Richland County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1880 (part 4 of 18)

RUSSELL, REV. FRANK, Pastor Congregational Church. (The first part of this sketch was taken from the 8d vol. of the History of the city of Brooklyn, and the rest was written by a lay member of Mr. Russell's church, with the aid of the records). Rev. Russell was born May 19, 1840, at Marion, Wayne Co. N. Y., the eighth of nine children, all boys, and all reared to manhood by the same parents; his father was a well-to-do farmer, and when Krank was 10 or 11 years of age, lost nearly all his property by the failure of business firms, who had used his name as security; Mr. Russell's education was procured by his own efforts ; he taught school during the winters when he was 15 and 16 years old, and an academy in Niagara Co., when 17; at the same time taking his college-fitting from his 13th to 17th year, at the Collegiate Institute at Marion. In 1858, being prepared for the sophomore year in Yale College, he went to Phillips Co., Ark., with the determination of earning sufficient money by teaching to defray the expenses of the college and seminary courses. Associated with an elder brother, he was soon at the head of an academy which flourished beyond all expectation, and became the organizer of the first teachers' associations

'and normal work ever known in that part of the State. His home was with an eminent physician, where he improved an excellent opportunity of studying medicine, the advantages of which have been perceptible in all his subsequent work. He remained teaching with increasing success in every respect until the entrance of the Union army in the summer of 1862, when every dollar, all personal property, library, horses, etc., and even wardrobe, were lost amid the ravages of war. Three of Mr. Russell's brothers were in the army, one of whom was killed when leading the 2d Kansas Regiment, of which he was Lieutenant Colonel. Mr. Russell made his way to Michigan, became Instructor in

Adrian College, where with highest honors he also took his degree in 1864, under Dr. Mahan; he entered Union Seminary in New York City the same year, continued his self-support by teaching the classics and phonography, doing mission work, speaking and writing. Married the daughter of a clergyman in 1866; graduated in 1867, and removed at once to Philadelphia, where, during his last Seminary year, he had gone weekly to preach to an unorganized congregation. He was greatly blessed in his labors, organized Plymouth Church, and on that occasion was both ordained and installed Pastor, his friend, Dr. J. P. Thompson, preaching the sermon. He was unwearying in raising funds for the new building, which was built and dedicated at the corner of Nineteenth and Master streets. Mr. Russell left this work, and was called to what was then the Fifth Avenue Congregational Church in Brooklyn, N. Y.; in April, 1868, very soon after, by a difficulty it had been rent in twain. One year from this division it was re-united with added forces, under the name of the Park Congregational Church, and Mr. Russell was installed Pastor, his own previous Pastor, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, preaching the sermon. A new building was erected on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Seventh street, he raising therefor over $9,000 outside the parish. After over five years of active labor here, his home was broken up by the death of his estimable wife, when at the suggestion and aid of his generous and loving people, he left his two young children in appropriate care, and traveled in Europe, returning at the close of 1873; he very soon removed to the charge of the First Congregational Church in Kalamazoo, Mich. In May, 1876, Mr. Russell was married to a daughter of Judge Henry, of Detroit. He found his church the eighth in size of the churches of that order in the State, and after it had besome the fourth in size and the church for the first time in twenty-two years entirely relieved of debt, he was visited with the sad calamity of the burning of his dwelling with almost its entire contents, including his fine library of over 1,100 volumes, and over 16,000 pages of manuscript, and also. a valuable cabinet of minerals and curiosities. In the prime of his strength, his wife and children all in excellent health, Mr. Russell was soon called to his present charge in Mansfield, where he was installed Pastor. on the 15th of May, 1878. The pastorate of Mr. Russell in Mansfield has thus far been marked by an earnest and systematic effort to promote the best interests of the church and the community. He has shown himself to be a severe student, and a zealous, painstaking laborer in the Master's vineyard; his methods are practical, and his manner of teaching and preaching attractive and impressive ; his sermons are the result of thought and exhaustive preparation, and are fully committed and delivered extempore, entirely without notes; his interest in the reform and philanthropies that seek the good of the community, calls him to impress upon them the peculiar bent of his mind, and systematic and business-like efforts characterize the movements, which are quickened and expanded by the influence of his skillful touch, and made to bud and blossom with promise; within a year from the commencement of Mr. Russell's labors in the church, occurred the heroic and wonderfully successful struggle with the great and overshadowing church debt, in which $40,000 were pledged to wipe out the incubus. Within a year also, the great revival under the leadership of Messrs. Whittle & McGrannahan added sixty-four members by confession, the other churches of the city also reaping adequate harvests; temporally and spiritually the church has prospered greatly under Mr. Russell's charge, the congregations have been enlarged, the prayer and conference meetings have been largely increased in numbers and intensified in interest, and the Sabbath school has had exceptional growth, and is the beautiful and flourishing garden of the church, which is to gladden the future with abundant/fruitage ; the enthusiasm of the youth of the society has been stimulated and aroused as it never has been before, and the beneficence and missionary spirit of the church have been broadened and deepened, and bear onward unusual blessings. In all these realizations, the active brain and willing, practiced hand of Mr. Russell are visible. For the benefit of the community Mr. Russell has, together with the Pastors of the other evangelical denominations,; begun a work that cannot but be wide-reaching in its influences, blessings and comforts for the poorer classes. The Union Church work was great in its conception and noble in its purpose ; it seeks to clothe the naked, feed the hungry and lift up the degraded and sin-stricken, it is practical Christianity as taught by the Savior. Mr. Russell has taken active interest in this movement, and the resident clergy are working harmoniously and efficiently in its behalf; the larger success is yet to come. One of the principal efforts of Mr. Russell has been to promote brotherly feeling and unity of action among the evangelical churches, as the best way to assure God's blessings by deserving them; he has been met in the proper spirit, and all is harmony and peace and promise. Among what has been published from Mr. Russell's pen apart from newspaper columns, special mention should be made of some outline lessons of Biblical study, several addresses, quite a number of pamphlet sermons, 4nd a volume on the '«State of the Dead,' and the geographical index to the collection of maps in one of the best-known teachers' Bibles, believed to be the first index of the kind applied to Biblical maps. His largest work is entitled, "What Jesus Says,' a large 12mo of 400 pages, being a compilation of all the utterances of the Saviorarranged under topics, with a careful index; the edition of this work was very soon exhausted, showing it has met and filled a want recognized among Christians.

SEAMAN, CONSTANTINE ORORICK, was born in Virginia, April 3, 1820, and came to Ohio and settled in Wayne Co. in 1838, and to Mansfield in October, 1842. C. O. Seaman was married in 18389 to Margaret Furguson, who died in 1849. In the year 1852, he was married to Miranda Hill, who died in 1866, and in the year 1870, he was married to Rebecca Furguson. Mr, Seaman, in his younger days, was considered one of the strong men of Richland Co., and during his residence here has done much hard labor in assisting to clear up the country and make Mansfield what it is. Mr. Seaman is of English and Irish descent, and inherits a strong constitution'; is in active life, and a resident of the Third Ward, Mansfield, where he has lived many years.

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

SHERMAN, JOHN, HON. The name Sherman is by no means common in England, though it has been highly respected and honored. Sir Henry Sherman, of Yaxley, was one of the executors of the will of the Earl of Derby, dated May 28, 1521; William Sherman, Esq., purchased Knightstown, in 'the time of Henry VII; @ monument to William Sherman is in Ottery, May, 1542. [Hollister History Conn., Vol. 2, p. 440.]

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

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

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

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

The cuaracteristics of the Rev. Anthony Stoddard appear in the widow of Taylor Sherman, his granddaughter, for, as one of the grandchildren says, ''She made us stand around."'

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

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

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

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

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

SHERMAN, CHARLES J. (deceased); Judge Sherman was born in Norwalk, Conn., Feb. 8, 1811, and [| was brought by his parents to Lancaster, Ohio, about ® year later; he graduated at' the Ohio University, at Athens, about 1829; he studied law with Henry Stoddard, at Dayton, and, after being educated to the bar, came to Mansfield about 1885; he remained here, steadily engaged in practice, until 1867, when he was appointed United States District Judge at Cleveland, where he settled and lived until his death, Jan. 1, 1879. He was married, in 1841, to Eliza Williams, of Dayton ; they became the parents of seven children, five of whom are now living, viz.: Mary Hoyt, born in 1842, now the wife of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, of the U. 8S. Ag Henry Stoddard, born in 1845, now practicing law ih Cleveland; John, Jr., born in 1847, now U.S. Marshal in New Mexico; Charles F. Cook, born in 1848, died in infancy; Anna Wallace, born in 1850, died Jan. 1, 1870; Eliza A. Williams, born in 1852, now the wife of Colgate Hoyt, of Cleveland; Elizabeth Bancroft, born in 1857, now the wife of J. D. Cameron, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. Judge Sherman resigned his judgeship in 1873, and, during the remainder of his life, held no office. Judge Sherman, while a resident of Mansfield and which crowned the very prime of his life, was active in promoting all the material interests of Mansfield and the county of Richland - specially in the organization of the agricultural society, in the introduction of better modes for the larger production of the better quality of fruits; he was for years one of the officers of the S., M. & N. R. R. Co. (now a part of the B. & O. R. R.); took a very active part in the projection and building of the P., Ft. W.&C. R. R., and was the first general solicitor, or counsel, of said company; he had a large practice as an attorney, but seldom appeared at the bar, preferring the work of a counselor in the office, and was one of the most genial of men in social life, a safe adviser and stanch friend.

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

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

MITH, HIRAM R.; retired merchant. His father, Asa Smith, was born at Albany, N. Y., September, 1760; died .on his farm near Huron, Ohio, Aug. 30, 1815. His mother (her maiden name Hannah Richmond) was born at Providence, R. I., March 21, 1774; died at Sandusky City Aug. 30, 1842. His parents with their family - four daughters and two sons - emigrated to Ohio just before the war of 1812; they embarked on a sail-boat (before any steamer was on the lake) at Buffalo for Ohio, and landed at the mouth of Huron River, where they located their farm adjoining the present village of Huron; here they remained during the war, encountering all the privations of a pioneer life and dangers from the Indians, who were prowling all over this section of country at that time. Here the subject of this memoir, Hiram R. Smith, was born, on the banks of Lake Erie near Huron, Ohio, Jan. 7, 1813. He came to Mansfield September, 1824; lived with Hugh McFall, tending store morning and evening, and went to school during the day; his teacher was Col. Alexander Barr, who kept in the old frame schoolhouse of one room, known as the Big Spring Schoolhouse, on the ground where the soap factory now stands. He lived with Hugh McFall fifteen years as salesman in a general stock of goods. From 1824 until the opening of the New York Canal, there was no market for the products of the country; therefore no prices to remunerate the farmer - wheat, 25 cents; corn, 124; oats, 10; flour, per barrel; pork, $1.50 per hundred; butter, 5 to 6 cents per pound; eggs, 8 to 4 cents per dozen. Goods were bought in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, loaded on big Pennsylvania wagons with six horses in Philadelphia, and hauled through to Mansfield, which took from five to six weeks; on the return of the team they loaded with ginseng, beeswax, feathers, cranberries, butter and maple sugar. During the time he was with Hugh McFall he served as Deputy Postmaster for eight years and six months; did all the business in post-office department; through his fidelity, economy and energy he succeeded in accumulating some means; then engaged in business for himself in general merchandise, as was usually the custom in those times. He was married in 1839 to Ann ©. Leiter; she was born in

Washington Co., Md.; died in Mansfield June 7, 1850. They had the following children: Henry, born March 31, 1840 (enlisted in the army during the rebellion ; died in Arkansas in 1862) ; Mary Felicia, born June 25, 1842, died July 20, 1876, (her death cast a gloom over the entire community; she had the qualities of true womanhood - religious and social - also a gentle and kind disposition; she endeared herself to many friends and had no enemies; she was a Christian and an earnest Sabbath school worker) ; Richmond Smith, born Dec. 14, 1844; Clara Ann, Feb. 8, 1848; died July 26,1875; Miss Smith was for some time a teacher in the public schools; she also won many friends through her kind and gentle disposition ; she was always ready to lend a helping hand in matters pertaining to the good of those around her; although her sufferings were intense, she bore them with Christian resignation and departed in great peace. Mr. Smith's second marriage occurred May 16, 1854, to Ann Ward; she was born in Richland Co.; they have two children: Ward Smith, born Oct. 1, 1856, was married to Mattie Hart, of Mansfield, Nov. 9,°1879; Rena May, born Aug. 8, 1860, she resides with her parents in Mansfield. Mr. Smith has been engaged quite extensively in the mercantile business, has filled different positions of trust and honor, and has proven himself worthy ; also has added greatly to the improvements of this city; has erected several fine buildings, among them the Opera Hall building; he has always encouraged every public enterprise that would be a benefit to the community and especially add to the advancement of the city; he has also borne a portion of the pioneers' burdens, and can look back when Mansfield was in its infancy; he has grown up with the progress of the city, has participated in the work of progression, and has been one to help Mansfield raise up to her present status - one among the number to say: '' Let us have a good pioneer history of our county,' with a helping hand; he ranks among the first on the list; this is characteristic of H. R. Smith.

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

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

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

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

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

SNYDER, SAMUEL S., contractor; he was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Sept. 18, 1816, the first child of Henry and Elizabeth Snyder. In September, 1834, he removed to Ohio with his parents, who first settled in Mansfield, and afterward resided on a farm west of the city for two years; during this time, and until the age of 21, he followed clearing, and carried the mail to Bucyrus and Delaware and return. In August, 1837, Mr. Snyder was married to Miss Irene Stevens of this county, with whom he raised a family of six children ; two sons are now in active business in this city. In the year 1846, he removed to Mansfield having previously followed farming. For a number of years, he was engaged in the grocery business in Mansfield, and was located a great part of the time on the northeast corner of Main and Third streets. In 1850, Mr. Snyder was appointed Deputy Sheriff under Wharf, which position he held for four years. It was while engaged in this service, he was attacked by a desperate prisoner in which he came near losing his life. During his long residence in Mansfield, he has held numerous official positions, and in each has been faithful to the trusts confided to him; at one time Postmaster, then collector for Hall & Allen until elected Auditor of Richland Co., in 1864, and re-elected, serving two full terms. Mr. Snyder~s now a resident of East Third street, and, of late years, has been engaged in business principally as a contractor in street improvements.

SNYDER, C. H., dentist; he was born in Mansfield in 1854; he was educated and graduated in the city schools ; graduated at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, at Cincinnati, Ohio.

SNYDER, GEORGE W., railroad agent; he was born in Mansfield Jan. 25, 1847, where he received his elementary education ; in 1864, he became connected with the A. & G. W. R. R., at Mansfield, as clerk in the agent's office, which position he held until March, 1878, when he received the appointment of ticket and freight agent on the same road; after the formation of the Mansfield Stock-Yard Company, controlled by the A. & G. W. R. R., his business qualifications were recognized by an appointment to the additional office of general manager of that company, both of which positions he now holds. He was married Oct. 16, 1872, in Knox Co., Ohio, to Miss Lizzie Tulloss; they have two children, a son and daughter - Bennie T., born Aug, 14, 1873, and Georgia Belle, born July 4, 1876.

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

STEVENSON, ANDREW, attorney; was born April 1, 1844, in Weller Township, Richland Co.; was educated at the Vermillion Institute, Hayesville, Ashland Co. He went to the army; was in the Ohio Cavalry, served four months, He was discharged under a writ of habeas corpus, being under 18 years of age. He returned to Mansfield, commenced the study of law with the firm of Bartley & Johnson; was admitted to the bar in 1865; then went to Pittsburgh, Penn., and commenced the practice of law, and continued one year and six months; then returned to Mansfield in the winter of 1866, and resumed the practice of law. In 1869, was. nominated Prosecuting Attorney by a majority of 1,190 over his opponent, Thomas McBride, and served in that office two years. Went to Marysville, Union ' Co., Ohio, in 1878, and resumed the practice of law. Engaged in the political campaign for Hon. E. F. Poppleton; stumpéd the entire district. In 1875, was strongly solicited to become a candidate for. nomination for member of Congress; district compdsed of the counties of Marion, Delaware, Union and Hardin. He received the caucus vote of Union and Hardin Cos., and peremptorily refused to be a candidate, having pledged himself to give his influence to Hon. E. F. Poppleton for his renomination. In the winter of 1878-79, returned to Mansfield, resumed the practice of law with the Hon. R. B. McCrory.

STEWART, JAMES (deceased). Judge Stewart was born in Chanceford, York Co., Penn., Aug. 2, 1802; his paternal ancestors came from Ireland about the middle of the eighteenth century ; his father, John Stewart, was born in York Co. in 1776; his mother, Jane Duncan, was of Scotch descent; they were married about the year 1800, and became the parents of three children - two boys and one girl; the eldest son, according to the custom of those times, inherited the homestead where his son, James, now resides. In the spring of 1805, the parents of Judge Stewart moved to Ontario Co., where they remained until 1824, when they came to Richland Co.; when they moved to Ontario Co. it was then the '' West," in a measure, and was yet unpopulated ;. they purchased a farm of the Government, near the town of Seneca, and erected a hewed-log house, much better than the average cabins of the day; they were industrious, frugal and economical, and soon had a pleasant and comfortable home. Under such influences Judge Stewart passed his early life; of an active mind, he soon learned to read and write, and having the advantage of good schools in Seneca, he made rapid progress in learning; afterward he entered the academy at Canandaigua, where he continued to pursue his studies (save a few intervals spent in teaching) until he came to Mansfield in 1822; here he established the first academy in the town, which he conducted two years, when (in the autumn of 1824) he went to Oxford College, remaining only a year or so, not completing his course. In 1826, he was married to Margaret Loughridge, a beautiful woman, possessed of a lovely Christian character, from whom he had the sad misfortune to be separated by death two years later; she left one daughter, Cecilia, now Mrs. John Sherman; of Washington City. Two years after he was married, Judge Stewart, was admitted to the bar, having studied law in the office of Judge Parker; he soon rose in practice, occupying the front rank in his profession ; he continued the duties of his profession until the spring of 1850, when Judge Parker's term, as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, expiring, he was appointed to the vacancy, in accordance with the unanimous wish of the bar; in the fall of 1851, this office was vacated by the new constitution ; Judge Stewart was called by the unanimous vote of the people of his district to the position of District Judge, there being no opposing candidate; from this time until the expiration of his judicial term, in 1856, he was constantly occupied with the duties of the bench; two years after the expiration of his term his death occurred (Feb. 24, 1858). He was married the second time, to Mary Mercer, who died Aug. 14, 1860. As a jurist, Judge Stewart had few superiors; he was prémpt, accurate, clear, unprejudiced and independent; his mind was eminently a judicial one, and to no one could the younger members of the bar go, in whose word and opinion they could have more confidence; in all public interests he was ready and willing to do his part; as a private citizen he was unexcelled, while as a parent and husband he was kind, congenial and true. STRAUB, JACOB, wagon-maker; he was born in Lancaster (o., Penn., April 11, 1826, and removed to Richland Co., Ohio, with his parents when but 4 weeks old; they settled on Sec. 17, in Mifflin Township. Having chosen wagon-making as his trade, he came to Mansfield, and began work in the shop of William Berringer, where he completed his trade in 1847. Directly | afterward, he commenced piece-work until accumulating sufficient capital to buy the stock of his employer in 1848, in which business he has continued to the present time; now considered the pioneer wagon-maker of Richland Co. He was married in 1850, to Elizabeth Christman, who died April 29, 1868, in Mansfield; he had three children by this marriage, one of whom is living. Again married in June, 1871, to Mary Lehr; he has one son bythis marriage - Harry, born Jan. 9,1873. During Mr. Straub's long and active life in this county, he has passed through many of the experiences of those who preceded him - having but a few dollars when leaving the homestead - nothing daunted, he has continued steadily at his trade while being called by his fellowmen to positions of honor and trust, as Land Appraiser, repeatedly chosen Assessor, and elected a member of the City Council three terms, three years of which he acted as its President, serving with distinction. STRICKLER, CHRISTOPHER, cabinet-maker and wheelwright. The subject of this sketch was born in Chester Co., Penn., April 27,1827; he is thefourth son of Amos and Mary Scott Strickler, one of the old families of that county; when 17 years of age, he was apprenticed to learn the trade of wheelwright, which he completed at the age of 21; not wholly satisfied with this vocation, he worked at cabinet-making several hours each evening, which trade he finally accomplished some years later by denying himself many hours of rest; some time after, however, he continued the trade of wheelwright exclusively, in his native county, where he remained until April, 1868, when he removed with his family to Mansfield, Ohio, and was employed in the shops of Blymeyer, Day & Co.; since then he has been constantly engaged in the Mansfield Machine Works. Mr. Strickler was married in Philadelphia, Penn., Dec. 16, 1852, to Miss Susan Hopton, a descendant of an old Quaker family, by whom he has had four children - Sallie, born Sept. 380, 1853; Anna Elizabeth, Oct. 22, 1862; Clinton, April 15, 1865;

STRONG, FREDERICK W., deceased; he was born near Frederick, Md., Feb. 16, 1812; he came to Vhio when quite young, and located in Mansfield in 1840, where, for many years, he was engaged in the drygoods trade, and afterward, and until his death, was the founder and head of the well-known produce and commission house of F. W. Strong, Son & Co.; during his long residence in this city, covering a period of nearly forty years, he was accounted one of its leading citizens and merchants ; a man of sound judgment and business tact, he was active and successful. Mr. Strong was married March 4, 1838, to Miss Lucina R. Poppleton, to whom were born two children - Lyman A. and Lucina J.; Lucins was married in this city Oct. 29, 1861, to Prof. W. H. Ingersoll, who died in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 30, 1876; one child, a daughter, by this marriage, is now living. F. W. Strong died June 10, 1879, in Mansfield, having lived an upright and consistént: Christian life, and been a member of the Congregational Church for many years.

March 2, 1889, and received his elementary education in this city, and afterward continued his studies at the Marietta College, where he graduated in 1861; returning home, he commenced the study of law in the office of Watson & Dirlam, and was admitted to the bar in 1864. Since 1865, he has been a member of the wellknown firm of F. W. Strong, Son & Co., produce and commission merchants, and is one of Mansfield's representative business men. He was married Oct. 31, 1865, to Miss Fannie M. Whitney, of this city.

STURGES, EBEN P., Se. (deceased); Mr. S. was born in Fairfield, Conn., on the 12th of August, 1784. At the early age of 14, he embarked in a subordinate capacity on board of a merchantman owned by a relative. It was not his design to make a sea-faring life his profession, but while on the vessel no one discharged his duties more assiduously. At 16 years of age, he was first officer, and before he was 21 was master and part owner of the ship. He commanded the merchant vessel Madisonia when hostilities broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812. Soon after the commencement of the war, he was homeward bound, on a voyage from South America, with a valuable cargo. Early in the voyage, he was informed by an American privateer of the existence of hostilities, and a few days subsequently, he was captured by a British frigate - the Garland - and sent with his crew as prisoners of war to Kingston, Jamaica. Here, after enduring severe hardships and passing through an attack of yellow fever, he was released on parole. He embraced the first opportunity to return to the United by confinement and disease. After recovering sufficient strength, he came to Ohio on a visit to his sister, the late Mrs. Ebenezer Buckingham, of Putnam. Having determined to relinquish the sea he turned his mind to a new field of enterprise. This portion of the State of Ohio was then an almost unbroken wilderness. Forming hie plan, he returned east and formed a connection with Buckingham Sherwood, late of Newark, Ohio.

They purchased a stock of goods, which they transported in wagons to Zanesville, designing to take them from that place to Gen. Harrison's camp near the frontier. In the accomplishment of this plan, they succeeded in conveying their goods with great difficulty to Mansfield, then the site of a new village. On their arrival, they were informed of the hostilities of the Indians along their proposed route, and were induced by the solicitation of the inhabitants to remain and offer their goods for sale to the settlers here. A store was opened ina cabin nearly opposite to where the Wiler House now stands, and thus Mr. Sturges became the first merchant who settled in Mansfield. Enterprising and energetic, he soon built up a large trade, attracting business from (at that time) quite remote points, Mr. S. was during his whole life an efficient friend of religious institutions. He, more than any other man, aided in the erection of he embraced in heart the Gospel, the support of which he sought to promote by his means. After he made a profession of religion, he largely helped in building the Congregational Church here, where, while he was able to hear preaching, he regularly worshiped with interest and sincerity For many years before his death, he suffered from deafness, which prevented him from hearing ordinary speech. Mr. Sturges was married three times. In 1821 to Miss Amanda Buckingham, of Putnam ;.in 1834, to Miss Jerusha M. Hale, of Connecticut, and, in 1850, to Miss R. M. Tracy, of this city. By his first wife he had three children - Messrs. Dimon, Col. S. B., and Edward. By his second - Henry A. and Miss Amanda. His last wife had no issue. She still survives him. He died Jan. 1, 1862.

STURGES, EDWARD, Sr., deceased. He was born in Fairfield, Conn., Dec. 5, 1805, and was the son of Dimon Sturges, who was a soldier of the Revolution, and Sarah Perry. His great-grandfather, Solomon Sturges, was killed by the Tories during the attack of the British on Fairfield, July 8,1779. At the early age of 14, Mr. Sturges left the home of his ancestors for the then '' Western wilderness.'' He traveled over the mountains on horseback, and arrived in Mansfield in April, 1820. He immediately entered the store of his brother, E. P. Sturges, then an apparently rude establishment located on the corner where the Sturges Block now stands, the firm name being Sturges & Sherwood. In 1823, Edward Sturges became a partner in the place of Mr. Sherwood. The firm name then became E. P. & E. Sturges. He continued to be a leading and influential partner in this old and successful business house through all its various changes till 1863, when H. H. Sturges took his place, and the firm became Sturges & Wood. the banking business in company with A. L. Grimes and S. B. Sturges, under the firm name of E. Sturges, Sr. & Co. This firm continued its business until it merged into the Richland National Bank. He was also connected with the Farmers' National Bank, and with other financial and manufacturing interests of the city. He was for a long time a large stockholder in the Mansfield Machine Works, and it was mainly due to his counsels and material assistance that this large establishment was saved from utter financial ruin on the very verge of which it was at the beginning of the panic in 1873. Soon after terminating his connection with the dry-goods store in 1863, he engaged in the wholesale grocery business with his son, E. P. Sturges, with whom he continued until his death, which occurred Monday, Sept. 16, 1878. Concerning his business habits, the Liberal, in its obituary notice, states :

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

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

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

Mr. Sturges was married in the summer of 1887 to Mary Mathews, the daughter of Dr. Increase and Betsey Leavens Mathews, late of Putnam, Ohio, where she was born Nov. 18, 1815. early residents of the Territory of Ohio, which her father adopted as his home at the close of the last century, and where, in connection with his associates, Gen. Rufus Putnam and Levi Whipple, Esq., he founded upon the Muskingum River the town of Putnam. She received her later education at Marietta. In the summer of 1837, she became the wife cf Edward Sturges, Sr., and removed to Mansfield, which continued to be her home until her death. She possessed a strong character and many virtues. Practical and constant, though scrutinizing, in her benevolence, distress, misfortune, and worthy poverty met at her hands warm sympathy and unfailing assistance. They left a family of five sons and three daughters - Charles, Eben P., Arthur, Willis M., John, Susan, Mary, and Anna.

Jan. 8, 1843; they have six children - Orlando, born Sept. 22, 1866; Ada R., born Sept. 8, 1868; Charlie, born Dec. 23, 1870; Mary, born March 12, 1878; Maud, born Aug. 14, 1876; Thomas, born Feb. 21, 1879; Mr. Taylor resides in Mansfield, and has been engaged in the Mansfield machine works. He enlisted in the 64th Regiment, O. V. I.; a member of Co. E, and was engaged in the service three years.

TAYLOR, FRANK k., teamster. He was born in Franklin Township in 1854. He was married in 1876, to Mary J. Browneller, who was born in Madison

TODD, DR. J. J. (deceased). He was born near Ashland, Ohio, Dec. 12, 1820; when of sufficient age, he commenced the trade of saddle and harness making in that place, which he completed, and at which he continued to work for two years after coming to Mansfield in 1842; not fully satisfied with his vocation, and ambitious to enter a wider field of usefulness, he commenced the study of medicine with the late Dr. A. G. Miller, under whose instruction he finished his studies, and graduated at the Cleveland Medical College in 1847. For nine years thereafter, he had a large end constantly increasing practice throughout this county, and was looked upon as a careful and skillful physician. He died in Mansfield the latter part of January, 1858. Dr. J. J. Todd was married, Aug. 26, 1847, to Miss Naomi Hedges, daughter of the late Ellzey Hedges, of this city, to whom were born five children, three of whom are living and residents of this city.

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

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

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

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

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

previous to his removal to this city in 1844, when he actively engaged in the produce and commission business for a number of years; the building now known as the Niman Foundry was erected and used by him in that trade in 1844; he was afterward engaged in the dry-guods-trade for four years, when he purchased the grocery store of Stiles & Coman, the first | wholesale store of that kind in the city; for many years, he was the proprietor and landlord of the American House, while there, he purchased and brought to

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

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

WEST, SYLVESTER, was born Nov. 18, 1880, in Jefferson Co., Ohio, near Steubenville; came to Richland Co. Jan. 15, 1836, and settled near Newville; he came to Mansfield in 1842. Mr. West was married Oct. 10, 1822, in Jefferson Co., Ohio, to Sarah Shiveley, to whom have been born twelve children - six living and six dead; five of the living reside in Richland Co. Mr. West has been a member of the Methodist Church fifty-five years. aged 68 years - an affectionate wife and loving mother, her life was that of a true Christian; she had been a faithful member of the Methodist Church over fifty years; she was born in Jefferson Co., in the year 1805, and after her marriage was always ready: to assist her husband in making home pleasant and happy.

WHARF, FREDERICK (deceased); he was born in New York, April 20, 1809, and removed to Richland Co. with his parents, James and Jane (Graham) Wharf, in 1888. Mr. Wharf was married in New York, to Miss Laura Gault, to whom were born two children - William, who died in Mansfield, Aug. 28, 1878, and Henry, s painter, now engaged at his trade in this city. Mrs. Laura (Gault) Wharf died in Mansfield in 1851. Frederick Wharf lived at the old homestead south of Mansfield until he was appointed Deputy Sheriff. Mr. Wharf was afterward elected Sheriff of Richland Co., and served his full two terms to the entire satisfaction of the people who elected him. Although a strong party man, he possessed many qualities of head and heart that made him warm friends in both parties. He died in the fall of 1862, and was buried at Mansfield.

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

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

WILER, JOHN JACOB, weaver, butcher, brewer and baker retired; he was born in Herisau, Appenzell Co., Switzerland, June 4, 1780, and was the oldest of a large family of children, only four of whom, however, lived to manhood and womanhood. When quite young, he learned the trade of weaver in his native town, which he continued until his 16th year, when, concluding to travel and ply his vocation, he went to France, where he remained two years in order to acquire some knowledge of the language; afterward, for fifteen years he traveled through the different governments of Europe as a journeyman weaver; specimens of his workmanship are now in the possession of his daughter, Mrs. J. H. Cook, which show him to have been an expert workman. During the campaign of Napoleon I in Austria, he enlisted for a time in the Swiss army on the frontier, and was assigned to the Army of the Reserve. While engaged in his occupation as a journeyman weaver, he passed over the battlefield of Leipsic the morning after the engagement, while the dead were being buried; his description of the scene he used often to relate with minuteness. Mr. Wiler sailed for America from Amsterdam on the 19th of May, 1817, in the ship ' Bourbon,' Capt. William Gobrell in charge. Mr. W. landed in Philadelphia, after a voyage of ninety-nine days, on the 26th of August, 1817. Some idea may be formed of the terrible suffering and distress felt by the 500-souls on board during this long voyage, when, after being out some days, ship fever in its worst form made its appearance on the vessel, and, before reaching port, 105 of the crew and passengers succumbed to the dreadful disease, and were buried at sea. Mr.-Wiler, after landing at Philadelphia, was sent to the hospital, suffering from this malady, where he remained three months, until fully recovered, when he started on foot throngh Pennsylvania, accompanied by his nephew, John Ulrick Tanner, who came to America with him. Being ignorant of the language, he was frequently taken advantage of by some people on the route and defrauded out of what little money he had. The treatment he there received, often by those professing Christianity, caused him to have little faith in man's professions, and he thereafter judged men by their actions alone. After coming to Ohio, he stopped at New Lancaster about one year with.a Mr. Arnold, who befriended him, and to whom he has always felt grateful. He went from Lancaster to Columbus, where he remained about one year engaged as a hostler by a Mr. Heyle. At the end of the time, he came to Mansfield. Mr. Wiler was married to Miss Margaret Steyer after an acquaintance of three weeks, whose father lived in Franklin Township, ou the 25th of April, Sunday, 1819, and the following Monday morning took possession of the tavern then owned by his father-inlaw, which has since that date been known as the "'Wiler House.'' His means were so limited, that when ordering his sign he found that he would be unable to pay if his full name was used, when, at the suggestion of his nephew, Tanner, the name Jacob was omitted, and he was able to secure the sign, and since that date he has been known only by the name of John Wiler. Mrs. Margaret Steyer Wiler died in Mansfield in her Tlst year May 25, 1868. John Wiler lives on West Fourth street, and was 100 years old on the 4th of June, 1880. John Wiler had nine children, three of whom are living - Mary Ann (Cook), John Ulrick Wiler, Margaret Louesa (Barr); two sons, grown to manhood, died in California of cholera; the others died in infancy and youth. In this year, there are living twelve grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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

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

WISE, GEORGE C., grocer; a descendant of a Pennsylvania family ; his grandfather, Col. John Wise, having command of a Pennsylvania militia regiment in the war of 1812. Jacob Wise, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn., in the year 1802; he emigrated to Ohio, and settled in Mansfield in 1825. George C. Wise, the third child, was born on the 23d of October, 1828, on the northwest corner of Third and East Diamond streets, Mansfield; at the age of 18 years, he commenced the trade of cabinet-making, which he continued four years; on the 8th of August, 1853, he began in the store of Mr. E. Clapp as cierk, on the corner of Fourth and Main streets, and was taken into the firm as a partner, under the name of E. Clapp & Co., in 1865; in the year 1866, the firm of Clapp & Wise removed to the Miller Block, where they continued the business until Feb. 6, 1873, when Mr. Wise purchased the interest of E. Clapp, since which time he has carried on the business alone. George C. Wise was married in Mansfield Feb. 1, 1854, to Ellen M. Clapp, a daughter of his employer, to whom have been born six children, four of whom are living - Alice C., now Mrs. Frank D. Gadsby; Charles E., at present in business with his father; Lillie E. and Nettie B. George C. Wise holds the position of one of the representative business men of Mansfield.

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

WOLFF, SAMUELM., carpenter ; Col. Wolff was born in Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Penn., June 1, 1889, and came with his parents to Richland Co. in 1854, where he worked with his father on the farm, two and one-half miles north of Mansfield, until the year 1859, when he came to Mansfield and commenced the trade of. carpentering in the shop of his brother, where he served an apprenticeship of two years. At the breaking-out of the war in 1861, he enlisted in the first company organized in the evening of the noted 17th day of April; his name appears among the first in Co. I, ist O. V. I., three-months service, under Capt. Wm. McLaughlin; with this company he served his full term of enlistment, and with it was in the two engagements of Vienna and the first battle of Bull Run. July 21, 1861, his term of service having expired, he returned to Mansfield and again commenced work at his |.

trade, at which he continued until the 21st day of September, 1861, when he enlisted in an ''independent rifle company '' then being organized in the western part of the State; this company was rapidly being reeruited when John Sherman returned with an order from Washington to organize the 64th and 65th Regiments; by the common consent of the independent company, they entered the 64th Regiment as Co. A, this being the first company in Camp Buckingham; while here, Mr. Wolff was made Second Lieutenant; the 64th and 65th Regiments, known while in Camp Buckingham as the "Sherman Brigade," were, after their departure from Mansfield, always known as the '' Harker Brigade,"' and it was first assigned to the 3d Division, 21st Army Corps, and took part in the battle of Shiloh; after this battle, Lieut. Wolff was promoted to the first lieutenancy of the same company; soon after, he was engaged in the Buell raid and the battle of Stone River, Dec. 29, 1862, to Jan. 8, 1863; it was in this long engagement that Lieut. Wolff was slightly wounded by a fragment of Co. H, and, as such, was in the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 19 and 20, 1863; at the battle of Missionary Ridge, Ga., Nov. 25, 1863, Capt. Wolff received a gun-shot wound through the right arm, which compelled him to relinquish his command for about two months; afterward, with his company and regiment, he was engaged in numerous battles until the close of the war, among them the battle of Rocky Face Ridge, May 9, 1864; Resaca, May 14 and 15, 1864; New Hope Church, May 27, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864; Atlanta, July 22, 1864; Jonesboro, Sept. 1, 1864; Lovejoy Station, Sept. 8, 1864; Spring Hill, Tenn., Nov. 29, 1864, in which engagement Capt. Wolff was slightly wounded by gunshot through both legs; at the battle of Franklin, Nov. 80, 1864, during a charge of the enemy, Capt. Wolff became engaged in a hand-to-hand combat between the lines with Col. John B. Austin, of a Mississippi regiment ; holding the commission of Colonel, acknowledged as a brave and good soldier, with an army record of which any man might well be proud; it is sad to think that, after doing this service for his country, he should be a constant sufferer in his after life. Col. Wolff was married in March, 1864, to Miss M. J. Browneller, who died in the year 1865. In 1868, he was again married, to Miss Susan Urvan, who died in Mansfield, in 1870. The Colonel is now a resident of Mansfield.

the Union forces falling back for a time, charged upon the enemy, who had captured the works, driving them out, when Wolff, coming up with Col. Austin, demanded his sword; but this he at first refused, and bravely defended himself, but was soon compelled to surrender and reluctantly delivered his sword to Wolff, who now has it in his possession; in the night of the 20th of June, 1864, Capt. Wolff received a wound on the head from 6 falling limb while in charge of a company of choppers, the effects of which hé will, doubtless, carry to his grave, being now a constant sufferer and threatened with the loss of sight; in February, 1865, Capt. Wolff was promoted to Major of the regiment, and, soon after, was made Lieutenant Colonel, and was, at the creased their business; as time progressed they added machinery which no other firm in Ohio has in use, made necessary by the march of time, until now their shops are fully supplied with everything needed in the business; the character of the work attests its quality, while sales in all parts of this and adjoining States establish its merits; twenty-two men are now employed.

WOLFE, NORMAN M., born in Monroe Township, Richland Co., Ohio, July 6, 1849; engaged on the home farm for many years; took his academical course in in the academy. He attended the University of Wooster, and completed his education at Amherst Col- | lege, Massachusetts ; was elected Principal of Mahon- | ing Institute, Mahoning Co., Ohio, in which position | he remained until the spring of 1876 ; began the study of law on the 14th day of April, 1876; was admitted to | the bar by the Supreme Court, at Columbus, Ohio, May 7, 1878; formed a partnership with William H. Pritchard, for the practice of law, Dec. 1, 1879; the style of the firm is Pritchard & Wolfe, is enjoying a most enviable reputation as lawyers, and have their office in P. O. Block, North Park street, Mansfield, Ohio. Mr. | Wolfe was married to Miss Jennie Leiter Sept. 22, 1877, and his family now consists of his wife and daughter, Grace May, aged 2 years. In politics, Mr. Wolfe is an active Democrat, holding official positions in the campaign clubs of his party, and, in the spring of 1879, was elected to the office of City Solicitor for Mansfield. WOLFE, SAMUEL G., COL. (deceased), born in Wyoming Valley, Luzerne Co., Penn., in 1798; his father, Jacob Wolfe, dying, his mother, Eleanor Wolfe, with Samuel, Peter and Jacob, her sons, and Eliza, Maria, Catherine and Artemisia, her daughters, along with the Ayres families and the Culvers, emigrated to Ohio, the Wolfes and the Ayrses settling in Frederickstown, Knox Co., in 1807, being the second arrival to settle here. On the breaking-out of the war of 1812, Jacob volunteered, and went to the army, serving in the regiment of Col. Lewis Cass; Peter was a scout, and Samuel, being but 14 years of age, was compelled to stay with the family as a help against the Indians. The Wolfe family moved to Mansfield in 1812, where Eliza taught school and kept military stores in the block-house. The Wolfes lived on the northwest corner of the premises now occupied and owned by John Wood, on West | Market street. When Samuel became of age, he carried was elected Sheriff of the county; he served in that | capacity four years, and then was elected and re-elected Auditor of the county, serving four years; he was a Colonel in the militia, and has been efficient in its organization, as well as a popular officer; he was a man of commanding presence, and, like his brothers, large and over six feet in height. He exercised a great deal of influence in politics, and had many friends who desired to run him for Congress. He died in Seneca Co., Ohio, in 1868.

WOLFARTH, JACOB, stonemason. He was born March 24, 1854, in Holmes Co. Married, Jan. 17, 1875, to Lucy A: Smith, she was born in Seneca Co. May 26, 1654; they have the following children: Mary A., born March 24, 1876; Dorthea Barbary, Jan, 7, | 1878. Residence 115 West First street, Mansfield.

WOLFERD, EZRA, shoemaker; son of George Wolferd. He was born April 17, 1881, in Franklin Township; he engaged as an apprentice in 1847 with David Wise, of Mansfield, and served three years; he has | since that time been constantly engaged at his trade. He was married in 1854 to Feny Simmons, who was born in Germany ; they have two children - Stephen, born April 8, 1856, and Della, July 26, 1860; Stephen was married to Minnie Longsdorf in 1879. Mrs. Feny Wolferd died in January, 1877. Mr. Wolferd is engaged with Rigby & Cox, working at his trade. \

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

WORDEN, MILTON W. (deceased). Judge Worden was born in Liverpool, Medina Co., Ohio, Sept. 30, 1839; after coming to this county, he resided fore number of years in Washington Township, where he was married, Noy. 22, 1859, to Miss Anna McFarland, daughter of an old resident of that township. Placed at an early age, by the death of his father, in circumstances where it became necessary for him to depend | in a large measure upon his: own resources, he marked out for himself a path in life, which many a youth unaided by fortune and friends, would have been fearful to essay, and by his integrity, valor and ability, reached a position in his brief life of twenty-nine years, in and by which he commanded the regard of his fellow-men, the esteem and respect of his comrades and the warm affections of his familiar friends. Judge Worden, by a course of preparatory studies and reading, fitted himself for, and gained admission to, the bar; but the gates of the temple for him were closed almost simultaneously with his entrance. The tocsin of the mighty rebellion was sounded; the call of the country to arms was made, and he enlisted in the 32d O. V.I., in the beginning of the rebellion; while acting as Captain in that regiment at the battle of Harper's Ferry in 1862, he lost a leg, which incapacitated him for further service, when he returned to Mansfield and was elected Probate Judge for one term in the fall of 1864; he was shortly after appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue, which position he held at the time of his death. Judge Worden at the time of his death left a wife, Anna McFarland Worden, and five children - Ella, Martha E., Frank S., Albert Milton and Lillie, all of whom are living.

BOWLAND, ROBERT. He was born Sept. 19, 1774, in Pennsylvania. Was married in 1816, to Ann J. Mercer, who was born in February, 1791; came to Ohio in 1826, located in Mansfield and engaged in the dry goods business many years. Died in November, 1857; Mrs. Bowland died in April, 1858.

PRITCHARD & WOLFE, attorneys and counselors at law. The firm is composed of William H. Pritchard and Norman M. Wolfe, both natives of this county; Mr. Pritchard graduated from the University of Wooster in 1874; he then superintended the Shelby schools from 1875 to 1878; he began the practice of law Dec. 1, 1878. Mr. Wolfe was educated at the University of Wooster, and, soon after leaving college, succeeded ot the principalship of Mahoning Institute, remaining there two years ; resigning that charge, he returned to Richland Co., and, on the 14th of February, 1876, began the study of law; was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio on the 7th day of April, 1878, and, in December following, he formed a copartnership with William .H. Pritchard for the practice of his profession. Their rooms are in the Post Office Block. SNYDER, JOSEPH N., deceased ; his parents, John and Susan Stough Snyder, were long residents of Cumberland Co., Penn.; Joseph was born in that county in 1813, and was their first son; he came to Richland Co. in 1885, where he resided until his death, which occurred in this city in the fall of 1869; when a young man, he acquired the trade of cabinet-maker, which vocation he followed for a number of years ; for many years previous to his death, he was engaged in house- painting, and was accounted the best workman in that line in the city; he was a man well informed, and took an active interest in the political parties to which he belonged ; originally, he was an Old-Line Whig, but was known in after years as an adherent of the Democratic party. He was married in this city to Miss Catherine Brickman; they were the parents of five children, four of whom are living - three sons and one daughter.

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

ADAMS, THOMAS C., was born in Cumberland County, Penn., May 14, 1880, where he resided until the fall of 185]; he removed to Springfield, Clark Co..; he remained there about one year, when he went to La Fayette, Ind. ; he stayed there about four years; while there he paid his attention to milling; he removed back to Cumberland County, on account of his health being somewhat impaired; after his removal to Pennsylvania, he still followed the business as a millwright until he removed to this county, in May, 1863; when he first settled here it was nothing but a wilderness ; the second or third year after his removal here he built @ saw-mill; it was burned down June 20, 1872, but by the kind assistance of a few neighbors and friends he was soon able to rebuild; the mill still stands, and runs a great part of the time. He was married Jan. 10, 1861, to Margaret A. Snyder, who was bora in Perry County, Penn., March 29, 1840, where she resided until she, with her husband, removed to this county; the fruits of this marriage are three children: Robert' A:, who was born Oct. 28, 1861, in Perry County, Penn.; Anna M., born Nov. 25, 1864, in this county, and Mary Jane Grace, born Oct. 14, 1866, also in this county. Mr. Adams is a millwright by profession, although early in life he learned the tanning business, but never followed that vocation after leaving home. .He has by strict economy made for himself and family a good home, now owning on the county line a good farm containing 76 acrés, which he still manages aside from the management of his mill.

ADAMS, W....B., was born in Union Co., Penn., June 7, 1857; he resided there until 1875, and then came to this county, where he has since lived; his occupation since residence in the county has been buying and selling goods on the road for the firm of A. Sturgess & Co., He has given his employer entire satisfaction thus far; he intends to make this his future business.

resided until the age of 14 years, when he soon after went into the army. He was a member of Co. B, 102d O. V. I.; was enrolled on the 8th of August, 1862, and discharged in 1865, when he returned to his native place, where he resided for about two years, when he removed to this township, and has since resided here. Aug. 28, 1870, he was married to Miss Ellen Sonanstine. They have one child, a son - Arthur, aged: 2 years. Mr. Albtight is a blacksmith by trade, and carries on that business at this place, Shenandoah. This has been his occupation since the late war. He contracted the rheumatism while in the army, but has never made application for a pension, to which he is entitled. Mr. Albright has built up for himself here a very good trade, although his health does not permit him to labor hard.

ALLEN, J. W. He was born in Shenandoah Co., near Mt. Jackson, Va., Oct. 20, 1811. He resided there until the year 1854, when he came to this county, and has since resided here. He is by profession a merchant tailor, as well as a druggist, which business he now carries on in Rome. In the year 1833, on the 12th of September, he was married to Miss Catherine J, Sonanstine; they had four children, three of whom are living - Joseph F., James William; and Mary Jane. The one deceased - Virginia C. - died in 1864, at the age of 18 years 8 months and 14 days. Mr. A. studied and practiced medicine previous to his coming here, although he bas not paid much of his attention to his profession at this place. He attended lectures at Jefferson College at Baltimore, Md.

ALSDORF, ADAM W. Was born in Ashland Co., Milton Township, then Richland Co., where he resided until the age of 32 years, when he removed to this township, where he has since resided. He has paid most of his attention to farming and dealing in stock. Mr. Alsdorf is now one of the Trustees of his township, which shows the estimation in which he is held by the people of the township which he represents. Feb, 4,

1865, he was married to Miss Minerva Gates ; they have four children living - Arminda, Dora A., Cyrus A., and Herney C. The health of their family is good. Mr. Alsdorf has, by good management and strict attention to business, made for himself and family a good home. He enjoys the respect and esteem of all in the community in which he resides. :

ANDERSON, WILLIAM C., Shenandoah; he was born in Preble Co., Ohio, Feb. 27, 1841, where he resided until.the age of 11, when his parents removed to Randolph Co., Ind., where they remained about two years, when they came to Richland Co., where they have since resided. In 1857, Mr. Anderson learned the trade of shoemaker, at which he has worked, until within the past year he has been paying some attention to the shipping of stock, the purchase of hides and furs, and the boring of wells. In 1865, he was married to Elizabeth A. Burgoyne. Their four children are living - Lena Ann, Bettie E., Stella V. and Lois. During the war, Mr. Anderson enlisted in April, 1861, for three months; again, in 1862, for the same time; again in October of the same year; and when the threemonths troops were called, he again went into the serv- » ice - enlisting four different times, receiving an honorable discharge each time. Mr. Anderson never interested himself much in politics, but has been Township Trustee several terms.

ARMSTRONG, SAMUEL M., was born in Franklin Township, this county, on the Ist day of July, 1830; he resided here until the spring of 1841, when his parents removed to this township, and where he has since resided. Mr. Armstrong is by profession a shoemaker, and followed that until the war broke out, when he enrolled himself as a member of Co. F, 82d O. V. L, on the 380th day of November, and was discharged on the 25th of August, 1865; he was in the numerous battles the regiment was called upon to engage in; he received a gun-shot wound in the right hip at the battle of Dallas, in front of Atlanta. Since the war, Mr. Armstrong has been farming. In the fall of 1856, on the 16th of October, he was married to Miss Sarah J. Burns. They have had nine children, seven of whom are still living, and named Mary E., Flora Bell, George W., Nettie May, Eva A., Wilber B. and Frank N.; Mary Elizabeth is married; the ones deceased are Charley F., who died at the age of 2 years and 5 months; the youngest, Perry S., died at the age of 4months. Mr. Armstrong's father and mother are still living, and reside with him. His father was born Dec. 29, 1800, in Adams Co., Penn. He was 2 years of ' age when he removed to this State, and at the age of 22 he came to this county, which makes him a resident of the county for a period of fifty-eight years.

ARMSTRONG, JOHN H., was born in this county on the 10th of December, 1836, and has since resided in the county, with the exception of the war. He enrolled himself as a soldier Aug. 25, 1861; he was a member of Co. M, 2d 0. V. C., and was discharged Oct. 7, 1864. His vocation, principally, is that of farming. In the year 1866, he was married to Miss Susannah Pifer. They have reared a family of six children, all of whom are still living, with the exception of the last one, who died in infancy; the others are named, respectively, Effie M., Harold B., Tennie

BACKENSTO, ANTHONY J., was born in this county April 20, 1851, where he has since resided, and has lived in this township for a period of six years; his occupation has been that of farming all his life, In the year 1871, June 15, he was married to Miss Jane Eller; they have two children, both of which are still living, and named Ira E. and ErnestusC. The health of his family, together with himself, is not very good, and has not been since he removed to this place, he being troubled with the heart disease, while that of his wife and that of the olcest child is good, but the youngest has never been very rugged, although Mr. Backensto lives in one of the healthiest localities in his - township, as well as one of theamost pleasant; although the hand of disease has laid its hand upon him, he hag the satisfaction to know that himself and family enjoy the respect of all in the community where he resides.

BAKER, PETER, was born in Germany Nov. 11, 1835; when at the age of 18 years, he came to this country and located in New York City, where he resided until the year 1868, when he removed to Ashland Co., where he remained three years; from there he removed to Windsor, this county, where he stayed six years; from there he moved back to Ashland County, where he lived a short time, when he moved back to this county, and located in this place, Rome, where he manufactures boots#and shoes of all grades, He also has a notion store. His trade is that of shoemaker, and he has always made that his business. He learned the trade in Germany before he came to this country. In the year 1856, June 16, he was married to Miss Catherine Abeale, in New York City; they have had nine children, six of whom are still living, and named Leana, John, Frederick, Rosa, Augusta and Laura; three died in New York City, named Henry, Annie and Emma.

BAKER, GUSTAVUS B., was born in Hampshire Co., Va.. on the 24th February, 1834, where he resided until the age of 4 years, when his parents removed to Cumberland Co., Penn., where they remained about five years, and from there they removed to Knox Co., Ohio, where they stayed one year, and from there to this township, where he has since resided, and hag. always paid the most of his attention to farming. In the year 1859, on the 14th of February, he was married - to Miss Feann Stauffer; they raised a family of eight - children, seven of whom are still' living, and named Cornelius O., Mary E., Sarah E., Harry A., Auguste D., Perry B. and Alice M.; the one who died was Benjamin F. ; he departed this life on the 19th of February, 1872, aged 12 years and 8 months.

BAKER, JOSIAH, was born in Cass Township, on the 7th of June, 1843, and has always resided in the county, although he has moved, from time to time, from one township to another, and has recently sold his farm in this township and purchased one in Franklin, where he intends to make his future home. Mr, Baker has never turned his attention to political matters to any great extent, although he has represented his township as Trustee two terms, and is now Supervisor and School Director. In the year 1865, on the

27th of May, he was married to Miss Sarah Arnold ; they have a family of four children, three of whom are still living - Lizzie M., George B. and Curtiss C.; Andrew 8. departed this life on the 13th of December, 1866, aged 8 months and 24 days. He has always paid his attention to farming, and, by good management and strict attention to business, has made for himself and family a good home.

BARR, JOHN C., was born in Noble Co., Ind., on the 27th of September, 1855, where he resided until the age of 2 years, when he removed to this county and where he has since resided; Mr. Barr is by profession a blacksmith, which he carries on at Ganges; he is considered by all to be proficient at the business. In the year 1877, he was married to Miss Libbie A. Stoer; they have no children.