the ancestor of the Henry county family of Reamey, and Col. Daniel Reamey was one of his descendants. In -1848, a short time before his death, his grand-uncle, Mr. Lyne Starling, sent for him, in order (if he found him worthy), that he might be educated for a profession. His manly bearing, and personal qualities, at once won the hearts of his Ohio relatives, arid he was educated at Kenyon College. He read law with Swan & Andrews, was admitted to the bar in and served a term in the clerk's office, as an assistant clerk, to make himself familiar with forms and practices. In 1856 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, re-elected in 1858, and again in 1860, serving six years in succession. He discharged the duties of the office with success and fidelity, and t the satisfaction of the people, as is demonstrated by th fact that he was the first prosecuting attorney in Franklin county that was ever elected for three terms.

On May 18, 1861, he married Alice DeForrest Hayden, the attractive daughter of Peter Hayden, esq., and soon afterwards took charge of the largest and, most extensive coal mines in the Hocking valley, and the property of Mr. Hayden. Here he had a career of usefulness opened before him, leading to wealth and influence. Of apparently vigorous constitution, handsome person and popular manners, he seemed destined to a long life of honor and enjoyment. But he was suddenly cut down in the fortieth year of his age, August 30, 1872. The regret expressed at his death was universal. He was an honorable, high-minded gentleman, scorning, in his soul, every thing like deceit, meanness, littleness, falsehood or equivocation; true to his friends, and loved and respected by them. He leaves one surviving child—Alice B. Reamey —born October 18, 1865.

CHAUNCEY N. OLDS was born at Marlboro, Vermont, February 2, 1816. When four years of age his father removed from Vermont to Ohio, and Ideated on a farm in Cuyahoga county, a few miles south of Cleveland. Al the age of fourteen he removed,.with his father's family, to Circleville, in Pickaway county, visiting and passing through Columbus for the first time in the month of May, 1830. In the fall of that year he began his academical course at the Ohio university, Athens, for three years. At the end of the sophomore year, his close application to study had so impaired his health that he was obliged to suspend his college studies for a year. In the fall o: 1834 he entered the junior class in Miami university, al Oxford, Ohio, and graduated in 1836, with the -highest honors of his class. He was at once called to a tutorship in the college, and in the following year was elected to full professorship, in the chair of Latin language and lit erature, which he occupied until 1840, when failing health again compelled him to abandon the sedentary life of college recluse. He had already commenced the stud) of the law, which he pursued the following year. in the office of an older brother, Joseph Olds, at Circleville. Ohio, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio, on the circuit sitting at Newark, in the springy of 1842. He entered at once on the practice of the law in partnership with his brother, at Circleville, when he resided until the spring of 1856, when he removed to Columbus, which he has since made his home, and when he is still engaged in professional pursuits.

He was twice elected to the general assembly, frorr the district composed of the counties of Ross and Pick away, and served in the legislature in the years 1848, 1849 and 1850, the last term in the senate, during the heated political controversy that grew out of the (so called) "Hamilton county question," and under circumstances which gave him great prominence in that body. But he had little taste for political life, and resigned hi; seat in the senate, towards the close of the year 185o, and has repeatedly declined all.- political preferment and public office since that time ; except that by appoint-

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ment of Governor Tod, he acted as commissioner for exemptions from draft, in 1863, and under appointment by Governor Brough, he held the office of attorney-general, for the year 1865, and, by like appointment, held the office of trustee for one of the benevolent institutions of the State, for ten years. During the first and second years of the great rebellion, he also devoted a large part of his time to the discussion, before the people, of the patriotic duties of citizenship; and the heresy of State rights, when in conflict with national sovereignty, and in its assaults on the life of the nation.

During the course of a very active professional life, Mr. Olds has given much time and labor to the cause of popular education, of temperance, and Sunday-school and church work, having been called to deliver many literary addresses at college commencements, to take part in teachers' and Sunday-school conventions, in the work of young men's Christian associations, and other christian and church work. When most actively engaged in such labors, he has delivered as many as fifty or sixty addresses and speeches in a. single year.

In 1839, three years after his graduation from college, he received the second degree, of A. M., from his alma mater, and was a trustee of that institution, by appointment of the State authorities, for twenty-five years, He has been elected an honorary member of many college societies, and in 1869, received, from Marietta college, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

He became a member of the Presbyterian church at the age of sixteen, and has held the office of ruling elder in that church, for the last forty years, being first elected it the age of twenty-three. He has been frequently chosen as a delegate to the presbyteries and synods of .hat association, and has served several times as commissioner, in the general assembly, the highest judiciary of that church.. In 1877 he was appointed, by the general assembly, a delegate to the Pan Presbyterian council, which met at Edinburgh, Scotland, in July of hat year. This council was composed of three hundred and thirty-three delegates, representing all parts of Chrisendom, and was in session about two weeks. In connection with this trip, he spent several months in ravel through Great Britain, and on the continent. At he last general assembly, he was again appointed a delegate to this triennial council, which is to meet in the ity of Philadelphia, in September, 1880.

He has been actively engaged in the general practice his profession, at Columbus, since 1856, and, for the 1st nine years, has also acted as solicitor, for the Pitts. burgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis railway company, having charge of their litigated business in the courts of this county.

Mr. Olds is, undoubtedly, the most accomplished orator, and best belles-lettres scholar, at the Franklin bar, and, at the same time, learned in the legal lore of the looks, which enables him to command the best class of professional business.

WRAY THOMAS, son of Benajah and Rhoda Thomas, was born in Richmond, Virginia, June .15, 18i̊, and as admitted to the bar, in 1832, at, Richmond, having studied law under John G. Williams, esq., of that city. He came to Ohio, and settled in Columbus, in the year 1833, and practiced law, in partnership with an old schoolmate, John D. Munford, deceased ; afterwards, he engaged in the sale of Virginia military lands, with Lyne Starling. He was elected a representative in the general assembly, in 1850, on the Whig ticket, from Franklin and Delaware counties, and was mayor of Columbus from 1851 to 1865. His ancestors, on his father's side, were from Plymouth, Massachusetts,. one of them being Ruth White, a descendant of Peregrine White, the first child born in the colony of Plymouth. Mr. Thomas has retired from the practice of the law.

KENDALL THOMAS was born in Richmond, Virginia, in July, 1821 ; joined his brother, Wray Thomas, in Columbus, in 1829 ; studied law with John W. Andrews, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1842. He was elected, in 1851, the first clerk, under the new constitution, and was also ex officio clerk of the common pleas court. He was married, in 18—, to a daughter of William Miner, clerk of the United States circuit and district courts, and. died at Columbus, in February, 1878.

ALBERT B. BUTTLES, son of Joel Buttles, was born April 25, 1823. He was educated at the preparatory school at Gambier, entered Yale college, Connecticut, and graduated in 1842. He attended the law course three years at Yale, and was admitted to the bar, in Connecticut, in 1845, and afterwards by the superior court of Ohio.

He formed. a partnership with Fitch James Mathews, and immediately commenced the practice of the law in Columbus. The partnership was dissolved in 185o, and Mr. Buttles practiced alone until 1854, when he was elected clerk of the .court of common pleas of Franklin county and ex officio clerk of the superior court. On. the expiration of his term of office, in .1858, .he devoted much time to horticultural pursuits, and moved on to -a farm near Columbus.

He was married on November 27,. 1849, to Mary E. Ridgeway, daughter of Joseph Ridgeway, jr., of Columbus, Ohio, who yet survives him. Mr. Buttles was a popular man with the. people, and very energetic in. whatever he undertook.

M. A. DOUGHERTY, son of Patrick and Ann Dougherty, was born November 27, 1816, at Baltimore, Maryland. His. parents emigrated, in. 1810, from the North of Ireland. He completed his education at the Baltimore academy, of which he is a graduate. In 1836 he removed to Ohio, located at Lancaster, .and read law with the Hon. John Garaughty, beginning in 1838, and was admitted to practice by the supreme court of Ohio, on the circuit at Dayton. He began the practice of his profession at Lancaster, and gained an honorable position at a bar the most celebrated in the State, and,. in 1855, formed a partnership with Hocking H. Hunter. In 187o he was elected, on the Democratic ticket, to the State senate, and re-elected in 1872, and served on the judiciary committee. In 1873 he ran for attorney-general on the same ticket with Governor Allen, but was defeated by a small majority. In 1875, he was appointed a member

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of the codifying commission, by Governor Allen; and is the only one of the original commission remaining.

Mr. Dougherty is one of the soundest and most learned lawyers, in the State, and will long be remembered for the laborious work he has performed in putting into shape the conflicting statutes of the State.

On May 25, 1843, he was married to Mrs. McCalum, daughter of John Wood, of Maysville, Kentucky.

LEANDER J. CRITCHFIELD was born January 13, 1827, in Danville, Knox county, Ohio. When about eight years of age he removed; with his parents, to Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio, where he spent his early youth, attending such schools as the village afforded. He was, at the age of fifteen years, employed about two years in the office of the clerk of the courts of Holmes county, in making records and in various other duties pertaining to that office, and thereby acquired a practical knowledge of legal forms, and became confirmed in his purpose to give his attention to the law as a profession. With that purpose in view, he prepared for college, and entered the Ohio Wesleyan university, at Delaware, and graduated in the regular classical course. Having completed the requisite legal studies, Mr. Critchfield was admitted to the bar by the court in bankruptcy, at Columbus, in December, 1849, and located in Delaware, Ohio, as a practicing lawyer, and was the next year elected prosecuting attorney of Delaware county, and was subsequently reelected, serving four years.

Mr. Critchfield was married November 7, 1850, to Miss Sarah J. Mansur, of Delaware.

In December, 1856, he was appointed by the supreme court of Ohio, reporter of its decisions, and continued in that office, by re-appointment, for five consecutive terms of three years each, preparing and publishing in that time seventeen volumes of the Ohio State reports, being volumes five to twenty-one, inclusive. At the end of that time, being desirous of giving his undivided attention to the practice of his profession, he declined a further appointment. Soon after entering upon his duties as reporter for the court, Mr. Critchfield took up his residence at the capital and opened a law office, giving such attention to the general practice as his official duties would permit.

In 1858, at the request of Judge Joseph R. Swan, Mr. Critchfield joined him in the preparation of Swan & Critchfield's "Revised Statutes of Ohio," with notes of the decisions of the supreme court. The work was completed and published in 1860, and was received by the bench and bar, and public, with great favor. It has continued in use to the present time, and will be superseded only by the codification of the statutes of the State, soon to be issued; under the supervision of the commissioners appointed to codify the laws. It is well known that Governor Hayes offered Mr. Critchfield a place on that commission, and that he declined the offer, fearing that he could not do justice to the duties of the office, without neglecting prior obligations, to his clients.

Mr. Critchfield has never held any political. office, but only such as have been in the line of his profession, and since locating in Columbus, he has steadily pursued the exacting profession of the law, allowing nothing to interrupt his strict attention to the profession, except his duties as reporter of the court, the duties of that position aiding those of the profession, and only interrupting them by the consumption of time.

He was a partner of Hon. N. H. Swayne when the latter was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States, but since then has been without a. professional partner. While Mr. Critchfield has given most of his attention to the practice in the State courts, he also attends to business in the United States courts. He is one of the most careful attorneys in the preparation of his cases, and, from his experience- as reporter of the supreme court, readily uses the Ohio authorities in point, and practices a good deal in railroad cases.

Although Mr. Critchfield has given very strict attention to the profession of the law, he has also devoted much time and labor to promote the interests of education, as a college trustee, and also as a member of the Columbus board of education. He takes great interest in the public schools and has done much to promote their welfare.. He was also connected with the movement- to organize: and establish the present public library of Columbus, and was a member of the committee that reported to the city council the plan upon which the library is organized and operated with such great success and promise of growing usefulness.

GEORGE L. CONVERSE, of Columbus, Ohio, was born at Georgesville, Franklin county, Ohio, June 4, 1827. His father, Dr. George W. Converse, a practicing physician at that place, died a few months after the birth of the subject of this sketch, leaving his family in straitened circumstances. The widow, Mrs. Cassandra Converse, (nee Cook) was a lady of unusual strength of character and indomitable will, qualities inherited by her son. By 'teaching school, she was enabled to support herself and son, until the latter was old enough to work at farm labor. The rudiments of his education he obtained in the country school, living at various times in Delaware, Franklin and Licking counties. During the greater part of each year, he worked at farming, teaming, and such other employment as he could find, and for such modest wages as the times afforded. He was entirely dependent upon his own exertions for his support, and for means of completing his education: When fourteen years of age he entered Central college, located at Westerville, in Blendon township, Franklin county, where he pursued his studies in the classical department for years, living economically, and working during vacations for the farmers in that vicinity. At the close of his junior year he entered Dennison university, at Granville, Ohio, where he graduated with the class of 1849.

In 1850, Mr. Converse entered the law office of Gen. Joel Wilson, at Tiffin, Ohio, with whom he continued his studies until he was admitted to the bar. Soon afterwards he opened an office at Napoleon, Ohio, but; on account of failing health, occasioned by the malaria of that part of the State, he was compelled to leave that locality, and soon afterwards removed to Columbus,

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where he quickly established himself in a lucrative practice

In1852, he married Miss Sarah Patterson, of Columbus, Ohio, since which time he has continued his practice an residence in Columbus.

Mr. Converse early took an active part in politics, and in 1854, was nominated by the Democrats of Franklin county, for the office of prosecuting attorney. He was elected, and filled the office creditably. I was while occupying this position that he acquired that thorough familiarity with the principles and practice of the criminal law, which has since marked him as one of the foremost advocates of the State. Declining a renomination, he devoted himself entirely to his profession, until he was elected, in 1859, to the Ohio house of representatives, where he served two successive terms with honor and distinction. In 1863, he was elected to the State senate, in which body he was the leader on the Democratic side, and took rank as one of the best debaters and parliamentarians on the floor.

In 1873, Mr. Converse was again elected to the house representatives, of which body he was elected speaker, a position which he filled with marked ability, establish- ing his reputation as one of the best parliamentarians and presiding officers in the State. He was re-elected to the house in 1875, where he was the leader of the Democrats, then in the minority.

In 1877, Mr. Converse was a prominent candidate, before the Democratic State convention, for governor, the vote being nearly evenly divided; on the first three ballots, between George L. Converse, R. M. Bishop, and Durbin Ward. The following year, Mr. Converse was elected to congress from the ninth Ohio district, composed of the counties of Franklin; Pickaway, Fayette, Madison and Delaware, receiving seventeen thousand, seven hundred and eighty-six votes, against sixteen thousand, seven hundred and ninety-eight votes for Lorenzo English, the Republican and Independent candidate. In the organization of the forty-sixth (the present) congress, Mr. Converse was appointed chairman of the committee on public lands, one of the most important of the standing committees in the house.

As a lawyer, Mr. Converse has been remarkably successful, and has acquired a wide and enviable reputation. He is a man of great industry, close application, is courteous in his personal and professional intercourse, easily grasps the salient points of a case, has an intuitive knowledge human character, and rare attainments as n advocate. As a public speaker, Mr. Converse has required more than a State reputation. In nearly, if not quite, every political campaign during the last twenty years, he has taken an active part on the stump, and in his style of speaking, is fluent, earnest and convincing, qualities which have placed him in the rank of the ablest public speakers in Ohio.

Mr, Converse has sprung from the people, and is a man of the people. Born poor, thrown early upon his own resources, taught economy and charity, by early poverty, and adversity, overcoming all obstacles, by patient effort and a strong will; acquiring a finished education, and gaining an honorable position in his profession, in society and in public life, he is, in the best sense of the word, a self-made man.

ALLEN G. THURMAN was born in Lynchburgh, Virginia, November 13, 1813. His father was the Rev. P. Thurman, and his mother the only daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Allen, of North Carolina, nephew, and adopted son of Joseph Hewes, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. In 1814 he removed, with his parents, to Chillicothe, and remained there until he removed to Columbus, his present residence. He was educated at the Chillicothe academy, and by the private instruction of his mother. He studied law with his uncle, William Allen, then United States senator, and late governor of Ohio, and with Noah H. Swayne, now a justice of the supreme court of the United States. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1835, at Washington, Fayette county, Judges Hitchcock and Lane being on the bench, and practiced his profession in Chillicothe, and extensively on the circuit, where his industry, legal learning and. ability caused his employment in almost all important cases.

In 1844 he was elected a member of the house of representatives for the twenty-ninth congress, and in November, 1844, was married to Mary, daughter of the late Walter Dun, of Fayette county, Kentucky. In 1851 he was elected a judge of the superior . curt of Ohio, and was chief justice from 1854 to 1856, when his term expired. The " Ohio Reports," containing his decisions during the four years he was judge, gave him great reputation, as a sound lawyer and jurist, with the profession. While on the supreme bench he removed to Columbus, in October, 1853 ; and resumed the practice of the law at the close of his judicial term. His opinions en important legal questions were much sought after and relied upon by the bar all over the State, and he was retained as counsel, in the supreme court, in many of the most important cases. He has always been a laborious student ; indefatigable in the preparation of his cases, and a forcible and direct speaker, who wastes no time on immaterial points. In 1868 he was elected a senator of the United States, and took his seat November 4, 1869, and in January, 1874, he was re-elected.

He has been a member, of the judiciary committee ever since he took a seat in the senate, and is now chairman of the same; as a member of that committee, in the session of 1877-8, he reported the bill, commonly known as the "Thurman bill," to compel the Pacific rairailroads secure their indebtedness of nearly seventy millions to the government, and supported it by a written report, sustaining its constitutionality and propriety, and, also, by elaborate and able arguments in the debate that followed. The constitutionality of the bill was relentlessly assailed by its opponents, but the law has been sustained, and the question put at rest, by a decision of the supreme court of the United States, in a case brought by the Central Pacific railroad.

Judge Thurman has always been a Democrat of the strictest sect, and not inclined to run after temporary expedients in politics. He firmly believes, that the safety

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of the country depends upon the preservation of the organization of the Democratic party. At the. same time, he is liberal and courteous in his treatment of political opponents. Though in a. minority of less than one-seventh of the senate, when first elected, he has exercised great influence, and obtained, among the thinking men of all parties, the character of a pure and honest man, who would expose fraud and corruption, no matter where the exposure might hit. He has had the satisfaction of seeing the small minority he found in the senate, grow into a majority that, in 1879, elected him president, pro tem., of the senate. Since his election to the senate, no man has risen more rapidly in public estimation ; his name is frequently mentioned in connection with the presidency ; but those who know Judge Thurman best, believe he would rather stand before the country as. the bold and upright senator, in this age of corrupt and truckling politicians, than swerve a hair-breadth from his conscientious convictions of right, even to be president.

RICHARD A. HARRISON was born April 8, '1824, in the city of Thirsk, Yorkshire county, England, where his parents then resided. In the spring of 1832, the family removed to the United States, and settled in Clark county, Ohio. He was educated in the common school, the Republic printing office, and in an academy under the charge of Rev. Chandler Robbins, Springfield, Ohio. He was obliged, on his arrival at twelve years of age, and until he commenced the practice of the law, to earn, by daily labor. as a typographer, the means requisite for his support and education. He studied law in the office of Judge Rodgers, Springfield, Ohio; graduated from the Cincinnati law school, April, 1846, and was admitted to the bar, May 23, 1846, at a term of the supreme count, on the circuit held at London, Madison county, by Judges Hitchcock and Wood. He at once began the practice of the law in London.

He was married, December 25, 1847, to Maria Warner; daughter of Henry Warner, of Madison county, and, in the spring of 1848, .he commenced a circuit. practice, which he has ever since kept up. He was a member of the legislature, from. Madison county, during the sessions of 1858-9 and 1859-60, and served on the judiciary committee; was a member of the senate, from the district composed of the counties of Madison, Clark, and Champaign, during the sessions of 1859-60 and 1860-1, serving as chairman of, the judiciary committee, and president, pro tem., of the senate; was elected a member of congress from the district composed of. the counties of Madison, Fayette, Clinton, Warren, and Greene, at a special election held in May, 1861, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Governor Corwin, upon his appointment as minister to Mexico; served during the special session held in July, 1861, and until the expiration of his term, March, 3, 1863. He was nominated for judge of the supreme court, in 1870, by the Democratic party, but. was defeated, with the rest of the State ticket, which reduced the Grant majority, in 1868, of forty-one thousand, five hundred and forty-six, 'over twenty-five thousand votes.

In January, 1876, he was appointed and commissioned, by Governor Hayes, a member of the judicial commission, provided for in the amendment, of article four, of the constitution of the State, but he de clined the appointment. In, the spring of 1873, he formed a partnership with Joseph Olds, who had just re tired from the common pleas, bench, and removed to Columbus, in the spring of 1874. His son-in-law, Mr. Marsh, is. also now a member of the firm, of Harrison Olds & Marsh.

Mr. Harrison attributes much of whatever success h has met with, to the encouragement and assistance which he received, in his early struggles at the bar, from Judg Rodgers, Judge J. R. Swan, P. B. Wilcox, Judge N. Id Swayne, and John W. Andrews.

Mr. Harrison ranks as one of the best lawyers in th State; he is not only learned in the books, but. present his cases with great force, to the court and jury. Hi reputation has extended his circuit practice all over th State, and in the supreme court he is engaged, on one side or the other, of many important cases. His success in the Boesel railroad cases, reported in Granger's supreme court reports,. established his eminence as a lawyer on constitutional questions, while. at the same time, saved the people from the imposition of an oppressive system of taxation, that would yield no return.

Mr. Harrison furnishes another example of the fa, that a lawyer who desires to rise to the head of the profession, must subordinate every other consideration 1 the law, which is a jealous mistress, and brooks no rival.

He was married on December 25, 1846, to Maria Warner, daughter of Henry Warner, of Madison county Ohio.

EDWARD F. BINGHAM was born August. 13, 1828, at West Concord, Vermont ; his father, who, m 1796, moved with the family from .Cornish, New Hampshire, was Judge Warner Bingham, and his mother, Lucy, daughter of Captain John Wheeler. Thomas Bingham, the founder of the family in America, emigrated from Sheffield, England, and Settled in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1663, being then twenty-one years old. He traces his family back to the Binghams, of Somerset, who were of Saxon origin, and, therefore, had an existence in England before the conquest. Edward F. Bingham received his early education in the public and select schools of Vermont. In his fourteenth year, he entered Caledonia county grammar school, where he successfully, under able tutorship, prosecuted, for three years, a thorough mathematical, classical and scientific course of studies. -

In 1846, visiting Ohio, he became so pleased with the country, that he determined to settle in the State. After spending a short time in Marietta college, he read law under Hon. Joseph Miller, at Chillicothe, Ohio, and his brother, Harvey Bingham, in New Hampshire, and in May, 1850, he was admitted to the bar. by the supreme court of Ohio, at Georgetown, and commenced the practice of law, June 1st, at McArthur, Vinton county, Ohio. In October, 1850, the court of common pleas appointed him prosecuting attorney of Vinton county, and in 1851 and 1853, he was elected to the same. office. At the expiration of that time, in 1855, being elected represen-

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tative (Democratic) for the counties of Vinton and Jackson, he sat in the legislature during the session of 1856 and 1857. In 1858, he was barely defeated for judge of the common pleas court in the subdivision of Jackson, Vinton, Pike, Scioto and Lawrence, where the party majority was heavily against him.

Wishing a more extended field for the prosecution of his profession, he removed to Columbus, in 1861, and has since been engaged in the practice of law. From 1867 to 1871, he was, by election, city solicitor of Columbus, and for many years a member of the board of education. In May, a873, he was elected judge of the court of common pleas, and re-elected in 1878', without opposition.

Judge Bingham is one of the best judges in the State, aad takes great pains in examining the points and authorities submitted to him by counsel. His decisions satisfy all who hear them, of the impartiality with which he has formed his opinions.

JOHN G. MCGUFFEY was born in Madison township, Franklin county, Ohio, September 10, 1832. He was the second son of John McGuffey and Pamalia (Courtright) McGuffey, who were both born in Madison township. The parents of his father came to the county in 1803, from Kentucky, and those of his Mother, in 1799, from Pennsylvania. His parents, having to make' their own start in life, he was inured to labor upon the farm from infancy until he was twenty-two years old, excepting about fifteen months of that time spent in the academic schools at Central college and Delaware, and one year in which he was engaged in teaching. At twenty-two he. entered the university at Athens, Ohio, and graduated there with the class of 1857. He studied law at Columbus with Geiger & Andrews' one year, and,. in October, 1858, entered the law school at Cincinnati, from which lie graduated in 1859, and was admitted to practice law the same year at Cincinnati, and at once opened an office in Columbus, Ohio, where he has continued to practice his profession—the first three years alone; from 1862 to 1868 with Judge E. F. Bingham as partner; from 1868 to 1875 with Hon. John D. Burnett as partner, and since 1875 alone.

Mr. McGuffey is a man of great energy and business capacity, familiar with the learning of the books, and a careful and accurate pleader, and enjoys a lucrative practice. He was married to Lida H. Snow, daughter of Rev. William T. Snow, of Worthington, Ohio. They have two daughters—Mary, born in 1863, and Jane, born in 1865.

HORACE WILSON was born September 22, 1822, in Athens county, Ohio. His father was a north of Ireland seafaring man; his mother, of Connecticut. When he was four years of age his father died, and his mother died when he was twelve years old. He came to Licking county in 1837, or 1838, and tried for the appointment to West Point. The present General W. S. Rosecrans was the appointee. He returned, in the winter of 1839-40, to Athens county, and there tried for the place of midshipman, at Annapolis; failing, and being poor, he went to work.

In 1841, through the advice of Wm. H. McGuffey, then president of the Ohio university, at Athens, he began his studies at that college, where he continued, with intervals of work and teaching, till 1845, when he began teaching a private school in Athens, and studying law with the Hon. John Welch, late of the supreme court, of Ohio.

In 1847, he was admitted to the bar, at McConnellsville, Ohio, December 6, and then taught school at Nelsonville till February, 1848, when he began the practice of law, in- Athens, Ohio.

In April, 1848, he was married to Caroline A. Hunt, of Franklin county, Ohio.

Mr. Wilson continued the practice of the law, in Athens, Ohio, until the winter of 1859, when he removed, with his family, to the city. of Columbus, Ohio, and has practiced law there ever since.

For the last three or four years, from ill health, he has done very little business in court, but confined his duties mainly to the office. His son; Percy R. Wilson, and John J. Stoddart, are now his partners. Mr. Wilson is thoroughly convinced that every young Man's destiny and success in life, depends entirely on his own efforts, and however poor and dependent, he may earn a competency, and respectable position among his fellow-men.

Mr. Wilson, in 1853, was nominated as trustee of the Ohio university, at Athens, to succeed Rev. Dr. James Hoge, and confirmed by the senate, and is now one of the active members of the board. In 1861 he was elected, and continued, as a member of the city council, of the city of Columbus, Ohio, from the fourth ward, until the spring of 1865. During his membership as councilman, he was at the head of the committees on fire department, and finance.

In 1865 he moved out of .the city, to his present residence. Afterwards, when the city was extended, his residence came to be included in the corporation limits.

He was, in 1874, elected as a member of the city school board, and continued there four years, until 1878, without opposition.

Mr. Wilson has always been, in theology, a Presbyterian, and in politics, a Democrat.

ELI P. EVANS, son of George W. and Mary R. (Eberly) Evans, born June 10, 1842, at Dublin, Franklin county, Ohio; attended the common schools, and obtained his education chiefly by his own efforts; read law with James E. Wright, and was admitted to the bar September 6, 1870, by the district courts of Franklin county, Ohio: He immediately commenced the practice of the law, and opened an office in Columbus; Ohio. In 1878, the general assembly erected a fourth subdivision of the fifth judicial district, out of Franklin county, by separating it from Pickaway and Madison. He was elected judge on the first of April, 1878, the, term beginning on the first of May, 1878. Judge Evans is a diligent worker on the bench, and carefully examines all questions before deciding them. The criminal docket, however, is assigned him in the division of the business, and occupies most of his time. Mr. Evans is unmarried.

 

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Thrall, was horn in Rutland, Vermont, on May 2; .1794; worked on a farm summers, and received a limited edu cation in the district- schools, and the academy in Rutland; served fifteen months in the army in the war of 1812; taught school in the winter of 1814-15, and in 1815 went to Granville, Ohio, with his cousins; in 1816, 1817 and 18'8, was employed by the Worthington manufacturing company, and in 1818 went to Circleville, into the fulling-mill business; read law, in 1826-7-8, with Joseph Olds, of Circleville, and was admitted in 1829; commenced practice there; moved to Granville in-1832, to Columbus in 1841, to Cincinnati in 1853, back to Circleville in 1856, and in 1861 to Columbus again, where he practiced his profession. He was elected president judge of Pickaway county in .1.8—. Mr. Thrall is the oldest member of the Columbus bar, and the two hours' argument, between himself and S. H. Andrews, on a demurrer to a surrebutter before Judge Tobert, the last judge here before the adoption of the code, was long remembered as a legal curiosity, He has lived under every administration of the general government of the United States ; recollects the • controversies about the embargo, non-intercourse, etc. He has been a member of the Protestant Episcopal church since 1817, and voted in Columbus for the electio'n of Bishops Chase, Mcllvain and Bedell. He is a Mason.

Mr. Thrall married Harriet Malliken, April 26,1820 ; had seven children, five of whom are still living, and at eighty-five he enjoys good health.

JOHN C. GROOM, son of John C. Groom and Susannah (Spence) Groom, was born January 14,1818, in Fairview township, York county; Pennsylvania, within a quarter of a mile of Prowel's mill, Fishing .Creek valley. He never went to school after he was eleven years old, but worked with his father, who was by trade a brick mason, stone mason, and plasterer. His father died in September, 1833, and his mother in 1836, leaving five children, of whom he was the oldest, entirely destitute. He secured 'places for: the rest, and, after serving three years for victuals and clothes, went to learn to do business in the .house of .Rhodes & Rank, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Whatever education . he obtained he got at night, by .candle-light, through his own efforts, while others were asleep. He is self-taught.

In 1837 he came to Harrisburg, Franklin county, :Ohio, and was engaged as clerk by Messrs. Geiger & Chenowith, and, in August, 1839, he was. employed as a clerk in Circleville, with the well-known firm of Gregg & Wolfy. In the fall of 1838 he entered upon the study of the law with Joseph Olds, and, for a livelihood, taught school. He .was admitted to the bar by the supreme court On the , circuit at Circleville, December 3, .1841, and. immediately entered into. practice there, and in 1842, was elected prosecuting attorney for Pickaway county, and served two years. ,

In 1847 he enlisted in Company E, Fourth regiment Ohio volunteers, in the war with Mexico. M. C. Lilley was the captain, and Col. Groom the first lieutenant. He received honorable mention from General Jo. Lane for gallant conduct in the taking of Puebla, when. Col. Childs was relieved from his perilous position; and e pecially for his indomitable courage and daring at the battle of Atlixco, when he, with seventy-five others, were surrounded and ambuscaded by some three hundred lancers and four hundred infantry; after a hand to hand fight for more than forty minutes, three hundred and twelve Mexicans lay in heaps in the road, dead. They were rescued by the approach of the main body, under General Lane.

At the close of the war with Mexico, he returned to Circleville, and resumed practice. In 1858,.he removed to Kansas City, Missouri, and soon built up a good practice. He came to Columbus, Ohio, April 14,1861, and went into partnership with Judge Rankin for one year.

During the war o the rebellion, he was commissioned major of the. Eighty-fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served three months, until June 11, 1862, and then was mustered in as colonel of the One Hundredth Ohio volunteer infantry, and ranked among the best as an officer. He resigned in June, 1863. He was elected a member of the house of, representatives in the general assembly, from Franklin county, on the Democratic ticket, in October, 1875, served two years with credit to himself, and is now a candidate for the same place, on the Democratic ticket. He was married, on March 26, 1846, to Miss Minerva Robbins.

FREDERICK W. WOOD, son of Frederick Wood, and Eliza (James) Wood, was born in Northumberland county, Virginia, December 14, 1823, and removed, with his father's family, and settled in Morgan county, Ohio, in 1832. His father was a native of Massachusetts, and his mother a Virginian.

He was educated at the common schools, and at Granville college; read law with W. T. Brown, at McConnellsville, Ohio, and took the degree of the Cincinnati law school, in 1846. He was admitted to practice, at Marietta, Ohio, March 12, 1846, and commenced practicing, at McConnellsville, Ohio, in Morgan, Washington and Muskingum counties. He came to Columbus in 1876, and has been in practice here since.

He was a member of the lower house of the Ohio legislature, in session iri 1863-4 and in 1864-5.

He was chosen presidential elector for the fifteenth Ohio. district, in 1864, on the Republican ticket. He was elected, and served five years, as judge of the common pleas, for the eighth judicial district, from . May, 186o. He was captain of company F, Eighty-sixth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry.

In October, 1847, he was married to Miss Mary Ann Johnson, of Zanesville, Ohio, who died in 187o. He was married a second time to Miss. Lydia C. Craig, on June 17,1872.

JOHN D. BURNETT was born in Jefferson county, West Virginia, in the year 1817, and attended select schools in Charlestown, the county seat; came to Ohio about the year 1835, and read law in the office of the late Judge Wm. A. Rodgers, of the city of Springfield, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court, at Chillicothe; in the fall of 1841, and commenced the practice in the city of Urbana, Champaign county, in 1843. In the

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year 1849 he was elected a member of the general assembly from the counties of Champaign, Clark and Madison, nd was re-elected in the year 1850, and in 1851 he was elected a member of the Senate for the same district. He removed to Columbus in 1864;- and engaged in the practice of law. He was in partnership with John G. cGuffy from July I, 1868, to July r, 1875.

Mr. Burnett is one of the best read lawyers at the bar, and thoroughly posted in chancery proceedings. He is ne of the master commissioners of the court, and is engaged a great deal of his time in examining and reporting in matters involving complicated questions of liens and rge amounts of property, in which his services are in much demand. Mr. Burnett is unmarried.

GILBERT C. COLLINS, son of Andrew T. Collins and Mary (Green) Collins, was born in Essex county, New Jersey, July 10, 1830 ; his father was of English and Irish descent, and his mother of Scotch descent. He removed with his parents, in the spring of 1834, and settled near Columbus, Ohio, his father being a teacher in the common schools. He, by his own energy and industry, acquired a good education ; from 1854 to 1859, he was engaged in teaching, and in 1859 commenced the study of law with Messrs. Dennison & Carrington. In March, 1861, he was admitted to the bar, and, in 1872, commenced the practice of law in connection with Mr. Dennison, which terminated by Mr. Dennison's appointment as postmaster-general, two years afterwards. In 1873, he was elected city solicitor of Columbus,. though his party (the Republican) was greatly in the minority, and, in the spring of 1879, mayor of the city, by a large majority. He has always taken an active part in building up the city, and stands well as a lawyer in the community.

GEORGE J. ATKINSON, son of Peabody Atkinson, was born February 22, 1841, at Pataskala, Licking county, Ohio; his paternal and maternai ancestors were from Merrimack county, New Hampshire. He was brought up on a farm, and educated in the common schools. He

spent two years at Dennison university, Granville, Ohio, and three years at Marrietta college, Ohio, and graduated in the class of 1864. He read law with G. C. Collins, of Columbus, Ohio, was admitted to practice by the supreme court in January, 1867, and, in 1869, formed a partnership with G. C. Collins, that has always done a large-collecting business.

He was married to Miss Madge R. McGrah, September 22, 1875. He enlisted as a private in company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio national guards, Colonel Legg, and returned, much broken down in health, and weighing only ninety pounds, from his severe sickness in hospital.

W. T. WALLACE, son of James Wallace and Elizabeth (Eubank) Wallace, was born in Darke county, Ohio, October 19, 1842. He attended common school in winter, and worked on his father's farm in summer, until 1860, when he attended school at Otterbeen university, working on the college farm to pay his expenses, during 1861, and graduated at Southwestern Normal school, at Lebanon, Ohio, in the classical course, in 1867. He

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studied law sunder Judge A. R. Calderwood and Hon. William Allen (his uncle), at Greenville, Ohio, in 1865-6, and was admitted to the bar at Columbus., Ohio, in May, 1871.

Previous to his graduating, in 1867, Mr. Wallace. had been engaged in teaching, having been principal of the White Water academy, in 1864, and superintendent of the public schools at Greenville, Ohio, from April, 1865, to June, 1866. The board of education, of Columbus, elected him principal of one of the schools, and continued him in that capacity for three years, and he was regarded as one of the best in the city:

In June, 1871, he bought the Sunday Morning News, edited and published the paper until November 15, 1872, when he sold it to Messrs. Ombaugh & Brodbeck, since which time he has practiced law in Columbus.

Mr. Wallace is a well-read lawyer, and thoroughly understands the learning of his profession. He is a bachelor, but when he takes his seat in the house of representatives,' next winter, will lay aside that modesty which has, hitherto, prevented him from embarking in the matrimonial market.

JOSEPH H. OUTHWAITE, soh of George and Harriet (Hudson) Outhwaite, was born. at Cleveland, Ohio, December 9, 1841; moved with his father's family; to Zanesville, in 1846, and was educated in the public schools there. He began teaching in the Zanesville high school, in September, 1862, and continued until October, 1864, when he became principal in one of the grammar schools of Columbus, until June 27, 1867, when .he went to Missouri. He read law, while teaching, under the direction of John Haines, esq., of .Zanesville, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio, in the spring of 1866. In September, 1867, was admitted to the bar Of Missouri by the. circuit court of St. Clair county, and practiced in that State four years; returned to Ohio, and commenced the practice of law in Columbus, and in October, 1876, was elected prosecuting attorney, and reelected in 1876. Mr. Outhwaite is a fine speaker, and a rising man.

On June 8, 1870, he was married to Ellen R. Peabody, of Zanesville.

JULIUS C. RICHARDS, son of Hiram and Maria (DeLashmutt) Richards, was born August 17, 1839, in Perry township, Franklin county, Ohio, where his father now resides. He worked on his father's farm, and received a common school education at the district schools, until he arrived at the age of nineteen years, when he became a student at the Capitol university, at Columbus, Ohio, where he attended for about three years, and, upon leaving it, he attended the Washington academy, in Guernsey county, Ohio, under the instruction of Professor Alexander. He was at the latter place one year. In the year 1862, he was appointed. deputy clerk of the courts of Franklin county, Ohio, and served in that capacity for six years.. During the last three years that .he acted as deputy clerk, he read law, and had as his preceptor Lorenzo English, of the city of Columbus. On the eleventh day of March, 1868, he was admitted to the: bar of the supreme court of the State, as an attorney-at-law, since

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which. time he has been actively engaged in the practice at Columbus, Ohio.

He was married, on the fifth day of October, 1869, to Miss Josephine B. Everitt, daughter of

Zephaniah Everitt, late of Perry township, Franklin county, Ohio, and has three children as the issue of said marriage.

H. J. BOOTH was born March 14, 1849, at Lancaster, Ohio, where his father, Henry M. Booth, taught a select school for several years. His mother, Ann A. Booth (nee Jones), is of Welch ancestry, and the subject of this sketch is of Welch, Scotch and Irish extraction. In 1858, his father died at Des Moines, Iowa, from which place his mother returned, immediately, to " Welch Hills," near Granville, in Licking county, Ohio. Left an orphan, at the age of four years, with no patrimony, save an interest in a small tract of wild land in Iowa, he was compelled, when quite small, to seek employment as a farm laborer. During the winter months he attended school, and during the remainder of the year, he worked on the farm by the month, until eighteen years of age. In the fall of 1867, he entered Dennison university, at Granville, Ohio, where he pursued his studies five years. In 1872, he 'entered Amherst college, where he graduated in 1873. In August, of that year, he located at Columbus, where he resumed the study of law, which he had commenced while at college, in the office of Hon. George L. Converse. He was admitted to the bar in April, 1874, and shortly afterwards became a member of the law firm of Converse, Woodbury & Booth. He has been engaged in the practice since that time.

In July, 1876, he married Miss Madge I., Coney, of Union county, Ohio. In 1877, he was elected, on the Democratic ticket, as one of the members from Franklin county, in the legislature. He was the youngest member of the house, with, possibly, one exception, and was appointed a member of the judiciary committee.; his career as a member of that body was a success. In the language of one of his fellow-members, " he was one of the clearest thinkers, best lawyers, and .ablest debaters in the house." At the close of his first term, he declined to be a candidate for re-election, preferring to devote his time entirely to his business. In the practice of his profession he has met with marked success. He is now a member of the law firm of Converse, Booth & Keating.

JOHN D. SULLIVAN, son of Denis and Mary (Halsey) Sullivan,. was born in Kenmare, county of Kerry, Ireland, March, 1841, and is the youngest of eight sons. He received a good common school education, in his native town, from well-known classical instructors, and was bookkeeper at the early age of fourteen years, which position he left to come to America. Mr. Sullivan came to Columbus, Ohio, in August, 1859, where he commenced the study of the law. • In connection with his legal studies, he attended a select German school, taught by Prof. Phliegel, of that city. In 1863, he entered the quarter-master's department of the army, as clerk, and soon rose to be chief clerk. In 1864,,when Major General A. J. Smith was assigned an independent command, Mr. Sullivan was assigned avchief clerk of the expedition, on the staff of the general. He remained attached to General Smith's staff until September, 1865, when the last of the command was mustered out at Springfield, Illinois, from where he made his final report to Washington. He again resumed the study of law, at Memphis, Tennessee, where he went after leaving the army. In 1868, he came back to Columbus, and after remaining the necessary time required by the laws of the State, was admitted to practice by the supreme court, December, 187o. Mr. Sullivan has been an active and successful practitioner, since his admission to the bar ; is well known in this and adjoining counties, and 'has, as he deserves, the confidence: of those who know him.

DEWITT C. JONES, son of John C. and Sarah H. (Taylor) Jones, was born in September, 1848, on a farm near London, Madison county, Ohio; was educated in the common schools, and in the Ohio Wesleyan university, at Delaware, read law with Hon. Chauncey N. Olds, at Columbus, and was admitted to the the bar, February 2 2, 1872, by the supreme court, and opened a law office in Columbus.

In 1877 he was elected a member of the city council, and to him the city is mostly indebted for the new city prison. He is a Democrat, and a ready speaker.

He was married, on April 9, 1876, to. Laura C. N. Homyer, youngest daughter of George Homyer, one of the oldest German citizens of Columbus.

His father was from Jonesboro, Tennessee, and his mother from Richmond, Virginia, and emigrated to Ohio in 184o. Mr. Jones is a good speaker, and energetic in all his undertakings.

J. T. HOLMES, son of Asa Holmes and Mary (McCoy) Holmes, was born November 25, 1837, in Harrison county, Ohio, on the homestead. farm; where his grandfather, Col. Joseph. Holmes, who was from Maryland; settted in 1799. He was educated in the common schools, and Franklin college, where he graduated in September, 1859.

He entered the army in 1862, and served till the close of the war. He was enrolled as a second lieutenant, fo the Fifty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, and, on its organization, was made captain of company G. regiment was attached to the army of the Cumberland; and he shared its fortunes throughout the war—at th bloody battle of Chickamauga, and at Jonesboro, where he was wounded, in June, 1864. He was promoted from captain to major, and then to lieutenant-colonel, and had command of the regiment for sixteen months, taking .part in Sherman's 'march to the sea, the capture of Johnston's army, and the grand ovation, at Washington; at the close of the war.

He commenced reading law with Francis Collins, esq., at Columbus, in June, 1865, and was admitted to the bar, by the supreme court, at Columbus, in June, 1867, and has practiced law there ever since.

He was married on December 28, 1871, to a daughter of Judge L. Bates.

Colonel Holmes is very diligent in devoting himself entirely to his professional business; he is a man of fine .personal address, and ranks high among the rising members of the bar at the capitol.

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JOHN C. MITCHELL, son of Moses G: and Elizabeth Mitchell was born at Piqua, Ohio, November 6, 1838; graduated at Kenyon college in June, 1859; studied law with Swan & Andrews, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1865, by the supreme court, and commenced the practice of law in Columbus. He enlisted as a private in Bennett's battalion, July, 1861, and was appointed first lieutenant, Third Ohio. volunteer infantry; commissioned September 2, 1862, lieutenant-colonel of the One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, and May 3d, colonel; promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers December 1, 1864, and resigned July, 1865. His services were with the army of the Cumberland. The War interrupted his legal studies; and he was not admitted to the bar until after its close.

HAWLEY J. WYLIE was born in the township of Coventry, Chenango county, State of New York, December 3, 1833• When he was fourteen years of age, his father, who was a farmer, died At the age of seventeen years he began teaching a district school, and for three successive years attended the Norwich academy during the summer term, teaching school in the country in the winter. He left the academy in 1855, and spent two years in mining in California. In March, 1859, he came to Columbus, Ohio, entered upon the study of law in the office of General Joseph H. Geiger and Abner L. Andrews, and, on the first day of April, 1861, was admitted to the bar at Columbus, by the supreme court of Ohio, Judge Robert B. Warden and Noah H. Swayne, now associate justice of the United States court, being the committee who examined him and recommended his admission. He immediately commenced the practice of law at Columbus, Ohio. In July, 1862, he recruited a company for the Ninety-fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and, on the eighteenth day of July, 1862, at Columbus,. Ohio, was mustered into the United States military service as captain, and assigned to the command of Company H, Ninety-fifth regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being the company which he had, with the assistance of two lieutenants, recruited. His commission, from David Tod, governor of Ohio, was dated August. 28, to take effect from July 22, 1862. He was captured at the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, August 3o, 1862, by the Confederate forces under General Kirby Smith, and paroled and sent to Camp Lew Wallace, in Franklin county, Ohio. On the fifth of December, 1862, his regiment not having been yet exchanged, he resigned his commission and resumed the practice of the law at Columbus, Ohio. He was elected city solicitor of Columbus, in April, 1863, and re-elected in 1865, holding the office four years; since which. time he has been engaged at Columbus in the practice of his profession. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR, second son of David and Margaret Livingston Taylor, was born in Truro township, Franklin county, Ohio, March 20,1839 ; was educated at Hanover college, Indiana, and at Miami university, Ohio, graduating from the latter in the class of 1866. In June, 1860, he entered the law office of Hon. Chauncey N. Olds as a student, and was admitted to the bar November 12, 1862, at Columbus, by the supreme court of Ohio. In July, 1862, he entered the army as captain of company D, Ninety-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and on August 3oth, of that year, was engaged in the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, at which time he was taken prisoner of war. He was exchanged in November, 1862, and served with his regiment until after the close of the siege of Vicksburg, which was July 4, 1863, when, on account of impaired health, he was compelled to leave the service, since which time he has practiced law at Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Taylor was married, on the fourteenth day of July, 1864, to Kate Noble Myers, of Columbus, Ohio.

CHARLES O. HUNTER, son of Elenathan S. and Mary (Peters) Hunter, was born in Nebraska, Pickaway county, Ohio, June 7, 1853. His grandfather was Moses M. Hunter, a brother of the late Hon. Hocking H. Hunter, and a son of Captain Joseph Hunter, the founder of Fairfield county, Ohio. Charles received his early education in the public schools, and afterwards attended the National Normal, of Lebanon, for four years; where he graduated in 1873. He at once commenced the study of law, in Lancaster, Ohio, with Hon. M. A. Daugherty as his preceptor, and in January, 1874, removed with that gentleman to Columbus, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of the State, on the fourth day of October, 1875. He has met with good success in the practice, and is devoting most attention to the law of corporations. Mr. Hunter is not married. He is the prime gentleman of the Columbus bar.

GILBERT H. STEWART, son of Alonzo and Isabel Stewart, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 15, 1847. He was educated in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, schools, graduating from the Cambridge high school in 1864. He entered Harvard college in the class of 1864, and left the college in the spring. of 1867, and entered the Harvard law school, remaining there one term: He read law with Lorenzo Marrett, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, and with H. G. Carhart, Galion, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar May 5, 1869, at Columbus, Ohio, by the Franklin county district court. He practiced law from that time until April, 1873, at Galion, Ohio; In April, 1873, he removed to Columbus, Ohio, where he has ever since remained in the practice of his profession. He was married June 22, 1875, to Clara L., daughter of Prof. John Ogden, Worthington, Ohio.

SYLYESTER ANDREWS, son of Lyman. and Percy N. (Vining) Andrews, vas, born February 3, 1821, in Liberty township, Delaware county, Ohio ; he was educated at the common schools, and at Central college, Franklin county, Ohio. His ancestors, paternal and maternal, were of old New England descent, who settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1646, and his father emigrated to Worthington, Ohio, in 18i8.

Mr. Andrews read law in Delaware, with William Powell, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1845, by the supreme court on the circuit in that county; and immediately commenced the practice of the law in Bellefontaine, Logan county, Ohio. In 1848, he came to Co-

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lumbus, and opened a law office, in. partnership with -Mather, for two years, arid, afterwards, with Hon. S. S. Cox, which continued until 1856. He then practiced alone, until 1874, when his health gave way so as to affect his mind, and he was removed to the asylum, at Athens, Ohio; in August, 1875, and died there October t, 1876, from paralysis. He was appointed adjutant general of the State by Governor Wood, in 1852, and served to the close of Governor Medill's administration, in 1854. He took a great interest in the common schools, and was a member of the board of education, of the city of Columbus, for ten or twelve years. General Andrews was a good lawyer, well read in the books, and very ambitious. The melancholy circumstances attending his death, excited much sympathy.

He was married first on March. 24, 1845, to Lovinda E. Marks, daughter of • Sheldon Marks, of Delaware county, Ohio. She died in 1848, and on Febrnary 15, 1853, he was married to Jeannette Lazell, daughter of Judge John A. Lazell, of Franklin county. She died before him, leaving one daughter, Jeannette, who married Joseph Given, of Columbus, Ohio.

The following is a list of the judges who have pre- sided at the courts of common pleas, of Franklin county, since their organization :

1803—Wyliss Silliman.

1804.--Levin Belt.

1805—Robert Slaughter..

1807 - Levin Belt.

1810—William Wilson.

1812—John Thompson.

1816—Orris Parish; resigned 1819.

1819—Frederick Grimke, by appointment.

1820—John A. McDotvell, elected; died in 1823.

1823—Gustavus Swan, appointed, then elected

1830—Frederick Grimke, elected.

1834—Joseph R. Swan, elected.

1841—Joseph R. Swan, re-elected.

1848—J. L. Torbet, elected.

1851—James L. Bates, elected, under the new constitution, for a five years term, beginning the second Monday of February, 1852.

1856—James L. Bates, re-elected.

1861—James L. Bates, re-elected.

1866—John L. Green; elected.

1871—John L. Green, re-elected.

1876—John L..Green, re-elected.

1868—Joseph H. Olds, elected additional judge in Franklin, Madison and Pickaway comities, the third subdivision of the fifth judicial district.

1873--Edward F. Bingham, elected additional judge for Franklin, Madison and Pickaway counties, the third subdivision of the fifth judicial district.

1872—Edward F. Bingham, re-elected.

1878—Eli P. Evans, elected.

The number of lawyers at the capital has increased wonderfully from the ten in the directory of Columbus; when it was first incorporated as a city, in 1834.

The bar of Franklin county has furnished many distinguished men, who have filled the highest offices in the State and made their mark in the history of the country. One of the main objects of these sketches is to preserve a record of the past and the generation that is passing away.

A roster is added of the younger members of the profession, in order that the future historian may not encounter the same difficulties as to the dates of birth, education, and other necessary information that hav been a constant source of embarrassment in preparin. this matter. Any comissions must be attributed to parties failing to supply the facts asked for when requested.

E. L. DEWITT, born at Marietta, Ohio, June 29, 1839., Received his education at private schools, and graduate at Marietta college in 1863; studied law With Chaunce N. Olds, of Columbus, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar, August, 1867, since when he has practiced law at Columbus, Ohio; was appointed reporter of the supreme court of Ohio in 1874, and re-appointed in 1877; has reported volumes twenty-four to thirty-four, inclusive, of Ohio State reports. Mr. DeWitt is married.

THOMAS J. DUNCAN, son of Thomas and Mary (Iles) Duncan, was born October 14, 1844, and brought up on a farm near Lancaster, in Fairfield county. He was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan university, at Delaware, and graduated in June, 186; read law with Martin & McNeal and Connell & Fritter, in Lancaster, and was admitted to the bar by the district court, in Circleville, in May, 1871, and began the practice of law in Columbus, on the fourteenth day of June, of the same year. Mr. Duncan is unmarried.

FRANK F. HOFFMAN, son of R. C. and Lucy M. (Fuller) Hoffman, was born at Jackson, Ohio, January 19, 1852; was educated at the common schools of Steubenville, Ohio, and Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio; read law with R. C. Hoffman and E. L. DeWitt, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court at Columbus, on the first Tuesday in- February, 1876, and since that time has practiced at Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Hoffman is unmarried.

JAMES F. HOFFMAN, son of R. C. and L. M. (Fuller) Hoffman, was born August 12, 1844, at Jackson Court House, Ohio; educated at Marietta college and Ohio university; read law with his father, R. C. Hoffman; admitted to the bar at Columbus, by the supreme. court, at the April term, 1871. He has since been engaged in practice in Columbus.

JOHN C. L. PUGH, born August 24, 1855, at Columbus, Ohio, is a son of John M. and Martha F. (Cook) Pugh; attended the Columbus high school for the full course of . four years, and graduated in June, 1872. He then entered the freshman class of Princeton college, New Jersey, and graduated in June, 1876; commenced reading law in the fall of the same year with Col.. J. P. Holmes, and was admitted to the bar March 29, 1879; has commenced the practice of law in partnership with his father, Hon. John M. Pugh, in Columbus. Mr. Pugh is single.

WILLIAM J. CLARKE, son of John D. and Margaret (Turney) Clarke, was born in Columbus, Ohio, May 6, 1854; educated in Columbus, and, in 187o, entered the university of Notre Dame, Indiana, and graduated in 1874. Two years later the degree of A. M. was conferred on him by his alma mater.

In 1874 Mr. Clarke read law with the Hon. M. A. Dougherty, in Columbus, and in June, 1876, was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio, and has practiced in Columbus ever since. In 1878 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin county; he is unmarried.

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GEORGE K. NASH was born August 14, 1842, in Medina county, Ohio. His father was a farmer. He was educated at Oberlin college, but left that institution in the sophomore year to enter the army as a private soldier. Owing to sickness there contracted, he did not resume his colligiate studies, but studied •law in Columbus, Ohio, with Hon. R. B. Warden, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1867. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, in October, 187o, and reelected in 1872, and resigned, October r, 1874. Unmarried.

PHILANDER B. CASE, son of Timothy and Nannie Case, was born January 9,- 1826, in Liberty township, Delaware county, Ohio; educated in private schools; read law with Hon. George L. Converse; admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, in February, 1858, where he settled to practice in May, 1864, after practicing in Madison, Champaign, Union, and Delaware counties; was married in 1849.

GEORGE S. PETERS was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, October 1, 1846, on a farm; educated at common district school; commenced to study. law with the Hon. Chauncy N. Olds, of Columbus, Ohio; was admitted to the bar in December, 1873, by the supreme court, and commenced the practice of law, April r, 1875; married November 29, 1877.

HENRY C. TAYLOR, son of David Taylor and Margaret (Livingston) Taylor, was born on the fifteenth day of May, 1844, in Truro township, Franklin county, Ohio. He was educated in the public schools of Columbus, and at Miami university ; he graduated 1865.. In April, 1862, he enlisted, as a private, in company A, Eighty-sixth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until it was mustered out, in September, 186.2. He read law with Henry C. Noble, commencing. in September, 1865, was admitted to the bar by the district court, at Chillicothe, September 19, 1867 and immediately attended one term at the Harvard law school. He has practiced law, in Columbus, since the summer of 1868.

IVOR HUGHES was born at Newport, Monmouthshire, England, September 13, 1846. He was educated at Waterford Model school, Ireland, and read law with Hon. George L. Converse. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1873, and has since practiced. law in Columbus. On the fifth of November, 1870, he was married to Addie Rhodes.

C. E. BRIGGS was born in Franklin county,. Ohio, September 20, 1849. He was educated at Central college, and Otterbein university ; entered the army, June 13, 1861, as a member of the Third Ohio volunteer infantry, and served three years in this regiment. On March 25, 1865, he re-enlisted in the Fifth regiment United States veteran volunteers, and served one year-to the close of the war. He read law with Rankin & Wylie, at Columbus, Ohio, was admitted to the bar, March 5, 1867, by the supreme court of the State, and has, since his admission, been practicing in Columbus. Mr. Briggs is a married man.

E. P. JEWETT, son of Judge Leonidas and Mary G. (Berry) Jewett, was born November 16, 1852, at Athens, Ohio. He was educated at the Ohio university, graduating in June, 1874. He read law with Hon. R. de Steigner, of Athens, Ohio; was admitted to practice, at the September term of the district court, of Athens county, 1877, and was admitted to the bar in Columbus, Ohio, November 17th, of the same year. Mr: Jewett is unmarried.

GEORGE DUDLEY JONES, son of John C. and Sarah H. (Taylor) Jones, was born at London, Ohio, May 25, 1854. He was educated at the London, schools, and read law with Harrison & Olds, and was admitted to the. bar, by the supreme court, on the fifth day of April, 1876, and commenced the practice, in Columbus, in July, 1876.

GEORGE O. HAMILTON, son of Dr. I. N. Hamilton and Margaret (Cramer) Hamilton, was born January 14, 1851, at Richwood, Union county, Ohio. He was educated in the common schools, and .read law with Hon. J. W. Robinson, of Marysville, Union county, Ohio, and attended the law school at Harvard university. In May, 1874, he was admitted to the bar, by the supreme court, of Ohio, and has practiced in Columbus, since October, 1877. He is unmarried.

R. B. MONTGOMERY, son of John and Mary S. Montgomery, was born April 27, 1852, in Delaware, Ohio; was educated at Kenyon college; read law with Hon. Geo. L. Converse ; was admitted to the bar, March 12, 1879, and has parcticed in Columbus ever since.

WILLIAM O. HENDERSON, son of James A. and Mary Josephine (Phifer) Henderson, was . born October 28, 1850, in Union county, Ohio. In 1874 he graduated from Yale college, and registered, in July, 1874, as a law student, in the office of Robinson & Piper, Marysville, Ohio. In July, 1877, he was admitted to the bar, at the district court of Allen county, at Lima, and has practiced law at Columbus, since October, 1871: He is unmarried.

J. W. MOONEY, son of David C. and Clarine Mooney, was born October 6, 1855, in Belmont county, Ohio, was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan university, read law one year in the office of Major C. H. McElroy, in Delaware, entered the Cincinnati law college, and graduated in 187 9 ; he was admitted to the bar by the district court, of Hamilton county, the same year, and has. since practiced in Columbus. Mr. Mooney is unmarried.

SAMUEL HAMBLETON, son of Thomas C. Hambleton and Edith (Hanlan) Hambleton, was born January 1, 1847, on a farm near Flushing, Belmont county, Ohio; was educated in the public schools and Mt. Union college, Stark county, Ohio ; studied law in the office of Turner & McLane, at Steubenville, Ohio, and took a course of law at the Michigan State university from 1871 to 1873, and was., admitted NS the bar by the district court of Belmont county, in 1873, and commenced the practice of the law in the fall of 1873, at Columbus. Is married.

ROBERT C. FULTON was born December 21, 1825, in Loudon county, Virginia, and came to Ohio when eighteen years of age. He received a collegiate education at Delaware, Ohio; studied law with Judge I. Corwin,

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and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He practiced in Champaign county; was elected to the legislature, in October, 1.869, from Champaign county; was re-elected in October, 1871; was commissioned, by Governor Noyes, judge of the common pleas court, to fill 'a vacancy in the fall of 1874; was elected judge of the common pleas court for the second judicial district of Ohio, in October, 1873, and commissioned to serve as such until February, 1877. He resigned, in October, 1876, removed to 'Columbus, and resumed the practice of law.

WILLIAM NEIL DENNISON, son of Hon. William and Anne Eliza (Neil) Dennison, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, December 1o, 1841; educated at Kenyon college; read law with General H. B. Carrington, and Collins & Atkinson; was admitted to the bar at Columbus, April 13, 1877, arid has practiced law since, in Columbus. At the breaking out of the rebellion, in 1861, he went into the three months service, on the staff of Major-General McClellan; was appointed second lieutenant of the Second United States artillery; in August, 1861 ; and remained in the army until 1870, when he resigned, being then a full captain, and lieutenant-colonel by brevet. He was elected member of the city council of Columbus from the seventh ward, in April, 1878.

G. F. CASTLE, the youngest child of John H. P. and Margaret Castle, was born in Miami county, Ohio, Novumber 4, 1829; received his education at the Ohio Wesleyan university, at Delaware; read law with Mr. H. Jones, of Piqua, Miami county; was admitted to the bar, June 4, 1860; commenced the practice of law on the tenth of July, 186o, at Toledo, Ohio," and, in the spring of 1868, removed to the city of Columbus, where he has, ever since, been in the practice. He is married.

JAMES WATSON, was born in Madison county, Ohio, January 21; 1839; son of Jesse and Margaret Watson; graduated from Ohio university, at Delaware, in 1858; read law with McClintock & Smith, of Chillicothe; admitted to the bar in 186o; commenced the practice of law, in London, Ohio, in the early part of 1861, and went into the army in September, 1861. Mr. Watson resumed the practice in Columbus in June, 1865, and is now of the firm of Watson & Burr. He is married.

CHARLES E. BURR; JR., was born at Worthington, Ohio, November 22, 1843; son of Charles E. and Sophia R. Burr; graduated at Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio, in 1865; read law with ____ Parsons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Judge James L. Bates, Columbus,Ohio; admitted to the bar July 5, 1871, at Columbus, where he has been practicing ever. since. He is now of the firm of Watson & Burr. Mr. Burr' is married.

TALFOURD P. LINN was born July 15, 1854, at McConnellsville, Ohio; son of Hon: D. B. Linn, attorney-at-law, Zanesville, Ohio; graduated at Kenyon college, Ohio, in 1872; read law= with his father; admitted to the bar in September, 1875, and has practiced in Columbus ever since. Mr. Linn. is a bachelor.

GEORGE LINCOLN ARTZ, son of John and Elizabeth N. (Crook) Artz, was born near Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, on the twenty-eighth day of January, 1854; graduated at Wesleyan university, Illinois; June 15, 1878; was admitted to the Bloomington bar, in that State, the same year; returned to his home, and was admitted to the practice of law at Columbus, Ohio, on the fourth day of March, 1879, where he commenced immediately the practice of his profession. Mr. Artz is unmarried.

G. J. MARRIOTT, was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 18, 1844; was educated at Central college, Ohio, Dennison university and Ohio Wesleyan university; commenced the study of law in September, 1871, with George L. Converse, and was admitted to the bar on the third day of December, 1873, since. which time he has practiced his profession in the city of Columbus. Mr. Marriott was married to Miss Jennie Bulen, of Grove City, Ohio, December 30, 1875.

R. B. SMITH; son of Henry and Sabrina Smith, was born August 18, 1828, in Marlborough township, Delaware county, Ohio, graduated at Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, in 1855, read law with Hon. Jas. R. Hubbell, in Delaware, and was admitted to the bar, at the district court, in Delaware county, Ohio, in July, 1857, where he practiced until 1864, when he removed to Columbus, where he is still engaged in the practice of his profession. Mr. Smith was married in 1856.

RIPLEY C. HOFFMAN, son of Daniel and Julia (James; Hoffman, was born in Jackson. Court House, Ohio, Sep. September 22, 1822. He was educated at Ohio university, read law with Elihu Johnson, of Jackson Court House was admitted to the bar by the supreme court, on circuit in November, 1843, at Jackson Court House; he practiced in Jackson until October, 186o, when he remove( to Steubenville,. Ohio, and practiced there until January 1869, when he removed to Ottawa, Kansas, and then thence to Columbus, in October, of the same year, where he has since resided.

ALEXANDER W. KRUMM, son of Martin and Fredericka (Fichtner) Krumm born March 12, 1850, a Columbus, Ohio; he graduated at the Columbus high school, June 25, 1868, and then read law with J. Wun Baldwin and Lorenzo English, and was admitted to thy bar, by the supreme court, in May, 1875. In April 1879, he was elected city solicitor, of Columbus. Mr Krumm is married.

DAVID C. WELLING, son of David L. and Rebecca J. Welling, was born in Harrison county, Ohio; October 20, 1851; he was educated at Franklin college, New Athens, Ohio, and at Worthington, Ohio; studied lar with Chas. E. Burr, jr., at Columbus, and was admitad to the bar June 5, 1876, since When he has been practiced Columbus. Mr. Welling is married.

JOSEPH V. LEE, son of Joseph and Nancy Lee, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania in 1836; he lived, from infancy, in Harrison county, Ohio; graduate at Franklin college, New Athens, in 1854; read law is Cadiz, and Newark,. Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Newark, in June, 1866; commenced practice Newark, and since 1870, has lived in Columbus. Mr. Lee is master commissioner and official stenographer of the courts of Franklin county. He is unmarried.

W. E. GUERIN was born at Reynoldsburg, Ohio, March

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8, 1847. He graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio, June 28, 1868. On the fourteenth if January, 1870, he was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio. From 1873 to 1875, he was a ember of the Kansas State senate. He practiced his profession, from 1870 to 1875, at Fort Scott, Kansas, and Columbus since 1875. Mr. Guerin is married.

WALTER B. PAGE was born at Pomeroy, Meigs county, Ohio, February I, 1849. He graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan university, in June, 1879, and studied law with on. William P. Reid. In June, 1874, he was admitted o the practice of law, by the supreme court of Ohio, and as practiced, since that time, in Columbus, as a Member of the firm of Reid & Page, and alone, since the death of

Mr. Reid.

ALEXANDER H. FRITCHEY, son of Francis Xavier and Lydia Ann Fritchey, was born at Coshocton, Ohio, November, 3, 1837. He was educated at the public schools at Coshocton county, and studied law with Hon. William Rankin, in Columbus. On the second of January, 1877, he was admitted to the bar, by the supreme court, at Columbus, and has since practiced at the latter place. In 1864 and 1865, he was postmaster at Coshocton, Ohio, and was first lieutenant, and regimental quartermaster, of the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio Volunteers, in the war, from 1861 to 1865. He was married, at Columbus, November 12, 1861, and settled there 1865.

J. H. HEITMANN was born, in 1842, in Hanover, Germany, and was educated as a teacher. After coming to his country, in 1866, he taught school in Cincinnati two ;ears, and in Columbus, three years. He read law with F. T. Holmes, and was admitted to the bar in 1871. In 1873, he was elected to the legislature ; in 1875 was elected mayor of Columbus; and re-elected in 1877. He practices his profession in Columbus.

HENRY M. BUTLER, son of Jacob and Esther M. Butler, of Columbus, was born at Muscatine, Iowa, April 28, 1854, and was educated at Andover, Massachusetts, and Yale college, New Haven, Connecticut. After reading law with Hon. Rufus King, of Elmira, New York, and H. C. Noble, esq., of Columbus, Ohio, he was admitted to the bar, in October, 1878, and commenced practice at Columbus. Mr. Butler is unmarried.

FAXON F. D. ALBERT, son of H. B. and Julia F. (Smith) Albery, was born December 3, 1848; he was educated in the public schools of Columbus, and graduated at the Columbus high school in 1866. In 1871-2, he studied at the university of Berlin, and at the university of Leipzig, in 1872-3. He read law with H. P. Albery, and was admitted to the bar, by the supreme court, of Ohio, in the spring of 1873, and to practice, in the United States courts, at Cincinnati, in January, 1879, and has practiced in Columbus since 1873.

On November 16, 1876, he married Miss Mina Seuter, of Columbus.

RICHARD P. WOODRUFF was born July 28, 1840, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio; he graduated at Delaware, Ohio; was principal teacher in the union school in East Des Moines, Iowa; he studied law with Gen.. C. C. Nourse, and was admitted to practice, at Des Moines, Iowa.

He enlisted in the Sixty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and was mustered out of the service at Boonsborough, North Carolina. On May 20, 1865, he commenced the practice, of law, at Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Woodruff .is married.

LUKE G. BYME was born December 6, 1848, in Meath county, Ireland, and came to Groveport, Franklin county, Ohio, with his parents, William and Elizabeth Byrne, where he was educated; read law under English & Baldwin, and was admitted to practice on the second day of May, 1872, and located in the city of Columbus, where he is now practicing. Mr. Byme is unmarried.

P. E. FLECK was born September 10, 1852, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. His father was from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and his mother from Massachusetts. At nights and odd times, while working and teaching, he picked up his education; read law with Robinson & Piper, of Marysville, Ohio. On September 23, 1873, he was admitted to the bar, by the supreme court, at Columbus. He has practiced four years at New Philadelphia, and two in Columbus, and is now a partner in the firm of Wood & Fleck.

THOMAS J. KEATING, son of Thomas Keating, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 4, 185o; removed to Dayton, Ohio, about 1857, and attended primary schools there, and Dennison university preparatory department, until 1868; graduated in the classics in 1873; studied law with Warren Munger, jr.; was admitted to the bar, in 1874, by the supreme court of Ohio at its fall term at Columbus ; practiced, at Dayton, Ohio, until January 21, 1878, at which time he removed to Columbus and became a member of the firm of Converse, Booth & Keating, and was married, May 3o, 1878.

JAMES A. MILES, son of John D. and Sarah (Games) Miles, was born in Eden township, Licking county, Ohio, September 21, 1844; educated at Sunbury high school and Oberlin university; read law in Bucyrus, Crawford county, Ohio, with Judges .A. .M. Jackson and Thomas Beer; was admitted to the bar, September 4, 1868, and practiced, since April, 1869, in Franklin county, Ohio. He was. a private in Company. H, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years, and was married, March 4, 1869.

BENJAMIN WOODBURY was born .near Greenville, Licking county, Ohio, November 17, 1848; graduated at Dennison university, Granville; studied law in the office of Hon. George L. Converse, at Columbus; was admitted to the bar by the supreme court in October, 1873, and has since practiced at Columbus. He was married in December, 1875.

WILLIAM C. STEWART, son of A. A. Stewart, was born at Columbus, Ohio, August 28, 1847; graduated at Kenyon college; read law with Chauncy N. Olds and L. J. Critchfield; was. admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio at its December term, 1869, and has since practiced law in Columbus, Ohio. He is married.

APPLETON J. IDE was born at Columbus, Ohio, August 12, 1851, and graduated at Hobart college, Geneva, New

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York, in the class of 1872. After studying the legal time with the firm of Harrison, Olds & Marsh, he was admitted to the bar, April 5, 1878, and now practices in Columbus. He is unmarried.

FRANK W. ARNOLD, son of Thomas and Augusta E. Arnold, was born in the city of Columbus, Ohio, on the fifth of October, 1851 ; had ten years' common and high school education; studied law under Judge H. B. Albery, and was admitted to the bar on the fourth of February, 1879, by the supreme court. He is unmarried.

DAVID. K. WATSON, son of Jesse and Margaret Watson, Was born June i8, 1849, near London, Madison county, Ohio ; entered Dickinson college in T867, and graduated. in 1871; read law one year in the office of Wilson & Duflieger, in London, Ohio; entered the law school of Boston university, and graduated in 1873; was admitted to the bar by the district court, at Newark; Ohio, in the same year; practiced one year in London, Ohio; has since practiced in Columbus. Mr. Watson was married in 1873.

MARTIN J. NOLEN, son of John and Anna (Kelly) Nolen; was born at Columbus, Ohio, November 11, 1854; educated at Notre Dame college, Indiana; studied law with Hon. George K. Nash, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court, November, 1878, and is at present practicing in Columbus. Mr. Nolen is unmarried.

W. H. DUNNICK, son of Joseph. and Catharine (Deldine) Dunnick, was born December 3o, 1829, ten miles sontheast of Columbus, Ohio. He was educated in, the common schools ; read law with P. B. Case; admitted in the winter of 1864, by the supreme court ; practices in Columbus, most of the time. He is married.

CHARLES TAPPAN was born in Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio. He graduated from Kenyon college, and the Columbia college law school; read law in the office-of Messrs. Nash & Holt, and was admitted to the bar in New York at the May term of the supreme court, in 1878, and admitted to practice in Ohio, by the supreme 'court, in November, of the same year, and has since practiced. in Columbus. Mr. Tappan is a single gentleman.

EDWARD L. McCUNE, son of Jonas M. and Catharine (Lumley) McCune, was born at Columbus, Ohio, March 27, 1855. He was educated at the university of the South Sewanee, Tennessee; read law with Lorenzo English, and was admitted to the bar by the district court of Franklin county, April 10, 1877, and since then has practiced at Columbus. He was married July 12, 1876.

JASON W. FIRESTONE, son of Henry and 'Mary (Huffstott) Firestone, was born near Canton, Stark county, Ohio, October 3o, 1853; graduated at the Ohio Weslyan university, of Delaware, in 1875; read law with Lorenzo English, of Columbus, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court, in 1877, and since that time has been practicing in Columbus.

LORENZO D. HAGERTY is a son of George J. and Catharine (Estile) Hagerty, and was born November Ir, .1853, at the village of Irville, Muskingum county, Ohio, but soon after removed to Hanover, Licking county, Ohio, with the family. Lorenzo received a' common school education, by private instructions at home, and also attended school at Lebanon, Ohio, and graduated in law at the university of Michigan, in June, 1876; was. admitted to the bar by the supreme court in June, 1876, and has, since that time, been practicing in Columbus: He is unmarried.

IRA H. CRUM is a son of William A. Crum, and was born in the year .1855, in Franklin county. Ira graduated in the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, in June, 1876, and read law in the office of James E. Wright and Hon. Eli P. Evans, of Columbus, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1879, since which time he has been in the practice of the law in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Cru is unmarried.

GEORGE B. OKEY was born December 14, 1849, at. Woodsfield, Monroe county, Ohio, and was educated in the common schools, and the famous Hughes high school:. He studied law with his father, Judge J. W. Okey, and graduated from the Cincinnati law school; admitted to the bar, and formed a partnership with his father, the same year, at Cincinnati. In 1874, he removed to Columbus, and commenced the practice of law, and in November, 1873, was appointed a member of the codifying commission to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Hon. John Okey. as a judge of the supreme courts. Mr. Okey is married.

DAVID E. WILLIAMS, son of John W. and Esther (Jones) Williams, was born February 27, 185o, on Welch Hills, Licking county, Ohio. In 1874 he graduated from Dennison university, and, after reading law in the office of George L. Converse, was admitted to the bar, in November, 1875, by the supreme court. In 1877, he commenced practice in Columbus. Mr.- Williams is unmarried.

GEORGE W. MEEKER, born in the city of Columbus, November 20, 1834, was the eldest son of Joshua and -Hannah (Van Brimmer) Meeker. He was educated at Otterbein university, Westerville, and read law with George L. Converse. In October, 1868, he was admitted to the bar, by the supreme court of Ohio, and practiced in Columbus. In 1863 he was elected justice of the peace, and mayor of the city of Columbus in 1869. In 1871 he was appointed land commissioner of Midland Pacific railway, by the 'directors. Mr. Meeker is married.

THOMAS L. JONES, son of James K. and Mary (Whitaker) Jones, was born May 2, 1845, at Triadelphia, Morgan county, Ohio, and was educated in the commor schools and at the Ohio university, at Athens. He stud. ed law at Yale law. school, New Haven, Connecticut, and read with Elias M. Stanbery, of McConnellsville, Ohio. In December, 1863, he. was admitted to the bar by the district court, and practiced in Morgan county. In January, 1875, he removed to Columbus, and has practice( there since. He is married.

H. P. ANDREWS, son of Hiram and Louisa (Pinney Andrews, was born February 18, 1848, at Worthington Franklin county, Ohio, and was educated at Otterbein university. He read law with A. Andrews, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court, at Columbus in January, 1873, and has since practiced law there. HI is not married.

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THOS.. C. FLOURNOY was born in Lexington, Kentucky, rind studied law with Henry Clay. He was admitted to the bar, and came to Columbus, in 1818, and engaged in the practice of law. He was a fine speaker, but full f eccentricities, in dress and manner.

He was elected a representative in the legislature, in 1827, and was also adjutant-general, for a time. He was very pompous in his manner, and many jokes are told about him.

He returned to Kentucky, in 1832, and died, a few years ago, in that State.*

NOTE.-Owing to the delay in receiving back from Columbus the proofs containing the author's corrections, we are obliged to add as appendix to the foregoing chapter the following emendations. We regret very much that these errors could not have been corrected before it became necessary to print the chapter ; but we have done the best that circumstances would allow us to do. The illegibility of Mr. Baber's hand-writing is chiefly responsible for the errors in names and dates ; and these constitute the principal, as well as the most. unfortunate, blunders. +

* This sketch should have followed that of James K. Corey on the 66th page.

+ ERRATA.--Page 63, second column, next to last line from bottom, read Kaskaskie" instead of Ruskin.-Page 64; first column, third paragraph, read " Mussey " for Murrey ; in the tenth line, same paragraph, read " physicians" for surveyors ; second column, fourth line of second paragraph, read " cooper's adze " for cooper's axe ; and in the sixth line, same paragraph, read " twelfth" for eighth ; in the twelfth line, same paragraph, read " cross-examining the medical experts offered for the defence," &c.-Page 65, fourth line from top of first column, for Charles read "Albert"; and in next line read "practice" for position, and "Whiting" for Whitney ; in the fourteenth line, same column, read " Francistown, Hillsborough county," for Francistown. Hills, Conough county; in the next column, same page, read " rectus iu curia" for nectus in coma; same column, read " In 1817," for On -. 18r-; same page, in McDowelI's sketch, read "Governor Shelbey" instead of Governor Shelley.-On page 66, in John R. Parrish sketch, read "litigated business " for litigative business.-On same page, in James K. Corey's sketch, read " Miss Lamson" for Miss Samson.-On page 67, in fifth paragraph, first column, read " Third ' street for Vine street.-On page 68, first column, fourth paragraph, read " Derby " for Darby ; and after Union insert " Hardn."-On page 69, in the blank, second paragraph of second column, insert "John Harper."--In the last paragraph, same column, first line, for he read " Israel Hamilton of Urbana, 0." ; and in the next to the last line, same column, read " Kissane" for Rossane.-- On page 70, first line of first paragraph, read "James L. Bates" for James E. Bates; in same paragraph, read Ohio "Reports" for Ohio Statutes; in the next paragraph, in the fifteenth line, read "commissioner" for commission, and "Judge Gustavus Swan" for Judges Graham and Swan ; near the top of the second column, same page, read "in bringing the Ohio levies into the field" for in inviting the Ohio lines to the field.-On page 71, near middle of first column, for Irwin read "Irvin"; and in the twelfth line from the bottom, same column, for These read "Those"; and in the sixth line from the bottom of the second column, same page, for their read " these" ; and in the last line, for manuscrips read "manuscripts."-At top of page 74, first column, read " Joseph Whitehill" for Joseph Whithall ; in the second column of same page, second paragraph, read " In August, 1846," for In 184-; and in the 'sketch of Otto Dresel, for Dressel read "Dresel," for Detmald read "Detmold," for Gymnasium Leupuldinum read "Gymnasium Leupoldinum," for University of Lena read "University of Jena."-On page 77, Sketch of James L. Bates, second line from beginning, read "January" for June, and "Naomi (Handy) Bates" for Naomi Bates; in the sixth line read "His grandfather settled in Ontario county, New York, in 1790"; in the seventh line of the next paragraph, read "1837" for 1847.-On page 78, sketch of Stacy Taylor, read "Judge Crane of Dayton" for Judge Brown; and in the next line read "1829" for 182-; and in the next line read "associate" for circuit; and, in the same paragraph, after Williams, read "Fulton."--On page 79, sketch of Llewellyn Baber, first line, for Ronton read "Rexton"; toward the close of second paragraph, for 1831 read "184x"; in the next paragraph, second line after January, read "-x844"; and in the tenth line of same paragraph, for far west read "free west."-On page 80, twenty-second line from top of first column, read "Messrs. Harwells" for Messrs. Huswells; in the next paragraph, first line, after Fillmore, read "in 1848"; in the second column, same page, twenty-first line, for military read "meritorious"; in the fifteenth line from bottom of same column, for September read " February"; in the third line from bottom read "commission" for committee.-On page 81, tenth line from top of first column, for adjudged read assigned"; in the twelfth line, after the word congress read "from this district" ; in the-next line, for minority read "nominating"; in the fourteenth line, for he read "Colonel Baber"; in the 17th line, for orator read "speaker"; in the fourth line from the bottom of same column, for the read- " that" ; in second column, seventeenth line, after varied read "legal learning and high integrity."-On page 83, in

CHAPTER XVII.

PICKAWAY COUNTY BAR.

WITH the organization of the county of Pickaway came also the attorneys-a necessary appendant to the administration of justice. First among the earlier members of the bar of this county, we find the names of Richard Douglas and Ralph Osborn. Mr. Douglas was a native of Connecticut. He read law with Judge Henry Brush, of Chillicothe, and settled, as an attorney, first at Jefferson, removing to Circleville soon after the county seat had been located there. Thence, about 1815, he removed to Chillicothe, where he died in the year 1852, aged sixty-seven years. Mr. Douglas was prosecuting attorney of this county, a member of the Ohio legislature, and first lieutenant of the company commanded by Captain Bartholomew Tryatt, in the war of 1812. He was a. lawyer of more than ordinary ability, and his abounding humor and fund of anecdotes made him the most agreeable company to the members of the bar while circuiting. Messrs. Albert Douglas, sr., and Albert Douglas, jr., now of Chillicothe, are, respectively, his son and grandson.

RALPH OSBORN, a native of Waterbury, Connecticut, came to the county soon after its organization, and opened an attorney's office in Circleville. About 1812 he was married to Catharine Renick, daughter of John Renick, then living on Darby creek. After the death of his wife, Catharine, he was married, in 1831, to Jane, the widow of Dr. Daniel Turney; the said Jane being the oldest daughter of Col. James Denny, the first clerk of the county. Mr. Osborn was elected clerk of the legislature of Ohio at the time the seat of government was located at Zanesville. , in 181o, which place he held five consecutive sessions, until he was elected, in 1815, auditor of the State, to which office he was re-elected until about the year 1833-eighteen consecutive years, a period longer than any one since. Upon the location of the seat of government at Columbus, Ohio, he removed there, where he had his residence at the time of his

ninth line of second column, for the date 1851 read " 186x " ; same page, in sketch Of Kendall Thomas, for 18- read "1845"; on same page, in the sixth line of sketch of Albert B. Buttles, read "supreme" for superior ; in the next sketch, read "Daugherty" for Dougherty ; and near the close of sketch, page 84, read " Mrs. Phebe M. Coburn" for Mrs. - McCalum.--On page 85, in the fifth line of the second paragraph of the second column, read "supreme" for superior.---On page 87, second column, for Stoddart react "Stoddard."-On page 88, in sketch of 'Walter Thrall, in fourteenth line from top of first column, read "associate' for president ; in the twenty-fifth line, read "convention" for Columbus.-On page 89, in sketch of George J. Atkinson, after the word Peabody read "and Miranda (Elliott)" ; after the word New Hampshire read "Thomas Atkinson, the founder of the family, came from Bary, Lancashire, England, settled in Concord, Massachusetts, and took the famous oath December 17, 1636" ; in the next paragraph, for McGrah read " M'Geah.-On page 9o, in ninth line from bottom of the first column, read "1857" for 2859, and follow with "and went to Cincinnati in August, 1859"; on same page, in sketch of DeWitt C. Jones, read "Laura C. N. Horrig" and "George Horrig" for Laura C. N. Homyer and George Homyer.-On page 92, first line, for with -- Mather read "with Col. H. D. Matter"; in the first line of the following paragraph, for Lovinda read " Lorinda" ; on same page, sketch of John C. L. Pugh, for Col. J. P. Holmes read "Col. J. 'I'. Holmes."---On page 93, sketch of Geo. K. Nash, after 1874 read "and on October 16, 1879, was elected attorney-general of the State on the Republican ticket"; in Mr. Jewett's sketch, same page, for de Steigner read "DeSteigner."--On page 95, sixth line from bottom of first column, for Miss Mina Seuter read "Miss Mina Seater" ; same page, for Byme read "Byrne." --On page 96, sketch of Thomas L. Jones, for '1863 read " x866" ; in the next sketch, read "Andrus" for Andrews.

*By Judge H: N. Hedges, of Circleville.

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death, December 3a, 1835. He died at the age of fifty-two years. After the termination of his auditorship, in 1833, he represented the counties of Franklin and Pick-away as State senator. After his election as auditor of State, he was not in practice as an attorney.

Mr. Osborn was, in manners, courteous, discharging his several trusts with care and integrity. The Hon. J. R. Osborn, of Toledo, Ohio, is one of Mr. Osborn's sons, and Mrs. Josiah Renick, Mrs. P. C. Smith, and Mrs. S. H. Ruggles, are his daughters. Mr. James Osborn, another son, was a leading merchant in Columbus, and died, leaving sons who still carry on his old firm business, and are leading men in the city.

JOSHUA FOLSOM was born at Henniker, New Hampshire, in the year 1783. His parents were Quakers,. and his ancestors came from the north part of England, and settled at Hingham, Massachusetts, in the year 1638. His grandfather, was known as " Quaker Joshua," and was extensively known and respected as a man of strong sense and integrity. Joshua Folsom, the subject of this sketch, studied at Dartmouth college, but did not graduate. After leaving college, he read law two years, at Baltimore, in the office of Robert Goodloe Harper, who was a very distinguished lawyer and orator, and member of the United States senate. Mr. Folsom began the practice of law at Circleville, Ohio, about the year 181o, and practiced, also, in many other counties of the State, as most lawyers of that day did, on account of the paucity of cases at home. About the year 1824, at the time Gustavus Swan was appointed judge, he went to Columbus to practice, being requested by Judge Swan to come there to take charge of his business. After remaining at Columbus two or three years, he returned to Circleville. In 183o, having accumulated a moderate fortune, for that day, and not being in good health, he retired from practice, and settled on a large tract of land which he owned in Logan county, Ohio. Mr. Folsom was a man of very extensive information, having, also, a respectable knowledge of Latin, Greek and French, and being well read in history and general literature. We have, also, the authority of Hocking Hunter for saying he was "a very good lawyer." Some of his arguments at the bar are yet remembered as very fine. He never held any office, except that of prosecuting attorney of Pickaway county. H. F. Page, his son, is now in practice in Circleville, (having-taken the name of his father's family, in the female branch.)

CALEB ATWATER located in Circleville about the close of the war of 1812, as an attorney-at-law. For several years he was postmaster, and a member of the Ohio legislature for one term. About the year 1827, or 1828, he was appointed, by President Jackson, as one of the commissioners to treat with the Indians for the purchase of their lands at Prairie-du-Chien. Mr. Atwater's information was extensive, but he is better known as an antiquarian and historian, upon which subjects he has written several works. He died in Circleville, on the third day of March, 1867, nearly ninety years old; he was a native of North Adams, Massachusetts.

George Atwater, his son, at one time a lawyer of this county, who died in Nevada, previous to the death of his father, was a young man of much learning and a keen and discriminating mind. Thus endowed, he could have distinguished himself in almost any pursuit of life he chose.

G. W. DOANE was a native of New Milford, Connecticut; graduated at Union college, New York, and attended the law school at Litchfield, Connecticut ; located in Circleville, in the year 1816, as an attorney-at-law; was one of the editors of the Ohio Branch, a weekly newspaper of Circleville, now continued and published by S. Marfield, jr., as the Union-Herald. Mr. Doane was a man of liberal education and a most exemplary citizen. On the fourth day of February, 1862, he died, aged seventy-six years. For many years previous to his death he had entirely lost his sight, and, consequently, was disqualified 'or business. He was a brother-in-law of the late Judge William B. Thrall, for a. long period publisher of the paper above referred to. A son of his, George W. Doane, is now in practice, as an attorney, in Omaha, Nebraska. Mr. Doane, for one term, represented the county of Pick-away in the lower branch of the legislature. As late as the year 1819 Joshua Folsom, G. W. Doane, Caleb Atwater and Neil McGaffey were the only resident attorneys of Circleville. Mr. McGaffey, within a short time, went west. He was a son-in-law of John McNeil, one of the early inhabitants of the county.

JOSEPH OLDS, a native of Brattleborough, Vermont, came into this county in 1819, and studied law here; lie was admitted to practice in 182c. or 182r, opened an office in Circleville, and was eminently successful for a period of over twenty years; he was frequently a representative in the legislature, was the president of the Circleville bank, ,during his life, and was a power in the political and financial transactions of his day; he acquired a considerable fortune, which, he having no children, went to his brothers and sister. Dr. E. B. Olds, extensively known as a member of Congress, was a brother, as was also the Hon. C. N. Olds, now attorneyat-law, located at Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Olds died in April, 1847, at the age of fifty-three years.

M. C. CANFIELD was located in this county about the year 1840, as an attorney-at-lay; he removed from this place, after a residence of a few years. While here lie was elected prosecuting attorney for the county, and discharged the duties of that office for two years.

HENRY F. PAGE located in this county, as an attorney, in the year 1845, and, from that time forward, has been in successful practice; he is a graduate of Oxford college, Ohio, and attended the law lectures at Harvard, Massachusetts; he was a member of the late constitutional convention, of Ohio; he is a native of Circleville, Ohio; he is now in full practice, yigorous, and in the prime of his mental powers. Mr. Page has formed a partnership with J. N. Abernathy, esq., under the firm name of Page & Abernathy.

JAMES D. CALDWELL located in Circleville, as an attorney, pfevious to the year 183o, and after practicing there for twelve or fifteen years, he migrated to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he died. Mr. Caldwell was unmarried. While in Circleville, he was associated With Judge

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William Irvin, of Lancaster, Ohio, under the firm name of Irvin Caldwell. He had the respect and warm regard of his intimate friends and acquaintances.

JOHN L. GREEN located, about 1830, in Circleville, as an attorney, and was a successful practitioner. He was elected to the senate of Ohio, from Pickaway county ; removed from Circleville to Chillicothe, and was there elected judge of the common pleas court. After removing to Columbus, he was elected, and re-elected, judge of the court of common pleas, which position he now holds. Mr. Green is a native of Virginia.

JOSEPH OLDS, now of the firm of Harrison & Olds, commenced practice in this county about 18—. While in practice he was one of the leading attorneys, and was elected judge of the court of common pleas: After holding the place for one term, he returned to practice. Mr. Olds graduated at Yale college. He is a native of Pickaway county, Ohio.

H. N. HEDGES, SR., commenced the practice of law in Circleville in the year 1835, and was elected prosecuting attorney of the county for three terms. About 1854, he formed a co-partnership with John. Cradlebaugh, which, under the name of Hedges & Cradlebaugh, continued for four years. From the time of the dissolution of the partnership, he was not in active practice. In the year 1865, he was elected to the office of probate judge, to which office he was re-elected in 1868. He is the Nestor of the Pickaway county bar, Judge Green, of Columbus, only having been longer in practice than he. He is 'a native of Pickaway county, and read. law in the office of Joseph Olds, after which he attended the law school of Cincinnati.

COL. JOHN CRADLEBAUGH entered upon the practice of the law, about 1840, in the county of Pickaway.; he completed his law studies with H. N. Hedges, sr., with whom he entered into partnership, in the year 1854. Before this time, Mr. Cradlebaugh had represented this, and Franklin county, in the senate of Ohio. About the period of the close of his. partnership with Mr. Hedges, he was appointed, by President Buchanan, federal judge of Utah; was elected a delegate, in congress, from the territory of Nevada; was the colonel of the One Hundred and Fourteenth regiment, in the war of 1861. Mr. Cradlebaugh died on the seventeenth day of February, 1872, in Nevada. Few men had warmer friends, and few were more worthy of warm friendship.

JEREMIAH HALL located in Circleville, as an attorney, in the year 1857; he read law with the Hon. John Welch, at Athens, Ohio. Mr. Hall has made the Virginia military land laws his specialty; he is now in partnership with Captain Bostwick, his son-in-law, under the firm name of Hall & Bostwick.

L. H. BOND commenced the practice of the law in Circleville, about the year 1858; he was elected prosecutor, for Pickaway county, and served one term, of two years. Mr. Bond left this county, and located at Cincinnati, and was assistant district attorney of the United states, for the southern district of Ohio, and is now in practice in Cincinnati.

PALMER C. SMITH located in this county, as an attorney, in 1847, and, after two years residence, entered into a partnership with the Hon. T. C. Jones, which continued until the fall of. 1856, Mr. Jones having removed to Delaware, Ohio; he was elected prosecutor of the county, over Col. John Cradlebaugh. Mr. Smith has been, and is now, in full and profitable practice.

JOHN A. LUTZ, a native of this county, was born the twenty-ninth day of December, 1824. .In 1853, he graduated from Wittenberg college ; read law under the Hon. C. N. Olds, and commenced the practice in December, 1855, from which time he has been in full. and profitable practice.

ANSEL T. WALLING was born in Otsego county, New York, January 1o, 18z4; removed, at the age of nine years, with an elder brother, to Erie county, Pennsylvania; received a common school and an academic education ; learned the printing trade in the Erie Observer office; came to Ohio in 1843; was editor and publisher of the Mahoning Index in 1848, and of the Coshocton Democrat in 1850-54; was assistant clerk in Ohio: house of representatives in 1851-52; was admitted to the bar in 1852; removed to Iowa, and was editor and publisher of the Keokuk Daily Times in 1855-58; returned to Ohio in 1861, and, in 1863, resumed the practice of law at Circleville , was elected to . State senate for Franklin and Pickaway counties in 1865, and in 1867 was chosen representative from Pickaway, serving as speaker pro tem. the second session; in 1874, was elected to the Forty-fourth congress from the Twelfth Ohio district.

BURR H. BOSTWICK is a native of Ohio; his age is forty-two years. In 1868 he commenced the practice of the. law in Circleville, in partnership with Jeremiah Hall (his father-in-law), with the name of Hall & Bostwick. Mr. Bostwick was, for nearly four years, a member of the Kansas cavalry, in the war of 1861, in which he, at the close of his service, held the rank of captain.

C. F. KRIMMELL was admitted to practice about 1871, and entered in partnership with Samuel W: Courtright, under the name of Courtright & Krimmel, about 1874, which continued until Courtright was elected judge of the. common pleas court. Mr. Krimmel, in 1875, was elected to the lower branch of the legislature, and in 1877 was elected to the senate... He graduated at Oberlin, and is about thirty-five years of age.

ISAAC N. ABERNATHY commenced the practice of the law in Circleville, in 1869; he is a native of Ohio, and graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university; read law under Judge Zaple, first, and afterwards with Hon. R. A. Harrison. For four years he has been prosecuting attorney for the county, and is now associated with H. F. Page, under the firm name Of Page & Abernathy.

A. R. BOHN, a native of Pickaway county, commenced the practice of law in 1873. He is a graduate of Miami university; read law in the office of H. F. Page, .and attended the law school at Cincinnati. Stephen L. Grigsby is now associated in practice with him, under the firm name of Bolin & Grigsby.

SAMUEL W. COURTRIGHT commenced the practice of the law in 1863, and has been prosecuting attorney of