DATE.

DIST.

TERRITORY EMBRACED

1808

Feb. 1, 1812

May 20, 1822

June 14, 1832

July 25, 1842

Mar. 12, 1845

Apr. 13, 1852

Apr. 25, 1862

Apr. 27, 1872

May 5, 1878

Apr. 17, 1882

Feb. 14, 1884

May 18, 1886

Mar. 11, 1890

Mar. 31, 1892

Whole State.

Ross, Gallia, Athens, Washington, Scioto, Pickaway.

Scioto, Pike, Lawrence, Jackson, Gallia, Meigs, Athens, Washington.

Scioto, Jackson, Pike, Ross, Fayette.

Scioto, Lawrence, Gallia, Meigs, Athens.

Sciote, Pike, Jackson, Hocking, Ross.

Scioto, Lawrence, Jackson, Pike, Ross.

Scioto, Adams, Lawrence, Gallia, Jackson, Vinton.

Scioto, Lawrence, Gallia, Hocking, Vinton, Jackson.

Scioto, Pike, Ross, Jackson, Lawrence.

Scioto, Adams, Lawrence, Gallia, Jackson, Vinton.

Scioto, Lawrence, Vinton, Pike, Jackson.

Scioto, Adams, Lawrence, Gallia, Jackson, Vinton.

Scioto, Lawrence, Gallia, Meigs, Athens.

Scioto, Pike, Jackson, Gallia, Lawrence

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Jeremiah Morrow

was the first congressman from Ohio. He was born in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, October 6th, 1771. His father was a farmer, and he was brought up on the farm. He attended a private sch00l at Gettysburg, and was especially bright in mathematics and surveying, which were his favorite studies. In 1795, he emigrated to the Northwest Territory, and settled at Columbia, near Cincinnati. At Columbia he taught school, did surveying, and worked on the farm. Having saved some money, he went to Warren County, bought a large farm and erected a log house. In the spring of 1799, he married Miss Mary Packhill of Columbia.

In 1801, he was elected to the territorial legislature. He was a delegate to the Constitutional convention in 1802. In March, 1803, he was elected to the Ohio Senate, and in June, 1803, he was elected to Congress, and re-elected ten times. While in Congress he was chairman of the Committee on Public lands. In 1813, he was elected to the United States Senate, and was made Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands. In 1814, he was appointed Indian Commissioner. At the close of his term he retired to his ,farm.

In early life he became a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and devoted himself to its welfare all his life

In 1820, he was a candidate for governor, and received 9,476 votes, to 34,836 for Ethan A Brown, who was elected. In 1822, he was elected governor by 26,059 votes, to 22,889 for Allen Trimble and 11,150 for William W. Irvin, and re-elected in 1824 by the following vote : 39,526 for him, and 37,108 for Allen Trimble. During his service as governor, the canal system of Ohio was inaugurated, and Lafayettte's visit to the state took place. On the Fourth of July, 1839, he laid the corner stone of the capital at Columbus. In 1840 he was re-elected to congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Thomas Corwin, and was re-elected. He was a deep thinker, a delightful social companion, had a wonderful retentive memory, boundless kindness of heart and endowed with much vivacity and cheerfulness of spirit. He died March 22nd, 1853.

Duncan McArthur

As the name indicates, Duncan McArthur was of Scotch descent, but was a native of America, born in Duchess County, New York, in 1772. When but eight years old his father moved into the frontier wilderness of Pennsylvania, and as the lad grew up he hired out as a laborer to assist in rearing the family. Only the most meagre opportunities offered to secure an education, but these he utilized, until he was able to master the rudiments.

Tiring of his humdrum occupation, he volunteered under General Harmar in 179o, and accompanied him on his Indian campaign of that year. In 1792, he was a private in Captain William Enoch's corn-

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pany of volunteers and in the battle of Captina conducted himself with gallantry and bravery as to win the admiration of his back woods' associates, who saw in him both the present soldier and the future leader.

Drifting to Maysville in 1793, he became a common laborer at the salt works being operated there. Later he assisted General Nathaniel Massie in making a series of surveys in the Scioto Valley and acted as a spy among the Indians, meeting with numerous and exciting adventures. He early determined to make Chillicothe and Ross County his home. The lull which followed the treaty of Greenville, opened an opportunity for him to acquire property. Acting aS assistant to General Massie, he surveyed the town of Chillicothe, and being put in charge of the sale of many tracts and bodies of land, he accumulated a handsome fortune.

He was elected to and served as representative in the Third, Sixteenth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies, and in the Senate in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty-eighth. He was speaker of the senate in 1809-10, and speaker of the house in 1817-18.

He was largely instrumental in the organization of the militia during the early years of the state's history. In 1805, he became a colonel in the local military force, and in 1808 a major general. When war was declared against England in 1812, McArthur raised a regiment of volunteers which was tendered to the government, accepted, and he was commissioned its colonel. With his command he marched at once to the relief of Detroit, arriving there only to find himself and his command prisoners of war, as they had been included by Gen. Hull in the surrender, although not within communicating distance when the protocol was signed.

He came home under a parole, and the Democrats elected him by an overwhelming majority to the Thirteenth Congress from the Third district, composed of Ross, Gallia, Athens, Washington, Pick- away and Scioto Counties, in recognition of his bravery and his soldiery protest against the base surrender of Detroit. He did not take his seat in Congress. In March, 1813, he was regularly exchanged, and at once commissioned a Brigadier -General ; he reSigned his seat and entered the field on the northern and northwestern frontier. He was placed over the Ohio Volunteers, given command of Ft. Meigs, and directed all the military operations in that quarter, successfully invading Canada, defeating the English forces, capturing prisoners and destroying public stores.

At the close of the war he returned to his home and again entered the arena of politics, being repeatedly elected as above stated to the Legislature. In 1822, he was elected to the Eighteenth Congress from the Sixth District, composed of Ross, Fayette, Pickaway and Hocking. He was a candidate in the twenty-third congress, but was

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defeated by William Allen, who won by a single vote. Allen subsequently married McArthur's daughter.

General McArthur ceased to act with the Democratic party in 1818, on the issue of the Bank of the United States, he advocating its extension and the other Democratic leaders being in pronounced opposition to the bank under all circumstances. He retired from pub-- lic life after his defeat for Congress, and enjoyed the felicities which naturally waited upon the fortune which he had so honorably won. He died in 1840, at the age of 68.

William Creighton, Jr.,

was born in Berkley county, Va., Oct. 29th, 1778. He graduated from Dickerson College, Pa., with distinction in 1795, and studied law at Martinsburg, Va: In 1797 he visited the Northwest territory. He emigrated to Chillicothe in 1799 and was admitted to practice the same year. The first office he held here was Secretary of State, of Ohio. He was elected by the general assembly in joint session. March 5th, 1803, and held the office, being re-elected in 1805 until he resigned on December 8th, 1808 He received the salary of $400.00 per year.

He was married at Chaumiere, Jessamine County, Ky., on September 5th, 1805, to Elizabeth Meade, the third and youngest daughter of Col. David Meade. His wife was born in Maycox, Prince George County, Va., on March 29th, 1784; consequently Mr. Creighton was 27 and his wife 21 at the time of their marriage.

Mr. Creighton resigned the office of Secretary of State to accept that of United States Attorney, for the district of Ohio to which he was appointed in 1808, and which he held in 1809, 1810, and a part of 1811, when he was succeeded by Samuel Heinch. In 1813 he Was elected to the 13th congress, to succeed McArthur resigned, and was re-elected to the 14th in 1814 serving from May 24th, 1814, to March 3rd, 1817. In 1826 he was elected to the 20th congress receiving a majority of 1,572 over John Thompson and was re-elected as an Adams man to the 21 st defeating C. Wallace, Jacksonian, and to the 22nd serving from December 3rd, 1827, to March 3rd, 1833. He was a Whig and one of the great admirers and friends of Henry Clay. The latter reposed especial and great confidence in him. By his marriage he was the brother-in-law of General Nathaniel Massie and of Judge Charles Willing Byrd.

As secretary of the State of Ohio he was the designer of its great seal. As a lawyer he seems to have been eminent, for in all the important cases in the early history of the state, he was counsel on one side or the other. He was counsel for the defendants in the great case of Jackson vs. Clark, 1st Peters, 666. His practice of the law extended over a period of 50 years. He was diligent and industrious and applied himself to the interests of his clients assiduously. He rode the circuit from county to county, when the law was practiced in the

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old fashioned way. At one time he was considered the first jury lawyer in the country. He had a wonderful knowledge of human nature and knew how to reach it in the jury box. He knew what subject to dwell upon and what to avoid before a jury. He was mild, amiable, and courteous and had a wonderful firmness of purpose. He knew how to keep his temper, an invaluable trait in a lawyer. If a young man wanted a model, Mr. Creighton would have Served for one. His popularity was unbounded, the more because he never sought after it. He was held in universal esteem, because his temper was so agreeable and his disposition so obliging. He had a fund of humor much like that of Thomas Corwin.

In social life he made his house the place of elegant hospitality. 'He gave sumptuous dinners and elegant evening entertainments, where gathered the beauty, fashion and distinction of the state. His manners in his own house were such as to please and charm his guests. His personal appearance was good. He was over six feet in height; large frame, weighed over 200 pounds, and had a slight st00p in his carriage, His eyebrows were dark and his twinkling eye of deep grey.

Until lately their old home was standing on the corner of High and Water streets in Chillicothe, and was built by Mr. Creighton.

He and his wife were members of the Episcopal. Church,. and many a time Dr. Burr of Portsmouth, Ohio, has been entertained at their pleasant home at Chillicothe. Dr. Burr likes to refer to the delightful qualities of Mrs. Creighton, as a hostess, when he was in Chillicothe on ecclesiastical affairs, and was often her guest.

When Judge Byrd died in August, 1828, John Quincy Adams was President, and he sent the name of Wm. Creighton, jr., to the Senate, and it was not confirmed. He held court from November 1st, 1828, to December 31st, 1828.

The reason Judge Creighton failed to have his appointment as United States District Judge confirmed by the Senate was two fold : the Senate was Democratc and he was a Whig, and the interference of Mr. Douglas, who had been offended by Mr. Creighton's course in curing defective titles it is believed led to his rejection.

It was a singular feature of Mr. Creighton's practice of law, that he would not accept a fee from a woman, especially if that woman was a widow.

Judge Creighton and Col. William Key Bond were law partners in Chillicothe from 1813 to 1841, and all that time were the most devoted friends and the utmost harmony existed between them.

Judge Creighton was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in 1815.

He died at Chillicothe, Ohio, October 8th, 1851.

Holm. Levy Barber

was born in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, October 16th,

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1777. He came to Marietta, Ohio, about 1800. In 1803 he married Elizabeth Rouse of Belpre, who came to that place with her father's family, in the fall of 1788. They lived on the north side of the public square, in Harmar, the house fronting the Muskingum at the mouth, wth a beautiful view up the Ohio Five children were born to them there. The youngest was Captain Levi Barber, born November 1st, 1814. He became a well known citizen of Washington County. He died in 1887, aged seventy-three years. The homestead is still in the family and is occupied by Mrs. Lucy Barber Cole, daughter of the late Levi, and granddaughter of our subject, also known as Colonel Levi Barber. Colonel Barber became a public man s00n after reaching Marietta. He was at one time a United States Surveyor of Lands; Clerk of the Courts of Washington County ; Aide to Governor R. J. Meigs, jr., in the war of 1812 ; Receiver of the United States Land Office at Marietta. He was elected a Representative from Ohio in the Fifteenth Congress, serving from December 1st, 1817, to March 3rd, 1819 ; was defeated as a candidate for the Sixteenth Congress, receiving 1,803 votes against 2,727 for Henry Brush, and 1,954 for Edward Tupper ; was again elected to Seventeenth Congress, defeating Henry Brush and serving from December 3rd, 1821, to March 3rd, 1823. Retiring from Congress in 1823, he lived in Harmar during the last ten years of his life. He died April 23rd, 1833 in his fifty- sixth year.

Henry Bond

was born in Duchess County, New York, in the year 1778. He located in Chillicothe in 1803. He did not acquire practice very rapidly although after 1812 and for twenty years his practice was very g00d. During this year, one or two partners he had were men of legal ability. Brush himself did not rank very high, as a lawyer of learning. He was Prosecuting Attorney of Ross County in 1808 and 1809, and a member of the legislature in 1810. He was also a member of the Ohio Senate in 1814, and of Congress from 1819 to 1821. In August, 1812, he marched in command of a Company of Ross County Volunteers, to re-enforce General Hullls command, then on the northern frontier, and in the presence of the British and Indian Army. Brush and his company reached a point so near Hull's position, as to be included in the terms of that deplorable "surrender" ; but having no taste for the role of prisoners of war, his company turned southward and escaped. Anticipating pursuit by the Indians, Brush caused the head of a barrel of whiskey to be knocked out, scattering tin cups on the ground, and left the "fire-water" in his abandoned camp, rightly conjecturing that his pursuers would speedily become so drunk as to be unable to keep up the chase The stratagem was successful and having destroyed wagonS, supplies, and all other impedimenta, the volunteers reached home without the lose of a man, although they endured considerable hardship in the retreat. Colonel Brush, (this rank being afterward attained by

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him in the militia organization), was tall and thin and of dark complexion; he had a high Roman nose and thin grey hair; he had a cataract which destroyed the sight of his left eye, and was of a nervous temperament. In June, 1831, he tendered the County Commissioners a lot on which to build the court house at Portsmouth. It was lot 380, and he required that the court house be built within three years. The Commissioners bought lot 369 for which they paid $300. Afterward the court was built on lot 380, and the jail on 369. In 1828, he was elected one of the supreme judges of the State of Ohio, and filled the office with distinction, but served less than one year. in 1838, he abandoned the practice of law and for a year or two lived upon a farm he had bought in Union Township, Ross County. He finally sold this farm to George Butler and purchased a large tract of land in Madison County, Which lie owned until his death. He died in Chillicothe, January 19th, 1855.

Samuel Finley Vinton

enjoyed the distinction of having served fourteen years as a member of Congress from Ohio and all of that period Scioto County was one of the Counties of his District. He entered the Eighteenth Congress, March 4th, 1825, and served until March 4th, 1833, when he retired. He re-entered Congress March 4th, 1843, and retired of his own will March 4th, 1847. He might have remained a member all of his life, had he so willed. His ancestors in the sixth generation preceding him, appeared in Lynn, Mass., in 1648. The name is supposed to be French, De Vintonne, and that the original Vinton, who came to England was a Huguenot. His father was Abraham Vinton. He was named for Dr. Samuel Finley Vinton, a grand-uncle, who was "a minute man" at Lexington in April, 1775. His mother was Sarah Day of South Hadley, Mass., and he was the eldest of seven children. He was born September 25th, 1792 He graduated at Williams College, Mass., in 1814, and in 1816, was admitted to the bar in Connecticut. He located in Gallipolis soon after. In 1824, he was nominated for Congress without having solicited, or expected the nomination and was elected. He was re-elected for six more terms, without any solicitation on his part. In all that period, he was an eminent and successful lawyer and traveled the Circuit when not in Congress. Scioto County was one of the Counties of his district, where he was employed in important cases from time to time. In 1838, he was a member of the Ohio Canal Commission. During his latter serviceS in Congress he was on the Committee on ways and means; and his financial ability was of great service during the Mexican War. He was author of the law creating the Department of the Interior. He was a Whig during his entire Congressional service. John Quincy Adam said of him, that very few men were his superiors. Alex. H. Stephens, said he was the most prominent leader on the Whig Side. In 1851, he waS the

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Whig Candidate f0r Governor of Ohio, and was defeated. The vote stood, Reuben W00d, 145,654, Samuel F. Vinton, 119,548, Samuel Lewis, 16,918.

In 1853, he was President of the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad, and held it one year. In 1854, he took up his residence in the city of Washington, D. C., and continued there until his death, May 11th, 1862. In this period he occasionally presented a case in the Supreme Court and argued it. His success as a lawyer was thought to be due to his habits of patient investigation and clear analysis. He exhausted every subject he discussed. He was remarkably lucid in his statements. He was a master of the English language. He dignified every subject he discussed. His argument on the boundary line between Ohio and Virginia, is a monument of his legal learning; and it placed him at the head of the legal profession. He was married in 1824 to Romaine Madeline Bureau, a daughter of John P. R, Bureau. She left two children, John Bureau and Madeline Vinton Dahlgren.

John Bureau his son, died when quite young. Mrs. Dahlgren is now deceased. She As a daughter, Mrs. Pierce, now residing in Washington, D. C. Mr. Vinton was of a slight frame, but of great dignity of presence. He had a mild clear blue eye, and his thin compressed lips showed the determination of his character. His manner was composed, but sweet and gentle, scarcely indicating his great firm- ness. Thomas Ewing, the elder, said of him, on being informed of his death, that "for ten or fifteen years he had more influence in Congress than any man in it. He was a wise, sagacious statesman, almost unerring in his perception of right, bold in pursuing and skillful in sustaining his opinions. He had always a large control over the minds of those with whom he acted. Within the range of my acquaintance, he has hardly left a peer behind him."

At his own request, he was interred in the Cemetery at Gallipolis, beside his wife, who died in 1831.

William Allen of Ross County.

William Allen was born in Edenton, N. C. in 1806. He emigrated to Ross County, Ohio, in 1823, and studied law. In 1827, although a ed a representative as a Jackson Democrat, by a single vote over Gen- eral Duncan McArthur, Clay Democrat, serving from Dec. 2nd, 1833, to March 3rd, 1835. In 1837. he was elected to the United States minor, he was admitted to the practice of law. In 1832, he was elect-Senate in place of Thomas Ewing, Whig; in 1843, he was re-elected to the same position. In 1873, he was elected Governor of Ohio over General Edward F. Noyes, receiving 214,654 votes while his competitor received 213,837. In 1875, he was defeated for governor by General Rutherford Hayes, who received 297,817, while 292,273, were cast for Allen. In 1876, he was candidate for the presidential nomination before the Democratic National convention at St. Louis, which nomin-

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ated Samuel J. Tilden, of New York. He died at Fruit Hill, his manorial residence, near Chillicothe, in 1879.

His parents died in his infancy, and he became the ward of his aunt, Mrs. Thurman, the mother of Judge Allen G. Thurman, who resided in Virginia. In 1821, the parents of the latter gentleman emigrated from Virginia to Chillicothe. Young Allen was at that time a student in the Lynchburg, Va. academy, where he remained for two years, and then joined the Thurmans in their new home.

His education was finished in a private school in Chillicothe, after which he began the study of law with Thomas Scott, the eminent jurist, who after a long series of years graced the supreme bench of Ohio, being the chief justice of that court during a considerable portion of his judicial services.

In 1827, he was admitted to practice, while still below the legal age, through a special rule, and in recognition of his ability and erudition. He entered at once into partnership with Colonel Edward King, under whose tuition he completed his legal studies. His career in his profession was brilliant and successful.

He entered politics in 1832, rather against his natural bent and inclinations, and was elected to the national house of representatives by a single vote over General Duncan McArthur, whose daughter, Mrs. Effie McArthur Coons, he married in 1845. Mrs. Allen inherited Fruit Hill from her father, and there the distinguished senator and future governor resided during the remainder of his life.

Just preceding the meeting of the legislature in 1837, which chose a successor to Thomas Ewing in the United States Senate, Mr. Allen was the orator of the day at a Democrat banquet at C0lumbus, and delivered a speech so pregnant with eloquence and so pertinent to the great and exciting issues of the hour, that it won him the support of his friends and the members of his party in the legislature in the close and exciting contest which followed.

The election took place on the 18th of January, 1837, and 13 ballots were taken, 108 votes being cast, and 55 were necessary to elect. On the thirteenth ballot he received the required 55, Thomas Ewing receiving 52, one marked scattering and one not voting, so that he reached the senatorship by a single vote. In 1843 he was re-elected by 63 votes to 44 for Mr. Ewing and one blank.

In the Senate he distinguished himself for his great forensic ability no less than for his strong and aggressive views on all great questions. During the Oregon boundary dispute the American claim extended to 54 degrees 40 minutes of north latitude, which was disputed by the English diplomates and statesmen. In a speech in the senate when this question was under consideration Allen said : "I am here to declare for 54 40 or fight." In the presidential campaign of 1844. this expression became the Democratic battle cry throughout the country. During hiS whole Senat0rial career he was the champion of a

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vigorous -foreign policy and the unrelenting foe of the Bank of the United States.

An intense Democrat he took an active part in all the political campaigns from 1832 to 1845. Of gigantic frame and mold, and a voice like Stentor's, he gained the sobriquet of "The Fog Horn", after he had drowned the noise of a steam whistle which was being blown in the vicinity of a Democratic mass meeting to prevent his auditors from hearing him.

In 1845, he retired from public life, and devoted himself to the graces of literature and scientific research. He became an expert in botany and geology, was an enthusiastic patron of art and literature, and nothing so delighted him as to have his friends, old and young, throng his stately mansion and talk with him on his favorite topics.

Many and strenuous efforts were made by his friends to recall him to public life, but he put them all aside until 1873, almost forty years after his retiracy, and then re-entered public life under the most peculiar circumstances.

In that year the leaders of the Democratic party were anxiously scanning the horizon for some one who could retrieve the disastrous defeats of nearly a score of fruitless campaigns. Many distinguished names were canvassed, but Allen's was not on the list because of his many declinations. Then it was that Mr. Murat Halstead, the brilliant editor of the chief Republican Journal in the State, "The Cincinnati Commercial," paraphrased an ancient popular melody as follOWs, indicative of the sore straits of the Ohio Democracy :

"Come, rise up, William Allen,

And go along with me,

And I will make you governor

Of Ohio's fair countree."

A copy of the Commercial containing this ditty was shown to Senator Allen, by Colonel John A. Cockrill, the afterward renowned journalist, then a young man representing the Cincinnati Enquirer.

The clear, grey blue eye of the sage of Fruit Hill twinkled with merriment as he listened to the jingle of the lines. He stretched himself to his full height, walked to and fro on the broad veranda for a .few moments, and then stopping in front of his young friend said :

"John, you will do me the kindness to say in the Enquirer in the morning that I cannot resist Mr. Halstead's kind invitation, and that I will accept the Democratic nomination if it is tendered to me, and more than that I will be elected governor by the people."

That message, when it appeared in the press of the state the next day in a much more elaborate form, electrified the party in the state, and when the Democratic state convention met, it unanimously nominated the Sage of Fruit Hill, in the midst of the wildest enthusiasm. He took the stump with all the ardor of youth, and although the Republican committee, scenting the danger, covered the state with the abl-

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est orators from all parts of the Union, he was elected by a plurality of 817. The remainder of the Democratic state ticket was defeated by pluralities ranging from 176 to 633. President Grant had carried the state on the Republican ticket at the preceding election by over 37,000.

The marble statue of William Allen adorns the rotunda of the National Capital as one of the Ohioans of the nineteenth' century deemed worthy of that honor by the general assembly of the state.

William Key Board

was born in 1792, in St. Mary's, Maryland. He received his education at Litchfield, Connecticut. He went to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1812, and was admitted to the bar there. He was a partner with William Creighton from 1813 to 1841. He was a Colonel in the Militia. He served in the 24th, 25th and 26th Congresses. He left Chillicothe in 1841, and located in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was appointed Surveyor of that port, by President Fillmore, which office he held for several years. He was also interested in Railways, from 1850 to 1860. He was a business man above all things. Colonel Bond was an active partisan in politics, upon the Whig side. In those days there was as potent a "Virginia Ring" as there is now ; but then the Virginians and immediate descendants of Virginians were nearly all Whigs ; and it was only when the issues growing out of slavery caused the dissolution of the Whig party, and the organization of the Republican party, that numerous and influential class of our people went over to the Democracy, and the "ring" was transferred. Bond was the favorite of that ring; and it was because neither he nor they would tolerate the election of a born Yankee to Congress, that the nomination of Douglas for that office was nullified, in 1831. Colonel Bond occupied a prominent part in the debates and business in the House of Representatives. "Bond's eight day speech", so styled because its delivery occupied one hour of eight consecutive days, was much commented upon by the political papers of forty years ago. Bond's opponents insisted on calling him an aristocrat and swearing that he wore silk stockings. Yet, with all his suavity, he could and would resent insult with promptitude and spirit. The writer, (Col. W. E. Gilmore,) witnessed an instance of this. Colonel Brush was adversely engaged to Bond in the trial of a cause, and repeatedly interrupted the latter's argument, though re- repeatedly requested to desist. Finally, a fourth interruption, accompanied by some offensive ennuendo, overcame Bond's self-control and respect for the court. He rushed across the room, seized with his thumb and forefinger the very prominent nose of the offender and wrung it until blood flowed, then spat in Brush's face. Having inflicted this punishment upon the offender, Bond walked back to his place and resumed his argument. He was not further interrupted. But after the conclusion of the case, he was fined fifteen dollars f0r contempt 0f court and no more serious result follOWed, although some anticipated

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a bloody result from Brush. In 1844, he was severely, almost fatally hurt, by. being struck when going aboard a steamboat, by a timber of a hoisting derrick, employed in loading the vessel. This injury, perhaps, and the death of his wife, afterwards, certainly hastened his dissolution. He died greatly respected, as it was proper such a man should be, on February 17th, 1864.

William Russell

was born in Ireland, in 1782. He was left an orphan at an early age, He came to the United States alone, in 1796, at the age of fourteen. He remained a short time in Philadelphia, and while there began to learn a trade, that of a hatter. He went from Philadelphia to Maysville, Kentucky, took up hat making and followed it. While there he married Sarah Tribbey. They had one child but she and it died shortly after it was born. He moved to Adams County, Ohio, in 1802. He represented Adams county in the first legislature of the new state which sat at Chillicothe, Ohio, March 1, to April 16, 1803. Thomas Kirker and Joseph Lucas were his colleagues. He was the first clerk of the courts of Scioto County, having been appointed De- cember 1803. It seems that the 0ffice did not suit his tastes and he resigned in June, 1804. In the eighth legislative session, December 4. 1809, to February 22, 1810, he was a member from Adams county at the munificent salary of two dollars per day. He had Dr. Alexander Campbell afterwards United States senator as a colleague. On the fifteenth day of February 1810, he was appointed an associate judge for Scioto County, Ohio. This office did not suit his tastes and he resigned it in 1812.

At the tenth legislative session, December 10, 1811, to February 21, 1812, he was a member of the house from Adams county, with John Ellison as a colleague. This legislature sat at Zanesville, Ohio. The house impeached John Thompson, a president judge of the cornmon pleas, but on trial in the senate, he was acquitted. At this session Columbus was made the capital of the state, and the legislature provided for the military equipment of the Ohio militia. It also incorporated a number of libraries in the state. At the eleventh legislative session, December 7th, 1812, to February 9th, 1813, William Russell was a member from Adams county with John Ellison as a colleague. This legislature provided for the care of women wh0 had been abandoned by their husbands (an epidemic in those days), and made the property of the absconder liable for the wife's maintenance.

Strong measures were adopted to require every able bodied man to respond to the call to arms, but the legislature, by special resolution, ex-cused Jacob Woodring, of Scioto County, from military duty, because his father was blind, lame, absolutely helpless and had two blind children. No one else was excused. From 1813 to 1819, he dropped out of the legislature, but not out of public employment.

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At the eighteenth legislative session from December 5th, 1819, to February 26th, 1820, he was a member of the Senate from Adams County. The House amused itself by impeaching two judges on the grounds of deciding an election contest contrary to the evidence, but the Senate unanimously acquitted them. The Senate spent a great deal of time in discussing the Missouri Compromise and the question of slavery.

At the nineteenth legislative session. December 4, 1820, to February 23, 1821 William Russell again represented Adams County in the Senate. The question of a canal system occupied much attention; also that of attacking branches of the United States bank. This legislature placed the United States Bank without the pale of Ohio laws and forbade the officers of the courts to recognize it in any way. Justices and judges were forbidden to entertain any case for it; sheriffs to arrest any one at its instance, or notaries to protest notes for it, or take any acknowledgement for it. Justices and judges were to be fined $500.00 if they entertained a suit for it, and sheriffs $200.00 for putting any one in jail at its instance. From this time, 1812 to 1829; William Russell was out of public employment. In the fall of 1826, he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, and re-elected for two succeeding terms. During all this time he was a resident of Adams County, and a merchant at West Union. After his third term in congress expired, March 4, 1833, he removed to near Rushtown, Ohio, in Scioto County and engaged in forging bar iron. In this enterprise he was unsuccessful and -is said to have lost $30,000. He was elected to the twenty-seventh Congress in 1841 as a Whig and served one term. At the end of his first term, March 4, 1843, he returned to his farm on Scioto Brush Creek, where he continued to reside until his death, September 28, 1845, at the age of 63. When at Portsmouth in 1803, he was a Presbyterian, but returning to West Union, he became a Methodist. In 1809 to 1820, he was one of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church in West Union, Ohio, and aided in the erection of the first church there, and all his life after, he was a faithful, devoted and devout Methodist. He was a student and self educated. He was a fluent and pleasant speaker and had extensive conversational powers. He was liked and respected by all who knew him. He had a remarkable popularity, largely owing to his even temper. As a merchant he was strict and honorable in all his dealings, and maintained the highest credit.

His public career began at the age of twenty-one, when elected to the first legislature of Ohio. He was a legislator, clerk of court, state senator and congressman and filled each and every office with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents. In private life he was a successful merchant, an honored member of the Methodist church and an upright citizen. In this case the office sought the man. How many men have crowded into the space of forty years so many

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activities? Comparing him to the men of his time, we find he held. office in two counties, and all he lacked was that he was not made a militia general. Every legislator of prominence, under the constitution of 1802, was either made an associate judge or a major-general of militia. William Russell obtained the judgeship but missed the generalship. However, his career in congress gave him more distinction than the military title could have done.

In 1802, he married Nancy Wood and had seven children, six sons and a daughter. One of the sons lived near Rushtown during his life. Another, Wm. B. married Rebecca Lucas and became the father of six children, three sons and three daughters. A grandson, James Russell, resides near Lucasville, Ohio, and another, George Russell, in Portsmouth, Ohio.

John L. Taylor.

General John L. Taylor, a prominent citizen of Ross County, was elected four times to congress. He was first elected in 1864 from the eighth district, composed of Ross, Pike, Jackson and Scioto Counties; was re-elected to the Thirty-first in 1848; and in 1850 to the Thirty-second in the same district. In 1852 he was elected to the Thirty- third congress from the tenth district, embracing Ross, Scioto, Lawrence, Pike, and. Jackson.

He was born in Stafford County, Virginia, March 7th, 1805, and came to Chllicothe in 1825, and was for many years a major-general of militia. After his service in congress he was given an important position in the department of interior. He died in Washington, D. C., September 6, 1870.

Colonel Oscar Fitzallen Moore

was born January 27th, 1815, near Steubenville, Ohio, the son of James H. Moore and his wife, Sarah Stull. His maternal grandfather, Daniel Stull was a Captain in the Revolutionary war. He graduated at Washington College, Pennsylvania, in the class of 1836. Directly after he began the study of law under D. L. Collier then Mayor of Steubenville. He attended one session of the Cincinnati law school and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court in session at Steubenville, in October, 1838. In April, 1839, he located at Portsmouth, Ohio, and remained there the remainder of his life. From that date until 1852, there was a law that lawyers should pay taxes on their incomes to the State. They made no returns of income and the Assessor guessed them off.

If he guessed under, as was usually the case, no complaints were made. If he guessed over, it was a good advertisement for the lawyer, worth all the tax as an advertisement and no complaints were made. This is the way the Assessors guessed off Col. Moore, 1839, $1 00 ; 1842, $300; 1843, $500; 1845, $800.; 1847, $1,000,; 1849, $1,500.

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In the fall of 1839, he announced himself as a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney against Samuel M. Tracy, but before the election, he withdrew, and Mr. Tracy was elected unanimously.

In 1840, July 4, he delivered the oration at a celebration of the day by the Franklin Institute of which he was a member, and of which he was the Vice-President in 1842. The Franklin Institute had a celebration of its own that day, there being another public one in the town.

In 1843, on September 19, he was married at Chillicothe, Ohio, to Martha B. Scott, daughter of Judge Thomas Scott, of Chillicothe, Ohio, who was the first prosecuting attorney for Scioto County and the father of fifteen children. Three of Judge Scott's daughters were married in Portsmouth, one to Howells, a merchant, one to Col. T. J. Graham and one to Col. O. F. Moore.

Col. Moore was a most ardent and enthusiastic Whig. He was consequently a great admirer of Henry Clay, and when his first child was born, he hoped it would be a boy so he might name it for Henry Clay, whom it might be said he worshiped. The first born proved to be a girl and he named her Clay. She is now the wife of Mr. George O. Newman and a grandmother. His second daughter is Mrs. Kate Newman, the wife of Hon. James W. Newman.

In 1844, he was a candidate for Mayor of Portsmouth and to the lasting disgrace of the town, was defeated. The vote st0od M0ore, 146; Richard H. Tomlin, 177. Before the term was out, council was trying to rid itself of Tomlin, because of inefficiency. In the same year Mr. Moore served on the Whig Central Committee.

From 1853 to 1855, he was City Solicitor at a salary of $100.00 per year. In 1850, he was elected to the House of Representatives of the State as a Whig, for Scioto and Lawrence Counties. He had 1,326 votes and his opponent Johnston had 430, majority 839. In 1851, he Was elected to the State Senate over Francis Cleveland, Democrat. The vote stood in Scioto County, Moore 1,309, Cleveland 888, Moore's majority 421.

In 1854, he was a candidate for Congress and carried the County by 1,200 majority. In 1855, he was a delegate to the Republican State Convention. In 1856, he ran for Congressman on the American ticket. R. C. Hoffman ran on the Republican ticket and Joseph Miller on the Democrat ; Miller was elected. The vote of Scioto County was Moore, 1,343; Miller, 1,309; Hoffman, 532. In the whole District the vote stood Joseph Miller, Democratic, 7,403 ; Richard C. Hoffman, Re- publican, 5,633 ; Oscar F. Moore, American, 4,325.

In 1859, in the Spring, he declared he believed he was a Demo- crat, but in the campaign, he addressed Republican meetings. He professed himself pleased with the nomination of Lincoln for Presi- dent in 1860, and determined to vote for him, but on July 7th, 1860, he declared himself for Bell and Everett.

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On July 31st, 1861, he entered the 33rd 0. V. I. as its Lieutenant Colonel. The original Colonel was Joshua Sill and he was promoted to Brigadier-General. Moore was made Colonel July 16, 1862.

At the battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862, he was severely wounded, captured and paroled by the enemy. He was not exchanged till February, 1863. He was really unfit for duty after his wound, but he .still remained in the service. He commanded his regiment at the two clays battle at Chickamauga, where it lost so heavily in killed and wounded. He served in Court Martials at Nashville Term in 1863 and 1864. July 20th, 1864, he resigned and came home.

In 1864, he supported McClellan for the Presidency and from that date continued to be a Democrat.

In 1866, he was the Democratic nominee for Congress and was defeated. The vote in the District composed of Adams, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Scioto and Vinton was Wilson, 12,783 ; 0. F. Moore, 9,945. In Scioto County the vote was Wilson, 2,621; Moore, 2,120. While he was always at the service of his party for campaign speeches, he was not again a candidate before the people until 1881, when he was a candidate for Common Pleas Judge on the Democratic ticket. The majorities in the District were Moore, 797, A. C. Thompson 2,407, net majority for Thompson, 1,620. In the County the vote stood Thompson, 2,407 ; M00re, 2,113. Thompson's majority, 284. This was the lowest majority on the ticket, the highest being 1,252. This closed Colonel M00re's political career. He died June 24th, 1885, at Waverly, Ohio, while in attendance on the court there. He practiced law from 1839 until 1885, a period of forty-six years. He acquired great eminence in his profession and was employed in all important suits in his own County and many in the surrounding Counties. He was not a member of any Church, but was a constant attendant on the services of the First Presbyterian Church, at Portsmouth. He had been such a devoted Whig that when that party was dissolved, he knew not where to turn. He was zealous in his support of the American party while it lasted, but his education and training as a Whig, and his conservatism prevented him from being at home in the Republican party. He had never been anti-slavery and believed in the guarantees of the Constitution as to slavery and when such rank abolitionists, as Milton Kennedy, Joseph Ashton and F. C. Searl were in the front ranks of the Republican party, he felt that he was not at home there. He had many warm friends—more of them out of his party than in it. He was liberal in his views and extremely charitable. His ability as a lawyer, whether with the Court or jury was the very highest. He was a great student in his profession and always came out strongest in a close case. As a politician, he was a failure, because of his extreme conservatism, due to his legal training. No great lawyer ever made a successful politician; and Col. Moore was no exception to the rule. His Republican friends thought if, when the Republican

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party was formed, he had remained in it, he would have made a signal success, and no doubt, if he had, he could have had any offices he desired.

His relations to his professional brethren were very cordial. He will long be remembered as one of the most brilliant lawyers of Southern Ohio.

Joseph Miller

was born in Chillicothe, in September, 1819, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He was Prosecuting Attorney in 1845-46, and as such prosecuted Henry Thomas for the murder of Frederick Edwards. In 1856, he was elected by the Democratic party, to represent this district in the 35th Congress; and to this day, he has been the only man born in Ross County, who ever represented a district, of which Ross C0unty formed a part, in the Congress of the United States. During his term the contest for and against the extension of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska was raging. Miller voted with the south on this subject; and as a considerable number of his party had, by this time, become heartily tired of pro-slavery pretension and arrogance, his reelection became obviously impossible. But after he had been defeated President Buchanan, in March 1859 appointed him as Chief Justice of Nebraska Territory. In 1861, his successor was appointed by President Lincoln; and Mr. Miller returned to Ohio, in very bad health, and died May 27th, 1862.

Carey A. Trimble

was born in Hillsboro, Ohio, April 13, 1813. He was the fourth son of Governor Allen Trimble. He received a classical education and graduated at the Ohio Uniyersity in 1833, and from the Cincinnati Medical College in 1836, and was demonstrator of anatomy in that institution from 1837 until 1841. His health failing, he retired from his profession and devoted himself to farming. He was elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress in 1858 from the Tenth District, composed of Ross, Pike, Jackson, Scioto and Lawrence Counties. He was reelected to the Thirty-seventh, in 1860, from the same District. He married Mary, daughter of Governor McArthur. They had one daughter, Nancy, who married W. M. Madeira. His first wife died and he was married the second time to Ann P. Thomps0n of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and they went there to reside. The date 0f his demise is not known.

Hon. Wells A. Hutchins

was horn October 7, 1818, in Trumbull County, Ohio. His father was, Asa Hutchins and his mother was Hannah Bushnell, both from Connecticut. Consequently he was a Yankee. 'His father was a Colonel in the war of 1812, but died at the early age of forty-five, leaving his widow with eight children to face this cruel world. Our subject was

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then twelve years of age. In 1831, he worked on a farm for $25.00, for his entire year's services, and from that time was entirely dependent on himself. His mind was quick and active and he never failed to make the best of the situation about him. At eighteen, he had qualified himself for a teacher. He went to Corydon, Ind., and taught in a select school for eight months. With true Yankee thrift he saved $900 from his teaching. He took it home and used it in payment of his expenses while studying law.

He read law at Warren, Ohio, with the Honorables John Hutchins and John Crowell and was admitted to the bar in 1841. In the Spring of 1842, he came to Portsmouth. He had been at Steubenville and was on a steamboat on his way down the river to go further west. On the steamboat he met L. N. Robinson and his brother J. V. They persuaded him to get off at Portsmouth and he did so. He went into Squire Lorenzo C. Goff's court and liked the way he saw justice administered. The first Sunday he was in Portsmouth, he went to the Methodist Church where Hibbs' Hardware store now stands. He accompanied his friends, L. N. and J. V. Robinson. The men and women sat apart and he noticed a pretty, back eyed, black haired girl in "the amen corner" He asked who she was, but his friends the Robinsons passed the question and when the services were 0ver the Robinsons near, near the door with young Hutchins and as the pretty girl cameear, they introduced Hutchins to her as their sister, Cornelia. Mr. Hutchins married her February 23, 1843. The vestigia of Mr. Hutcbins in Portsmouth are numerous. The first official record we have of him was in the Spring of 1842. The tax assessor guessed off his income at $100.00. He must have risen in public esteem very rapidly for the next year it was guessed off at $500.00. In 1845, it was $800.00, in 1847, $1,000, and in 1849, $1,500.00. In 1842 and 1844, he was on the Whig Central Committee. In 1843, he leased his office of the city for $32.00 per year.

In 1851, he was the Whig candidate for the Legislature and was elected receiving 1,348 votes to 923 for Judge Joseph Moore. He sat in the first General Assembly under the new Constitution. In 1855, he was a delegate to the Republican State Convention from Scioto County. Lucins V. Robinson, George A. Waller and Milton Kennedy were the others. In 1856, he went over to the Democrats. He was elected City Solicitor, in 1857, and served until 1859, at $100, per year. In 1859, he was re-elected and served until 1861, at a salary of $150, per year.

In 1860, he was a candidate for Congress on the Democratic ticket in the Tenth District and was defeated. The vote stood Carey A. Trimble. Republican, 11,593, Hutchins, Democrat, 11,025, majority, 568. The vote in his County was Trimble, 2,210, Hutchins, 2,148,

In June, 1861, he was one of the committee to buy $5,000.00 in arms for the County. On August 7, 1861, when C0mpany G. came

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home, he made the welcoming speech. On October 16, 1861, he was one of the Military Committee of the County.

In 1862, in the Spring, he went to Washington with a Committee to secure a' government armory at Portsmouth. On June 16, 1862, he was tendered the Colonelcy of the 91st O. V. I., but declined. In the summer of 1862, he declared for a more vigorous prosecution 0f the war and was nominated for Congress on that issue. The vote in the district stood; Hutchins 8,605, Bundy 6,702, Hutchins plurality 1,903. In Scioto County the vote stood; Bundy, Republican, 1,165; Hutchins, Democrat, 2,004. In September, 1862, he was Provost Marshal of the City, at the time of the expedition to Vanceburg to suppress a suppositious rebel raid.

In 1863, he changed his views about the war ; and on July 27, 1863, he made a speech in Jackson, in which he stated that he thought the South could not be subdued ; and that the Country was about to become a military despotism. He denounced the arrest of Vallandigham. In 1865, in Congress, he voted for the repeal of slavery in the District of Columbia ; and in February of that year, he voted for the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery. Sam Pike who had a newspaper in Chillicothe denounced him for this, in unmeasured terms. Pike said Hutchins had never been a Democrat and that from 1861, he had been a Republican in disguise. , The article was a long one and was published in the Portsmouth Times, without note or comment. In 1864, he ran for a second term for Congress and was defeated by Mr. Bundy by the following vote in the District; Hutchins, Democrat, 7,793; Bundy, Republican, 11,732. In Scioto County the vote stood Bundy, 1,930; Hutchins, 1,759.

In 1867, the Democrats nominated him for City Solicitor against Robert N. Spry, then a Republican. It was said at the time, that Mr. Hutchins did not know that he was on the ticket until after the election. The vote stood : Spry, 732.; Hutchins, 651; a majority of 81 for Spry. In the same year he and W .K. Thompson were the only Democrats in Scioto County who voted for the amendment to the State Constitution, conferring suffrage on the negroes. While Mr. Hutchins acted with the Whig party during its existence, he was in reality always an old time abolitionist. When in Congress, it was therefore no wonder that he voted for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and for the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

In 1868, he was appointed as one of a Committee to go to Columbus and lobby for a new penitentiary to be established at Portsmouth. The City appropriated $1,000.00, for this purpose and asked the County to appropriate as much more.

In 1870, the Council appointed him a Hospital Commissioner, but he declined. In 1875, he was a Trustee of the Portsmouth Young Ladies' Seminary and a Director of the Scioto Valley Railway. In

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1887, he was a Director of the Ohio and North Western Railroad. In 1880, he was a candidate for Congress for the last time. Henry S. Neal, Republican, was his opponent. The vote in Scioto County was Neal, 3,287 ; Hutchins, 3,378; Hutchinsl majority was 91 votes.

In the District the vote stood Henry S. Neal, 17,208; Hutchins, 15,080; Republican majority 2,128.

He died January 22, 1895, of a disease of the kidneys. Up to a few weeks prior to his death lie had enjoyed excellent health and when taken sick, he expected to recover. When, however, his malady t00k a fatal character, he faced the inevitable, without a word. He had the most superb courage of any man who ever lived in Portsmouth; but it was not of the boastful kind. No matter what unexpected happened, he never expressed any consciousness of surprise or consternation. He was never perturbed. He was always calm and collected and never lost his equipoise. As a public speaker, he was slow, clear and logical. He had a pleasant voice and agreeable manner. He was employed in all important litigation in southern Ohio. For twenty-one years he carried on the litigation against the furnaces on the Branch road ; and it is said the fees in these were $65,000. In the Scioto Valley case, he and Judge Olds had a fee of $40,000, allowed out of the fund, but what they received directly from their clients is not known. The Huntington claim of $750,000, was worthless when the litigation began ; but before it closed, they made it good, dollar for dollar, with interest.

In the case of Olive Applegate vs. W. Kinney & Co., where an attempt was made to hold certain citizens as quasi partners, growing out of the failure of the Kinney Bank, in the argument, Col. Moore spoke three days. Mr. Hutchins closed to the jury and spoke one hour. He carried the jury with him and won the case. That case was probably the greatest of his legal victories.

Mr. Hutchins was intuitively a lawyer. While others had to get out their points by long and close study, his came to him intuitively. He could look into a case and say at once what principles would determine it. His plan was to take the governing principle in a case, which would determine it in his favor and urge that strongly to the Court or Jury. But one thing he could not do. When he was on the wrong side of a case, he could not conceal his consciousness of the fact from the Court and his fellow members of the bar. The result of this peculiarity was, that when he was on the right side of a case, he was irresistible.

He was the best illustration of a self composed, self contained, self reliant man ever known to the writer. No matter with what he was confronted, he expressed no surprise and treated it as though he had been studying it and had expected it for ten years He had his private griefs enough to have crushed many men, but he never gave the slightest indication of their burden to the public. He never preached any philosophy, but his philosophy far exceeded that of any of the

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ancient schools. He never speculated why he came into the world, nor concerned himself about his going out. He undertook to meet every situation as it came to him and to make the best of it.

He was never known to lose his equipoise. When confronted with death, he met it with the utmost composure; and never undertook to give a single direction on account of it. While his Republican neighbors did not like his political course, they were all his friends. He was a man of great liberality. He would have given away his last dollar in charity. He was always in favor of public improvements and public enterprises.

Socially he was courteous to all and liked by all. Although a very positive man, be was positive in a way which gave no offense. He was a gentleman of the old school. He was always at his best before the world. He scorned an ignoble action. He was not a user of tobacco or liquors. He belonged to a class of gentlemen which has forever passed away,—an admirable type of lawyer, man and citizen; one whose life was an inspiration to those about him.

Hezekiah Sanford Bundy

was born August 15, 1817, in Marietta, Ohio. His father was Nathan Bundy, a native of Hartford, Conn. His mother was Ada M. Nicholson, of Duchess County, New York, where they were married. In 1816, they removed to Marietta, Ohio. Two years later, Mr. Bundy's father settled near Athens where he leased college land and cleared and improved it. His title, however, proved invalid. He was killed in 1832 by the falling of a tree. In 1880, his wife died at the age of eighty-one years. Of their three children, our subject is the only one who reached maturity. In 1834, he located in McArthur, and in .1837, went to Wilkesville, where he married Lucinda, daughter of Zimri Wells. In 1839, he moved back to McArthur, where his wife died in December, 1842, leaving three children; William Sanford, Sarah A., wife of Major B. F. Stearns, of Washington, D. C. ; and Lucy, now Mrs. J. C. H. Cobb, of Jackson County.

From 1839 to 1846, Mr. Bundy was engaged in merchandising in McArthur, Ohio. In 1844, he married Caroline, daughter of Judge Payne, of Jackson County, and in 1846, moved to the old home of his father-in-law, which he afterwards purchased and where he continued to reside until his death. His second wife died in 1868, leaving two daughter's ; Julia P., now the wife of Senator Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio, and Eliza M., wife of Harvey Wells, the founder of Wellston. Mr. Bundy was again married in 1876 to Mary M. Miller, who survived and still occupies the old home.

In his early life, he attended for a short time a private school under the charge of David Pratt, of Athens, but his schooling ceased when he was fourteen years of age. In 1846, he commenced the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1850. In the fall of 1848, he

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was elected to the legislature from Jackson and Gallia Counties and voted to repeal the Black Laws. In 1850, he was elected to represent Jackson, Athens, Gallia and Meigs Counties in the House. In 1855, he was elected to the State Senate to represent the present seventh senatorial district. In 1860, he was a presidential elector from his congressional district and voted for Abraham Lincoln. In 1862, he was the Republican candidate for congress from the eleventh district of Ohio, but was defeated by the Hon. Wells A. Hutchins by 1,900 votes. Two years later he was a candidate against Mr. Hutchins and defeated him by a majority of 4,000. In 1872, he was a candidate for the 43rd congress in the same district and defeated Samuel A. Nash by a large majority. In 1874, he was again a candidate, but was defeated by Hon. John L. Vance, of Gallipolis. In 1893, he was a candidate for congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Gen. Wm. H. Enochs, and was elected. Upon Mr. Bundy's retirement in March, 1895, he was given a banquet and reception at Jackson, Ohio, which was attended by Gov. McKinley, and State officers, Senator Foraker, Ex-Governor Foster, General Keifer, General Grosvenor, and many others of national prominence ; and to Mr. Bundy on that occasion was given one of the grandest tributes ever witnessed in Ohio. He represented Scioto County in the State Senate and in his three terms in congress.

In 1843, he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was one of the first lay delegates from Ohio to the general conference. In 1848, he bought the farm where he died and since then was largely engaged in the iron and coal interests in Jackson County, Ohio, and owned Latrobe and Keystone Furnaces. He also at one time owned Eliza Furnace.

His son, Wm. S. Bundy, served in the 18th 0. V. I. during the first three months of the civil war. He then enlisted in Company G. of the 7th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and was wounded Sept. 20, 1863, at Beans Station in Tennessee. In January, 1864, he was sent home on account of his disability and on March 22, 1864, discharged for the same reason. After his return from the army he married Kate Thompson, and had one child, the present Wm. E. Bundy, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. He died from the results of his wound January 27, 1867, and his wife was killed in December 1868, by being thrown from a horse.

Hezekiah S. Bundy was always remarkably popular among the furnace-men of his county and district. They were for Bundy for congress at any time and at all times. He was an excellent campaigner. While he was not trained and never sought to train himself in the arts of oratory, yet he was an entertaining and effective speaker The people came to hear him and were always pleased and instructed. Mr. Bundy was well informed in every detail of public affairs, and had a good memory. He had a remarkable treasure of illustrative anecdoteS

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from which he could draw at any time. His reminiscences were always delightful He thoroughly understood human nature, and always kept in close touch with the common people. On the floor of the House, or in committee, lie was familiar with the pubhc business, and always performed his duties creditably to himself and acceptably to his constituents. On all public questions in congress while he was a member, he was usually in advance of the march of public sentiment, especially was this true of reconstruction measures. As a business man he did much to develop the iron and coal industries in the region where he lived. He enjoyed to a remarkable extent the confidence and esteem of all who knew him and was universally mourned when he died at his home in Wellston, Ohio, December, 12, 1895.

John T. Wilson.

The words of Miss Edna Dean Proctorsis poem are ringing, in my ears. She inquires whether the heroes are all dead ; whether they lived only in the times of Homer and whether none of the race survive in these times? The refrain of the poem is ; "Mother Earth, are the heroes dead?" And then she proceeds to answer it in her own way, and answers it thus :

"Gone? In a grander form they rise.

Dead? We may clasp their hands in awe."

Then comparing our modern heroes with those of Homeric days. Jason, Orpheus, Hercules, Priam, Archilles, Hector, Theseus and Nestor, she continues :

"For their armor rings on a fairer field

Than the Greek and the Trojan fiercely trod :

For freedom's sword is the blade they wield,

And the light above is the smile of God."

We have heroes in these, our days, who will compare more than favorably with those of the Homeric, or any subsequent times; but having known them as neighbors and friends, and having associated with them from day to day, we do not appreciate them until death has sealed their characters, and then as we begin to study them it begins to dawn on us that they too have done things which canonize them heroes.

Till since his death, we believe the public has not fully appreciated the character of Hon. John T. Wilson, a former congressman of the tenth (Ohio) district, though it is his record as a patriot, and not as a congressman that we propoSe especially to discuss.

He was a hero of native growth. He was born April 16, 1811, in Highland County, Ohio, and lived the most of his life and died within ten miles of his birthplace. His span of life extended until the sixth of October, 1891, eighty-five years, five months, and twenty days, and in that time his manner of life was known to his neighbors as an 0pen book.

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In that time, living as a country store-keeper and farmer, and resisting all temptations to be swallowed up in city life, if such temptations ever came to him, he accumulated a fortune of about a half a million of dollars, which, before, his death, was devoted principally to charitable work..

To attempt to sum up his life in the fewest words, it consisted in trying to do the duty nearest him. He was never a resident of a city except when attending to public official duties, and to expect a hero to come from the remote country region about tranquility in Adams county, Ohio, was as preposterous as looking for a prophet from the region of Nazareth in the year one; yet the unexpected happened in this instance.'

Until the age of fifty, he had been a quiet unobtrusive citizen of his remote country home, seeking only to follow his vocation as a country merchant and to do his duty as a citizen; but it was when the war broke out that the soul which was in him was disclosed to the world. He showed himself an ardent patriot. When government bonds were first offered, there were great doubts as to whether the war would be successful, and whether the government would ever pay them.

No doubt ever occured to Mr. Wilson. He invested every dollar he had in them and advised his neighbors to do the same. He said if the country went down, his property would go with it, and he did not care to survive it ; and if the war was successful, the bonds would be all right. As fast as he made any money to spare, he continued to invest it in government securities. In the summer of 1861, he heard that Captain E M. DeBruin now, in Hillsboro, Ohio, was organizng a company for the Thirty-third Ohio Infantry Regiment, and he went over to Winchester and arranged with Rev. I. H. DeBruin, now of Hillsboro, Ohio, that his only son and child, Spencer H. Wilson, then 19 years of age, should enlist in the company, which he did, and was its first sergeant. and died in the service at Louisville, Ky., March 4, 1862.

In the summer of 1861, Mr. Wilson determined that Adams County should raise a regiment for the service. He did not want to undertake it himself, but he believed that if Colonel Cockerill, of West Union, Ohio, would lead the movement it could be done and he sent Dr. John Campbell, nOW of Delhi, Ohio, to secure the co-operation of Col. Cockerill.

This was not difficult to do as Col. Cockerill felt about it as Mr. Wilson. It was determined to ask Brown County to co-operate, and Col. D. W. C. Loudon, of Brown, was taken into the plan, and the Seventieth Ohio Infantry was organized in the fall of 1861. Mr. Wilson undertook to raise a company for the regiment and did so, and it was mustered in as Company E.

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The Captain, the Hon, John T. Wilson, was then fifty years. of age, and he had in the company three privates, each of the same age, and one of the age of fifty-five, so that the ages of the five members of that company aggregated 225 years. Hugh J. McSurely was the private who was past fifty-five years of age when he enlisted in Capt. Wilsonls company. He is the father of Rev. Wm. J. McSurely, D. D. late pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Hillsboro, Ohio.

Capt., Wilson's company was much like Cromwell's troop of Ironsides, it was made up of staid old Scotch and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, who went in from a sense of duty. Col. Loudon, of the Seventieth O. V. I. says that Capt. Wilson did more to organize the Seventieth Ohio Infantry than anyone else. At the time he went into the service, he was physically unfit, and could not have passed medical examination as an enlisted man. He had an injury to his leg, from the kick of a horse years before, that greatly disabled him, but he wanted to go and felt that he owed it to his friends and his country to go. He would consider his own physical unfitness.

He led his company into the sanguinary battle of Shiloh. His personal coolness and self possession inspired his company, and he held it together during the entire two days battle.

During the march to Corinth, after Shiloh, he was taken down with the fever, and by order of the surgeon was sent north. At, Ripley, Ohio, he was taken much worse, and lay there for weeks, delirious and unconscious, hovering between life and death. Owing to the most careful nursing, he recovered. He was not able to rejoin his regiment until September, 1862, at Memphis, Tenn.

Col. Cockerill was in command of the brigade, and made him brigade quarter-master, so he would not have to walk; but it was apparent that he was not fit for service; and it was imperiling his life for naught. Col. Cockerill and Lieut. Col. Loudon both told him he could serve his country better at home than in the army, and insisted on his resigning and going home. He resigned Nov. 27, 1862. Col. Loudon says his record was without a stain, and none were more loyal than he.

Capt., Wilson was married in 1841, to Miss Hadassah G. Dryden. There was one son of this marriage, Spencer H. Wilson, born Sept. 13, 1842, and whom he gave to his country, as before stated. Captain Wilson's wife died March 23, 1849, and he never re-married.

Capt., Wilson not only invested his fortune in the war securities and sent his only son and child to war, but went himself and served as long as he could. Could any one have done more?

In the summer of 1863, he was nominated by the Republicans of the seventh senatorial district of Ohio, to the State Senate without being a candidate, and without his knowledge or consent he was elected. In 1865, he was re-nominated and re-elected to the same office, and

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served his constituency with great credit and satisfaction. In 1866, he was nominated by the Republicans of the Eleventh Ohio District for a member of Congress, and was re-nominated and re-elected in 1868 and in 1870; though just before his congressional service, and just after it, the district was carried by the Democracy.

When Mr. Wilson was first nominated for congress, it was not supposed that he was a speaker, or that he could canvass the district, but he made appointments for speaking all over the district, and filled them to the satisfaction of every one. He made a most effective speaker, and moreover, the farmers all over the district believed what he said, and were justified in doing it. He was never present at a convention which nominated or prenominated him for office, and never in the slightest way solicited a nomination or a re-nomination.

He was the most satisfactory congressman ever sent from his district. Every constituent who ever wrote him, got an answer in Mr. Wilson's own hand writing, which was as uniform and as plain as copperplate The letter told the constituent just what he wanted to know, and was a model of perspicuity and brevity. Those letters are now precious relics to any one who has one of them, and they are models of what letters should be.

If a constituent wrote for an office, he was sure to get an answer which would tell him whether he could get an office or not, and if Mr. Wilson told him he could get an office, and that he would assist him, he was sure of it. Mr. Wilson had the confidence of the President and of all the appointing officers, and if he asked for an office inside of the district, he usually obtained it, because he made it a rule never to ask for an office unless he thought he was entitled to it, and that it would be granted him.

Mr. Wilson retired from Congress at the end of his third term with the good will of his entire district, and with the feeling that he had served to their entire satisfaction.

On March 6, 1882, he gave Adams County, Ohio, $46,667.03 toward the erection of a Children's Home. The gift was really $50,000, but was subject to certain reductions, which netted it as the sum first named. As the county built the Home, he issued his own checks in payment for it, until the entire gift was made. That Home is now one of the finest and best built institutions of the kind in the state. By his last will and testament, he gave to the Children's Home an endowment of $35,000 and $15,000 in farming lands. He also gave $5,000 toward the erection of a soldier's monument to the memory of the Adams County soldiers who had died or been killed during the Civil War This monument has been erected in the grounds of the Wilson Children's Home, and occupies a site overlooking the surrounding country.

Mr. Wilson made many private bequests in his will, which it is not within the scope of this article to mention ; but to show his kindly

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disposition we mention that he gave $1,000 to a church in which he was reared and held his membership, and $1,000 t0 the church at Tranquility, where he resided His house keeper, a faithful woman, he made independent for life. As a residuary bequest, he gave to the commissioners of Adams County, $150,000 to be expended in the support of the worthy poor.

It is to the interest of the state that every citizen shall be law abiding; that he shall faithfully follow some occupation and support himself and those dependent upon him ; that he shall accumulate and hold property to guarantee his own independence and that 0f his family, and that he shall be able to contribute to the needs of the state.

It is also to the interest of the state that, in case of war, its citizens shall place their entire property and their personal services fully at its disposal. A citizen who performs all these obligations is said to be patriotic, and the virtues of patriotism are more admired than any other, because what is given in that direction is given for the common good of all the people of the country.

One may take the entire list of patriots, from Leonidas, the Spartan down to Lincoln, the great war president, or in our country, from General Warren down to the last man who fell at Appomattox, and n0ne can be found who did more work for his own country than the Hon. John T. Wilson.

He periled his entire fortune; he gave the life of his only son, and he freely offered his own. What more could he have done?

Patriotism is and must be measured by the station of life which a man occupies when his opportunity comes.

If each man does all he can, and offers and gives all he can, he is as great a patriot as any one can be. Measured by the standard, Capt. John T. Wilson, filled the full measure of patriotism.

When he came to the last of earth, he not only remembered those upon whom the law would have cast his estate, but he devoted the greater part of it to public benefactions and especially to the relief of the innocent unfortunates who were not responsible for their own misfortunes.

In his public duties as captain of the line, as brigade quartermaster, and as a representative in Congress, he performed every duty apparent to him, honestly and conscientiously, and in the very best manner in which it could be done. His entire life consisted in the performance of each' and every duty as he saw it at the time. He never did anything for effect or for show, or to be spoken of or praised by his fellow men.

In size, he was like Saul, head and shoulders above his fellows, over six feet high, but with a most kindly disposition. His features were attractive and commanding. He was willing to meet every man, to estimate him according to his manhood, and to bid him G0d-speed, if he deserved it.

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he never tried to do anything great, but his punctuality to every duty before him, from day to day, made him known of all men. He simply tried to do right, and this simple devotion to duty in war and peace, in public office and as a private citizen, caused his memory to be revered as a perfect patriot so long as his good deeds. shall be remembered.

General John Luther Vance

was born in the City of Gallipolis, Ohio, July 19, 1839, the eldest child of Alexander Vance and Eliza A. Shepard, his wife. He was educated in the public sch00ls of Gallipolis and Gallia Academy. He.entered his father's printing office at eleven years of age. At seventeen years of age, he was a teacher in the public schools adjoining Gallipolis. At eighteen, he was Deputy Clerk of the Courts of Gallia County. He entered the Cincinnati Law School in the fall of 1860 and took the course that winter. In 1860, he was appointed on the staff of General Constable of the Ohio Militia. The day after he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, in April, 1861, he was ordered to report at Gallipolis for military duty. He recruited and organized the first troops in Gallia County. On June 3, 1861, he began recruiting a three years' company. He was mustered in as Captain of Company B, 4th Virginia Infantry, on July 5, 1861. On April 28, 1863, he was mustered as Major of the regiment, to date from March 26, 1863 ; on May 31, 1863, he was mustered as Lieutenant Colonel of the same regiment, to date from May 18, 1863. Through nearly all of the last year of the service of the regiment, Colonel Vance was in command of the regiment, but could not be mustered as Colonel because the regiment was so reduced in number as to prevent it. He was mustered out of the service November 11, 1864, at Wheeling, West Virginia. From muster in until January 1, 1863, he served in West Virginia and Kentucky. He was in the battles of Fayetteville, Cotton Hill, Loup Creek and Charleston, and a number of skirmishes. The regiment started south January 1, 1863, and was made part of "Sherman's Division at Young's Point, La., and later, part of the 15th Corps, Army of Tennessee. He served with that Corps until March, 1864, when the regiment, then under his command, veteranized and he came h0me with his regiment on 30 days leave. Upon expiration of veteran leave the regiment was reorganized and ordered to join the Army of West Virginia ; served in the Shenandoah Valley and adjoining parts of the country under Generals Hunter, Cr00k and Sheridan until mustered out. Our subject was in the battles of the Vicksburg campaign, Raymond, Champion Hills charges at Vicksburg, and seige, and in battle at Jackson, Mississippi ; in battle of Mission Ridge, and in actions in getting there on march from Memphis to Chattanooga, to-wit ; Cherokee Station, Tuscumbia, at point near Florence, and skirmishes; after Mission Ridge, was with Sherman to relieve Burnside at Knoxville; and, in Virginia, was in the battle of Lynchburg and

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actions getting there and retreating therefrom : New Hope Church, Salem and many smaller contests; latter, in battles at Winchester, Cedar Creek, Snicker's Ford, Berryville, Hall Town, Monocacy, Bolivar Heights. His regiment as a whole or part of it. participated in forty-seven battles and skirmishes during its service. In the last year of his service he commanded the regiment. He served on various courts martial and other details, but was not detached from his regiment. \\Then stationed at Larkinsville, Alabama. he was Provost Marshal of the Division, but still remained with his regiment. He was tendered an appointment in the regular army at the close of his service in the volunteer army, but declined it. Colonel Vance was severely wounded in one of the charges at Vicksburg, and received five other wounds which .were not regarded as serious by him. After retiring from the army, he engaged in steamboating and was blown up on the steamer Cottage on the Kanawha and was severely injured. In 1867, he began publication of the Gallipolis Bulletin, and continued in charge of it until August, 1900, when he sold out to Mr. M. F. Merriman. It was a successful venture and always made money. In 1865, he was a candidate for Representative on the Democratic ticket in Gallia County, but was defeated. When it is stated that the 'vote for Governor in that year in that county for General Cox was 2,053 and for General Morgan was 1,038, his defeat is sufficiently explained. In 1869, he was a candidate for State Senator in the Eighth District, composed of the Counties of Gallia, Lawrence, Meigs and Vinton. The district was thoroughly Republican. His competitor, Homer C. Jones, received a vote of 8.852 and he received a vote of 6,659. In 1874, he was nominated by his party for Congress in the 11th District, composed then of Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Scioto and Vinton Counties, and was opposed by the Hon. H. S. Bundy. The vote in his own County stood : 1,847 for Vance and 1,860 for Bunay. The vote in the District was 12,437 for Vance and 10,496 for Bundy. He was a candidate for re-election the second time in 1876 and was defeated, but at that time the vote in the District st00d 14,639 for Vance and 15,213 for H. S. Neal,—a very complimentary vote for Colonel Vance.

In 1884, he was constrained to be a candidate for his party in the 14th District, composed of Perry, Morgan, Athens, Meigs and Gallia Counties. His candidacy was at the urgent request of the National and State Committees of his party. He was at that time opposed by the Hon. Charles H. Grosvenor, and the vote stood 17,008 for Grosvenor, 11,281 for Vance, 386 for Thomas Peden and 1,689 for Christopher Evans. In 1872, he was a delegate to the Democratic National. Convention and has represented his county in nearly every State Convention since the war. He was a member of the Democratic State Central and Executive Committees for years. In 1877, he was urged for Governor by members of his party and received a large vote in the

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State Convention. In 1889, Governor Campbell appointed him Quartermaster General and Commissary General of Subsistence, with the rank of Brigadier-General. While in Congress he was appointed and served as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Printi ig, and also served on the Committee to investigate Louisiana affairs, and also was a member of the Committee to investigate the so-called de Golyer paving frauds: He was one of the 18 Democrats who voted against the Electoral Commission bill. In 1889, he began the agitation of the question of erecting a Hospital in Ohio for Epileptics. He secured the passage of the bill by the Legislature and was appointed a member of the Commission to select a site and prepare plans in conformity with the provisions of the law. He was elected President of the Commission when it was organized, and secured the location at Gallipolis. One of the greatest public works in which he has ever been engaged is that of providing the Ohio river with a series of locks and dams to secure six feet of water in the channel at low water, the year around. In 1895, he was elected President of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association, at its organization, and has been re-elected every year since. Since the organization of this Association, appropriations reaching twenty million dollars have been made by Congress for the Ohio and its tributaries. The continuous contract system has been adopted by Congress, locks and dams are in process of construction at many points, and it will-be but a few years until a six foot stage of water will be had from Pittsburg to Cairo.

General Vance takes a great interest in everything connected with the Civil War and the G. A. R. He is a member of the G. A. R. post of Gallipolis and several times has been its Commandant. He is also a member of the Loyal Legion. While he has never practised law, he was admitted to practise in the Supreme Court of the United States and of the State of New York. He acted as Referee in a case of importance under an appointment from the Supreme Court of New York. For years he has been a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. For twelve years he served as President of the Gallipolis Board of Trade. He was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Gallipolis Centennial celebration in 1890, and occupied the same position at the great Soldiers' Reunion in 1888. In 1891-92 he was made President of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Rev0lution, and is a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. He was one of the charter members of the Order of Elks at Gallipolis. He is a Knight Templar and a 32d degree Mason. He was a Director of the Ohio and Northwestern Railroad Company. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Rio Grande College for seven years. He was made a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boys' Industrial Home at Lancaster by Governor Bushnell in 1896, and was re-appointed by Governor Nash, and was one of the founders of the

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Hocking and Ohio Valley Editorial Association and was for many years its President.

He was married October 4, 1866, to his first cousin, Emily Shepard, a daughter of the late John C. Shepard and his wife, Marie Louise Creuzet Shepard. Mrs. Vance's father was a son of Col. Luther Shepard and Margaret, his wife ; and her mother, Marie Louise Creuzet, was a daughter of Charles Creuzet and Genevieve Pistor, his wife—both born in France. By his marriage, General Vance is identified with the old French of Gallipolis. Mr. Creuzet was one of the prominent merchants of Gallipolis in the early days, and later largely engaged in manufacturing. General Vance has three sons, as follows : Creuzet, United States Immigrant Inspector at New York ; John L. Vance, jr., President of the First National Bank of Gallipolis, and Secretary and Treasurer of the Ohio Trust Company, of Columbus, Ohio; and Frank R. Vance, engaged in the manufacturing business at Columbus, Ohio. No one had a more brilliant Civil War record than General Vance, and no one has a more patriotic record among his ancestors than he. As a speaker, he is always interesting and instructive, and is constantly in demand to make addresses at public functions, especially those connected with Memorial Day and with the G. A. R. He has always been very active in public matters for the benefit of the people. He is one of the most genial men, and is courteous to all who call on him. He is a gentleman in every sense of the word, and wherever he makes an acquaintance, he makes a friend, and a friend who remains such. He is entitled to be called a public benefactor, for no citizen of Southern Ohio has projected or accomplished more than he for the benefit of his section of the State.

Harkey S. Neal.

Henry S. Neal, of Ironton, Lawrence County, was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, August 25, 1828. He graduated from Marietta College in 1847. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1851, and soon came into an extensive practice.

He was elected to the State Senate in 1861, and was re-elected in 1863. He was appointed United States Consul to Lisbon, Portugal, in 1869, and became charge de'affairs upon the resignation of the American minister. In 1870 he returned to the United States. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1873.

In 1876 he was elected to the Forty-fifth congress from the Twelfth district Lawrence, Ross, Scioto, Pike and Jackson counties, and elected from the same district, in 1878, to the Forty-sixth Congress, and in 1880 was elected to the Forty-seventh from the Eleventh district, Lawrence, Adams, Scioto, Gallia, Jackson and Vinton. He was a congressman of marked ability, and was a strong debater and a fluent orator. During his political career he was a Republican, but left that party in 1896 because of the money question, he fav-

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oring the Democratic idea of the equal coinage of both gold and silver.

John W. McCormick,

of Gallipolis, represented in the forty-eighth congress, the district consisting of Adams, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Scioto and Vinton counties. He was born in Gallia County, Ohio, on December 20, 1831. He was brought up on a farm and educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and at the Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. On leaving school, he engaged in farming, was elected delegate to the Ohio constitutional convention in 1873 and to the forty-eighth congress as a Republican, receiving 15,288 votes against 13,037 votes for John P. Leedom, Democrat.

Albert C. Thompson

was born in Brookville, Jefferson County, state of Pennsylvania, Jannary 23, 1842. He was two years at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, his course ending with the freshman year. He was a student at law when the Civil War broke out. On April 23, 1861, he

enlisted in the Union Army, and served as second sergeant of Company I of the Eighth Pennsylvania, three months troops. The regiment served in Maryland and Virginia under General Patterson. On the twenty-seventh of August, 1861, he enlisted for three years in Comp-

E any B, 105th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was made orderly sergeant, of the company, and in October, 1861, was promoted to second lieutenant on the twenty-eighth of November, 1861, he was transferred to Company K, and promoted to the captaincy of that regiment. On the twenty-first of May, 1862, he was severely wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, and was again wounded on the twenty-ninth of August, 1861, at the second battle of Bull Run. The last wound was a serious one. A musket ball entered his right breast, fracturing his second and third ribs, and lodging in the lungs where it remained. He was confined to his bed by this wound for ten months. In June, 1863, he entered the invalid corps, but resigned n December, 1863, and resumed the study of law. He was admitted to practice in Pennsylvania on the thirteenth of December, 1864. In 1865 he removed to Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1869 he was elected probate judge of Scioto County. and served from February 9, 1870, to February 9, 1873, and was not a candidate for re-election. In the fall of 1881 he was elected one of the common pleas judges of the second subdivision of the seventh judicial to accept the nomination of his party as a candidate for congress to district of Ohio, and served until September, 1884, when he resigned which he was elected and served as above stated. After he retired from congress he was appointed by Gov. McKinley. chairman of the Ohio Tax Commission which made its report in December, 1893: He was chosen a delegate to the Republican National Convention at St.

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Louis in 1896. In January, 1897, he was appointed chairman of a commission created by congress to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of the United States, and served as such until he was appointed by President McKinley, United States District Judge for the southern district of Ohio. He entered upon the discharge of his duties as District Judge on the twenty-second day of September, 1898. After his appointment as United States District Judge he removed to Cincinnati, where he has resided since the first of November, 1898.

During Judge Thompson's first term ill congress he was a member of the committee on private land claims of which committee he was a valuable member. In the fiftieth congress he served upon the invalid pension committee, and in the fifty-first congress upon two of the most prominent and important committees, namely, judiciary and foreign affairs. As a member of the first committee the judge was made chairman of the sub-committee to investigate the United States Courts in various parts of the country. The report which he submitted to congress as chairman of that sub-committee was among the most valuable of the session. It was during the fifty-first congress that the famous McKinley Tariff Bill was formed, and in the construction of that important measure Judge Thompson took no inconsiderable part, being frequently called into the councils of his party. Judge Thompson's career in congress was of material benefit to his adopted city, as it was through his efforts that a public building was erected in Portsmouth, costing $75,000. The bill providing for this building was vetoed by President Cleveland in the fiftieth congress, but became a law by the President's sufferance in the fifty-first congress. A dike, known as the Bonanza dike, built in the Ohio just about that time, was also provided for through the same instrumentality, at a cost of $75,000, and three ice piers built just below, were added at a cost of $7,500 apiece. The city of P0rtsmouth also received the boon of free mail delivery through the same source.

As a member of the Ohio Tax Commission he took a conspicuous part in its labors, and its work is now bearing fruit in the legislation of the state on this subject. The report of this committee received the highest praise from contemporaneous journals of political science.

As a lawyer Judge Thompson was well read in his profession, and was a diligent and constant student. He was painstaking, industrious, and energetic. He brought out of any case all that was in it, both of fact and law. His opponent in any case could expect to meet all the points which could be made against him, and would not be disappointed in this respect.

As a common pleas judge he gave general satisfaction to the bar and public. He was one of the ablest who ever occupied the common pleas bench in Ohio, and there was universal regret when he left the bench for Congress. As a federal judge, he has received many compli- ments, and it is believed by those who know him best, that he will

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make a reputation as such equal to any who have occupied that position in our state.

He was married December 25, 1867, to Miss Ella A., Turley, daughter of Col. John A. Turley. His eldest daughter Charl is the wife of Oscar W. Newman, who has a sketch herein. His daughters, Sara and Ruth are unmarried. His daughter Amy is the wife of Raymond D. York, of Portsmouth. His son, Albert Clifton, is a lieutenant in the United States •Artillery stationed in Cuba. He has a son, Guy, attending the Franklin Sch00l in Cincinnati, but who will enter Yale College in September, 1902.

Gen. William H. Epochs

is a good example of what the ambitious American boy can make of himself. He was born in Noble County, Ohio, March 29, 1842. His parents were Henry and Jane Miller Enochs. They removed to Lawrence County when he was a child.

He had the advantage of a common sch00l education and was attending the Ohio University at Athens when Fort Sumpter was fired on. He at once enlisted in Co. B, 22nd Ohio Volunteers for three months and was made a sergeant. Col. William E. Gilmore, of Chillicothe, was colonel of this regiment. Hon. Thaddeus A. Minshall. now Supreme Judge of Ohio, was its Sergeant-major. Judge Guthrie, of Athens, was Captain of the company and W. H. H. Minturn, of Gallipolis, the banker, its First Sergeant. This regiment was mustered in April 27, 1861, and mustered out August 19, 1861. Young Enochs was afraid the war would be over before he could get in again, so he swam the Ohio River and enlisted in the 5th Virginia Infantry. At that time he did not believe that he could get into an Ohio Regiment, so he enlisted in Virginia. In October, he was elected Captain of his company, but owing to his youth, his Colonel refused to issue the commission and made him a First Lieutenant. He was recommended to be Major of the Regiment in 1862, but owing to his youth, was commissioned a Captain. As such, he was in the battles of Moorfield and McDowell, and of Cross Keys. He was in Cedar Mountain and the second Manassas, and at the latter had command of his regiment, although junior Captain. He -was also in the battle of Chantilly. In 1863, the regiment was transferred to West Virginia. On August 17, 1863, Captain Enochs was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel. His regiment was in the Lynchburg Raid, which was a campaign of "marching, starving and fighting." In 1864, his regiment was in the battles of Bunker Hill, Carter's Farm and Winchester, Halltown and Berryville. At the battle of Winchester, September 19, 1864, Colonel Enochs was severely wounded by being struck on the head by a musket ball, and was supposed, at first, to have been killed instantly. At Fisher's Hill, September 22nd, 1864, he displayed great bravery in leading his regiment to the attack, and for this, was brevetted

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Brigadier-General. His regiment and the Ninth Virginia were consolidated and made the 1st West Virginia Infantry. Near the close of the war, his regiment was sent to Cumberland, Maryland, where he was assigned to the command of the tr00ps in that part of Maryland. In the fall and winter of 1865 and 1866, he studied law in Ironton and was admitted to the bar in April, 1866. He located at Ceredo, West Virginia. After remaining there a year or more he removed to Ironton. He at once acquired a large and lucrative practice. For a long time he was general counsel for the Scioto Valley Railroad Company.

In 1871 and 1872, he represented Lawrence County in the house of representatives of the Ohio Legislature. In 1875, he was married to Miss Annis Hamilton, of Ironton. They had one son, Berkley, who was educated at West Point and is now a First Lieutenant in the 25th, U. S. Infantry, and is with his regiment in the Philippines. During the Spanish War, he served with his regiment in Cuba.

Gen. Enochs always had an ambition to represent his district in Congress. This desire was gratified when, in 1890, he was elected to Congress from the twelfth district, composed of Athens, Meigs, Gallia, Lawrence and Scioto. In 1892, he was re-elected to Congress from the tenth district composed of Adams, Pike, Scioto, Jackson, Lawrence and Gallia. On the morning of July 13, 1893, he was found dead in his bed from an attack of apoplexy. A most promising career was cut short. He was the idol of the people of the county and respected, honored and beloved by the people throughout his district.

In the spring of 1893, he was full of projects for the benefit of his district and particularly for the improvement of the Ohio River. Had he lived, he would doubtless have had as many terms in Congress as he desired and would likely have been governor of the state. He had the happy faculty of making all whom he met feel that he was their friend.

He had some subtle unknown charm, of which he was unconscious, but which made him friends everywhere and attached them to him by indissolvable bonds. His patriotism during the war was ardent, and never failed. It was just as strong in peace. All he achieved, all he accomplished in his brief' career was his own. He had no rich or powerful family friends; he had no aid or assistance whatever and his friends were all made on his own merits. He was generous beyond all precedents, and any one deserving sympathy received the greatest measure from him. Once your friend, he was always such, and he made you feel he could not do too much for you. He believed in the brotherhood of man. His death at the time ,was. a public calamity. He received a public congressional funeral and persons attended from all parts of the surrounding country. His funeral was the largest ever held in Ironton He left the memory of a career of which every young American can feel proud and be glad that

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a countryman of his had so distinguished himself in the Civil War, at the bar and in the National Congress.

Lucien, J. Fenton

was born on his father's farm near Winchester, May 7, 1844. The family was of English ancestry. Mr. Fenton's great-grandfather, Jeremiah Fenton, emigrated from Yorkshire, England, in the early part of the eighteenth .century. He was a prominent and active patriot during the Revolutionary period. His son, also named Jeremiah Fenton, was born in Frederick County, Virginia, and died in Adams County, in 1841, at the age of seventy-seven years. Benjamin Fenton, the father of our subject, was born near Winchester, August 31, 1810, and died August 13, 1870. His wife, Elizabeth Smith, was born in Pennsylvania; December 19, 1813, and died at Winchester, Ohio, November 4th, 1892.

Mr. Fenton was a student at Wmchester when the war broke out. On the eleventh of August, 1862, he enlisted in Company I, 91 st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was with his regiment until September 19, 1864. He was wounded at the battle of Opequan Creek, Virginia, the ball lodging in his shoulder He was sent to the hospital at York, Pennsylvania, and was not discharged until. May, 1865. He returned home in the fall and began a Normal course at the Lebanon sch00l, where he remained for three terms. He taught school for several years. In 1869, he entered the Ohio University at Athens, and took a Latin-Scientific course, leaving that institution one year before he would have graduated, in order to accept the principalship of the Winchester schools, which position he held for two years., He then conducted the West Union schools for ones year and the Manchester schools for five years, but he resigned in 1880, and was appointed clerk in the custom house at New Orleans. He was transferred, at his own request, from the Custom House at New Orleans to the treasury department in Washington, D. C., March 15, 1881, to the office of •the supervising architect. He remained in government service until October 18, 1884, when he resigned and returned home. The Winchester Bank was organized at that time, and its original officers, were as follows : George Baird, president ; J. W.Rothrock, vice president ; and L. J. Fenton, cashier Mr. Fenton is still cashier of the bank.

Mr. Fenton is a trustee of the Ohio University at Athens. In . 1892, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Minneapolis. In 1894, he was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress and in 1896, was re-elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress by over 10,000 plurality. He was a member of the house committee on military affairs (luring the Spanish-American war.

On May 22, 1872, he was married to Miss Sarah B. Manker. They have three children, Alberta F., Clifton L., who was a captain in the Spanish-American war and Mary E.

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He served on the staff of the Ohio Department Commander of the G. A. R. in 1893, and on the staff of the National Commander of the G. A. R. in 1896.

As a soldier and patriot, Mr. Fenton has an honorable record. As a teacher, he won and held the high esteem of all the teachers of this County ; as a banker and business man, he has shown a high degree of ability and has the confidence of the community; as a citizen he has the respect of all who know him. He is an excellent example of what the ambitious young. American may attain.

Stephen Morgan

was born in Jackson County, Ohio, January 25, 1854, the eldest son of Thomas and Mary Morgan, both natives of Wales His father settled at Pomeroy, Ohio, where he spent seven years as a coal miner. He then took up the mason's trade and helped to build several furnaces in Jackson County. He died August 18, 1894. Our subject spent his early years working on a farm. He attended the common sch00ls of his neighborhood and prepared himself for the profession of teaching. After passing through the common schools, he attended the University at Worthington, Ohio, and the Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. He taught in the public schools of Jackson County for a number of years. He was principal of the Oak Hill Academy of Jackson County, for fifteen years and was school examiner of Jackson County for nine years.He was a candidate for State Senator of the 7th District in 1891 and lacked but one vote of nomination. He was a candidate for Congress in 1896. He was elected, as a Republican in 1898, to the Fifty-sixth Congress from the Tenth District, composed of the Counties of Adams, Scioto, Lawrence, Gallia, Pike and Jackson. He was re-elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and received 26,224 votes to 17,369 for his opponent, James K. McClung, Democrat. He is re-nominated for his third term in Congress by his party and will be elected. He is a forcible interesting speaker. His discourse abounds in valuable thoughts. He is plain and simple in all his tastes, and has risen to the position he holds by sheer merit. The people of his district have confidence in him and he represents them to their satisfaction.