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NOTE. - All the histories of families and persons in this part of the work have been obtained directly from the families or individuals interested or from persons possessing the necessary Information is no case whatever has second-hand information been accepted. Being thus written, the families or persons themselves are responsible for all fact and dates contained to them.

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ACKERMAN, HENRY, barber; be was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, in the town of Neidermodau, Germany, July 11, 1845, and came to this country in 1865 ; he learned his trade in the Fatherland, and, after coming to this country, he worked for a short time in Crestline, Ohio ; he removed to Mansfield in 1866 and commenced business in this city, at which he has continued to dale. He was married in Mansfield, July 12, 1867, to Christian Hartman : they have six children-four sons and two daughters.

ANDERSON, J. C., Surgeon ; he was born in Butler Co., Ohio ; removed to Richland Co. in 1850; he wee educated at Ganges and Cleveland ; commenced the study of medicine at Ganges in 1863 ; graduated at the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College in 1872; received a commission as Surgeon of the 12th O. V. I. (1878); he is now engaged in the practice of medicine in Mansfield. He was married to Anna M. Wherry, of Shelby; they have one child, 3 years old-Reed Wherry.

AUNGST, JOHN E., farmer; P. O. Mansfield; he was born in Jefferson Township Sept. 3, 1854; he came to Mansfield in 1863, where he has since resided. He was married in this city, in 1876, to Miss Lillie Bell; one daughter, Allie, by this marriage, resides with her parents in this city.

AUGUSTINE, CHARLES, leather merchant; he was born at Sugar Creek Falls, Ohio, Oct. 27, 183 l , and came to Mansfield in 1850, where he was employed for a time as clerk in the dry-goods house of Arnos Townsend, now Member of Congress from the Cleveland District. May 25, 1858. he was married to Mrs Louisa Kilter, daughter of the late Joseph Ritter to whom have been born six children. In the year 1865, Mr. Augustine joined the Masonic Order, since which time he his been an active Mason and has held a number of subordinate offices. He is a member of the leather firm of Ritter & Sons, in which business he is now engaged, and is considered one of the representative business men of Mansfield.

BAKER, GEORGE, stonemason, and grocery and provision merchant: he was born in Prussia June 9, 1816; learned the trade of stonemason; came to Mansfield Aug. 29, 1848. Married in the old country, Feb. 10, 1842, to Mary Nips, with whom he has raised six children-Peter, born in Germany Sept. 18, 1842; Lizzie, born in Germany Feb. 6, 1847; Rena, born in Mansfield Aug. 2, 1849 ; George, born in Mansfield Feb. 8, 1856; William, July 3, 1858; Emma Louisa, March 12, 1861. Mr. Baker has resided in Mansfield thirty-two years, and is one of the representative German citizens; has been a member of the German Secret Relief Society since Nov. 16, 1850.

BARTLEY, MORDECAI, deceased, thirteenth Governor elected by the people of Ohio, was born in Fayette Co., Penn., Dec. 18,1783. In 1804, he married Miss Welles, and five years afterward removed to Jefferson Co., Ohio, where, upon the bank of that river, near the mouth of Cross Creek, he purchased a farm and engaged in the business of agriculture. Here his peaceful labors were interrupted by the declaration of the war of 1812, when, in a few weeks, be enlisted a company of volunteers, who elected him their Captain, and took the field under Gen. Harrison. At the close of the war, he removed to the almost unbroken wilderness of Richland Co., when Mansfield was the principal settlement; west of that place he secured a sufficiently large space to satisfy him, and there, with his ax, he opened a clearing in the forest, and erected his home. Upon this farm, he worked diligently and successfully several years, and then, removing to Mansfield with the savings of his long years of farm labor, he entered into mercantile business. He early developed a character that won the confidence of those that knew him beat, for, is 1817, he was elected to the State Senate, and appointed by the State Legislature to the then important position of Register of the Land Office. This gave him charge of the Virginia military district school lands. In 1823; he was elected to Congress, and served Pour terms, when he declined re-election. In Congress, he was the first to propose the conversion of the land grants of Ohio into a permanent. food for the support of the common school, and secured an appropriation for the harbors of Cleveland, Sandusky City, Huron and Vermillion. In 1844, having retired from Congress, and engaged in mercantile and agricultural business, he was elected Governor of Ohio on the Whig ticket. Both parties have testified to the ability of his administration. In 1846, the war with Mexico was strongly opposed by the anti-slavery people of Ohio, they regarding its proclamation in the interest of slavery extension, and, in response to the call for troops, they were not in favor of Ohio filling her quota,

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but Gov Bartley mentioned chat Ohio, in common with every other State, was constitutionally bound to reaped the requisitions of the National Government. He therefore adopted the proper measures, and the necessary number of volunteers were enlisted, and transferred to the authorities under his personal supervision. The messages he wrote during his administration were papers of ability, end plainly made apparent. his thorough knowledge of the rather complex system of United State Government. He declined a second nomination, though strongly urged to accept, and, returning to his home, at Mansfield, he passed the evening of his life in the retirement of his family, dividing his attention between the practice of his profession as a lawyer, and in the management of his farm near that city. He died Oct. 10, 1870.

BAUGHMAN, ELIZABETH., MRS., daughter of James and Hannah Cunningham, was born near Black Hand, Licking Co., Ohio, March 8, 1805 her mother dying when she was only 6 months old. she was raised by her grandfather, Michael Statler, a farmer near Black hand. After her father's second marriage, be removed to this Richland county, where he figured prominently in the early history of this section of Ohio. In 1819, the subject of this sketch joined her father's family in this county, they residing at that time in the Clear Fork Valley, below Newville, near what is now known as St. John's Church. The change from Ler grandfather Statler's-a wealthy farmer in a more civilized county to the hardships and privations of pioneer life here was not a pleasant transition, and was made only because of her father's request. Her grandfather, she says, was one of the kindest and best of men, but she, then is her 16th year, with a deep sense of filial duty, left a home of wealth, comfort and ease, for a cabin in the rude wilderness, where property and life were alike insecure from the savages and wild beasts of the forest. The journey from Black Hand to St. John's was made in a sled, in the month of January, 1819, is two days, stopping over night near Mount Vernon. Sept. 27, 1825, she was married to Jacob Baughman, who had succeeded to his father's farm, now known as the Dome farm, near Walnut Hall School-house, in Monroe Township, this county. Soon afterward, her husband sold the Dome farm and bought eighty acres of land, situated between the Lowrey (now Welty), and the Stoul farms, where he erected a cabin and they commenced housekeeping. He afterward sold and bought a number of farms, living at different intervals, in Monroe, Worthington and Jefferson Townships, but returned to Monroe, where be died, March 20, 1855, aged 63 years; he was buried at Perrysville. Mrs. Baughman then removed to Bellville, where she resided until 1869, when she removed to Mansfield, where she has since resided. She is the mother of five children-Mary C. (wife of Abraham Lash), Hannah L. (wife of David Herring) deceased; Margaret C., deceased (wife of Freeman Carlile). Abraham J. Baughman and Sade E. Baughman ; the two latter, remaining single, have always lived with their mother. Mrs. Baughman possesses an organization of wonderful tenacity, and is of that wiry physical constitution, well-knit and close-fibered, that accompanies a character of great ambition, high spirit end wonderful endurance. While mild and persuasive, yet she always possessed that degree of positive energy that would not give up or back down, no matter what obstacles were in her way. She worked hard suffered much, and accomplished much. But she has seen the shadows of life's adversities succeeded by the sunshine of prosperity, and has lived to realize the full fruition of the glorious promise, "Your children shall rise up and call you blessed."

She is of a hopeful disposition and her great strength has consisted in being able to look at the bright side of things. Her mirthfulness gives her power of sarcasm and considerable pungency of speech. She is no fox in character, but frank and outspoken, and would never toady to say one. Although not schooled in physiognomy, she could always read faces almost unerringly. She has the mental temperament of the Intellectual organization. Is causal, systematic and industrious, and, believing that application will accomplish almost anything, she never had patience with the idle and fickle. Without trying, she always made friends wherever she want, and the tones of her voice would skins win her way anywhere. She united with the Disciple Church in June, 1838, of which organization she has ever since been a worthy and consistent member. Her sympathies are warm, and in sickness she is tender and attentive. In the home circle, as a mother, her children say she is without a peer. Mrs. Baughman is five feet and one inch in height, weighs 105 pounds, erect in poise and symmetrical in build.

March 8, 1880, upon the occasion of her attaining her 75th year, a pioneer birthday party was given her at the family residence, No. 100 South Main st., Mansfield, which was the first pioneer social party ever held in Richland Co.; about fifty guests were present, one of whom, Mrs. Solomon Gladden, was a contemporaneous pioneer with Mrs Baughman and was present at her wedding fifty-five years ago ; the exercises commenced at 6 o'clock, with music; the ballad, "We Meet Today;" composed and set to music by Prof. Pontius, was sung by Miss Kate Eichelberger, Prof. Pontius at the organ ; after which a pioneer sketch, written by a pioneer's daughter, Mrs. Dr. Patterson, daughter of Solomon Gladden (who performed the marriage ceremony for Mr. and Mrs. Baughman), was read by Mrs. Richard, wife of Prof. J. Fraise Richard, of the Normal College, on account of the unavoidable absence of Mrs. Patterson ; music was furnished by Prof. Will H. Pontius, Miss Kate Eichelberger and Mrs. W. L. Gaston ; other fine selections were rendered by the trio; later in the evening, Miss Mary Cox sang end played. Gen. Brinkerhoff being the patron saint of the pioneers of Richland Co., was first called upon for an address "appropriate to the occasion." He responded in a neat little speech complimentary to the pioneers and "their times," as follows:

"The occasion which has called us together this evening, is one of more than usual interest ; birthday celebrations are always pleasant occasions, and we are happy to meet and greet our friends at their recurrence, but yet some birthdays are more interesting than others, sad this is one of them. The lady in whose honor we meet to-night, and whom we ere glad to find upon her 76th birthday cheerful and happy,

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not in the winter of life, but in the golden autumn time, is one of the living witnesses of the childhood of our city. Seventy-five years, when we look forward, seems a long time, but looking backward it is not so long, and I have no doubt the incidents recalled by Mrs. Patterson, when Elizabeth Cunningham was a girl, seem to Mrs. Baughman but recent memories. In fact, with us all, it is our early recollections that test the longest. In our sleep we do not locate our dreams amid recent surroundings; but we go back to the homes of our childhood. Mrs. Baughman's father, Capt. James Cunningham, was among the first settlers of Mansfield, and, in the year 1809, when Mansfield first had a habitation and a name, he lived in its first cabin on the Sturges corner. Mrs. Baughman at that time was with her grandfather in Licking Co., but ten years later she removed to Richland Co. where she has since been a resident. Since then Mansfield has become a populous city, and a massive block of brick and stone occupies the site of the little log cabin on Sturges' corner; and instead of the drum of the pheasant and the hoot of the owl in the leafy wood lands, we have for music the whistle of the locomotive and the clangor of machinery in the huge and smoky factories. We have churches and schools, busy mills, and all the pride, pomp and panoply of wealth and position and fame; and yet, I doubt very much if we have the wisdom, or patriotism, or sincerity, or happy uses of those among whom Mrs. Baughman passed the early years of life. Thirty years ago, when I came to Mansfield, very many of the early pioneers were still living, and they seemed to me men of larger mold and broader sympathies than those of this later generation. It was this fact that led me to seek to preserve some record of their lives, and very soon commenced to gather some of their history, and, after twenty-five years of waiting, a man who has a genius for writing history has come to complete the work, and we hope very soon to put into print an enduring record of the giants of those early days, who founded the civilization; of Richland Co. Mr. Graham is with us to-night and I doubt not he will bear out my estimate of the worth of our early pioneers. Mrs. Baughman's father was one of them, and Mrs. Patterson's father was another. I do not remember to have met Capt. Cunningham, but I knew Solomon Gladden very well, and he was a typical pioneer, massive in body and massive in mind. Reuben Evarts, who is here to-night and whom present to you a sample of the early pioneers; knew all of these men in their prime, and I hope be will tell us something about them. However, years have come and years have gone, and the great globe swung in its mighty orbit around the sun, these mighty men of valor passed out into the infinite, and of those who knew them and were among them, of them about the only one who remains in Mansfield now is Mrs. Baughman, whose birthday we celebrate to-night. She is happy in having lived to see the result of their labors, and we are happy in seeking to contribute to the enjoyment of this hour."

After supper, the presents on the occasion were formally presented by Hon. M. May in a brief, but appropriated speech. Among the numerous presents we mention specially a beautiful China tea-set from, Elder G. M. Kemp, Gen. R. Brinkerhoff; Hon. M. May, $. E. Jenner, H. W. Albach, Capt. A. C. Cummins and J. Fraise Richard ; Elder Kemp, Mrs Baughman's Pastor, followed, responding to Mr. May, accepting the presents in her behalf, in s speech brief, appropriate and touching in its pathos ; Reuben Evarts, a real and well preserved representative pioneer, being called on, made some pleasing allusions to pioneer life and character, and presented an appropriate preamble and resolutions, which were adopted.

BAUGHMAN FAMILY, THE. The ancestor of the Baughman family came from Germany, and boated in Pennsylvania. The only knowledge the writer has of his family is of two sons-George and Abraham; and one daughter, married W Joseph Charles. George emigrated to Ohio in 1805, and settled in Mifflin Township, Franklin Co., where he spent the remainder of his life ; he died at a ripe old age, and is buried at Gahanna; be was the father of the late Hon. Jesse Baughman, the founder of Gahanna, and one of the originators of the Franklin County Pioneer Association. Abraham was born on the Atlantic Ocean when his parents were en route for America. He married Mary Catherine Deeds, and removed from Cumberland to Washington Co., Penn., and afterward to Richland Co., Ohio, settling in Monroe Township is 1811; they had five sons and three daughters-Adam, John, Abraham, Jacob and George, sad Catherine, Elisabeth and Lovace ; Catherine married a Mr. Black, of Tuscarawas Co. ; Elizabeth married a Mr. Stewart, and removed to Tennessee, and Lovace married Mr. Gayman, of Pittsburgh ; Adam married a Miss Huffman, and removed to Plain Township, Franklin Co., Ohio, and he and his wife are both interred on the Baughman farm there, where they lived and where they died; John married Elizabeth Wyandt, and settled in Wayne Co., Ohio, and the township in which he lived was named for him; Abraham married Susan Wyandt, and settled in Monroe Township, Richland Co., Ohio, where he died is 1848 ; his children were Margaret, wife of John Wolfe; David, married to Rebecca Wolfs; John, married to Catherine Castator; Aaron, married to Catherine Schrack; Peter, married to Elise Wyandt; George, married to Minerva Merrell; Elisabeth, wife of Simon McDanel; William, married to Rachel Slater; Abraham, married to Eliza Wrigton ; Susanna; Simon, married to Susan Mercer. Jacob Baughman married Elizabeth Cunningham; his life was principally passed in Monroe Township, Richland Co., where be died March 20, 1855, aged 63 years. They had five children-Mary C., married to Abraham Lash; ; Hannah L., married to David Herring; Margaret A., married to Freeman Carlile; Abraham J. and Sarah E.; the two latter remain single and live with their mother; they are printers, and publish the Mansfield Call; they have also published the Cleveland Temple Visitor, Mansfield (Ohio) Liberal, Canal Fulton Herald and Medina Democrat. George Baughman never married, and died is 1850.

BERNO, PETER, merchant, Mansfield, Ohio ; he was born in Rhein Pfaltz, a province of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, and came to this country, with his parents, June 10, 1851, and to Mansfield, Ohio, June 18, 1851 ; his father's name was Jacob

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Berno, and his mother's Fredricka Profit. His grandfather, on his father's aide, was a soldier in the French army during the French Revolution, and, during the invasion of Germany by the French, was taken prisoner. He subsequently remained and became a citizen of that country. The name was originally spelled "Bernoux." The subject of this sketch was married to Christianna Bohm, whose parents were of German origin, and residents of Mansfield since 1850.

BIGELOW, PERKINS, druggist ; he was born in Marlboro, N. H., Nov. 11, 1814: here we find him a farmer boy, alternately attending school during the winter months, and working on his father's farm during the remainder of the year, until 18 years of age. The school being situated in a remote part of the district, young Bigelow was compelled to traverse several miles daily, in that bleak, winter climate, in order to gain that knowledge which has been so useful to him in his after life. Directly after leaving school, he was employed in dry goods, as clerk, for five years previous to his removal to Ohio ; arriving at Newark, be continued as a salesman in dry goods for three years, where, joining a colony for Texas in 1841, he accompanied them as far as Arkansas, then up the White River until near the boundary of the Cherokee Nation, undergoing the hardships incident to such a trip at that time. While there, be assisted in building the first log cabins of the colony, but soon after was compelled, by reason of sickness, to return to Newark, Ohio, where he entered a drug store, reading medicine at the same time; then to Mansfield, in the year 1847, on the same block in which he has continued in that business up to the present time, ranking now as the oldest living merchant in continuous business in Mansfield. During Dr. Bigelow's long and useful life in Mansfield, he had been prominently connected with all enterprises undertaken in the improvement of the city and the welfare of the inhabitants, and has frequently been called by them to positions of honor and trust. Elected as Mayor of the city in 1852, he was re-elected in 1853. For twenty years, he has been a useful member of the Cemetery Association, the plane and improvements of which have been, in a great measure, due to his judgment and skill. For fifteen years, he held the position of Worshipful Master of the Mansfield Masonic Lodge, and at present is a member of the Richland Mutual Insurance Co. Perking Bigelow was married in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1846, to Miss Anna Maria Palmer; they have two children-one son and one daughter.

BIRD, SHARPLESS E., long connected with the St. James Hotel, in Mansfield, was born on the 20th of December, 1844; his father and mother, William and Jane (Sharpless) Bird are residents of this city. S. E. Bird was married July 4, 1869, in Mansfield, to Lizzie Vonhof, a daughter of Louis Vonhof, proprietor of the St. James building ; to them have been born four children, three of whom are dead and one living. Mr. Bird, though a young man, has aided in years past in giving Mansfield a high position by his skill in conducting one of the best hotels in the State; he is now engaged in the mercantile business.

BLACK, JOSEPH H., dealer in staple dry goods corner of Fourth and Main streets ; was born in 1833 at Ballgreen County, Donegal, Ireland; emigrated in 1851 to McConnelsville, Morgan Co., Ohio ; engaged as salesman "with Thomas W. Simpson, in dry goods came to Mansfield in August, 1859 ; entered in partnership with Moses Black, under the firm name of M. & J. H. Black, dry goods; continued in partnership for sixteen years; dissolved in 1875, then resumed business in his own name; continues to do the largest exclusive dry-goods trade in the city. He is a very hard and earnest worker in the mercantile business; by his long experience and close application, is thoroughly posted on all matters connected with the dry-goods business, as he has been almost raised in a dry-goods store ; he is a solid, practical, business man, and an excellent financier. Was married in 1866 to Miss Alice G. Graham, daughter of Francis Graham, of Ashland, Ohio; their children are Mary, Augusta F , Joseph H., Jr., and William G. Black. Residence on Mulberry street, No. 45.

BLOSER, S. P., retired ; he was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., in 1824; he came to Ohio in 1850. He was married in 1852 to Elizabeth Snyder, who was born in Lockport, N. Y.; they have one daughter-Minnie, who is married to Henry Uhlich.

BOLLMAN, JERRY S. Recorder; was born in Lebanon Co., Penn., Jan. 20, 1834, and removed pith his parents to Richland Co., where they settled in Franklin Township in 1849. Mr. Bollman came to Mansfield and began the trade of cabinet-making in 1852 with Capt. Reinaker, and served his full apprenticeship of three years, when he entered the store of John H. Wigle, where be remained for some time : then into Remy & Co.'s dry-goods store, Scattergood & Penrose, Robinson & Vance, C. L. Avery's and Black's. In the year 1877, Mr. Bollman was elected Recorder of Richland Co., on the Democratic ticket, and took possession of the office on the 7th of January, 1878, and now fills that position with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of both political parties; the abstract office, in connection with the one which he fills, is a model of convenience, and reflects great credit on him, to whom it personally belongs. Mr. Bollman was married to Miss Lydia A. Dill in Mansfield July 7, 1858; they have four children, all living-Burton T., now a telegraph operator in Mansfield; Curtis J., a druggist; Milton F., and Roy T. Mr. Bollman is at present a resident of the Third Ward, Mansfield, and enjoys the confidence of the entire community.

BOSSLER, HENRY, woodworkman in the Mansfield Machine Works; he was born in Madison Township, Richland Co., Jan. 14, 1839. Married. Sept. 27, 1863, Josephine Mcllvain, who was born in Mansfield May 22, 1843; they have one son-William T., born March 17, 1865. Mr. Bossler has been engaged with the Mansfield Machine Works over two years, and has won the entire confidence of his employers through his industry and frugality, and is recognized as one of our substantial and active citizens.

BRINKERHOFF, HON. JACOB, was born in the town of Niles, Cayuga Co., N. Y , Aug. 31, 1810. His father, Henry I. Brinkerhoff, was a native of Pennsylvania, having been born near the town of Gettysburg; his grandfather, however, was from Hackensack, N. J., and belonged to the old Dutch family of

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New York, the progenitor of which came from Drentland, in Holland, in the year 1638. His mother, nee Rachel Bevier, was of Huguenot descent, and came from Ulster Co , N. Y. After a thorough English education, obtained at the public schools and at the academy at Prattsburgh, Steuben Co., N. Y., be entered the law office of Messrs. Howell & Brother, in Bath, Steuben Co., in 1834. Here he regularly prosecuted his studies two years, and in the spring of 1836, removed to Mansfield, Ohio, where, in May, 1837, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the State, and immediately entered upon the practice of Era profession. He soon acquired reputation as a lawyer of more than average ability, and in the course of a year or two was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Richland County, the duties of which he performed successfully for four years; at the expiration of his office, in the fall of 1843, be was elected to Congress, on the Democratic ticket; while serving as a member of this body, he became affiliated with the Free-Soil party, and drew up the famous resolution introduced by David Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, and since known as the Wilmot Proviso ; the original draft of this resolution, in his own handwriting, is still in his possession. Several copies of this resolution were made and distributed among the Free Soil members of Congress, with the understanding that whoever among them should catch the Speaker's eye and get the floor should introduce it ; Wilmot was the fortunate man, and thereby his name was attached to the resolution, and it has gone into history as the "Wilmot Proviso," instead of the Brinkerhoff Proviso, as it should have been. At the close of his Congressional career, he resumed the practice of law, at Mansfield, in which he successfully labored until he was elevated to the Supreme Bench, his first term commencing Jan. 9, 1856; in this highly honorable position, be was retained for three successive terms, covering a period of fifteen years, and it is but justice to mention that a fourth term was offered him, but he declined a renomination. The Ohio State Reports contain many of his opinions, delivered during his term upon the Supreme Bench, and they are everywhere very highly regarded by the profession. He was married, Oct. 4, 1837, to Caroline Campbell, of Lodi, Seneca Co., N. Y., who died at that place while on a visit., Nov. 18, 1839. His present wife was Marion Titus, of Detroit, Mich., by whom he has four children now living, two sons and two daughters, viz. : Malvina, George, Roelof and Gertrude. The Judge has retired from his profession, and still resides at Mansfield, but in feeble health.

BRINKERHOFF, GEN. ROELIFF, was born in Owasco, Cayuga Co., N. Y. June 28, 1828. The Brinkerhoffs of America are all descended from Joris Dericksen Brinckerhoff, who came from Drentland, Holland, in 1638, with his wife Susannah, and settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., then New Netherlands. The members of the family are now numerous, and for the most part are settled upon Long Island, and in the valley of the Hudson, but still a few families of the name can be found in almost every Western State. The Western Brinkerhoffs are mostly descendants of Hendrick, son of Joris, who settled in New Jersey, and who dropped the letter c from his name. Gen. Brinkerhoff is of the seventh generation in America; his father, George R., was born near Gettysburg, Penn., but his grandfather, Roeliff, came from Hackensack, N. J.; his ancestors on his mother's side (the Bouviers), and on his grandmother's (the Demarests), were French Huguenots, fleeing from religious persecution who found safety and a home among the tolerant Dutchmen of the New Netherlands. Roeliff, the subject of this sketch, at the age of 18 was a school teacher in his native town ; at 18, he was in charge of a school near Hendersonville, Tenn.; at 19, he was a tutor in the family of Andrew Jackson, Jr., at the Hermitage, and remained there until 1850, when he came North and entered as a law student in the office of his kinsman, the Hon. Jacob Brinkerhoff at Mansfield, Ohio; in 1852, he was admitted to the bar, and entered the practice, and remained in the profession until the war of the rebellion ; during that time, June, 1855 to 1859, he was one of the editors and proprietors of the Mansfield Herald. In September, 1861, he entered the military service as First Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster of the 64th O. V. I.; in November of the same year, be was promoted to the position of Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, and during the winter was on duty at Bardstown, Ky ; after the capture of Nashville, be was placed in charge of transportation, land and river, is that city; after the battle of Pittsburg Landing, be was ordered to the front, and placed in charge of the field transportation of the Army of the Ohio ; after the capture of Corinth, be went home on sick furlough, and was thence ordered to Maine as Chief Quartermaster in that State ; subsequently, he was transferred to Pittsburgh, Penn., in charge of transportation and army stores, and thence to Washington City as Post Quartermaster, and remained on that duty until June, 1865, when he was made a Colonel and Inspector of the Quartermaster's Department ; he was then retained on duty at the War Office, with Secretary Stanton, until November, when he was ordered to Cincinnati as Chief Quartermaster of that Department; in September, 1866, its was breveted a Brigadier General of Volunteers; he was also tendered a commission in the regular army, but declined ; on the 1st of October, at his own request, he was mustered out of service, having completed five years of continuous service in the army, Gen. Brinkerhoff is the author of the book entitled "The Volunteer Quartermaster;' which is still the standard guide for the officers and employee of the Quartermaster's Department. After his retirement from the army, be returned to the practice of his profession, at Mansfield. In 1873, upon the organization of the Mansfield Savings Bank, he became its executive officer as cashier, and has since retained that position ; he is also a member of the Board of State Charities, and President of the National Conference of Charities. Gen. Brinkerhoff, Feb. 8, 1852, married Mary Lake Bentley, of Mansfield, daughter of Baldwin Bentley, and grand-daughter of Gen. Robert Bentley, by whom he has a family of four children, two sons and two daughters-Robert Bentley, Addis Horton, Mary and Roeliff, all now living at Mansfield.

BRINLEY, SAMUEL G. (deceased) ; was born in Mifflin Township Sept. 10, 1831 ; his father, John Brinley, is a resident of La Grange Co., Ind. Samuel G. was the first child. When 16 years of age, he commenced clerking in a dry-goods store in Petersburg,

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where he lived four years ; soon after, he removed to this city, and was engaged in the dry-goods store of James Weldon, where he remained ten years. For several years during the war, he held the position of Deputy Provost Marshal and United States Marshal, and was a clerk in the Treasurer's office of this county under T. J. Robinson. He was married, Oct. 30, 1853, in Mansfield, to Miss Elzina S. Grubaugh ; they are the parents of seven children. Charles Oscar was born Aug. 7, 1854 ; John Allen was born Aug. 1, 1857 ; Joseph Franklin was born March 27, 1860 ; Harry S. was born July 16, 1864; Elzina S. was born Dec. 15, 1866, and died April 15, 1868 ; Aden wan born June 25, 1870, and Lee was born Feb. 19, 1872. Mr. Brinley died in this city Dec. 26, 1876 ; be was, for a number of years before his death, a successful contractor and builder, and had the confidence and esteem of the community. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. for a number of years, and of the Methodist Church for twenty-five years. Mrs Elzina Brinley was born near Loudenville, Ashland Co., Nov. 19, 1833 ; she is now a resident of West Bloom street.

BRISTOR, T. G., dentist; he was born in Washington, Washington Co., Penn., in 1837 ; he came to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1844, where he studied dentistry ; he came to Mansfield in 1858, and engaged in the practice of dentistry. In 1865, he went to St. Louis, Mo., and practiced dentistry until 1872, when he returned to Mansfield ; he has been engaged here since. He is the oldest dentist in the city. He has branch offices at Shelby, Shiloh, Bellville and Hayesville, which places be visits once each month-Mondays and Tuesdays.

BRISTOR, JAMES R., dentist, Mansfield ; he was born in Washington, Washington Co., Penn., Jan. 28, 1834, and emigrated to Steubenville, Ohio, April 1, 1845, with his father and mother ; in 1857, he connected himself with the dental profession and moved to Mansfield, in 1860, and located. He was married, Jan. 6, 1873, to Hannah M. Duncan, widow of Alex. Critchfield, Of Millersburg, Ohio ; she was born at Bloomfield, Coshocton Co., Ohio, Feb. 26, 1840, and moved with her father and mother to Millersburg, Ohio, in the fall of 1852, and to Mansfield in January, 1873; they have three children-John Henry, born April 25, 1874 ; Harriet Louisa, Sept. 14, 1875 ; Laura Virginia, April 20, 1878. In 1876, Mr. Bristor was elected from the Fourth Ward as one of the city Councilmen, and, in 1879, he was chosen to preside as President of Council of the city of Mansfield. James R. Bristor was born of Henry M. Bristor and Minerva Ruple Bristor, his wife, both of whom were born in Washington Co., Penn. Henry M. Bristor was born of Thomas Bristor and Elizabeth Dubany Bristor, his wife, both of whom were born near the James River, in Eastern Virginia; their parents lived within hearing distance of the cannon at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va. Minerva Ruple Bristor was born to James Ruple and Dina G. Ruple, in Washington Co., Penn. Hannah Duncan Bristor was born of John Duncan and Nancy Casey Duncan ; her father emigrate from Washington, Penn., to Ohio, and her mother from Harper's Ferry, W. Va.

BRONSON, S. A., D. D., Pastor Protestant Episcopal Church; Dr. Bronson is a lineal descendant of Abraham Bronson, one of the two Bronsons who, in 1673, petitioned the court for the privilege of settling on a plantation in what is now the town of Waterbury, Conn.; Dr. Bronson's father, Bela Bronson, emigrated from Connecticut to Ohio and settled in what is now Columbia, Lorain Co., in 1807 ; the Doctor was then in his infancy, and was carried in his mother's arms across the Cuyahoga, with the first team that crossed in the tide of Western emigration; be was taken to church by his mother and was baptized in Waterbury, his native place; the first minister of the Gospel he remembers to have seen was when he was about 9 years old ; his mother and the church service, read by laymen, were his only teachers ; at the age of 16, he traveled on horseback about seventy miles in the fruitless search for a Latin dictionary ; he afterward attended school at Kenyon College, where be graduated in 1833 ; two years after, he was ordained to the ministry; from 1845 to 1850, he was President of Kenyon College; in 1867, be was Professor of Ecclesiastical history in the same institution ; in 1872, he came to Mansfield to accept the pastorate of the church here ; be had, however, filled the pulpit a year and a half before coming.

BURNS, BARNABAS, attorney at law. The parents of Mr. Burns, Andrew and Sarah (Caldwell) Burns, were Irish Catholics, and emigrated to America about the year 1800 ; they had a family of five children, three sons and two daughters. Mr. B., the youngest of five children, was born in Fayette Co., Penn., June 29, 1817 ; he emigrated with his parents to Milton Township, Ashland Co., settling there June 20, 1820; Mr. Burns remained on a farm until he was of age; he received a common-school education, and also spent a short time in the Ashland and Mansfield schools. He came to Mansfield April 9, 1838, where he has resided ever since. He was Deputy Clerk of the Courts, from 1839 to 1846, ; he studied law in the offices of Hon. Thomas W. Bartley and Hon. Samuel J. Kirkwood, and was admitted to practice in the summer of 1848, and has practiced law in Mansfield from that date to the present time. In the fall of 1849, Mr. Burns was elected to the Ohio State Senate, and re-elected in the fall of 1849 ; he was Presidential Elector for the State at large, on the Democratic ticket, in 1852 ; be served as Colonel of the 86th O. V. I. in the war of the rebellion, doing excellent service there; after his return, he again began the practice of his profession. In 1873, he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, and the same year was nominated on the Democratic ticket as Lieutenant Governor; out of a vote of nearly 600,000, be was defeated by only about five hundred votes; in 1876, Col. Burns was one of the Ohio Commissioners at the Centennial Exposition, filling that office, like all others, in a manner satisfactory to all the interests concerned therein; Col. B. has served several terms as one of the Trustees of the Ohio Soldiers' Orphans' Home; he is now, although 63 years old, actively engaged in the practice of his profession, being one of the oldest members of the Mansfield bar now in practice; he has always been an active and consistent Democrat. Col. Burns was married, Sept, 18, 1841, to Miss Urath Gore ; Mr, and Mrs. B. became the parents of seven children, two of whom died in infancy; three sons and two daughters yet survive-

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Mary (wife of Dr. Geo. Mitchell), John Caldwell, Kate, Jerrie H. and Barna G.

BUSHNELL, WILLIAM, physician. The family from which Dr. Bushnell descends dates back, in America, to early in the sixteenth century. Sometime in that period, Francis Bushnell came from England to America, and located in Guilford, Hartford Co., Conn.; be died in 1646, as the records show, his death being the first authentic date in possession of the family. He left five sons-Francis, William, John, Richard and Isaac. The second son, William, married and settled in Connecticut, and, at his death, left four children, the second of whom, Ephraim, also lived in Connecticut, and raised a family of seven children. His third child, James, was born March 12, 1716, and, about the year 1736, married a Miss Dudley. He was a seafaring man, and, soon after his marriage, went to sea on one of his voyages, and was never afterward heard from. It is supposed his vessel was lost at sea. After his departure to sea, his only son, Alexander, was born ; June 2, 1737. Feb. 12, 1761, he married Chloe Waite, a member of the Waite family of Lyme, Conn. (Chief Justice Waits, of Ohio, is a descendant of the same family). Miss Waits was born June 20, 1738. She lived to be 94 years old, dying Oct. 28, 1832. She became the mother of eleven children. The sixth child, Sterling G., the father of Dr. Buahnell, was born in Hartford Co., Conn., in 1781. The exact date is not known, as the record has been lost. Mr. Bushnell came to Trumbull Co., Ohio, in 1805, and to Vermillion Township, Ashland Co., May 20, 1820. His family then consisted of eleven children-Betsey, Lury, William, Collins, Sedelia, Jotham, Huldah, Rosella, Horner, Olive and Thomas. Of these, six are now living-Betsey, William, Sedelia, Huldah, Rosella and Thomas. Mr. Bushnell lived in this township until August, 1847, when his death occurred. He was 76 years of age. His wife lived several years after her husband's death, dying in the old homestead; she lives with her son Thomas, who is there yet. Mr. Bushnell was a man of scholarly attainments, and great force of character. He was a surveyor, and surveyed parts of the Reserve in the counties of Ashtabula, Medina and Lorain ; while living in Trumbull Co., be surveyed a good deal of its territory there. William B. remained at home in Vermillion Township, teaching school about one year, assisted in opening the farm, and studying medicine; he then went to Trumbull Co. to study medicine; in 1825, he went to the old Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, where he remained about one year at the medical school ; at the end of the time, he went to New Orleans, and settled at Point Coupee, where he practiced medicine one year; while there, he taught in an academy seven months: from there he returned to this county, and located in Mansfield; this was in July, 1828. The Doctor has since lived here, engaged in the practice of medicine. When Dr. Bushnell was s boy, he took a small part in the war of 1812. He was quite ambitious of military life then, as were all boys of the day, and enjoyed at least one adventure. After Hull's surrender, when in his 12th year, the 1st Regiment of the 3d Brigade, and the 4th Division of the Ohio Militia, on its way to the frontier, halted and took dinner at the residence of his father, who was Adjutant of that regiment. William, believing he was old enough to go with the troops, pleaded his cause so earnestly to accompany the regiment, that he was allowed to do so, and marched with it to the vicinity of Cleveland, where the troops were encamped. A battle being imminent with the Indians, his father told him he most go back home. He obeyed very reluctantly, as he desired to take a hand in the fighting. He retraced his steps alone through the dense wilderness, guided only by the trail left by the regiment.

April 5, 1836, Dr. Bushnell married Mary, only daughter of Gen Robert Bentley, a man of much ability, who resided in this county. Of their children only one is living-Martin B., a resident of Mansfield. During his long and successful career as a physician, Dr. Bushnell has also devoted himself to public business, and held several places of responsibility. Many of the internal improvements in the northern portion of the State were either projected by him, or owe their existence to his energy end influence. He was one of the Directors of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway, not only during its construction, but for some years after its completion. In 1849, Dr. Bushnell was elected a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and subsequently re-elected, and served several terms in that legislative body. After the establishment of the Cleveland Medical College, he was connected with it as a Censor for about fifteen years. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and also of the Ohio Medical Association ; and, as a physician and surgeon, be ranks with the most eminent in the State. Possessed of a remarkably vigorous constitution, he has been enabled to perform an unusual amount of work. In the early days of his practice, with almost impassable roads to travel long distances, it required the constant exercise of those virtues. He is possessed of an exceedingly dignified and pleasant appearance, and commands the respect of the community where he has lived so long, and with satisfaction to his constituents, whom he has represented. In June, 1878, he wee appointed by Gov. Bishop the Delegate of Ohio to the International Congress on prison reform, called by and under the auspices of Sweden, to take place in Stockholm on the 29th of June. The Doctor took passage on the Inman steamer City of Chester, to attend to the duties of his delegation, and at the some time enjoy a European tour. Since his return, be has been quietly living in the city, enjoying the fruits of a long and busy life.

CAIRNS, ROBERT, was born on the McFall corner, in Mansfield, Feb. 3, 1815; at the age of 3 years, his parents removed to the opposite corner, now occupied by M. L. Miller; be has always resided in the city and county. He was married, in 1835, to Elisabeth Gordon, by Rev. James Johnson, the first minister of the U. P. Church in Mansfield. Mr. and Mrs. Cairns are the parents of nine children-four boys and five girls all living. Mr. C. comes of a family remarkable for longevity, size and activity; they were all prominent actors in the history of this county. His father, Joseph Cairns came to this county from Muskingum County directly after Hull's surrender; he acted as a Captain in a regiment in the early part of the war of 1812, Mr. C. is of Irish parentage, rugged; hardy and active, and bide fair to live many years to relate the incidents

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of pioneer times; no one has a better and more accurate memory than he, and no one enjoys telling of old times more than Robert Cairns.

CAKE, HIRAM, employs of A. & G. W. R. R.; he was born in Canton, Stark Co., Ohio, Aug. 23, 1823 ; he came to Richland Co. May 2, 1840, and immediately engaged as a clerk in the dry goods house of the late ; William McNulty, which was then situated on the northwest corner of plain and Fourth streets : he remained with him until 1846, when he enlisted in the United States Army and joined the company from this county as private, under Capt. William McLaughlin, in the war with Mexico; after the expiration of his term of service, he returned to Mansfield and soon after engaged in the employ of Isaac Smith, a dry-goods merchant of ; Monroeville, Ohio; after several months' residence there, he went to New York City, where he was employed in the wholesale dry-goods house of Marsh & Trear, with whom he remained four years, when he returned to Mansfield and again engaged in the employ of William McNulty for one year taking charge of the business during McNulty's absence in California. He then was employed by W. L. Strong in the same business for some time, when be went to California, in 1852; after an absence of fourteen months, he came back to Mansfield and was employed by the Penn. R. R. Co., as book-keeper, for several years, since which time he has been constantly engaged in the railroad business, in different capacities, until the present time. At the age of 21, he joined the Masonic Order and became a member of the Mansfield Lodge, No. 35, in which he is yet a member; during his long membership in this order, he was repeatedly elected as its Secretary, and has been, and now is (1880), Secretary of Mansfield Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and the Mansfield Council of Royal and Select Masters; he now holds the position of Recorder of the Mansfield Commandery, No. 21, Knights Ternplar. He was married in Mansfield, in June, 1850, to Miss Maria L. McCullough, oldest daughter of Judge David McCullough; they were the parents of eight children, six of whom are living. Mrs. Maria Cake died in this city in 1869.

CANTWELL, WILLIAM (deceased), was born in August, 1786, in Brooke Co., Va. He married Ann Williams, and afterward removed to Jefferson Co., Ohio, where they remained until 1820, when they removed to Richland Co. and settled on a farm two miles from Mansfield, on the Spring Mill road, where they resided almost continuously up to the time of the death of the wife of Mr. Cantwell, which occurred in January, 1850; he survived his companion, with whom he had lived over fifty years, but died in 1857. William and Anne Cantwell will be remembered by the pioneers, who still survive, very favorably and kindly, and Mrs. Cantwell will be remembered as one of extraordinary intellectual acquirements for one in the period of pioneer life in which she lived; they raised a family of Twelve children, eleven of whom grew up to be men and women. Thomas, the oldest, located on a farm hear Olivesburg, in Richland Co., about 1820, and remained there till his death in 1868; William was accidentally killed by the fall of a tree; Martha married Jacob George; Margaret married David Jacques; Rachel married William Williams; Elizabeth married John Cary; Jane married John Scott; Col. James married Sarah S. Ferguson ; Nancy married Samuel H. Davis ; John F. married Matilda Casebeer, and J. Y. married Mrs. J. C. Curtis ; they were all at one time residents, of Richland Co. Only three of the family survive- Margaret Jacques, Jane Scott and J. Y. Cantwell. James Cantwell was born in December, 1810, and hence was 10 years old when be came with his father to Richland Co.; in 1845, he responded to the call of the Government and volunteered in the military service for one year during the Mexican war; he was elected and served as First Lieutenant of the company of which McLaughlin was Captain: after the war, he represented Richland Co. two terms in the Ohio Legislature, and the district of which Richland forms a part, one term in the Ohio Senate. In 1859, he removed to Kenton, Hardin Co., and at the breaking-out of the rebellion, he raised a company the second day after Fort Sunder was fired upon, and went to Columbus, April 16, 1861, when his company was assigned to the 4th O. V. I., and he was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, Louis Andrews being Colonel. In October following, he was tendered a commission as Colonel of the 82d O. V. I., which he accepted, and recruited and organized in less time than any other three-years regiment was organized. In January, 1862, the regiment was ordered to West Virginia, and from the first was one of the most active regiments in the field it took part with Schenck and Milroy at the battle of Bull Pasture Mountain in May, 1862; then marched with Fremont and Seigel across the Shenandoah Mountains and took part in the memorable campaign of Jackson and Banks in Shenandoah Valley; was at the battle of Cross Keys; then marched over the Blue Ridge and joined the Army of the Potomac; was at the battle of Cedar Mountain it was one of four regiments connected with Milroy's brigade, the advance guard of Pope's army in its march toward the enemy, and the rear guard on its retreat, and hence for ten successive days prior to the second battle of Bull Run the regiment was continually under fire; it was engaged actively and in the foremost of the second Bull Run battle on the 30th of August, 1862, and while gallantly leading his regiment on a charge, Col. Cantwell was instantly killed, the ball passing in just below the left eye and out at the buck part of the head. Thus fell one of the bravest of men, beloved by all the soldiers, and leaving many friends behind him; but he died as a true soldier would choose to die, upon the field of battle and his widow and family, who reside still in Kenton, Ohio, appreciate the sentiment inscribed by an officer upon the board that marked his temporary grave upon the battle-field

"How sleep the brave who sink to rest

By all their country's wishes blest."

His family and friends revere his memory as a true and faithful husband and father noble man and soldier, and a firm friend J. T. Cantwell was born in December, 1824, within two miles of Mansfield ; he grew up to manhood in this locality; read medicine with J. W. Chandler, in Mansfield; graduated in the spring of 1847, and practiced medicine in his native town successfully until the breaking-out of the rebellion, and entered the service of the Medical

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Department on the 15th of April, 1861; was first connected with the 4th O. V. I., but was afterward appointed Surgeon of the 82 O. V. I., Col. Cantwell's regiment, and was in active duty in the field till December, 1863, filling the position of Brigade, Division and Corps Surgeon, as official orders will show ; he participated in more than twenty battles, in all of which he occupied the position of Operating Surgeon in January, 1864, he was commissioned by President Lincoln Surgeon of the U. S. Volunteers, and assigned to duty by the Surgeon General as Inspector of Hospitals, with Washington as headquarters; in this capacity, he visited all the principal cities, inspecting hospitals, discharging, etc.; returning to duty, be was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, where he remained till April, 1865, when he was assigned to duty at Columbus, Ohio, as Superintendent of Hospitals, where be remained till the Government property was disposed of and the hospitals closed in October following, when he was mustered out of service, but, by recommendation of the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army, for meritorious services, he was breveted Lieutenant Colonel, and he now holds a commission, signed by Andrew Johnson and Edwin M. Stanton, conferring upon him that rank. After the war, he went to Alabama and engaged in the planting interests as well as his profession, but has now returned to his native city, where he expects to spend the greater portion of his time during the balance of his life.

CAREY, F. C., proprietor of soap factory ; was born in Ashland Co. (formerly Richland), Perry Township; came to Mansfield recently, and purchased the soap factory, which was established in 1868 and has been one of the leading enterprises of this city; the company have the capacity to manufacture 40,000 pounds per month; they manufacture the following varieties of soap: laundry, toilet, castile, barbers', tar, and also the celebrated coldwater soap ; they are introducing and extending the sale of their soap in a number of States. They exchange soap for grease, also pay the highest market price for tallow.

CARPENTER, GEORGE F., attorney; was born Aug. 8, 1820, in Worthington Township. Was married, July 2, 1852, to Jennette L. Raid, of Mansfield; their children are Reid, Frank, John, Nettie, Dan and Lizzie. Mr. Carpenter came to Mansfield in the fall of 1842, studied law with James Purdy ; was admitted to the bar in February, 1845, in New Lisbon, Ohio; entered is partnership with James Purdy; continued till 1847, then formed a partnership with Gen. William McLaughlin; continued till 1852, then resumed the practice of law alone for several years, after which he formed a partnership with Col. Isaac Gass. Was in the army from April 6, 1863, till Nov. 12, 1865; appointed Paymaster of the Army of the Cumberland ; returned to Mansfield and resumed the practice of law ; in 1874, entered in partnership with H. P. Davis, which continues up to the present time; office in the Carpenter Block, corner of Third and Main streets.

CARPENTER. W. B., tanner; he was born Sept. 15, 1825, in Worthington Township; he served as an apprentice at the tanner's trade fur three years in Newville, with T. F. Simmons; at the expiration of this time, be went to Buffalo, N. Y., and completed his trade ; he then returned to Newville and superintended the tannery for his father; he afterward formed a partnership with G. F. Carpenter, and remained six years ; in 1852, he dissolved partnership, but he continued the business, making twenty-seven year's continuous work in a tannery. He was married, Sept. 15, 1846, to Emeline Grove, who was born in 1828, in Montgomery Co., Penn.; they had the following family-Alfred George (married to Alice Boyd), snd resides in Cleveland, engaged in the practice of law; Clara L. (married to Joseph Charlton) ; Electa (married to T. Y. Smiley), and resides in Ashland ; Alice E. (married to Albert Seiler) ; Eugene is attending the Ohio University at Delaware; Ada E., Otto W. and Jennie are still at home with their parents; one daughter-Lucy, is dead. Mr. Carpenter has been a member of the M. E. Church since 16 years of age. Donn A. Carpenter, brother of W. B., was born in 1830 ; he was in the Mexican war ; he was elected State Senator from Jones Co., Iowa, is 1863, and also in the late war; he died in January, 1864. Mr. Carpenter can trace back his ancestry to 1688; they landed at Boston Mass., in early American days, and from there spread over the United States; Mr. C.'s father came to Ohio in 1818.

CARROTHERS, SAMUEL (deceased), was born in Washington Co., Penn., in 1780 and was the only son of George and Jane Workman Carrothers, who were old residents of that county, and came to this country before the Revolutionary war. He was married in Washington Co., in the year 1802, to Miss Mary Dye, who was born in 1781 ; they removed to this county in 1815, and were the parents of five children - Susan Lake Carrothers was born in the year 1807, and is now a resident of Linn Co., Iowa; Elizabeth Grant was born Jan. 24, 1809, and is a resident of this city; Jane Workman Hoffman was born in 1811, is a resident of Olney, Ill. ; Rebecca D. McCollough was born in 1818, and is now living in Olney, Ill.; George W. was born in January, 1815 ; Mary Carrothers Ridgeway was born in 1817 ; Samuel Leet Carrothers, the youngest son, was born in 1819 ; he lives in the city, and is a builder and contractor; Elizabeth Carrothers was married in Mansfield, to Edwin Grant, is 1834; he was born in Fairfield, Conn., in 1797, and came to Richland Co. in 1819 ; for many years he carried on a tannery, near the corner of First and Main streets, is this city, in which he was quite successful; he died in 1845, in Mount Carmel, Ill.; after his death Mrs. Grant returned to this city, where, she has since remained ; they were the parents of one child, Esther Ann, the wife of Robert Ray Smith, the well-known painter of this city. They were married March 9, 1858, and are the parents of four children.

CARTER, MERCHANT, County Treasurer; was born in Springfield Township, Richland Co., Oct. 15, 1882. Married Nov. 22, 1859, to E. U. Gass. Was elected County Treasurer in 1877, re-elected in 1879.

CHANDLER, J. M. (deceased), was born in Jeromeville, now in Ashland Co., Ohio, Oct. 15, 1815, and there received a good common-school education; afterward studied medicine, and passed through the regular course; at the early age of 21 years, Mr. Chandler graduated with honor at the Ohio Medical College at

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Cincinnati ; in the year 1842, he removed to Mansfield and commenced practice, which he continued until the time of his death, which occurred Jan. 18, 1863 ; the Doctor was buried at Mansfield on the 20th of January, 1863 ; during his residence in Mansfield, he was engaged in s large practice, and was reputed by his brothers in the profession as one of the best-read physicians and counselors, in this part of the State ; for a number of years, be was in partnership with the late Dr. O. F. Mitchell, and their business extended throughout the adjoining counties. Dr: J. M. Chandler was married, Aug. 12, 1845, to Miss S. A. Mount, who died Aug. 10, 1847 ; Frank, a son by this marriage, died May 4, 1855 ; on Dec. 30, 1852, the Doctor was married to Miss R. E. Mount, who still survives ; three children, two girls end one boy, by this marriage, now live in Mansfield-Charles M., at present is telegraph operator in the Western Union office in Mansfield.

CHARLTON, JOSEPH Y., tanner; wee born Jan. 21, 1841. He was married March 16, 1865, to Clara L. Carpenter ; she was born July 8, 1847 ; they have four children-Mattie B. was born in February, 1866; Grove, May 17,1868; Alfred Doyle, Jan. 1, 1870; Lettie Nell, Feb. 14, 1874. After marriage, located in Wayne Co , engaged in farming; thence to Lucas; from there to Newville, engaged in tannery; in 1879, he went to Mansfield ; since then has been engaged as foreman in the Carpenter tannery. Enlisted in the army during the late rebellion in the 32d O. V. I.; served his time of enlistment; was wounded twice during battles.

CLABERG, ISAAC N., attorney; he wee born Oct. 6, 1847, in Butler Township; son of Jacob Claberg; he attended the Savannah Academy and also the Smithville Academy, and graduated at the Law Department of the Indiana State University; afterward reed law with Manual May, and was admitted to the bar at Bucyrus, Ohio, in March, 1878 ; now engaged in the practice of law in Mansfield.

CLAPP, EMILIUS, wine merchant; Emeliua Clapp is the descendant, in the seventh generation, of Roger Clapp, who came to this country from England in 1630, settling in Dorchester, Mass.; here he married Miss Joanna Ford, daughter of Thomas Ford, of Dorchester, England, who, with her parents, came over in the ship with himself. Roger Clapp was appointed by the General Court, in August, 1665, Captain of the Castle (the principal fortress in the province), which position he held for twenty years, and was universally respected and honored ; he also held various other offices, both civil and military; in 1686, he removed to Boston, where he died in 1691, in the 82d year of his age; his wife died in 1695, in her 78th year; by this union there were fourteen children, one of whom, Preserved, was born Nov. 23, 1643, who married Sarah Newberry, of Windsor, and settled in Northampton ; he was Captain of the Town, a representative in the General Court, end Ruling Elder in the church, and died from the effects of a gunshot wound received from an Indian ; be had seven children, one of whom, Roger, was the father of Maj. Jonathan, one of the first settlers in Easthampton ; he had three sons end eight daughters ; the youngest son, Benjamin, was born in 1738, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and died in 1815 ; his wife died in 1847, at the advanced age of 97 years ; there were born to them fifteen children. The eighth was Solomon, the father of Emelius Clapp, who was born in Easthampton, Sept. 2, 1782, and died Nov. 25, 1827 ; he married Miss Paulina Avery, of Wallingford, Conn.; there were ten children by this marriage, of whom Emelius is the first son, born Dec, 5, 1808 ; he received his education at the public schools and Amherst Academy; after his father's death, he remained at home until the spring of 1832, then removed to Ohio, where he lived until the following fall when be returned to Massachusetts, where he married Lydia Hutchinson April 15, 1838 ; the same year, be again came to Ohio, and settled in Chester, Geauga Co., where be remained until 1836, when he removed to Mentor, Lake Co., and there lived one year; then commenced the manufacture of candy at Painesville, which business he followed in connection with the manufacture of silk ; specimens of his handiwork are now in possession of the family and show him to have been an expert workman; he resided in Painesville until the spring of 1844, then to Elyria, where he continued the manufacture of candy until September, 1850, when be came to Mansfield ; during his residence in this city, be was constantly engaged, in partnership with his son-in-law and alone, in the manufacture of candy, and the grocery trade, for many years. Nov. 20, 1865, the firm of E. Clapp & Co. sold their stock to Remy, Hedges & Co.; since 1855, he has been extensively engaged in the manufacture of wine from grapes grown at his vine yard on Kelly's Island. Emelius and Lydia Hutchinson Clapp are the parents of four children, one son and three daughters ; James Birney died in Elyria, aged 5 years; Francis H. died in infancy ; two daughters are now living-Ellen Marietta (wife of Mr. G. C. Wise), of this city, and Mary Paulina (wife of Joseph H. McKee), of Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. Lydia Clapp died in Mansfield Feb. 20, 1870; his present wife was Miss Carrie Beardsley, of Garrettsville. Portage Co., whom he married May 30, 1872.

CLARKE, W. P., merchant. This gentleman entered the store of Arnold Constable, of New York, as clerk, in the spring of 1857; he commenced business for himself in the fall of 1859, having purchased the stock of the late firm of E. & C. Hedges, of Mansfield; he occupied the old stated. 15 Public Square; be now occupies the entire building, and is at present crowded for room to accommodate his increasing business, which is now the moat extensive in the city; he employs five clerks, and wholesales and retails staple and fancy dry goods, carpets, oil-cloths and mattings, together with ribbons laces, hosiery, gloves, and fancy goods of all kinds ; his stock is at all times very large, and one of the moat complete of the kind in Mansfield; Mr. Clarke has, by his affability and courtesy to customers, contributed very much to his business, and is to-day recognized as the leading dry-goods merchant in the city; Mr. Clarke occupies several places of trust end responsibility; be is Director of Mansfield Savings Bank, a Director in the Mansfield Fire Insurance Company, Director and Treasurer of the Mansfield Loan and Building Association.

CLUGSTON, GEORGE A., banker ; he was born Oct. 5, 1842, in Franklin Co., Penn.; came to Ashland Co., Ohio, in 1849 ; he received a liberal education,

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and engaged in teaching, in all three years ; came to Mansfield in March, 1863 ; read law with Henry Hedges; was in Provost Marshal's office fourteen months, also Deputy Clerk in office of Probate Judge; he was admitted to the bar in 1865, by District Court held at Bucyrus, and in United States Court in 1867, at Cleveland ; continued in practice till October, 1873; when he was appointed Cashier of the Farmers' National Bank, and continues to hold that position; held the office of City Clerk of City of Mansfield in 1872-78. He was married, Jan. 1, 1867, to Sarah M. Larimer, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, where she has always lived.

COOK, JABEZ (deceased). Mr. Cook was a resident of Mansfield and Madison Townships for sixty years, an honest, upright citizen, well informed and possessed of social qualities of a high order; he was born in Washington Co., Penn., July 11, 1792 ; came to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Madison Township in 1815, and on what has since been known as the Cook homestead, on which he remained about forty years. He was married in March, 1815, to Miss Hannah Pierson, of Washington Co., Penn.; nine children were born to them, seven of whom are living; James Harvey and Thomas McCurdy, the one a resident of Mansfield and the other of Sandusky City, are twins and the first children of Jabez Cook ;they were born in September, 1816 ; Alice, the third child, is a resident of Mansfield ; Emily, of Morrow Co., Ohio; Elizabeth, of Iowa City ; Mortimer and Lydia Jane, in Santa Barbara, Cal.; Abbie Ellen and Willis M., are dead. Mr. Cook removed to Mansfield in 1854, where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred Feb. 6, 1875.

COOK, JAMES HERVEY, was born in Madison Township, two and a half miles south of Mansfield, in September, 1816 ; he received his elementary education at what is now known as the Sandy Hill Schoolhouse, and afterward at Granville, Ohio, when he returned home and worked on the farm and taught school several winters; he came to Mansfield in the winter of 1840-41, and taught a school on the corner of Fourth and Mulberry streets in the little red schoolhouse, which the older residents will remember. He was married, March 27, 1842, to Miss Mary Ann Wiler, of this city, with whom he has raised four children; until the year 1849, Mr. Cook was alternately engaged in teaching school, farming and buying produce; in the spring of that year, he took possession of the Wiler House, in which business he was engaged without interruption ten years, and again in 1864 until 1869; he has always been considered one of Mansfield's best citizens, and interested in all public improvements ; he is now connected with the Richland Mutual insurance Company as one of its officers.

COLWELL, SAMUEL B. (deceased). He was born in Southampton Township, Cumberland Co., Penn., June 12, 1810, where he worked at his trade of black-smithing, until his removal west in 1836 ; he came to Richland Co. in May, 1837, and settled in Troy Township, where he took charge of a grist-mill with s brother; he continued at this business for some time before removing to his farm west of Lexington, on which he lived until 1862, when he returned to Lexington and thence removed to Iowa and entered land; returning to Ohio, he bought a farm south of Laxington, which he soon after exchanged for the mill property; for five years previous to his death, he was a resident of Missouri; he died in Mansfield June 23, 1879, respected for his many good qualities of head and heart. Mr. Colwell was married is Troy Township to Miss Mary McIntire, by whom he Lad nine children, six of whom are living, three sons and three daughters ; James is in the employ of the Aultman & Taylor Co., and Samuel in the wholesale house of Joseph Miller.

CRAIG, J. W., M. D., physician. Dr. Craig's father, Samuel Carson Craig, was born in Beaver Co., Penn., in 1788. He was married to Jane Woods, and came to Belmont Co., Ohio, where Dr. Craig was born ; not long after, his parents came to this county, where they resided during the remainder of their lives ; his father dying Feb. 7, 1862; his mother, Sept. 18, 1875. When J. W. Craig was about 9 years of age, he went back to Belmont Co., where he lived with an uncle, a lawyer, and attended school and read Blackstone, his uncle desiring he should prepare for the profession of law ; J. W. did not fancy Blackstone to any great degree, and often read medical works, evincing a desire in that direction ; when near 17 years of age, be went to Harrison, near Cincinnati, where he continued to read medicine, and also taught school two years; he afterward went to this county, and, with Dr. Bricker, read medicine in the office of Dr. John Mack, of Shelby; from there, he went to the Cleveland Medical College, where he graduated in 1851; April 7 of that year, he located in Ontario, where he remained is practice nineteen years; at the end of that time, 1870 he removed to Mansfield, where he still resides. Dr. Craig was married, Jan. 24, 1854, to Eliza McConnell, whose father, Hugh McConnell, was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., July 11, 1802 ; one of his sisters, born July 14, 1800, is now living, is good health, in Mansfield. He was married to Mary J. McCommon May 24, 1827 ; she was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Aug. 28, 1808; five years after their marriage, they came to Mansfield, and soon after bought a farm in Richland Co., where they now reside ; Dr. and Mrs. Craig are the parents of four children-Wilda, James H., Maggie end May.

COPE, FRANKLIN E., was born in Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., April 4, 1807 ; immigrated to Columbiana Co., Ohio, June 10, 1810, remained there till 1832. He was married, Nov. 12, 1838, to Jane Sweney, she was born 'in Washington Co., Penn., July, 1808; Mr. Cope was engaged in the hatter business in Mansfield for fifteen years, also farming ; be was among the early settlers who bore a part of the heat and burden of the severe trials of a pioneer life.

CRAIGHEAD, JAMES, Mayor of the city of Mansfield ; he was born in 1833, in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.; came to Mansfield in 1837. Was married in 1859 to Susan White, daughter of Jonathan S. White, of Franklin Township; they have the following children : Septimus, born in 1860, engaged in reading law with Manuel May, in Mansfield, and Clarke, born in 1864 (deceased) ; Mr. Craighead was elected Mayor of Mansfield in the spring of 1879.

CREIGH, DAVID M. (deceased). The man whose name stands at the head of this biography died and was laid to rest in the Mansfield Cemetery, Sept. 28,

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1881, aged 61 years; although years have come and an gone, his name is still familiar to the living, and his memory cherished by those who knew and honored him. He was born in the city of Pittsburgh, Penn., Dec. 5, 1799; be came to Ohio in 1822 with his parents, who settled in the northern part of Madison Township; he remained here for a number of years working on the farm with his father, Samuel H. Creigh. On the 19th day of February, 1845, be was married to Miss Attillia Barr, daughter of Col. Jacob Barr, one of the early settlers of this county, who resided a few miles west of Mansfield, the Rev. D. J. Swinney officiating; in this neighborhood he soon after purchased land, and continued in farm life until his death ; during their residence in Madison Township they raised a family of three children ; the eldest, Jennie, afterward the wife of James R. Pollock, died Nov. 11, 1877, aged 30 years 10 months and 29 days ; one son by this marriage still survives her; a loving daughter, sister and mother, kind and affectionate to all ; her death was universally, regretted ; John T. Creigh was born Jan. 10, 1847 ; be received a good common-school education, and soon after his father's death came to Mansfield, and was employed for some years in the hardware trade, acquiring a thorough knowledge of that business, which has been so useful to him in his present occupation ; he is at presents partner in the widely known and prosperous firm of Patterson & Creigh, carriage manufacturers; be was married in November, 1871, to Miss Emma Williams, of this county, and resides on West Bloom street; Franc Creigh, the youngest and surviving daughter, was born June 9, 1848, and, like her sister and brother, received a good education, residing with her mother, who removed to Mansfield soon after her husband's death; she wan married Sept. 7, 1869, to D. W. Rendig, in Mansfield ; they have three children -Carl, the eldest, was born March 24, 1871 ; Lee Creigh Rendig, born Feb. 9, 1873 ; Kittie Kendig, born Sept. 28, 1876 ; Mrs. Franc E. Kendig resides on West Market with her mother and father's sister, with her little family around her. She and husband are members of the Congregational Church.

CRALL, WILLIAM, was born in Ireland about the year 1794, the enact date not known ; he emigrated with his parents to this country, and settled in Washington Co., Penn.; his father died shortly after coming to the country, and be being at that time but 12 years of age, and the eldest of the family, the support of the family mainly devolved upon him ; he learned the carpenter trade with a Mr. Enos, who afterward removed from Pennsylvania to Richland Co., and settled in Mifflin Township; during the war of 1812, William enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment, and, with his command, marched to the West, against the Indiana and British ; when the command arrived on its march at Cadiz, Harrison Co., they received the news that peace was declared. and the war was at an end. The command was shortly afterward disbanded, and William with other discharged soldiers came to Mansfield, which at that time was nothing more than a wilderness ; remaining here a short time, he went back to his home in Pennsylvania, and afterward returned here with his old employer, with whom he worked at the carpenter trade. The first house in this city furnished with a shingled roof and "plowed and grooved" floor, was erected by him at the southeast corner of Fourth and East Diamond streets, on the lot now owned by Minor Howe; at this time he was 21 years of age. In 1817, Oct. 12, be was married to Mary Westfall, by whom he had eight children, four of whom died at an early age; John Crall, the eldest, died in 1862; Abram died in California in 1852, and Susan and James are still living ; Mary Westfall was born at Beverly, Randolph Co. Va., Oct. 31, 1797 ; her brother, Harvey Westfall, had come to Richland Co. during the war of 1812, and settled at Mansfield ; at the close of the war, she came to Ohio, and landed at Newark, where she had an aunt living; she made the entire distance on horseback ; after remaining in Newark for a time, she came on to Mansfield to reside with her brother Harvey; after her marriage, her sister Sidney came to Mansfield from Virginia, and lived with her until her marriage with Franklin Carmichael ; Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael settled near Shiloh, in this county, where their children who are living still reside. Harvey Westfall removed from Mansfield to Plymouth, near which place be died about twelve years ago; William Crall, after residing in Mansfield for several years, removed with his family to Plymouth, at which place be, in company with Abraham Trux, erected a flouring-mill, which is still standing; be remained at Plymouth but a few years, when he returned to Mansfield, where be resided until his death, which occurred Sept. 11, 1851 ; his wife survived him until July 21, 1872; previous to going to Plymouth, Mr. Crall kept tavern in the old frame building which stood on the northwest corner of Fourth and Main streets. His parents were Scotch-Irish, and he was raised in the Presbyterian faith ; his wife joined the Presbyterian Church in this city, under the ministration of Rev. James Rowland, and remained a member of that church until the time of her death. She always took a great interest in the political affairs of the country, and for a woman was remarkably well posted in political matters. She was fond of reading political speeches, and when able, often attended political meetings of both parties. The career of all leading political men was narrowly watched by her, and their speeches eagerly read.

Mrs. Crall's ancestors on her mother's side were Welsh, and on her father's, Low Dutch or Hollanders; her grand-parents assisted in settling up Virginia, and her grandfathers, Pugh and Westfall, both fought in the early Indian wars in Virginia, and her father and uncles in the war of the Revolution ; of the children of William Crall, as we have said, but two are now living; Abraham immigrated to California during the gold fever, and died there in 1852 ; John enlisted in Capt. McLaughlin's company, 3d O. V. I., and served during the term of service of that regiment in the war with Mexico: After his return home, he was married to Susan Snyder, who lived but a year or two after her marriage; she left one child, a daughter, who was married to Anthony I. Piero, and is now living at Plymouth ; although quite a politician, John never sought office, and never held but one official position, that of Constable, which office be held at the time of his death, which occurred in July, 1863. James S. Crall enlisted in the 82d O. V. I. during the war of the

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rebellion, and was appointed a Second Lieutenant to recruit a company for that regiment; upon the organization of the regiment, he was elected Captain of the company; upon the death of Col. Cantwell, at the second battle of Manassas Plains or Bull Run, he was promoted to Major of the regiment, and afterward was trade Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, which position he held rat the close of the war and the muster-out of the regiment ; the 82d Regiment belonged to the 11th Corps, and took past with that corps in all the battles in which it was engaged while in the Army of' the Potomac ; after the battle of Chickamauga, the 11th and 12th Corps were transferred to the army of Gen. Thomas; the two corps were consolidated end were afterward known as the 20th; with this corps under command of Gen. Hooker, the 82d Regiment took part in all the skirmishes and battles preceding the taking of Atlanta, In the march from Atlanta to Savannah, and from Savannah to Raleigh, North Carolina; the regiment was on the march from Raleigh to Richmond, when Lee surrendered to Grant; a few days thereafter, Johnston surrendered to Sherman, and the war was over. Since his return home, James S. Crall has served as member and President of the City Council, two terms as Justice of the Peace and is at present Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; his sister, Susan Larimore, is living, and with her children resides with him in this city.

CRAWFORD & ZELLERS, cracker manufacturers, located at the corner of Walnut and Bloom streets, in a brink building 56 x 100. The business was originally started in 1872, by H. H. Colby, who continued it for one year, when the firm that now has it took charge, Sept. 7, 1874; Messrs. Crawford & Zellers were formerly engaged in the manufacture of crackers at Richmond, Ind., and when they purchased the property, they possessed net only ample capital, but a complete knowledge of their business; the first building was a frame, to which Crawford S Zellers added some additions ; soon after the improvements had been made, the frame portion of the structure was destroyed by fire ; nothing daunted, the proprietors at once rebuilt in a much finer style, so that the works they now have is a model institution of its kind, and considered by all to be one of the moat complete in the State; all the machinery used is of the best and most improved make, enabling this house to successfully compete with any other engaged in a similar business; an engine of thirty-horse power is used, and the bakery has a capacity of turning out 500 barrels of crackers every 24 hours; 25 to 30 hands are employed, and a business maintained that will exceed $150,000; the crackers here produced are noted for their first-class quality and the universal satisfaction they give; a goodly trade is not only had by this firm in Ohio, but the name has extended into the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, West Virginia and Indiana. The firm is composed of B. F. Crawford, D. K. and J. G. Zellers; Mr. Crawford has withdrawn his interest from the firm of Zellers & Co., at Richmond, Ind., and now gives his undivided attention to the business which he has and is so satisfactorily conducting, and of which he is principal owner.

DAILY, JOHN B. (deceased), was born in New Lisbon, Colombians Co., Ohio, April, 1827; while yet a poor boy, he, unexpectedly to his relatives, came to Mansfield, sad was at once placed at the desk in the hardware store of A. J. Endly, when he soon showed that aptness for book-keeping which was so serviceable to him to after years; here he was constantly employed for fourteen years, gaining a thorough knowledge of the trade ; in the year 1864, be was appointed Deputy Revenue Assessor, which position he held until the coming in of the new administration; Mr. Daily was s member of the German Lodge, I. O. O. F., which order he joined in the year 1864, and in which be has held a number of offices; Mr. Daily was long and favorably known as one of Mansfield's business men, being engaged largely at one time in real estate and other enterprises. John B. Daily was married July 3, 1865, to Miss Emma C. of New Lisbon ; there have been born to them four children-Laura E., William C., John E. and Emma M.; John B. Daily died Aug. 6, 1876, in Mansfield.

DAY, AMOS (deceased), son of Joseph and Eleanor Day ; was born in Washington Co., Penn., Jan. 12, 1806, and removed to thin county with his father's family in 1815, thus having lived sixty-five years continuously in Richland Co. He was married in November, 1834, to Martha Smith, daughter of Jedediah Smith, of Washington Township, by whom he had eight children, five of whom are still living, being Joseph B. and Harrison W. Day, of Washington Township ; Mrs. W. S. Bradford sad Miss Kate E. Day, of Mansfield ; Mrs. d. F. Bowers, of Bellville. He learned the mason trade when quite a young man, and built or helped to build many of the old structures of Mansfield, among which was the Congregational Church, the old Sturges Block, Tracy's Block, and others, which have since been replaced by more modern and imposing edifices ; also many of those still standing, among them the McFall Block, built nearly half a century ago, the old North American, southeast of the Park, and the Union Church. He moved to his farm is Washington Township in 1835, when he battled with the sturdy monarchs of the forest during the best years of his life, making them give place to fruitful and productive fields and abundant harvests; he removed to Mansfield to spend the declining years of his life, where he died of typhoid fever on the 21st day of April, 1880. He was a man of great force of character, always adhering firmly and strictly to principles of virtue and honesty ; he was a kind father and a good husband, and his memory will be cherished sad revered by those who knew him beat; companionable and sociable with his friends and acquaintances, his cheerful and pleasant greetings will not soon be forgotten by there with whom he mingled for more than half s century. By rigid economy and industrious habits he acquired a competency, which be used carefully and rationally, often expressing a desire to leave his wife and children in comfortable circumstances ether than to enjoy the luxuries of life himself; despising dis play and pretension, sod of a retiring and unassuming disposition, his good deeds were not heralded to the world, but he was ever ready to lend a helping hand to the poor and the distressed. He united with the Congregational Church of Mansfield in 1836, soon after its organization, and, although of late years not an

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active member, he was n firm believer in the Christian religion, a faithful and rigid observer of t he Sabbath Day, and a careful and constant reader of the scriptures; and, possessing a wonderfully retentive memory, its great end grand truths were treasured up in his mind, and often adverted to, to the edification of his family and friends. His mind dwelt much during the later months of his life on the uncertainty of earthly existence: and, upon his dying bed, although cut down by a malignant and ruthless disease, sort although his mind often wandered, yet in his lucid intervals. his conversation showed to those who watched by his bedside that his thoughts were at such times fixed upon Immortal things. In one of those moments while reason for a short space returned to her throne, he seemed much moved, and spoke of going house: and when asked if he meant Heaven, he replied, "Yes," and at another time he requested that a hymn be sung. Its bore his sufferings with patience and resignation; not a worst of complaint or murmuring escaped his lips during the progress of his fell disease. His mother, Eleanor Day, came from her home in Indiana to attend the funeral of the first-born of her twelve children ; she and her twin sister, who is also living, lack only seven years of being a century old : their descendants number 250: their maiden name was Thomas ; they are full sisters of the father of Gen. Thomas. Mrs. Eleanor Day was the mother of twelve children, eleven of whom attained to manhood and womanhood, and nine of them are still living; being Marcus, Clemens and Cyrus Day, of this county; Harrison Day, of DeKalb Co., Ill.; Mrs. Hon. Robert M. Lockhart and Mrs. Louisa Ensley, of De Kalb Co., Ind.; Mrs. Hon. John Young and Mrs. Jacob Henry, of Sauk Co , Wis., and Mrs. Joshua Martin, of Berry Co., Mich.. The old lady is still in the enjoyment of all her faculties unimpaired ; but says that "This world has no charms for her," and she is only waiting to be collect up higher, and receive the reward of a well spent life.

De CAMP, MOSES (deceased); was born in Washington Co., Penn., Oct. 10, 1816, and was of French Protestant descent. The American family from whom he sprung were among the earliest settlers of New Jersey ; some of the descendants afterward settled in Western Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1827, his father moved with his family into Ohio and located in Morrow Co , where, with the little opportunities then afforded, he soon by diligence acquired sufficient knowledge to tench while continuing his studies, and the fall of 1842 found him in charge of what was then known as the Preparatory Department of Delaware University, which embraced almost every branch, except the dead languages ; while there, greater inducements were held out to him to continue his chosen vocation, which he reluctantly declined on account of poor health. He afterward removed to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he married Miss Almena H Winters in the fall of 1844, by whom he had four children-Gilbert Winters, Alphonse Lemartine, Herbert Cantwell and Luella Almena; all residents of Mansfield, except the second son, who is a dentist of note, in Paris, France; Dr. M. Decamp commenced the practice of dentistry in this city in the fall of 1851, and continued to practice until a few months before his death, which occurred April 17, 1876; during his residence in Mansfield, he was known as a trustworthy Christian man ; for a number of years President of the American Bible Society, of this county, and of the State Dental Association, in which he held high rank on account of his professional ability ; at the time of his death, he was a member of the State Board of Dental Examiners, and a prominent Mason in the Mansfield Lodge. He was a member of the Congregational Church in Mansfield, and for several years acted as one of its Deacons.

DICKSON, V, M., grocer; was born in Millsborough, Springfield Township, June 22, 1844; while living in that township he worked on a farm until 18 years of age, then removed to Oil City, Penn., where he remained two years: in 1865, he was employed in the firm of Dickson & Byrd, grocers, in Mansfield in 1867, the firm name was changed to J. and V. M. Dickson - Mr. Byrd retiring; this partnership continued until Oct., 21, 1878, when he entered into partnership with Mr. Wm. Adrain, Oct. 31, same year, under the firm name of Dickson & Adrain, now doing business on the corner of Main and Market streets, Mansfield. Mr. D, was married April 10, 1872, to Miss Anna W. Sayles, of New Fork, now residents of West Third street, Mansfield.

DILL, THOMAS T., Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. Born in Wayne Co., Ohio, May 2, 1842; came to Mansfield in 1853; at the beginning of the war, enlisted in the army under the first call for troops: being for three months in the 16th O. V. I.; served his time in that organization in West Virginia, was mustered out at the expiration of the term, and immediately enlisted again in the 16th O. V. I., as organized for three years, served through Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and all the Southern States; was taken prisoner at Tazewell, Tenn.; served under Gen. Grant in several campaigns, including the siege of Vicksburg; served in the Department of the Gulf, in the States of Louisiana and Texas; was under Gen. Banks on his Red River expedition; participated in a great many battles during his term of service in the 16th O. V. I., was discharged in November, 1864, by reason of expiration of term of enlistment, and immediately re-enlisted in the 1st Regiment, 1st Army Corps, an organization made up of veterans who had seen not less than two years' service; this corps was called "Hancock's Corps," and was commanded by Gen. W. S. Hancock; Mr. Dill was commissioned a First Lieutenant by Gen. Hancock; whilst in this command did service in Virginia, and was in several engagements; when the war closed, he was retained in the service by Gen. Hancock until the 2d day of May, 1866, at which date he was mustered out, making a little more than five years' service in the army ; since his return from the army, he has resided in Mansfield, and was employed as a mechanic for eight years by the Aultman Taylor Co ; was elected Clerk of Court in October, 1876, for three years, served faithfully and was re-elected in October, 1879, for another term.

DOLL, MICHAEL R., harness-maker. The subject of this sketch was born in Green Township, Richland Co., as it originally existed, Oct. 25, 1839 ; came to Mansfield in 1845 with his parents, who soon after removed to an adjoining county, where he was placed in school until of sufficient age to begin his trade of har-

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ness-making, at which he worked until the breaking-out of the civil war when be entered the army, enlisting as an artificer in the 11th O. B., afterward assigned to the Western Department 17th Army Corps ; Mr. Doll served his full term of enlistment, taking an active part and doing his duty as a soldier in the many engagements in which that battery and corps were engaged; among the more noted and terrible battles in which he took part, were the siege of Vicksburg, Island No. 10, Corinth and the battle of Iuka, Miss. During Mr. Doll's career as a soldier, he passed through , many dangers unharmed, when others have fallen-not escaping altogether, as he was slightly wounded at the battle of Vicksburg. and in the great railroad collision at Crestline in April, 1861, severely injured, having a knee joint dislocated and being otherwise bruised ; but it was not until long after the close of the war in January, 1877, that after escaping the bullets of the enemy, and working at his vacation in Mansfield, he received a pistol-shot wound through the gross carelessness of a friend that almost proved fatal, from the effects of which he still suffers, and will carry the marks to his grave. An upright and good citizen, he is now continuing steadily at his trade, enjoying the entire respect of all the citizens.

DOOLITTELL, COLUMBUS S., was born near Frederickstown, Knox Co., Oct. 24, 1819. His mother having died when he was quite a small child, he lived with his grandfather, Thomas Doolittell, during his minority; noon after he was 21 years of age, he taught school one year; in the summer of 1842 be attended the commencement of Kenyon College, when President Hayes graduated ; his speech so influenced Mr. D. that he determined to fulfill a long-cherished hope, and take a thorough classical course; in May, 1843, he entered the preparatory class in Kenyon College, and by persistent application he entered the freshman class of '44, with W. B. Rogers, now Private Secretary to the President. Among his other classmates, who became prominent, were W. G. LeDuc, now Commissioner of Agriculture, and Dr. J. W. Scott, a distinguished Professor in the Cleveland Medical College. His resources being somewhat limited, he supported himself by teaching private classes. By diligent use of his time, and close study, he maintained a high standard of scholarship, and graduated with the highest honors in 1848. In September of that year, he accepted the position of assistant teacher in Mrs. Schenck's Seminary, in Columbus; in the fall of 1849, he was chosen a tutor in Kenyon College, and at the same time became a member of the Theological Seminary ; in 1852, he was ordained Deacon, and took charge of St. Stephen's Church in Canfield. In January, 1853, he was married to Miss P. A. Lindley, of Frederickstown. In 1856, be accepted a call to St. Luke's Church, Granville, and at the same time became associate principal of the Granville Female Seminary; in 1861, in company with Mr. J. Lindley, he moved the school to Mansfield, where he was engaged about ten years. In 1876, Mr. D. became the associate editor of the Ohio Liberal, then an independent paper, but retired from the paper when it became Democratic. In January, 1877, be became the associate editor of the Mansfield Herald, a position he now occupies.

DOUGLAS, THOMAS E., Postmaster. He wen born six miles west of Mansfield June 21, 1829; be received a very fair education in the common schools, and in the academies of Haysville and Berea; he studied law in the office of L. B. Matson, and, in July, 1860, was admitted to the bar, and in October formed a partnership with M. W. Worden, with whom he began the practice of his profession ; when the war broke out in the spring of 1861, Mr. Douglas enlisted, April 16, in Maj. McLaughlin's company in the let Regiment, and remained with it during its term of service, participating in the battle of Bull Run, July 21; returning home, he enlisted in the 15th, three-years' service, in which regiment he was commissioned First Lieutenant of Co. G, Sept. 9; that regiment was in the battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862, after which Lieut. D. was promoted Captain, and, in the battle of Stone River, Dec. 31 ; in this latter engagement, Capt. Douglas was so severely wounded is the right lung, that he was obliged to return home. While here, he was married to Francis H. Rowland, daughter of Rev. James Rowland, May 12, 1863. June 24, he was appointed Captain in the Veteran Reserve Corps, in which capacity he served until he was mustered out while at Baltimore, Aug. 29, 1866 ; he then returned home and resumed the practice of law, following it until he was appointed Postmaster, March 12, 1873 ; he took charge of the office May 12. Mrs. Douglas died Aug. 1, 1879, leaving four children.

DOUGLAS, M. E., Secretary of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company. He was born in Richland Co., where he has always resided.

DOW, W., contractor and stonemason, Mansfield. He was born near Edinburgh, Scotland, Oct. 6, 1847; he was the first eon of John and Jenett Dow, who were of an old and respectable family in that country; he emigrated to this country in May, 1869, and came to Mansfield in July, 1870 ; directly after his arrival here, he was employed by the contractors of the court house, which was then being built; he was likewise employed in building the stonework of the Congregational Church in this city, and in the spring of 1873 the firm of Hancock & Dow were the contractors and builders of the stonework of the Mansfield Savings Bank ; in 1874, they finished their contract for the same work on the Plymouth and Shelby Schoolhouses ; in 1875, they built the freight house of the C., C. & I. R. R at Columbus, and the passenger stone depot at Barea; among the public and larger buildings for which they were the contractors and mesons, since that date, were the Marysville High School in 1876, and the city hall, in the same place, and the Masonic Hall of Marion in 1877; in 1878, they they did the mason work on the Marion County Jail ; in addition to those already mentioned in this city, was the work on the Jenner, Keith & Scattergood Building and the frontage of the Swigart Building ; the firm is at present the contractors for the same work on the sew county jail, now in process of erection.

DYSERT, D. M., M. D., homaeopathist. He was born in Wayne Co., in 1852, educated is Wayne and Medina Cos.; be graduated at Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1876; he was engaged in the practice of medicine at Independence, this county, for three years,

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where be had a very extensive practice; his health became impaired is the fall of 1879, and he went to Florida to spend the winter; he returned to this county and located in Mansfield, opened an office at the southwest corner of the part. He is prepared to attend to all calls in his profession promptly.

EARNEST, D. H., dealer in furniture. He was born, July 24, 1844, in Cumberland Co., Penn.; immigrated to Richland Co. in the fall of 1858; engaged , with Cyrus Hersheiser and learned the carpenter trade; worked at that trade eight pears, then engaged with Aultman & Taylor machine-shops for ten years and fur months; Jan. 22, 1879, he formed a partnership with J. K. Johnson in furniture store, which they still continue. He was married, April 7, 1868, to Iva Jane Pocock; she was born in Wayne Co., Oct. 16, 1841 ; they have the following family; Mary Bell (deceased ), Roes Ellen, born Aug. 18, 1871 ; David Milton Georgia, Nov. 17, 1874 ; reside at No. 118 East Market street.

EDGINGTON, JESSE (deceased). He was born in Virginia, and in an early day removed to Jefferson Co. this State, where he resided for several years, when he came to this county and settled in Springfield Township in 1814, where be was one of the largest land-owners during his life. The first Presbyterian Church built in that township, of which he was a member and one of the founders, was erected on his land ; he died in 1821, at an advanced age, leaving five children by his marriage to Miss Margaret Palmer. Thomas, the eldest son, was born in Virginia in 1781, and removed with his parents to Jefferson Co., Ohio, where be lived until 1815, when he came to this county and settled in Springfield Township. He was married in Jefferson Co., Ohio, to Miss Mary Alban in 1802; they were the parents of ten children, of whom Margaret was the oldest; she was born in Jefferson Co., Ohio, Aug. 30, 1803, and died in Colombia City, Ind., Aug. 30, 1872; Thomas Edgington died in Springfield Township is 1856 ; Margaret was married in Springfield Township to William Douglas in 1823 ; they were the parents of four children-William Douglass was born in Washington Co., Penn., in 1798 ; his father, Michael Douglas, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland. He was married in that country to Lydia Pollock in 1795, and emigrated to America in the fall of 1796, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he continued to reside until 1820, when be removed to Ohio. and settled in Springfield Township, Richland Co.; William Douglas died in 1857 in that township.

ELLIOTT, H. C., book-binder. He is prepared to do all kinds of blank-book and magazine binding in the best and latest styles, also re-bind and re-model old books ; all orders by mail promptly attended to parties desiring binding will find it to their advantage to examine his samples ; prices to suit the times, corner Main and Fourth streets.

ERWIN, A. J., physician, surgeon and oculist ; he was born in Concord, Penn.; he was educated at the University of Nashville, where he graduated in medicine in 1864. Immediately afterward, he entered into partnership with the eminent surgeon, Dr. J. W. Daily, of Fort Wayne, Ind., at which place he remained until 1870, when be removed to Mansfield. He wed married, in 1867, to Miss Mary C. Johnson, of Mansfield, who died in 1874. He is a member of the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association. In 1874, he was elected by the American Medical Association as a delegate to foreign associations, in which capacity he visited Europe, and while there be cook a course in eye diseases in the Royal London Ophthalmic College. In 1878, he was elected to the chair of orthopedic surgery in the Cleveland Medical College, which chair he filled by occasional visits without removing from Mansfield. He is surgeon of the P., Ft. W. & C., M. & C. and the B. & O. R. R.'s. He is now in active practice.

ETTINGER, JACOB, grocery man. The subject. of this sketch is the oldest of eight children burn is Daniel sod Catherine Ettinger, an old York Co. ( Perm.) family, who came to Ohio in 1837 and settled near what was then known as Lower Sandusky-now Fremont. The father located in Scott Township, Sandusky Co., where he remained two years, and then removed to Lexington, this county, where he resided for many years, enjoying the confidence and esteem of the entire community. For many years, he was engaged in teaching school, and was accounted a more than ordinary mathematician. For nine years; he served as Assessor of Trop Township. Communicative and intelligent, he was always a favorite with those who desired any information that he could give. He died in Ogle Co., Ill., and was buried near Lexington, Ohio. Jacob Ettinger was born in York Co., Penn., April 16, 1823 ; in his youth, he received a good common-school education, and, after his parents removed to this county, he taught school for about four years, when, removing to Mansfield, he was appointed a conductor on the old S. M. &. N. R. R., which position he held for seven years, and was accounted a careful and faithful officer. He was married in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, on the 10th of April, 1846; they have had four children, two living and two dead. For fourteen years, Mr. Ettinger has been engaged in mercantile pursuits in Mansfield, and is accounted a shrewd and successful business man.

ETTINGER, BENJAMIN, harness maker; he was born in York Co., Penn., June 7, 1828, and came to Ohio in 1836, and to Richland Co. in 1837, where he received his elementary education, his father being a teacher and mathematician of some note in Troy Township. When 18 years of age, he commenced the trade of harness-making, which occupation he continues to follow in Mansfield, where he is known as a good work man. Mr. Ettinger was married, Sept. 6, 1854, to Miss Elizabeth Brooks, who died Oct. 16, 1860, and again married to Mary Emma Lake, his present wife ; they have ode son.

FARMER, J. S., attorney at law. He was born in Mansfield June 23, 1844, and received his elementary education in Washington Township, John and Susan (Stewart) Farmer, his parents, were old residents of the county and resided in Washington Township many years. In 1864, he began teaching school in this county, and was so engaged for ten winter terms ; during the summer months he worked on a farm, while he continued a course of reading preparatory to the study of law ; in April, 1870, he came to Mansfield and continued his studies under the instruction of Matson & Dirlam, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1872

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Mr. Farmer was married, Oct. 8, 1814, to Barbara A. Harman, by whom he has three children.

FAUS, HENRY, traveling agent. He was born in Columbia Co., Penn.; March 31, 1837 ; came to Ohio in 1852. Was married April 14, 1863, to Lodema C. Zent; she was born Sept. 3, 1841, in Richland Co.; they have the following family : Lorena F., born June 8, 1864 ; Dells B., Oct. 8, 1865; Charlie J., Sept. 8, 1866; Wardie B., Sept. 8, 1867.

FINFROCK, J. H., physician; was born in Columbiana Co., Ohio; came to Richland Co. in 1836; read medicine with Dr. .john Blacker, of Van Wert, Ohio; graduated at Cincinnati in the Medical College. Enlisted during the war; was promoted Captain of Co. F, 6th O. V. I.; served in that position till he was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 11th O. V. C.; was stationed in Dakota Territory. After his service in the army, he located in Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, where he is engaged in the practice of medicine.

FINFROCK, M. V. B., druggist; eon of Jonathan Finfrock ; was born in 1838 in Madison Township; was married in 1864 to Lydia E. Keller; they have three children-Ira Elmer, Emma May and Grace Maud. Mr. Finfrock was engaged in teaching school for some years; then located in Mansfield in the drug business; has been very successful, and is now leading off in this department; has also been taking a very active part as Councilman for two years; he is now a member and Treasurer of the School Board of the city of Mansfield, and doing all he can to raise the standard of education.

FISHER, JOHN, sewing-machine agent: wee born March 27, 1849, in Cumberland, Md. His father and mother are now and have been old residents of that locality, dating back fifty-three years. Mr. Fisher came to Mansfield Dec. 24, 1879, snd is now engaged in active business. He was married Feb. 10, 1872, in Cumberland, Md., to Anna M. Wolf; they have three children-two boys and one girl. Charles Fisher emigrated from Germany and settled in Cumberland, Md., about the year 1827. John Fisher was the eighth son. About thirteen years previous to his arrival in Mansfield, be was employed on railroads in different positions ; at present a resident of the Fourth Ward.

FLANNERY, B., keeper of boarding-house; he was born in Ireland, in the year 1838, the first son of Mathew and Margaret Flannery ; be emigrated to America in May, 1863, and landed in New York City, where he was employed in a tea and coffee house for three years, when he removed to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, where he remained two years before coming to Mansfield. He was married in this city, Dec. 16, 1868, to Miss Mary Hogan. During his residence here, he has been prominent is local politics, and has bean a delegate to a number of important conventions, and is one of our active citizens. Mr. Flannery comes from a respectable family in the old country, where they held high offices in Church and State:

FORD, JOHN, deceased ; be was born is Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1816. His parents removed to this county when be was quite young, and settled in Clear Creek Township, now in Ashland Co., where he assisted in clearing the land and worked on the farm until his re moval to Washington Township with a brother; he there cleared the land since known as the Hunter farm, and afterward purchased the farm south of Washington Village, where he lived for many years, well known by the citizens of the county and respected for his many good qualities of head and heart. He was married to Miss Harriet Barnes, of Washington Township, Aug. 16, 1838 ; they were the parents of eight children- four eons and four daughters; three sons and one daughter reside is Mansfield ; one son is a farmer in Washington Township ; Mary Ellen Ford, born Aug. 21, 1839, died Feb. 28, 1863; Phebe, born July 23, 1849, died Aug. 11, 1851 ; Ada, born April 27, 1860, died Sept. 26, 1874. Mr. Ford removed to Mansfield in May, 1872, where be was engaged in business with his sons, and resided until his death, which occurred Feb. 25, 1876. Mrs. Harriet Barnes Ford died in Mansfield Oct. 27, 1874.

FORD, THOMAS H. (deceased). Ex-Gov. Ford was born in Rockingham Co., Va. Aug. 28, 1814. His parents soon after removed to Harrison Co. Ohio, where they lived n few years, removing to Clear Creek Township, Ashland Co., then a part of this county; here Mr. Ford died, leaving a large family, some of whom were grown. Thomas Ford grew to maturity here, getting little if any education in the district schools, obtaining the principal part by the light of a burning stump or the fire-place. Attar reaching his majority, he married a Miss Hall, and for some time was engaged on a farm ; this pursuit, however, did not favor him, and consequently he did not make a success; his wife died here, as well as all her children-the latter while in their infancy. Mr. Ford was again married to Mary Ann Andrews, and not long after gave up farming and came to bisnsfield to engage in the study of law, entering the office of James Purdy, Esq.; while here, is 1851; his second wife died, leaving him three boys - Thomas H. who died in 1873, in the city ; P. P. H., who is yet a resident of Mansfield, and W. A. who, when his mother died, was 18 months old, and who was given by her to Mrs. John Bright (sister of Mr. Ford) to raise; he is now in California. Mr. Ford was married the third time to Harriet M. Pantlind, who became the mother of one child, Ada, who is married and living in Washington City, and with whom her mother now lives. After Mr. Ford completed a law course, be was admitted to practice, and, at different times, was partner of P. P. Hull, Oliver P. Grey, William Longbridge, William Tidball, H. P. Davis, R. C. Smith, - Boales, Judge Dirlam and others. When the Republican party came into existence, he. was one of its most eloquent exponents, and, while engaged in politics, delivered at Philadelphia, a speech that made his name famous ; it was one of those speeches given impromptu, (he never studied a speech) which the occasion calls out, and is rarely repeated ; it gained him the Lieutenant Governor's place under Gov. Chase, and brought him prominently forward in after life; at the expiration of his term of office, he returned to Mansfield to the practice of law, though he was always active in politics. When the war with Mexico broke out, he enlisted, and raised a company which saw one year's service ; its history is given elsewhere ; while in this war, he was wounded ; when the last war broke out, ex-Gov. Ford raised the 32d O. V. I. and was its Colonel ; the

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unfortunate affair at Harper's Ferry cost him his dismissal, though he and his personal friends always insist he was made a "scape goat" for a higher officer's blunders. President Lincoln reinstated him, though he did not again enter the service; he went to Washington City, where he built up a lucrative practice in the law, and where he held for a while, the office of Superintendent of Public Printing ; about the year 1866, he connected himself prominently with the temperance movement in the District, and was considered one of its ablest and must eloquent advocates; he died Feb. 29, 1868, at the age of 54 years ; all the city papers referred to his loss, and all published commendatory notices of his life and death, that were widely copied; the various temperance orders buried him with every show of respect, in one of the city vaults, from which his remains were subsequently removed to the cemetery in Mansfield where they now repose.

FORD, E. C., merchant. He was born in Washington Township, June 8, 1856, where he resided until his removal to Mansfield in the spring of 1872, where he commenced the tinner's trade, which completing, he entered into partnership with his father (the late John Ford), and a brother, under the firm name of Ford & Sons, doing a large business in stoves sad tinware ; since his father's death, which occurred Feb. 25, 1876, the firm name has been Ford Brothers. He was married in Mansfield, June 19, 1878, to Miss Ella J. Hershiser, daughter of Cyrus Hershiser, a well known contractor and builder in this city.

FORD, P. P., merchant. He was born in Mansfield, Nov. 20, 1846 ; his father being the late Col. Thomas H. Ford ; he received his education principally at the Monroe Seminary and at Lexington, Ohio; during the late war, he enlisted in the 32d O. V. I., in which he remained until the close of the war, participating is all the battles in which that regiment engaged ; afterward resided in Washington City for some time, then returned to Richland Co., Ohio, where he has since lived. In Aug. 13, 1868, he was married to Miss Mary C. Stone, of Washington Township, by whom he has had five children---Jessie Ada, Edwin Davis, Charles Thomas (deceased), Mary H. and Emma Virda; in the fall of 1869, Mr. Ford removed to Mansfield, where he now lives and engaged in mercantile business.

FORD, S. N., Secretary of the Mansfield Building and Lumber Company. He was born in Washington Township, Richland Co., Feb. 8, 1847; his elementary education he received principally at the Lexington Seminary, which he attended for several years ; at the age of 18, be commenced business for himself, and in February, 1870, was employed by the Mansfield Building and Lumber Association, and was elected agent of the same in the fall of 1872, which position he held until October, 1876, when he was elected its Secretary. Mr. Ford was married in Lexington, Dec. 28, 1868, to Miss Lizzie Cook, of that place, with whom he has raised two children, one son and one daughter-Hoyt and Ada.

FORD, THOMAS W., merchant. He was born in Washington Township Jan. 12, 1844 ; he is a son of the late Mr. John Ford, who resided in that township over forty years ; in 1862, he enlisted in Co. E, 32d O. V. I., and served until the close of the war, after which he returned to Richland Co., and was engaged in farming and teaching school for seven years previous to his removal to Mansfield. He was married in , September, 1868, to Miss Leah Garber, of Washington Township; they have one son, G. G. Ford, who was born June 27, 1869; after his removal to Mansfield, he was employed in the wholesale house of E. P. Sturges Co. four years, then a partner in the stove and tin store of Ford & Sons, now Ford Brothers; one of the best-conducted houses in that branch of business in Mansfield.

FRANZ, J. B., proprietor St. James Hotel. The subject of this sketch, the well-known landlord of the St. James Hotel is Mansfield, was born in Leesville, Crawford Co., Ohio, June 24, 1841; although comparatively a young man, he has already acquired an enviable reputation in his special line of business, and is classed among our enterprising citizens. He was married is Delaware, Ohio, June 3, 1874, to Miss Nellie Sampsell, daughter of one of the old citizens of that place.

FRENCH, D. H., Rev., D. D., Pastor U. P. Church, Dayton, Ohio: Dr. French, who for over twelve years was Pastor of the United Presbyterian Church in this city, is a eon of Rev. David French, who was Pastor forty-four years of the Associate Congregations of North and South Buffalo, in Washington Co., Penn. Dr. French was born in that county ; he received his collegiate education at the Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Penn., where he graduated in 1857; he attended the Theological Seminary at Xenia, Ohio, and, six months after graduating there, received nails from three congregations to become their Pastor; he accepted the call from Cannonsburg, Penn., and entered upon the discharge of his duties in March, 1861 ; after a pastorate of five years, he was obliged to resign on account of s threatened attack of lung disease; about s year after his release from this charge, he was called by the congregation in Mansfield, which call he accepted, and for twelve and one-half years labored faithfully among the people here ; late in 1879, he received a call from the U. P. Church, Dayton, Ohio, which he accepted, and early in January, 1880, went to that city, where he now resides; he received the honorary title of Doctor of Divinity from the Muskingum College, in the summer of 1879.

GAILEY, RICHARD, attorney-at-law. Of the two sons of Rev. Richard Gailey, the subject of this sketch is the younger, the elder being Rev. John Gailey, of the United Presbyterian Church. Richard was born May 6, 1845, in Madison, Westmoreland Co., Penn. In 1849, his father removed to this county, and first settled in Monroe Township, and subsequently removed to Lexington ; he received his education chiefly from his father in the seminary of which he was the founder; during the years 1867, 1868 and 1869, he studied law with Judge McJunkin, of Batter, Penn., where he was admitted to the bar in 1869 ; after his admission to the bar be practiced his profession in Mansfield, Ohio, until 1872, when be returned to Pennsylvania and practiced in Parker City and Pittsburgh, until the death of his father, in 1875, when be returned to Lexington, where he practiced until May 1, 1880, when he came to Mansfield end entered into copartnership with H.

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D. Keith; this firm is engaged in a lucrative and constantly increasing business, and commands the confidence of the bar and people. During the war of the rebellion, Mr. Gailey served in the 87th O. V. I. and also in the 86th O. V. I. In 1872, he was married to Miss Sarah E. Nutting, by whom he has two sons-John, aged 6 years, end Richard, aged 2 years.

GASS & HOTT, dealers in books, successors to C. A. Pendleton ; they handle a general line of school, miscellaneous and blank books, and stationery, wall-paper, curtains, curtain fixtures and similar goods, gold pens, archery, croquet-games of all kinds and a line of fine fancy goods, etc.

GASS, BENJAMIN (oldest son of William and Jane Gass); was born in Brook Co., Va., on the 12th of June, A. D. 1794; came with his parents to Fairfield Co., Ohio, in June of 1806; then to Knox Co., Ohio, in the spring of 1806, and to that part of "the new purchase" (so called) which is now Troy Township, Richland Co., Ohio, in the spring of 1812, arriving at their destination on the 23d of April. Benjamin was an extra good hand at hard work, and labored hard in assisting his father to clear up their wilderness farm, living mostly with his parents until he was married, in January of 1827, to Miss Elisabeth McCluer; they raised three sons and two daughters, all of whom are now living, except their youngest son (James G. Gass), who was a soldier through the rebellion, and died a few years after it was suppressed, perhaps in consequence of exposure while in the service; he was in a number of hard battles. Benjamin's wife died in May of 1864, and in the autumn of 1867, he was again married to Miss Sarah M. Creigh, of Mansfield, who still survives him. He taught school a number of winters both before and after his first marriage, also singing schools; was a great lover of "old folks' singing." Was an ardent Anti-slavery man; lectured and debated much on that subject when it was quits unpopular in "old Richland," though he was twice elected, and served as Auditor of the county. He left his farm a year or more before his death, and resided on his wife's property in Mansfield, where be died in February of 1867, aged a little over 32 years and 8 months. He was hurt by a limb of a tree when he was 76 years old, and was unable to work after that; his wife lives on Market street.

GASS, ISAAC, youngest son of William and Rebecca Gass, was born in Troy Township, Richland Co., Ohio, in October, 1819; lived and worked on the farm during his minority and for some years afterward ; taught school frequently ; studied law with Judge Steward ; was licensed as an attorney in 1848. In the spring of 1848, was married to Miss Amelia B. Coates ; they had one son and two daughters; their son, Mr. Florean P. Gass, and daughter (Bertie) still live in Mansfield, their oldest daughter (Mary) having died some years ago. Isaac removed to Mansfield and commenced business as a lawyer immediately after his marriage. In the tall of 1861, he raised a company to help in the suppression of the rebellion, and was elected as their Captain, but about the time of their starting into service he was promoted to the lieutenant colonelcy of their regiment (the 64th) ; they were ordered to the battle of Pittsburg Landing in April of 1862, but only reached it as the rebels commenced the retreat. After a number of months' further exposure, his health failed so that be was under the necessity of resigning. He was afterward elected and served as State Senator, representing Richland and Ashland Cos., and subsequently to that was Mayor of Mansfield, and Justice of the Peace, which last office he held at the time of his death, in October of 1876, when he was about 56 years old.

GATES, DAVID, farmer and dairyman; he was born in Madison Township Sept. 10, 1837, and received his elementary education in Mansfield; afterward commenced farming at the old homestead, where he remained until coming to Mansfield in 1872, when he purchased the omnibus line, in which business he was engaged six years, when be sold his interest in it, and since then has been farming in Madison Township. Mr. Gates was married in Madison Township May 18, 1859, to Miss Margaret M. Bell; they have three children-Cora Irene, May Bell end Peter, all living.

GEDDES, GEORGE WASHINGTON, lawyer and Judge, and at present member of Congress for the Fifteenth District of Ohio. He was born in Mt. Vernon, Knox Co., July 16, 1824 ; he is the son of James and Elizabeth Geddes, and on his father's side of Scotch descent, his paternal grandfather having emigrated from Scotland in the last century; his father removed his family from Knox to Richland Co. when the subject of this sketch was but a child, and there he attended the public schools until he was 15 years old, when he returned to his native town, and entered a store as a clerk; his employer was the well-known old merchant, James Huntsberry, of Mt. Vernon, with whom he remained until he was nearly of age, in the mean time devoting nearly all of his spare time to the study of law; he entered the law office of Hon. Columbus Delano (Secretary of the Interior during the first term of President Grant's Administration), with whom he read law for one year, after which he was admitted to the bar be chose law as a profession for reasons satisfactory to himself, and removed to Mansfield among strangers, where, unaided, he commenced his professional life in November, 1845; his first case decided his future; engaged to try this case in the country before a Justice of the Peace, he accidentally met Hon. James Stewart; that gentleman was so well pleased with the conduct of his first case, that he invited him to permanently settle at Mansfield, and guaranteed him sufficient to defray his necessary expenses; having remained with him under these conditions two years, he was, in 1847, taken into partnership, which continued three years, when, in 1850, Mr. Stewart was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and Mr. Geddes entered into partnership with Hon. Jacob Brinkerhoff; this connection continued five years, and until Mr. Brinkerhoff was elected to the Supreme Bench of the State, when this partnership thereupon ceased; Mr. Geddes then practiced alone until, in 1856, he was elected Judge of Common Pleas, as the unwilling candidate of the Democratic party, in opposition to his old partner, Mr. Stewart, whose term had expired; he served the full term, until 1862; that year, at a district convention of both parties, he was renominated for a second term, and elected without opposition; having

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served a second full term, he was, in 1866, nominated by his own party for a third term but, although running ahead of his own ticket by nearly five hundred votes, he was defeated by a majority of only seventeen votes ; he then returned to the practice of his profession in Mansfield until 1868, when, the Legislature having provided for an election of an additional judge, he was, by a majority of over eight hundred votes, elected to fill that position ; having served out the full term of this, his third election to the Common Pleas Bench, he decided not to be again a candidate; in the mean time, without solicitation on his part, in 1872, he was at the State Convention, nominated for the Supreme Bench, but, with the other candidates on the ticket, defeated. A matter worthy of notice in this connection is, that Judge Geddes was never present in any convention that nominated him (until his nomination for Congress), and never solicited a nomination; after his last term of office, he resumed the active practice of his profession, associated with Col. M. R. Dickey and John W. Jenner, Esq., under the firm name of Geddes, Dickey & Jenner. Judge Geddes has always taken mash interest in educational and benevolent institutions, and a Trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan College at Delaware ; during the war, he was resolutely in favor of the suppression of the rebellion, and closely identified with the party known as War Democrats; a Trustee and Steward of his church, the Methodist Episcopal, he is a liberal promoter of all that tends to elevate and relieve the community in the benefaction for charitable objects. In 1848, he married Miss Nancy Lemon, of Ashland Co., and two living children have been the issue of this union. Judge Geddes was in June, 1878, nominated without solicitation on his part, by one of the moat memorable district conventions ever held in Ohio ; after a struggle of five days between the several candidates before the convention, on the 1,255th ballot, the nomination was conferred upon him by the unanimous vote of the convention, and in October he was elected by a majority of 4,578, to represent in the Forty-sixth Congress the Fifteenth District of Ohio.

GERBERICH, DANIEL, dealer in music, musical instruments, etc.; be was born Jan. 28, 1819, in Lebanon Co., Penn.; engaged in farming for twenty years. He was married, Nov. 4, 1841, to Eliza Wise (daughter of Judge Wise), who was born in Lebanon Co., Penn., Dec. 9, 1823; they engaged in keeping hotel for three years, after which he engaged in the music trade; they had four children-Dr. E. W. Gerberich, born June 24, 1842, and now resides in Des Moines, Iowa, engaged is the practice of medicine ; Allen D., born Nov. 6, 1846, enlisted in the 127th Penn. V. I., and died is the service in 1862 ; P. A. Gerberich, born Nov. 1, 1847 ; and L. S. Gerberich, born July 23, 1849.

GERBERICH BROS., agents for pianos and organs; also musical merchandise of every description; they have been engaged in the business for nine years ; their knowledge of music and experience in this business have given them an extensive reputation in this and adjoining counties.

GILBERT, A. J., firm Gilbert, Waugh & Co.; Mr. G. came to Ohio from New York, his native State, with his brother, is 1865, and purchased an interest in the mills, where he is yet associated.

GILBERT, FRANK A., firm Gilbert, Waugh & Co.; Mr. G. is a native of New York ; he came to Mansfield is 186, and purchased the "City Mills;" afterward, the Gilbert Bros. sold an interest in the mill to Mr. J, W. Waugh, the three now owning and operating the mills.

GLESSNER, JOHN Y., editor and publisher of the Shield and Banner ; this well-known citizen of Mansfield has for nearly half a century been prominently identified with the newspaper history of Ohio, as printer, editor and publisher; be was born in Somerset, Somerset Co., Penn., where he acquired the printing business practically, and afterward, in connection with a younger brother, Jacob Glessner, purchased the Democratic paper which they edited and published for three and a half years, when they sold out to the Hon. Daniel Weyand; they removed to St. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1833, and purchased the St. Clairsville Gazette of the Hon. George W. Manypenny, which they edited and published four and a half years ; in the meantime, they also started the Cadiz Sentinel, which was conducted by the younger brother until both offices were disposed of; in the ever memorable log-cabin and hard-cider campaign of 1840, when Gen. Harrison was elected President, John Y. Glessner was connected with the business department of the Ohio Statesman, then so ably edited by Col. Samuel Medary ; in May, 1841, he came to Mansfield and purchased the Shield and Banner of Mr. John Meredith, which he has edited and published continuously for thirty-nine years the present month (May, 1880) ; for forty-three years and a half be has been in active editorial life in this State; adding the three and a half years in Somerset, Penn., be has been editing Democratic papers forty-seven years, and still possesses much of the vigor and perseverance of his more youthful days ; he is now the oldest editor in Ohio.

GOODWIN, P. W., harness-maker. The parents of P. W. Goodwin will be remembered by the older citizens of the county. His father, Wm. T. Goodwin, came to Ohio and first settled in Wayne Co. in 1816, and removed to Richland Co. in 1844. He was married to Miss Phebe Bullock, of Rochester, N. Y., in 1813 ; to them were born ten children, of whom P. W. Goodwin was the ninth. His father died in November, 1863, in Medina Co., and his mother Dec. 2, 1876 ; both were earnest Christian people and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. P. W. Goodwin commenced the trade of harness-making in 1852, which he continued until the breaking-out of the war. On the 19th of July, 1859, be was married to Miss Jane Wharf, in Mansfield, to whom have been born four children-two boys and two girls-May Alleta, Melvin Pearson, Wm. Henry and Maud Estella. In November, 1861, Mr. Goodwin entered the army and enlisted in the 42d O. V. I., serving his full term of enlistment, and participating in all the battles in which his regiment was engaged-notably among them the battles of Middle Creek, Chickasaw Bayou, Miss. (there wounded); Arkansas Post; Thomson's Hill, May 1, 1862; Champion Hill, May, 1862 ; Raymond, Big Black, and after ward at the siege of Vicksburg, and continued with his regiment until the close of the war, since which time he has been engaged at his trade. Now in business in Mansfield.

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GROVE, W. A., dealer in cloaks, watches sad jewelry ; was born is Hanover, York Co., Penn.; learned the jewelry business is Baltimore, Md., with Henry Ebaugh, on Gay street, between Front sad High. He was married, is 1868 to Lavina Forney, of Hanover, York Co., Penn. In the fall of 1859, moved to Franklin Co., Penn.; remained then till June 17, 1863, at which time he was driven out by the rebel soldiers and lost his entire stock: afterward moved to Mansfield in November, 1863, and established the jewelry business. Mr. and Mrs. Grove have two children-Naomi, born July 12, 1872 ; John A., Aug. 12, 1875. Mr. Drove is still engaged is the jewelry business; be always has on hand a complete stock of every thing in his line, and will not be undersold ; also repairing clocks, watches and jewelry. Main street, near the Savings Bank.

HALL, DR. J. B., homeopathic physician, was born in Franklin Township, Richland Co., in the year 1847, his father, new living, being one of the early settlers of this county ; Dr. J. B. Hall spent his early life on the farm with his father, attending school during the winter months until about 18 years of age, then, removing to Mansfield commenced the study of medicine under the instruction of the late Dr. Stull ; in the fall of 1867, be attended his first course of lectures at Cleveland, and afterward returned to Mansfield, when he continued his studies until the fall of 1868, and than attended his second course of lectures in Philadelphia; afterward, commenced practice in Mechanicsburg, Penn., where he remained one year, when he removed to Mansfield, where he still resides with his wife and two children, having a fair and growing practice.

HANCOCK, R. G., contractor and stonemason ; he was born is Wiltshire, England, June 11, 1842, and, although a comparatively young man, be has already acquired an enviable reputation as a mechanic and builder; he emigrated to America and landed in New York City May 5, 1870 ; having learned his trade in the city of Bath, where he lived five years; in 1862, be removed to London, England, which was his home until his departure for this country; he located in this city Oct. 4, 1870, and, the following day, commenced work at the court house, then in the course of erection ; April 24, 1870, the firm of Hassock & Co. began building the stonework of the Congregational Church, of this city, which they finished, and, in the spring of 1873, the stonework of the savings-bank; in the spring of 1874, the stonework of the Plymouth and Shelby schoolhouses, and, in 1875, built the freight-house of the C. C. & I. R. R., at Columbus, and the passenger stone depot at Berea; in 1876, the stonework of the Marysville High School, and, in 1877, the city hall of Marysville, and Masonic Hall of Marion; in 1878, the Marion County Jail; since then, he has been engaged in numerous other private and public contracts is this city and elsewhere, notably among them the Jenner, Keith & Scattergood Building; he is at present with his partner, Mr. Dow (who has been with him since 1873), the contractor for the stonework of the new jail in Mansfield. He was married in November, 1877, to Miss Scutts, by whom he has had four children - two sons sad two daughters.

HARDING, FREDERICK (deceased) ; be was born in Stafford, England, May 10, 1816, and received his youthful education at Ashton-under-Lyne; in the year 1823, he was apprenticed by his father, George Harding, shoe manufacturer of Ashton-under-Lyne, to Charles Dawson, of the borough of Stafford to learn the art of a chemist and druggist ; the indenture was drawn up with great care and the conditions were very stringent, as was the custom in England ; after four years of service, he was granted a diploma as a chemist and druggist. Mr. Harding was married, in Manchester, England, to Miss Frances Tinker, youngest daughter of D. Tinker, of Ashton-under-Lyne, on the 19th of October, 1846; three children were the result of this marriage, two of whom died in infancy; the third came with his parents to this country in the fall of 1852, and is now a printer in the Government printing office in Washington ; Mrs. Frances Harding died Feb. 8, 1853; Frederick Harding was married, May 6, 1855, to Amelia, third daughter of Charles and Sarah Hutchinson, in Richland Co. ; to them were born three sons-F. H. Harding April 30, 1857 (printer); C. F., Jan. 24, 1859 (clerk) J. H., June 8, 1861, and died Aug. 11, 1862. Mr. Harding entered the Union army in October, 1861, as s private in the 64th O. V. I., and served his full term of enlistment; in August, 1863, he received an appointment in the United States army as Hospital Steward, and was considered among the best chemists and druggist in the service. He died in Mansfield Nov. 25, 1866.

HARRINGTON, L. F., hardware merchant; he was born in Bellville, this county, Jan. 6, 1835, where he resided until coming to this city, in 1860. He served as Deputy Auditor during Jones Smith's administration of that office; in 1873, he was elected Auditor of Richland Co., and reelected is 1875; he served the full terms to the satisfaction of the people. Since 1877, he has been engaged in the hardware trade in this city. He was married in Mansfield to Miss Dollie Sheets in 1863; they an the parents of one child, a daughter-Ozella, a resident with her parents of this city.

HAWKINS, J. A., photographer; he was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1853 ; in 1869, he went to Toledo, where he remained seven years, learning his trade ; he then came to Mansfield, and at once opened a good gallery ; he now has one of the beet in the city, located over McCoys dry-goods store, near the comer of Fourth and Main streets.

HEDGES, JAMES, GEN. (deceased); he was the sixth son of Charles Hedges, who was a resident of Eastern Virginia; the family consisted of nine sons and two daughters, as follows - Joseph, Samuel, Elijah, John, Josiah, James, Hiram, Otho, Elzey, Sarah and Mary; of these sons, Joseph, Samuel, Hiram and Otho, settled in Virginia, and remained there during all their lives; Elijah removed to Fairfield Co., Ohio, where some of his descendants still reside ; John removed to Muskingum Co.; James and Josiah first settled is Belmont Co., and, in 1812, Josiah Hedges was the Clerk of the courts of Belmont Co., and James Hedges was the Sheriff of the county, while the youngest brother, the late Ellzey Hedges, was acting as a deputy of both. James Hedges was commissioned as

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Captain of cavalry in the United States army, and entered the military service, his younger brother, Ellzey, closed the office of Sheriff, and, in 1812, carried on foot the returns of the Presidential election to the capital of the State. James Hedges, who was a surveyor, upon this trip entered the land on which Mansfield is built, and, after the war, resigned his commission, and settled at Mansfield ; here for a time be was engaged in mercantile business with his brother, Josiah Hedges, who remained at St. Clairsville, Ohio, under the firm name of J. & J. Hedges. Gen. James Hedges died in Mansfield Oct. 4, 1854.

HEDGES, HENRY C., attorney. He is a son of the late Ellzey Hedges. He was born in Mansfield, where he has always resided. He graduated at Delaware, Ohio, in 1852; he studied law in the office of Charles and John Sherman, and was afterward s partner of the latter. After Mr. Sherman's election to Congress, Mr. Hedges continued in the practice of law, in which he is now engaged. Mr. Hedges served in a number of public capacities, being a member of the School Board over twenty consecutive years.

HEDGES, W. C., merchant; he was born in Tiffin, Ohio, and has resided in Mansfield for several years. His father, W. C. Hedges, was s son of Josiah Hedges, the founder of Tiffin, Ohio, and brother of the late Ellzey Hedges, of this city.

HEDRICK, ALFRED G., butcher. Among the oldest living residence of Mansfield to the man whose name stands at the head of this biography. Joseph Hedrick and Sarah Knode, the father and mother of the above, were married in Sharpsburg, Washington Co., Md., in the year 1813. Alfred G., the first son, was born in Washington Co., Md., Oct. 15, 1814, and came to Ohio with his parents, who first settled near Mansfield Oct. 25, 1826, where be remained until 22 years of age, working on the farm ; in the fall of 1837, he removed to Vicksburg, Miss., going by stage to Cincinnati, thence by steamer; here he remained one year, when he returned by way of St. Louis, then up the Illinois River, afterward by stage to Chicago, then to Huron by steamer, and stage to Mansfield. Alfred G., in his younger days, worked at his trade of housepainting; since then, he has been engaged in different occupations and has traveled extensively over the western part of the country ; for a time he was engaged in the grocery business, but upon the discovery of rich fields of gold in California in 1849, his love of travel and adventure again found him one of a party with William McNulty, destined for that then comparatively new country, going by the way of New York and the isthmus; thirteen months afterward, he returned by the way of New Orleans, and engaged in farming, which occupation be continued for fifteen years, when be again removed to Mansfield and went into business, but, not yet satisfied, he again joined a company for the mineral region of Idaho, where be remained eight months; some time afterward, he became interested in a large dry-goods business, which he continued for three years, when he removed to Kansas, and, shortly after, returned to Mansfield, where he has since resided. Alfred G. Hedrick was married, Nov. 15, 1838, in Madison Township, to Ann Case ; they have had nine children born to them, seven of whom are living and two dead. This year, Mr. Hedrick is yet in active business in Mansfield, and can recall many of the early incidents in its history.

HELPS, WILLIAM, bookseller, and dealer in magazines, daily papers, stationery, etc., Main street.

HERRING, JAMES H., blacksmith and wagon manufacturer; he was born in the village of Bloody Run, Bedford Co., Penn., Nov. 27, 1842; he is a son of the late George W. Herring, who died in this city June 6, 1870, and a descendant of the Herrings, of Bedford Co., Penn., an influential family, who first came to this country from Holland in an early day. His parents came to Ohio in 1853 and located in Salem, where they remained one year and then removed to Rushville and thence to Lancaster ; they came to Mansfield in 1856. When of sufficient age, James H. commenced working at the trade of black-smithing, which he acquired in the usual time, and at which he continued until the breaking-out of the civil war. He volunteered in the United States service and was a member of McMullen's 1st Ohio Independent Battery, and remained with it until the close of the war and the expiration of his term of service; during his long career in the army. He actively participated in seventeen engagements. After his return, he resumed his trade of black-smithing, which is his occupation at present. He was married in Mansfield, Dec. 19, 1867, to Miss Nancy J. West, a daughter of Sylvester West, an old resident of Mansfield ; four children have been given them ; three sons are living -John, George and Dimon; James Henry died in infancy.

HERRING, CHARLES D., tinner ; was born in Bedford, Northumberland Co., Penn., Jan. 30, 1825, and came to Mansfield in 1857, and belongs to the same family of Joseph and Andrew J., and a twin brother of the latter. Mr. Herring was married in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, to Martha Longsdorf, in the fall of 1857, to whom have been born eight children. Mr. Herring enlisted in the late civil war and was a member of McMullen's

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Battery, in which he remained and took part in all the engagements in which that battery was engaged while able to do duty, a great part of the time being unable on account of sickness; he remained in the army and was honorably discharged after about twenty months' service. Mr. Charles D. Herring is now engaged in business in Mansfield.

HERRING, ANDREW JACKSON, blacksmith. He is the son of Michael and Mary Messersmith Herring; Michael was a son of old Christian Herring, who nettled in Berks Co., Penn.; A. J. Herring was born Jan. 30, 1825 ; a twin brother, Charles C., resides in Mansfield ; they were born in Bedford, Co., Penn.; A. J. herring came to Ohio, and settled first in Fairfield Co., and to Richland in April, 1863. Mr. Herring was married, Jan. 5, 1854, in Rushville, Fairfield Co., Ohio, to Matilda Dick; to them have been born three children-Mary E., Joseph C. and John Willard, all living in Mansfield. Mr. Herring and wife are members of the Methodist Church in this city.

HERRING, JOSEPH F., blacksmith, and inventor of steel plowshares. Was born in Bedford, Bedford Co , Penn., Feb. 16, 1825; he came to Ohio in 1855, and to Mansfield in 1856 ; Mr. Herring learned the trade of black-smithing in his native town with his father, and continued the same after his removal to Mansfield until Aug. 18, 1874, when he received letters patent on his invention of the steel plowshare, the manufacture of which occupied his time, and since then has been wholly engaged in manufacturing that justly celebrated invention, which has been introduced into almost every; State in the Union and conceded to be as near perfection as any now in use. He was married in Hollidaysburg, Penn., to Miss Nancy Herbert, to whom have been born four children, two of whom are living-Emma, the first, and Eugenia. Nancy Herbert Herring died in Mansfield in 1857. Mr. Herring was married in Mansfield to Mary Zerby; they have a family of interesting children.

HERSHISER, CYRUS, builder and contractor. His father, Samuel, was one of the old residents of Bedford Co., Penn., where Cyrus was born Nov. 8,1824; be came to Mansfield in 1844, where he commenced the carpenter trade in the spring of 1845, since which time many of the largest buildings and residences in Mansfield have been erected by him. In the year 1847, he was married to Miss Rebecca F. Hagar, who died in Mansfield in 1849; one child by this marriage, died in infancy. In 1850, Mr. Hershiser was married to Miss Margaret A. McCormick, a daughter of one of the old residents of Mansfield, by whom he had five children, three of whom are living-Alice B., Ella J. and Emma A.; Mrs. Margaret Hershiser died in Mansfield in December, 1871. In February, 1874, he was married to Miss Lena Sager, of Mansfield, with whom he now lives; one son by this marriage, died in infancy; Mr. Hershiser has been prominently identified in the enterprises of Mansfield for a number of years, and is now one of the largest builders and contractors in the city.

HICKS BROWN & CO., proprietors touring-mills. In the progress of human events, the very essential article of bread is a matter of daily consideration, and though human diet is composed of many ingredients, bread from wheat flour takes the frist place; chemistry with the aid of the microscope has demonstrated, that, inside of the thin shell of the wheat grain or kernel, the flour is there closely compressed in small granules, and requires merely to be separated or disintegrated, and not to be crushed or powdered in grinding as had been the custom for ages past. For the purpose of making this new process of flour, it was proposed sometime during the Centennial year, to erect in Mansfield a flouring-mill, embodying all the features, machinery and processes required, and, as a result, early in February, 1877, the new mill commenced operations under the joint proprietorship of Messrs. John Staub & Hicks Brown ; in September of the same year, the partnership was dissolved, and the mill passed into possession of the present partners, Messrs. Hicks Brown & M. D. Harter, under the firm name of Hicks Brown & Co., who have in the past two years increased its capacity 50 per cent, and have established a trade which requires the running of the mill to its fullest capacity, day and night, and the employment of about twenty persons ; Mr. Brown gives his undivided attention to the business, and the product is obtained from the skillful operating of the mill under the direction of Mr. William Kreightaum, the head miller; the nationality of the operatives is decidedly cosmopolitan ; of the 20 operatives 1 is a native of Richland Co.; 5 are natives of other counties of this State; 2 are English; 4 Germans: 1 Swede; 1 Norwegian. The mill is located at the junction of the B. & O. R. R., with the A. & G. W. giving it advantages to receiving grain, and shipping flour not usually obtained ; some idea of the amount of the business transacted by and through this first-class mill may be inferred from the fact that they are now paying the farmers of Richland Co. and vicinity about $200,000 a year for wheat, besides a large quantity of floor exchanged for their "Brown's Best Flour;" which is clear evidence that the farmers appreciate their right to enjoy the best that their land produces; of course, the entire population of Richland Co. could not consume the products of this mill ; Messrs. Hicks Brown & Co. find no difficulty in disposing of their new-process

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flour in the discriminating markets of the season, Boston alone taking newly one-half that is made; Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania taking also a full share. When the new mill commenced operations, it was recognized as one of "the moat complete mills in America," and yet the proprietors are constantly on the lookout for improvements, both for machinery, and methods, being determined to keep in the front rank as to the standard of quality of their products ; they have put in several improved machines, and are now contemplating additions; the magnificent steam engine which operates the entire machinery seems to defy any ordinary drat in its power; it is a Harris-Corliss engine, something of the renowned Centennial English pattern, and capable of turning out 300 barrels per day; there is indeed something in a name, especially when it is honestly earned; millers are very jealous of their brands of flour (decision of the Supreme Court on trade marks to the contrary notwithstanding), and especially when the contents of the barrel is in keeping with the inscription: Messrs. Hicks Brown & Co's own brands are "Brown's Best," "Belle of Richland," "Brown's Mayflower," " Brown's Charter Oak;" historical names, and worthy to be daily mentioned in connection with daily bread.

HOFFER, ISAAC B., dealer in meats, etc. He was born April 13, 1833, in Carlisle, Penn.; came to Ohio in 1852. Married in 1858 to Catherine Leiter; she was born May 19, 1837, in Mansfield; they have the following children Joseph F., born Feb. 28,1859; Fannie F., June 28, 1862; Grace, Aug. 9, 1864; Isaac Brainard, Aug. 23, 1868; Edmund Brink, April 15, 1871 ; Kate L., April 20, 1875; James C., April 28, 1878.

HOFFER, JAMES E., butcher; was born Dec. 31, 1839, in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.; came to Ohio July 15, 1858; engaged in butchering; has been at that business constantly since he came to Mansfield. He was married, Nov. 4, 1862, to Melissa Crider, who was born in Massillon, Stark Co., Nov. 4, 1844 ; they have the following children : May, Laura (deceased), Willie, Jessie, Nellie (deceased), Harry and Fred.

IRWIN, GEORGE (deceased), born Dec. 8, 1787, in Chester Co., Penn., and removed to Ohio with hia family in June, 1836. Rachel Wallace Irwin was born in Cheater Co., Penn., June 12, 1791 ; they were the parents of eleven children-Elisabeth Irwin, born in Waynesburg, Chester Co., March 12, 1811, and died Jan. 1, 1815, aged 4 years; Mary Ann Irwin Rooks, born in Waynesburg, Chester Co., Penn., July 31, 1813, a resident of Mansfield ; Joseph Irwin, born in Waynesburg, Chester Co., Penn., May 25, 1815, and died July 25, 1815 ; Levi, born in Waynesburg, Chester Co., Penn., Aug. 9, 1816; Hannah Maria Irwin Carrothers, born in Waynesburg, Chester Co., Penn., Feb. 16, 1819, now living in Mansfield ; S. Laferty Irwin, was born at Waynesburg, Chester Co., Penn., April 12, 1821, and died et Mansfield, Ohio, Nov. 9, 1875, aged 54 years ; Mr. B. L. Irwin was a carpenter in Mansfield for a number of years and held at different times official positions of trust in township and county; Charlotte Irwin was born at Milton, Northumberland Co., Penn., May 10, 1823, and died at the old homestead, near Mansfield, March 18, 1873, aged 50 years ; Elisabeth Irwin, born at Milton, Northumberland Co., Penn., Sept. 19, 1825, and died March 22, 1833, aged 8 years ; George W. Irwin, Jr., born in Milton, Northumberland Co., Penn., Aug. 30, 1827; has been engaged in railroad business for over seventeen years in Ohio; Rebecca Irwin, born in White Deer Valley, Lycoming Co., Penn., March 11, 1830, now Rebecca Irwin Ford, living in Madison Township ; Sarah Jane Irwin Calhoon was born in White Deer Valley, Lycoming Co., Penn., May 24, 1832, and died at Mansfield, Ohio, March 18, 1873, aged 41 years. George Irwin, the father of these children, died at the old homestead, near Mansfield, March 29, 1864, aged 76 years ; Rachel Wallace Irwin, the mother, died in Mansfield Nov. 11, 1873.

IRWIN, LEVI, contractor and builder. This well-known citizen is a descendant of an old Cheater Co. (Penn.) family of Welsh descent; the grandfather, father and the subject of this sketch were all born in that county. John Irwin, the grandfather, was a soldier in the war of 1812, taking part in the campaigns in the Northwest, where he died. Levi was the third in a family of nine children of George and Rachel Irwin, five of whom are living and four dead ; born Aug. 9, 1816 he came with his parents to Richland Co., Ohio, in the year 1836, locating southeast of Mansfield on a farm which is yet known by the family name. On this farm, the father remained during his whole residence in this county, and there , died March 29, 1864, aged 76 yens. Rachel Wallace Irwin, soon after her husband's death, came to Mansfield among her children, where she died Nov. 11, 1873, aged 81 years and 9 months. After leaving the family-homestead, Levi removed to Mansfield, where, as a carpenter, contractor and builder he yet resides, having been in continuous business for over thirty-five years. On the 18th of December, 1852, Levi Irwin was united in marriage to Mary McClellan at Gallon, Ohio; to them have been born six children ; Nettie, the fifth child and only daughter, died June 15, 1874, aged 11 years and 9 months; four sons reside in the city ; Charles D., a druggist; William F., engineer; George, a book salesman, and John McClellan. Mr. Irwin has been a member of No. 19, I. O. O. F., since the year 1851, and a member of the Methodist Church for forty-one years, and a Trustee of the same for thirty-five years; be is accounted among Mansfield's best and most enterprising citizens.

JENNER, S. E., lawyer (son of Dr. A. Jenner); was born July 7, 1839, in Ontario, Richland Co.; commenced the study of law, in 1860, with T. W. Bartley; admitted to the bar in 1862, and commenced practice in company with Judge Bartley in Cincinnati. Married, Oct. 25, 1866, Miss Julia M. Bartley, daughter of Gov. Bartley ; returned to Mansfield in 1866, and remained here in practice in company with John W. Jenner till 1872; then moved to Washington City; formed a copartnership with Judge Bartley; remained there till 1877, then returned to Mansfield, and resumed the practice of law with John W. Jenner; present name of law firm, Jenner & Tracy, composed of John W. Jenner, S. E. Jenner and F. K. Tracy.

JOHNSON, JOHN, deceased ; he was born in York Co., Penn.; when a young man, he removed to Ontario

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Co., N. Y., where he purchased a farm, on which he lived ten years, then returned to York Co., Penn., and married Miss Eleanor Duncan in 1811 ; afterward resided in Ontario Co., N. Y., until 1824, when he came to Richland Co. and located on a farm three miles west of Mansfield, where he lived until 1845 ; he then came to Mansfield, where he resided with his daughter, Mrs. T. J. Robinson, until his death, which occurred March 28, 1864, at the advanced age of 80 years. John Johnson and Eleanor Duncan Johnson were the parents of one child-Sarah S., born Nov. 19, 1817; she was married in this county April 11, 1829, to T. J. Robinson, a prominent business man of this city; one child by this marriage - Ella J.; she is the wife of J. P. Vance, of Cincinnati. John Johnson was an elder brother of the Rev. James Johnson, whose biography appears elsewhere.

JOHNSON, JAMES, REV., D. D. (deceased); the first minister of the U. P. Church in Mansfield; he was born in York Co., Penn., in the year 1786 ; he was of Scotch-Irish descent; at the early age of 17 years he commenced his ministerial education, in Beaver Co., with his uncle, David Johnson, and afterward graduated in the regular course at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Penn., and completed his theological studies in New York City, under the instruction of Dr. Mason, then a noted divine of the U. P. denomination resident there; for a number of years, he taught school in Brownsville, Penn., where he afterward began his ministerial work. In 1821, he came to Mansfield, and assisted in laying the foundation of the present building occupied by that denomination, on the corner of Third and Mulberry streets. Three years later, when visiting a brother and sister in Ontario Co., N. Y., he there met Miss Mary St. Clair McCall, whom he married on the 4th of July, 1825, and who came with him to this city, the whole journey occupying fifteen days, being made in one of the cumbersome buggies of that period. He preached, the first Sabbath after reaching Mansfield, in the then unfinished church, the congregation bringing chairs and stools with them in lieu of other accommodations; he continued his ministry without interruption in this place until his death, which occurred in 1858. He was a man justly beloved by his people and respected by all for his upright life and conduct; for a number of years he had regular congregations and appointments in Troy and Monroe Townships during his pastorate here. He was the father of three children, two sons and one daughter ; Mathew St. Clair died in this city, aged 17 years; Robert William was a soldier in the Mexican war, and died in Mexico, was brought home and buried ; Mary, the only daughter, died in 1852, aged 21 years.

JOHNSTON, J. K., dealer in furniture; he was born Oct. 11, 1850, at Mansfield; is a son of Eleazer Johnston, who came to Mansfield in 1848, and came to his death in the army. He engaged with John Skeggs and learned the carpenter business; in 1873, engaged in the cabinet business, devoting his whole attention to this branch of trade ; is the spring of 1877, he formed a copartnership with M. P. Shambs in the furniture business, which continued till January, 1878; then formed a copartnership with D. H. Earnest; they still continue. He was married, Oct. 24, 1872, to Miss Anna M. C. Weatherby; she was born in Mansfield; they have two children-Margaret A., born May 16, 1874, and Maud A., Dec. 29, 1878.

JOHNSTON, D. R., wholesale and retail druggist he is a regularly graduated physician, and practiced medicine twelve years. He was for several years as a physician, connected with the U. P. Mission is Egypt. In 1876, he purchased the Markward Drug Store, below the Wiler House; he carries a large stock, and does an extensive business.

KANAGA, AMOS R., attorney at law; the subject of this sketch was born Nov. 14, 1854, in Jefferson Township; be attended the high school of Bellville from the age of 16 to 20 years, and afterward at the West Salem public schools, and then at Oberlin College; he studied law first with Thomas Keeler, of West Salem, and completed his studies with Dicky & Jenner, of Mansfield ; he was admitted to the bar in Ashland, Ohio, June 19, 1878, and is now engaged is this city in the practice of law; he now has a good, paying practice; the public will find him ready to attend to such business that may be placed in his care, with promptness and dispatch.

KEYS, A. E., M. D., physician and surgeon. The subject of this sketch was born in Eagle Co., N. Y., Aug. 2, 1825 ; his parents were natives of Vermont, where they afterward resided until his 10th year, when they again removed to Western New York; here young Keys received a good common-school education; having chosen medicine as his profession, he commenced reading under the instruction of an uncle in Huron Co., Ohio; at the age of 19 years, he attended his first course of lectures at the old Erie Street School in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1846 ; some years later we find him in partnership with his uncle in the practice of medicine, with whom he remained until the spring of 1856, when he attended his second course of lectures at the Berkshire Medical College, Mass., and again in the winter of 1856, the Homeopathic School of Philadelphia.; after this long and thorough course of study, the Doctor commenced the practice of medicine and surgery in, Buffalo, N. Y., but a year later removed to Jamestown, in the same State, where be continued in practice until the beginning of the war in 1861, when he enlisted as surgeon in the army; the Doctor remained in the army two years when be resigned and again commenced general practice in Ravenna, Ohio; in 1869, he came to Mansfield. where he has since resided, having a large and lucrative practice, and is looked upon by his brethren of the profession as a skillful surgeon and physician. He is a prominent member and officer of the Masonic Order and Knights of Honor.

KING, JEROME J., grocer. He comes from a family long resident is Troy Township, where he was born May 4, 1842; he received his elementary education principally at the Lexington Union Schools; when 17 years of age, he left the homestead and embarked in life for himself; for two years thereafter he was employed as a salesman of dry goods in Jeromeville Ashland Co.; he came to Mansfield is 1861, and continued in the same business in the store. of P. & A. W. Remy until April 1, 1865, when he entered into partnership with A. W. Remy in the retail grocery trade, which terminated Jan. 10, 1865; since that time he has been

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engaged in the same business alone in the city. Mr. King was married is Mansfield, Aug. 27, 1867, to Miss Mary G. Miller, by whom be has five children-Jerome Howard, Allen Miller, Clarence Catlin, Rufus Robert and Mary Louise; during his residence in Mansfield, he has been considered one of her representative business men.

KNISELY J. H., proprietor shirt manufactory. This factory is located in Krause's Block, on Main street, and gives employment to twenty hands, twelve sewing machines, and keeps two salesmen constantly on the road; the business was founded in 1876 by Mr. Knisely and two others, Mr. Knisely becoming sole owner shortly after; in 1876, the income amounted to $6,000, now it will reach $15,000 per year; Mr. Knisely is no novice at the business, having had an experience of over six years in a leading Philadelphia house previous to commencing his present enterprise ; he turns out more shirts than any other factory in the State, retaining many of his old customers, who have learned to trust him; his productions never fail to show their superior quality, the prices range from $l to $2.50, and guarantee in every case a satisfactory fit or no pay; all his material is bought direct from the importer, thus avoiding the " middle man " and his commission, and giving his customers the benefit of his shirts, and keeps a full line of linen collars and cuffs always on hand; the shirts manufactured by Mr. Knisely possess many excellent features of style, durability and finish ; the reputation of his shirts is now firmly established.

KNOFFLOCH, M., egg packer ; he was born Sept 20, 1831, in Bucks Co., Penn.; he enlisted as a sailor on a United States man-of-war in 1841, when a mere boy; he served five years on board the United States frigate St. Mary, during which time he visits China, Japan, and all the principal islands of the Pacific and Arctic, seas, as well as the different countries of South America ; he served as a soldier in Co. E, 2d Penn. V I. during the Mexican war, and was engaged in the campaigns and engagements under Scott while there he served in the Union army during the late rebellion in Co. B, 27th O. V. I., two years (his full term of enlistment). He was married in Philadelphia in 1849, to Miss Sarah McNeely, who died in 1873 ; he was again married in Shelby, Ohio, to Miss Mary Jones, and is the father of three children.

KRAUSE, JOHN, merchant; was born in Niedermodau, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany; his fisher's name was George Krause, and his mother's maiden name Maggie Krause; John Krause was the second son, born Aug. 28, 1819, and came to America is 1847, landed in New York June 14, 1847 ; he came to Mansfield, June 20, 1847. He was married June 29, 1847, in Leesville, Crawford Co. to Elizabeth Beck, with whom he raised four children. One died in infancy; John, the oldest, born March 19, 1848, now one of the partners of Krause & Sons; Philip, the second child, was born Jan. 29, 1850, also partner in the firm ; Cassia Miller Krause, born July 19, 1854; John Henry, born March 9, 1857. Mr. Krause has been in active business in Mansfield for twenty-four years, and is the senior member of the firm; in the year 1874, he erected the large business block on Main street now known as the Krause building, which be occupies in his grocery and provision business, in which he has been engaged over twenty-four years, now the oldest merchant in active business in that line in the city; Mr. Krause is at present a resident of West Fourth street, Mansfield.

LARIMER, JOSIAH (deceased). His father, James Larimer, emigrated to this country from Ireland in October, 1790, and located first at Pittsburgh, afterward removed to Virginia for a time, and then to Fairfield Co., Ohio, where Josiah was born Nov. 14, 1814; the family removed to Richland Co. in May, 1815, and settled in Madison Township on part of Sec. 31; he remained on the farm until 21 years old, and then came to Mansfield, where he was engaged in the livery business almost continually until a short time before his death, which occurred Oct. 5, 1876. He was married in this county to Miss Jane Sweeney, who survives him; three children by this marriage, one son and two daughters, reside in the city.

LINDSEY, E. D., plain and ornamental plasterer, fresco and granite artist; was born on Valley Farm, one mile west of Hollidaysburg, Penn., May 5,1821. His father and mother, Jacob and Jane Simonton, moved there from the East. His mother's folks moved from Wilmington, Del., and settled in Canoe Valley. Both families had a great deal of trouble with the Indians; John Simonton, his uncle, was captured by them on one of their tours of massacre, etc., and was never recovered ; he became quite a noted chief. E. D. Lindsay received his elementary education near where the city of Altoona now stands, and, on the 5th of May, 1836, at the age of 15 years, began an apprenticeship of four years, at his present occupation ; at the expiration of that time, he went to Philadelphia, where he completed his trade in the ornamental branches; he then returned to Hollidaysburg and carried on business for several years, when, at the request of an old uncle, he started in the spring of 1845 for the Upper Sandusky (Ohio) land sales, intending to purchase property there; this project was afterward abandoned,

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and he settled in Marion, Ohio, where he resided till the fall of 1864, having purchased property in Galion in the summer of 1863, and was a partner in the wholesale and retail grocery business, under the firm name of Haines & Lindsey ; in the fall of 1864, his family moved to Galion ; in the spring of 1866, he engaged in the oil business in Pennsylvania, until the spring of 1867, when he returned to Galion and resumed his trade doing business throughout Central, Northern and Western Ohio. That he is a skilled mechanic, some of the finest buildings, both public and private, will bear testimony-such as the court house in Sandusky City court house, Catholic and Methodist Church at Mansfield, and numerous other fine buildings throughout the State. In 1867, was called to finish the residence of Joseph Simmons, and again, in 1869, to finish the Methodist Church-both of Mansfield, where he has resided ever since. He was married to Keziah J. Randall, of Marion, Oct. 26, 1848, by the Rev. L. B. Gurley. They are the parents of three children, Eugene D., Elmon H. and Harrie W.; the elder two are engaged in the drug business, and the younger is a musician at Mansfield. Mr. Lindsey relates this circumstance, which is quite a coincidence: He, with two friends and their wives, celebrated their marriage by a triple silver wedding, at his residence in Mansfield, Oct. 26, 1873, at which time all three couples were present, receiving many elegant gifts of remembrance; the marriage took place twenty-five years prior, at 7 o'clock A. M., at or as near the same minute as possible-the ceremonies were performed by different ministers, and with their bridal attendants started upon the wedding tour. All of them were most intimate friends in youth. The triple marriage was the result of a wager, which was, that if any one or more of the three were not married in three months from that date, be should forfeit a considerable sum of money; his two friends discussed their love-tales before him, thinking that he would have to pay the wager, and not till the day previous to the wedding did they discover that he was in the ring. Another perhaps remarkable thing was, that each couple had but three children. He joined the Ancient Order of Odd Fellows in the year 1846, afterward became a member of the Encampment, having served in all subordinate offices ; took all degrees, passed all chairs, also the higher degrees of both Grand Subordinate Lodge and Grand Encampment of Ohio, and entitled to a seat in both grand bodies and the Grand Lodge of the United States, and is still an active member of all branches.

LIVELSBERGER, C. F., shoemaker. He is engaged in the manufacturing of boots and shoes; he is prepared to do all classes of work-sewed work a specialty. Shop on North Main street.

LONGSDORF, WILLIAM, house-joiner; was born is Berks Co.. Penn., April 27, 1823. He removed to Stark Co., Ohio, with his parents is 1830, where they remained two years, when they again moved to Wayne Co. At the age of 15, he began his trade in Summit Co., which he acquired in three years; be followed his trade until 1848, when, by the premature discharge of a cannon on the Fourth of July of that year, he was incapacitated from farther work in his calling. He was married in 1845, to Miss Aurelia D. Ward, in Cuyahoga Falls. They ere the parents of ten children, four of whom are living and six dead. He removed to Mansfield in the fall of 1856, where he has since resided.

LUDWIG; JOHN ADAM, farmer; P. O. Mansfield; was born in July, 1840, and received his elementary education in Mansfield, where, and in Madison Township, he has been engaged in business until the present time. Mr. Ludwig was married to Miss Catherena Pfenning, who died in May, 1872, by whom he had three children-George Elbert, Charles Henry, Anna Louisa. In December, 1872, Mr. Ludwig was married to Philepena Snook, by whom he had one child, born in 1876. John Peter and Elizabeth (Delf ) Ludwig, the parents of Adam L., were born in Germany, and have resided in Mansfield and Madison Township for many years, where they are universally respected.

McBRIDE, THOMAS, attorney at law. He was born in Monroe Township, Nov. 20, 1827 ; his parents, Alexander and Ruth J. McBride, came to this county and settled in Monroe about the year 1820, where the subject of this sketch received his elementary education in part, when he removed to Missouri and continued his studies until his return home two years afterward ; from that time until be commenced the study of law, he was alternately engaged is teaching school during the winter, and working on the farm during the summer months ; he commenced the study of law in this city, and was admitted to the bar by the District Court at Mount Vernon in June, 1857; commenced practice is Defiance, Ohio, where he remained eight years ; while there he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Defiance Co, two terms-from 1859 to 1863 ; he then returned to Mansfield, where he continued to practice his profession with M. May ; the firm of May & McBride was dissolved in April, 1868, and McBride & A. M. Burns in April, 1874, when he entered into partnership with B. Burns & Son, under the firm name of Burns & McBride, and Burns, the junior member of the firm, having been elected Prosecuting Attorney of Richland Co., retired in April, 1877, since which time he has been engaged in the practice with Barnabus Burns, under the firm name of Burns & McBride, He was married in September, 1857, to Miss Barbara E. Brandt, of Springfield Township, by whom he has five children living, three sons and two daughters-Curtis Victor, Willie Edgar, Minnie Bleach, Florence Mabel Brandt, Thomas Hall, Hattie May McBride; the third child and oldest daughter died in her 7th year is Mansfield.

McBRIDE, JAMES (deceased). Prominent among the early settlers of Richland Co., who were identified with its growth sad prosperity, were the McBrides, of Scotch pedigree ; their father emigrated to America soon after the Scottish insurrection, 1798; and first settled in Chester Co., Penn.; James was born in Little York, Penn., Feb. 3, 1812 ; his father's family came to Richland Co. in 1823, and cleared and pat up the first building on the Robert Cooper farm west of Mansfield; during his long residence in this city of fifty-four years, he was largely engaged in stock-dealing, which he took principally to the Philadelphia market, crossing the Allegheny Mountains twenty-seven times before the

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days of railroad transportation. Mr. McBride was married, July 12, 1838, to Miss Lettelia Hoy, a daughter of Richard Hoy, who came to Richland Co. in 1816, and cleared and built on a farm north of Mansfield; James McBride died in Mansfield Aug. 12, 1876, leaving three children, two of whom reside in the city, Sadie J. and Matie L.; Mrs. Lettelia Hoy McBride was born in Salem, Washington Co. N. Y.; she died June 6, 1870, in Mansfield ; John G., second son, died Oct. 18, 1870, aged 25 years; J. Douglas, the oldest, was born March 1842, now a resident of Washington City.

McBRIDE, ROBERT (deceased). Mr. McBride was born in Chester Co., Penn., March 20, 1808, of Scotch ancestry; his father, James McBride, was born in Ireland, whither his parents had gone during the insurrections is Scotland, and soon after migrated to America and settled first in Chester Co., Penn.; in the year 1823, the McBride's came to Richland Co., Ohio, and lived for a time on what is known as the Finney farm, and afterward on the Barr farm, west of Mansfield ; while yet a young man, he rime to Mansfield and opened a dry-goods store, in which business he continued until 1848; afterward, he was engaged in a number of enterprises, and was one of the prominent and extensive wool-dealers of this part of the country; for a number of years he was engaged largely is that business with a Mr. Sexton, of Cleveland. Robert McBride was married in the year 1845 to Miss Jane E. Shriner, of Pennsylvania, to whom were born four children, two of whom are dead and two residents of Mansfield; James H. engaged in the practice of the law, and Robert in the dry-goods business; Mary, the only daughter, died in 1860; George died in 1874, and was a number of years one of the prominent business men of Mansfield and a young man of great promise. Robert McBride will be remembered by the older residents of Mansfield as one of her best citizens, a man of integrity, whom all respected. He died Feb. 14, 1865.

McCLOY, ANDREW JACKSON, wee born Feb. 11, 1828, near Zanesville, Ohio, the eighth child of David C. and Elizabeth McCloy ; his father was of Protestant Irish descent, and came to this country in 1812; Elizabeth McCloy Haymaker was born in Virginia ; in the year 1820, they removed to Ohio and settled in Muskingum Co., where be died in 1831. In the spring of 1846, A. J. McCoy came to Mansfield, where and in the vicinity he resided until the present time (1880). He was married in 1848 to Miss Mary Church, of Butler Township, by whom he has raised one son, Eli Chapman McCoy, now a resident of the West; naturally of a retiring disposition, yet an enthusiastic admirer of the beauties of nature, possessing fine social qualities, be is at once a companion and friend.

McCOY, ECKELS, Probate Judge. The subject o this sketch is of Scotch-Irish descent, and a man which has, through many years of public services and enterprises, become familiar to the residents of Richland Co.; born in Wayne Co., Ohio, June 22, 1825, the second son of Arvin and Jane (Eckels) McCoy, when of sufficient age, E. McCoy served an apprenticeship carpenter for three years in Wayne Co. with a Mr Stichler, previous to his removal to Mansfield, where he continued his trade with Mr. George Watson, long since deceased, whose daughter, Elisabeth Watson, he afterward married, by whom he has had seven children, six of whom are living and one is dead. In the year 1846, he joined both the Masonic Order an the I. O. O. F., in both of which be has held at different times a number of subordinate offices. Since 1856, he has been a useful member of the cemetery association; to him is due in part its present creditable condition. Since the year 1852, he has served as a member of the City Council five terms, and also as City Clerk. In 1853, he was elected Recorder of Richland Co., and re-elected in 1856. In 1860, be served as Clerk pro tem of the Court of Common Pleas ; appointed Superintendent of the Mansfield Water Works on May 1, 1872, he served as such until Feb. 1, 1879, when he resigned to accept the position of Probate Judge of Richland Co., to which he was elected, and which office he now holds. In March, 1850, Mr. McCoy was one of a party destined for the then comparatively unexplored gold regions of California, going by the way of Panama, and a year later returned through the city of Mexico and New Orleans. In addition to the public office which he now holds, Mr. McCoy is now and has been a member of the Richland Mutual Insurance Company, and Treasurer of the same; a man whom all classes of citizens without regard to party respect, and who has been faithful to all trusts confided to him.

McCRAY, T. Y., lawyer; born in Washington Co., Penn , Aug. 8, 1837 ; emigrated to Richland Co. in 1846 ; be was raised on a farm; he became crippled and had the asthma when young; attended school at Savannah and Hayesville Institutes ; taught school twelve years; in 1860, was appointed on the Board of Examiners in Ashland Co.; served the term of four years; was admitted at the bar in 1862 in Ashland Co. He was married in 1863, to Miss Mary E. Barnhill, in Ashland Co. In March, 1866, moved to West Salem, Wayne Co.; had charge of the public schools till 1868; while there, was appointed on the Board of Examiners of Wayne Co.; continued till 1875; in 1868 was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne Co. for a term of two years; in 1870 was re-elected, making a term of four years. In 1868 moved to Wooster, and engaged exclusively in the practice of law ; in 1875 went to Cleveland, formed a partnership with J. M. Stewart, continued substantially one year; being asthmatic for the last three months, lost his voice, then returned to Wooster for the purpose of settling up his affairs; came to Mansfield Aug. 20, 1876 ; resumed the practice of law up till this time. Have had the following children-Robert, born in Ashland Co., Jan. 12, 1864; Minnie, in Ashland, Jan. 11, 1866; Clarence V., Nov. 5, 1868, in West Salem; Gracie, Sept. 14, 1872, in Wooster; Ella B., July 26, 1875, at Woostar ; Thomas, June 26, 1878, in Mansfield ; Robert died in 1871, Clarence in 1870, in Wooster; Ella died in 1876.

McCRORY, R. B., attorney and member of Legislature; was born in Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Penn., Feb. 18, 1846; came to Ohio with his father, Samuel McCrory, in a wagon to Mansfield. He was educated in the public schools of Mansfield; studied law with Geddes, Burns & Dickey; was admitted to the bar the 20th of June, 1870; commenced the practice of law ;

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continued a short time alone, then formed a partnership with A. R. Scheble; continued with said firm about four months, then resumed the practice alone. In the spring of 1871, he was a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney against Andrew Stevenson and J. R. Cowen; Mr. Stevenson withdrew; was defeated by Cowen, by 180 votes ; in the fall of 1872, the office was vacated by Cowen; A. J: Mack and K. B. McCrory were nominated; Mr. McCrory was elected ; in 1874 was re-elected over S. E. Fink ; served for the term of four years and three months; since then continued the practice of law ; formed a partnership with Andrew Stevenson in December, 1878; nominated at the Democratic primary meeting in June, 1879, as candidate for member of Legislature ; was elected Oct. 14, by 780 votes over Williams, 706 over Sowers ; it was one of the most enthusiastic campaigns ever known in Richland Co.

McCULLOUGH, DAVID ; was born in Washington Co., Penn., March 30, 1810, and came to Mansfield in February, 1822 ; for a number of years, he lived and carried on his trade of tailoring on the west side of Main street, below Market. Mr. McCullough is now a resident of East Market street, Mansfield, where he has lived for nearly fifty years, and has raised a large family of children, many of whom are scattered over the Western parts of the United States, while others lie at rest in the beautiful cemetery of Mansfield, a place he has done much to improve and adorn while acting as one of the members of the cemetery association. Under the old constitution of Ohio, Mr. McCullough held the position of Associate Judge a number of years. In 1855, he was elected Treasurer of Richland Co., serving out his full term with fidelity and conceded by all classes to have been faithful to his trusts. Mr. McCullough was taken into the Masonic Order in Mt. Zion Lodge, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in the year 1841, and is now supposed to be the only living charter member of the Mansfield Masonic Lodge, in which be has held at different times a number of subordinate offices. During Mr. McCullough's long residence in Mansfield, he has always been looked upon as one of her best citizens. David McCullough was married to Catherine Tumbleson in Mansfield by the Rev. James Johnson, first minister of the U. P. Church in Mansfield. Catherine Tumbleson was born in Franklin Co., Penn., in the year 1809, and died in Mansfield in the year 1878; a kind and affectionate mother and wife, Mrs. McCullough will long be remembered by residents of the city for her many acts of charity and love.

McCULLOUGH, NOAH COOK, tailor; the first child of John and Melissa Cook McCullough. John McCullough, also a tailor, came to Ohio and settled in Mansfield Oct. 20, 1817, when a boy of sixteen years, preceding his brother David, who survives him. In August, 1827, Melissa Cook McCullough died in Mansfield, and was buried in the same grave with an infant child. John McCullough was among the oldest and moat respected of our pioneer citizens, and esteemed for his many virtues; he died in Mansfield Oct. 4, 1872, aged 71 years. Noah C. McCullough was born in Mansfield, Oct. 29, 1824, on East Diamond street, near the old tanyard ; when about 16 years of age, he commenced work with his uncle David, and continued in the same shop until 1848, when David retired; Noah McCullough is now and has been in the tailoring business in Mansfield since that date, and is the oldest tailor, in active business, in Mansfield. On the 24th day of Oct., 1848, Noah Cook McCullough was married to Sarah J. Pennywell, formerly of Massillon, in Mansfield. Miss Pennywell was born on the 1st day of December, 1825, and came to Mansfield in 1844. To them have been born two sons, Warren John McCullough, who died in infancy, and Willard Harvey, born Nov. 12, 1854, now connected with the Adams Express Company, in Mansfield. Mr. McCullough has been a member of the Mansfield Masonic Lodge, No. 35, since 1848, and during that time has held a number of subordinate offices. A member of the Baptist Church for over fifteen years, he is looked upon as one of Mansfield's best citizens.

McCULLOUGH, A. H., M.D.; is a native of Beaver Co., Penn.; his parents lived on a farm in Racoon Township, and he assisted his father in farming and attended school until he was 18 years old ; he then entered Westminster College, where he remained one year, and then went to Wooster University, where he graduated in 1873. After graduating, be went to Pittsburgh, and entered the office of Dr. John Dickson & Sons ; and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1875 ; he then located in Massillon, Ohio, and practiced his profession about six months, when he removed to Mansfield, where be has practiced medicine ever since. He added to his professional duties that of the drug business, having bought out the establishment of W. B. Mercer in September, 1878, in which business, together with his profession, he met with excellent success.

McFALL, HUGH (deceased). He was born in Bucks Co., Penn., Jan. 3, 1788 ; from there he moved to Beaver Co„ ,where be learned the carpenter trade, which he followed for a time, when he removed to Canton, Ohio, in 1815, where he began work as a clerk in the store of Wm. Christmas ; he came Mansfield in 1821, and commenced business in a general dry-goods store, under the firm name of McFall & Co ; his partner was George Stidger, of Canton, Ohio this partnership continued about five years, when be purchased the interest of Stidger, and carried on the business until 1846, when he retired. He was married in Mansfield, July 4, 1824, to Miss Clarissa Smith, a native of Waterloo, Seneca Co., N. Y.; she was born Jan. 16, 1805; they were the parents of four children, one of whom died in infancy; Ephraim, the eldest child living, was born in this city, April 26, 1825 ; Gaylord was born Feb. 22, 1829; Susan Franc Dec. 25, 1836; during Mr. M.'s long business career in Mansfield, he acquired the enviable reputation of being a strictly honest man; be never was known to misrepresent to a customer, and often, when it would have beer to his pecuniary interest, he refused, while others frequently used the advantage. He died is September, 1869. Mrs. Clarissa Smith McFall is yet living, and possesses a vivid recollection of the early times in this county.

McFALL, EPHRAIM, son of Hugh McFall ; was born April 28, 1825, in Mansfield ; he was educated in the Mansfield schools ; then engaged in the wholesale grocery; was the first to engage in a jobbing business ;

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he continued fifteen years; he then engaged in the study and practice of a veterinarian surgeon. Mr. McFall was married in January, 1854, to Miss G. C. Thomas; she was born in Maryland. They have one son, Hugh, who was born in 1860; is now, employed by H. M. Weaver & Co., in their wholesale boot and shoe store.

McFARLAND, ROBERT C., grocer; was born Nov. 28, 1837, in Washington Township, Richland Co. Married in 1861, to Mary E. Norris, who was born in Hanover Township, Ashland Co., June 6, 1842. They have six children - Joseph S., born June 30, 1866 ; George O., June 10, 1868; Alfred H., June 16, 1870; David O., May 8, 1872; Harry W., March 22, 1874; Almira Adella, June 1, 1876. Mr. McFarland enlisted in Co. E, 64th O. V. I., for the term of three years ; after his discharge, re-enlisted as a veteran soldier; was engaged as a soldier for four years ; he was wounded three times at the battle of Stone River, and at the battle of Franklin, Tenn., was wounded through the left shoulder, and then taken prisoner and retained about twenty-one days ; he was in sixteen regular battles or engagements. After the war closed, he located in Mansfield ; is now engaged in the grocery business, and is a live business man, and as a citizen be is regarded as one of our leading and enterprising men, always ready to promote every good cause and work.

McFARLAND, DAVID K.; was born Dec. 30, 1852, in Washington Township, this county. Married Jan. 22, 1874, to Maranda J. McConkie, who was born Feb. 2, 1857. They had the following family.-Elbert B., born Nov. 14, 1876; Mary, born May 15, 1879. Maranda McFarland died May 80, 1879. Mr. Mc. moved to Knox Co., Ill., March 1877.

McGUIRE, JOSEPH, carpenter was born in Cumberland Co., Penn„ 1820 ; he came to Ohio with his parents in 1822; located in Richland Co. He was married in September, 1849, to Elizabeth Hoover, who was born in this county in 1829. They have the following children-Paulinia Rosella, born July 1, 1850; Mary Elisabeth, March 25, 1852; William Franklin, April 30, 1855 ; Alice Dell, Feb. 4, 1857 ; Emma Ann and John E. (twins), May 31, 1861. Mr. McGuire located in Mansfield in 1842 ; be Lee been a citizen of this city ever since.

McKINLEY, JOHN F., farmer. As a soldier and citizen, this name is familiar to the residents of Mansfield, and the members of the 120th O. V. I.; born in Wayne Co., Feb. 27, 1835, be remained at home attending school and working at different occupations until of age, when be removed to Iowa, and entered into business; three years afterward, he returned to Ohio, and settled in Ashland, where he remained until the breaking-out of the civil war; when he enlisted at Mansfield in Capt.. Dickey's company of the 15th O. V. I., three-months service; after serving his full term of enlistment, Mr. McKinley returned to Ashland Co., where be was married to Elizabeth Neal on the 27th day of November, 1861, and remained until August, 1862, when he again entered the service, and recruited Co. C, 120th O. V. I., which was stationed at Camp Mansfield until fully organized; this regiment was soon after ordered to Covington, Ky., when it entered into active service, the history of which will be found is another part of this work. During Mr. McKinley's career as a soldier, he served with distinction in all of the battles in which that regiment was engaged, first at Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss., the battle of Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss., Fort Blakely, when he was promoted to the position of Major of the regiment, and served as each during the battle of Snaggy Point, on the Red River; for about eight months thereafter be was in command of the regiment as Major. The 120th O. V. I. was later consolidated with the 114th 0. V. I., when Maj. McKinley was promoted to the lieutenant colonelcy, afterward known as the 114th O. V. I., in which be served until the close of the war.

McLAUGHLIN, GEN. WILLIAM (deceased). This distinguished soldier was born in Beaver Co., Penn., Feb. 3, 1802; in his youth, be attended the common schools of the country, where, by dint of perseverance, he learned to write a beautiful hand, which, in early life, be turned to pecuniary advantage by giving writing lessons. Getting interested in the study of law, he determined to study for that profession ; he applied to Gen. Robert Moore, then a member of Congress, and a practicing lawyer at Beaver Court House, Penn.; Gen. Moore advised him to take time to consider the matter, and, if he still concluded to enter the profession, to come to his office. At the end of a week, young McLaughlin came to Beaver Court House, and enrolled himself as a student. He was a fellow-student with Chief Justice Agnew and Col. Richard P. Roberts, two of the greatest lawyers in Western Pennsylvania. Col. Roberts has a brother and several other relatives in and about Shelby, in this county. Young McLaughlin was .a very frank, honest, manly fellow, and was universally liked. When be had completed his law studies, Gen. Moore advised him to go West, as be had not had the good fortune to receive a thorough early education, as had been the case with the majority of the young members of the bar in Beaver, then a small place on the west banks of the Ohio. Gen. Moore told him that in the West he would have a better chance to rise, and, in compliance with this advice, McLaughlin came to Canton, Ohio, and began the practice of law. Here be was contemporary with David Starkweather, Hiram Griswold, Dwight Jarvis, John Harris, and other men of that class. He made friends in Canton, as be had at Beaver, and soon rose in his profession. Desirous of coming farther West, be left Canton about 1828, and came to Mansfield ; here he engaged in the practice of law, and soon became successful. When the Mexican war broke out, McLaughlin, who had always been a leader in the militia, raised a company and left for the front. Its history is given in the chapter on that subject. After his return in 1847, he resumed the practice of law, which be followed until the spring of 1861, when he was the first man to respond to the call for troops. He sent a dispatch to the Governor, tendering a company, when, in fact, he did not have a man enlisted. From the breaking-out of the war, until his death, his history is so closely identified with that of the war, that to give it here would repeat, in a large measure, what has been written on that subject. His last public act was to raise a squadron of cavalry, which he led to the field, and which be commanded until his death, July 23, 1862.

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McMILLEN, DAVID C., M. D. The subject of this sketch is of Scotch-Irish descent, and direct offspring of a soldier in the war for American independence and the war of 1812. His grandfather emigrated to America with a brother soon after the insurrection in Scotland. David C. McMillen was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, July 27, 1832, and was the sixth in a family of eight children ; in 1854 be came to Shelby, this county, and commenced reading medicine with his brother Calvin, with whom he remained until be commenced general practice, having attended lectures at the Cleveland Medical College in 1856 and 1857. With the exception of two years' residence in Goshen, Ind., the Doctor has continued in the practice of his profession in this county, almost without interruption, until the present time ; he removed to Mansfield in the year 1870, and is now in general practice, attending faithfully to his duties, and with an increasing practice. During the war, he served as Assistant Surgeon of the 163d O. N. G., and also on a hospital boat on the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers.

McMLLLEN, JAMES FRANK, physician (eclectic); Dr. McMillen was born in Weathersfield Township, Trumbull Co., Ohio, the 16th of June, 1824, the eldest of the three brothers residing in Mansfield, belonging to an ancestry which can be traced back to the great Scottish insurrection, and afterward in the American Revolution and the war of 1812. At the age of 19, he commenced the study of medicine, which soon after be discontinued for a short time, but again resumed under the instruction of Dr. Evarts, of Cleveland. In 1849, be came to Shelby, Ohio, and engaged in the practice of his profession ; for over twelve years„ the Doctor has been engaged in active practice in Mansfield, and, with the exception of short intervals of absence in St. Louis, Indianapolis and Macon, Ga., has been in general practice for thirty years. Dr. J. F. McMillen was married in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, Dec. 27, 1853, to Laura Goodale Hadley, who ,died in Shelby, Ohio, on the 12th of December, 1866. To them was born one child-William E., now a resident of Omaha, who was born March 22, 1857. Was again married on the ?7th of November, 1879, to Mrs. Catherine C. Edmonds, at Mansfield.

McMILLEN, JOHN ALFRED, plasterer and painter; was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, Jan. 29, 1838 ; moved to Shelby, Richland Co., in 1852, with his parents. Of Scotch-Irish descent, he inherits the strength and constitution of that people ; the lineage can be found in the biographies of his two brothers, is another part of this work. At the breaking-out of the late war, he enlisted in the Union army at Union City, Ind., as private, in the 11th O. V. I., three-months service, serving his full term with credit end honor. J. A. McMillen was married at Union City, Ind., to Anna Caron, in the year 1866, where he remained and worked at his trade, until his removal to Mansfield, in 1871. During his residence in Mansfield, he served on the police force and was accounted a faithful officer. They have three children.

MARSHALL, E. C., salesman; was born Oct. 9, 1856, in Washington Township, Richland Co.; he nerved with J. Kelly, of Bellville, as an apprentice; learned the firmer trade; then attended the Bellville High School, after which he went to Mount Union College in Stark Co.; came to Mansfield in 1876 ; employed as clerk in the Sharp dry-goods store, after which he engaged as salesman in Singer's hat store, which position he still retains.

MARSHALL, JOHN, dealer in farming implements; he was born in this county March 22, 1835. He married Mary A. Cookston. He enlisted in the late war as a member of the 7th Indiana Battery; served two years, and was discharged on account of sickness, after which he returned, and was for a time Lieutenant of Co. E, 2d O. V. C. He is now a resident of this city. He is engaged is selling farming implements of various kinds, and is doing a very extensive business.

MATTHES, ADAM, proprietor of European Hotel; he was born in Germany Jan. 8, 1832 ; emigrated to America in 1851, and located in Mansfield. He was married, Aug. 14, 1855, to Caroline Heltmen, who was born in this county in 1837; they have the following family-Louis, born Jan. 9, 1858 ; Caroline, May 1, 1862; John, June 13, 1864; Adam, Jr., July 18, 1866 ; May, Oct. 31, 1868 ; Charley and Frederick (twins), April 10, 1871 ; Amelia, July 9, 1877 ; Andrew; Oct.. 5, 1879. Mr. Matthes is engaged is conducting the European Hotel, and is doing a good business.

MAXWELL BROS., dry goods ; the store is located in a three-story brick building, 20x80 feet at No. 11 Main street, in which can be found the largest and most complete stock of staple and fancy dry goods, embracing all articles usually found is the best stores, exceeding any other establishment in the city of Mansfield. This house was established in 1860; their increase in the past few years has been all that they could wish, and they now do a business that compares favorably with any similar house in the city; anything new in the dry-goods line can always be found in the store of the Maxwell Bros., and, as they have but one price, total strangers can buy just as cheap as regular customers. Robert B. Maxwell, the active member and business manager of the house, is a gentleman of over twenty-five years' experience; he is honest and straightforward in all his transactions, and never fails to gain the confidence and esteem of all with whom he, may come in contact. The brothers were born is Scotland -Robert, in 1840, and John, in 1834 ; they are now taking the lead in this line of goods; all who call on them will find them congenial gentlemen with one, and they are destined to be successful in business.

MAY, JOHN MILTON (deceased); he was born in Conway, Hampshire Co., Oct.. 13, 1787. The ancestor of his race in America was John May, from Mayfield, Sussex Co., England, Captain of the ship James which sailed between the ports of New England and London, from 1635 to 1640, when he settled in Roxbury, Mass.; from this stock descended the Mays of New England, New York end Michigan, known in military and civic life; Theodore May, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a Revolutionary war soldier, who, at the close of his services, receiving his pay in Continental currency, so utterly deprecated that John Milton and his other boys would use it for "thumb-papers" at school. In 1797, he removed with his family to Washington Co., N. Y. In 1811, our Mr. May emigrated thence alone for Ohio, crossing the

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Allegheny Mountains to Pittsburgh on foot, arriving at Marietta, Ohio, by boat. In the fall of that year, be commenced the study of law in the office of Philemon Beecher, in Lancaster, Ohio, having for fellow-students for a time Hon. Thomas Ewing and the late Judge Jacob Parker, of this city; during his novitiate in the law, he supported himself by teaching in the winter-time ; Hocking H. Hunter was one of his pupils ; be was admitted to the bar July 26, 1815, and in the autumn of the same year, settled in Mansfield, where he resided until his death, which occurred Dec. 12, 1869 ; be was the first resident lawyer in Mansfield, and practiced in his profession until two years previous to his death. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney for this circuit in 1816, but resigned the office in 1817, because the defenses to prosecutions offered him better compensation ; for many years, he rode the circuit of the northern and western County Courts, and had a large and successful practice. In 1825, he married Miss Artemiais Wolfs, from one of the pioneer families of the county, by whom he had one son, now the Hon. Manuel May, of this city, and one daughter, Miss Lizzie E. May, who died is 1866. In politics, Mr. May was unambitious; in his profession, he was a fine advocate, as well as an able chancery lawyer, and, during his long life, always maintained a high character as a good citizen sad an honest man ; in his latter years, among his associate lawyers, be was styled the " Nestor of the bar," and known as " Father May," and to the day of his death maintained the good will, respect and confidence of all. He wee confined to his Louse about a month before his demise, but was not bed-fast; he passed peacefully sway while sitting in his chair.

MAY, MANUEL, attorney. Mr. May was born in Mansfield, where be has resided continuously since; he is of pioneer parentage. The biography of his father, John M. May, has been outlined in this book. His mother, in the year 1807, then Artemiais Wolfe aged 6 years, emigrated with her brothers, sisters and widowed mother from the Wyoming Valley, Luzerne Co., Penn., to Fredericktown, Knox Co., Ohio, then containing the territory of this county; she, with the Wolfe family, removed thence and settled in Mansfield in 1812, and was married in 1825; one of the issue of the marriage was Manuel May. Among the educators of his boyhood were Rev. James Rowland, Louis Andrews and William Johnson. He graduated at Kenyon College, studied law with his father, John M. May, and graduated at the Cincinnati Law School ; in 1858, he received the honorary degree of A. M. at Kenyon College ; on leaving law school, he practiced law with his father, under the firm name of J. M. & M. May ; his subsequent law partners were Thomas McBride, John K. Cowen and S. L. Geddes. At present, be is alone in the law business with the aide of his large library and the office help of his students; he was elected and re-elected Prosecuting Attorney of Richland Co., serving in that capacity from 1858 to 1862 ; he represented the Fourth Ward as a member of the City Council of Mansfield for four years, part of which time be was presiding officer; he was elected and re-elected to the Ohio Senate and represented Richland and Ashland Cos. in that body from 1866 to 1870, and, during his second term. was a member of the Judiciary Committee; as a County School Examiner, Mr. May has for years been connected with the educational interests of the county. He is a bachelor, has always voted the Democratic ticket and is active in politics as well as business.

MITCHELL, DR. GEORGE F. (deceased). He was born is Washington Co., Pena, May 8, 1808 ; he was the youngest son in a large family of children ; his brothers were mostly farmers, who remained in their native county; his tastes and inclinations were in a different course, and, in his early boyhood, as well as in his later life, be was a constant student; his researches were not alone confined to the profession in which he became eminent, but the sciences and literature were not neglected ; in 1827, 6e commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Church, of Pittsburgh, Penn., a noted practitioner of that city ; with him he remained three years, when, after practicing a short time in an adjoining county, he removed to Ohio in 1832, and practiced medicine in Olivesburg, this county, until 1846, at which time he came to Mansfield; he was a graduate of the Miami Medical College, of Cincinnati, and in after years the honorary degree was again conferred on him by the Medical College of Keokuk, Iowa; for a number of years be was elected a Censor of the Medical College at Cleveland, and was an active member of the State end American Medical Associations, in both of which he held positions of honor, and was selected as a delegate to the latter body by the State society ; at home he was interested in all educational and benevolent enterprises, and was one of the originators and Trustees of the Mansfield Female College, while under the control of the Methodist denomination. For forty years, be was actively engaged in the practice of medicine during which time the rich end the poor without distinction received the benefit of his skill. He was married in May, 1831, in Fayette Co., Penn., to Miss Nancy DeVatte; eight children were given them, two of whom died in infancy, two in early and promising manhood, one daughter just as she was blooming into womanhood, and three children still live. He died in this city March 31, 1869.

MITCHELL, GEORGE, physician and surgeon. Dr. George Mitchell was born July 19, 1837, in Olivesburg, Richland Co., Ohio, and is a son of Dr. G. F. and Nancy DeVatte Mitchell ; his father was a native of Pennsylvania, but practiced for forty years in Richland Co., with great success; Dr. George Mitchell received his elementary education in Mansfield, and in due course of time entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and pursued the full course of four years' study, graduating from that institution in 1858, with the degree of A. B.; in 1860, be matriculated at the Western Reserve Medical College, where he attended one course of lectures, and during the following winter, entered the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, where he graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1862 ; immediately after receiving his degree, he entered the United States service as Assistant Surgeon of the 102d O. V. I.; be continued in active service in different campaigns until the close of the war, being twice promoted for valuable services rendered; in 1865, be retired from the army and located in Mansfield, where be has since resided and engaged in the practice of his profession; he is one of

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the Censors of the Medical Department of the Wooster University, and is also a Trustee of his alma mater; in the winter of 1876, he was appointed by Gov. Hayes one of the Board of Trustees of the Central Ohio Insane Asylum ; he is a member of the American Medical Association, and also of the Ohio State Medical Society, and has at various times contributed to the literature of his profession.

MITCHELL, WILLIAM, surgeon dentist ; was born in Welter Township May 1, 1841, and came with his parents to this city in 1846; he received his elementary education in the public schools he was a member of the first class that graduated in the Mansfield High School, he afterward completed his studies at the Delaware University ; in 1860, he began the study of dentistry and graduated at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in Philadelphia in 1863 ; be practiced his profession for a number of years in this city and Gallon, Ohio ; he was employed by the publishers of this work as a biographical writer, and he collected many of the portraits of the early settlers that appear therein. He was married May 15, 1872, in Mansfield, to Miss Sallie Strickler ; they are the parents of four children-George Frank, Charles Wesley, M. Eugene and Sallie.

MOWRY, JOHN N., physician and surgeon; was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., March 2, 1824, the second son of Daniel and Jane Wiley Mowry, of Western Pennsylvania, of German-Scotch descent; after receiving his elementary education in Pittsburgh, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. R. B. Mowry, of that city, and afterward attended lectures and graduated at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, March 9, 1850; in the fall of 1852, he removed to Mansfield, having previously practiced in Allegheny City for two years; he was appointed surgeon of the 0. & P. and the P., Ft. W. & C. R. R., which positions he held for twenty-four years ; he entered the army as assistant surgeon of the 15th O. V. I., and was at the first battle of the war, Philippi, W. Va.; then he was appointed surgeon of the 32d O. V. I.; then discharged after eight months' service, for disability; he then returned to Mansfield, then Gov. Tod telegraphed him to meet Surg. Gen. Webber, in Cincinnati, and proceed at once to Pittsburg Landing for the relief of the wounded ; after his return, he was appointed Surgeon of the 86th O. V. I., and remained until expiration of service; he then resumed the practice of his profession in Mansfield, where he resided until 1875, when he removed to Tiffin, Ohio ; not liking it, he returned to this city in 1877, where he has since resided. Dr. Mowry was married, Sept. 7, 1854, to Miss Elisabeth Sherman Parker, who died April 16, 1855 ; he was again married, Nov. 25, 1856, to Miss Mary L. Armentrout, by wham he raised five children ; she died Jan. 10, 1872 ; he was married in Tiffin, Ohio, Feb. 17,1874, to Mrs. Ellen J. Graham, of that city ; the Doctor has always taken an active interest in the prosperity of the city, and subscribed liberally to all the railroads, and was active in securing the location of the Aultman & Taylor Co.'s shops in Mansfield.

MURPHY, JOHN A., farmer ; was born in Madison Township July 7, 1850, and received his elementary education in District No. 3. He was married in the spring of 1877, since which time he has resided in this city.

NEWLON, J., groceryman; was born in this county in 1828. He was married in 1855, to Sarah Shoup, who was born in Wood Co., Ohio, in 1834; they have two children-Harmon D., born in 1856, and Williard B., in 1859. Mr. Newton is engaged in the grocery business in this city in company with R. C. McFarland,

NEWMAN, ANDREW S. (deceased). He was born March 1, 1811, in Richland Co., in the Newman cabin, on the Rocky Fork, near the present site of Campbell's mil. A short time after his birth, his father, Jacob Newman, removed to Mansfield, and thenceforth Andrew continued to reside there: in the fall of 1812, he and his mother were sent to the block-house, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and, while at this place of comparative safety, his brother, Joseph, was born ; when the army passed through Mansfield in 1813, under the command of Gen. Crooks, his father was requested, by the commanding officer, to act as guide through the wilderness, and during this expedition he contracted the disease which terminated his life shortly after his return ; though thus early deprived of his father, in his surviving parent he was abundantly compensated ; his mother was a woman of very extraordinary ability, and while she devoted herself to her children and their welfare, she was universally beloved by her neighbors; the native good sense and sound judgment which so characterized him as to make him a man of mark in the community, he inherited largely from his mother; his early intellectual advantages were meager, but, possessed of good natural abilities, with only such assistance as n winter school in a log cabin afforded, and with a thirst for reading, he became one of the best-informed men in the country ; he was a man of strong convictions, and singularly gifted with the power to express them, had little reverence for place and position, but warm charity fur the lowly and oppressed; he was possessed of a moat excellent judgment of men and affairs, and always regarded a wise counselor. He was married, April 2, 1839, to Eliza A. Armentrout, who bores him two children, Mary S. and Harriet (who died in infancy). His wife died July 3, 1855, leaving an only child, the late Mary N.. Cummins, so well and favorably known in this community. In 1841, he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and ever afterward led a consistent Christian life. After a brief illness of typhoid pneumonia he died, Jan. 31, 1872.

NEWMAN, MICHAEL (deceased). He was born in New Holland, Lancaster Co., Penn., in 1785; he name to Ross Co., Ohio, about 1800, and in 1806, he was married to Elizabeth Copsey, who was a descendant of the family of the Longs, in England ; be came to this county, as is shown by the history, in April, 1808, and settled at Beam's (now Campbell's) Mill; be lived a year or two in his brother Jacob's cabin, and then moved across the creek, near the mill, into a cabin that was built by Moses Fountain, who probably aided in building the mill on which Mr. Newman worked in the summer of 1808 ; he next moved to Section 16 in Madison Township, where he resided until after Hull surrendered Detroit, Aug. 16, 1812; it was about this time that troubles with the Indians arose, and as it was not

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possible for Mr. Newman always to be at home-the nearest flouring-mill being at Mt. Vernon-he took his family to Fredericktown, in Knox Co., Ohio, where there was quite a settlement, a block-house and a few soldiers stationed; he returned alone to take care of his property, but found all his stock and grain had been taken for the use of U. S. troops, under Gen Beall ; his provisions and stock being all gone, he returned to Fredericktown and took hie wife and children to her relatives and friends, at Chillicothe; he left them there and returned late in the fall to this county, only to find his house burned ; he never was able to find out whether the Indians or soldiers perpetrated this outrage; having no shelter, he went to Chillicothe and remained there during the winter; in the spring of 1813, he returned to Richland Co., built a new house, and that summer, in August, he brought back his Family and began again ; he had five Boys and six daughters ; their names, in the order of their births, are Mary, Henry, Susan, Jacob, Jane, Margaret, Harriet, John. Elizabeth, Andrew and Michael C.; Mary married B. Goldsmith; they had five children; Goldsmith is now deceased, and his widow lives in Pierceton, Ind. ; Henry married Hannah Maring and both are deceased ; they had one son, John M. Newman, who married Eva J. Miller; Susan married William Waugh ; they have no children, and they are living in Van Wert Co., Ohio; Jacob married Catharine Stoudt; they had two children, John H. Newman and Lizzie Newman; his wife died soon after the birth of John H., since which time Jacob has been a widower, and lives in Van Wert Co., Ohio; Jane died when a young lady; Margaret married John C. Snow ; they have no children ; Mrs. Snow is now deceased, and John C. Snow is now living in Illinois; Harriet died in infancy; John is not married, and is now serving his eighth term as County Surveyor of Richland Co.; Elizabeth married Rev. N. F. Bell; Mr. Bell is now deceased, and his widow lives in Huron Co., Ohio; Andrew is now living somewhere in California ; Michael married Carrie Wilson ; they have four children, and reside in the city of Mansfield. Mr. Newman died in 1862, and his wife died in 1872.

NEWMAN, JACOB (deceased). The Newman family, of whom Jacob was the oldest, were of Holland descent, and settled at an early day in Lancaster Co., Penn.; the children, Jacob, Folly, John, Christena, Andrew, Michael and a sister whose name is not now known, were born here. This sister married a man by the name of Cline ; went South with him, and was lost trace of by the family. Jacob and Michael, when they became young men, went to Franklin Co., Penn., where Jacob married Catherine Freymeyer, by whom be had four children-John, Catherine, Jacob and Henry ; Mrs. Newman died when the last named was but 2 or 3 weeks old ; the death of the mother, in a measure, broke up the family. This was in October, 1802. Mr. Newman gave all the children but the youngest to their grandparents (their mother's parents) to keep, and taking ,with him the youngest, whom he kept by the aid of nurses, be went to the vicinity of Greensburg, and lived there on a farm three or four years. He desired a frontier life, and, hearing of the West as it then existed and the easy terms upon which poor people could obtain land in the military and other districts in Ohio, he determined to emigrate there. He came to Stark Co. and located some land near the town of Canton, then a frontier place. Not long after, he had a good chance to sell the land, and did so, and determined to remove still farther out. His kinsman, Gen. James Hedges, had been surveying in the new country, now comprised in this county, and had informed him of some of the choice selections of land and the probable location of a county seat., as the General knew a new county would necessarily he made in this part of the State. In the summer of 1807, he left his family at Canton, and, moving his few effects, came to the Rocky Fork, where he or Gen. Hedges had undoubtedly selected a location and erected a cabin. He brought, as a housekeeper, his niece, Catherine Brubaker, who did the cooking for him and his hands, who were probably her brothers, the Brubaker boys. As :his early settlement is fully; given in the pioneer history elsewhere printed in this volume, its history need not be repeated here. Mr. Newman remained here improving his land till the spring of 1808 when he took his niece back to Canton and his brother Michael and his wife came out and entered the cabin. That fall, he brought Henry, his youngest son, out and left. him here, while he went to Pennsylvania, where he was married to Susan Snively, and remained in the East during the following winter. Returning to this county, he remained in the Rocky Fork and improved his claim and run his saw-mill, which be had erected a year before. The removal of the site of the county seat from the vicinity of the mill, and its sale by Mr. Newman to Mr. Jacob Beam, caused Mr. Newman to remove again. He, in company with Gen. Hedges and Joseph Larwell, of Wooster, had laid out the town of Mansfield on its present site, and had begun improvements there. Mr. Newman built his cabin on the east side of South Main street, about two hundred yards south of the creek, and, in the latter part of 1811, brought up his family, and the next summer raised a crop on his land here. In August, the Indian troubles occurred, and Mr. Newman took his wife and son Andrew to Mt.. Vernon for safe-keeping, while he and Henry remained to guard the cabin and the town. While Mrs. Newman was in Mt. Vernon, Joseph was born (Sept. 25, 1812). Not long after, a company of soldiers came up to help guard the town the killing of Jones having excited the people considerably and Mr. Newman, considering all things ratter safe, went to Mt. Vernon and brought his wife and children home. Gen. Crook's army came to Mansfield soon after this, on their way to the Upper Sandusky country, and Mr. Newman, being a practical, sagacious woodsman, was engaged to pilot the army through from Mansfield. Most accounts state that the army left about the middle of December. Mr. Henry Newman says this can hardly be true, as he distinctly remembers the event, and is sure his father did not leave till later in the winter, probably in February. This march, in an open winter, was very trying on the soldiers, and even the hardy frame of Mr. Newman could not endure the strain. He contracted a pulmonary complaint, which, after reaching home about June 1, 1813, continued to grow worse, and on the 20th of that month be died. He left a widow and three

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children-Henry, Andrew and Joseph, the latter about 7 months old. She soon after took the logs Mr. N. had prepared in his lifetime to build a better cabin, had them moved to the north side of the square, where Copt. A. C. Cummins now lives, and had a cabin built there. The house was improved at times, and a brick addition built afterward by Henry Layman. It is part of Capt. Cummins' house now. Mrs. Newman resided here until her death, 1834. By this time, the children were grown. Henry and Andrew were married and had homes of their own, and Joseph was a young man beginning life for himself.

NEWMAN, HENRY, Bryan, Williams Co., Ohio. Mr. Newman is the fourth child of Jacob Newman, and, since 1849, has resided in Williams Co.; he was born Oct. 17, 1802, in Franklin Co., Penn.; his mother dying a few weeks after his birth, his father took him to Westmoreland Co., where be went to reside, keeping him under his own care ; about 1805, his father emigrated to Stark Co., Ohio, and in 1807 to Richland Co.; Henry remained in Stark Co. until the fall of 1808, when be was brought by his father to the cabin home on the Rocky Fork ; he was left here by his father while be went to Pennsylvania, where be was married; Henry lived with his uncle Michael and wife, who came on and kept house while Jacob went East ; after his father's return, both families occupied the cabin until about 1810, when Michael and his wife moved into the cabin built by Moses Fountain north across the creek, and near the mill; Jacob Newman remained on the Rocky Fork until the fall of 1811, when he came to Mansfield, and remained here until his death in June, 1813 ; in the summer of 1812, be raised a crop here, and that winter piloted Gen. Crook's army to the Maumee country. Henry Newman says the accounts concerning his absence from December until June are incorrect; he states that his father was not gone that length of time, and that he did not leave Mansfield until March ; be is quite certain concerning this, as he cannot remember his father, being absent so long ; after his father's death in 1813, Henry assisted his mother in the care of her property, and gathered what meager education the schools of the day afforded; in 1828, be went to New Orleans in search of a man named Thomas O. Shield, who had absconded in debt to the Newman estate about $1,400, but failed to find him. A few years after his return, be was married to Jane Ward, a member of the Ward family, in Weller Township, to which locality he removed, and entered 80 acres of land. Mr. and Mrs. Newman lived on this farm to which many acres were added until 1849; they brought it to a high state of cultivation, and gained a competence from its soil ; all their children, but one, were born here. Their names are Jacob, born in 1832, (now a resident of La Grange Ind.); Joseph (who lost his life in the late war, being mortally wounded at Mission Ridge); Andrew (also a soldier, and, who after his return, died from the exposure of a soldier's life); all three of these men went into the army as Lieutenants, and all were promoted; Mr. Newman's daughters are Harriet, Sarah, Francis and Elizabeth. Mr. Newman moved to Williams Co. in 1849, where be purchased a large farm, and erected a saw-mill, which enterprises, with the aid of his son, he conducted successfully, until 1875, when he ceased the active labors of life and went to Bryan, where be now lives in retirement. Mrs. Newman died June 30, 1876 ; since her death, be makes his home with his daughter, Frances; his memory is remarkably clear concerning pioneer days and incidents ; he can give accurate histories of those early times when Richland Co. was a frontier county, and to his recollection more than to any man now living are the accurate details of pioneer days in this county in given in the historical part of this volume due; that it might be made accurate, he visited the county, and pointed out to the compiler of these pages, localities, and narrated incidents that otherwise would have been forgotten.

NEWMAN, JOSEPH (deceased), was the youngest child of Jacob end Susanna Newman, and was born on the 25th day of September, 1812, at the block-house at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where his mother had been sent as a place of comparative safety from murderous attacks of hostile Indians. A few months afterward, his father returned from the army in Northwestern Ohio, where be contracted a fever that soon terminated his life. Thus early deprived of a father, his early care and training devolved upon his mother, who was wonderfully well qualified to perform these duties. She was a woman of "great good sense," and her keen intentions for the future welfare of her boy soon told her that nature had fitted him to adorn the highest walks of life. And his brief career shows how even a mother's love "builded better than it knew." He early showed a disposition to acquire an education and was not satisfied with the usual "quarter in winter time," but went to Norwalk, Ohio, then a prominent seat of learning is Northern Ohio, where he laid the foundation that determined his success in after life. The close application to study and habits of thought that he acquired at this academy followed him through life, and though his scholastic attainments were not the most classical, they were enough, combined with his strong, natural intellect, to rank him among the most scholarly men of his day. He attended law school at Cincinnati and then prepared himself for admission to the bar, and then entered into partnership with Judge James Stewart, and rapidly rose in his profession until he was considered one of the best lawyers in Central Ohio. Of commanding presence, far above the ordinary stature, a handsome person and magnetic voice, of rare habits of thought and study, he was singularly well qualified to fill a high position at the bar or in the halls of legislation. About 1841, he married Ann Catlin, of Harrington, Conn., a cultured lady of rare beauty and accomplishments, who survived him. No children were born of this marriage. He was a Major General of the Ohio militia and took great interest in its organization and proficiency. He was an Assistant Clerk of the Ohio Senate, and, about 1845, after having served four years as Prosecuting Attorney, was elected a member of the Ohio Senate. His entrance into the Ohio Senate was at the time when new counties were being formed, and personal feelings in this respect ran high. The new county of Ashland was about to be formed, which would despoil his native county of some of her most desirable territory. He took an active part in the Senate to preserve his county in her fair proportions, which was the great

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desire of his life. He regretted to see, and did all in his power to prevent, his native county from being clipped almost on all aides, despoiled of her original territory and fair proportions, but the feeling of the hour was for more new counties, and he was compelled to submit to a movement that he was powerless to resist. He took a high position both as a speaker and a careful, painstaking legislator, and filled the position with great credit and was regarded as among the foremost men of his party. In politics, he was a Democrat of the Jefferson and Jackson school and an earnest advocate of their political views. Toward the close of his senatorial career, his bodily health gave way, his mind became clouded under constant study and excitement, and be was removed to an asylum at Utica, N. Y., where his friends hoped that rest and the proper restoratives would bring back his wonted vigor of mind and body. But this was not to be; be died July 17, 1847. Thus closed a career of remarkable activity and usefulness, and one whose high and pure character passed the fiery ordeal of public life blameless and without reproach.

NETSCHER, J. B., manufacturer, Mansfield; was born in Germany, in 1834, and is a self-made man. He began business in this city some thirty years ego, in a very small way, but has increased his facilities fully 200 per cent, for, in fact, as a manufacturer of vinegar, he stands preeminent ; by means of his pomace leach and vinegar generator, no pomace is lost; as soon as the cider is pressed out, what was considered useless is utilized by Mr. Netscher, and six or seven bushels of apples, after being pressed, will hold one barrel of choice vinegar that is ready for use a few hours, and of a quality that never fails to please the consumer; by means of this generation, from two to three barrels of vinegar can be produced daily; this handy contrivance is secured by letters of patent, No. 199,854, dated Jan. 29, 1878 ; it is without doubt one of the inventions of the age, and will, when it becomes better known, create a revolution in the production of vinegar, while the price of this standard commodity will very materially diminish. Mr. Netscher by no means confines himself strictly to the making of vinegar, but apple-wine and cider as well, all of which is warranted pure, or no pay desired. This enterprising gentleman also deals in bituminous and anthracite coal, and occupies with his coal yard a lot 450x450 feet, located on Short street, near the B. & O. depot; at this yard, parties can always be sure of obtaining the very best bargains in coal that any firm in the city can offer. The warehouse and cellar wherein Mr. Netscher stores his cider and vinegar, is a two-story brink, 30x60 feet; immediately in front of this building is a four-story brick structure, 80x70 feet, also owned by Mr. Netscher, which he rents for business purposes; a telephone extends from the yard on Short street to the warehouse, or upper office, on Main street, thus affording immediate communication to either place. When raining full time, Mr. Netscher employs twenty-eight men all the time, and uses the power of a fifteen-horse engine; everything is complete, from the coal yard to the vinegar manufactory. Mr. Netscher is not only doing a public good in the manufacture of vinegar by his invaluable patent process. He is giving truth to the universal decision that America is the birthplace of all great ideas.

NEVIUS, L. W., dentist. Dr. Nevius was born in Knox Co., Ohio, Oct. 6, 1846; his father was an enterprising, well-to-do farmer ; L. W. lived with his parents on the farm until the fall of 1861, when be entered the Ohio Wesleyan College of Delaware, where he remained until the fall of 1863, when be enlisted in the 2d O. H. A., and remained is the service until the close of the war; as Boon as he returned home he began the study of dental surgery, in the office of Drs. Sample & Stephens, Fredericktown, Ohio ; in 1867, he bought the office and practice of his preceptors, and carried on the business for himself; in the spring of 1871, be came to Mansfield and opened an office over Black's dry-goods store, on the corner of Main and West Market streets, a location he still occupies; the Doctor fitted his office in an exceedingly neat and tasteful manner, an improvement on the most of the offices then seen where dental surgery was practiced ; his ideas were to disabuse the minds of his patients of the impression that a dental office was only a place of torture; be placed beautiful pictures on the walls, an organ in the room, statuettes in the corners, books and music on the shelves, an aquarium with gold fish swimming in its waters, a variety of house plants in the windows aid ether tasty and pleasing ornaments about his room ; the result of this ornamentation soon had its effect ; patients not only came from the city and the country, but from a distance, for a man who exhibits a cultivated taste for fine arts will always be a good workman. The Doctor's patients found him a man of pleasant address, free from every evil habit, and one who could not only appreciate their needs, but one who could relieve them ; his practice soon grew so that the rooms needed extending, and new improvements ; in 1875, he remodeled his office, added new rooms, giving him a cheerful, homelike reception-room, two operating rooms and a convenient laboratory; these be fitted in the best style, making them the largest, best-lighted and most commodious dental rooms in Central Ohio; his practice now comes from all parts of Northern Ohio, attesting his skill as an operator, and standing as a gentleman. Dr. Nevius' recreation consists in driving a spirited horse, an amusement not only very pleasurable but invigorating; it steadies his nerves and makes his brain clearer, when each morning be can enjoy a vigorous drive for an hour or more, and thus inhale abundance of fresh air, strengthening his system, and preparing him for his day's labor ; whatever may be said of the practice, if other professional men would follow Dr. Nevius' example, either by riding or walking, a healthier and more cheerful class of humanity would certainly exist. Dr. Nevius has lately associated with himself Dr. C. M. Roe, son of Joseph Roe, one of the pioneers and principal men of Springfield Township, a recent graduate of the Dental College of the Michigan University ; be bide fair to become a dentist of the best ability, and is a gentleman in every a respect.

NIMAN, W. B., was born Sept. 29, 1831, in Madison Township. Married Feb. 28, 1867, to Mary H. Slocum, who was born Dec. 2, 1842, in Sandusky Co. Mr. Niman enlisted in the army July 24, 1861, 2d O.

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V. C.; went as private in Co. M ; after returning home, he engaged with 163d, in Co. A ; after the death of Capt. Avery, Mr. Niman took the commend of Co. A through the service. At the expiration of service, he received an honorable discharge and returned to Mansfield, and was for a time engaged in keeping the American Hotel; the site of the hotel is one of the oldest corners in the city.

OBERLIN, WM. KELKER, farmer; was born in Stark Co., Ohio, Feb. 28, 1839 ; came to Richland Co. with his parents April 4, 1849, with whom he lived thirty-one years. His father, John Oberlin, located in Washington Township. He was married Oct. 19, 1869, in Washington. Township, to Miss Kate Ford. They are the parents of two children-Thomas W., born Feb. 1, 1875; Arthur B., born Sept. 9, 1879. He is now engaged in business in Mansfield.

OTTINGER, SAMUEL F., Deputy Recorder; was born in Stark Co., March 13, 1847 ; came to Richland Co. in 1860. He was married in 1870, to Catherine Grubb, who was born in Knox Co., April 4, 1845. They have two children-Minnie Bell, born Jan. 6, 1873; Lizzie Ordella, April 18, 1877. Mr. Ottinger has been engaged as Deputy Recorder since September, 1878.

PAINTER, MICHAEL, farmer; was born in Madison Township May 2, 1839. His father, the late Andrew Painter, resided east of Mansfield for a great many years, where be followed farming, and also proprietor of a carding-mill, which still stands; in this business Michael was engaged during its continuance, and afterward at farming. He was married in 1868 to Miss Margaret Sproats, by whom he has raised two sons. Now a resident of Madison Township.

PARKER, JACOB (deceased); was born on the island of Newfoundland Sept. 6,1791. Although born in a foreign land, he was an American in fact his father being a citizen of Massachusetts, and resided in Newfoundland only temporarily ; early in the present century, he removed with his father to Ohio. In 1815, he graduated at the Ohio University at Athens-he and Thomas Ewing being the first two who received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from an Ohio college. After his graduation, Mr. Parker, in company with Thomas Ewing and John M.. May, entered the law office of Philemon Beecher, is Lancaster, where he studied until admitted to, the bar. In 1819, he removed to Mansfield and entered upon the practice of his profession; in 1829, he went into the mercantile business with Robert McCombs, of this city, in which he continued until 1837 ; in the winter of 1840-41, ho received the appointment of President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of this county; he held this office seven years, and discharged its duties with great ability and to the entire satisfaction of the bar and the people. Upon leaving the bench, be retired from active life; he, however, always took an active interest in the welfare and prosperity of the city ; he was a persevering worker, and a man of sound judgment. His death occurred in December, 1857.

PARSONS, LE ROY, reel-estate and insurance agent; he was born is Bennington, Vt., in May, 1843 ; when a youth, he unmoved with his parents to Eastern Pennsylvania, where he received in part his elementary education; he came to Mansfield in 1867, and was engaged for a number of years in the sale of farming implements ; in 1872, he opened as insurance and real-estate office in this oily, in which business he has since been exclusively engaged. The assets of the companies be represents, which are classed among the very best, amount to over $1,000,000. He was married in Mansfield, Sept. 14, 1876, to Miss Mary Shumway, of this city; one child, a son, was born in March, 1878. Mr. Parson's ancestry dates back among the early settlers of New England They were vigilant participants in the Revolutionary war. During his residence is this city, he has taken an active part in the promotion of its interests, and been elected to the office of Clerk of the City Council for four consecutive terms; a period longer than any of his predecessors.

PATTERSON, A. C., proprietor of the carriage manufactory ; he was born in Lexington, Ohio. Married, in 1862, to Lizzie A. Cope, daughter of Franklin E. Cope; they had the following children: Franklin E., born in July, 1864, died in 1871 ; Florence J., born in October, 1868, died in August, 1871, and Gracie A., still living with her parents. Mr. Patterson established the buggy factory in 1864 ; has been connected with this business ever since, and has met with marked success; his work is among the best in the county.

PATTERSON, A. V., DR., physician ; he was born in Springfield, Jefferson Co., April 9, 1831; came to Mansfield is 1837 ; attended the Mansfield Academy, also Oberlin College, after which he attended the University of Cleveland ; graduated at the Cleveland Medical College Feb. 25, 1857 ; commenced the practice of medicine at Galion, where he remained until he was commissioned Surgeon of the 102d O. V. I.; continued till the close of the war, after which be located in Mansfield; engaged in the practice of medicine, and still continues. He was marred, March 3, 1857, to Miss L. L. Gladden, daughter of Capt. Solomon Gladden, of Monroe Township.

PLATT, WILLIAM (deceased). Among the old residents of Madison Township who have passed away, and who will be remembered by many of the living, was William Platt, who resided on a farm near Mansfield known by his name, but now within the city limits, and partially covered with dwellings. He was born in the year 1803, end came to this county in 1821. The site of the old homestead, and a part of the lands, which have never passed out of the family name, can be seen from many parts of the city. He died Feb. 17, 1850, in the 46th year of his ago, well known by all the citizens of that time, and universally respected and esteemed. Quiet and amiable in his manners, be made no enemies. Highly morel in his conduct, and upright in all his dealings he always sustained the moat unsullied character; living at a time when it wee generally customary among farmers to allow the use of liquor among their employee, particularly during the harvest, he was among the few who peremptorily forbid it. Mr. Platt was married, May 1,1835, to Miss Charlotte Bell, by whom he had seven children-one, a son, alone survives him, a resident of the city, near the old homestead.

POTTER, E. J., photographer ; be was born in Wayne Co. Sept. 19, 1844. He was married to Mary

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Backenstoe, who was born in Mansfield; they have two children-William, born March 10, 1867; James, Oct. 6, 1868. Mr. Potter enlisted in the 3d O. V. C., Co. E, in September, 1861; was in the service about three years and four months, and was in different engagements-among them the battle of Stone River. This regiment was noted for its service in this battle. He was taken prisoner at Benton, Tenn.; he was prisoner eleven months-first at Atlanta, second at Libby Prison, in Richmond, third at Belle Island, and from there to Andersonville; was kept there seven months; from there to Florence, S. C.; was then exchanged at Charleston, and came from there to Annapolis, Md.; from there to Columbus, Ohio, and received an honorable discharge. Came to Mansfield, where he has since been engaged in the photographic business, having one of the best galleries in the city. He has established a very extensive business, and an excellent reputation, as an artist. He stands at the head of his profession in Northern Ohio, and is prepared to do all kinds of first-class work in his line.

PRITCHARD, W. H., born in Worthington Township, Richland Co., Ohio, July, 1850. After taking an academical course at Greentown Academy, Perrysville, Ohio, he went to college at Denison University, and thence to the University of Wooster, where be graduated in June, 1874. The expenses of hie education were paid almost exclusively by the results of his own labor, working summers and teaching winters. In July, 1874, be was married to Miss Sophie Loiter, of Lucas, Ohio, and for four years thereafter he was employed as a teacher-one year as assistant in Greentown Academy and three years as Superintendent of Schools in Shelby, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1878, by the Supreme Court at Columbus, Ohio, and immediately thereafter formed a copartnership with Norman M: Wolf, under the firm name of Pritchard & Wolf, and since that time has been enjoying a good and successful law practice. In the spring of 1879, being an enthusiastic Republican, he was active in organizing and was elected chairman of the Young Men's Republican Club of Mansfield. His family consists of his wife and two boys-J. Sample, aged 5 years, and Natsoher W., aged 2 1/2 years.

PROCTOR, FRANCIS M., REV., minister, U. P. Church; was born in Troy Township in 1829; he is the second son of James and Margaret (Mitchell) Proctor, who were both old residents of that township; James Proctor came to Ohio with his parents from Allegheny Co. in 1816, and settled in Troy Township where he lived until four years previous to his death; he died in Mansfield Oct. 9, 1871, aged 73 years ; Margaret (Mitchell) Proctor died March 31, 1837. Francis M. received his elementary education in this county; and graduated at Franklin College, Ohio, in 1856; he studied theology at the Allegheny Seminary, and was licensed by the Mansfield Presbytery of the U. P. Church to preach in 1857 ; in the year 1858, a call was made out for him by the Cuylerville congregation under the care of the Caledonian Presbytery of the State of New York, which call he accepted, and was ordained Nov. 9, 1858, and installed Pastor of that congregation, who» he remained until February, 1866, when on account of poor health he was compelled to resign his charge, and returned to Richland Co., Ohio, where he has since resided, a resident of Mansfield, and has not retrained hie health sufficiently to engage in the active work. On June 18, 1857, he was married to Miss Lovenia Bowers, of Morrow Co., with whom he has raised six children, two sons and four daughters.

PURDY, JAMES, retired capitalist; was born July 24, 1793, in Hopewell, York Co., Penn.; his father owned a farm on which be had a flouring-mill, located forty miles north of Baltimore ; the non-intercourse laws of 1808-09 and embargo on shipping in our ports embarrassed his business, reduced his income and the value of his property ; James had been given more than an ordinary common-school education, with the intention of giving him a college course ; he was the oldest son, and a change of the pecuniary circumstances required his personal services; he was put to work on the farm, in the mill, and at whatever he would be moat useful.

In 1811, his father sold out, and purchased a farm near Canandaigua, N. Y., to which place he removed with his family ; James continued to labor with him until he became of age, and his father's farm was well improved; he then determined to acquire a liberal education by hie own exertions ; to that end he devoted two years in an academy of high repute in the acquirement of a classical education ; a gentleman of the bar in Canandaigua tendered him a position in his office on very liberal terms, which he accepted, and entered as a law student, in which position he continued three years, the time required in that State for admission to the bar; during all this time, he sustained himself by teaching; either common schools or as assistant teacher in the Canandaigua Academy, with some perquisites of the office ; Sept. 5, 1822, be left for Pensacola; he stopped at Louisville, Ky., on account of the sickness below; while thus waiting, he became acquainted with the effect on society produced by slavery, and determined to settle in a free State; be crossed the river into Indiana and went. to Corydon, where the Supreme Court of the State and the United States District Court were in session, and was admitted to practice in both ; on trial, the location did not suit him he returned eastward, and May 29, 1823, settled in Mansfield, then a rough, unsightly hamlet, and then the farthest west town in that latitude ; the county was then thirty miles square, sparsely settled, with intelligent, industrious and energetic pioneers,

Some years before this time, J. C. Gilkison had brought a printing establishment to this place, and made an unsuccessful effort to establish a paper; he sold to a Mr. Croswaite, who had also issued a prospectus, but failed to get sufficient support, and offered the property for sale; Mr. Purdy purchased it, and gave his note on time therefor, employed J. C. Gilkison as printer, and issued the Mansfield Gazette; he now discovered that the type was worn out and insufficient to print a respectable paper; he went to Cincinnati on horseback, purchased type on credit, and brought it to Mansfield in saddle-bags, the only mode of transportation then available.

In connection with his professional business, he continued to edit the paper until 1831, when he sold it to T. W. Bartley, then a young lawyer, since Judge of

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the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio ; a new circuit of the Court of Common Pleas was organized in the winter of 1823-24, composed of the counties of Richland, Huron, Sandusky, Seneca, Crawford and Marion ; in these, the Courts of Common Pleas held three terms annually, and the Supreme Court one; this circuit he traveled four times a year on horseback, accompanied with other members of the bar, also the Supreme Court in Columbus, and the courts in other counties occasionally ; as the country improved and increased in population, he reduced the territorial extent of his practice; by careful and strict attention to business, and prompt remittances, he was intrusted with a full share of the most important business of the country, from which his income was principally derived.

Canals were located and being constructed in other parts of the State, for which water could not be obtained in this and other counties on the dividing ridge. A canal from the mouth of Little Beaver, on the Ohio River, to the mouth of Big Sandy, on the Ohio Canal, was located and in process of construction by the State. Railroads were then considered quite inferior to canals. He had made an eastern tour and saw the railroads there being constructed and doing business, sad thought a railroad from the western terminus of Sandy and Beaver Canal, westward, through Richland and other counties to the west line of the State, would create a valuable thoroughfare, connecting this part of the State with Pittsburgh, and thence eastward. His professional calling had introduced him to the prominent men of that city, and made him acquainted with the most prominent men on the line of the contemplated improvement.

In the summer of 1834, he wrote a number of these gentlemen, calling a meeting on a certain day at his office, to initiate the construction of this improvement. A meeting was held, composed of representatives from Wayne Co., westward to the State line, at which measures were taken to obtain an act of the Legislature, and Dr. A. G. Miller, S. R. Curbs (afterward General), and he were appointed a committee to forward the work. In the winter of 1834-35, he went to Columbus and procured the necessary legislation, and July 4, 1835, a meeting of the Commissioners therein designated was held at the court house, in Mansfield, and measures adopted to carry into effect the provisions of the charter. Dr. A. G. Miller and S. G. Curbs and he were again appointed a committee to take charge of the work. He called on the Board of Public Works for an engineer and corps to survey and locate the road. They, after much solicitation, in the spring of 1836, appointed S. R. Curtis, who organized his corps in Mansfield, and made the survey and location that summer ; made his report to the Board of Public Works, and the expense was paid by the State. Of this, the Pittsburghers were notified by Mr. Purdy, without whose aid the work could not be done. Railroads had not yet become popular; they had the Pennsylvania canal and Ohio River, and declined co-operation. Thus terminated our labor of two years. But it was not lost. Our attention was directed to the construction of a railroad to Sandusky, which, as hereinafter stated, was completed in June, 1846. Mansfield soon became as important point, and in the tall of 1848, gentlemen of Pittsburgh wrote Mr. Purdy, requesting him to call a meeting at Massillon, which he did. The meeting was attended by Ohioans and Pennsylvanians. A joint charter from the two States was determined on. A committee was appointed to visit Harrisburg, and also one to visit Columbus to obtain the charter. Mr. Purdy and B. Jones, of Wooster, were the committee for Ohio. Mr. Purdy attended, and a joint charter was procured for what afterward became the P., Ft. W. & C. R. R. This company had the benefit of our two years' work and the survey we had made, at the expense of the State. Thus, "large oaks from little acorns grow."

Richland had never become a well cultivated county; immense quantities of produce were by the farmers transported to the Lake on wagons. Our first market was Sandusky. A canal was made from Huron to Milan ; this drew the business from Sandusky to Milan. Sandusky then had a railroad built to Monroeville, operated by horse-power. Much of the Richland trade was withdrawn from Milan to Monroeville and thence to Sandusky. Efforts had been making for some time to get a railroad from Sandusky to Mansfield, and charters therefor had been granted. A charter had been obtained for a railroad from Monroeville to Plymouth. In December, 1839, Judge Patterson and be were appointed to go to Columbus and obtain or have amended a charter for a road from Plymouth to Mansfield, which was accomplished. He, with others, spent the winter among the farmers throughout the county in obtaining stock. In the spring of 1840, the company was organized sod he was appointed President. Under his superintendence, an engineer was appointed and the road located, and in August, 1840, the first ground was broken in Mansfield, in the presence of a large and deeply interested assembly, by John Stewart, the first Surveyor and the first. Auditor of the county, and Gen. Robert Bentley, also an early pioneer and commander of the militia of the county, both farmers. On that day the foundation of Mansfield's prosperity was laid. It then became a railroad terminus. Other railroads were constructed through this point, in all of which he took an active part, and for their construction contributed liberally. These public improvements Lave made Mansfield a railroad center, a commercial and manufacturing city. For this we are deeply indebted to the stalwart pioneers of the county, who subscribed liberally to the clock. Bonds were not then issued, the money had to be raised in the country. The three companies were consolidated; the work progressed slowly, and the cars did not reach Mansfield until June, 1846. It now forms part of the Baltimore b Ohio Railroad. To the contributors the improvements were not s direct financial success, but in the improvements of the country they have their compensation. In 1855, he invested in real estate in Iowa, one tract lay on the west bank of the Mississippi River. He, with others, added to this and laid out the city of Clinton, which, in 1870, contained 8,000 inhabitants, a National Bank, a daily paper and a street car company. The Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad Company was then (1855) organized, of which he became a stockholder, and in which he was offered and accepted a prominent position in locating and constructing the road. It was completed and the enterprise was a pecuniary success. It crossed the

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river at Clinton on a bridge, and has become a part of the route from Chicago to San Francisco. About the same time, be, with two others, purchased a block in Chicago on which they erected seven good buildings which be still owns. As facilities in Mansfield multiplied, business increased, requiring greater money accommodations. In 1845, he took an active part in obtaining the charter for the State Bank of Ohio, of which he became a member of the Board of Control and assisted in the management of its multifarious departments, consisting of forty branches. It was wound up at the termination of its charter, no bill holder ever losing a dollar. He, with the assistance of William Granger, G. Armintrout, David Anderson and John Shank, organized a branch-the Farmers' Bank of Mansfield, of which he was appointed President and Attorney, which position he occupied until the termination of the charter. This bank was the only institution of the kind in Mansfield for many years. It afforded means liberally to business men, and thereby promoted the prosperity of the city. At the expiration of this charter in 1865, the stockholders organized and transferred their stock to the Farmers' National Bank of Mansfield, of which he was appointed President and Attorney, which position he still occupies. Thin is now the only bank in the city that issues notes for circulation. It affords to our manufacturers and others pecuniary means for carrying on, their business and a satisfactory profit to the stockholders. He was connected with other branches and some banking houses in the State. In 1850, he, J. M. Rhodes and S. B. Sturges, established a banking house in Sacramento City, Cal., where he had previously sent some miners, and furnished their outfit. This banking institution built the first fire-proof banking house in that city.

Although his business was extended, he continued to promote the interests of the city by liberally participating in all public improvements, by erecting business houses on Main street, and a comfortable family residence in the suburbs, where he continues to reside. He is a Presbyterian ; not withholding aid from other denominations, his contributions were principally made to that church and its institutions. To the Wooster University he gave $5,000, the interest of which to be used in putting young men through the two last years of the course, who by their own exertions had reached the junior class.

In politics, he is a Whig and a Republican, in all those terms imply, including the N. To the support of these principles ha contributed liberally, but never held a civil office. He has been a soldier and a participant in three wars. In that of 1812-15, he served in the army on the Niagara frontier. By special authority from the Governor, he assisted in enlisting Ohio's quota for the Mexican Army. On the first call for soldiers to suppress the rebellion, he received a telegram from Gov. Denison to enlist soldiers. Within forty-eight hours be raised and put on the cars for Columbus 100 soldiers; physical debility prevented him from accompanying them. As Chairman of the County Committee, he took an active part in raising men, and supplies to those in the field. He was appointed Commissioner for drafting men for the army, which duty he faithfully performed. His son, James, with his consent, enlisted at the age of 16 as a private, continued in the service to the close of the war, being promoted in the mean time to 1st Lieutenant. Although assiduously devoting hie time to his profession, he was still attached to the business of his early life. After providing a home, an office and a library, he purchased a farm, then a mill site and built a mill, which he sold in 1835. In 1836, be purchased lands on the south shore of the Maumee River, opposite the Grand Rapids and an island in the river, thereby becoming the riparian proprietor of three-fourths of the Maumee and of the water-power. Here he erected a flouring-mill, saw-mill and other machinery, which he continues to keep in operation. On part of the land a prosperous town has grown up; on the remainder, farms have been cleared up, and are being cultivated and improved under his own supervision. At the age of 87, although badly crippled by rheumatism, he otherwise enjoys perfectly good health.

RACE, W. H., physician ; came to Mansfield in 1859, and has been engaged is the practice of medicine since, except his service in the army, where he was surgeon in the 3d O. V. I. Returning, he again resumed his profession ; he has served as Coroner for Richland Co. for two terms. Dr. Race is an alumnus of the Ohio Medical College, from which institution he graduated.

RECORD, C. M., boot and shoe dealer; he acme to Mansfield in July, 1878, from Massachusetts; engaged in the manufacturing of boots and shoes, introducing all the late machinery, which added to his success; being prepared to most all competition in price and quality, he is now selling his goods in many places is Ohio, and has a very extensive home custom trade. It is now an established fact, that Mansfield has a first class shoemaker, prepared to make all classes of work, from the very finest hand-sewed boot to the stogy or brogan, as cheap as can be procured in any of the Eastern cities.

REED, N. S., General Agent Richland Mutual Insurance Company ; he was born in Frederick Co., Md., Sept. 7, 1823 ; the third child of dames and Susan Reed, old residents of that place ; he came to Ohio with his parents, who settled in Knox Co. in 1829, where be received his elementary education ; at the ago of 16 years, be commenced the trade of harness-making in Frederick, which he completed in four years afterward; for a year afterward, he was employed in a dry-goods store as clerk, then be purchased a stock of goods and opened a store in Waterford, which he continued for eighteen months, when the death of his father compelled a change and he returned to Frederick, where he resumed his trade, at which he worked until removing to Mansfield is April, 1856, where he plied his vocation until the spring of 1863 ; for three years following, be engaged in real-estate business in this city, when he received the appointment of General Agent of the Richland Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which position he now holds. Mr. Reed was married in Richland Co., March 11, 1852, to Miss Cordelia Geddes; they have four children-Burr W., Lizzie A., Hattie R. and Mary; Burr W. died at the age of 9 years, and Mary at the age of 6 months. Mr. Reed was made a Mason at Frederickton, Ohio, in 1845, in which order be here held a number of subordinate

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offices and is now a member of Venus Lodge, Mansfield. During his residence in thin city, he has been identified in every movement tending toward the improvement of the city and its inhabitants.

REED, INK & LEWIS, jobbers of notions, hosiery and fancy goods. H. L. Reed came to Mansfield in 1865, and engaged in book store, which be continued for some yearn. He established the present business in January, 1875. Mr. Reed was married to Miss Wasson, daughter of William Wasson, of Ashland, Ohio, in 1867. Residence, West Third street.

REMY, PETER, merchant and manufacturer ; he was born Sept. 20, 1830, in Mogendorf, dukedom of Nassau, Germany; he emigrated with his parents to the United States early in the spring of 1844, who located in Mansfield June 29, 1944 ; be was then 14 years of age; the year following, he was employed by Mr. Keith, who was one of the early settlers, and kept a tavern stand one and a half miles north of the city; he remained with him two months, and recalls with gratitude to this day the treatment be then received. His father soon after apprenticed him until he became of age to Lieut. Gov. Thomas H. Ford, desiring that he should thoroughly prepare himself and complete the study of the law; after remaining about ten days, be became dissatisfied, and sought other employment; an uncle, who was then living three miles west of town, kindly found him employment in the dry-goods store of Endly & Wigle, with whom he acted as a salesman for three years ; he was afterward employed in the same business in the firm of Frost & McBride for one year ; this firm having failed, be was in like capacity engaged in the store of Sturges, Grimes & Co., for a period of four years. In December, 1852, be went to California, where he was again hired by Frost. who had preceded him and who was engaged in the same line of business ; he remained with him one and a half years ; for a short time afterward, he did business in Weaverville, then in a placer-mine; soon after, he opened what was then termed a general store. After residing in California four years, be returned to Mansfield, where he has since resided ; in the spring of 1857, be opened a dry-goods store with his cousin, under the firm name of P. & A. W. Remy; this partnership continued until the spring of 1864, when he was next employed in the store of E. & T. Wirt for six months, then doing business on the old Weldon corner ; Nov. 20, 1865, he, in company with James A. Hedges and Abraham C. Cummings, bought out the wholesale grocery, confectionery and liquor house of E. Clapp & Co. ; the firm name was then Remy, Hedges & Co., which was soon after changed to Remy, Hedges & Walters; in this business, he was engaged fourteen years. He is now extensively engaged is manufacturing the celebrated patent thill coupling, also fork, hoe and other handles, in Lodi, Ohio; the firm name is Remy, Warren & Co. During his residence of thirty-four years in this city, Mr. Remy who held many positions of trust and honor; one term as City Treasurer, and again re-elected ; he has served as Treasurer of Madison Township for two terms, and as one of the Infirmary Directors, which position be was compelled to resign, his business demanding his full time; he was a member of the Board of Equalization for six years, and served on the Board of Public Improvements, and for two terms a member of the Richland Mutual Fire Insurance Company ; in all these positions, Mr. Remy served with credit to himself and for the interests of the people.

REMY, A. W., & SON. The above-mentioned firm are well-known grocers and coffee-roasters; they occupy Nos. 4 and 5 South Park street, a double store, 30x70 feet, connected by an arch, with s warehouse is the rear; they have a commodious store, and do a large business, and are first-class grocers; they are also coffee-roasters, and keep the largest variety of fine coffee, both green and roasted, to be found in Mansfield; salt, lard, plaster, water-lime, etc., always on Land and convenient to load ; they make a specialty of clothes-wringers, and are note agents for the Excelsior sad Welcome wringers, with bench, which have been introduced over the county and given universal satisfaction ; they Lave sold hundreds of these ma chines, end would refer say person wishing to bay e wringer to parties using them ; they are guaranteed to be the best in the world.

REMY, E. & F. M., grocers; they were born is Mansfield, and are engaged in the grocery business, 108 Main street; they Lave the finest assortment of staple and fancy groceries in the city, and offer them at bottom prices ; their stock consists of sugars, teas, coffees, sirups, spices, fruits, berries, and vegetables in to their season, flour and feed; they oleo make a specialty of fine cigars and tobacco; goods are delivered free to all parts of the city.

RICHARDSON, JAMES R., manufacturer mineral and soda water. He was born in Allegheny City, Penn., July 1, 1829 ; in 1830, He parents moved to Washington Co., Penn., where his mother died two yearn later, leaving a family of six children, four boys and two girls, the youngest 7 months and the oldest 16 years old. The subject of this sketch obtained a fair common- school education by attending school during the winter months; not relishing the avocation of a farmer, be determined to try the city, and, in 1846, the neat year after the great fire there, be went to Pittsburgh, where an elder sister resided. She had married a gentleman engaged in the manufacture of hats and caps and by whom Mr. Richardson was employed as clerk while here be learned the business, and at the end of three years, he was enabled to purchase his brother-in-law's store, through the aid of e friend and the easy terms of payment given him by his brother-in-law, who wished to retire from the business. After carrying on the business for several years, having once been partially burned out, and losing considerable money, he sold out and invested his means in a steamboat, which he entered in the capacity of receiving and discharging mud-clerk; he engaged in the river trade for some time, holding all the positions on the boat from clerk to captain. In 1867, be sold out, and engaged is the drug business in New Castle, Lawrence Co., Penn. In 1870, he sold out here, and in March, 187l, came to Mansfield, and engaged in the manufacture of mineral and soda water, The confinement in the. drug trade had impaired his health, and his physician recommended him to try out-door employment, or one that would give him considerable physical exercise; the business

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he now follows gives him just that, and is, therefore, fitted for his condition ; in 1875, after the death of Isaac Gass, then Mayor of the city, he was urged to run for the unexpired term ; be did so and was elected by seventy-five majority; two years later, he was re-elected by seventy-four majority; be served out the term, faithfully discharging all the duties of the office. Mr. Richardson was married in 1852, to Miss Mary E. Surles, of Steubenville, Ohio; they are the parents of three children, one boy and two girls, one of whom (a daughter) is dead ; both the other children are married and have families. Mr. Richardaon is now and has been a prominent member of the Masonic Order, I. O. O. F.. K. P. and Knights of Honor.

RHODES, WILLIAM H. This well-known citizen, at present a merchant, on the corner of East Diamond and Fourth streets is of English descent, dating back to the Beaumonts and Honeys ; William H. Rhodes was born in Portage Co. Dec. 8, 1819, and removed to Mansfield in the year 1846; soon after his removal to this county, be was engaged in buying horses for the Eastern market, until the year 1849, and then for a time was proprietor of the old Exchange, on Main street, now the European Hotel, which be soon after relinquished to take charge of the Teegarden House, now the St. James: soon after, he was actively engaged in the grocery business, which he continued until the year 1858, at which time be sailed from New York, by way of the isthmus, for California, where he remained eight years, principally engaged in stock farming. In June, 1866, he returned to his native State, locating in Mansfield, where he has since been engaged in active business. Mr. Rhodes was married in the year 1848, to Miss Alzoa M.. Winslow, by whom he has had nine children, six living-Abbie W.. Father S., George T., Helen S., Carrie E. and Mary A. ; Mrs. Rhodes died Feb. 16, 1869 ; a kind mother and wife, she will long be remembered for her many good qualities of head and heart. Mr. Rhodes comes from a long-lived family, his father and mother both living until about their 80th year, and died in California some years since. William H. Rhodes, the second son in a family of six children, during his residence in this city, has always been considered an upright and good citizen, and respected by the entire community. Two brothers of Mr. Rhodes were for a time in succession cashiers of the old Farmers' Bank, of this city, and will be remembered by the old citizens as good business men.

RICHARD, J. FRAISE Professor, President and founder of the Mansfield Normal College. He was born one mile west of Ashland, Ohio, Jan. 18, 1844 ; at the age of 7, his parents moved from that locality to the southern line of Wood Co. and began to clear up a farm; in this work he_ assisted, remaining on the farm until his 16th year, using such opportunities of education as the district school afforded; with these aids and self study under most trying circumstances, he was qualified to teach a country school during the winter of 1860, being then but 16 years of age; with the means thus secured, he attended the Seneca County Academy at Republic one term in the fall of 1861, under the charge of Prof. Aaron Schuyler, now of Baldwin University returning to his home, he taught during the dark days of 1861-62, and was ready to return to the Academy in September, 1862; when President Lincoln called for 600,000 volunteers, he enlisted in Co. B, 111th O. V. I. and went to the army; he was soon detailed as a clerk, in which capacity be spent over three years in the Government service; for two years he was Chief Clerk of the armies and departments, under the control of Maj. Gens. J. D, Cox, John M. Schofield, George S. Stoneman and John M. Palmer; Twice during his army service he was offered a captain's commission, but they were both refused. At the close of the war, he was offered a position in the War Department at Washington, but it was also refused; returning from the army in 1865, be attended the University at Indianapolis for one year, taking double work ; thence be went to the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, where be completed the business, scientific and classical courses, graduating in August, 1869; during 1869-70, he taught in the Lebanon School; in the fall of 1870, be organized at Republic, Ohio, the Northwestern Normal School, and thus became the pioneer of normal work in Northwestern Ohio. From the hundreds and thousands of pupils received in that school during the five years it was under his management, have been taken the Principal and subordinate teachers of the Valparaiso (Ind.) Normal, to-day the largest normal school in America; some of the teachers in the Ada Normal; lawyers and physicians without number, and innumerable teachers and Superintendents; he fought n portion of a year at Ada, and was Superintendent of the Alliance (Ohio) Public Schools during 1877-78; from Alliance he came to Mansfield. From this sketch it will be seen that, as pupil and teacher, he has been connected with every grade of school in this country, and has acquired a diversified experience. His articles on educational subjects have been published in the Ohio Educational Monthly, the Boston Journal of Education, the Chicago Educational Weekly, the Eclectic Teacher and Southern School Journal, the Common School Teacher, Normal Teacher and Parents' and Teachers' Monthly. He is thoroughly known in the educational world, and is now permanently settled in the work of his life, the building-up of the Mansfield Normal College.

RIEMAN, ANDREW, brewer. He was born in Ida, Precinct of Rhodenburg, Chur, Hessen Germany, July 23, 1826, and was married to Dorethea Kiston, on the 17th day of September, 1848. Mr. Rieman has been a resident of Mansfield since 1857, and during that time has held a number of public positions of honor and trust; he has repeatedly held the position of Councilman from the Third Ward in the City Council, and was elected President of the same several terms, where he served with credit to himself and the city's interest. To Andrew and Dorethea Rieman have been born six children, four of whom are living and two dead-Rosina, born Oct 11, 1849; John, Jan. 21, 1852; Elisabeth, Aug. 11, 1854; Lizzie, Feb. 11, 1856; Andrew, Jr., July 23, 1858; Dorethea, Oct. 16, 1864: Elisabeth Rieman died April 12, 1855, and Andrew Jr., Dec. 18, 1861. Mr. Rieman is now a resident of Mansfield, where he is engaged in an extensive brewing business.

RITCHIE, JAMES, Sheriff of Richland Co. He was born in the County Monahan, Ireland, Oct. 2, 1843;

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he cane to this county with his parents, who emigrated in 1846; the family afterward returned to Ireland in 1852, and in the latter part of the same year again came to America, when they have since resided ; he began carpenter work in 1862, in this city, which trade he acquired and followed until 1875, when he was appointed Deputy Sheriff under John J. Dickson ; he was elected Sheriff of Richland Co. in October, 1877, and re-elected is 1879, which position be now holds. He is the youngest man who has ever been elected to that office in this county. He was married in Mansfield to Kate Bell; they are the parents of six children -Bertie B., born Sept. 19, 1870; Franklin D., born Dec. 8,1872; William W., born April 4, 1873; Nettie May, born July 29, 1876; James J., born Oct. 13, 1879 ; Kate, April 19, 1880.

RITTER, WILLIAM, leather merchant. Wee born in Canton, Ohio; Jan. 10, 1834, where his parents resided previous to their removal to Mansfield in 1836. Since reaching manhood, he has held a number of offices of honor and trust, both in the city and county, to the satisfaction of the people; in 1860, be was elected City Clerk, which position he resigned at the breaking out of the civil war, and entered the army in the three-months service, where he remained during his full term of enlistment; is the fall of 1861, he was elected Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in which office he served two terms of three years each; in 1877, he was elected a Trustee of the Board of Water Works, which office he now holds and is President of the same. In June 24, 1864, he was married to Miss Sarah A. Keech, daughter of C. C. Beech, of this city, now residents of South Main street, Mansfield.

RITTER, JOSEPH (deceased). In 1874, Oct. 20, Mansfield lost one of its old and respected citizens, is the person of Joseph Ritter, who had lived here nearly fifty years, honored and respected, always a gentleman, plain and frank in his intercourse with his fallow-men; he was proverbial for his kindness and rigid honesty; he was born in Brakerl, Westphalia, Germany, is the year 1796, and emigrated to this country in 1818, landing in Baltimore, where be worked at his trade (tanner) until 1822, when be removed to Canton, Ohio, and in 1836, to Mansfield, having previously visited Ohio in 1819; after his retirement from business, a few years previous to his death, and on his fiftieth anniversary in this county, he visited the land of his birth and the scenes of his childhood, interesting incidents of which be was accustomed to relate with minuteness, Joseph Bitter was married in Baltimore, April 2, 1828, to Miss Magaline Eberly, who survives him, and by whom he had three children - John, William and Louisa, who now reside in this city.

RITTER, JOHN, tanner and leather dealer. The senior of the prevent firm of Ritter & Sons, was born in Canton, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1829; when 7 years of age, he came with his parents to this city, where he has since resided ; while quite young, he commenced work in his father's tannery, which trade be afterward acquired, and in which he continued until the organization of the leather firm. He was married in Mansfield, May 8, 1857, to Miss Mary Jane Irwin, who died April 15, 1879, leaving four children.

ROBERTS, MARK L., mechanic and inventor. The subject of his sketch was born in East Whiteland Township, Chester Co., Penn., July 15, 1822, a descendant both on his father's and mother's side of old and well-known families, the one of Welsh and the other of French pedigree ; his younger days were spent on a farm in his native county, where be first began to show that inventive genius that has produced so many useful labor-saving machines during his life. While in his 17th year, he invented a thrashing machine, which he thinks was the second manufactured ; his second invention, a knitting machine and the Roberts Manufacturing Knitting Machine, was the work of sixteen years' hard labor before its accomplishment; an adjustable cork horse-shoe, which is believed to be a great improvement over the old method, be invented in 1873 ; a rake and hay elevator in 1872; a seamless knit bag in 1869. Mr. Roberts' family consists of a wife and six children ; of the sons, Isaac Calvin is a painter; Allen Lewis, an engineer; Wayne F., a needle manufacturer. Mr. Roberts is now living on North Mulberry street, Mansfield, in a beautiful home, diligently at work in other improvements.

ROWLAND, REV. JAMES, was born near Pittsburgh, Penn., Sept. 1, 1792, where he was reared, and graduated at Jefferson College in 1813 ; be was of Scotch - Irish descent, his family having come from the North of Ireland; after leaving college, he went to Washington City, where be taught a preparatory school ; he left Washington after a residence of four years, and opened a classical school at Darlington, Penn., where he remained as teacher and preacher of the Presbyterian faith until the spring of 1820, when be removed to Mansfield, where he was settled over the first church organization in Richland Co., preaching here part of the time and part six miles west on the Leesville road. He was married twice, first to Maria S. Christmas, of Wooster, Ohio, May 2, 1820, who died in November, 1839; second, to Mary A. Moody, of Shippensburg, Penn., May 12, 1841; Mr. Rowland was a ripe scholar, a man of fine personal appearance, end possessed more than ordinary talent ; after a life of usefulness he died at his house in Mansfield, Dec. 20, 1873.

RUMMEL, J. P., proprietor of suspender factory. Was born in 1840, Worthington Township, Richland Co. Married in 1866, to Eva Redrup, she was born in Cleveland; they have the following family: Wilber J. (deceased), Lulu E., Arthur Clifton. Mr. Rummel is conducting an enterprise that is giving employment to a number of hands ; the articles of his manufacture are growing fast in popularity, and consequently is increasing, and is taking the lead of this class of goods.

RUNYAN, BENTLEY S. (deceased). The subject of this sketch, who was one of the active and prominent business men of Mansfield for over sweaty years, was born in Knox Co., Ohio, March 6, 1821 ; be was the eighth child of Hill and Mary L. Runyan, who were old residents of that county; in ,the month of April, 1847, be removed to Mansfield, where he opened a hardware store, near the southeast corner of Walnut and Fourth streets; in the fall of the same year, he changed his location to a room south of Fourth on Main street, where be remained until after purchasing the

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building south of the present European Hotel, in which place for many years be did a large and extensive business, it being the chief hardware store in the city. During his residence in thin city, be was prominent in all public and charitable enterprises, and his name was generally found at the head of the list of those citizens who petitioned and subscribed in the interest of the city and its inhabitants; he was one of the founders of the Mansfield Gas-Light Company, and served as one of its officers, and was elected on an independent ticket as Mayor of the city, in which capacity he gave universal satisfaction; for many years he was an active member and officer of the Richland Co. Agricultural Society, the success of which was due in a great measure to his efforts. He was married in Mount Vernon, Ohio, to Miss Lucinda Murphy, of that place, Jan. 14, 1844 ; five children by this marriage are living--John Bentley, now a resident of Tiffin, Ohio, where he holds the position of Teller in the Tiffin National Bank ; Charles C., of the firm of Bush & Runyan, plumbers and gas-fitters in this city; Robert Mead, iron-roofer and painter, now is the employ of the Aultman & Taylor Co., and two daughters, Almeda and Mary E. B. S. Runyan died in this city Jan. 12, 1869 ; R. Mead Runyan was married in Mansfield, Jan. 20, 1875, to Miss Ida Boyle; two sons were born to them-Frank, born in 1876, died March 18, 1878 ; Harry was born Jan. 15, 1877.

RUSSELL, REV. FRANK, Pastor Congregational Church. (The first part of this sketch was taken from the 3d vol. of the History of the city of Brooklyn, and the rest was written by a lay member of Mr. Russell's church, with the aid of the records). Rev. Russell was born May 19, 1840, at Marion, Wayne Co. N. Y., the eighth of nine children, all boys, and all reared to manhood by the same parents; his father was a well-to-do farmer, and when Frank was 10 or 11 years of age, loot nearly all his property by the failure of business firms, who had used his name as security; Mr. Russell's education was procured by his own efforts; he taught school during the winters when he was 15 and 16 years old, and an academy in Magna Co., when 17; at the same time taking his college-fitting from his 13th to 17th year, at the Collegiate Institute at Marion. In 1858, being prepared for the sophomore year in Yale College, he went to Phillips Co., Ark., with the determination of earning sufficient money by teaching to defray the expenses of the college and seminary courses. Associated with an elder brother, he was soon at the Lead of an academy which flourished beyond all expectation, and became the organizer of the first teachers' associations and normal work ever known in that part of the State. His home was with an eminent physician, where he improved an excellent opportunity of studying medicine, the advantages of which have been perceptible in all his subsequent work. He remained teaching with increasing success every respect until the entrance of the Union army in the summer of 1862, when every dollar, all personal property, library, horses, etc., sad even wardrobe, were lost amid the ravages of war. Three of Mr. Russell's brothers were in the army, one of whom was killed when leading the 2d Kansas Regiment, of which he was Lieutenant Colonel. Mr. Russell made his way to Michigan, became Instructor is Adrian College, where with highest honors he also took his degree in 1864, under Dr. Mahan; he entered Union Seminary in New York City the same year, continued his self-support by teaching the classics and phonography, doing mission work, speaking and writing. Married the daughter of a clergyman in 1866; graduated in 1867, and removed at once to Philadelphia, where, during his last Seminary year, he had gone weekly to preach to an unorganized congregation. He was greatly blessed in his labors, organized Plymouth Church, and on that occasion was both ordained and installed Pastor, his friend, Dr. J. P. Thompson, preaching the sermon. He was unwearying in raising funds for the new building, which was built and dedicated at the corner of Nineteenth and Master streets. Mr. Russell left this work, and was called to what was then the Fifth Avenue Congregational Church in Brooklyn, N. Y.; in April, 1868 very soon after, by a difficulty it had been rent in twain. One year from this division it was re-united with added forces, under the name of the Park Congregational Church, and Mr. Russell was installed Pastor, his own previous Pastor, Rev. Hoary Ward Beecher, preaching the sermon. A new building was erected on the corner of Sixth Avenue sad Seventh street, he raising therefor over $9,000 outside the parish. After over five years of active labor here, his home was broken up by the death of his estimable wife, when at the suggestion and aid of his generous and loving people, be left his two young children in appropriate care, and traveled in Europe, returning al the close of 1873 ; he very Boon removed to the charge of the First Congregational Church is Kalamazoo, Mich. In May, 1876, Mr. Russell was married to a daughter of Judge Henry, of Detroit. He found his church the eighth in sise of the churches of that order in the State, and after it had become the fourth in size and the church for the first time in twenty-two years entirely relieved of debt, he was visited with the sad calamity of the burning of his dwelling with almost its entire contents, including his fine library of over 1,100 volumes, and over 16,000 pages of manuscript, and also a valuable cabinet of minerals and curiosities. In the prime of his strength, his wife and children al] in excellent health, Mr. Russell was soon called to his present charge in Mansfield, where he was installed Pastor on the 15th of May, 1878. The pastorate of Mr. Russell in Mansfield has thus far been marked by an earnest and systematic effort to promote the bast interests of the church and the community. He has shown himself to be a severe student, and a zealous, painstaking laborer in the Master's vineyard ; his methods are practical, and his manner of teaching and preaching attractive and impressive ; his sermons are the result of thought and exhaustive preparation, and ere fully committed and delivered extempore, entirely without notes ; his interest in the reform and philanthropies that seek the good of the community, calls him to impress upon them the peculiar bent of his mind, and systematic and business-like efforts characterize the movements, which are quickened and expanded by the influence of his skillful touch, end made to bud and blossom with promise ; within s year from the commencement of Mr. Russell's labors in the church, occurred the heroic and wonderfully successful struggle

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with the great and overshadowing church debt, in which $40,000 were pledged to wipe out the incubus. Within a year also, the great revival under the leadership of Messrs. Whittle & McGrannahan added sixty-four members by confession, the other churches of the city also reaping adequate harvests ; temporally and spiritually the church has prospered greatly under Mr. Russell's charge, the congregations have been enlarged, the payer and conference meetings have been largely increased is numbers and intensified in interest, and the Sabbath school has Gad exceptional growth, and is the beautiful and flourishing garden of the church, which is to gladden the future with abundant fruitage ; the enthusiasm of the youth of the society has bees stimulated and aroused as it never has been before, sad the beneficence sad missionary spirit of the church have been broadened and deepened, end bear onward unusual blessings. In all these realizations, the active brain and willing, practiced hand of Mr. Russell are visible. For the benefit of the community Mr. Russell has, together with the Pastors of the other evangelical denominations, begun a work that cannot but be wide-reaching in its influences, blessings and comforts for the poorer classes. The Union Church work was great in its conception sad noble in its purpose ; it seeks to clothe the asked, feed the hungry and lift up the degraded and sin-stricken, it is practical Christianity as taught by the Savior. Mr. Russell has taken active interest in this movement, and the resident clergy are working harmoniously and efficiently in its behalf; the larger success is yet to come. One of the principal efforts of Mr. Russell has been to promote brotherly feeling and unity of action among the evangelical churches, as the beet way to assure God's blessings by deserving them; he has been met in the proper spirit, and all is harmony and peace and promise. Among what has been published from Mr. Russell's pen apart from newspaper columns, special mention should be made of some outline lessons of Biblical study, several addresses, quite a number of pamphlet sermons, And s volume on the "State of the Dead," and the geographical index to the collection of maps in one of the beat-known teachers' Bibles, believed to be the first index of the kind applied to Biblical maps. His largest work is entitled, "What Jesus Says," a large 12mo of 400 pages, being a compilation of all the utterances of the Savior arranged under topics, with a careful index; the edition of this work was very soon exhausted, showing it has met and filled a want recognized among Christians.

SEAMAN, CONSTANTINE ORORICK, was born in Virginia, April 8, 1820, and came to Ohio and settled in Wayne Co. in 1833, and to Mansfield in October, 1842. C. O. Seaman was married in 1839 to Margaret Furguson, who died in 1849. In the year 1852, he was married to Miranda Hill, who died in 1866, and in the year 1870, he was married to Rebecca Furguson. Mr. Seaman, in his younger days, was considered one of the strong men of Richland Co., and during his residence here has done much hard labor in assisting to clear up the country and make Mansfield what it is. Mr. Seaman is of English and Irish descent, and inherits a strong constitution; is in active life, and a resident of the Third Ward, Mansfield, where be has lived many years.

SEWARD, JAMES P., attorney ; was born in Knox Co., Ohio, Oct. 6, 1851, at Mt. Vernon ; moved to Mansfield in 1856: He attended the Vermillion Institute, Hayesville, Ashland Co.; also attended the Oberlin College; read law with Manual May; admitted to the bar, Aug. 22, 1876, in Lorain Co.; engaged in the practice of law in Mansfield is the fall of 1876, and still continues in the practice. In 1877, he was appointed Secretary of the Democratic Executive Committee; in 1878-79, promoted to the chairmanship of the committee. Mr. Seward ably conducted the campaign of 79, which, by his unceasing assiduity, resulting in a great victory is Richland Co. for Democracy.

SHERMAN, JOHN, HON. The name Sherman is by no means common in England, though it has been highly respected and honored. Sir Henry Sherman, of Yaxley, was one of the executors of the will of the Earl of Derby, dated May 23, 1521; William Sherman, Esq., purchased Knightstown, in the time of Henry VIII; a monument to William Sherman is in Ottery, May, 1542. [Hollister History Conn., Vol. 2, p. 440.]

None of the records now accessible show precisely the relation between the Shermans of Yaxley, and Edmund Sherman of Dedham, Essex Co., whose descendants came to America. The latter was a clothworker and a man of means; his initials were found on a stained-glass window (his gift), one of the buttresses of the church was built by him, and the pupils of the free school indorsed by him were seen going to church in procession, by the Rev. Henry B. Sherman, new Pastor of the Church of the Ascension, Esopus, N. Y.

Edmund Sherman married Ann Pellet April 30, 1560; their son Edmund married Ann Clark June 11, 1584 ; their son, Edmund 3d, had a fourth Edmund, who came to this country with his three sons-John, Edmund and Samuel, and a nephew, John Sherman, but with his son Edmund, returned to England in 1636, and left the three boys to work their way in the new world. The nephew John was the ancestor of Roger Sherman. The son John was the Rev. John Sherman, of Watertown, Mass., the most noted mathematician at that time in New England. Samuel, his brother, was the ancestor of the Ohio Shermans. His son, Deacon John Sherman, died in 1730; his son, John 3d, died in 1727; his son, Daniel, was born Aug. 14, 1721, and was one of the noted men of Connecticut. Cothren (page 190) says of Daniel Sherman: "He was perhaps the most distinguished man that had arisen in the town (Woodbury) previous to his day." He was a Justice of the Quorum for twenty-five years, and Judge of the Litchfield County Courts five years from 1786. For sixteen years, he was Probate Clerk for the District of Woodbury, and Judge of that District thirty-seven years. He represented his native town in the General Assembly sixty-five sessions, retaining the unbounded confidence of his fellow-citizens. It is to be remembered that there were two sessions a year, May end October. He was a man of commanding powers of mind, of sterling integrity, and every way well qualified for the various public trusts confided to his care. He died at a good old age, and full of honors.

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Stoddard, a descendant of the Rev. Anthony Stoddard, one of the justly noted men of New England. To know what is in the present Sherman family, and whence it came, it is necessary to give some account of this line of their ancestry. The ministry of Mr. Stoddard was remarkable for its duration and the peace and prosperity that attended it. From the date of his first sermon as a candidate, to that of his last, immediately preceding the brief illness that terminated his useful labors, he numbered sixty years in his holy calling. "We have contemplated him," says Cothren, (page 140). "hitherto only as a minister of the Gospel ; but his labors ended not here. He was at the same time minister, lawyer and physician. Like many of the early ministers of the colony, he prepared himself for the practice of physic, that he might administer to the wants of the body as well as the mind.

"He was Clerk of the Probate for the District of Woodbury, then comprising many towns, for a period of forty years; in this capacity, he drew most of the wills for his parishioners, and did nearly all the business of the office. * * * All the records of the court during the time he was Clerk, appear in his handwriting. '

The characteristics of the Rev. Anthony Stoddard appear in the widow of Taylor Sherman, his granddaughter, for, a one of the grandchildren sage, "She made us stand around."

The Hon. Taylor Sherman, having married Elizabeth Stoddard, lived at Norwalk, Conn., lost property by depredations of the enemy during the Revolution ; inherited a part of the fine lands in Ohio, and came out in 1808 as Commissioner to make a partition of them.

The Hon. Charles R. Sherman, his son, married Mary Hoyt in Norwalk, Conn„ is 1810; after being robbed as Internal Revenue Collector by his Deputies, and thus broken up, be came West with his wife and one child on horseback, and settled in the town of Lancaster.

Lancaster at that time was noted all over the State and the West generally, for the learning and talent of its bar, yet Mr. Sherman placed himself in a position in accordance with the splendid history of the Sherman family. At the age of 35, when he had fairly entered upon a successful legal practice, before accumulating more than barely enough to pay the expenses of settling in a new country, he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. In a brief memoir by Gen. Reese, it is said, "He rose rapidly to eminence as a polished and eloquent advocate and as a judicious and reliable counselor at law. Indeed, is the elements of mind necessary to build up and sustain such a reputation, few men were his equal is Ohio." While on the bench at Lebanon, be was taken suddenly ill, and died on the 24th of June, 1829.

He left a family of eleven children, of whom the eldest was 16 years of age, and the youngest 6 weeks. Of these Gen. W. T. Sherman was the sixth, and the Hon. John Sherman the eighth. The widow, having scant means to maintain herself and family, could do little toward educating them. The Hon. Thomas Ewing adopted William Tecumseh and had him made a cadet at West Point, and he thereby became a distinguished General, being now at the head of the Army of the United States.

John, at 8 years of age, was adopted by his father's s cousin, John Sherman, of Mount Vernon, with whom he remained until 1831, when he went to Lancaster to school. In 1837, he was appointed junior rod-man on the Muskingum Improvement, under Col. Samuel Curtis. In the spring of 1840, his brother, Charles T., then in the practice of law in Mansfield, invited him here ; after four years' study, when 21 years of age, he was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law. He began public life in 1855 as a Representative in Congress. His upward career was rapid and sure he was kept at his post all through the war of the rebellion, doing valiant service, in the Senate and in organizing troops for the war. After the war, he was continued then until his call to the office of Secretary of the Treasury, which place be has so signally and successfully filled.

All the other members of Judge Sherman's family lived to grow up and occupy respectable positions in society.

SHERMAN, CHARLES J. (deceased) ; Judge Sherman was born in Norwalk, Conn., Feb. 3, 1811, and was brought by his parents to Lancaster, Ohio, about a year later ; be graduated at the Ohio University, at Athens, about 1829 ; be studied law with Henry Stoddard, at Dayton, and, after being educated to the bar, came to Mansfield about 1835 ; he remained here, steadily engaged in practice, until 1867, when be was appointed United States District Judge at Cleveland, where be settled and lived until his death, Jan. 1, 1879. He was married, in 1841, to Eliza Williams, of Dayton ; they became the parents of seven children, five of whom are now living, viz.: Mary Hoyt, born in 1842, now the wife of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, of the U. S. A. Henry Stoddard, born in 1835, now practicing law in Cleveland; John, Jr., born in 1847, now U. S. Marshal in New Mexico: Charles F. Cook, born in 1848, died in infancy; Anna Wallace, born in 1850, died Jan. 1, 1870; Eliza A. Williams, born in 1852, sow the wife of Colgate Hoyt, of Cleveland ; Elizabeth Bancroft, born in 1857, now the wife of J. D. Cameron, U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania. Judge Sherman resigned his judgeship in 1873, and, during the remainder of his life, held no office. Judge Sherman, while a resident of Mansfield and which crowned the very prime of his life, was active in promoting all the material interests of Mansfield and the county of Richland-specially in the organization of the agricultural society, in the introduction of better modes for the larger production of the .better quality of fruits; be was for years one of the officers of the S., M. & N. R. R. Co. (now a part of the B. & O. R. R.); took a very active part in the projection and building of the P. Ft. W. & C. R. R., and was the first general solicitor, or counsel, of said company ; he had a large practice as an attorney but seldom appeared at the bar, preferring the work of a counselor in the office, and was one of the moat genial of men in social life, a safe adviser and stanch friend.

SIMPSON, JOHN, PROF., Superintendent of the pity schools ; he was born in Richland Co., Ohio, June 26, 1829. He was married, Dec. 25, 1862, to Miss Millie J. Stringer, who was born in Ashland Co.; they have three daughters-Mary Blanche, born Feb. 16, 1864;

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Helen Agusta, Feb. 21, 1868, and Gertrude A., Feb. 10, 1870. Prof. Simpson graduated at Jefferson College, Penn., in 1858 ; be extend the Hayesville Institute, as a teacher, about the year 1860 ; he was soon installed as Professor of mathematics, and lecturer on physical geography ; in this department he distinguished himself, until he was recognized as one of the best instructors and ablest mathematicians of the State; he subsequently became President of the institute, and continued in this capacity until 1871 ; he then entered the public schools of Mansfield ; after a little more than a year's experience of his ability, the Board of Education elected him Superintendent, a position which he has held with marked success for the past seven years, and to which he had been unanimously reelected by the board. The wide reputation of Prop. Simpson has been filly recognized by the Faculty and Trustees of the University of Wooster is their bestowal upon him, at their annual commencement, of the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

SMITH, HIRAM R. ; retired merchant. His father, Asa Smith, was born at Albany, N. Y., September, 1760; did on his farm near Huron, Ohio, Aug. 30, 1815. His mother (her maiden name Hannah Richmond) was born at Providence, R. I., March 21, 1774; died at Sandusky City Aug. 30, 1842. His parents with their family four daughters and two sons-emigrated to Ohio just before the war of 1812; they embarked on a sail - boat (before any steamer was on the lake) at Buffalo for Ohio, and landed at the mouth of Huron River, where they located their farm adjoining the present village of Huron ; here they remained during the war, encountering all the privations of a pioneer life and dangers from the Indians, who were prowling all over this section of country at that time. Here the subject of this memoir, Hiram R. Smith, was born, on the banks of Lake Erie near Huron, Ohio, Jan.. 7, 1813. He came to Mansfield September, 1824 ; lived with Hugh McFall, tending store morning and evening, and went to school during the day ; his teacher was Col. Alexander Barr, who kept in the old frame school-house of one room, known as the Big Spring Schoolhouse, on the ground where the soap factory now stands. He lived with Hugh McFall fifteen years as salesman in a general stock of goods. From 1824 until the opening of the New York Canal, there was no market for the products of the country ; therefore no prices to remunerate the farmer-wheat, 25 cents ; corn, 12 1/2 ; oats, 10 ; flour, $1.50 per barrel ;pork, $1.50 per hundred ; butter, 5 to 6 cents per pound; eggs, 3 to 4 cents per dozen. Goods were bought in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, loaded on big Pennsylvania wagons with six horses in Philadelphia, and hauled through to Mansfield, which took from five to six weeks; on the return of the team they loaded with ginseng, beeswax, feathers, cranberries, butter and maple sugar. During the time he was with Hugh McFall he send as Deputy Postmaster for eight years and six months ; did all the business in post-office department ; though his fidelity, economy and energy he succeeded in accumulating some means ; then engaged in business for himself in general merchandise, as was usually the custom in those times. He was married in 1839 to Ann C. Loiter; she was born in Washington Co., Md. ; died in Mansfield June 7, 1850. They had the following children: Henry, born March 31, 1840 (enlisted in the army during the rebellion ; died in Arkansas in 1862) ; Mary Felicia, born June 25, 1842, died July 20, 1876, (her death cast a gloom over the entire community; she had the qualities of true womanhood-religious and social--also a gentle and kind disposition; she endeared herself to many friends and had no enemies : she was a Christian and an earnest Sabbath school worker ); Richmond Smith, born Dec. 14, 1844; Clare Ann, Feb. 8, 1848; died July 26, 1875; Miss Smith was for some time a teacher in the public schools; she also won many friends through her kind and gentle disposition: she was always ready to lend a helping hand is matters pertaining to the good of those around her; although her sufferings were intense, she bore them with Christian resignation and departed in great peace. Mr. Smith's second marriage occurred May 16, 1854, to Ann Ward: she was born in Richland Co. ; they have two children Ward Smith, born Oct. 1, 1856, was married to Mattie Hart, of Mansfield, Nov. 9, 1879; Rena May, born Aug. 8, 1860, she resides with her parents in Mansfield. Mr. Smith has been engaged quite extensively in the mercantile business, has filled different positions of trust and honor, and has proven himself worthy ; also has added greatly to the improvements of this city; has erected several fine buildings, among them the Opera Hall building; he has always encouraged every public enterprise that would be a benefit to the community and especially add to the advancement of the city ; he has also borne a portion of the pioneers' burdens, and can look back when Mansfield was in its infancy; be has grown up with the progress of the city, has participated in the work of progression. and has been one to help Mansfield raise up to her present status-one among the number to say: "Let us Lave a good pioneer history of our county," with a helping Land; he ranks among the first on the list; this is characteristic of H. R. Smith.

SMITH, WILLIAM (deceased) ; be was born in Washington Co., Pears., Nov. 5, 1788, and was descended from an old Washington Co. (Penn.) family; he name to this county in the fall of 1822, and first settled on a tract of land about two miles east of Mansfield, where he lived several years, when he purchased an interest in what was then known as the Tingley & Phearson carding machine and woolen factory, then located a short distance north of town ; he continued is this business nearly three years, when he removed to Mansfield ; two years later, he purchased of Robert McCombs a tract of land situated one and a half miles east of the court house, on the Rocky Fork of the Mohican, at that time covered with a dense forest ; this be partially cleared, and on it he built a house, where he lived and continued to improve the land ; some, years afterward, be erected a carding machine sad fulling-mill on the stream, which be operated a few years, and then started a flouring and grist mill, is which business he was engaged until 1844, when be removed to Mansfield, where he continued to reside until his dealt, which occurred May 5, 1846. William Smith was married in Washington Co., Penn., June 23, 1814, to Miss Sarah Lyle, a native of chat county, who

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was born Feb. 1, 1794 ; they were the parents of twelve children - James, born Feb. 7, 1815, died Aug. 9, 1863; Sarah A., April 1, 1816; Robert Lyle, April 11, 1818, died Dec. 14, 1831; Abigail, June 28, 1820, died Oct.. 6, 1831 ; William, Feb. 28, 1822 ; David Lyle, April 27, 1824 ; Mary Jane, March 4, 1826, died July 3, 1828 ; Rebecca, May 24, 1828, died Aug. 29, 1828; Ebenezer, Aug. 1, 1829,. died May 23,.1852; Robert Ray, born Oct.. 9, 1831 ; Samuel Lyle, Dec. 26, 1833, died Nov. 17, 1874; Isabella, May 18, 1836, died March 29, 1837. Mrs. Mary Lyle Smith died at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. James Clerk, near Mansfield, Oct.. 3, 1878.

SMITH, J. F., dealer in coal ; he is a native of Knox Co.; he came to Mansfield six years ago ; he is engaged as coal dealer, and has on hand a good supply of all kinds of coal, and delivers to all parts of the city ; office on North Main street.

SMITH, JONAH, Jr., engineer ; a resident of Mansfield, who springs from an old Western Pennsylvania family ; his father, Henry E., was a native of Fayette Co., born is the year 1812 ; his mother, Margaret D. Carr, was born in Pittsburgh in 1816 ; in after years, the parents removed to Ohio ; Jones Smith; Jr., was born in Wooster, Wayne Co., in 1849, and received his education at the Massillon public schools ; since 1867, he has been connected, as a fireman and engineer, with a number of the leading railroads of the West; for twelve and a half years, he was employed on the P., Ft. W. & C. R. R. and its divisions, as fireman and engineer, respectively, and, afterward, on the T. & A. A. R. R. Mr. Smith has the reputation of being a careful and well-posted engineer, enjoying the confidence of railroad officials wherever he has labored.

SMITH, RICHMOND (son of Hiram R. Smith}, Secretary of the Richland Mutual Insurance Co.; was born Dec. 14, 1844. Married to Alice Dull, of Mansfield, Oct. 18,1876. Mr. Smith has been very efficient in his labors, end has aided greatly in raising the company to its present substantial basis.

SMITH, E. W., insurance and real-estate; he was born in Washington Township, Richland., May 8, 1822. Married, Sept. 26, 1854, in Zanesville, Ohio, to Sarah Gutherie Metcalf, who was born July 10, 1835, at Lenox, Berkshire Co., Mass.; they have the following children : Caroline L., born March 2, 1856 ; Anna M.. May 15, 1860; S. Dwight, May 6, 1868. Mr Smith was raised on a farm in this county. He graduated at Oberlin College is 1845. In 1846, he went to Chicago with Rev. J. B. Walker, and assisted him in conducting a paper called the Herald of the Prairies; continued there three years, and then returned to Mansfield. In 1850, he and M. Day bought of J. C. Gilkison, and established the Mansfield Herald, which is yet published under the same name. While engaged is the publication of this paper, he was appointed, without solicitation, in 1851, General Agent of the American Bible Society for one-half of the State of Ohio, and continued in that work till May, 1870. Afterward engaged is the real-estate and insurance business, and still continues is that work.

SNYDER, SAMUEL S., contractor; he was born in Cumberland Co:, Penn., Sept. 13, 1816, the first child of Henry and Elisabeth Snyder. In September, 1834, he removed to Ohio with his parents, who first settled in Mansfield, and afterward resided on a farm west of the city for two years; during this time, and until the age of 21, be followed clearing, and carried the mail to Bucyrus and Delaware and return. In August, 1837. Mr. Snyder was married to Miss Irene Stevens of this county, with whom he raised a family of six children ; two sons are now in active business in this city. In the year 1846, he removed to Mansfield having previously followed farming. For a number of years, he was engaged is the grocery business in Mansfield, and was located a great part of the time on the northeast corner of Main and Third streets. In 1850, Mr. Snyder was appointed Deputy Sheriff under Wharf, which position he held for four years. It was while engaged in this service, he was attacked by a desperate prisoner in which be came near losing his life. During his long residence in Mansfield, be has held numerous official positions, and in each has been faithful to the trusts confided to him ; at one time Postmaster, then collector for Hall A Allen until elected Auditor of Richland Co., in 1864, and re-elected, serving two full terms. Mr. Snyder is now a resident of East Third street, and, of late years, has been engaged in business principally as a contractor is street improvements.

SNYDER, C. H., dentist ; he was born in Mansfield in 1864 ; be was educated and graduated in the city schools ; graduated at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, at Cincinnati, Ohio.

SNYDER, GEORGE W., railroad agent ; he was born in Mansfield Jan. 25, 1847, where he received his elementary education ; in 1864, he became connected with the A. & G. W. R. R., at Mansfield, as clerk in the agent's office, which position he held until March 1873, when he received the appointment of ticket and freight agent on the same road ; after the formation of the Mansfield Stock-Yard Company, controlled by the A. & G. W. R. R., his business qualifications were recognized by an appointment to the additional office of general manager of that company, both of which positions he now holds. He was married Oct. 16, 1872, in Knox Co., Ohio, to Miss Lizzie Tulloss; they have two children, a son and daughter-Bennie T., born Aug, 14, 1873, and Georgia Belle, born July 4, 1876.

SPENCER, JOHN G., proprietor of opera boot sad shoe store; be was born, 1837, in Ireland; came to Pique, Ohio, 1854 ; engaged there is dry-goods trade for ten years ; came to Mansfield in 1866, where he engaged in the wholesale and retail boot end shoe trade ; more recently, be established the Opera House boot and shoe store, one of the largest retail stores in Northern Ohio; this establishment carries at all times an immense stock of first - class work, and, buying only from first hands, offers inducements not surpassed in this State ; buyers will here find an unrivaled assortment, consisting of over one thousand different varieties, and the reputation of Spencer a store for low prices is well known all over Richland Co., and commends itself to the general public.

STEVENSON, ANDREW, attorney ; was born April 1, 1844, in Weller Township, Richland Co.; was educated at the Vermilion Institute, Hayesville, Ashland Co. He went to the army; was in the Ohio Cavalry, served four months. He was discharged under a

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writ of habeas corpus, being under 18 years of age. He returned to Mansfield, commenced the study of law with the firm of Bartley & Johnson ; was admitted to the bar in 1865; then went to Pittsburgh, Penn., and commenced the practice of law, and continued one year and six months; then returned to Mansfield in the winter; of 1866, and resumed the practice of law. In 1869, was. nominated Prosecuting Attorney by a majority of 1,190 over his opponent, Thomas McBride, and served in that office two years. Went to Marysville, Union Co., Ohio, in 1873, and resumed the practice of law. Engaged in the political campaign for Hon. E. F. Poppleton; stumped the entire district. In 1875, was strongly solicited to become a candidate for nomination for member of Congress; district composed of the counties of Marion, Delaware, Union and Hardin. He received the caucus vote of Union and Hardin Cos., and peremptorily refused to be a candidate, having pledged himself to give his influence to Hon. E. F. Poppleton for his renomination. In the winter of 1878-79, returned to Mansfield, resumed the practice of law with the Hon. R. B. McCrory.

STEWART, JAMES (deceased). Judge Stewart was born in Chanceford, York Co., Penn., Aug. 2, 1802 ; his paternal ancestors came from Ireland about the middle of the eighteenth century ; his father, John Stewart, was. born in York Co. in 1776; his mother, Jane Duncan, was of Scotch descent; they were married about the year 1800, and became the parents of three children-two boys and one girl ; the eldest son, according to the custom of those times, inherited the homestead where his son, James, now resides. In the spring of 1805, the parents of Judge Stewart moved to Ontario Co., where they remained until 1824, when they came to Richland Co.; when they moved to Ontario Co. it was then the "West," in a measure, and was yet unpopulated;. they purchased a farm of the Government, near the town of Seneca, and erected a hewed-log house, much better than the average cabins of the day ; they were industrious, frugal and economical, and soon had a pleasant and comfortable home. Under such influences Judge Stewart passed his early life ; of an active mind, he soon learned to read and write, and having the advantage of good schools in Seneca, be made rapid progress in learning; afterward be entered the academy at Canandaigua, where he continued to pursue his studies (save a few intervals spent in teaching) until he came to Mansfield in 1822; here be established the first academy in the town, which be conducted two years, when (in the autumn of 1824) he went to Oxford College, remaining only a year or so, not completing his course. In 1826, he was married to Margaret Loughridge, a beautiful woman, possessed of a lovely Christian character, from whom be had the sad misfortune to be separated by death two years later; she left one daughter, Cecilia, now Mrs. John Sherman; of Washington City. Two years after he was married, Judge Stewart was admitted to the bar, having studied law in the office of Judge Parker; he soon rose in practice, occupying the front rank in his profession ; he continued the duties of his profession until the spring of 1850, when Judge Parker's term, as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, expiring, he was appointed to the vacancy, in accordance with the unanimous wish of the bar; in the fall of 1851, this office was vacated by the new constitution ; Judge Stewart was called by the unanimous vote of the people of his district to the position of District Judge, there being no opposing candidate; from this time until the expiration of his judicial term, in 1856, be was constantly occupied with the duties of the bench ; two years after the expiration of his term his death occurred (Feb. 24, 1858). He was married the second time, to Mary Mercer, who died Aug. 14, 1860. As a jurist, Judge Stewart had few superiors ; he was prompt., accurate, clear, unprejudiced and independent ; his mind was eminently a judicial one, and to no one could the younger members of the bar go, in whose word and opinion they could have more confidence; in all public interests he was ready and willing to do his part ; as a private citizen be was unexcelled, while as a parent end husband he was kind, congenial and true.

STRAUB, JACOB, wagon-maker; he was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., April 11, 1826, and removed to Richland Co., Ohio, with his parents when but 4 weeks old ; they settled on Sec. 17, in Mifflin Township. Having chosen wagon-making as his trade, be came to Mansfield, and began work in the shop of William Berringer, where he completed his trade in 1847. Directly afterward, be commenced piece-work until accumulating sufficient capital to buy the stock of his employer in 1848, in which business be has continued to the present time ; now considered the pioneer wagon-maker of Richland Co. He was married in 1850, to Elizabeth Christman, who died April 29, 1868, in Mansfield ; he had three children by this marriage, one of whom is living. Again married in June, 1871, to Mary Lehr; be has one son by this marriage-Harry, born Jan. 9,1873. During Mr. Straub's long and active life in this county, be has passed through many of the experiences of those who preceded him-Laving but a few dollars when leaving the homestead-nothing daunted, he has continued steadily at his trade while being called by his fellow men to positions of honor and trust, as Land Appraiser, repeatedly chosen Assessor, and elected a member of the City Council three terms, three years of which he acted as its President, serving with distinction.

STRICKLER, CHRISTOPHER, cabinet-maker and wheelwright. The subject of this sketch was born in Cheater Co., Penn., April 27,1827 ; he is the fourth son of Amos and Mary Scott Strickler, one of the old families of that county; when 17 years of age, he was apprenticed to learn the trade of wheelwright, which he completed at the age of 21 ; not wholly satisfied with this vocation, he worked at cabinet-making several hours each evening, which trade he finally accomplished some years later by denying himself many hours of real; some time after, however, he continued the trade of wheelwright exclusively, in his native county, where he remained until April, 1868, when be removed with his family to Mansfield, Ohio, and was employed in the shops of Blymeyer, Day & Co. ; since then be has been constantly engaged in the Mansfield Machine Works. Mr. Strickier was married in Philadelphia, Penn., Dec. 16, 1852, to Miss Susan Hopton, a descendant of an old Quaker family, by whom he has had four children-Sallie, born Sept. 30, 1858; Anna Elizabeth, Oct. 22, 1862 ; Clinton, April 15, 1865;

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Mary Gertrude, March 21, 1867; they are now residents of Wood street, and members of the Congregational Church.

STRONG, FREDERICK W., deceased ; he was born near Frederick, Md., Feb. 18, 1812 ; he came to Ohio when quite young, and located in Mansfield in 1840, where, for many years, be was engaged in the dry-goods trade, and afterward, and until his death, was the founder and head of the well-known produce and commission house of F. W. Strong, Son & Co. ; during his long residence in this city, covering a period of newly forty years, he wee accounted one of its leading citizens and merchants ; a man of sound judgment and business tact, he was active and successful. Mr. Strong was married March 4, 1838, to Miss Lucina R. Poppleton, to whom were born two children-Lyman A. and Lucina J.; Lucina was married in this city Oct.. 29, 1861, to Prof. W. H. Ingersoll, who died in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 30, 1876 ; one child, a daughter, by this marriage, is now living. F. W. Strong died Jane 10, 1879, in Mansfield, having lived as upright and consistent Christian life, and been a member of the Congregational Church for many years.

STRONG, LYMAN A., merchant; he was born March 2, 1839; and received his elementary education is this city, and afterward continued his studies at the Marietta College, where he graduated is 1861 ; returning home, he commenced the study of law in the office of Watson & Dirlam, and was admitted to the bar in 1864. Since 1865, he has been a member of the well-known firm of F. W. Strong, Son & Co., produce and commission merchants, and is one of Mansfield's representative business men. He was married Oct. 31, 1865, to Miss Fannie M. Whitney, of this city.

STURGES, EBEN P., Sr. (deceased) Mr. S. was born in Fairfield, Conn., on the 12th of August, 1784. At the early age of 14, be embarked in a subordinate capacity on bored of a merchantman owned by a relative. It was not his design to make a sea-faring life his profession, but while on the vessel no one discharged his duties more assiduously. At 16 years of age, he was first officer, and before he was 21 was master and part owner of the ship. He commanded the merchant vessel Madisonia when hostilities broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812. Soon after the commencement of the war, he was homeward bound, on a voyage from South America, with a valuable cargo, Early in the voyage, he was informed by an American privateer of the existence of hostilities, and a few days subsequently, he was captured by a British frigate the Garland and sent with his crew as prisoners of war to Kingston, Jamaica. Here, after enduring severe hardships and passing through an attack of yellow fever, he was released on parole. He embraced the first opportunity to return to the United States, where he arrived safely, but enfeebled in health by confinement and disease. After recovering sufficient strength, he came to Ohio on a visit to his sister, the late Mrs. Ebenezer Buckingham, of Putnam. Having determined to relinquish the sea he turned his mind to a new field of enterprise. This portion of the State of Ohio was then an almost unbroken wilderness. Forming, his plan, he returned east and formed a connection with Buckingham Sherwood, late of Newark, Ohio. They purchased a stock of goods, which they transported in wagons to Zanesville, designing to take them from that place to Gen. Harrison's camp near the frontier. In the accomplishment of this plan, they succeeded in conveying their goods with great difficulty to Mansfield. then the site of a new village. On their arrival, they were informed of the hostilities of the Indians along their proposed route, and were induced by the solicitation of the inhabitants to remain and offer their goods for sale to the settlers here. A store was opened in a cabin nearly opposite to where the Wiler House now stands, and thus Mr. Sturges became the first merchant who nettled in Mansfield. Enterprising and energetic he soon built up a large trade, attracting business from (at that time) quite remote points. Mr. S. was during his whole life an efficient friend of religious institutions. He more than any other man, aided in the erection of the First Presbyterian Church in this city. Subsequently he embraced in heart the Gospel, the support of which he sought to promote by his means. After he made a profession of religion, he largely helped in building the Congregational Church here, where, while he was able to hear preaching, he regularly worshiped with interest and sincerity For many years before his death, be suffered from deafness, which prevented him from hearing ordinary speech, Mr. Sturges was married three times. In 1821 to Miss Amanda Buckingham, of Putnam; in 1834, to Miss Jerusha M. Hale, of Connecticut, and, in 1850, to Miss R. M. Tracy, of this city. By his first wife he had three children - Messrs. Dimon, Col. S. B., and Edward. By his second-Henry A. and Miss Amanda. His last wife had no issue. She still survives him. He died Jan. 1, 1862.

STURGES, EDWARD, Sr., deceased. He was born in Fairfield, Conn., Dec. 5, 1805, and was the son of Dimon Sturgea, who was a soldier of the Revolution, and Sarah Perry. His great-grandfather, Solomon Sturges, was killed by the Tories during the attack of the British on Fairfield, July 8, 1779. At the early age of 14, Mr. Sturges left the home of his ancestors for the then "Western wilderness." He traveled over the mountains on horseback, and arrived in Mansfield in April, 1820. He immediately entered the store of his brother, E. P. Sturges, then an apparently rude establishment located on the corner where the Sturges Block now stands, the firm name being Sturges & Sherwood. In 1823, Edward Sturges became a partner in the place of Mr. Sherwood. The firm name then became E. P. & E. Sturges. He continued to be a leading and influential partner is this old and successful business house through all its various changes till 1863, when H. H. Sturges took his place, and the firm became Sturges & Wood. In January, 1854, he entered into the banking business in company with A. L. Grimes and S. B. Sturges, under the firm name of E. Sturges, Sr. & Co. This firm continued its business until it merged into the Richland National Bank. He was also connected with the Farmers' National Bank, and with other financial and manufacturing interests of the city. He was for a long time a large stockholder in the Mansfield Machine Works, and it was mainly due to his counsels and material assistance that this large establishment was saved from utter financial ruin on the very verge of which it was at the beginning of the

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panic in 1873. Boon after terminating hie connection with the dry-goods store in 1863, he engaged in the wholesale grocery business with his son, E. P. Sturges, with whom he continued until his death, which occurred Monday, Sept. 16, 1878. Concerning his business habits, the Liberal, in its obituary notice, states:

"Mr. Sturges was, in all respects, a model business man, prudent, honorable, careful, and industrious; be trusted to sure and steady gains rather than the speculative ones, and his e:ample remains for imitation to all those who would pursue a mercantile career upon the beet principles for an honorable success.

" Mr. Sturges, although be never accepted political preferment, always took a deep interest in public affairs. In the early days of agitation upon the slavery question, he was an earnest anti-slavery man, and always gave a zealous support to the cause. He and his brother were among the founders, and were the life-long supporters of the Congregational Church, which grew up out of the anti-slavery discussions of , the time.

"Mr. Sturges, in all the relations of life was an exemplary man, is business, be was thoroughly trustworthy and just in all his dealings. As a citizen, be discharged his duties with fidelity and honor. As a neighbor and friend be was kind, obliging and charitable. In short, be was an upright Christian gentleman, whose life has been a benediction to his generation, and whose death will be lamented by all who knew him.

" Mr. Sturges was married in the summer of 1837 to Mary Mathews, the daughter of Dr. Increase and Betsey Leavens Mathews, Iate of Putnam, Ohio, where she was born Nov. 18, 1815. Her parents were among the early residents of the Territory of Ohio, which her father' adopted as his home at the close of the last century, and where, in connection with his associates, Gen. Rufus Putnam and Levi Whipple, Esq., he founded upon the Muskingum River the town of Putnam. She received her later education at Marietta. In the summer of 1837, she became the wife of Edward Sturges, Sr., and removed to Mansfield, which continued to be her home until her death. She possessed a strong character and many virtues. Practical and constant, though scrutinizing, in her benevolence, distress, misfortune, and worthy poverty met at her hands warm sympathy and unfailing assistance. They left a family of five Bona and three daughters - Charles, Eben P., Arthur, Willie M., John, Susan, Mary, and Anna.

TAYLOR, THOMAS W., carpenter. He was born in Franklin Township Oct. 18, 1842. Married in 1866, to Lydia Small, who was born in Franklin Co., Penn., Jan. 8, 1843 ; they have six children-Orlando, born Sept. 22, 1866 ; Ada R., born Sept. 8, 1868 ; Charlie, born Dec. 23, 1870; Mary, born March 12, 1873; Maud, born Aug. 14, 1876; Thomas, born Feb. 21, 1879; Mr. Taylor resides in Mansfield, and has been engaged in the Mansfield machine works. He enlisted in the 64th Regiment, O. V. I.; a member of Co. E, and was engaged in the amine three years.

TAYLOR, FRANK R., teamster. He was born in Franklin Township in 1854. He was married is 1876, to Mary J. Browneller, who was born in Madison Township in 1859 ; they had one child, Fenton E , born Jan. 17, 1877 ; he died April 20, 1879.

TODD, DR. J. J. (deceased). He was born near Ashland, Ohio, Dec. 12, 1820 ; when of sufficient age, he commenced the trade of saddle and harness making in that place, which he completed, and at which he continued to work for two years after coming to Mansfield is 1842; not fully satisfied with his vocation, and ambitious to enter s wider field of usefulness, he commenced the study of medicine with the late Dr. A. G. Miller, under whose instruction he finished hie studies, and graduated at the Cleveland Medical College in 1847. For nine years thereafter, he had a large and constantly increasing practice throughout this county, and was looked upon as a careful and skillful physician. He died in Mansfield the latter part of January, 1866. Dr. J. J. Todd was married, Aug. 28, 1847, to Miss Naomi Hedges, daughter of the late Ellzey Hedges, of this city, to whom were born five children, three of whom are living and residents of this city.

TROUTMAN, ELIAS, tinner and coppersmith. He was born in Center Co., Penn., March 11, 1817 ; in 1827, he came to Ohio with hie parents, who located is Orange Township, Ashland Co.; at the age of 18, he began the trade of stone-cutter and brick-laying, which be soon discontinued, as he was compelled to remain idle during the winter. He immediately came to Mansfield and entered into a contract with the widow Buckins after her husband's death to learn the tinner's trade, which he acquired in the usual time, when he learned the trade of coppersmith with William McNulty, where be continued until 1839 ; after that date until 1849, he was working chiefly at the tinner's trade, when is the winter of that year, be went to California, and returned in the spring of 1851; he has been engaged at his trade in all its branches since that year in this city, and is now in active life. He was married, March 26, 1840, to Elizabeth Keffer, of Washington Co., Penn.; to them were born seven children, five of whom died in infancy, and one daughter at the age of 18 years. One child living. During his residence in Mansfield, Mr. Troutman has always been identified in every movement that tended toward the improvement of the city and its inhabitants, and interested in benevolent and church enterprises. He is an active member of the Lutheran Church.

TWITCHELL, A. J., attorney ; he was born Dec. 31, 1848, is Portage Co., Ohio; graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1872 ; at the Harvard Law School in 1874; read law with Judge M. R. Dickey; admitted to the bar in the fall of 1874 ; engaged in the practice of law, in company with A. M. Burns, in December, 1874; continued till July, 1877, when he began alone. Was married, Sept. 24, 1874, to Ella C. Downs, of Defiance, Ohio; they have two children - Ray, born in July, 1876; Lee, in September, 1878.

TYLER, W. F., traveling salesman ; was born June 7, 1824, in Newport, Herkimer Co., N. Y.; emigrated to Mansfield in 1859 ; engaged is grocery store, continued sixteen years, and then engaged as traveling agent for a Cincinnati carriage manufactory, and continues up to this date. He was married to Hannah Pratt August 22, 1849 ; they have four children-Mary Ellen, born May 29, 1850; William Dexter, Feb. 7, 1853, who is

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engaged as traveling salesman; Ida Bell, Oct. 19, 1857 ; Hattie Emmer, Oct, 9, 1866, Residence, No. 90 East Market street.

WAGNER, C. W., druggist and practical apothecary; at No. 32 South Main street, in the American Hotel Building, can be found the well-stocked drug and prescription establishment of Mr. C. W. Wagner, who has had a practical experience in the drug business for over twenty-three years, six of which were passed in a first-class drug store in the city of New York ; Mr. Wagner is a practical apothecary, in every sense of the word, and, in the compounding of medicine. stands pre-eminent in Ohio, being the only druggist in Richland Co. who is thoroughly conversant with the German language; having boon educated in Germany, he naturally receives the greater portion of the German trade ; he established his store six years ago, and has ever since been doing a successful business; his scrupulous honesty and extreme accuracy in compounding , medicines secure for him a very large shore of physicians' and private prescriptions ; he is also manufacturing and selling extensively the following useful remedies: "Wagner's Compound Balsam of Wild Cherry, Horehound and Tolu," for the certain cure of coughs, colds, etc.: "The Children's Friend, the celebrated German worm-powder, very effectual and safe; "Wagner's Croup, Liver and Cathartic Pills," for liver-complaint, costiveness, sick headache, etc ; "Wagner's Cholera Cordial," an excellent remedy for dysentery, diarrhoea, cramp, cholera-morbus, etc. ; " Wagner's Celebrated Asthma Remedy," which gives relief in five minutes; also, "The Farmer's Friend," without exception the best horse, cattle and general stock powder now is use; Mr. Wagner also has constantly on hand a full assortment of pure, unadulterated drugs, chemicals. etc., and all the standard potent medicines in the market, besides a great variety of toilet and fancy articles ; he is very attentive to his business, and can be found at his store at all times. C. W. Wagner, practical apothecary, No. 32 South Main street, American Hotel Building.

WALLACE & SNYDER, dentists ; they established an office in Mansfield, in November. 1879. Dr. Wallace located here a year or two before. They are both practical and skillful workmen; they have built up a very extensive practice; are now taking the lend in this profession : they have fitted up an office in very neat style, on the west side of the park, where they, can always be found to attend to all calls promptly.

WARING, GEORGE W., was born in Athens, N. Y., March 28, 1816 : came to Ohio in 1838, and was engaged in the dry-goods trade six years in Plymouth previous to his removal to this city in 1844, when he natively engaged in the produce and commission business for a number of years : the building now known as the Niman Foundry was erected and used by him in that trade in 1844; he was afterward engaged in the dry-goods trade for four years, when he purchased the grocery store of Stiles & Coman, the first wholesale store of that kind in the city; for many years, he was the proprietor and landlord of the American house. while there he purchased and brought to this city, in 1845, the first omnibus ever used here. He was mottled. March 28, 1844, in this city, to Miss Eliza Roop; they are the parents of seven children, three of whom are dead.

WELDON, JAMES (deceased). The subject of this sketch, well known to all of the old residents of this county, was a direct descendant of an old and highly respectable family of Weldons living in Kent Co., Del. James Weldon was born is Westmoreland Co., Penn., in the year 1804, and was the second son of Rolland Weldon, who removed to Ohio and located in Mansfield, on what has since been known as the McFall corner, in the year 1811. James Weldon was married, Jan. 10, 1837, to Isabella McEllroy, daughter of Alexander McEllroy, near Mansfield, by the Rev. James Rolland. To them were born three children - the eldest, William H., was born Jan. 8, 1839; Charles D., April 17, 1844, and the youngest, a daughter. William H. Weldon, a business man of great promise, died Dec. 11, 1868, having been engaged for a number of years in New York and Philadelphia, as well as Mansfield, in the banking business; Charles D. is now and has been an artist of note in the East for a number of years now a resident of New York. Isabella (McEllroy) Weldon was born in the year 1808, the third child of A. McEllroy, living two miles east of Mansfield. James Weldon was, doubtless, at the time of his death, Feb. 20, 1872, the oldest resident merchant in Mansfield ; during his long life in Mansfield, which attended over a period of sixty years, he was engaged in many enterprises and business transactions of note; a quiet, unassuming man, respected by all for his qualities of head and heart, his death was deplored. Mrs. Weldon died Wednesday, May 12, 1880, at the old homestead, which has been occupied by the family over thirty-four years.

WELDON, WILLIAM H. (deceased) In another pert of this work, a brief mention is made of Mr. Weldon, whose parents and grandparents were among the earliest settlers of this county. At the age of 14 years, be showed a more than ordinary aptitude for mercantile pursuits, and was placed in the Cleveland Commercial College, where he soon acquired that knowledge of book-keeping that was always of great benefit to him in his after life. After his return from Cleveland, he entered the Farmers' Bank, where be was soon recognized as an expert accountant ; soon after, was engaged in a bank in Pittsburgh; then in Chicago, in the bank of Purdy, Granger & Weldon; while here, he received an appointment to a clerkship in Washington; then to the Treasurer's office at the Mint in Philadelphia, where he was appointed a Government Paymaster. Wm. H. Weldon was married to Mary Hodge Purely in Mansfield, Dec. 2, 1862, to whom have been born two children-May Churchill, born Oct. 28, 1865 and William McEllroy, born Dec. 28, 1868. After his marriage, Mr. Weldon returned to Philadelphia, where be was employed in the U.S. Mint about five years, which position he was compelled to relinquish on account of poor health, when he returned to his native town, and soon after departed this life.

WEST, SYLVESTER, was born Nov. 13, 1830, in Jefferson Co., Ohio, near Steubenville; came to Richland Co. Jan. 15, 1836, sad settled near Newville; he came to Mansfield in 1842. Mr. West was married Oct. 10, 1822, in Jefferson Co., Ohio, to Sarah Shiveley,

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to whom have been born twelve children-six living end six dead; five of the living reside in Richland Co. Mr. West has been s member of the Methodist Church fifty-five years. Mrs. Sarah West died Dec. 2, 1873, , aged 68 years-an affectionate wife and loving mother, her life was that of a true Christian ; she had been a faithful member of the Methodist Church over fifty years; she was born in Jefferson Co., in the year 1805, and after her marriage was always ready to assist her husband is making home pleasant end happy.

WHARF, FREDERICK (deceased); he wan born in New York, April 20, 1809, and removed to Richland, Co. with his parents, James sad Jane (Graham) Whart, in 1838. Mr. Wharf was married in New York, to Miss Laura Gault, to whom were born two children -William, who died in Mansfield, Aug. 23, 1878, and Henry, a painter, now engaged at his trade in this city. Mrs.. Laura (Gault) Wharf died in Mansfield in 1851. Frederick Wharf lived at the old homestead south of Mansfield until be was appointed Deputy Sheriff. Mr. Wharf was afterward elected Sheriff of Richland Co., and served his full two terms to the entire satisfaction of the people who elected him. Although a strong party men, he possessed many qualities of head and heart that made him warm friends in both parties. He died in the fall of 1862, and was buried at Mansfield.

WHISSEMORE, A., photographer; he was born Dec. 20, 1829, in Wayne Co. Married to Martha Jane Mathews, of Richland Co. Mr. Whissemore has been engaged as an artist in Mansfield for twenty-three years, and is the oldest artist in the city ; has been keeping up to the standard of his business, and having every facility he is prepared to execute all kinds of first-class work ; his reputation as an artist is so extensively known that it needs but little comment. Rooms above Blymyer's stove store.

WHIT, TIRZAH McCONNELL, MRS. Among the oldest of the faithful and good Christian mothers who still linger is Mrs. Tirzah White, of East Fourth street, Mansfield, a native of Lancaster Co., Penn.; she was bore on the 14th day of July, 1800, and was married to John White the 11th of August, 1825, in Lancaster City. When but 4 years of age, she was left an orphan, and passed through the sad experiences of those bereft of parents in youth. Although now aged and infirm, she looks back over her long life without regret or complaint, and, anxious for the future welfare of all, she kindly admonishes them when opportunity offers to put their trust in him who has been her stay and strength. John sad Tirzah White were the parents of three children, two of whom are living-Samuel S. and Catherine J.; the third, Mary E., died July 3, 1877, leaving two daughters and one son ; the daughters-Sarah Alice Stevens and Jessie Bowman-reside in Mt. Vernon. John Ligget Longshore, son of Catherine J., lives with his parent and grandparent at the old homestead on East Fourth street, Mansfield.

WILER, JOHN JACOB, weaver, butcher, brewer and baker retired ; he was born in Herisau, Appenzell Co., Switzerland, June 4, 1780, and was the oldest of a large family of children, only four of whom, however, lived to manhood and womanhood. When quite young, he learned the trade of weaver in his native town, which he continued until his 16th year, when, concluding to travel and ply his vocation, he went to France, where be remained two years in order to acquire some knowledge of the language; afterward, for fifteen years its traveled through the different governments of Europe as a journeyman weaver ; specimens of his workmanship are now in the possession of his daughter, Mrs. J. H. Cook, which show him to have been an expert workman. During the campaign of Napoleon I in Austria, he enlisted for a time in the Swiss army on the frostier, and was assigned to the Army of the Reserve. While engaged in his occupation as a journeyman weaver, he passed over the battlefield of Leipsic the morning after the engagement, while the dead were being buried ; his description of the scene he was often to relate with minuteness. Mr. Wiler sailed for America from Amsterdam on the 19th of May, 1817, in the ship "Bourbon," Capt. William Gobrell in charge. Mr. W. landed in Philadelphia, after a voyage of ninety-nine days, on the 26th of August, 1817. Some ides may be formed of the terrible suffering and distress felt by the 500 souls on board during this long voyage when, after being out some days, ship fever in its worst form made its appearance on the vessel, and, before reaching port, l05 of the crew and passengers succumbed to the dreadful disease, and were buried at sea. Mr. Wiler, after landing at Philadelphia, was sent to the hospital, suffering from this malady, where he remained three months, until fully recovered, when be started on foot through Pennsylvania, accompanied by his nephew, John Ulrick Tanner, who came to America with him. Being ignorant of the language, he was frequently taken advantage of by some people on the route and defrauded out of what little money he had. The treatment he there received, often by those professing Christianity, caused him to have little faith in man's professions, and he thereafter judged men by their actions alone. After coming to Ohio, he stopped at New Lancaster about one year with a Mr. Arnold, who befriended him, and to whom he has always felt grateful. He went from Lancaster to Columbus, where he remained about one year engaged as a header by a Mr. Heyle. At the end of the time, be came to Mansfield. Mr. Wiler was married to Miss Margaret Steyer after an acquaintance of three weeks, whose father lived is Franklin Township, on the 25th of April, Sunday, 1819, and the following Monday morning took possession of the tavern then owned by his father-in-law, which has since that date been known as the " Wiler House." His means were so limited, that when ordering his sign he found that he would be unable to pay if his full name was used, when, at the suggestion of his nephew, Tanner, the name Jacob was omitted, and he was able to secure the sign, and since that date he has been known only by the name of John Wiler. Mrs. Margaret Steyer Wiler died in Mansfield in her 71st year May 25, 1868. John Wiler lives on West Fourth street, and was 100 years old on the 4th of June, 1880. John Wiler had nine children, three of whom are living-Mary Ann (Cook), John Ulrick Wiler, Margaret Louesa (Barr); two sons, grown to manhood, died in California of cholera; the others died in infancy and youth. In this year, there are living twelve grand-children and four great-grandchildren.

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WILER, JOHN U. ; mechanic and jeweler. He was born in Mansfield April 20, 1824; he learned the jeweler trade in the city ; in September, 1848, he formed a partnership with the late John A. Lee, which terminated in four years, when he continued the business until 1857; he was afterward connected with the saw- mill for a number of years, since which time he has been engaged constantly at his present vocation, assisted by his sons, John J., Harvey H. and David Ephraim, who also are expert workmen. Mr. Wiler was married Nov. 14, 1850, to Miss Anna Louisa Robbins; they are the parents of three sons, named above, and one daughter, M. Eva.

WINTERS, GEORGE H.; printer and stationer; successor to E. B. Sturges & Co. He calls the attention of manufacturers, corporations, professional men, merchants, societies, banks, churches, farmers and others, that he is more fully prepared than ever to do every kind of printed work, such as pamphlets, legal briefs, posters, sale-bills, horse-bills, handbills, circulars, dodgers, cards, bill and letter heads, statements, envelopes, programmes, labels, tickets, invitations, checks, notes, tags, and all other descriptions of job priming in superior style ; every order will have special attention, with first-class workmen; he has made recent additions of late-style type, fine presses, and all necessary elements of a successful printing office, making job printing a specialty (no newspaper connected with their concern), and with a disposition to please all patrons, and execute only the best class of work at the most reasonable prices.

WISE, GEORGE C., grocer; a descendant of a Pennsylvania family ; his grandfather, Col. John Wise, having command of a Pennsylvania militia regiment in the war of 1812. Jacob Wise, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born is Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn., in the year 1802; he emigrated to Ohio, and settled in Mansfield in 1825. George C. Wise, the third child, was born on the 23d of October, 1828, on the northwest corner of Third and East Diamond streets, Mansfield ; at the ago of 18 years, he commenced the trade of cabinet-making, which he continued four years; on the 8th of August, 1853, he began in the store of Mr. E. Clapp as clerk, on the corner of Fourth and Main streets, and was taken into the firm as a partner, under the name of E. Clapp & Co., in 1865 ; in the year 1866, the firm of Clapp & Wise removed to the Miller Block, where they continued the business until Feb. 8, 1873, when Mr. Wise purchased the interest of E. Clapp, since which time he has carried on the business alone. George C. Wise was married in Mansfield Feb. 1, 1854. to Ellen M. Clapp, a daughter of his employer, to whom have been born six children, four of whom are living-Alice C., now Mrs. Frank D. Gadsby ; Charles E., at present in business with his father; Lillie E. and Nettle B. George C. Wise holds the position of one of the representative business men of Mansfield.

WOLFF, BARNARD, carpenter; he was born in Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Penn., April 17, 1827, being the sixth child of David Wolff of that place; as soon as he arrived at a sufficient age, he entered a carpenter-shop to learn that trade, which he accomplished in the usual time ; in the year 1849, while yet in poor circumstances, he was married to Mis Jane McCleary, a resident of Chambersburg; in the month of June, 1850, they removed to Mansfield, Ohio, when he has since resided; on the 9th day of October, 1875, his wife died after a long and painful illness, and on the 17th day of April, 1877, he was again married in Plymouth, to Miss McClinchey of that place; during Mr. Wolff 's residence in Mansfield, he has been closely identified in the city's growth and her improvements; he is the owner and builder of the Sherman House, which he erected in 1870, on the northwest corner of Fourth and East Diamond streets, thereby adding much to the good appearance of that part of the city, and a benefit to the traveling public; Mr. Wolff has also been the contractor and builder of many of the larger edifices in the city, both public and private, and also the large depot and freight house at Orrville ; during his residence in Mansfield, he has always been considered one of her stanch citizens; he resides on East Fourth street.

WOLFF, SAMUEL M., carpenter ; Col. Wolff was born in Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Penn., June 1, 1839, and came with his parents to Richland Co. in 1854, where he worked with his father on the farm, two and one-half miles north of Mansfield, until the year 1859, when he came to Mansfield and commenced the trade of carpentering in the shop of his brother, when he served an apprenticeship of two years. At the breaking - out of the war in 1861, he enlisted in the first company organized in the evening of the noted 17th day of April ; his name appears among the first in Co. I, 1st O. V. I., three-months service, under Capt. Wm. McLaughlin; with this company he served his full term of enlistment, and with it was in the two engagements of Vienna and the first battle of Bull Run. July 21, 1861, his term of service having expired, he returned to Mansfield and again commence work at his trade, at which he continued until the 21st day of September, 1861, when he enlisted in an "independent rifle company " then being organized in the western part of the State; this company was rapidly being recruited when John Sherman returned with an order from Washington to organize the 64th and 65th Regiments ; by the common consent of the independent company, they entered the 64th Regiment as Co. A, this being the first company in Camp Buckingham; while here, Mr.Wolff was made Second Lieutenant; the 64th and 65th Regiments, known while in Camp Buckingham as the "Sherman Brigade," were, after their departure from Mansfield, always known as the " Harker Brigade," and it was first assigned to the 3d Division, 21st Army Corps, and took part in the battle of Shiloh; after this battle, Lieut. Wolff was promoted to the first lieutenancy of the same company; soon after, he was engaged in the Buell raid and the battle of Stone River, Dec. 29, 1862, to Jan. 3, 1863 ; it was in this long engagement that Lieut. Wolff was slightly wounded by a fragment of shell, but not disabled ; he was promoted to Captain of Co. H, and, as each, was in the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 19 and 20, 1863; at the battle of Missionary Ridge, Ga., Nov. 25, 1863, Capt. Wolff received a gun-shot wound through the right arm, which compelled him to relinquish his command for about two months; afterward, with his company and regiment,

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be was engaged in numerous battles until the close of the war, among them the battle of Rocky Face Ridge, May 9,1864; Resaca, May 14 and 15, 1864 ; New Hope Church, May 27, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864; Atlanta, July 22, 1864 ; Jonesboro, Sept. 1, 1864 ; Lovejoy Station, Sept. 3, 1864; Spring Hill, Tenn., Nov. 29, 1864, in which engagement Capt. Wolff was slightly wounded by gunshot through both legs; at the battle of Franklin, Nov. 30, 1864, during a charge of the enemy, Capt. Wolff became engaged in a hand-to-hand combat between the lines with Col John B. Austin. of a Mississippi regiment; the Union forces falling back for a time, charged upon the enemy, who had captured the works, driving them out, when Wolff, coming up with Col. Austin, demanded his sword; but this he at first refused, and bravely defended himself, but was soon compelled to surrender and reluctantly delivered his sword to Wolff, who now has it on his possession ; in the night of the 20th of June, 1864, Capt. Wolff received a wound on the head from a falling limb while in charge of a company of choppers, the effects of which he will, doubtless, carry to his grave, being now a constant sufferer and threatened with the lose of sight ; in February, 1865, Capt. Wolff was promoted to Major of the regiment, and, soon after, was made Lieutenant Colonel, and was, at the discharge of the regiment, Jan. 3, 1866, at Columbus, holding the commission of Colonel, acknowledged as a brave and good soldier, with an army record of which any man might well be proud; it is sad to think that, after doing this service for his country, he should be a constant sufferer in his after life. Col. Wolff was married in March, 1864, to Miss M. J. Browneller, who died in the year 1865. In 1868, he was again married, to Miss Susan Urvan, who died in Mansfield, in 1870. The Colonel is now a resident of Mansfield.

WOLFF, E. M. & CO , marble dealers. Their shops were established in 1869; since then they have greatly increased their business; as time progressed they added machinery which no other firm in Ohio has in use, made necessary by the march of time, until now their shops are fully supplied with everything needed in the business; the character of the work attests its quality, while salsa in all parts of this end adjoining States establish its merits; twenty-two men are now employed.

WOLFE, NORMAN M., born in Monroe Township, Richland Co., Ohio, July 6,1849; engaged on the home farm for many years; took his academical course in Greentown Academy, at Perrysville, spending the winter term at teaching country schools, and finally promoted to the situation of Assistant Teacher of Mathematics

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in the academy. He attended the University of Wooser, and completed his education at Amherst College, Massachusetts; wee elected Principal of Mahoning Institute, Mahoning Co., Ohio, in which position be remained until the spring of 1876 ; began the study of law on the 14th day of April, 1876 ; was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court, at Columbus, Ohio, May 7, 1878; formed a partnership with William H. Pritchard, for the practice of law, Dec. 1, 1879; the style of the firm is Pritchard & Wolfs, is enjoying a most enviable reputation as lawyers, and have their office in P. O. Block, North Park street, Mansfield, Ohio. Mr. Wolfs was married to Miss Jennie Loiter Sept. 22, 1877, and his family now consists of his wife and daughter, Grace May, aged 2 years. In politics, Mr. Wolfs is an , active Democrat, holding official positions in the campaign clubs of his party, and, in the spring of 1879, was elected to the office of City Solicitor for Mansfield.

WOLFE, SAMUEL G., COL. (deceased), born in Wyoming Valley, Luzerne Co., Penn., in 1798 ; his father, Jacob Wolfs, dying, his mother, Eleanor Wolfs, with Samuel, Peter and Jacob, her sons, and Eliza, Maria, Catherine and Artemisia, her daughters, along with the Ayres families and the Culvers, emigrated to Ohio, the Wolfes and the Agrses settling in Frederickstown, Knox Co., in 1807, being the second arrival to settle here. On the breaking-out of the war of 1812, Jacob volunteered, and want to the army, serving in the regiment; of Col. Lewis Case; Peter was a scout, and Samuel, being but 14 years of age, was compelled to stay with the family as a help against the Indians. The Wolfe family moved to Mansfield in 1812, when Eliza taught school and kept military stores in the block-house. The Wolfes lived on the northwest corner of the premises now occupied and owned by John Wood, on West Market street. When Samuel became of age, he carried on the cabinet business there for some years, until he was elected Sheriff of the county; he served in that capacity four years, and then was elected and re-elected Auditor of the county, serving four years; he was a Colonel in the militia, and has been efficient in its organization, as well as a popular officer ; be was a man of commanding presence, and, like his brothers, large and over six feet in height. He exercised a great deal of influence in politics, and had many friends who desired to run him for Congress. He died in Seneca Co., Ohio, in 1868.

WOLFARTH, JACOB, stonemason. He was born March 24, 1854, in Holmes Co. Married, Jan. 17, 1875, to Lucy A. Smith, she was born in Seneca Co. May 26, 1854; they have the following children: Mary A., born March 24, 1876; Dorthea Barbary, Jan. 7, 1878. Residence 115 West First street, Mansfield.

WOLFERD, EZRA, shoemaker; son of George Wolferd. He wee born April 17, 1831, in Franklin Township; he engaged as an apprentice in 1847 with David Wise, of Mansfield, and served three years; he has since that time been constantly engaged at his trade. He was married in 1854 to Feny Simmons, who was born in Germany; they have two children-Stephen, born April 8, 1856, and Della, July 26, 1860; Stephen was married W Minnie Longsdorf in 1879. Mrs. Feny Wolferd died in January, 1877. Mr. Wolferd is engaged with Rigby A Cox, working at his trade.

WOOD, JOHN, proprietor woolen mills. He was born Nov. 22, 1819, in Concord, Mass.; he came to Ohio in 1837, located in Cleveland, remained then one year, then came to Mansfield ; engaged as clerk for E. P. Sturges, continued for six years; is 1847, he engaged in partnership with Sturges Grimes & Co., afterward changed to Sturges, Wood & Witter, wholesale merchants. He was married, Sept. 1, 1847, to Charlotte B. Parker, daughter of Judge Parker; she was born in 1823 in Mansfield; they have four children -Edward P., born Aug. 16, 1848 ; he graduated at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., and is now in the navy; Lizzie, William S. and Fannie P.

WORDEN, MILTON W. (deceased). Judge Worden was born in Liverpool, Medina Co., Ohio, Sept. 30, 1839; after pouring to this county, he resided for a number of years in Washington Township, when he was married, Nov. 22, 1869, to Miss Anna McFarland, daughter of an old resident of that township. Placed at an early age, by the death of his father, to circumstances where it became necessary for him to depend in s large measure upon hie own resources, he marked out for himself a path in life, which many a youth unaided by fortune and friends, would Lave been fearful to essay, end by hie integrity, valor and ability, reached a position in hie brief life of twenty-nine years, is snd by which he commended the regard of his fellow-men, the esteem snd respect of his comrades and the warm affections of hie familiar friends. Judge Worden, by a course of preparatory studies and reading, fitted himself for, and gained admission to the bar; but the gates of the temple for him were closed almost simultaneously with his entrance. The tocsin of the mighty rebellion was sounded ; the call of the country to arms was made, and he enlisted in the 32d O. V. I., in the beginning of the rebellion ; while acting as Captain in that regiment at the battle of Harper's Ferry in 1862, he lost a leg, which incapacitated him for further service, when he returned to Mansfield and else elected Probate Judge for one term in the fall of 1864 he was shortly after appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue, which position be held at the time of his death. Judge Worden at the time of his death left a wife, Anna McFarland Worden, and five children-Ella, Martha E., Frank S., Albert Milton and Lillie, all of whom are living.

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BOWLAND, ROBERT. He was born Sept. 19, 1774, in Pennsylvania. Was married in 1815, to Ann J, Mercer, who was born in February, 1791 ; came to Ohio in 1826, located in Mansfield and engaged in the dry goods business many years. Died in November, 1857; Mrs. Bowland died in April, 1858.

PRITCHARD A WOLFE, attorneys and counselors at law. The firm is composed of William H. Pritchard and Norman M. Wolfs, both natives of this county; Mr. Pritchard graduated from the University of Wooster in 1874; he then superintended the Shelby schools from 1875 to 1878 ; he began the practice of law Dec. 1, 1878. Mr. Wolfe was educated at the University of Wooster, and, soon after leaving college, succeeded of

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the principalship of Mahoning Institute, remaining there two years ; resigning that charge, he returned to Richland Co., and, on the 14th of February, 1876, began the study of law ; was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio on the 7th day of April, 1878, and, in December following, he formed a copartnership with William H. Pritchard for the practice of his profession. Their rooms are in the Post Office Block.

SNYDER, JOSEPH N., deceased ; his parents, John and Susan Stough Snyder, were long residents of Cumberland Co., Penn.; Joseph was born in that county in 1813, and was their first son; he came to Richland Co. in 1835, where his resided until his death, which occurred in this city in the fall of 1869 ; when a young man, he acquired the trade of cabinet-maker, which vocation he followed for a number of years ; for many years previous to his death, he was engaged in house painting, and was accounted the best workman in that line in the city ; he was a man well informed, and took an active interest in the political parties to which be belonged ; originally, he was an Old-Line Whig, but was known in after years as an adherent of the Democratic party. He was married in this city to Mis Catherine Brickman ; they were the parents of five children, four of whom are living-three sons and one daughter.

SNYDER, C. B., painter and glazier. He was born March 23, 1845, in Mansfield, the second son of Joseph N., deceased ; he is now actively engaged at his trade in this city, and is considered an expert workman. He was married in Mansfield in 1867, to Miss Amanda Harmon ; they are the parents of four children-Willie, Alice and Harry ; Frank, the second son, died in 1875, aged 5 years.