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208 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO CHAPTER XVIII. MAHONING COUNTY BAR.* Among the early settlers of the southeastern part of the Western Reserve, now Trumbull and Mahoning counties, were five young lawyers from the State of Connecticut, who gained distinction in their profession and became prominent and honored citizens of Ohio. They were John S. Edwards, who came in 1799 from New Haven; George Tod and Calvin Pease, in 180o, from Suffield; Homer Hine, in 1801, from New Milford, and Elisha Whittlesey, in 1806, from Danbury. Mr. Edwards became a resident of Warren, was the first recorder of Trumbull county, and was elected a member of Congress and died in 1813 before taking his seat. The others became residents of (the present) Mahoning county. Mr. Pease came to Youngstown in 180o, was its first postmaster in 1802, resided there for about three years, removed to Warren and died there in 1839, aged sixty-three years. Mr. Tod came to Youngstown; made it his permanent home, and died there in 1841, aged sixty-seven years. Mr. Hine came to Canfield, removed to Youngstown in 1806, resided there until his death in July, 1856, aged eighty years. Mr. Whittlesey came to Canfield in 1806, resided there until his death in January, 1863, aged nearly eighty years Another young lawyer, Samuel Huntington, afterwards the third Governor of Ohio elected by the people, came from Norwich, Connecticut, to Youngstown in 1800, remained there a few months, and after visiting other parts of the State removed his family in 1801 from Connecticut to Youngstown, resided there some time and then removed to Cleveland, where he resided until 1809, when he removed to Painesville, where he died in 1817, aged fifty-two years. ORGANIZATION OF COUNTY AND FIRST COURT. The county of Mahoning was organized in 1840, with the county seat at Canfield. The first regular term of the common pleas court was held in the Methodist Episcopal church, in Canfield, on May 11th of that year. Eben Newton, of Canfield, was president judge, and James Wallace, of Springfield, James Brownlee, of Poland, and Lemuel Bingham, of Ellsworth, were associates. James Powers, of Milton, was sheriff, * By John M. Edwards, Esq. TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 209 and William Ferguson, of Youngstown, prosecuting attorney. Henry Canfield, of Canfield, who had been appointed clerk pro tern. at a prior special court, held by the associates, was clerk. On the last day of the term, William W. Whittlesey, of Canfield, was elected clerk for five years, and gave bond in the sum of $10,000. There were nineteen cases on the docket when it was called on the opening of the court. The term continued three days, and upon the adjournment of court there were thirty-seven cases oh the docket. No case was tried to a jury; one judgment was 1endered on confession. Partition of real estate was 0rdered in one case, and, on petition of a guardian in another, real estate was ordered to be sold. Eight wills were proved, ahd the executors therein named received letters testamentary. Administrators were appointed on eleven estates, and eight guardians of minors were appointed. By request of the sheriff, Ransford Percival and John C. Fitch were appointed his deputies. The court appointed John M. Edwards, Robert W. Tayler, and James B. Blocksom master commissioners in chancery ; Hiram A. Hall, John M. Edwards, and Reuben McMillen school examiners, and John Kirk and Andrew Gardiner auctioneers. This first term of court in the new county was attended not only by the lawyers of the county, but by citizens from all parts of the county, and lawyers and others from neighboring counties ; and during the three days of the term the town presented an appearance of great bustle and business activity. The terms of court following were held in that church until the fall term of 1847, which was held in the court-house erected by the citizens of Canfield and then ready for occupancy. In August, t876, the county-seat was removed to Youngstown, a full account of which is given in chapter XI. FIRST COURT AFTER REMOVAL. The first term after the removal of the court of common pleas was held in the new court-house at Youngstown. It commenced September l0th, and adjourned December 19, 1876. Hon. Philip B. Conant, of Ravenna, was judge; Henry B. Shields, clerk ; John R. Davis, sheriff, and Charles R. Truesdale, prosecuting attorney. The number of civil cases on the docket, when court opened, were six hundred and seventy-four; criminal cases forty-eight, total seven hundred and twenty-two. At the close of the term, including those disposed of, the number of civil cases was nine hundred and fifty-three, criminal cases one hundred and thirty-five, total one thousand and eighty-eight. The• total number of civil cases commenced since the organization of the county, at the opening of the September term, 1881, was twelve thousand and twenty. GEORGE TOD, the pioneer lawyer of Youngstown, and one of the earliest lawyers of the Reserve, was born in Suffield, Connecticut, December 11, 1773. He was a son of David and Rachel (Kent) Tod. He graduated at Yale college in 1795. Subsequently he taught school at New Haven, Connecticut; read law at the law school of Judge Reeves, in Litchfield, Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar. He was married at New Haven in October, 1797, to Miss Sally Isaacs, who was born January 12, 1778, and was a daughter of Ralph and Mary Isaacs. Their two oldest children, Charlotte L. and Jonathan I. Tod, were there born. In 1800 he came to Youngstown, Ohio; returned to Connecticut, and in 1801 he removed with his wife and children to Youngstown. At the first territorial court of Trumbull county, held in August, 1800, he was appointed prosecuting attorney. The following is a copy of the record of the court journal: "The court appointed George Tod, Esq., to prosecute the pleas of the United States the present session, who rook the oath of office." At that term of the court the grand jury returned a bill of indictment for murder against Joseph McMahon, for shooting Captain George, an Indian, at the Salt springs, on the 20th of July preceding, and he was tried at a special court held at Youngstown in September following, Mr. Tod appearing in behalf of the United States as prosecuting attorney. During the first year of his residence in Ohio he was appointed, by Governor St. Clair, Territorial secretary. In April, 1802, at the first township election held at Youngstown, upon the admission of Ohio as a State into the Union, he was elected township clerk, and re-elected in 1803 and 1804. In 1804-05 he was Senator from Trumbull county in the State Legislature, and again in 1810-11, In 1806 he was elected a judge of 210 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO, the supreme court of the State. In the War of 1812 he was commissioned major and afterwards colonel of the Nineteenth regiment of Ohio militia, and served with distinction at Fort Meigs and Sackett's Harbor. In 1815 he was elected president judge of the court of common pleas of the old third circuit, which then comprised a large part of the counties of the Reserve, and held the office until 1829. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Trumbull county in 183— and held the office for one term. After leaving the bench, except when attending to his duties as prosecutor, he retired in a measure from practice and devoted his attention to the care of his large farm, at Brier Hill, in the north part of the township of Youngstown; the farm which afterwards became so celebrated for its deposit of fine mineral coal, developed by his son, the late Governor David Tod. He died at Brier Hill April 11, 1841. As a lawyer and a judge he ranked among the first in the State of Ohio; as a citizen he was held in the highest regard. His estimable wife survived him a few years, and died at Brier Hill September 29, 1847. SAMUEL HUNTINGTON was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1765. He graduated at Yale college in 1785. He read law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law several years in his native town. In 1800, at the instance of owners of land on the Reserve, he visited Ohio, reaching Youngstown the 25th of July, making the journey on horseback. He visited different portions of the Reserve east of the Cuyahoga river, and was so well pleased with the country that he determined to settle there. He also visited Marietta, Ohio, the official residence of Governor St. Clair, and the Territorial court being in session he was admitted to the bar of Ohio. He was present, as tradition says, with Governor St. Clair at the trial, in September, 1800, in Youngstown, of Joseph McMahon, for shooting Captain George, an Indian, at the Salt Springs, as counsel, but on which side, or as advisory counsel with Governor St. Clair, it does not relate. He returned to Norwich on horseback in the fall. Early in the following spring he returned to Youngstown with his wife, who was a daughter of Andrew Huntington, of Norwich, to whom he :was married about 1793, and his young family, in a covered wagon. He remained a year or more in Youngstown, and then removed to Cleveland, Ohio. During his residence in Youngstown in 1801, he was appointed by Governor St. Clair lieutenant-colonel of the Trumbull county militia, and an January 19, 1802, was commissioned a justice of the court of quarter sessions, of which, at the request of the other judges, he became the presiding officer. In 1802 he was elected a member from Trumbull county of the convention which formed the first constitution of Ohio, and on the adoption of the constitution he was elected Senator from Trumbull county, in the first General Assembly, which convened in Chillicothe, in March, 1803. On April 2,. 1804, he was elected by the Legislature a judge of the supreme court, then newly formed, his commission, signed by Governor Tiffin, being the first issued in the name of the State of Ohio. He was elected Governor in 1808, and served one term of two years, when he retired to his farm near Painesville, which he had purchased in 1807. He was Representative from Geauga county in the State Legislature in 1811-12. He was appointed district paymaster with the rank of colonel in 1812, and remained two years with the Northwestern army, after which he returned to his farm. He died of consumption at Painesville in February, 1817. A biographer says: '`His business ca pacity was of a high order, as was shown by his executing so well the duties of many responsible offices. He bore the reputation of being a man of spotless character." CALVIN PEASE was born in Suffield, Hartford county, Connecticut, September 9, 1776. He was admitted to the bar in Hartford in 1798; practiced law in Connecticut until March, 186o, when he removed to Youngstown, Ohio, and commenced practice. He was appointed postmaster of Youngstown January a, 18o2; was the first postmaster of that place, and held the office until his removal to Warren in 18o3. He was also, in 1802, elected township trustee of Youngstown. He was ap pointed clerk of the court of common pleas of Trumbull county, at its first session in August, 1800, and held the office for a few years. He was subsequently elected judge of the common pleas and of the supreme court, and Representative and Senator in the Ohio Legislature. In 1804 he was married to Miss Risley, of Wash- TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 211 ington city. He, died at Warren, Ohio, September 17, 1839. A more full biographical notice will be found in the history of the bar of Trumbull county. PERLEE BRUSH was a pioneer lawyer of the Reserve, and a man of considerable note in the early days, yet authentic and definite information as to his early history appears in a great measure wanting. He was born in Connecticut, graduated at Yale college in 1793, read law in Connecticut, and was there admitted to the bar. He removed to Ohio at an early day, was a member. of Trumbull county bar, resided for many years at or near Youngstown, and afterwards in Hubbard, Trumbull county. We learn, by tradition, that he taught a school at the center of Youngstown riot to 1805, and it is said that he was the pioneer school teacher of Youngstown. There are persons now living in Youngstown, or who were born there, who were his pupils in a log school house in the southern part of the township as early as about 1814. They remember that in addition to his duties as a teacher, he practiced law in justices' courts in the vicinity, and also to some extent in the higher courts at Warren. In 1826 he purchased a farm of about one hundred acres of land in Hubbard, on which he afterwards 1esided. A gentleman of that place thus writes concerning him: A small stream, called Yankee Run, flowed through his land, on which there was an old-fashioned carding machine and fulling mill, which he operated for about a year, and then turned his attention to his farm. He lived exclusively by himself and boarded himself until his health began to fail when he went to board with a neighbor, still lodging at home. He was a fine scholar; could talk, read, and write the Greek, Latin, and Hebrew languages as well as he could English, and it was said he was well versed in the principles of law. He died in 1852, aged about eighty-four years. HOMER HINE was born in New Milford, Connecticut, July 25, 1776. His great-grandfather, who was among the early settlers of Milford, in New Haven county, Connecticut, is sand to have emigrated from Ireland, and the family were supposed to have settled in Ireland during the time of Cromwell, from Scotland or England, and were of the class known as Scotch-Irish. His grandfather, James Hine, was born in Milford in 1696, removed in early manhood to New Milford, among the first settlers of that place, and there married Margaret Noble, who was carried there when quite a child, and was the first white female that set foot in that place. James Hine was a respectable farmer, lived to the age of seventy- eight years, and died in 1774, leaving two sons, Austin and Noble, and several daughters. Noble was a fore-handed farmer, and, during the Revolutionary war, was a colonel of the Connecticut militia. He died in 1795, leaving three sons, one of whom was Homer, the subject of this sketch, and six daughters, the youngest of whom, Sophia, was afterwards the wife of Rev. Charles A. Boardman, a clergyman of eminence, and for many years pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Youngstown, Ohio. Homer Hine, after a preparatory course in the schools of New Milford, entered Yale college, and graduated in 1797 in a class of thirty-seven. Among his class-mates were Horatio Seymour, United States Senator from Vermont ; Henry Baldwin, judge of United States Supreme court; Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, and many others of prominence. The first yea1 after his graduation he spent pleasantly at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, as preceptor of an academy. Miss Catharine Sedgwick, a celebrated authoress, was one of his pupils. He read law during that year with Judge Sedgwick, her father. The next year he read law with P. Ruggles in New Milford, and during the year 1800 he attended the law scnool of Judges Reeve and Gould at Litchfield, Connecticut. He was admitted to the bar in Litchfreld in 1801. In June, 1801, he removed to Canfield, Ohio. The journey was made on horseback over the mountains and through Pittsburg, carrying his wardrobe in his saddlebags. His small library of law books were brought in an ox-wagon which was bringing out the household goods of Benjamin Tappan, who, with his wife and sister-in-law, Miss Wright, were moving from New England to locate a new home in Ravenna, Ohio. The whole Reserve then formed one county, and contained six or eight hundred inhabitants. In view of its wonderful growth in population and improvement otherwise, in 1848 Mr. Hine, writing to an old classmate, Rev. Dr. James Murdock, says : I feel constrained to bear testimony to the beneficial effects- of home missionary labor in the new settlements. At first it was the general custom for the settlers to spend the Sabbath 212 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. in hunting, or to come together for a drinking frolick and engage in all kinds of ;sport. Even those who had left New England as professors of religion seemed so far carried away by the influence of example as to conclude that the Sabbath was not binding in the wilderness. The missionaries immediately commenced forming churches in the principal settlements and persuaded the people to assemble on the Sabbath and perform public worship by singing, prayer, and reading printed sermons. This, together with occasional visits from the missionaries, soon produced a radical change in the inhabitants for good, both in a religious and moral point of view. The few hundred dollars expended on the Reserve for missionary services has profited the country to the amount of millions. But the real benefit is not to be measured in dollars and cents. In 1806 Mr. Hine removed to Youngstown, where he continued to reside until his death, in July, 1856, aged eighty years. He commenced the practice of law on his first arrival on the Reserve and continued it with good success until the age of sixty. He then declined to engage in new cases, but attended the courts for about three years in order to dispose of the cases in which he was engaged. Terms of court, in those early days, were more matters of general interest than now. The members of the bar followed the circuit on horseback over roads that were merely underbrushed and marked by blazed trees through the unbroken forests, fording rivers and streams, and giving chase occasionally to a bear or wolf, enjoying with cheerful zest the adventures of rough roads and rude fare, the latter often composed of wild game from the forests. The courts were frequently held under trees, or in barns, or in other rude buildings. The lawyers, sometimes with the judges, lodged in the hay-mow of a barn. Then with such companions as Judges Tappan, Pease, Tod, and others, and often the free circulation of a whisky decanter, they had lively, or jolly times. Mr. Hine was not naturally fond of litigation and, where it was practicable, advised his clients to settle, compromise, or arbitrate. This trait of character, which,' many of the legal profession might regard as a weakness, was frequently of service to him when trying casts. Many jurymen and justices of the peace, when cases were on trial before them, gave more than ordinary weight to his arguments and summing up of evidence from having faith in his disposition to be just and fair in the settlement and preventing of suits at law, 'believing that he would be fair in his statements on the trial. He was four times elected to the office of Representative in the Ohio Legislature—in 1804, 1805, 1816, 1824. He held the office of nonresident tax collector for five years, until the office was abolished, about 1812. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, under Colonel William Rayen. In 1805 he was appointed, by the Legislature, a commissioner to lay out a State road from Warren to such point on Lake Erie as, in his judgment, would make the most feasible route from Pittsburg to Lake Erie. After examining the different routes, ending between Cleveland and Conneaut, he selected a route with the terminus at the mouth of Grand river, in Painesville township, Lake county, regarding that as the easiest on which to construct a road, and the river at Fairport, at that time, as affording the best natural harbor, on that part of Lake Erie. He was always a regular attendant at the meetings of the Presbyterian church, and, in the absence of a clergyman, the duty of reading a printed sermon usually devolved on him. He was a fine reader, and he probably read more sermons to that congregation than any single clergyman ever preached to it. He was always interested in all useful reforms, and was one of the earliest workers in the temperance reform, and from its start and for many years was president of the Youngstown Temperance society. He was open and generous in his hospitality, especially to clergymen, so much so that among them his house was known as "The Minister's Tavern." On removing to Youngstown in 1806, he purchased a frame house and two acres of land, east of the Diamond, of Robert Kyle. This was, probably, the third frame dwelling then in the present city. It is still standing, and occupied, although removed to another site. On October 5, 1807, he was married to Miss Mary Skinner, daughter of Abraham Skinner, of Painesville, Ohio, an emigrant in 1801 or 1802 from Connecticut, where she was born in Glastonbury, in Hartford county, September 20, 1789. In May, 1808, they began housekeeping in that house, and there resided until 1818, when he purchased a farm of one hundred and ten acres at the mouth of and on the east side of Crab creek, on which was a house large for those times, into which they removed. It was a two-story frame dwelling, built by Colonel James Hillman, and had been occupied by him as a tavern. It had TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 213 a double front, one to the south overlooking a long 1each of the Mahoning river, the other to the westward, looking through the entire length of Federal street and of the village, as it then was, to the residence of Colonel Rayen at Spring Common. It was then, and still is one of the land marks of Youngstown, and few who have traveled through that city towards Pittsburg, will fail to recollect its position and peculiar appearance. It is now surrounded by railroad tracks, and has been sold to a railroad company, and is occupied by it. Mrs. Hine, after the death of her husband in 1856, resided in that old homestead until 1872, when she removed to Painesville, where she resides with a son. She is now (1881) in her ninety-third year, and although feeble physically is in full, possession of all her mental faculties and senses, enjoys seeing her relatives and old friends, enjoys conversing about old times, takes a lively interest in the welfare of her children and descendants, as well as in politics and the progress and prosperity of her country, and is calmly and peacefully passing the evening of her days with the happy satisfaction of looking, in retrospect, on a well-spent and useful life. ELISHA WHITTLESEY was born in Washington, Litchfield county, Connecticut, October 19, 1783. He was the son of John and Molly Whittlesey. His father was a descendant of John Whittlesey, who emigrated from England to Saybrook, Connecticut, about 1630. In his youth he labored on the farm, attending school in the winters. One of his instructors was Rev. Jeremiah Day; afterwards president of Yale college. In 1792, his father having sold his farm in Washington and purchased one in Salisbury, Connecticut, the family removed to that place. In the fall of 1798 he attended school in Danbury, Connecticut, residing with his brother, Matthew B. Whittlesey, a lawyer of that place, returning in the spring to his father's farm to work, and in years following attended school in Danbury, alternating with farm work at home. In 1803 he commenced the study of law with his brother, and was admitted to the bar at Fairfield, Connecticut, at the March term, 1805. He commenced practice in New Milford, Connecticut. On January 5, 1806, he was married in Danbury to Miss Polly Mygatt, at the residence of her father, Comfort S. Mygatt, who afterwards removed to Canfield, Ohio. Prior to their marriage they had decided to emigrate to Canfield, and on June 3, /806, in company with Miss Gesie Bostwick, sister of Mrs. Herman Canfield, who with her husband were among the pioneers of Canfield, they started on their journey. Their means of transportation were a Jersey covered wagon and a good pair 3f horses. In a manuscript found among the papers of Mr. Whittlesey, after his decease, he describes the incidents of his journey, which, although somewhat eventful, was safely accomplished. They made a short stay at Pittsburg, at Mr. Peeble's, at the sign of the bear, at the northwest corner of the diamond. "The town then," he says, "was comparatively a small affair, and there were not half a dozen houses in what is now Allegheny city." The mouth of the Beaver was forded by taking the deposit of sand formed by the meeting of the water of the Heave: with that of the Ohio. The journey was ended and they arrived in Canfield on June 27, 1806, having been twenty-four days on the road. In the following August he was admitted to the bar of Ohio by the supreme court at Warren. At the first term of the court of common pleas thereafter he was appointed prosecuting attorney of the county, and held the office until he resigned in 1823. Shortly after his arrival in Canfield he was elected ensign of a military company, and elected and commissioned as captain in 1808. In 1810 General Elijah Wadsworth, of the Fourth division, Ohio militia, appointed him his aide-de-camp, and August 22, 1812, as aide-de-camp, he entered into the service of the United States in the war with Great Britain. He was afterwards appointed brigade major and inspector under General Perkins, and remained as such in the military service until February 25, 1813, when the troops that had served six months and more were discharged. He continued in service a few months longer as aid and private secretary of General Harrison, at his request. In 1820 and in 1821 he was elected Representative in the State Legislature. In 1822 he was elected Representative In Congress from the district composed of Trumbull, Portage, Geauga, and Ashtabula counties, and re-elected seven times, and resigned in 1838, making his Con- 214 - TRUMBULL AND MA HONING COUNTIES, OHIO. gressional term about sixteen years, during a great part of which he was chairman of the committee on claims, one of the most important committees of the House. In 1822 he formed a law partnership with Eben Newton, which continued until 1841, when he was appointed by President Harrison auditor of the treasury for the postoffice department, which required his continued residence in Washington. The name of the firm was Whittlesey & Newton. It enjoyed a large practice, and was favorably and extensively known. Mr. Whittlesey, in the Congressional vacations, and after his resignation from Congress, devoted his time to the professional business of the firm. He resigned the office of auditor September 30, 1843, and returned to Canfield, engaging in practicing law and in other business. In 1847 he was appointed general agent of the Washington Monument association, which office he resigned May 31, 1849, when he was appointed by President Taylor first comptroller of the treasury. He held this office through the Taylor and Fillmore administrations. When President Pierce was inaugurated Mr. Whittlesey resigned, having opposed the political party which elected General Pierce ; but so strongly was the President impressed with the value of his services, that he entirely disregarded his political opinions, and insisted upon his remaining. He acceded to the President's request, and remained until President Buchanan's inauguration, when he again for the same reason tendered his resignation, and it was accepted. In May, 1861, he was appointed to the same office by President Lincoln, and performed its arduous duties to the day of his death, January 7, 1863, being stricken down at his post in his office at Washington city. In regard to his appointment to his first office, prosecuting attorney, in 1806, and subsequent practice, in an autobiographical sketch, he says: "The appointment was unsought and wholly unanticipated. My practice extended into each county on the Reserve as they were organized. In several of the counties the courts of common pleas therein appointed me special prosecutor, and I think in each indictments will be found in my handwriting." In regard to his Congressional career a Washington paper since his death justly remarks : In that day it required talent, moral worth, and personal energy to secure a position of responsibility and influence in Congress. Mr. Whittlesey possessed a systematic business mind and an enthusiasm of character which soon won for him the chairmanship of the committee on claims. Although of trilling political consequence, and for that reason never receiving much consideration at the hands of the people, that committee, nevertheless, is one of the most important of the House. There is, perhaps, no committee which requires more unremitting industry or minds capable of deciding nicer points of equity. He was peculiarly quail. fled for the chairmanship of that body. He. was gifted with that admirable courage which never quailed before the seductive blandishments of wealth or the threatening importance of power. He never hesitated to espouse the cause because it was weak. Strong combinations by men of position to carry a point which he believed to be wrong had no terrors for him. We add, as a summary of his character, the remark of one who knew him well: "During his long career in public life Mr. Whittlesey had established a national reputation for untiring perseverance and scrupulous honesty " HENRY J. CANFIELD was born in Connecticut. He was son of Judson Canfield, a distinguished lawyer of that State and one of the proprietors of the township of Canfield, Ohio, to which he gave his name. Henry J. graduated at Yale college in 1806, studied law at the celebrated law school of Judge Reeve, in Litchfield, Connecticut, was admitted to the bar in Connecticut, and shortly afterwards came to Canfield, Ohio, to take charge of his father's lands. He was admitted to the bar of Ohio at Warren, devoted some attention to practice, but Was principally engaged in farming and land surveying, in which he was skilled. He was a large sheep grower, and published a work of great merit on The Sheep. On the organization of Mahoning county in 1846, at the first special court held by the judges, he was appointed clerk pro tern. of the court of common pleas, and held the office until the appointment of the clerk for the full term at the first regular term of the court held May 11th of that year. From his arrival in Ohio his residence was in Canfield. He there died in 1856. DAVID TOD was born in Youngstown, February 21, 1805. He was a son of George and Sally (Isaacs) Tod, who emigrated to Ohi9 from Connecticut, and were among the earliest pioneers of the Reserve. He was admitted to the bar in Warren, Ohio, in TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 215 1827; resided there engaged in practice until 1844, when he returned to the old Brier Hill farm in Youngstown, and resided there until his death on November 23, 1868. He was elected Governor of Ohio in 1861, and held other civil and military offices. He was married at Warren, Ohio, July 24, 1832, to Miss Maria Smith, of that place, the daughter of early settlers. She survives him. Although he resided in Mahoning county at the time of its organization, and was a member of its bar during his after life, he had virtually during that time retired from practice, and was engaged in extensive mining and manufacturing business. A more full biographical sketch appears elsewhere in this book. ROBERT W. TAYLER was born, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1812. He was son of James and Jane (Walker) Tayler. His father removed with his family to Youngstown in 1815, and there settled and there died in 1834. His mother died December 11, 1844. The means of his father were limited, but he gave his children as good an education as could be obtained in our common schools, and from his own instruction, being himself a man of much reading and Intelligence; and he trained them in the path of industry, truth and honesty. In the winter of 1830-31 Robert taught school, and afterwards officiated as deputy to George Parsons, clerk of the courts of Trumbull county, Ohio. In the summer of 1833 he accompanied Calvin Cone, appraiser of real estate for taxation, as his secretary, through Trumboll county, displaying, as was said by those who had business with them, on that tour, a knowledge of the value of real estate and the matters connected with the duties of the office of appraiser 1emarkable in one so youthful in appearance and in fact. He studied law with Whittlesey & Newton, of Canfield, and was admitted to the bar at Warren, Ohio, in August, 1834, and commenced practice in Youngstown. He resided there in practice until 1860, when he removed to Columbus, Ohio, on commencing his duties as State auditor. He was in law partnership for a time with John Crowell, of Warren, Ohio, and afterwards with William G. Moore of Youngstown, Ohio. In 1839 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Trumbull county, holding that office two years and ably performing its duties. In 1850 the Mahoning county bank at Youngstown, Ohio, was organized. At the earnest solicitation of the hoard of directors he became its cashier, retaining ;he privilege of attending courts and continuing the practice of his profession. In 1855 he was elected State Senator on the Republican ticket, for the counties of Mahoning and Trumbull, and re-elected in 1857. During his term of service in the Senate his eminent abilities as a lawyer and financier, and his character as a judicious and honest man became so well known that he was nominated by his party, almost without opposition, for the office of auditor of State, and elected in 1859. His term commenced in 1860, and he served in that office until, upon the death of Elisha Whittlesey, his former legal preceptor, first comptroller of the United States treasury in 1863, he was called by President Lincoln, at the suggestion of Salmon P. Chase, then Secretary of the United States Treasury, who knew his eminent fitness, to fill the vacancy in the office of first comptroller. For nearly fifteen years he faithfully discharged the duties of that office and death found him at his post as the honest and incorruptible watchman 0f the treasury. His health had been failing for some time and only a few weeks before his death he had been spending a short time at Youngstown for a partial rest from labor. He improved apparently and returned to Washington. He was at work at his desk in his office, on February 25, 1878, when he was stricken with paralysis and only lived two hours. Funeral services were held in Washington, and afterwards at Youngstown, where he was buried on March 1st, his funeral being one of the largest ever held in Youngstown. He was married on March 24, 1840, to Miss Louisa Maria, daughter of John E. Woodbridge, of Youngstown. She died February 11, 1853. He was again married, on January 12, 1854, to to Miss Rachel Kirtland, daughter of Colonel Caleb B. Wick, a son of Henry Wick, who was one 0f the early settlers of Youngstown. She survives him. EBEN NEWTON was born in the town of Goshen, Litchfield county, Connecticut, October 16, 1795. He was a son of Isaac Newton, a farmer who died 216 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. at Goshen, and of Rebecca Newton, who removed to Ohio in 1820, and died at the home of her son, in Canfield, in 1833. In his early years he worked on his father's farm and attended the schools at Goshen. In May, 1814, he emigrated to Portage county, Ohio; worked on a farm, and about two years prior to 1820 was a clerk in his brother's store, where he began to read law in the office of Darius Lyman at Ravenna. In 1822 he returned to Connecticut, read law a short time, returned to Ravenna, read law with Jonathan Sloan, and was admitted to the bar at Warren, Ohio, in August, 1823. Before his admission to the bar, he received an invitation from Elisha Whittlesey, who had been elected a member of Congress, to enter into a partnership with him, which he accepted and removed to Canfield, which since then has been his place of residence. The partnership of Whittlesey and Newton continued twenty years, fifteen years of which time Mr. Whittlesey was in Congress. Their business extended all over the Reserve and into other parts of the State, and the reputation of the firm was among the highest in the State. In the fall of 1840 he was elected to the State Senate, and during his term he was elected president judge of the Third judicial district, and filled that office with marked ability. He resigned the judgeship in 1846 and returned to his law practice. In the fall of 1850 he was elected to Congress and served two years, and then resumed practice. In 1863 he was again elected to the State Senate. After the expiration of his Senatorial term he took charge of the settlement of the estate of the late Simeon Jennings, in which he has been engaged since then. This involved much litigation in many States, and required extensive travel in this country and two visits to Europe. Except when employed in official duties he has practiced law in our courts; has kept an open office, and to some extent is still, at his advanced age of eighty-six years, engaged in legal business.. Besides his official and legal business other business enterprises have occupied his time and attention. He was for some years president of the Ashtabula & New Lisbon Railroad company, now Niles & New Lisbon, and to his exertions it owes, in a great measure, its existence. He has always taken great interest in agricultural improvement, and, for several years, was president of the Mahoning County Agricultural society. He has been a practical farmer on a large scale, imported and raised thoroughbred stock, and is extensively known as a leading stock-breeder and well-informed agriculturist. During the time he practiced law, before he entered Congress, he had thirty and more law students; and for many years the Canfield Law school of Whittlesey & Newton had a wide and deserved celebrity. Among its graduates were Senator Benjamin F. and his brother Edward Wade, Joshua R. Giddings, Ralph P. Buckland, and others, who became members of Congress, and several who became judges and distinguished lawyers. He was married at Canfield on May 20, 1826, to Miss Mary S. Church, a native of that place and daughter of Ensign Church, an early pioneer and son of Nathaniel Church, one of the proprietors of the township. BENJAMIN F. HOFFMAN was born January 25, 1812, in Chester county, Pennsylvania. His parents were Joseph and Catharine (Stitcler) Hoffman, both natives of Chester county. He received his primary education in the common and select schools of West Chester and Stroudsville, Pennsylvania. He removed with his parents to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1833. Hon. David Tod, afterwards Governor of Ohio, was his law instructor at Warren, Ohio, for two years ; and then for six months in 1835-36 he attended the Cincinnati Law school, conducted by Wright, Benham & Walker, at which he graduated in 1836 as bachelor of law, and immediately thereafter was admitted to the bar by the supreme court at Cincinnati. He then returned to Warren, and practiced law there for several years as a member of the firm of Tod, Hoffman & Hutchins. He was appointed postmaster at Warren in October, 1838, and held the office until about June, 1841. He was elected judge of the court of common pleas for the second sub-division of the ninth judicial district of Ohio at the annual election in October, 1856, entered on the term Feb. ruary 8, 1857, and held the office until February 9, 1862. He was the private secretary of Governor Tod from February 9, 1862, until the expiration of the Governor's term of office in January, TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 217 1864. He then returned to Warren, resumed lhe practice of law, and there resided until 1870, when he removed to Youngstown, where he has since resided engaged in the practice of the law. He was married in December, 1837, at Akron, Ohio, to Miss Elizabeth A. Cleveland, a native of Rutland, Vermont. She died at Warren in November, 1869. He was again married at Youngstown on July 10, 1870, to Mrs. Alice W. Hezlep, whose maiden name was Higgins. She was a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio. A more full biography will be found in another department of this work. JOHN M. EDWARDS was born in .New Haven, Connecticut, October 23, 1805. He was the son of Henry W. and Lydia (Miller) Edwards, of that city. He removed to Ohio in 1832; admitted to the bar in New Haven in 1826, and afterwards at Warren, Ohio. He is now practicing in Youngstown, Ohio. A more full biography will be found in another part of thrs work. WILLIAM G. MOORE was born January 7, 1832, at Freedom, on the norlh bank of the Ohio river, in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. His parents were Edwin and Mary A. Moore. They were natives of Balnamore county Leitrim, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States in 1829, resided a few years in Pennsylvania, and then removed to Youngstown. In March, 1845, he commenced the study of law in the office of John Crowell, in Warren, Ohio, and subsequently read law with Robert W. Tayler, late first comptroller of the United States treasury, at Youngstown. He was admitted to the bar by the supreme court in 1847, and in December, 1854, was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the Uniled States. In 1847 he commenced the practice of law at Youngstown as partner of R. W. Tayler, which partnership continued untrl Mr. Tayler assumed the office of cashier of the Mahoning County bank, in 1850. He afterwards was a partner of General Thomas W. Sanderson, which continued until Mr. Sanderson joined the army in 1861. He was afterwards in partnership with William C. Bunts, deceased, and afterwards a short time with William J. Lawthers. He was elected mayor of Youngstown in April, 1854, and re-elected in 1856. In 1869 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county, and served two years. He was married March 18, 1852, to Miss Laura A. Andrews, born in Vienna, Trumbull county, daughter of Norman Andrews, an early settler of Trumbutl county, but for many years a citizen of Youngstown, Ohio. DAVID M. WILSON was born in Guilford, Medina county, Ohio, July 21, 1822. He was the second son of David and Abigail (Porter) Wilson. His father was a native of Virginia, of Scotch-Irish descent, and his mother a native of Connecticut, of English descent. His grandfather, Porter, was a drum- major in the war of the Revolution. His grandfather Wilson was also a Revolutionary soldier. His father was a soldier of the War of 1812. He was raised on a farm, attended the common schools until he was about sixteen years old, and then attended the Norwalk seminary, in Huron county, Ohio, for several terms, and taught school one term. He read law with Hiram Floyd, at Medina, Ohio, and was there admitted to practice in 1844. In 1845 he removed to Warren, Ohio, and commenced practice, and in 1846, on the organization ot Mahonrng county, he removed to Canfield and commenced practice. While there, for a few years, he was a partner of John W. Church, afterwards a judge of the court of common pleas, as Wilson & Church. In 1858 he removed to Youngstown, there practicing for a period in partnership with James B. Blocksom, as Wilson & Blocksom. He was afterwards a partner of Robert G. Knight as Wilson & Knight, and then of Halsey H. Moses as Wrlson & Moses, and for a few years partner of James P. Wilson, his nephew, as Wilson & Wilson. In 1863 he was nominated for attorney-general of Ohio by the Democratic State convention, and in 1874 he was nominated for Representative in Congress by lhe district Democratic convention. He was not elecled to either office, the ticket on which he was nominated being in the minority in both instances, but his personal popularity at home secured him many votes for each offrce ahead of the general ticket. He was married, in 1846, to Miss Nancy Merril, a native of Orangeville, Wyoming county, New York. She died in 1851. He was again married, in 1871, to Miss Griselda Campbell 218 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. of Trumbull county, Ohio. He died February 11, 1882, at Youngstown. THOMAS W. SANDERSON was born in Indiana, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, October 17, 1829. His father, Matthew D. Sanderson, was of Scotch descent. His mother, Mary (Wakefield) Sanderson, was daughter of Thomas Wakefield, who was born in the town of Wakefield, England, which locality Oliver Goldsmith has immortalized as the scene of his world-famous tale, The Vicar of Wakefield. M. D. Sanderson was a farmer, and in 1834 he removed with his family to Youngstown, Ohio, where he continued the business of farming. He died in 1864. T. W. Sanderson attended the schools at Youngstown, and afterwards attended a college at Bardstown, Kentucky. He read law with William Ferguson at Youngstown, and was admitted to the bar by the district court at Canfield in August, 1852. During the period of hrs reading law he spent part of the time in land surveying and civil engineering, and, for a period after his admission to the bar, he followed the profession of civil engineer. In 1854 he commenced the practice of law at Youngstown in co-partnership with his brother-in-law, Frank C. Hutchins, now of Warren, under the firm name of Hutch- ins & Sanderson, and continued this partnership for a few years. In 1856 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county, and served one term. In 1861 he left the practice of law and entered the United States army as lieutenant and adjutant of the Second Ohio volunteer cavalry. He remained in the service over four years, passing through the several grades of promotion, and was made brigadier-general in 1864. During the last two years he commanded brigades and divisions all the time. He was with General Rosecrans from Stone River, and participated in nearly all the actions in which the army of the Cumberland was engaged. He continued with this army when it passed under the leadership of General Thomas, and fought at Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain. When General Thomas was superceded by General Sherman he was connected with it until the fall of Atlanta, and then on Sherman's march to the sea, and again through Georgia and the Carolinas until the sur render of Johnston and the close of the war. During these years of blood and battle he was always in the field. It is worthy of remark that he was made brigadier-general for gallantry hi action. At Bear Creek station, south of Atlanta on the second day of Sherman's march to the sea, with one brigade of Federal cavalry against three divisions of Wheeler's cavalry, he fought the enemy and won the victory. On leaving the army he returned to the practice of the law in Youngstown, and stands high in the profession. He refuses to enter the political arena as a candidate for civil offrce, yet is decided in his political preferences. In 1872 he served as a delegate-at-large from the State of Ohio in the National Republican. convention which nominated General Grant for re-election as President. He was married December 19, 1854, to Miss Elizabeth Shoemaker, of Newcastle, Pennsylvania, a member of one of the oldest families of that State. ASAHEL W. JONES. Asahel W. Jones was born at Johnstonsville, Trumbull county, Ohio, September 18, 1838. His father, William P. Jones, was born in Hartford, Trumbull county, Ohio, July 11, 1814. His father and grandfather removed there from Burkhamstead, Connecticut, in 1801, and there they reared the second cabin in the township. His mother was Mary J. Bond, born at Avon Springs, New York, February 26, 1816, and emigrated to Hartford in 1833. She died in Youngstown, Ohio, March, 1882. On his father's side he was of Welsh descent, on his mother's of English or Irish, two Bond families, one from England and one from Ireland, being among the early emigrants to America, and it being uncertain to which his mother owes her descent. He read law with Curtis & Smith at Warren, Ohio, and was there admitted to the bar September 27, 1859, practiced there a few years, and removed to Youngstown in 1864, where he is now practicing as a member of the firm of Jones (Robert B.), Murray & (Elliot M.) Wilson. His practice is largely, at present, for railroads and corporations. He held the office of prosecuting attorney for two terms, the first by appointment on the death of Henry G. Leslie, in 1868, and the second by election. In 1874 he took an TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 219 active part in the organization of the Second National bank of Youngstown, and has since been one of its directors. In 1878, with the change of management in the corporation of Brown, Bonnell & Co., extensive iron manufacturers, he became a director of that company ahd has given some attention to the industries carried on by it. He had the honor, in connection with Judge Tripp, to represent the Seventeenth Ohio Congressional district in the Republican National convention held at Chicago in 1880. He was married September 24, 1861, at Hampton, Geauga county, Ohio, to Miss Annette J. Palmer, who was born at Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, June 23, 1840. LAURIN D. WOODWORTH was born in Windham, Portage county, Ohio, September 10, 1837. His father was William Woodworth, a substantial and highly respected farmer. He was educated first at Windham academy, and then at Hiram college. He read law in the office of 0. P. Brown, in Ravenna, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1859, but being desirous of perfecting himself he then took a course at the Ohio State and Union Law college at Cleveland, and then formed a partnership with Mr. Brown, which continued until the fall of 1861, when he practiced alone for some months. In :862 he was appointed major of the One Hundred and Fourth regiment Ohio infantry volunteers. This regiment was ordered into Kentucky, where it was actively engaged for ab0ut ten months carrying on a guerrilla warfare. His exposure and hard service having brought on a disease which disabled him from further service in the field, he resigned, and for the next two years traveled, under medical advice, to various places in the endeavor to recover health. He attempted to re-enter the service, but was rejected on account of physical disability, having lost the sight of his right eye. About 1865 he removed to Youngstown and resumed the practice of law. In October, 1867, he was elected to the Ohio Senate for the Mahoning and Trumbull district, re-elected in 1869, and was chosen by his fellow Senators president pro tem. of that body. At the close of his second term he declined a re-nomination, and resumed his law practice. In October, 1872, he was elected representative in Congress from the Seventeenth Ohio district, composed of Mahoning, Columbiana, Stark, and Carroll counties, and he was re-elected in October, 1874. At the expiration of his second term he resumed the practice of law in Youngstown. He was married October 6, 1869, to Miss Celia Clark, of Windham, his native place. GEORGE TOD (second) was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1841, and was the son 0f David and Maria (Smith) Tod, and grandson of George Tod, the pioneer lawyer of Youngstown. He removed, with his parents to Briar Hill, near Youngstown, in 1844. In April, 1861, in response to the call of President Lincoln for volunteers, he enlisted as a private in the Mahoning Rifles, one of the first companies which reported for duty to the Governor. On May l0th, at Cleveland, the Rifles were made part of the Nineteenth regiment as company B. As a private in that company and regiment he served gallantly during the term for which he enlisted. He 1eturned to Youngstown, read law, and was admitted to the bar at Canfield, in 1865. He has devoted but little attention to the practice, but is, and for several years has been, largely engaged in coal and manufacturing business. HALSEY H. MOSES was born July 12, 1830, in Morgan, Ashtabula county, Ohio. His parents were Jonathan and Abigail (Plumley) Moses, both born in Norfolk, Litchfield county, Connecticut, from which place they emigrated to Morgan in 1814. He was a student of the Grand River institute, and read law with C. L. Tinker, of Painesville, and was admitted to the bar at Jefferson, Ohio, in August, 1861. He practiced law for a few years in Ashtabula county, and then removed to Warren, Ohio. He was a partner of Matthew Birchard, former jodge of the supreme court, from 1862 to 1867; of Ira L. Fuller, from 1867 to 1870; and of General Robert W. Ratliff, from 1870 to 1880. In 1872 he removed to Youngstown, still retaining his law practice in Warren in the firm of Ratliff & Moses. In 1877 he became a partner with Ge0rge F. Arrell, in the firm of Moses & Arrell, which continued until 1880, when the latter became judge of the common pleas, since which time he has practiced without a partner. He was married in Morgan 220 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. in March, 1852, was Miss Mary J. Murdock, of w that place, who as a native of Mesopotamia, Trumbull county, Ohio. ROBERT B. MURRAY was born in Youngstown, Ohio, March 6, 1843. He was the youngest son of Ira and Hannah (Carothem) Murray. He attended the public schools in Youngstown, and afterwards was a student at Allegheny college, Meadville, Pennsylvania, and was also a student at Ann Arbor university, Michigan, for about two years. He followed the profession of teaching for about six years, during which time he was principal of the union school at Mercer, Pennsylvania, and of an academy at Meadville, Pennsylvania. At an early age he commenced reading law and pursued it at intervals. He was admitted to the bar at Canfield in September, 1867, and immediately commenced practice in Youngstown. In March, 1870, he entered into partnership in the practice of law with Asa W. Jones, under the name of Jones & Murray, and the firm still continues in practice in Youngstown. He was married in 187o to Miss Sophia Bond, a native of Geneseo, Livingston county, New York. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. LEROY D. THOMAN was born in Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio, July 31, 1851. His father was Jacob S. Thoman, one of the early pioneers, who came when quite young, with his parents to Springfield township, Mahoning county, Ohio. His mother was a daughter of Rev. Henry Sonnedecker, a man of extraordinary power in his day in the ministry. She was born in Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio, and moved with her parents to Springfield, in 1827. His early education was at the common schools, with one year academic. He read law with Joseph H. Adair, of Columbia, City, Indiana, and was admitted to the bar there August 13, 1872, and to the bar of Ohio in Mahoning county in September, 1873. He was deputy prosecuting attorney of the Ninth judicial, district of Indiana from August 14, 1872, until February, 1873, when he resigned and removed to Youngstown, Ohio, where he formed a partnership with Isaac A. Justice, in the practice of law. He was elected probate judge of Mahoning county in October, 1875, and re-elected in 1878. Having served two terms of three years each, at the annual election in 1881 he declined being a candidate for re-election. He is now practicing law in Youngstown, and is also engaged in publishing and editing the Youngstown Vindicator, of which he is part proprietor. He was married in Youngstown .March 29, 1876, to Miss Mary E. Cripps, of Youngstown. She died December 4, 1876. GEORGE F. ARREL was born in Poland, Ohio, October 1, 1840. His parents were David Arrel, born in Poland May 6, 1803, and Martha (Moore) Arrel, also born in Poland; she died June 25, 1872, in her sixty- third year. They were both children of the early pioneers. He graduated at New Wilmington college, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, in 1865. He studied law with Francis E. Hutchins, at Warren, Ohio, and afterwards attended the Albany Law school. He .was admitted to the bar at Canfield, Ohio, August 20, 1867, and then removed to Youngstown, commenced the practice of law, and has since resided there. Part of the time he was in partnership with Halsey H. Moses, under the firm name of Moses & Arrel. About July 1, 1870, he was elected city solicitor of Youngstown, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation and removal from Youngstown of Joseph Harris. He was re-elected at the expiration of his term, and biennially thereafter until 1878, when he declined a further reelection. In September, 1880, he was appointed by the Governor judge of the court of common pleas, to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Judge E. B. Taylor, and until a judge should be elected and qualified. At the annual election in October, 1880, he was elected -for the remainder of Judge Taylor's term, which would expire in February, 1882. At the annual election in October, 1881, he was re-elected for the full term of five years. The vote in Mahoning county resulted in a majority in his favor of 981 in a total vote of 7,551, in the judicial district corn. prising Mahoning, Trumbull, and Portage coun ties a majority of 4,743 in a total vote of 20,751. He was married, October 18, 1870, to Miss Grace Tod, daughter of the late Governor David Tod, at the Tod family residence at Brier Hill in the township of Youngstown. He resides in the city of Youngstown. TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 221 ISAAC A. JUSTICE. Isaac A. Justice was born in Austintown, Ma- h0ning county, Ohio, March 16, 1837. He was a son of John and Nancy (Sexton) Justice. They were both born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and removed with their parents to Ohlo about 1805, and were among the earliest pioneers of Mahoning county. They both died at Austintown in 1881, after having spent togethe1 ove1 sixty peaceful and prosperous years of married life. The subject of this biography was educated at the Mahoning academy, in Canfield. He spent his summers from 1856 to 1860 in attending school and his winters in teaching. He read law with S. W. Gilson, Esq., at. Canfield, and was admitted to the bar in the fall 0f 1867, at the session of the district court in Canfield. He so0n entered .into partnership with Mr. Gilson, which continued for a short time. About 1872 he removed to Youngstown, Ohio, and has been engaged m the practice of law there since that time. In October 1873, and during the contest for the removal of the county seat to Youngstown, he was elected, on what was called the "removal ticket," prosecuting attorney, and held the office fo1 one term, commencing on January 7, 1874, and termmating January 7, 1876. During the term of office of L. D. Thoman as probate judge, he tendered to Mr. Justice the appointment of school examiner of Mahoning county, a position he was amply qualified to fill, but the appointment was declined because of want of time to perform the duties of the office. He has taken a very prominent part in the temperance movement for the past five years, and has spent much time in lecturing, and otherwise, at home and abroad, in attempting to persuade men to live sober lives. He is now president of the Ohio Christian Temperance union. He was married in 1860 to Miss Dorcas Hitchcock, of Canfield, a class-mate of his at the academy, by whom he had two children, both now living. She died in December, 1870. He was again married in 1871, to Miss Helen A. Warner, of Lorain county, Ohio. She was also his class-mate. She died in 1881, leaving a bereaved husband and four interesting children to mourn her loss. CHARLES R. TRUESDALE was born in Boardman, Mahoning county, Ohio, September 15, 1841. His parents were, Alexander, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and Harriet (Leach) Truesdale, born in Morristown, New Jersey. He graduated at Western Reserve college in the class of 1871, read law in the office of Taylor & Jones at Warren, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Warren in April, 1872. He served in the war of the Rebellion in company E, Second Ohio cavalry, from July, 1861, to July, 1865, and participated in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Reams Station, and many others. He was married at Youngstown, June 19, 1872, to Miss Louisa M. Jacobs, of that city. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county in 1875, and held the office for two years. WALTER L. CAMPBELL was born in Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio, November 13, 1842. His parents were John and Rebecca P. (Snodgrass) Campbell, old citizens of that place. When in his fifth year one eye was accidentally injured. Inflammation in both eyes ensued, and when he was five years old he was totally blind. In his ninth year he entered the Ohio Institute for the Blind, at Columbus, Ohio, and left it when sixteen years old. During his attendance at the institute, in addition to the education he acquired in the branches usually taught, he became a proficient on the organ. After leaving the institute he taught music for nearly a year, and then, with a view 0f perfecting his musical education, he entered the Pennsylvama Institute of the Blind, at Philadelphia, where he remained five months. He now determined to acquire a collegiate education, left Philadelphia and entered the Salem, Ohio, high school, for the purpose of preparing for college. He entered Western Reserve college, in Hudson, Ohio, in 1863 and graduated in 1867, standing second in his class, and delivering the salutatory oration. During his freshman year he took the prize for best written translation, in Latin. In his sophomore year he took the prize for best English composition, and at the junior exhibition delivered the philosophical oration. He studied law for one year with Judge Jacob 222 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. A. Ambler, at Salem, and then, for a year, attended the law school of Harvard university, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, by the supreme court, at Boston, June 17, 1869. He then went to Wyoming Territory, then just organizing, and of which his brother had been appointed Governor. He was appointed United States commissioner and practiced law for some time in the Territory. He returned to Ohio and was admitted to the bar, at Warren, in May, 1873. In May, 1874, without having engaged in practice in Ohio, he purchased an interest in the Mahoning Register, of Youngstown, Ohio, and was the editor of that paper and the daily that grew out of it, and other papers with which it was consolidated, until the latter part of January, 1882. He then returned to the practice of law. For several years past he has been organist of the First Presbyterian church of Youngstown. He is a good and ready speaker, and on several occasions has delivered addresses, evincing much thought and study, which received great commendation. His memory has become remarkable, and is so well trained the he is a very accurate reporter, being able after listening, to dictate to an amanuensis, or reproduce on a type writer, testimony and arguments in a law trial, political speeches, etc. This faculty he often exercised advantageously in his editorial career. Although totally blind, with only the aid of his cane he visits all parts of the city, turning corners and entering doors without hesitation or mistake; and not only this, but unattended he makes journeys on railroads, visiting other cities, traversing their streets and reaching the buildings he seeks with the ease and facility, apparently, of one in full possession of his eyesight. He was married at Youngstown, April 4, 1877, to Miss Helen C. LaGourgue, of that city, formerly of Cleveland, the daughter of a French gentleman and a lady of New England ancestry. OTIS W. KYLE. Otis W. Kyle was born in Austintown, Mahoning county, Ohio, Match 21, 1843. He is the oldest son of Joshua and Elizabeth Kyle. When eighteen years old he entered Hiram college as a student, remaining four years and graduating in 1864. He engaged as bookkeeper for the New Lisbon, Ohio, Coal company for several years. During his residence in New Lisbon he assisted in organizing the First National bank, of which ne was the first cashier. He had been reading law 'at intervals for some time previous, and was admitted to the bar at New Lisbon in 1876. He removed to Youngstown in 1879, and has since been engaged in practice in this city. He was married in 1871 to Miss Charlotte M., daughter of William and Almira Tibbits, and has a family of three daughters. MONROE W. JOHNSON was born in Pymatuning township, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1840. He was a son of William and Hannah (Harris) Johnson. His father was born in Pulaski, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent. His mother was born in Coitsville, Ohio, on the father's side descended from a French Huguenot, on the mother's side she was a Poe, and .a descendant of that great Indian fighter. He attended Westminister college, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania. Early in the war of 1861 he enlisted in company E, Twenty-third Ohio volunteers, President Hayes' regiment, and served three years ; was engaged in the battles of Carnifax Ferry, West Virginia, South Mountain, and Antietam, Maryland, and in the last battle was severely wounded and afterwards discharged on account of his wound. At the time of the battle he was serving in the quartermaster's department, but when the battle commenced he shouldered his musket and went into the ranks. After recovering in a measure from his wound he went again into the quartermaster's department, and was at the battle of Gettysburg, in which he participated. He established a post in the quartermaster's department at Reading, Pennsylvania, and another afterwards at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and remained to the close of the war. In 1867 he came to Lowellville, Mahoning county, Ohio ; studied law with T. W. Sanderson at Youngstown, Ohio ; was admitted to the bar at Canfield, Ohio, in 1868, and commenced practice in Youngstown, where he has his office, but resides in Lowellville. He held the office of prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county for two terms from 1878 to 1882. In September, 1869, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, he was married, by Rev. Noble, of the First Presbyterian church, at his residence, to TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 223 Henrietta Book, of Poland, Ohio, who was born there in 1833. They are the parents of three children, two of whom were twins and one of whom survives. She was a teacher of colored people at Fortress Monroe during the war, and had her quarters in ex-President Tyler's house, near the Fortress. Her father, John Book, merchant and milliner, was a leading anti-slavery man during the agitation on that subject. WILLIAM J. LAWTHERS was born in Leesburg, Carroll county, Ohio, October 17, 1837. His parents were Colonel Garvin and Mrs. (Price) Lawthers.' His father, a physician of repute, is of Scotch and Irish descent; his mother is of Irish and Welsh descent. He attended the public schools at his home. During the war of 1861 he was for several months in the army, and was discharged in December, 1864, at Camp Zanesville, Ohio. He read law at Cleveland, Ohio, with R. E. Knight, Esq., and was admitted to the bar in Carrollton, Carroll county, Ohio, in 1866. He commenced practice in Carroll county, and removed to Youngstown, Ohio, in the spring of 1868, where he has since resided, engaged in practice. At Youngstown he practiced for a short time in partnership with H. B. Case, as Case & Lawthers, and afterwards with William G. Moore, as Moore & Lawthers. For several years past he has had no partner. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar of the district court of the United States at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1880 he was elected mayor of the city of Youngstown, and re-elected in 1882. He was married at Cleveland, Ohio, September 20, 1870, to Miss Josephine, daughter of Captain William Wilson, of that city, and niece of the late Hon. David M. Wilson, of Youngstown. MASON EVANS. Mason Evans was born in Philadelphia, Penn sylvania, November 24, 1849. His father, Owen Evans, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and resided in Philadelphia until his death in 1859. His mother, Sarah Roe Evans, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and now resides in Philadelphia. He was a graduate of the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1869. His law instructor was Aaron Thompson, of Philadelphia. He was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, November 23, 1870. He removed to Youngstown, Ohio, September 19, 1871, and was admitted to the bar of Ohio at Warren, in 1875, and is now practicing law in partnership with General Thomas W. Sanderson, firm of Sanderson & Evans. He was married June 8, 1876, at Youngstown, Ohio, to Miss Lucy E. Gerwig, daughter of Frederick Gerwig, of German nativity, an iron manufacturer now deceased. SIDNEY STRONG was born in Strongsville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, June 12, 1839.* He 1ead law at Columbus, Ohio, with C. N. Olds, and was there admitted to the bar in x867. He came to Youngstown shortly after, commenced practice, in which he still continues. He was married at Youngstown, Ohio, December t0, 1872, to Miss Mary A. Gerlick, of that city. CECIL D. HINE was born August 3, 1849, in Hubbard, Trumbull county, Ohio, where his parents then resided. They were Samuel Hine, now of Poland, Ohio, who was born in Youngstown, and was a son of Homer Hine, one of the earliest lawyers of the Reserve, and Ellen L. (Montgomery) Hine, of Coitsville, Ohio, daughter of Robert Montgomery, an early settler, and who, in 1806, built and operated in Poland, Ohio, a furnace for making iron, one of the first furnaces in Ohio. He attended the Western Reserve college to the beginning of senior year. That college has since conferred on him the degree of A. M. He read law two years with Taylor & Jones, at Warren, Ohio, and was there admitted to the bar, by the district court of Trumbull county, April 15, 1872. He soon after commenced practice at Youngstown, where he now resides, engaged in practice. He was married at Poland, Ohio October, 9 1872, to Miss Lizzie W. Woodruff, a native of that plate. MOSES H. BURKEY was born in Berlin, Mahoning county, Ohio, September 15, 1846. His parents were Jacob and Catharine Burkey, of German ancestry. He read law with F. G. Servis and G. Van Hyning, at Canfield, Ohio; was there admitted to the bar April 19, 1869, practiced his profession there from that date to August 20, 1876, when he removed to Youngstown, where he has since re- 224. - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO sided engaged, in practice. He was elected mayor of Canfield in April, 1871, and held that office by subsequent elections to April, 1875. He was married at Berlin, October 23, 1870, to Miss Mary A. Burkey, of that place. WILLIAM S. ANDERSON was born in North Jackson, Mahoning county, Ohio, December 31, 1847. His father, David Anderson, was born in Ireland. His mother, Hannah L. (Shaw) Anderson, was of Irish descent. He read law at Warren with Hutchins & Glidden; was admitted to the bar there April 7, 1870, commenced practice shortly after in Canfield, Ohio, and removed to Youngstown in 1877, where he practiced for several years in partnership with Louis R. King, until February, 1882, when the latter commenced his term as probate judge, as Anderson & King. He was married October 6, 1864, to Miss Louisa M. Shields, of Boardman, Ohio, daughter of Andrew Shields, one of the early citizens of the Reserve. JARED HUXLEY was born in Ellsworth, Mahoning county, Ohio, July 23, 1840. His father, Socrates L. Huxley, was born in New Marlborough, Berkshire county, Massachusetts. His mother, Pauline (Spaulding) Huxley, was born in Pomfret, Litchfield county, Connecticut. They emigrated, in early life, to Ellsworth, where they now reside. He graduated at Oberlin in 1867, read law with Charles W. Palmer in Cleveland, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Norwalk, Huron county, Ohio, April 3, 1871. During the war of 1861 he was clerk in the quartermaster's department of Nashville, Tennessee, and at Mobile, Alabama. For two years immediately preceding his admission to the bar, he was professor of mathematics and theory of accounts in Felton & Bigelow's Business college at Cleveland, and for a year prior held the same position at Star City Business college at Lafayette, Indiana. On his admission to the bar he commenced practice at Canfield, and on the removal of the county-seat to Youngstown he removed to that city, where he is now engaged in the practice of law. WILLIAM T. GIBSON was born in Youngstown, Ohio, December 20, 1850. His parents were: Samuel Gibson, born in Youngstown, March 17, 1819, son of one of the earliest pioneers, and Nancy J. (Gault) Gibson, born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, September 25, 1825. He graduated at the Rayen school, of Youngstown, June 20, 1872, and at Western Reserve college, Hudson, Ohio, June 25, 1876. He read law with George F. Arrel at Youngstown, and was admitted to bar at Warren, Ohio, September 3, 1878. He has since resided in Youngstown, and engaged in practicing law. BURDETTE O. EDDY was born in Windsor, Ashtabula county, Ohio, April 11, 1846. He was the son of Lorenzo S. and Elizabeth (Eaton) Eddy. They were natives of Connecticut. On the father's side he is of Scotch descent, his paternal ancestor being an emigrant to the United States about the yea1 1700. His great-grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution. His grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812. His mother was of English descent. Her ancestors came to the United States shortly before the Revolutionary war. Mr. Eddy graduated at the Orwell, Ohio, Normal institute in June, 1870, and in the law department of the Michigan university at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the class of 1874. His law instructors were Judge T. M. Cooley and other law lecturers in the university. He was admitted to the supreme court of Michigan in Lansing in April, 1874, to the United States district court at Detroit in the same month, and to the bar of Ohio at Canfield in September, 1874. He then removed to Youngstown and commenced the practice of law, and has since resided there engaged in practice. When quite a young man he was elected constable of his native town, and held the office for one year. In October 1880, he was appointed, by the court of common pleas, official stenographer of the courts of Mahoning county. He was married September 17, 1874, at Orwell, Ohio, to Miss Sarah Day, a native of the place, and by her had two children, the oldest of whom, a son, died January 13, 1879. She died December 17, 1878. On August 17, 1879, he was again married at New Castle, Pennsylvania, to Miss Vella Sunderlin, a native of that city. In the war of 1861 he was a private in battery G, Illinois light artillery, which was attached to TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 225 the Sixteenth army corps, and participated in the following engagements, viz: Union City, Coffee- vine, Tupelo, Old Town Creek, Hurricane Creek, Siege of Vicksburg, all in Mississippi; Nashville, Tennessee (the two days' action); the sieges of Spanish Fort, Blakely, and Mobile, Alabama, from March 27th to April 12, 1865. He was mustered out at Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois, September 4, 1865. After being mustered out of the United States army he went on to the plains of Nebraska, Dakota, Colorado, and Wyoming, where he acted for three years in the capacity 0f train boss, scout and hunter to various trading parties in that section, and was captain of the vigilance committee of the Laramie valley for over a year. He was wounded in a single-handed combat with a party of Indians at Coope1 creek, Wyoming Territory, in August, t868. fie returned to Ohio in that year, where he has resided since, except when pursuing his law studies in Michigan. ADDIS E. KNIGHT was born in Leesville, Carroll county, Ohio, Octobe1 29, 1852. His parents were Robert E. and Mary E. (Lawthers) Knight, both natives of Ohio. He removed with his parents to Youngstown ln 1869, graduated at the Rayen school in Youngstown, read law with his father, then a practicing lawyer in Youngstown, was admitted to the bar at Canfield September, 1874, and has since practiced law in Youngstown. He was elected justice of the peace of Youngstown township April 5, 1880. He was married April 19, 1879, at Youngstown, to Miss Grace Johnson, a native of that city. ALBERT JACOB WOOLF was born in Berlin township, Mahoning county, Ohio, April 26, 1852. His father, Jacob Woolf, was born near Martinsburg, Virginia, July 25, 1819, but his home, the greater part of the time, uhtil he 1eached manhood, was near Hagerstown, Maryland. His mother, whose maiden name was Christina Reichard, was born near Mount Alto, Guilford township, Franklin county, Pennsylvania. They were both of German descent. They were married December 9, 1847, migrated to Ohio in May, 1848, and settled in Berlin township, on the east bank of the Mahoning, nearly opposite the village of Frederick, and there resided until the spring of 1861, when they removed into the adjoining township of Milton, where his mother still resides. His father died January 14, 1874. The name of the family, as written by his ancestors, is Wolf, but his father, Jacob, about 1850, commenced using two o's, which orthography has always been used by his children, although his other relations still practice the old way of spelling the name Wolf. This departure from the old way of spelling was the result of a spirit of originality rather than any other cause. The subject of this sketch entered Mount Union college in the fall of 1872 and graduated in 1876. He also attended and completed a commercial course at Hiram college in 1871, and in 1874 he attended, part of the year, at Wittenberg college, in Springfield, Ohio. Prior to entering college, and during part of the time of his collegiate course, he taught school at intervals in Mahoning county, and in the fall and winter of 1873-74 he taught school in Johnson county, Missouri. He prepared for the bar in Youngstown, Ohio, studying with Van Hyning & Johnston part of the time, and the residue with C. R. Truesdale. He was admitted to the bar by the supreme court at Columbus, Ohio, June 4, 1878, and has practiced law at Youngstown since that time. He is a member of the board of school examiners of Mahoning county, and has served in that office for over three years past. He was the Democratic candidate for probate judge of Mahoning county in the fall of 1881, but was not elected. FRANK JACOBS. Frank Jacobs was born in Youngstown, Ohio, May 22, 1855. His parents were Philip Jacobs, born in Pennsylvania, and Sallie (Kimmel) Jacobs, who was daughter of Betsey (Kirkpatrick) Kimmel, who was born in Youngstown in 1800, and one of the first white children born in the township. She was granddaughter of Caleb Baldwin, one of the earliest pioneers, and the first justice of the peace in the township. He read law, in part, with Anderson & King, at Youngstown, graduating at the Albany law school May 26, 1877, and was admitted to the bar of Youngstown, Ohio, March 26, 1878, where he has since resided practicing his profession, in partnership with John S. Roller, of Canfield, in the firm of Roller & Jacobs. PICTURE OF JUDGE BENJAMIN F. HOFFMAN 226 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. DAVID TOD FORD. David Tod Ford was born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 21, 1854. His parents were James H. and Arabella (Stambaugh) Ford, the former a grandson of the late Judge George Tod, and the latter descended from an early pioneer of Youngstown of German ancestry. He came with his parents to Youngstown several years since, and there read law with Sidney Strong, Esq., and was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, February, 1876, commenced and is in practice in Youngstown. He was married May 15, 1878, to Miss Carrie L. Arms, of Youngstown, daughter of Freeman 0. Arms, for many years a prominent merchant of that city. ELLIOTT M. WILSON was born January 17, 1846, at Shalersville, Portage county, Ohio. His parents were Charles and Esther S. (Hancock) Wilson, who were from Massachusetts. He read law at the Ohio State and Union Law college in Cleveland, Ohio, and in the office of John Crowell, president of the college. He was admitted to the bar at Cleveland in September, 1874, but did not immediately commence practice. He removed to Youngstown in 1877, and engaged in practice, in which he has since continued at that place. STEPHEN L CLARK was born in Williamsfield, Ashtabula county, Ohio, June 8, 1849. His parents were Allen and Mary Clark, of that place. They were natives of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania. He received an academical education at Jamestown, Mercer county, Pennsylvania. He graduated in the Law department of the Michigan university at Ann Arbor, March 20, 1874. His legal instruct ors were Stephen A. Northway at Jefferson, Ohio, in the code practice of Ohio, and Professor Thomas M. Cooley at Ann Arbor, on common law practice. He received certificates for two years' study from each. He was admitted to the bar at Toledo, Ohio, April 8, 1874. He removed to Youngstown, Ohio, May 13, 1874, where he commenced the practice of law, and now resides. He was married February 21, 1878, at Greene, Trumbull county, Ohio, her then residence, to Miss Addie A. Noble. She was born in Gustavus, Trumbull county. Ohio. JOHN H. CLARK was born at New ,Lisbon, Ohio, September 18, 1857. His parents were John and Melissa (Hessin) Clark. His father was, for one term, judge of the court of common pleas, and is one of the oldest lawyers of that place. John H. graduated at the Western Reserve college at Hudson in 1877. He read law with his father and was admitted to the bar at New Lisbon in 1878, and commenced practice. He removed to Youngstown April 1, 1880, purchased an interest in the Vindicator, a weekly newspaper, Democratic in politics, and is engaged in the editing and publishing of that paper and also in practicing law in partnership with Leroy D. Thoman, late probate judge of Ma- honing county, under the firm name of Thoman & Clark. I. BARCLAY MILLER was born in Youngstown, Ohio, January 18, 1850. He was the son of Joseph and Jane (Jones) Miller. His father was from Charlestown, West Virginia, a farmer; for many years a resident of Youngstown. His mother was born in Austintown, Mahoning county, Ohio. He graduated at the Rayen school, read law with General T. W. Sanderson, was admitted to the bar at Canfield in 1873, and has since practiced his profession in Youngstown. He was married in Youngstown October 7, 1874, to Miss Ella J. Coombs, of that city. WILLIAM N. ASHBAUGH was born May 14, 1854, at Freeport, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. His parents were William and Eliza A. (Metz) Ashbaugh. He removed with them to Youngstown, Ohio, in October, 1874. He read law with David M. Wilson and William J. Lawthers, and was admitted to the bar by the district court at Youngstown, April 3, 1877, and has since resided there engaged in practice. WILLIAM E. HOWELLS was born in Youngstown, Ohio, March 10, 1857. His parents were Anthony and Elizabeth Howells, of Welsh nativity, but who early in life emigrated to Youngstown. They now reside in Massillon, Ohio. His father held the office of State treasurer for one term and is now and has been for several years largely engaged in coal minnig and furnace business, at and near Massillon. He read law with William S. Anderson, at Youngstown, was there admitted to the bar TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 227 March 17, 1879,, and resided there since in practice. WILLIAM A. MALINE was born in Canton, Ohio, September 1, 1852. His parents were John Maline, deceased, and Catharine (Pirrong) Maline, now of Youngstown. They emigrated from Bavaria to Ohio, and resided some years in Canton, Ohio. He read law with Henry A. Wise in Canton, and afterwards with M. W. Johnson and Isaac A. Justice in Youngstown. He was there admitted to the bar April 3, 1877, commenced practice, and has since resided there. In 1882 he was elected city solicit0r of Youngstown. He was married June 24, 1880, at Youngstown, to Miss Louisa Rudge, daughter of George Rudge, a native of England, who came to Ohio about 1848. WILLIAM B. M'GEHAN was born in Coitsville, Mahoning county, Ohio, June 8, 1838. His parents were Thomas McGehan, born in New Bedford, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, and Charlotte (Bissell) McGehan, born in Coitsville, a daughter of one of the first settlers. He attended the schools in Coitsville and Youngstown, read law with David M. Wilson, and afterward with Samuel W. Gilson at Canfield, and was admitted to the bar at Canfield, May 8, 1862. He resides at Coitsville, but his law office is in Youngstown. He was married at Coitsville, October 4, 1865, to Miss Anna Brownlee, of that place, whose parents were of Scotch nativity. JAMES P. WILSON was born February 6, .1857, at Lyons, Iowa. He came to Cleveland with his parents in 1863, and to Youngstown, September I, 1878. His parents were James Wilson, born at Wilson's corners, Medina county, Ohio, and Harriet (Hawes) Wilson, born at Chester, Geauga county, Ohio. He graduated at Cleveland high school in 1875; studied law in the office of Rufus P. Ranney at Cleveland in 1876, and in 1877-78 with Theod0re W. Dwight, of Columbia Law college, in New York city, and graduated there in 1878. He was admitted to the bar of New York in New York city by the supreme court in 1878, and to the bar of Ohio in August of the same year. He practiced in Youngstown for some time with D. W. Wilson, now deceased, in the firm of Wilson & Wilson, and resides in Youngstown engaged in practice. MELVIN CARY M'NABB was born in Poland, Mahoning county, Ohio, October 14, 1852. His parents were L. B. and Mary McNabb, both natives of Poland. He graduated at Poland Union seminary in 1870, and then removed to Salem, Ohio. In 1874 he commenced the study of law in the office of Brooks & Laubie, under the tuition of L. L. Gilbert. He removed to Youngstown in November, 1876, and continued the study of law in the office of William M. Osborn. He was admitted to the bar by the district court at Youngstown, April 3, 1877, and immediately commenced the practice of law in that city. In 1881 he was practicing in partnership with Wyllis W. Powers, now deceased, as McNabb & Powers. He was married April 21, 1880, to Miss Clara P. Stainbugh, daughter of Martin Stambaugh, at his residence near Vienna Junction, Liberty township, Trumbull county, Ohio. She was born in Hubbard, Ohio, October 8, 1854, and died in Youngstown, April 7, 1881. EUGENE SMITH was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1844, and removed to Ohio with his parents in 1856. He received his early education in the district school and in the high school at Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio, and taught district school a few terms. He studied law with J. C. Stanley, Esq., of Alliance, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1879. He commenced practice in Youngstown in September, 1879, and has since resided there, continuing the practice of his profession. CLATE A. SMITH was born in Canfield, Ohio, in September, 1850. His parents were Edwin E. and Jane E. (Crane) Smith, of that place. He removed, when quite young, with his parents, to Youngstown, Ohio, which has since been his residence. He read law with Jones & Murray at Youngstown, and was admitted to the bar at Warren, Ohio, in April, 1872, and then commenced practice. He has been connected, editorially, with the Evening News, since changed to News-Register, a daily and weekly newspaper, published in Youngstown for the past three years. He was 228 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. married at Youngstown, in 1870, to Miss Melinda,, daughter of Boston Myers of that city. BENJAMIN F. WIRT was born in West Middlesex, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1852, and removed with his parents to Youngstown, Ohio, in December of that year. He was a son of William Wirt, a native of Youngstown, and Eliza Jane (Sankey) Wirt, a native of Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of the Rayen school, of Youngstown. His law instructor was L. D. Woodworth, of Youngstown, and he was admitted to the bar in Columbus, Ohio, March 11, 1871, and commenced the practice in Youngstown, where he now resides, engaged in practice in partnership with his former preceptor, under the firm name of Woodworth & Wirt. He was married on the 23d day of June, 1881, at New Bedford, Pennsylvania, to Miss Mary M. McGeehen, a resident of that place and a native of Pennsylvania. JAMES KENNEDY was born in Poland, Ohio, September 3, 1853. He was a son of Thomas W. and Margaret (Truesdale) Kennedy. His early education was in the common schools. He prepared for college at the Poland Union seminary, and graduated at Westminster college, Pennsylvania, in 1876. He read law at Youngstown with General T. W. Sanderson, and was admitted to the ba1 March 16, 1879, and commenced practice in Youngstown, where he resides and engaged in practice. GEORGE C. HATCH was born in West Farmington, Trumbull county, Ohio, June 24, 1857, and is the son of H. H. and Jennett (Lane) Hatch. He graduated at the Western Reserve seminary in 1877, and at Oberlin college in 1878, read law with Jones & Murray at Youngstown, was admitted to the bar in 1879, practiced his profession for a short time at Warren, Ohio, and then removed to Youngstown, Ohio, where he has since resided, and engaged in practice. EDWARD SWANSTON was born in the county of Fermanaugh, Ireland, November 2, 1848. He was the son of William and Eliza (McCurdy) Swanston. He came to the United States and to Mahoning county, Ohio, with his parents in 1851. He attended the Union seminary at Poland, Ohio, and afterwards entered the Western Reserve college at Hudson, Ohio, but left before finishing the course. He studied law with Anderson & King, Youngstown, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Youngstown, Ohio, March 17, 1879; commenced practice there, where he is now in practice, in partnership with his brother George, as Swanston Brothers. GEORGE SWANSTON was born in Coitsville, Mahoning county, Ohio, January 5, 1852; is a son of William and Eliza (McCurdy) Swanston, natives of Ireland, who came to the United States in 1851. He was a graduate of Poland Union seminary, class of 1876. His law instructor was William S. Anderson, of Youngstown, Qhio, and was admitted to the bar in that city March 17, 1879. Since his admission has there practiced law in partnership with his brother Edward, under tne firm name of Swanston Brothers. JOHN A. LADD was born at Newton Falls, Trumbull county, Ohio, January 17, 1848. He was the son of William P. and Letitia (Clark) Ladd. His father was a blacksmith and a native of Vermont. His mother was a native of New Jersey. He came to Youngstown in 1865, was engaged in drug business five years and then in insurance and collecting business. He read law with Jones & Murray, at Youngstown, and was admitted to the bar at Jefferson, Ashtabula county, March 19, 1878, and then commenced practice in Youngstown in which he is now engaged. PATRICK F. GILLIES was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, July 27, 1854. He came to the United States in 1871, making his home at Chicago, where he resided until 1874, when he removed to Lowell. ville, Mahoning county, and soon after to Youngstown. He read law with Isaac A. Justice, at Youngstown, and was there admitted to the bar March 17, 1879, where he immediately commenced practice, and now resides. HALLETT K. TAYLOR was born in Ravenna, Ohio, November 2, 1857. He was a son of Ezra B. and Harriet M. (Fra zer) Taylor, both natives of Portage county, Ohio. His father was for several years judge of the common pleas of the second subdivision of TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 229 the ninth judicial district, and is now (1882) Representative in Congress from the nineteenth Ohio Congressional district. H. K. Taylor was a graduate of the Western Reserve college, at Hudson, Ohio, class of 1879. Read law with his father at Warren, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, in June, 1881. He then commenced practice in Youngstown, Ohio, where he now resides. VOLNEY ROGERS was born in Middleton, Columbiana county, Ohio, December 1, 1846, and was a son of James and Elizabeth D. Rogers. He read law with Andrews & Rogers, at Mt. Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court at Columbus, Ohio, in December, 1871. He commenced practice in Youngstown, Ohio, where he now resides, in February, 1872. In 1874 he formed a partnership in law practice with his brother Disney, under the firm name of Rogers & Rogers, which still continues. In 1878 he was elected city solicito1 of Youngstown and re-elected in 1880. DISNEY ROGERS was born in Middleton, Columbiana county, Ohio, December 19, 1844. He is a son of James and Elizabeth. D. (Jameson) Rogers. His father is of Welsh descent; his mother of Scotch descent. He attended the public schools at Middleton and the high school at New Lisbon, Ohio; read law with James L. Smith at New Lisbon, and was admitted to the bar by the district court at St. Clairsville, Belmont county, September 12, 1866. He practiced in Mt. Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, from r866 to 1874, in partnership with Bertrand Andrews, as Andrews & Rogers. In 1874 he removed to Youngstown, Ohio, and has since practiced there in partnership with his brother Volney, as Rogers & Rogers. While residing at Mt. Gilead he was a member of the council for five years, and was appointed by Judge Sherman, of the United States district court, a commissioner for the northern district of Ohio, which office he now holds. In the Presidential campaign of 1880 he was chairman of the Republican central committee of Mahoning county. He was married at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, February 13, 1869, to Miss Ida S. Andrews, daughter of Bertrand Andrews, his former law partner. WILLIAM H. CALLAHAN was born in Green, Mahoning county, Ohio, in 1851. He was a son of Nathan P. (for some time sheriff of Mahoning county) and Mary Callahan. He read law with S. W. Gilson, Esq., at Canfield, and was there admitted to the bar in 1870. He practiced there until 1876, when he removed to Youngstown, where he is engaged in practice. THOMAS F. HANSARD was born near Hudson, Summit county, Ohio, June 28, 1855. He was a son of John and Mary Hansard, natives of Ireland. He attended at Notre Dame university, Indiana, but left without graduating, and commenced studying law with E. M. Brown, in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1877. He taught school part of the time while studying law, finished his law studies with Daniel Babst, Jr., at Crestline, Ohio, was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, December 7, 1880, and then commenced practicing law at Youngstown, Ohio, where he now resides. DANIEL L THOMAS was born October 2, 1848, in Palmyra, Portage county, Ohio. His parents were John D. and Sophia C. (Lewis) Thomas. His father was a native of Wales, his mother was a daughter of Frank Lewis, an early pioneer from New England, and a well-known and popular inn-keeper, at Palmyra, prior to the advent of railroads in eastern Ohio, on the old stage road from Cleveland to Pittsburg. He came, with his parents, to Youngstown in 1863, graduated at the Rayen school in 1870; was, for a time, in mercantile business; then read law with H. H. Moses, at Youngstown; attended a course of law lectures at the Michigan university, at Ann Arbor, and was admitted to the bar at Canfield, Ohio, in 1875. He has since practiced in Youngstown. On May 14, 1874, he was married, at Waukegan, Illinois, to Miss Elizabeth A. Turner, of that place. LEWIS W. KING was born November 24, 1854, at Unity, Columbiana county, Ohio. His parents were Eleazer and Margaret (Mollenkopf) King. His father was of Irish ancestry, his mother of German ancestry, and the daughter of one of the earliest settlers of that township. He removed to Canfield, Ohio, in 1873, and officiated as clerk in 230 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. the office of the probate judge until January, 1875, and then as assistant to the clerk of the court of common pleas until February, 1877. During the time he was in the probate and clerk's offices he studied law with Anderson & Roller, and was admitted to the bar. He commenced practice in 1877, in partnership with William S. Anderson, in the firm of Anderson & King. In October, 1881, he was elected probate judge for three years, and commenced his official term February 9, 1882. JOHN L. BUTLER was born in Cambridge, Massacbusetts, January 9, 1848. Here he was schooled and educated until his sixteenth year, when, having caught the war fever, he enlisted in the regular army, serving under the late General Myer in the signal corps. He participated in several battles and skirmishes, principally the famous passage of the forts in Mobile bay, under the leadership of Admiral Farragut ; and again in the reduction of Mobile city, under the leadership of General Canby. After the war he returned to his native city, where he remained until 1867, when he embarked in the oil business in Pennsylvania. Here he remained until 1875, having in the meantime been admitted to the Warren county, Pennsylvania, bar. In 1877 he was admitted to the supreme court of Pennsylvania. In 1878 he returned to Boston, Massachusetts, intending to pass the remainder of his days in his native city. But owing to the severity of the climate the health of his wife to whom he was married while in Pennsylvania, failed, and this necessitated a removal to a more inland State. In 1881 Ohio was chosen as the field of his labors, particularly on account of his wife, who was Miss Josephine Swisher, a native of Petersburg, Mahoning county, a woman well known in literary circles. She at one time wrote for the Youngstown papers and other county publications, under the nom de plume of "Rose Wilde." In politics Mr. Butler is independent, his voice and pen always ready to denounce sham and fraud, no matter what party suffers. He has the confidence of many of the ablest leaders in each party. As a lawyer he came highly recommended. He resides in Youngstown, engaged in practice. His father and mother are still living in Boston, Massachusetts, hale and hearty. His father was born in Tipperary, Ireland, and is first cousin of General B. F. Butler. His grandfather emigrated to Canada when the father of the subject of our sketch was an infant in arms. The B. F. Butler branch of the family emigrated from Ireland to New Hampshire. Another branch of the family settled in South Carolina. The family is descended from the Fitzwalter family of Normans, who invaded Ireland. In personal appearance Mr. Butler appears rather young for a man of his age. In height he is about five feet nine inches, dark complexion, of slender build, smooth, clean shaven face. He has no facial resemblance to his celebrated kinsman of Massachusetts, but bears, it is said, a striking resemblance to United States Senator Butler, of South Carolina. HENRY C. CASSIDY. Henry C. Cassidy was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1856. His parents were Charles and Mary (McGillop) Cassidy. His father was a native of Ireland, his mother of Tyrone, Blair county, Pennsylvania. He removed with his parents to Youngstown, Ohio, in November, 1858. He graduated at Notre Dame university, Indiana, read law with Moses & Arrel of Youngstown, was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, in May, 1880, and has since practiced in Youngstown. SIDNEY DE LAMAR JACKSON was born in Hubbard, Trumbull county, Ohio, April 9, 1855. His parents were Joseph M. and Rebecca L. Jackson. His father' was born in New Bedford, Pennsylvania; his mother in Hubbard, Ohio. They reside in Coitsville, where he received his early education. He read law in Youngstown with Hon. David M. Wilson. He was admitted to the bar at the district court in Canfield, Ohio, April 3, 1877, and commenced practice in Youngstown, where he is now practicing in partnership with William T. Gibson. He was married at Fredonia, New York, December 14, 1880, to Miss Mary E. Cushing, of that place. EDWARD ROCKWELL was born in Connecticut. He graduated at Yale college in 1821, read law at the Yale law school in New Haven, Connecticut, and was there admitted to the bar. About 1827 he moved to Youngs. town, where he practiced 'several years. During his residence he held the office of justice of the peace. He removed to Cleveland about 1855, TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 231 and was secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad company. Prior to his removal to Youngstown he was married, at New Haven, Connecticut, to Miss Matilda D. P. Salter. He died in Cleveland in 1874; his wife died in Youngstown, April 4, 1847. HOMER H. HINE was born in Youngstown, Ohio, February 15, 1823. He was a son of Homer and Mary (Skinner) Hine, both early pioneers of the Reserve. He graduated at Western Reserve college, read law with his father, and afterwards with. Hitchcock, Wilson & Wade, at Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar at Warren in the fall of 1846. He commenced practice in Youngstown in 1847, in partnership with Milton Sutliff, of Warren, as Sutliff & Hine. In 1849 he removed to Painesville, Ohio, where he still 1esides, on the farm cleared up and in the house built by his grandfather, Abraham Skinner, in 1805, in which house his parents were married in 1807. He is engaged in farming and occasionally attending to cases in court. He was married April 3, 1845, to Miss Julietta Rue, daughter of Jonathan Rue, of Harrodsburgh, Kentucky. WILLIAM FERGUSON was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, about 1820. He read law with Tod, Hoffman & Hutchins at Warren, Ohio, and was there admitted to the ba1 about 1844 and then commenced practicing in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1846 he was elected proscuting attorney of Mahoning county, at the first election held after the organization of the c0unty, in April, being a special election. He was re-elected at the annual election held in October, and held the office one term. In 1853 he removed to DeWitt, Clinton county, Iowa, and entered into practice. He was for a time attorney for a railroad company. He died at DeWitt in 1862. He was married about 1850 at Youngstown, to Miss Prudence Murray, daughter of Lewis Murray, of that place. RIDGELEY J. POWERS was born in Youngstown, Ohio, April 17, 1822. His parents were Jacob and Nancy Powers, the former born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, the latter in Wheeling, Virginia. He graduated at Alleghany college, Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1843 studied law with Tod, Hoffman & Hutchins, at Warren, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at that place in 1844. He commenced the practice of law at Youngstown, Ohio, as a member of the firm of Hoffman, Hutchins & Powers, in which firm he continued for a short period. He resided in Youngstown several years and then removed to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he is now engaged in the practice of the profession as senior member of the firm of Powers, Force & Powers. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county, and served three terms, viz: during the years of 1852-53, 1854-55, and 1858-59. The two first terms he was elected as a Democrat and the last as a Republican. He was married, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, June 15, 1843, to Mary Henderson Waring, then a resident of that place. She was born at Louisville, Kentucky. WILLIS WARING POWERS was born in Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, February 2, 1848. He was a son of Ridgeley J. and Mary Henderson (Waring) Powers. His father was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and practiced law in that city from 1844 until 1867, when he removed with his family to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he now resides, engaged in practice. His mother was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He entered Allegheny college, Pennsylvania, in 1865, and graduated in 1869. For several years prior to his graduation his father had instructed him in the elementary principles of law, and 1n 1870 he was admitted to practice in the various county courts of Alleghany county Pennsylvania, and a few years later to the supreme court of that State, and to the United States courts. He resided in Pittsburg, as a member of the law firm of R. J. & Willis W. Powers until 1880, when, after being admitted to the bar of Ohio in Columbus, Ohio, he removed to Youngstown, Ohio, and shortly after there commenced practice in partnership with M. C. McNabb as McNabb & Powers. While residing at Pittsburg, he received an appointment and commission from Governor Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, as major and aide-de-camp, Sixth division National guard of Pennsylvania, and served, with his division, in the suppression of the great 1iots in the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania in the summer and fall of 1876. 232 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. Immediately following his admission to the bar in 1870, he was married to Ella S. Powers, of Youngstown, daughter of Abraham Powers, of that city, one of the most prominent business men of the Mahoning valley. He died September 8, 1881. FRANCIS E. HUTCHINS was born in Pennsylvania, came when a youth with his parents to Youngstown, Ohio, attended the schools there, read law with William Ferguson, and was admitted to the bar, at Canfield, in 185o. He practiced law at Youngstown a few years and then removed to Warren, where he now resides, engaged in practice. He was married at Youngstown, December 11, 1851, to Miss Elizabeth Sanderson, of that place. ROBERT E. KNIGHT was born in Carroll county, Ohio, about 1831, was admitted to the bar at Carrollton, Ohio, practiced there some years, and removed to Youngstown, Ohio, in 1869; practiced there for a short time in partnership with David M. Wilson, as Wilson & Knight, and in 1873 removed to Lincoln, Nebraska. He remained there three years and returned to Cleveland, where he is now engaged in practice. He was married, in 1850, to Miss Mary E. Lawthers, of Leesburg, Carrol county, Ohio, daughter of Colonel G. Lawthers, an old citizen of that place. JOHN H. KING was born in Youngstown, Ohio, about 1827. His father was Singleton King, who removed to Youngstown in 1805, and was for many years a prominent business man. He was admitted to the bar at Canfield in 1852, and practiced law in Youngstown several years, during part of which time he held the office of justice of the peace. He died August 5, 1858. GEORGE J. WARD. was born in Austintown, Ohio, in 185o. His parents were George and Hannah (Smith) Ward. His father was born in England; his mother in Wales. He read law at Canfield with S. W. Gilson, Esq.; was there admitted to the bar in 1874, practiced there a short time, and removed to Youngstown in 1876, where he continued to practice. He died March 5, 1877. WILLIAM CAREY BUNTS was born in Berlin, Mahoning county, Ohio, was admitted to the bar in 1856, and practiced law several years in Youngstown. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county in 1860, and served one term. He then joined the Union army as a volunteer, and after leaving the army he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he died several years since. He was married about 1859 to Miss Clara Barnhisel, daughte1 of the late Henry Barnhisel, of Liberty, Trumbull county, Ohio. HENRY G. LESLIE was born in Poland, Ohio, March 17, 1839. He was a son of John G. Leslie, a merchant of that place. He was admitted to the bar at Canfield in 1862, and commenced practice in Youngstown, Ohio, where he continued in practice until his death. He was elected city attorney of Youngstown in 1864, and was elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county in 1867, and died March 2, 1869, during his term of office. He was married in Cleveland in 1865, to Miss Amelia Burton, daughter of Rev. Lewis Burton, of Cleveland, Ohio, a distinguished minister of the Protestant Episcopal church. HALBERT B. CASE was born in Mecca, Trumbull county, Ohio, about 1838. He attended the Western Reserve seminary at Farmington, Ohio, and the college at Oberlin. He read law at the Michigan university, and was admitted to the bar in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1863. Prior to his admission to the bar he had served as a soldier in the war of 1861, in the Seventh Ohio regiment, in which he was captain of a company. He removed to Youngstown about 1864, and practiced law there for a few years, part of the time in partnership with Asa W. Jones, as Jones & Case, part of the time in partnership with William J. Lawthers, as Case & Lawthers, and part of the time without a partner. About 1870 he removed to Alba, Iowa, afterwards to DesMoines, and then to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he now resides, engaged in practice. He was married, about the time he came to Youngstown, to Miss Carrie, daughter of Austin D. Kibbee, of Farmington, Ohio. She died at Des Moines. He was afterwards married at Chattanooga to Miss Jennie Spooner, who had removed there from Ohio with her parents after the close of the war WILLIAM M. OSBORN was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1842. He TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 233 is a son of Abner and Abby (Allison) Osborn. He attended the Poland, Ohio, academy, and shortly after the beginning of the war of 1861 he enlisted in the Twenty-third regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and served several months. He contracted a fever which nearly cost him his life, disabling him from further service, and he was discharged. He read law with Judge Glidden at Poland, and afterwards attended the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He was admitted to the bar in Warren, Ohio, about 1869, and commenced practice in Youngstown, Ohio, at first alone, and then in partnership with General T. W. Sanderson, as Sanderson & Osborn, and then alone. He was elected mayor of Youngstown in 1874, and served one term. He removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in February, 1878, and commenced practice there. He was married in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1878, to Miss Fanny Hastings of that city, adopted daughter of Walter Hastings, since deceased, and niece of Judge Glidden. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn, with Mrs. Hastings, visited Europe in December, 1880, and are still there on an extended tour. WILLIAM L. BROWN. William L. Brown was born in New England, and removed to Canfield with his mother, a widow, when quite young. He attended the academy there, read law and was admitted to the bar in 1863. Shortly after, he went to Montana, remained there a few years, returned and located in Youngstown, where he engaged in practicing law and in publishing the Youngstown Vindicator, a democratic weekly journal. About 1879 he purchased an interest in the New York Daily News, sold his interest in the Vindicator, and removed to New York city, where he now resides, engaged in editing and publishing the Daily News. In December, 1878, he was married at Washington city to Miss Henrietta Jeffries, daughter of General M. L Jeffries of that city, formerly a lawye1 of Ravenna, Ohio. HENRY CAMP. Henry Camp was born in Jackson, Mahoning county, Ohio. He was son of Captain John Camp, a former justice of the peace, militia officer and hotel-keeper, of that place. He was for several years a Disciple preacher in Ohio and Pennsylvania. He read law and practiced for a time in Pennsylvania. He removed to Youngstown, Ohio, in 1875, and there commenced practice. In February, 1877, during a strong, popular Murphy excitement, he joined the Murphy ranks. He was a ready and forcible speaker and his services as a temperance lecturer were soon in demand. He removed to Cleveland, and in the spring of that year engaged actively in a Murphy revival there, and has been largely engaged since in different parts of the State as an advocate of temperance. WILLIAM PORTER was a native of Ireland, came when a youth to the United States, and resided several years in Milton, Ohio. He was elected, about 1840, an associate judge of the court of common pleas of Trumbull county under the old constitution. He was admitted to the bar at Canfield, Ohio, in 1859, practiced a few years in Milton, Ohio, and removed to Youngstown about 1870, where he practiced a few years, and about 1879 removed to Bristol, Trumbull county, and engaged in other business. ELGIN A. ANGELL was born in the State of New York, was admitted to the bar at Canfield in 1876. He practiced a short time thereafter in Youngstown and removed to Cleveland, where he now resides, engaged in practice. JOHN C. HUTCHINS was born in Warren, Ohio, son of John Hutchins, a lawyer, now of Cleveland, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar at Canfield, Ohio, in 1866, commenced practice in Youngstown, remained there a short time and removed to Cleveland, where he now resides, engaged in practice. CORNELIUS M. BROWN was born in Youngstown, Ohio, was there admitted to the bar in 1878. He practiced in Youngstown a short time and removed to Springfield, Ohio, where he is now engaged in practice. WILLIAM W. WHITTLESEY was born in Canfield, Ohio; was a son of Hon. Elisha Whittlesey; read law with Whittlesey & Newton; was admitted to the bar about 1840, at Warren, Ohio, and practiced law a few years at Canfield in partnership with Hon. Eben Newton, as Newton & Whittlesey. At the first term of 234 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. the court of common pleas of Mahoning county, in May, 1846, he was appointed clerk and held the office until 1855. He practiced in Canfield for a few years thereafter, when he was appointed a clerk in the United States Treasury department, and removed to Washington city, where he now resides. He was married at Canfield about 1840, to Miss Jerusha Lockwood, daughter of Stanley C. Lockwood of that place. JAMES B. BLOCKSOM was born in New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, July 19, 1821. He was a son of Fisher A. Blocksom, a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and a pioneer lawyer of Ohio, who settled in New Lisbon about 1800, became a man of high repute as a lawyer, held several public offices, and died at a very advanced age. His mother, Margaret (Graham) Blocksom, was born in Chambersburgh, Pennsylvania. James B. received his early education at the public schools. He read law with his father, and was admitted to the bar at Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1842, commenced practice in New Lisbon, resided there until 1846, when he removed to Canfield, shortly after the organization of Mahoning county. He was elected prosecuting attorney of the county in 1848, and served for one term. He was elected justice of the peace of the township of Canfield in 186i, and for several years was mayor of the village of Canfield. He was again elected prosecuting attorney in 1862, and died January 15, 1863, during his official term. Shortly after lie came to Canfield he formed a law partnership with John M. Edwards, under the firm of Edwards & Blocksom—which continued some time. In 1858 he was a partner of David M. Wilson, who then resided in Youngstown, Ohio, as Wilson & Blocksom, which continued a short time. He was married in Canfield, January 9, 1849, to Miss Frances M. Church, daughter of John R. Church, one of the early settlers of that township, and granddaughter of Nathaniel Church, one of the proprietors of the township. Her parents were natives of Connecticut, and of English descent. ENSIGN CHURCH BLOCKSOM, son of James B. and Frances M. (Church) Blocksom, was born in Canfield, Ohio, August 1855. He read law in the office of Van Hyning & Johnston at Canfield, and was admitted to the bar about 1877. He practiced law at Canfield about two years, and afterwards at Canton, Ohio, as a member of the firm of Bond & Blocksom. He went to San Francisco, California, in the fall of 1880, where he resides at present, but is not now practicing law. EPHRAIM JAMES ESTEP was born in Wellsville, Columbiana county, Ohio. He was a son of Henry and Abigail Estep, who were residents of Ohio from 1806. He studied law with James Mason in New Lisbon, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at that place in 1845. On the organization of Mahoning county in 1846 he removed to Canfield, Ohio, and was engaged in practice there for several years, and then removed to Cleveland, where he still resides engaged in practice. At Canfield he was a partner with James Mason of New Lisbon, under the firm of Mason & Estep, and afterwards at Cleveland, under the same firm, Mr. Mason having removed to Cleveland. At Cleveland, subsequently, he was a partner of Reuben Hitchcock as Hitchcock & Estep, of F. T. Backus as Backus & Estep, of Stevenson Burke as Estep & Burke, and of Audi ew Squire, his present partner, as Estep & Squire. He was married in May, 1851, at Canfield, Ohio, to Miss Julia M. Peffers, a native of that place and granddaughter of Eli T. Boughton, one of the early settlers. EDWARD G. CANFIELD was born in Portage county, Ohio, and was there admitted to the bar and practiced for a short period. He removed to Canfield, Ohio, soon after the organization of Mahoning county, in 1846, and engaged in practice for some time in partnership with John L. Ranney, Esq., of Ravenna, Ohio, as Canfield & Ranney. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county in 185o and served one term. Several years ago he removed to Trumbull county, Ohio. He was married while residing in Canfield to Miss Ritter, daughter of Henry Ritter, an old citizen of that place. FRANCIS G. SERVIS was born in New Jersey in 1826, and, at an early age, came, with his parents, to Berlin, Mahoning county, Ohio. His father, Abraham Servis, was a farmer, but, although not a member of the bar, TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 235 practiced law ,to a considerable extent before justices of the peace in Berlin and neighboring t0wnships, and, as such practitioner, had quite a 1eputation for shrewdness and ability. Francis G. received a common school education, then taught school and was clerk in a store. On March 9, 1852, he was appointed clerk of the probate court of Mahoning county and officiated as such until 1855. During this time he read law; was admitted to the bar, and, after leaving the probate office, he commenced practice in Canfield. In 1863 he was appointed, by the court of common pleas, prosecuting attorney to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of James B. Blocksom, and was elected to that office in 1864, and re-elected in 1866. In 1872 he was appointed, by President Grant, judge of Montana, which office he held for a few years and resigned and returned to Canfield and resumed practice. In 1876 he was elected judge of the second subdivision of the Ninth judicial district of the court of common pleas, but died March 6, 1877, without taking his seat on the bench. He was married, at Canfield, September 11, 1853, to Miss Martha E. Patten. She survives him. GARRETSON I. YOUNG was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, and read law with S. W. Gilson, Esq., at Canfield, Ohio, and was there admitted to the bar in 1851, and then commenced practice. He was elected probate judge of Mahoning county in 1854, and was re-elected in 1857, and served in that office six years. After the expiration of his term of office, he returned to Columbiana county and resumed the practice of law. He was elected Representative in the Ohio Legislature from that county in 1869, and died at Columbus in 1870, while attending his legislative duties. He was married at Ellsworth, Ohio, March 27, 1856, to Miss Susan Bingham, of that place. ISAAC E. COFFEE was born in Salem, Columbiana county, read law with S. W. Gilson, Esq., at Canfield, was there admitted to the bar in 1855; practiced law there in partnership with Mr. Gilson, and died at Canfield in September, 1859. He was married to Miss Kate Hine, of Canfield, November 19, 1857. CHARLES A. HARRINGTON was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, and there admitted to the bar. He practiced for a time at Canfield, and returned to Trumbull county and resumed practice at Warren. He there held the office of clerk of the courts for several years. THERON M. RICE. was born in Trumbull county, Ohio; admitted to the bar, and removed to Canfield, Ohio, about 1855; practiced there a few years and removed to Missouri, where he was elected a judge of the common pleas, and in 1880, a Representative in Congress for the seventh district. SAMUEL W. GILSON was born in Pennsylvania. He graduated at Washington college in that State, taught school, read law, and was admitted to the bar in Columbiana county, Ohio, He removed to Canfield soon after the organization of Mahoning county, and there resided, in the practice of law until his death. He was elected 1epresentative in the Ohio Legislature from Mahoning county in 1858, and served one term. He died at Canfield in May, 1874. JOHN W. CHURCH was born in Canfield, Ohio, was a son of John R. Church, an early settler of that township, for many years a merchant, and for one term an associate judge of the court of common pleas of Trumbull county. He was admitted to the bar about 1850. He practiced in Canfield a few years in partnership with David M. Wilson as Wilson & Church, and removed to Massillion, Stark county, Ohio. He was there elected judge of the common pleas, and died some years since. He was married about 1856, to Miss Frances Pease, daughter of Samuel Pease, Esq., a lawyer of Massillon. CHARLES RUGGLES was born about 1806, and was a son of an early pioneer of Canfield. He was raised on a farm, became a practical farmer and surveyor. He read law and was admitted to the bar at Warren, Ohio, about 1840. He practiced law in Canfield, in addition to surveying, for many years, but has now retired from law practice, in a great measure, and is engaged in other business. HORACE G. RUGGLES, son of Charles Ruggles, was born in Canfield ; attended the Mahoning academy; read law and 236 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. was admitted to the bar about 1860. He practiced in Canfield a few years and removed to the West. He was married, December 24, 1863, to Miss Amanda C. Hoyle, of Berlin, Ohio. EDWIN C. RUGGLES is a son of Charles Ruggles. He was admitted to the bar at Canfield in 1869, practiced there a few years and removed to Cuyahoga falls, Summit county, Ohio, where he resides engaged in practice. He was married April 20, 1859, to Miss Catharine McFarland, of Canfield, Ohio. JOHN S. ROLLER was born in Green, Mahoning (then Columbiana) county, Ohio, September 27, 1839. His parents were Simon and Mary Ann (Weikert) Roller, whose parents were early settlers of that township. He attended the Mahoning academy at Canfield, read law and was admitted to the bar in Portage county in May, 1871. He commenced practice in Leetonia, Columbiana county, in November, 1871. In April, 1874, he removed to Canfield, where he has since resided, in practice, part of the time in partnership with William S. Anderson as Anderson & Roller. He was married January 15, 1868, at Canfield, to Miss Asenath A. Fitzpatrick. LANDON MASTIN for a number of years was a resident of Smith other, Mahoning county, Ohio; engaged in other business. He read law with F. G. Servis, Esq., of Canfield, and was there admitted to the bar in 1870. He resides there now, practicing occasionally, but engaged in other business. He was married November 15, 1850, to Miss Harriett Santee of Smith township. ENSIGN N. BROWN was born in Canfield December 9, 1854. He is son of Richard and Thalia F. (Newton) Brown, then of New York city, and grandson of Eben Newton, of Canfield, a lawyer of distinction, and one of the oldest on the Reserve. In 1878 he removed to Canfield, Ohio, with his parents, who were former residents of that place. He read law with Judge Newton, and with VanHyning & Johnston, and was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, in 1880, and commenced practice in Canfield, where he is still in practice. FRANCIS C. NESBIT was born in Pennsylvama, attended the academy at Canfield, Ohio, read law, and was admitted to the bar of Ohio about 1860, and commenced practice at Canfield. He was a justice of the peace of that township from 1866 to 1869, and removed West about 1870. He was married in October, 1861, to Miss Ellen Wright, of Tallmadge, Ohio. HARRISON J. EWING was born in Milton, Ohio, was admitted to the bar at Canfield in 1876, practiced a short time in the county, and removed to Cuyahoga county. He was married November 23, 1866, to Miss Sarah Patterson, of Milton, Ohio. ALEXANDER H. MOORE was horn in Milton, Mahoning county, Ohio, was admitted to the ba1 at Canfield in 1859, practiced there a few years, and afterwards in Youngstown, and removed back to Milton, where he is engaged in other business, occasionally attending to law practice. JOHN J. MOORE was born in Milton, Ohio, was admitted to the bar at Canfield in 1863, practiced some time in Canfield, and removed to Ottawa, Putnam county, Ohio. He resumed practice there, and in 1878 was elected judge of the court of common pleas of the Third subdivision of the Third judicial district. He was married at Milton, Ohio, May 19, 1859, to Miss Elizabeth Patterson, of that township. SELDEN HAINES was the son of parents who removed from New England to Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, and were among the early settlers of the Reserve. He was born about 1806. He graduated at Yale college in 1826, read law and was admitted to the bar in Trumbull county about 1828, and commenced practice in Poland, Ohio. In July, 1832, he was colonel of the First Rifle regiment, First brigade and Fourth division, Ohio militia. He practiced law several years at Poland, and then entered the ministry of the gospel. He removed from Poland and was, in 1882, the pasto1 of a Presbyterian church in Rome, New Y0rk. In 1872 he received from the college at Mary. ville, Tennessee, the honorary degree of S. T. D. WILLIAM KNIGHT was a citizen and lawyer of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and had been a Representative in the TRUMBULL AND .MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 237 Legislature of that State. About 1840, having a son, the late William L. Knight, settled at Warren, Ohio, as a lawyer, he removed to Ohio, purchased a residence in Poland, then in Trumbull county, and commenced practice, and there resided during his life. He died in Poland in 1852. CHARLES E. GLIDDEN was born at Claremont, New Hampshire, December 4, 1835. His parents were Erastus and Diantha Glidden, of that place. He prepared for the bar at the New York State and Union Law college at Poughkeepsie, New York, and graduated at that college in 1855. He removed to Poland, Ohio, September s0, 1855, and was admitted to the bar at Ravenna, Ohio, in 1856. He practiced law at Poland, Ohio, from 1856 to 1862, in which year he was elected judge of the court Of common pleas in the second subdivision of the ninth judicial district of Ohio. His term expired in 1867, when he resumed the practice of law at Warren, Ohio, with F. E. Hutchins and John M. Stull, under the firm name of Hutchins, Glidden & Stull. He continued in practice until 1872, when he was again elected judge of the common pleas of the same subdivision and district. His term expired in 1877, when he resumed practice at Warren, but his health failing, he retired from practice and removed to Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he now resides. At the time he was first elected judge he was not quite twenty-seven years of age, and, probably, was the youngest man ever elected judge in the district, and, perhaps, in Ohio. As a lawyer he ranked high in his profession, and he retired from the bench with the reputation of a learned, able, and upright judge. He was married at Poland, Ohio, December 10, 1856, to Miss Eliza K. Morse, of that place. FREDERICK W. BEARDSLEY was born in Canfield, and is a son of Philo Beardsley, a farmer and pioneer of that township, from New England. He attended the academy at Canfield and afterwards taught school. He was elected clerk of the court of common pleas in 1860, and served, by re-election, six years. He was admitted to the bar at Canfield in 1866. After the expiration of his term of office as clerk, he practiced ih Canfield a short time and removed West. He was married October 25, 1860, to Miss Jacqueline P. Gee, of Mahoning county. WILLIAM B. DAWSON was born in West Union, now Calcutta, Columbiana county, Ohio, June 6, 1831. His parents were Augustine and Maria (Bever) Dawson. He attended the academy in his native village, studying Latin and Greek and the higher branches under different teachers, then read law at Canfield, Ohio, witn S. W. Gilson and afterwards with D. M. Wilson and John W. Church, and was admitted to the bar at Canfield in May, 1853, and commenced practice and still resides there. He was married in Canfield, October, 1853, to Miss Maria C. Wadsworth, who was born in that place. She was a daughter of Colonel George Wadsworth, and granddaughte1 of Major-general Elijah Wadsworth, who acquired distinction on the northern frontier in the War of 1812, and was one of the proprietors and first settlers of Canfield. JOHN H. LEWIS was born at Gwynnedd, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1814. His parents were Jesse and Susannah Lewis, natives of that place. He graduated at Gwynnedd high school in 1835, removed to Greenford, then in Columbiana county, Ohio, September 18, 1841; read law with Umbstaetter & Stanton in New Lisbon, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at New Lisbon in the spring of 1843. He practiced at Greenford until the spring of 1846, when he removed to Canfreld on the organization of Mahoning county. He practiced there about eight years and then removed to Cincinnati, and remained about eight years engaged in practice, He then returned to Greenford, where he has since resided, engaged in other business, and also practicing law to some extent. EMERY E. KNOWLTON was born in Ashtabula county Ohio. He was left an orphan at an early age, and was adopted and raised by Isaac Griffin, of Farmington, Ohio. He attended the Western Reserve seminary at that place. He entered the army soon after the commencement of the war in 1861, and served with credit during the war. After his return from the army and about 1866, he was appointed deputy clerk of the court of common pleas, of Mahon- 258 - TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO. ing county, Ohio, was elected clerk in 1872, and served in that office until his death. He died January 6, 1875. While officiating in the clerk's office he read law and was admitted to the bar at Canfield in 1869. He was married in October, 1871, to Miss Mary E. Nash, of Canfield. GILES VAN HYNING was born in Summit county, Ohio, in 1834. He is a son of Henry and Julia Van Hyning, now of Canfield, Ohio. He studied law at the Ohio State and Union Law college, at Poland, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Canfield, Ohio, in 1858, and immediately commenced practice to thai place. In 186o he was elected probate judge of Mahoning county, and re-elected in 1863, holding the office six years. At the expiration of his term he resumed the practice for a time in partnership with Francis G. Servis, as Servis & Van Hyning, and for several years past and now in partnership with Joseph R. Johnston, as Van Hyning & Johnston, with offices at Canfield and Youngstown. On October 30, 1860, he was married to Miss Hannah K. Newton, daughter of Judge Eben Newton, of Canfield. B. S. HIGLEY, a native of Portage county, began practicing law in Youngstown in 186i, and has been in constant practice since that time with the exception of about four months, during which he was in the army, and a period of eight years, during which he resided at Marietta, Ohio. As a full biographical sketch is given of Mr. Higley elsewhere, further mention of him is omitted here. JOSEPH R. JOHNSTON was born at Jackson, Mahoning county, Ohio, September 12, 1840. His father, John Johnston, removed there from Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, in 1811. His mother was from Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He attended academies at Jackson and at Canfield. He enlisted and served in the Second Ohio volunteer cavalry from September, 1861, to February, 1863, when he was transferred to the Twenty-fifth Ohio battery, and remained with the battery until he was mustered out of the army, September, 1864, at Little Rock, Arkansas. On returning from the army he commenced studying law with Judge G. VanHyning at Canfield, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1866. He was elected probate judge of Mahoning county in October, 1866, and re-elected in 1869. Since the expiration of his term as probate judge, in 1873, he has practiced law in Canfield in partnership with G. VanHyning, under the firm of VanHyning. & Johnston. He was elected to the Ohio Senate for the counties of Mahoning and Trumbull in October, 1875, and re-elected in October, 1877. He was married at North Benton, Mahoning county, Ohio, June 9, 1868, to Miss Malty S. Hartzell, a native of that place. ALBERT B. LOGAN was born in Poland, Ohio, (read law) and enlisted and served during part of the war of the Rebellion in the Union army; afterwards read law and was admitted to the bar at Canfield, in 1866; practiced for a time in Mahoning county, and removed to Missouri. JOHN W. CRACRAFT was born in Poland, Ohio, November, 1839. He was son of Joseph and Sarah Ann (Craver) Cracraft. He read law at the Ohio State and Union Law college in Poland, and was admitted to the bar at Canfield, Ohio, in 186o. He practiced law at Lowellville, Mahoning county, until after the commencement of the war of 1861, when he enlisted in the Twenty-third regiment of Ohio infantry volunteers, and served with great credit during the war. After its close he removed to Charlestown, West Virginia, where he now resides, engaged in the practice of his profession. JAMES M. NASH was born about 1832. In early life he worked in a printing office, becoming a proficient practical printer and acquired readiness, skill, and tact as a reporter and editor of a newspaper. This was his vocation in Youngstown at the commencement of the war of 1861. In response to the call of President Lincoln for seventy-five thousand men he enlisted as a private in the Mahoning Rifles, one of the first companies formed in Youngstown or in Ohio. He was elected by his fellow-soldiers to the rank of orderly sergeant and left Youngstown with the company on May 20, 1861, for Cleveland, where the Rifles was incorporated into the Nineteenth Ohio regiment as company B, and soon left for the field of action. In this regiment he served gallantly during the war and returned at the TRUMBULL AND MAHONING COUNTIES, OHIO - 239 close the colonel of the regiment. During his services in the field he received a wound in the hand which disabled him from type setting, but on his return he was again employed in his 0ld occupation as reporter and assistant editor. In 1866 he was elected clerk of the court of common pleas of Mahoning county, Ohio, and reelected in 1869, holding the office six years. During his term as clerk he read law and was admitted to the bar about 1870. He was married to Miss Mary Church, daughter of John R. Church, of Canfield, June 19, 1859. POLAND LAW COLLEGE.. Hayden, King & Leggett, a firm composed of Chester Hayden, Marcus A. King and Mortimer D. Leggett, about 1856 established a law school it Poland, Ohio, styled the Ohio State and Union Law college, which they conducted there for a few years, when it was removed to Cleveland, Ohio. We find on the records of the Mahoning county district court, at its April term, A. D. 1857, on application 0f Chester Hayden, president, the appointment by the court of Eben Newton, S. W. Gilson, J. M. Edwards, R. J. Powers, and F. E. Hutchins a committee to attend the annual commencement and examine students for admission to the bar. Some students were admitted to the bar at that and subsequent terms. Of the two first named members of the firm our biographical information is limited. Chester Hayden and Marcus A. King removed from Poughkeepsie, New York, where they had conducted a law school, to Poland, Ohio. Several of their pupils came with them. Mr. Hayden was an elderly man, a lawyer of ability, and had been a judge of one of the circuit courts of the State of New York. Mr. King was a young man and had not been long in practice. They were both admitted to the bar 0f Ohio at the district court in Canfield at the april term, A. D. 1857. When the college was removed to Cleveland they 1emoved from the county. Judge Hayden died several years since. Mortimer D. Leggett was born April 19, 1831, in Ithaca, New York, and removed with his parents, who were Friends, to Geauga county, Ohio,. in 1847. He was admitted to the bar in 1853, and practiced a few years in Warren, Ohio, in partnership with J. D. Cox, afterward Governor of Ohio, as Leggett & Cox. When the law school was removed from Poland he removed to Zanesville, Ohio, where he continued the practice, and was also superintendent of the public schools. In the fall of 1861 he raised the Seventy-eighth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and, on January o1, 1862, was commissioned colonel, and on November 29, 1862, brigadier-general. He was engaged at Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, the siege of Corinth, in the battles of the Atlanta ampaign, and in other battles, in some of which he was wounded, and in one severely. He was with Sherman in his march to the sea, commanding the Third division, Seventeenth corps. He was breveted major-general July 22, 1864, and commissioned major-general January 15, 18t 5. After leaving the army he resumed the practice of law. He was appointed United States commissioner of patents June 13, 1871. He held that office a few years and then resumed the practice of law at Cleveland, Ohio, his present residence, making a specialty of patent cases. The following gentlemen, admitted to the bar in Mahoning county, practiced in the county for longer or shorter periods, but are now deceased, have removed from the county or have discontinued practice. The dates of admission are added to their names: J. W. Stanley, 1860; W. V. S. Eaton, 1867; N. A. Gilbert, 1867; W. R. Brownlee, 1869 ; Augustus L. Heiliger, 1869; John B. Barnes, 1870 ; Hiram Macklin, 1870 ; Robert W. Tayler, Jr., 1877; David Burden, 1853 The following gentlemen, admitted elsewhere, have practiced for longer or shorter periods in Mahoning county, but have removed. The state or county whence from and present residence, if known, are added to their names: Thaddeus Foote, from Massachusetts. to Michigan ; Andrew J. Dyer, to St. Louis; Charles F. Abell, from Ashtabula county to New York State, was married at Youngstown, November 12, 1879, to Miss Ada Murray of that city ; Edwin S. Hubbard, from New York State to a western State ; Cornelius Curry, from Salem, Columbiana county, to a western State, now deceased ; J. R. Clarke, from Kansas to Pennsylvania ; William Collins, F. S. Rock and D. T. Hervey, from Pennsylvania and returned to Pennsylvania ; M. D. Tanneyhill, William Case, to a western State.