Richland County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1880 (part 1 of 18)

Biographical sketches

ACKERMAN, HENRY, barber; he was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, in the town of Neidermodau, Germany, July 11, 1845, and came to this country in 1865; he learned his trade in the Fatherland, and, after coming to this country, he worked for a short time in Crestline, Ohio; he removed to Mansfield in 1866 and commenced business in this city, at which he has continued to date. He was married in Mansfield, July 12, 1867, to Christina Hartman; they have six children - four sons and two daughters. . be _ ANDERSON, J. C., Surgeon; he was born in Butler Co., Ohio; removed to Richland Co. in 1850; he was educated at Ganges and Cleveland; commenced the study of medicine at Ganges in 1863; graduated at the Cleveland Homceopathic Hospital College in 1872; received a commission as Surgeon of the 12th O. V. I. (1878); he is now engaged in the practice of medicine in Mansfield. He was married to Anna M. Wherry, of Shelby; they have one child, 3 years old - Reed Wherry.

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

AUGUSTINE, CHARLES, leather merchant; he was born at Sugar Creek Falls, Ohio, Oct. 27, 1831, and came to Mansfield in 1850, where he was employed for a time as clerk in the dry-goods house of Amos 'lownsend, now Member of Congress from the Cleveland District. May 25, 1858, he was married to Miss Louisa Ritter, daughter of the late Joseph Ritter, to whom have been born six children. In the year 1865, Mr. Augustine joined the Masonic Order, since which time he has been an active Mason and has held a number of subordinate offices. He is a member of the leather firm of Ritter & Sons, in which business he is now engaged, and is considered one of the representative business men of Mansfield.

BAKER, GEORGE, stonemason, and grocery and provision merchant; he was born in Prussia June 9, 1816; learned the trade of stonemason; came to Mansfield Aug. 29, 1848. Married in the old country,

Lizzie, born in Germany Feb. 6, 1847; Bena, born in Mansfield Aug. 2, 1849; George, born in Mansfield Feb. 8, 1856; William, July 3, 1858; Emma Louisa, March 12, 1861. Mr. Baker has resided in Mansfield thirty-two years, and is one of the representative German citizens; has beeh a member of the German Secret Relief Society since Nov. 16, 1850. °

BARTLEY, MORDECAI, deceased, thirteenth Governor elected by the people of Ohio, was born in Fayette Co., Penn., Dec. 16,1783. In 1804, he married Miss Welles, and five years afterward removed to Jefferson Co., Ohio, where, upon the bank of that river, near the mouth of Cross Creek, he purchased a farm and engaged in the business of agriculture. Here his peaceful labors were interrupted by the declaration of the war of 1812, when, in a few weeks, he enlisted a company of volunteers, who elected him their Captain, and took the field under Gen. Harrison. At the close of the war, he removed to the almost unbroken wilderness of Richland Co., when Mansfield was the principal settlement; west of that place he secured a sufficiently large space to satisfy him, and there, with his ax, he opened a clearing in the forest, and erected his home. Upon this farm, he worked diligently and successfully several years, and then, removing to Manstield with the savings of his long years of farm labor, he entered into mercantile business. He early developed a character that won the confidence of those that knew him best, for, in 1817, he was elected to the State Senate, and appointed by the State Legisleture to the then important position of Register of the Land Office. This gave him charge of the Virginia miliitary district school lands. In 1823; he was elected to Congress, and served four terms, when he declined re-election. In Congress, he was the first to propose the conversion of the land grants of Ohio into a permanent fund for the support of the common school, and secured an appropriation for the harbors of Cleveland, Sandusky City, Huron and Vermillion. In 1844, having retired from Congress, and engaged in mercantile and agricultural business, he was elected Governor of Ohio on the Whig ticket. Both parties have testified to the ability of his administration. In 1846, the war with Mexico was strongly opposed by the antislavery people of Ohio, they regarding its proclamation in the interest of slavery extension, and, in response to the call for troops, they were not in favor of Ohio filling her quota, but Gov Bartley mentioned that Ohio, in common with every other State, was constitutionally bound to respect the requisitions of the National Government. He therefore adopted the proper measures, and the necessary number of volunteers were enlisted, and transferred to the authorities under his personal supervision. The messages he wrote during his administration were papers of ability, and plainly made apparent his thorough knowledge of the rather complex system of United State Government. He declined a second nomination, though strongly urged to accept, and, returning to his home, at Mansfield, he passed the evening of his life in the retirement of his family, dividing his attention 'between the practice of his profession as a lawyer, and in the management of his farm near that city. He died Oct. 10,\ 1870.

BAUGHMAN, ELIZABETH C., MRS., daughter of James and Hannah Cunningham, was born near Black Hand, Licking Co., Ohio, March 8, 1805; her mother dying when she was only 6 months old, she was raised by her grandfather, Michael Statler, a farmer near Black Hand. After her father's second marriage, he removed to this (Richland) county, where he figured prominently in the early history of this section of Ohio. In 1819, the subject of this sketch joined her father's family in this county, they residing at that time in the Ciear Fork Valley, below Newville, near what is now known as St. John's Church. The change from her grandfather Statler's - a wealthy farmer in a more civilized county - to the hardships and privations of pioneer life here was not a pleasant transition, and was made only because of her father's request. Her grandfather, she says, was one of the kindest and best of men, but she, then in her 16th year, with a deep sense of filial duty, left a home of wealth, comfort and ease, for a cabin in the rude wilderness, where property and life werealike insecure from the savages and wild beasts of the forest. The journey from Black Hand to St. John's was made in a sled, in the month of January, 1819, in two days, stopping over night near Mount Vernon.

Sept. 27, 1825, she was married to Jacob Baughman, who had succeeded to his father's farm, now known as the Dome farm, near Walnut Hall Schoolhouse, in Monroe Township, this county. Soon afterward, her husband sold the Dome farm and bought eighty acres of land, situated between the Lowrey (now Welty), and the Stoul farms, where he erected a cabin and they commenced housekeeping. He afterward sold and bought a number of farms, living at different intervals, in Monroe, Worthington and Jefferson Townships, but returned to. Monroe, where he died, March 20, 1855, aged 63 years; he was buried at Perrysville. Mrs. Baughman then removed to Bellville, where she resided until 1869, when she removed to Mansfield, where she has since resided. She is the mother of five children - Mary C. (wife of Abraham Lash), Hannah L, (wife of David Herring), deceased; Margaret C., deceased (wife of Freeman Carlile); Abraham J. Baughman and Sade E. Baughman; the two latter, remaining single, have always lived with their mother. Mrs. Baughman possesses an organization of wonderful tenacity, and is of that wiry physical constition, well-knit and close-fibered, that accompanies a character of great ambition, high spirit and wonderful

,endurance. While mild and persuasive, yet she always possessed that degree of , positive energy that would not give upor back down, no matter what obstacles were in her way. She worked hard, suffered much, and accomplished much. But she has seen the shadows of life's adversities succeeded by the sunshine of prosperity, and has lived to realize the full fruition of the glorious promise, '' Your children shall rise up and call you blessed."'

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

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

"The occasion which has called us together this evening, is one of more than usual interest; birthday celebrations are always pleasant occasions, and we are happy to meet and greet our friends at their recurrence, but yet some birthdays are more interesting than 'others, and this is one of them. The lady in whose honor we meet to-night, and whom we are glad to find-upon her 75th birthday cheerful and happy, not in the winter of life, but in the golden autumn time, is one of the living witnesses of the childhood of our city. Seventy-five years, when we look forward, seems a long time, but looking backward it is not-so long, and I have no doubt the incidents recalled by Mrs. Patterson, when Elizabeth Cunningham was a girl, seem to Mrs. Baughman but recent memories. In fact, with us all, it is our early recollections that last the longest. In our sleep we do not locate our dreams amid recent surroundings; but we go back to the homes of our childhood. Mrs. Baughman's father, Capt. James Cunningham, was among the first settlers of Mansfield, and, in the year 1809, when Mansfield first had a habitation and a name, he lived in its first cabin on the Sturges corner. Mrs. Baughman at that time was with her grandfather in Licking Co., but ten years later she removed to Richland Co. where she has since been a resident. Since then, Mansfield has become a populous city, and a massive block of brick and stone occupies the site of the little log cabin on Sturges' corner; and instead of the drum of the pheasant and the hoot of the owl in the leafy wood lands, we have for music the whistle of the locomotive and the clangor of machinery in the huge and smoky factories. We have churches and schools, busy mills, and all the pride, pomp and panoply of wealth and position and fame; and yet, I doubt very much if we have the wisdom, or patriotism, or sincerity, or happiness of those among whom Mrs. Baughman passed the early years of life. Thirty years ago, when I came to Mansfield, very many of the early pioneers were still living, and they seemed to me men of larger mold and broader sympathies than those of this later generation. It was this fact that led me to seek to preserve some record of their lives, and [ very soon commenced to gather some of their history, and, after twenty-five years of waiting, a man who has a genius for writing history has come to complete the work, and we hope very soon to put into print an enduring record of the giants of those early days, who founded the civilization of Richland Co. Mr. Graham is with us to-night and I doubt not he will bear out my estimate of the worth of our early pioneers, Mrs. Baughman's father was one of them, and Mrs. Patterson's father was another. I do not remember to have met Capt. Cunningham, but I knew Solomon Gladden very well, and he was a typical pioneer, massive in body and massive in mind. Reuben Evarts, who is here to-night and whom I present to you as a sample of the early pioneers, knew all of these men in their prime, and I hope he will tell us something about them. However, years have come and years have gone, aud as the great globe swung in its mighty orbit around the sun, these mighty men of valor passed out into the infinite, and of those who knew them and were among them, of them about the only one who remains in Mansfield now is Mrs. Baughman, whose birthday we celebrate to-night. She is happy in having lived to see the result of their labors, and we are happy in seeking to contribute to the enjoyment of this hour."

After supper, the presents on the occasion were formally presented by Hon. M. May in a brief, but appropriated speech. Among the numerous presents we mention specially a beautiful China tea-set from, Elder

G. M. Kemp, Gen. R. Brinkerhoff, Hon. M. May,S. E. Jenner, H. W. Albach, Capt. A. C. Cammins and J. Fraise Richard; Elder Kemp, Mrs Baughman's Pastor, followed, responding to Mr. May, accepting the presents in her behalf, in a speech brief, appropriate and touching in its pathos; Reuben Evarts, a real and wellpreserved representative pioneer, being calléd on, made some pleasing allusions to pioneer life and character, and presented an appropriate preamble and resolutions, which were adopted. ee BAUGHMAN FAMILY, THE. The ancestor of the Baughman family came from Germany, and located in Pennsylvania. The only knowledge the writer has of his family is of two sons - George and Abraham; and one daughter, married to Joseph Charles. George emigrated to Ohio in 1805, and settled in Mifflin Township, Franklin Co., where he spent the remainder of his life; he died at a ripe old age, and is buried ai Gahanna; he was the father of the late Hon. Jesse originators of the Franklin County Pioneer Association. Abraham was born on the Atlantic Ocean when | his parents were en route for America. He married Mary Catharine Deeds, and removed from Cumberland to Washington Co., Penn., and afterward to Richland Co., Ohio, settling in Monroe Township in 1811; they had five sons and three daughters - Adam, John, Abraham, Jacob and George, and Catharine, Elizabeth

| and Lovace; Catharine married a Mr. Black, of Tuscarawas Co.; Elizabeth married a Mr. Stewart, and removed to Tennessee, and Lovace married a Mr. Gayman, of Pittsburgh; Adam married a Miss Huffman, and removed to Plain Township, Franklin Co., Ohio, and he and his wife are both interred on the Baughman farm there, where they lived and where they died; John married Elizabeth Wyandt, and settled in Wayne Co., Ohio, and the township in which he lived: was named for him; Abraham married Susan Wyandt, and settled in Monroe Township, Richland Co., Ohio, where he died in 1848; his children were Margaret, wife of John Wolfe; David, married to Rebecca Wolfe ; John, married to Catharine Castator; Aaron, married, to Catherine Schrack; Peter, married to Eliza Wyandt; George, married to Minerva Merrell; Elizabeth, wife of Simon McDanel; William, married to Rachel Slater; Abraham, married to Eliza Wrigton; Susanna; Simon, married to, Susan Mercer. Jacob Baughman married Elizabeth Cunningham ; his life was principally passed in Monroe Township, Richland Co., where he died March 20, 1855, aged 63 years. They had five children - Mary C., married to Abraham Lash ;. Hannah L., married to David Herring; Margaret A., married to Freeman Carlile; Abraham J. and Sarah E.; the two latter remain single and live with their - mother; they are printers, and publish the Mansfield Call; they have also published the Cleveland Temple Visitor, Mansfield (Ohio) Zzberal, Canal Fulton Herald and Medina Democrat. George Baughman never married, and died in 1850. ; ve :

BERNO, PETER, merchant, Mansfield, Ohio; he was born in Rhein Pfaltz, a province of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, and came to this country, with his parents, June 10, 1851, and to Mansfield, Ohio, June 16, 1851; his father's name was Jacob

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

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

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

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

BLOSER, 8. P., retired; he was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., in 1824; he came to Ohio in 1850. He was married in 1852 to Elizabeth Snyder, who was born in Lockport, N. Y.; they have one daughter - Minnie, who is married to Henry Uhlich.

BOLLMAN, JERRY S8., Recorder; was born in Lebanon Co., Penn., Jan. 20, 1834, and removed with his parents to Richland Co., where they settled in Franklin Township in 1849. Mr. Bollman came to Mansfield and began the trade of cabinet-making in 1852 with Capt. Reinaker, and served his full apprenticeship of three years, when he entered the store of John H. Wigle, where he remained for some time; then into Remy & Co.'s dry-goods store, Scattergood & Penrose, Robinson & Vance, C. L. Avery's and Black's. In the year 1877, Mr. Bollman was elected Recorder of Richland Co., on the Democratic ticket, and took possession of the office onthe 7th of January, 1878, and now fills that position with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of. both political parties; the abstract office, in connection with the one which he fills, is a model of convenience, and reflects great credit on him, to whom it personally belongs. Mr. Bollman was married to Miss Lydia A. Dillin Mansfield July 7, 1858; they have four children, all living - Barton T., now a telegraph operator in Mansfield; Curtis J.,a druggist; Milton F., and Roy J. Mr. Bollman is at present a resident of the Third Ward, Mansfield, and enjoys the confidence of the.entire community.

BOSSLER, HENRY, woodworkman in the Mansfield Machine Works; he was born in Madison Township, Richland Co., Jan. 14, 1839. Married, Sept. 27, 1863, Josephine MclIlvain, who was born in Mansfield May 22, 1848; they have dne son - William T., born March 17, 1865. Mr. Bossler has been engaged with the Mansfield Machine Works over two years, and has won the entire confidence of his employers through his industry and frugality, and is recognized as one of our substantial and active citizens.

BRINKERHOEF, HON. JACOB, was born in the town of Niles, Cayuga Co., N. Y., Aug. 81, 1810. His father, Henry I. Brinkerhoff, was a native of Pennsylvania, having been born near the town of Gettysburg ; his grandfather, however, was from Hackensack, N. J., and belonged to the old Dutch family of

New York, the progenitor of which came from Drentland, in Holland, in the year 1638. His mother, nee Rachel Beviér, wasof Huguenot descent, and came from Ulster Co, N.Y. After a thorough English education, . obtained at the public schools and at the academy at Prattsburgh, Steuben Co., N. Y., he entered the law office of Messrs. Howell & Brother, in Bath, Steuben Co., in 1834. Here he regularly prosecuted his studies two years, and in the spring of 1836, removed to Mansfield, Ohio, where, in May, 1837, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the State, and immediately entered upon the practice of his profession. He svon acquired reputation as a lawyer of more than average ability, and in the course of a year or two was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Richland County, the duties of which he performed successfully for four years; at the expiration of his office, in the fall of 1843, he was elected to Congress, on the Democratic ticket ; while serving as a member of this body, he became affiliated with the Free-Soil party, and drew up the famous resolution introduced by David Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, and since known as the Wilmot Proviso; the original draft of this resolution, in his own handwriting, is still in his possession. Several copies of this resolution were made and distributed among the Free- Soil members of Congress, with the understanding that whoever among them should catch the Speaker's eye and get the floor should introduce it; Wilmot was the fortunate man, and thereby his name was attached to the resolution, and it has gone into history as the 'Wilmot Proviso," instead of the Brinkerhoff Proviso, as it should have been. At the close of his Congressional career, he resumed the practice of law, at Mansfield, in which he successfully labored until he was elevated to the Supreme Bench, his first term commencing Jan. 9, 1856; in this highly honorable position, he was retained for three successive terms, covering a period of fifteen years, and it is but justice to mention that a fourth term was offered him, but he declined a renomination. The Ohio State Reports con- - tain many of his opinions, delivered during his term upon the Supreme Bench, and they are everywhere very highly regarded by the profession. He was married, Oct. 4, 1837, to Caroline Campbell, of Lodi, Seneca Co., N. Y., who died at that place while on a visit, Nov. 18, 1839. His present wife was Marion Titus, of Detroit, Mich , by whom he has four children now living, two sons and two daughters, viz.: Malvina, George, Roelof and Gertrude. The Judge has retired from his profession, and still resides at Mansfield, but in feeble health. BRINKERHOFF, GEN. ROELIFF, was born in Owasco, Cayuga Co.,N. Y., June 28, 1828. The Brinkerhoffs of America are all descended from Joris Dericksen Brinckerhoff, who came from Drentland, Holland, in 1638, with his wife Susannah, and settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., then New Netherlands. The members of the family are now numerous, and for the most part are settled upon Long Island, and in the valley of the Hudson, but still a few families of the name can be found in Almost every Western State. The Western Brinkerhoffs are mostly descendants of Hendrick, son of Joris, who settled in New Jersey, and who dropped the letter c from his name. Gen. Brinkerhoff is of the seventh generation in America; his father, George R., was born near Gettysburg, Penn., but his grandfather, Roeliff, came from Hackensack, N. J.; his ancestors on his mother's side (the Bouviers), and on his grandmother's (the Demarests), were French Huguenots, fleeing from religious persecution, who found safety and a home among thé tolerant Dutchmen of the New Netherlands. Roeliff, the subject of this sketch, at the age of 16 was a school teacher in his native town; at 18, he was in charge of a school near Hendersonville, Tenn.; at 19, he was a tutor in the family of Andrew Jackson, Jr., at the Hermitage, and remained there until 1850, when he came North and entered as a law student in the office of his kinsman, the Hon. Jacob Brinkerhoff, at Mansfield, Ohio; in 1852, he was admitted to the bar, and entered the practice, and remained in the profession until the war of the rebellion ; during that time, June, 1855 to 1859, he was one of the editors and proprietors of the Mansfield Herald. In September, 1861, he entered the military service as First Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster of the 64th O. V. I.; in November of the same year, he was promoted to the position of Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, and during the winter was on duty at Bardstown, Ky; after the capture of Naghville, he was placed in eharge of transportation, land and river, in that city; after the battle of Pittsburg Landing, he was ordered to the front, and placed in charge of the field transportation of the Army of the Ohio; after the capture of Corinth, he went home on sick furlough, and was thence ordered to Maine as Chief Quartermaster in that State; subsequently, he was transferred to Pittsburgh, Penn., in charge of transportation and army stores, and thence to Washington City as Post Quartermaster, and remained on that duty until June, 1865, when he was made a Colonel and Inspector of the Quartermaster's Department; he was then retained on duty at the War Office, with Secretary Stanton, until November, when he was ordered to Cincinnati ag Chief Quartermaster of that Department; in September, 1866, he was breveted a Brigadier General of Volunteers; he was also tendered a commission in the regular army, but declined; on the Ist of October, at his own request, he was mustered out of service, having completed five years of continuous service in the army. Gen. Brinkerhoff is the author of the book entitled ''The Volunteer Quartermaster," which is still the standard guide for the officers and employes of the Quartermaster's Department. After his retirement from the army, he returned to the practice of his profession, at Mansfield. In 1878, upon the organization of the Mansfield Savings Bank, he became its executive officer as cashier, and has since retained that position; he is also a member of the Board of State Charities, and President of the National Conference of Charities. Gen. Brinkerhoff, Feb. 8, 1852, married Mary Lake Bentley, of Mansfield, daughter of Baldwin Bentley, and grand-daughter of Gen. Robert Bentley, by whom he has a family of four children, two sons and two daughters - Robert Bentley, Addie Horton, Mary and Roeliff, all now living at Mansfieid. BRINLEY, SAMUEL G. (deceased); was born in Mifflin Township Sept. 10, 1831; his father, John Brinley, is a resident of La Grange Co., Ind. Samuel G. was the first child. When 16 years of age, he commenced clerking in a dry-goods store in Petersburg,

James Weldon, where he remained ten years. - For several years during the war, he held the position of Deputy Provost Marshal and United States Marshal, and was a clerk in the Treasurer's office of this county under T. J. Robinson. He was married, Oct. 30, 1853, in Mansfield, to Miss Elzina S. Grubaugh; they are the parents of seven children. Charles Oscar was born Aug. 7, 1854; John Allen was born Aug. 1, 1857; Joseph Franklin was born March 27, 1860; Harry S. was born July 16, 1864; Elzina S. was born Dec. 15, 1866, and died April 15, 1868; Aden was born June 25, 1870, and Lee was born Feb. 19, 1872. Mr. Brinley died in this city Dec. 26, 1876; he was, for a number of years before his death, a successful contractor and builder, and had the confidence and esteem of the community. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. fora number of years, and of the Methodist Church for twenty-five years. Mrs Elzina Brinley was born near Loudenville, Ashland Co., Nov. 19, 1833; she is now a resident of West Bloom street. ; BRISTOR, T. G., dentist; he was born in Washington, Washington Co., Penn., in 1837; he came to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1844, where he studied dentistry ; he came to Mansfield in 1858, and engaged in the practice of dentistry. In 1865, he went to St. Louis, Mo., and practiced dentistry until 1872, when he returned ~ to Mansfield; he has been engaged here since. He is the oldest dentist in the city. He has branch offices at Shelby, Shiloh, Bellville and Hayesville, which places he visits once each month - Mondays and Tuesdays. BRISTOR, JAMES R., dentist, Mansfield; he was born in Washington, Washington Co., Penn., Jan. 28, 1884, and emigrated to Steubenville, Ohio, April 1, 18465, with his father and mother; in 1857, he connected himself with the dental profession and moved to Mansfield, in 1860, and located. He was married, Jan. 6, 1878, to Hannah M. Duncan, widow of Alex. Critchfield, 6f Millersburg, Ohio; she was born at Bloomfield, Coshocton Co., Ohio, Feb. 26, 1840, and

Ohio, in the fall of 1852, and to Mansfield in January, 1873; they have three children - John Henry, born April 25, 1874; Harriet Louisa, Sept. 14, 1875; Laura Virginia, April 20, 1878. In 1876, Mr. Bristor was elected from the Fourth Ward as one of the city Councilmen, and, in 1879, he was chosen to preside as President of Council of the city of Mansfield. James R. Bristor was born of Henry M. Bristor and Minerva Ruple Bristor, his wife, both of whom were born in Washington Co., Penn. Henry M. Bristor was born of Thomas Bristor and Elizabeth Dubany Bristor, his wife, both of whom were born near the James River, in Eastern Virginia; their parents lived within hearing distance of the cannon at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va. Minerva Ruple Bristor was born of James Ruple and Dina G. Ruple, in Washington Co., Penn. Hannah Duncan Bristor was born of John Duncan and Nancy Casey Duncan; her father emigrated from Washington, Penn., to Ohio, and her mother from Harper's Ferry, W. Va.

»Abraham Bronson, one of the two Bronsons who, in 1673, petitioned the court for the privilege of settling on a plantation in what is now the town of Waterbury, Conn.; Dr. Bronson's father, Bela Bronson, emigrated from Connecticut to Ohio and settled in what is now Columbia, Lorain Co., in 1807; the Doctor was then in his infancy, and was carried in his mother's arms across the Cuyahoga, with the first team that crossed in the tide of Western emigration; he was taken to church by his mother and was baptized in Waterbury, his native place; the first minister of the Gospel he remembers to have seen was whenrhe was about 9 years old; his mother and the church service, read by laymen, were his only teachers; at the age of 16, he trayeled on horseback about seventy miles in the fruitless search for a Latin dictionary; he afterward attended school at Kenyon College, where he graduated in 1833 ; two years after, he was ordained to the ministry ; from 1845 to 1850, he was President of Kenyon College; in 1867, he was Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the same institution; in 1872, he came to Mansfield to accept the pastorate of the.church here; he had, however, filled the pulpit a year and a half before coming. _ BURNS, BARNABAS, attorney at law. The parents of Mr. Burns, Andrew and Sarah (Caldwell) Burns, were Irish Catholics, and emigrated to America about the year 1800; they had a family of five children, three sons and two daughters. Mr. B., the youngest of five children, was born in Fayette Co., Penn., June 29, 1817; he emigrated with his pareuts to Milton Township, Ashland Co., settling there June 20, 1820; Mr. Burns remained on a farm until he was of age; he received a common-schovl education, and also spent a short time in the Ashland and Mansfield schools. He came to Mansfield April-9, 1838, where he has resided ever since. He was Deputy Clerk of the Courts, from 1839 to 1846; he studied law in the offices of Hon. Thomas W. Bartley and Hon. Samuel J. Kirkwood, and was admitted to practice in the summer of 1848, and has practiced law in Mansfield from that date to the present time. In the fall of 1847, Mr. Burns was elected to the Ohio State Senate, and re-elected in the fall of 1849; he was Presidential Elector for the State at large, on the Democratic ticket, in 1852; he served as Colonel of the 86th O. V. I. in the war of the rebellion, doing excellent service there; after his return, he again began the practice of his profession. In 18738, he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, and the same year was nominated on the Democratic ticket as Lieutenant Governor; out of a vote of nearly 600,000, he was defeated by only about five hundred votes; in 1876, Col. Burns was one of the Ohio Commissioners at the Centennial Exposition, filling that office, like all others, ina manner satisfactory to all the interests concerned therein; Col. B. has served several terms as one of the Trustees of the Ohio Soldiers' Orphans' Home; he is now, although 68 years old, actively engaged in the practice of his profession, being one of the oldest members of the Mansfield bar now in practice; he has always been an active and eonsistent Democrat. Col. Burns was married, Sept. 16, 1841, to Miss Urath Gore; Mr. and Mrs. B. became the parents of seven children, two of whom died in

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BUSHNELL, WILLIAM, physician. The family from which Dr. Bushnell descends dates back, in America, to early in the sixteenth century. Sometime in that period, Francis Bushnell came from England to America, and located in Guilford, Hartford Co., Conn.; he died in 1646, as the records show, his death being the five sons - Francis, William, John, Richard and Isaac. The second son, William, married and settled in Connecticut, and, at his death, left four children, the second of whom, Ephraim, also lived in Connecticut, and raised a family of seven children. His third child, James, was born March 12, 1716, and, about the year 1736, married a Miss Dudley. He was a seafaring man, and, soon after his marriage, went to sea on one of his voyages, and was never afterward heard from. It is supposed his vessel was lost at sea. After his departure to sea, his only son, Alexander, was born June 2, 1737. Feb. 12, 1761, he married Chloe Waite, a member of the Waite family of Lyme, Conn. (Chief Justice Waite, of Ohio, is a descendant of the same family). Miss Waite was born June 20, 1738. She lived to be 94 years old, dying Oct. 28, 1832. She became the mother of elevenchildren. The sixth child, Sterling G., the father of Dr. Bushnell, was born in Hartford Co., Conn., in 1781. The exact date is not known, as the record has been lost. Mr. Bushnell came to Trumbull Co., Ohio, in 1805, and to Vermillion Township, Ashland Co., May 20, 1820. His family then consisted of eleven children - Betsey, Lury, William, Collins, Sedelia, Jotham, Huldah, Roselia, Horner, Olive and Thomas. Of these, six are now living - Betsey, William, Sedelia, Huldah, Rosella and Thomas. Mr. Bushnell lived in this township until August, 1847, when his death occurred. He was 76 years of age. His wife lived several years after her husband's death, dying in the old homestead; she lives with her son Thomas, who is there yet. Mr. Bushnell was a man of scholarly attainments, and great force of character. He was a surveyor, and surveyed parts of the Reserve in the counties of Ashtabula, Medina and Lorain; while living in Trumbull Co., he surveyed a good deal of its territory there. William B. remained at home in Vermillion Township, teaching school about one year, assisted in opening the farm, and studying medicine ; he then went to Trumbull Co. to study medicine; in 1825, he went to the old Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, where he remained about one year at the medical school; at the end of the time, he went to New Orleans, and settled at Point Coupee, where he practiced medicine one year; while there, he taught in an academy seven months; from there he returned to this

The Doctor has since lived here, engaged in the practice of medicine. When Dr. Bushnell was a boy, he took a small part in the war of 1812. He was quite ambitious of military life then, as were all boys of the day, and enjoyed at least one adventure. After Hull's surrender, when in his 12th year, the Ist Regiment of the 3d Brigade, and the 4th Division of the Ohio Militia, on its way to the frontier, halted and took dinner at the residence of his father, who was Adjutant of that regi- ment. William, believing he was old enough to go with the troops, pleaded his cause so earnestly to accompany the regiment, that he was allowed to do so,and marched with it to the vicinity of Cleveland, where the troops were encamped. A battle being imminent with the Indians, his father told him he must go back home. He obeyed very reluctantly, as he desired to take a hand in the fighting. He retraced his steps alone through the dense wilderness, guided only by the trail left by the regiment.

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

by M. L. Miller; he has always resided in the city and county. He was married, in 1835, to Elizabeth .Gordon, by Rey. James Johnson, the first minister of the U. P. Church in Mansfield. Mr. and Mrs. Cairns are the parents of nine children - four boys and five girls - all living. Mr. C. comes of a family remarkable for longevity, size and activity; they were all prominent

CAKE, HIRAM, employe of A. & G. W. R. Rj he was born in Canton, Stark Co., Ohio, Aug. 23, 1823 ; he came to Richland Co. May 2, 1840, and immediately engaged as a clerk in the dry-goods house of the late William McNulty, which was then situated on the northwest corner of Main and Fourth streets: he remained with him until 1846, when he enlisted in the United States Army and joined the company from this county as private, under Capt. William McLaughlin, in the war with Mexico ; after the expiration of his term of service, he returned to Mansfield and soon after engaged in the employ of Isaac Smith, a dry-goods merchant of Monroeville, Ohio; after several months' residence there, he went to New York City, where he was employed in the wholesale dry-goods house of Marsh & Trear, with whom he remained four years, when he returned to Mansfield and again engaged in the employ of William McNulty for one year, taking charge of the business during MeNulty's absence in Culifornia. He then was employed by W. L. Strong in the same business for some time, when he went to California, in 1852; after an absence of fourteen months, he came back to Mansfield and was employed by the Penn. R. R. Co., as book-keeper, for several years, since which time he has been constantly engaged in the railroad business, in different capacities, until the present time. At the age of 21, he joined the Masonic Order and became a member of the Mansfield Lodge, No. 35, in which he is yet 8 member; during his long membership in this order, he was repeatedly elected as its Secretary, and has been, and now is (1880), Secretary of Mansfield Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and the Mansfield Council of Royal and Select Masters; he now holds the position of Recorder of the Mansfield Commandery, No. 21, Knights Templar. He was married in Mansfield, in June, 1850. to Miss Maria L. MecCullough, oldest daughter of Judge David McCullough ; they were the parents of eight children, six of whom are living. Mrs. Maria Cake died in this city in 1869.

CANTWELL, WILLIAM (deceased), was born in August, 1786, in Brooke Co., Va. He married Ann Williams, and afterward removed to Jefferson Co., Ohio, where they remained until 1820, when they removed to Richland Co. and 'settled on a farm two miles from Mansfield, on the Spring Mill road, where they resided almost continuously up to the time of the death of the wife of Mr. Cantwell, which occurred in January, 1850; he survived his companion, with whom he had lived over fifty years, but died in 1857. William and Anne Cantwell will be remembered by the pioneers, who still survive, very favorably and kindly, and Mrs. Cantwell will be remembered as one of extraordinary intellectual acquirements for one in the period of pioneer life in which she Jived; they raised a family of twelve children, eleven of whom grew up to be men and women. Thomas, the oldest, located on a farm near Olivesburg, in Richland Co., about 1820, and remained there till his death in 1868; William was accidentally killed by the fall of a tree; Martha married Jacob George; Margaret married David Jacques; Rachel married William Williams; Elizabeth married John

Mrs. J.C. Curtis; they were all at one time residents of Richland Co. Only three of the family survive - Margaret Jacques, Jane Scott and J. Y. Cantwell. James Cantwell was born in December, 1810, and hence was 10 years old when he came with his father to Richland Co.; in 1845, he responded to the call of the Government and volunteered in the military service for one year during the Mexican war; he was elected and served as First Lieutenant of the company of which McLaughlin was Captain; after the war, he represented Richland Co. two terms in the Ohio Legislature, and the district of which Richland forms a part, one term in the Ohio Senate. In 1859, he removed to Kenton, Hardin Co., and, at the breaking-out of the rebellion, he raised a company the second day after Fort Sumter was fired upon, and went to Columbus April 16, 1861, when his company was assigned to the 4th O. V. I., and he was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, Louis Andrews being Colonel. In October following, he was tendered a commission as Colonel of the 82d O. V. I., which he accepted, and recruited and organized in less time than any other three-years regiment was organized. In January, 1862, the regiment was ordered to West Virginia, and from the first was one of the most active regiments in the field; it took part with Schenck and Milroy at the battle of Bull Pasture Mountain in May, 1862; then marched with Fremont and Seigel across the Shenandoah Mountains and took part in the memorable campaign of Jackson and Banks in Shenandoah Valley ; was at the battle of Cross Keys; then marched over the Blue Ridge and joined the Army of the Potomac ; was at the battle of Cedar Mountain. It was one of four regiments connected with Milroy's brigade, the advance guard of Pope's army in its march toward the enemy, and the rear guard on its retreat, and hence for ten successive days prior to the second battle of Bull Run the regiment was continually under fire; it was engaged actively and in the foremost of the second Bull Run battle on the 30th of August, 1862, and while gallantly leading his regiment on a charge, Col. Cantwell was instantly killed, the ball passing in just below the left eye and out at the back part of the head. Thus fell one of the bravest of men, beloved by all the soldiers, and leaving many friends behind him; but he died as a true soldier would choose to die, upon the field of battle, and his widow and family, who reside still in Kenton, Ohio, appreciate the sentiment inscribed by an officer upon the board that marked his temporary grave upon the battle-field : "How sleep the brave who sink to rest By ail their country's wishes blest."

His family and friends revere his memory as a true and faithful husband and father. noble man and soldier, and a firm friend. J. Y. Cantwell was born in December, 1824, within two miles of Mansfield; he grew up to nianhood in this locality; read medicine with J. W. Chandler, in Mansfield; graduated in the spring of 1847, and practiced medicine in his

Department on the 15th of April, 1861; was first connected with the 4th O. V. I., but was afterward appointed Surgeon of the 82d O. V. I., Col. Cantwell's regiment, and was in active duty in the field till December, 1863, filling the position of Brigade, Division and Corps Surgeon, as official orders will show ; he participated in more than twenty battles, in all of which he occupied the position of Operating Surgeon. In January, 1864, he was commissioned by President Lincoln Surgeon of the U.S. Volunteers, and assigned to duty by the Surgeon General as Inspector of Hospitals, with Washington as headquarters ; in this capacity, he visited all the principal cities, inspecting hospitals, discharging, etc.; returning to duty, he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, where he remained till April, 1865, when he was assigned to duty at Columbus, Ohio, as Superintendent of Hospitals, where he remained till the Government property was disposed of and the hospitals closed in October following, when he was mustered out of service, but, by recommendation of the Surgeon General of the U. 8S. Army, for meritorious services, he was breveted Lieutenant Colonel, and he now holds a commission, signed by Andrew Johnson and Edwin M. Stanton, conferring upon him that rank. After the war, he went to Alabama and engaged in the planting interests as well as his profession, but has now returned to his native city, where-he expects to spend the greater portion of his time mpi the balance of his lifé.

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

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

CARPENTER, W. B., tanner; he was born Sept. 15, 1825, in Worthington Township; he served as an apprentice at the tanner's trade for three years in Newville, with T. F. Simmons; at the expiration of this time, he went to Buffalo, N. Y., and completed his trade; he then returned to Newville and superintended the tannery for his father; he afterward formed a partnership with G. F. Carpenter, and remained six years; in 1852, he dissolved partnership, but he continued the business, making twenty-seven years' continuous work inatannery. He was married, Sept. 15; 1846, to Emeline Grove, who was born in 1828, in Montgomery Co., Penn.; they had the following family - Alfred George (married to Alice Boyd), and resides in Cleveland, and resides in Ashland; Alice E. (married to Albert Seiler) ; Eugene is attending the Ohio University at Delaware; Adak.., Otto W. and Jennieare stillat home with their parents ; 'one daughter - Lucy, isdead. Mr. Carpenter has been a member of the M..E. Church since 16 years of age. Donn A. Carpenter, brother of W. B., was born in 1830; he was in the Mexican war; he was elected State Senator from Jones Co., Iowa, in 1863, and also in the late war; he died in January, 1864. Mr. Carpenter can trace back his ancestry to 1638; they landed at Boston Mass.,in early American days, and from there spread over the United States ; Mr. C.'8

ARROTHERS, SAMUEL (deceased), was born én Washington Co., Penn., in 1780, and was the only son of George and Jane Workman Carrothers, who were old residents of that county, and came to this country before the Revolutionary war. He was married in Washington Co., in the year 1802, to Miss Mary Dye, who was born in 1781; they removed to this county in 1815, and were the parents of five children - Susan Lake Carrothers was born in the year 1807, and is now a resident of Linn Co., lowa; Elizabeth Grant was born Jan. 24, 1809, and is a resident of this city; Jane Workman Hoffman was born in 1811, is a resident of Olney, Ill.; Rebecca D. McCollough was born in 18138, and is now living in Olney, Ill.; George W. was born in January, 1815; Mary Carrothers Ridgeway was born in 1817; Samuel Leet Carrothers, the youngest son, was born in 1819; he lives in the city, and is a builder and contractor; Elizabeth Carrothers was married in Mansfield, to Edwin Grant, in 1834; he was born in Fairfield, Conn., in 1797, and came to Richland Co, in 1819; for many years he carried on a tannery, near the corner of First and Main streets, in this city, in which he was quite successful; he died in 1845, in Mount Carmel, Ill.; after his death Mrs. Grant returned to this city, where she has since remiined ; they were the parents of one child, Esther Ann, the wife of Robert Ray Smith, the well-known painter of this city. They were married March 9, 1858, and are the parents of four children.

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

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

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

CHARLTON, JOSEPH Y., tanner; was born Jan. 21,1841. He was married March 16, 1865, to Clara L. Carpenter ; she was born July 6, 1847; they have four children - Mattie B. was born in February, 1866; Grove, May 17, er Alfred Doyle, Jan. 1, 1870; Lettie Nell, Feb. 14, 1874. After marriage, located in Wayne Co, engaged in farming; thence to Lucas; from there to Newville, engaged in tannery; in 1879, he went to Mansfield; since then has been engaged as foreman in the Carpenter tannery. Enlisted in the army during the late rebellion in the 32d O. V. I.; served his time of enlistment; was wounded twice during battles.

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

CLAPP, EMILIUS, wine merchant; Emelius Clapp is the descendant, in the seventh generation, of Roger Clapp, who came to this country from England in 1630, settling in Dorchester, Mass.; here he married Miss Joanna Ford, daughter of Thomas Ford, of Dorchester, England, who, with her parents, came over in the ship with himself. Roger Clapp was appointed by the General Court, in August, 1665, Captain of the Castle (the principal fortress in the province), which position he held for twenty years, and was universally respected and honored; he also held various other offices, both civil and military; in 1686, he removed to Boston, where he died in 1691, in the 82d year of his age; his wife died in 1695, in her 78th year; by this union there were fourteen children, one of whom, Preserved, was born Nov. 23, 1643, who married Sarah Newberry, of Windsor, and settled in Northampton ; he was Captain of the Town, a representative in the General Court, and Ruling Elder in the church, and died from the effects of a gunshot wound received from an Indian ; he had seven children, one of whom, Roger, was the father of Maj. Jonathan, one of the first settlers in Easthampton; he had three sons and eight daughters; the youngest son, Benjamin, was born in of 97 years ; there were born to them fifteen children. The eighth was Solomon, the father of Emelius Clapp, who was born in Easthampton, Sept. 2, 1782, and died Nov. 25, 1827; he married Miss Paulina Avery, of Wallingford, Conn.; there were ten children by this marriage, of whom Emelius is the first son, born Dec, 5, 1808; he received his education at the public schools and Amherst Academy; after his father's death, he remained at home until the spring of 1882, then removed to Ohio, where he lived until the following fall when he returned to Massachusetts, where he married Lydia Hutchinson April 15, 1888; the same year, he again came to Ohio, and settled in Chester, Geauga Co., where he remained until 1836, when he.removed to Mentor, Lake Co., and there lived one year ; then commenced the manufacture of candy at Painesville, which business he followed in connection with the manufacture of silk; specimens of his handiwork are now in possession of the family aud show him to have been an expert workman; he resided in Painesville until the spring of 1844, then to Elyria, where he continued the manufacture of candy until September, 1850, when he came to Mansfield; during his residence in this city, he was constantly engaged, in partnership with his sonin-law and alone, in the manufacture of candy, and the grocery trade, for many years. Nov. 20, 1865, the firm of E. Clapp & Co. sold their stock to Remy, Hedges & - Co.; since 1855, he has been extensively engaged in the manufacture of wine from grapes , ae at his vineyard on Kelly's Island. Emelius and Lydia Hutchinson Clapp are the parents of four children, one son and three daughters; James Birney died in Elyria, aged 5 years; Francis H. died in infancy ; two daughters are now living - Ellen Mariette (wife of Mr. G. C. Wise). of this city, and Mary Paulina (wife of Joseph H. McKee), of Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. Lydia Clapp died in Mansfield Feb. 20; 1870; his present wife was Miss Carrie Beardsley, of Garrettsville, Portage Co., whom he married May 30, 1872. :

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

CLUGSTON, GEORGE A., banker; he was born Oct. 5, 1842, in Franklin Co., Penn.; came to Ashland Co., Ohio, in 1849; he received a liberal education, and engaged in teaching, in all three years; came to Mansfield in March, 1863; read law with Henry Hedges ; wasin Provost Marshal's office fourteen months, also Deputy Clerk in office of Probate Judge; he was admitted to the bar in 1865, by District Court held at Bucyrus, and in United States Court in 1867, at Cleveland ; continued in practice till October, 1873; when he was appointed Cashier of the Farmers' National Bank, and continues to hold that position; held the office of City Clerk of city of Mansfield in 1872-73. He was married, Jan. 1, 1867, to Sarah M. Larimer, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, where she has always lived.

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

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

COLWELL, SAMUEL B. (deceased). He was born in Southampton Township, Cumberland (o., Penn., June 12, 1810. where he worked at his trade of blacksmithing, until his removal West in 1886; he came to Richland Co. in May, 1837, and settled in Troy Township, where he took charge of a grist-mill with a brother ; he continued at this business for some time before removing to his farm west of Lexington, on which he lived until 1862, when he returned to Lexington and thence removed to Iowa and entered land ; returning to Ohio, he bought a farm south of Lexington, which he soon after exchanged for the mill property; for five years previous to his death, he was a resident of Missouri; he died in Mansfield June 23, 1879, respected for his many good qualities of head and heart. Mr. Colwell was married in Troy Township to Miss Mary McIntire, by whom he had nine children, six of whom are living, three sons and three danghters ; James is in the employ of the Aultman & Taylor Co., and Samuel in the wholesale house of Joseph Miller.

CRAIG, J. W., M. D., physician. Dr. Craig's father, Samuel Carson Craig, was born in Beaver Co., Penn., in 1783. He was married to Jane Woods, and came to Belmont Co., Ohio, where Dr. Craig was born; not long after, his parents came to this county, where they | resided during the remainder of their lives; his father dying Feb. 7, 1862; his mother, Sept. 18, 1875. When J. W. Craig was about 9 years of age, he went back to Belmont Co., where he lived with an uncle, a lawyer, and attended school and read Blackstone, his uncle desiring he should prepare for the profession of law ; J. W. did not fancy Blackstone to any great degree, and often read medical works, evincing a desire in that direction ; when near 17 years of age, he went to Harrison, near Cincinnati, where he continued to read medicine, and also taught school two years; he after-, ward went to this county, and, with Dr. Bricker, read medicine in the office of Dr. John Mack, of Shelby; from there, he went to the Cleveland Medical College, where he graduated in 1851; April 7 of that year, he located in Ontario, where he remained ia practice nineteen years; at the end of that time, 1870. he removed to Mansfield, where he still resides. Dr. Craig was married, Jan. 24, 1854, to Eliza McConnell, whose father, Hugh McConnell, was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., July 11, 1802; one of his sisters, born July 14, 1800, is now living, in good health, in Mansfield. He was married to Mary J. McCommon May 24, 1827; she was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Aug. 26, 18038; five years after their marriage, they came to Mansfield, and soon after bought a farm in Richland Co., where they now reside; Dr. and Mrs. Craig are the parents of four children - Wilda, James H., Maggie and May.

COPE, FRANKLIN E., was born in Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., April 4, 1807 ; immigrated to Columbiana Co., Ohio, June 10, 1810, remained there till 1832. He was married, Noy. 12, 1838, to Jane Sweney, she was born in Washington Co., Penn., July, 1808'; Mr. Cope was engaged in the hatter business in Mansfield { for fifteen years, also farming ; he was' among the early

CRAIGHEAD, JAMES, Mayor of the city of Mansfield; he was born in 1883, in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.; came to Mansfield in 1887. Was married in 1859 to Susan White, daughter of Jonathan 8. White, of Franklin Township ; they have the following children: Septimus, born in 1860, engaged in reading law with Manuel May, in Mansfield, and Charlie, born in 1864 (deceased) ; Mr. Craighead was elected Mayor of Mansfield in the spring of 1879. ;

CREIGH, DAVID M. (deceased). The man whose name stands at the head of this biography died and was laid to rest in the Mansfield Cemetery, Sept. 26,

1861, aged 61 years; although years have come and gone, his name is still familiar to the living, and his memory cherished by those who knew and honored him. He was born in the city of Pittsburgh, Penn., Dec. 5, 1799; he came to Ohio in 1822 with his parents, who settled in the northern part of Madison Township; he remained here for a number of years working on the farm with his father, Samuel H. Creigh. On the 19th day of February, 1845, he was married to Miss Attillia Barr, daughter of Col. Jacob Barr, one of the early settlers 'of this county, who resided a few miles west of Mansfield, the Rev. D. J. Swinney officiating; in this neighborhood he soon after purchased land, and continued in farm life until his death; during their residence in Madison Township\they raised a family of three children; the eldest, Jenkie, afterward the wife of James R. Pollock, died Nov. 11, 1877, aged 30 years 10 months and 29 days; one son by this marriage still survives her; a loving daughter, sister and mother, kind and affectionate to all; her death was universally regretted; John T. Creigh was born Jan. 10, 1847; he received a good common-school education, and soon after his father's death came to Mansfield, and was employed for some years in the hardware trade, acquiring a thorough knowledge of that business, which has been so useful to him in his present occupation; he is at presenta partner in the widely known and prosperous firm of Patterson & Creigh, carriage manufacturers ; he was married in November, 1871, to Miss Emma Williams, of this county, and resides on West Bloom street; Franc Creigh, the youngest and surviving daughter, was born June 9, 1848, and, like her sister and brother, received a good education, residing with her mother, who removed to Mansfield soon after her husband's death; she was married Sept. 7, 1869, to D. W. Kendig, in Mansfield; they have three children - Carl, the eldest, was born March 24, 1871; Lee Creigh Kendig, born Feb. 9, 1873; Kittie Kendig, born Sept. 28, 1876; Mrs. Franc 5. Kendig resides on West Market with her mother and father's sister, with her little family around her. She and husband are members of the Congregational Church.

CRALL, WILLIAM, was born in Ireland about the year 1794, the exact date not known; he emigrated with his parents to this country, and settled in Washington Co., Penn.; his father died shortly after coming to the country, and he being at that time but 12 years of age, and the eldest of the family, the support of the family mainly devolved upon him ; he learned the carpenter trade with a Mr. Enos, who afterward removed from Pennsylvania to Richland Co., and settled in Miffiin Township; during the war of 1812, William enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment, and, with his command, marched to the West, against the Indians and British ; when the command arrived on its march at Cadiz, Harrison Co., they received the news that peace was declared, and the war was at an end. The command was shortly afterward disbanded, and William | with other discharged soldiers came to Mansfield, which at that time was nothing more than a wilderness ; remaining here a short time, he went back to his home in Pennsylvania, and afterward returned here with his old employer, with whom he worked at the carpentertrade. The first house in this city furnished with a shingledroof and

» "plowed and grooved" floor, was erected by him at the southeast corner of Fourth and East Diamond streets, on the lot now owned by Minor Howe; at this time he was 21 years of age. In 1817, Oct. 12, he was married to Mary Westfall, by whom he had eight children, four of whom died at an early age; John Crall, the eldest, died in 1862; Abram died in California in 1852, and Susan and James are stillliving ; Mary Westfall was born at Beverly, Randolph Co. Va., Oct. 31, 1797; her brother, Harvey Westfall, had come to Richland Co. during the war of 1812, and settled at Mansfield; at the close of the war, she came to Ohio, and landed at Newark, where she had an aunt living; she made the entire distance on horseback ; after remaining in Newark for a time, she came on to Mansfield to reside with her brother Harvey; after her marriage, her sister Sidney came to Mansfield from Virginia, and lived with her until her marriage with Franklin Carmichael; Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael settled near Shiloh, in this county, where their children who are living still reside. Harvey Westfall removed from Mansfield to Plymouth, near which place he died about twelve years ago; William Crall, after residing in Mansfield for several years, removed with his family to Plymouth, at which place he, in company with Abraham Trux, erected a flouring-mill, which is still standing; he remained at Plymouth but a few years, when he returned to Mansfield, where he resided until his death, which occurred Sept. 11, 1851; his wife survived him until July 21, 1872; previous to going to Plymouth, Mr. Crall kept tavern in the old frame building which stood on the northwest corner of Fourth and Main streets. His parents were Scotch-Irish, and he was raised in the Presbyterian faith ; "his wife joined the Presbyterian Church in this city, under the ministration of Rev. James Rowland, and remained a member of that church until the time of her death. She always took a great interest in the political affairs of the country, and for a woman was remarkably well posted in political matters. She was fond of reading political speeches, and when able, often attended political meetings of both parties. The career of all leading political men was narrowly watched by her, and their speeches eagerly read.

Mrs. Crall's ancestors on her mother's side were Welsh, and on her father's, Low Dutch or Hollanders; her grand-parents assisted in settling up Virginia, and her grand-fathers, Pugh and Westfall, both fought in the early Indian wars in Virginia, and her father and uncles in the war of the Revolution; of the children of William Crall, as we have said, but two are now living; Abraham immigrated to California during the gold fever, and died there in 1852; John enlisted in Capt. Me- Laughlin's company, 3d QO. V. I., and served during the term of service of that regiment in the war with Mexico. After his return home, he was married to Susan Snyder, who lived but a year or two after her marriage; she left one child, a daughter, who was married to Anthony IJ. Piero, and is now living at Plymouth ; although quite a politician, John never sought office, and never held but one official position, that of Constable, which office he held at the time of his death, which occurred in July, 1863. James S. Crall enlisted in the 82d O. V. I. during the war of the rebellion, and was appointed a Second Lieutenant to recruit a company for that regiment; upon the organization of the regiment, he was elected Captain of the company; upon the death of Col. Cantwell, at the second battle of Manassas Plains or Bull Run, he was promoted to Major of the regiment, and afterward was made Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, which position he held at the close of the war and the muster-out of the regiment; the 82d Regiment belonged to the 11th Corps, and took past with that corps in all the battles in which it was engaged while in the Army of the Potomac; after the battle of Chickamauga, the 11th and 12th Corps were transferred to the army of Gen. Thomas; the two corps were consolidated and were afterward known as the 20th; with this corps under command of Gen. Hooker, the 82d Regiment took part in all the skirmishes and battles preceding the taking of Atlanta, in the march from Atlanta to Savannah, and from Savannah to Raleigh, North Carolina; the regiment was on the march from Raleigh to Richmond, when Lee surrendered to Grant; a few days thereafter, Johnston surrendered to Sherman, and the war was over. Since his return home, James S. Crall has served as member and President of the City Council, two terms as Justice of the Peace and is at present Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; his sister, Susan Larimore, is living, and with her children resides with him in this city. 2 CRAWFORD & ZELLERS, cracker manufacturers, located at the corner of Walnut and Bloom streets, ina brick building 56x100. The business was originally started in 1872, by H. H. Colby, who gontinued it for one year, when the firm that now has it took charge, Sept. 7, 1874; Messrs. Crawford & Zellers were formerly engaged in the manufacture of crackers at Richmond, Ind., and when they purchased the property, they possessed not only ample capital, but a complete knowledge of their business; the first building was a frame, to which Crawford & Zellers added some additions; soon after the improvements had been made, the frame portion of the structure was destroyed by fire ; nothing daunted, the proprietors at once rebuilt in a much finer style, so that the works they now have is a model institution of its kind, and considered by all to be one of the most complete in the State; all the machinery used is of the best and most improved make, enabling this house to successfully compete with any other engaged in asimilar business; an engine of thirty-horse power is used, and the bakery has a capacity of turning out 500 barrels of crackers every 24 hours; 25 to 30 hands are employed, and a business maintained that will exceed $150,000; the crackers here produced are noted for their first-class quality and the universal satisfaction they give; a goodly trade is not only had by this firm in Ohio, but the same has extended into the States of - New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, West Virginia and Indiana. The firm is composed of B. F. Crawford, D. K. and J. G. Zellers; Mr. Crawford has withdrawn his interest from the firm of Zellers & Co., at Richmond, Ind., and now gives his undivided attention to the business which he has and is so satisfactorily conducting, and of which he is principal owner. ' DAILY, JOHN B. (deceased), was born in New Lisbon, Columbiana Co., Ohio, April, 1827 ; while yet a poor boy, he, unexpectedly to his relatives, came to Mansfield, and was at once placed at the desk in the hardware store of A. J. Endly, where he soon showed that aptness for book-keeping which was so serviceable to him in after years; here he was constantly employed for fourteen years, gaining a thorough knowledge of the trade; in the year 1864, he was appointed Deputy Revenue Assessor, which position he held until the comingin of the new administration; Mr. Daily was a member oi the German Lodge, I. O. O. F., which order he joined in the year 1864, and in which he has held a number of offices; Mr. Daily was long and favorably known as one of Mansfield's business men, being engaged largely at one time in real estate and other enterprises. John B. Daily was married July 8, 1865, to Miss Emma C , of New Lisbon; there have been born to them four children - Laura E., William C., John E. and Emma M.; John B. Daily died Aug. 6, 1876, in Mansfield.

DAY, AMOS (deceased), son of Joseph and Eleanor . Day; was born in Washington Co., Penn., Jan. 12, 1806, and removed to this county with his father's family in 1815, thus having lived sixty-five years continuously in Richland'Co. He was married in November, 1834, to Martha Smith, daughter of Jedediah Smith, of Washington Township, by whom he had eight children, five of whom are still living, being Joseph B. and Harrison W. Day, of Washington Township; Mrs. W. 8. Bradford and Miss Kate E. Day, of Mansfield; Mrs. J. F. Bowers, of Bellville. He learned the mason trade when quite a young man, and built or helped to build many of the old structures of Mansfield, among which was the Congregational Church, the old Sturges Block, Tracy's Block, and others, which have since been replaced by more modern and imposing edifices; also many of those still standing, among them the McFall Block, built nearly half a century ago, the old North American, southeast of the Park, and the Union Church. He moved to his farm in Washington Township in 1835, where he battled with the sturdy monarchs of the forest during the best years of his life, making them give place to fruitful and productive fields and abundant harvests; he removed to Mansfield to spend the declining years of his life, where he died of typhoid fever on the 21st day of April, 1880. He was aman of great force of character, always adhering firmly and strictly to principles of virtue and honesty; he was akind father anda good husband, and his memory will be cherished and revered by those who knew him best; companionable and sociable with his friends and acquaintances, his cheerful and pleasant greetings will not soon be forgotten by those with whom he mingled for more than half a century. By rigid economy and industrious habits he acquired a competency, which he used carefully and rationally, often expressing a desire to leave his wife and children in comfortable circumstances rather than to enjoy the luxuries of life himself; despising display and pretension, and of aretiring and unassuming disposition, his good deeds were not heralded to the world, but he was ever ready to lend a helping hand to the poor and the distressed. He united with the Congregational Church of Mansfield in 1886, soon after its organization, and, although of late years not an active member, he was a firm believer in the Christian religion, a faithful and rigid observer of the Sabbath Day, and a careful and constant reader of the Scriptures; and, possessing a wonderfully retentive memory, its great and grand truths were treasured up in his mind, and often adverted to, to the edification of his family and friends. His mind dwelt much during the later months of his life on the uncertainty of earthly existence; and, upon his dying bed, although cut down by a@ malignant and ruthless disease, and although his mind often wandered, yet in his lucid intervals, his conversation showed to those who watched by his bedside that his thoughts were at such times fixed upon immortal things. In one of those moments, while reason for a short space returned to her throne, he seemed much moved, and spoke of going home: and when asked if he meant Heaven, he replied, ''Yes,'' and at another time he requested that a hymn be sung. He bore his sufferings with patience and resignation; not a word of complaint or murmuring escaped his lips during the progress of his fell disease. His mother, Eleanor Day, came from her home in Indiana to attend the funeral of the first-born of her twelve children; she and her twin sister, who is also living, lack only seven years of being a century old; their descendants number 250; their maiden name was Thomas; they are full sisters of the father of Gen. Thomas. Mrs. Eleanor Day was the mother of twelve children, eleven of whom attained to manhood and womanhood, and nine of them are still living, being Marcus, Clemens and Cyrus Day, of this county; Harrison Day, of DeKalb OCo., Ill.; Mrs. Hon. Robert M. Lockhart and Mrs. Louisa Ensley, of De Kalb Co., Ind.; Mrs. Hon. John Young and Mrs. Jacob Henry, of Sauk Co, Wis., and Mrs. Joshua Martin, of ment of all her faculties unimpaired; but says that ««This world has no charms for her,'' and she is only waiting to be called up higher, and receive the reward of a well spent life.

estant descent. The American family from whom he sprung were among the earliest settlers of New Jersey ; some of the descendants afterward settled in Western his family into Ohio and located in Morrow Co., where, with the little opportunities then afforded, he soon by diligence acquired sufficient knowledge to teach while continuing his studies, and the fall of 1842 found him in charge of what was then known as the Preparatory Department of Delaware University, which embraced almost every branch, except the dead languages ; while there, greater inducements were held out to him to continue his chosen vocation, which he reluctantly declined | on account of poor health. He afterward removed to |

Winters in the fall of 1844, by whom he had four chil- | dren - Gilbert Winters, Alphonse Lemartine, Herbert | Cantwell and Luella Almena; all residents of Mansfield, |

France; Dr. M. DeCamp commenced the practice: of dentistry in this city in the fall of 1851, and continued to practice until a few months before his death, which occurred April 17, 1876; during his residence in man; for anumber of years President of the American Bible Society, of this county, and of the State Dental Association, in which he held high rank on account of his professional ability; at the time of his death, he was a member of the State Board of Dental Examiners, and a prominent Mason in the Mansfield Lodge. He was a member of the Congregational Church in Mansfield, and for several years acted as one of its Deacons.

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

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

DOLL, MICHAEL R., harness-maker. The subject of this sketch was born in Green Township, Richland Co., as it originally existed, Oct. 25, 1839; came to Mansfield in 1845 with his parents, who soon after removed to an adjoining county, where he was placed in school until of sufficient age to begin his trade of haree ness-making, at which he worked until the breakingout of the civil war, when he entered the army, enlisting as an artificer in the llth O. B., afterward assigned to the Western Department 17th Army Corps ; active part and doing his duty as a soldier in the many engagements in which that battery and corps were engaged ; among the more noted and terrible battles in which he took part, were the siege of Vicksburg, Island No. 10, Corinth and the battle of Iuka, Miss. During Mr. Doll's career as a soldier, he passed through many dangers unharmed, when others have fallen - not escaping altogether, as he was slightly wounded at the battle of Vicksburg, and in the great railroad collision at Crestline in April, 1861, severely injured, having a knee joint dislocated and being otherwise bruised; but it was not until long after the close of the war in January, 1877, that, after escaping the bullets of the enemy, and working at his vocation in Mansfield, he received a pistol-shot wound through the gross carelessness of a friend that almost proved fatal, from the effects of which he still suffers, and will carry the marks to his grave. An upright and good citizen, he is now continuing steadily at his trade, enjoying the entire respect of all the citizens.

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