Stark County, Ohio - Chapter 6 (2 of 2 so headed), 1881 (part 1 of 2)

Chapter 6

ON Tuesday, the 18th day of ApriUSOO, the first Court of Common Pleas was held in Stark County, at the house of Philip Dewalt in Canton. Present, the Hon. Calvin Pease, President Judge ; Thomas Latimer, James Campbell and George Pair. Associates. Under the Constitution of 1802, Section 1 of Article 3, it was provided that : The judicial power of this State both as to matters of law and eipiitj', shall be vested in a Supreme Court, in Courts of Common Pleas for eacli countj-, in Justices of tlic i'eace and in such other courts as the Legislature may from time to time establish." Section 3d of the same article provided that the Courts of Common Pleas should consist of a President and Associate Judges, * * * * not more than three nor less than two Associate Judges, who, during their continuance in office, should reside in the county for which they were appointed. The terras of the Courts being established annually by the General Assembly, the Common Pleas met pursuant to an act fixing the times of holding the courts throughout the State, the county of Stark being then in the Fourth Judicial Circuit.

appointed Clerk ; William Raynolds, Jr.. Deputy, and John Sloane, Recorder. As a matter of history, although not germane to the subject, it is proper to state Mr. Sloaiie subsequently removed to Wooster in the County of Wayne, was Colonel of a regiment in the war of 1812. and served ten years in the National Hou.se of Representatives, retiring from public life on the -tth of March, 1829, having been defeated in the election in 1828, by Gen. John Thompson, of Columbiana, which county with Stark and Waj'ne constituted the district. In 1826. Col, Sloane was elected for the last time, Stark County giving him the preponderating vote and a majority in the district of ninety-six votes. He was, however, elected Secretary of State bv the Ohio Legislature and was United Slates Treasurer under the Fillmore Administration. On the 19th of December. 1809. William Raynolds, Jr., Esq., was appointed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and held the office until December 19, 181G, being the full period of seven years, when he received the appointment of Clerk pro ten)., which he held until April 2, 1818, when he was re-appointed Clerk, and held the office until November 0, 1824, when John Myers was appointed Clcrky//vj fun., and held the office until

Mr. Harris, the first Clcrii of the Court, was afterward, in 1812. elect(>(l Associate Jud^c. After the expiration of iiis ollicial h'vm. he studied law ; was admitted to praciicc about the year 1819. and was prominent, as a member of the bar. for near forty years ; was twiee elected to tiie House of Kopresentatives in the General Assembly of tlie State of Ohio. On retiri ng from the practice of the hiw, he removed to Onialia, Neb., where he died in October. 1863, at tlie age of eighty years. His remains were brought to Canton and were deposited in the beautiful cemeter\- west of tiie city. William Raynolds. Jr.. Esq.. his Deputy Clerk and successor, was one of the most active of the business men and pioneer settlers, and was foremost in ever\' public enterprise ; liberal and generous, he commanded and enjoj'cd the esteem of all who knew him ; he died in 182!). at the age of forty years. B}- comparing dates, it will be seen that he was made Clerk of the Courts as soon as he was eligible. The President Judge, Hon. Calvin Pease, afterward Judge of the Supreme Court, came into the State about the time it was admitted into the Union, and settled in the County of Trumbull, where he continued to reside until his death, in 1841. He was an able lawyer and upright Judge, as all who knew him will bear witness. His repartee was so habitual that he could scarcely restrain it on the bench, even in pronouncing the opinion of the Supreme Court in banc, as the earlier volumes of the Oliio Reports occasionally show. The increasing population of the State and conse(jucnt increase of new counties rendered a corresponding increase of circuits and judges necessary-, and in 1810 Stark County was placed in a Judicial Circuit with Belmont, Jefferson, Tuscarawas and Columbiana, and on tiie 17th of April, 1810, court was held b^- Hon. Benjamin Iiuggles and the Associates. Judge Buggies continued on ttie circuit until October 10, 1815, when Hon. George Tod appeared as President Judge. Meanwhile, March 7, 1S12. John Harris had been elected an .Vssociate Judge in place of Thomas Latimer, and February 24. 1814. James Clarke in place of George Bair, and in 1815, August 7, John Hoover and Samuel Coulter were Associates. While Hon. George Tod was President Judge, he held court but one 3'ear in this count3- and with him was associated the late Hon. William Henry as one of the Associate Judges. Judge Henry came into what is now Stark County in 1807, immediately after that portion of the county kTiown as the new purchase," which is that portion west of the Tuscarawas River, and is included in the Treaty of Fort Industry made in 1805, was acquired by that treaty, and assisted in the surveys of the tenth, eleventh and Iwelftli ranges. After his term of service as Associate .Judge expired, he was elected to the House of Representatives in tlie State Legislature, and discharged his duty faithfully. After serving the people in that capacity, he went into busin(>ss as a merchant and was successful. On retiring from business, he removed to Wooster and resided there until his death.

Judge Tod was a profound lawyer, an eminent jurist, and left a record as an upright Judge of which no superior can be found in the State. The constant changes of county lines and the formation of new judicial circuits had bj- this time put Stark, Columbiana, Jefferson, Harrison and Tuscarawas into a circuit, and Hon, Benjamin Tappan was elected by the Legislature President Judge, who held the place for the full term of seven years, from 1810 to 1823, On leaving the bench, he published a volume known as Tappan's Reports, which adorns the shelves of lawyers' lil)raries all over the State. No mere sketch of his life here could do justice to him. It will only be when the lives of Ohio's eminent and truly great men shall be written that the name of Benjamin Tappan, the jurist and statesman, will have its proper place on the historic page, nor will any history of Ohio approximate correctness without it. During the President Judgeship of Tappan, the following gentlemen were his Associates : James Clark, of Sugar Creek, and Thomas Hurford and George Stidger, of Canton, all of whom were of the pioneer settlers and of a character and class to build up and improve the new country. Judge Clark was a farmer, and the others farmers and merchants, owning .some of the best and now the most valuable land in the county.

In 1823, Hon Jeremiah H. Hallock, of Steubenville, Jefferson County, was elected President Judge and re-elected in 1830, and served the two full terms of seven years each, during which periods the following gentlemen were As.sociate Judges ;

Peter Loutzenhiser, of Plain, and Jacob Miller, of Massillon, all of whom are dead save Judge Loutzenhiser, who now resides in Plain Township at his old homestead with the wife of his j'outh, both of whom have long since passed fourscore years, and are in the eninynu'iil of excellent health. Judge Hallock is renicnibered bj- the writer as a man of stern uprightness and Christian character, and as judge laid down his judicial robes as unsullied as when he first assumed them. Judge Stidger remained on the bench but a short time, when he resigned and was elected Clerk of the Court, which office he held for the constitutional term of seven years. The other gentlemen held their offices for the full term, except Judge Miller, who died in 1843, Iiefore his term of service expired ; they were all of the best men in the eount\' that could have been selected for the place, and those who survive them may point to their record with just pride.

During the seven years that succeeded Judge Hallock's term of service on the Common Pleas Bench in the Fifth Circuit - the Legislature having at the session of 1816-17 changed the number - was occupied by the late Hon. George W. Belden, with whom the writer became acquainted in the then village of Massillon in 1828, Mr. Belden being at that time a clerk in a store at that place, having left a printing office in Miildlebury. Portage, now Summit Count}' - the office of the Portage Journal, a weekly newspaper, edited by Messrs. Bowen & Mason. Mr. Bowen and Mr. Belden abandoned the " art preservative " about the same time, Mr. Bowen to study law, and commence practice at Marion, and was finally elected a Supreme Judge. Mr. Belden. after fulfilling his engagement in the store at Massillon, worked for a short time on the O/iio Rcpositori/. The writer well ii'iu<>mljers seeing him work off the paper im a Kamage press and also at work at case in that office. He commenced the stud}' of medicine and surgery, with Dr. Marlin Johnson, of Middlebury, and after perhaps a year's study, he abandoned that, and took \ip Blackstone and

Chitty, finished his studies and went into partnership with Hon. John Harris already referred to. While in that partnership, he was elected Prosecutiug Attorney, which office he held two terms, when he was elected President Judge, through the influence of Hon. D. A. Starkweather, then a prominent uiember of the Stark County bar. Judge Belden at rnce saw and realized the responsibility of his position. The bar of Stark County, in those days proverbial for its strengtii, had Harris, who was the Nestor of the brethren, having then been at the bar nearly twenty years ; Hon. Hiram (triswold, now of Leavenworth, Kansas ; Loomis & Lahm, Starkweather i& Jarvis. E. P. Grant, Samuel Pease, and many others referred to particularly hereafter, whose names adorn the Ohio, and Ohio State Reports, in addition to whom were lawyers from the neighboring circuits ; from Wooster, Hon. Edward Avery and Levi Cox, and many more whose names liaA'e passc^d from memory. In Columbiana, the late Judge C. D. Coffin, whose recent death at Cincinnati calls up memories of the early days of the bench and bar in the circuit. Brewer, Mason, W. D. Ewing and Russell. At Steubenville, the Brothers Collier, Wright. Goodenovv and Tappan ; at Cadiz, Harrison County, a bar at the head of which was the honored Chauncy Dewey, and W. B. Beebe ; at CarroUton, which became a count}' seat in 1832, Johnson, better known in Ohio now as Bill Johnson, since Judge of the Superior Court of Hamilton County ; John Pearce, since President Judge, and one of the most accomplished gentlemen and scholarly lawyers in the circuit, and Stanton, afterward the great war Secretary, who, although a resident of Steubenville, seldom tailed to be at CarroUton at court, while New Philadelphia, in Tuscarawas County, seemed to be a focal point at which the lawyers from the entire circuit, and also from the counties of Holmes. Coshocton and Muskingum, gathered, at the Common Pleas and Supreme Courts.

At tlie head of the Tuscarawas County bar was Joseph C Hanee. Esq., where he yet remains, honored and respected, the senior member of the bar in that ccuinty. With that array of talent and legal learning before him. ready to take exceptions to his rulings, did the youthful Judge enter upon his seven years of official duty. So youthful was his appearance that his official title seemed misapplied. He, however.

served the full term, and at the close of which, the bar of the circuit felt that he had discharged his dut\' faitlifully. He was succeeded h}' Hon. John Pearce. of Carrolllon. who took his seat as President Judge of the Fiftii Judicial Circuit in Stark County, April 15, 1844, and held the position until 1851; was then re-eiecti'(l and held until 1852. when the Judges elected under the present constitution of Olifo took their seats and the judicial system of Ohio underwent an entire change. Instead of a Common Pleas Court with four Judges, one learned in tlie law and three country gentlemen, the Common Pleas wa.< reduced to one Judge, who must l)e learned in tiie law, and instead of the Supreme Court meeting aiunially in each county, two out of the four judges composing the court, the Constitution provides for a District Court, that must be composed of three Judgos of the Common Pleas of the judicial district, and one Supreme Judge, any three of whom shall form a quorum, for the transaction of any business within the jurisdiction of the court.

During the terms of service I)V Judge Pearce from 1844 to January, 1852, Daniel Raflensperger was Clerk and Hon. Messrs. John W. Oreenwood, James S. Kelley. Samuel Schrantz. James Hazlitt, David Welker ami Tliomas Blackburn, the last of whom with Hon. Peter Loutzenhiser, already noticed, are all of the Associate Judges who remain in Stark County, as landmarks of the old Constitution of Ohio, and of the judicial system organized under its wise provisions.

At the first election for Judges under the new Constitution, adopted in 1851. Judge Belden was almost unanimously elected Common Pleas Judge of the first subdivision of the Ninth Judicial District, composed of the counties of Stark, Columbiana and Carroll ; he held the office about two-thirds of the term of five years, when he resigned and Hon. John Clarke, of New Lisbon, was appointed l)y Gov. Medill to fill the vacanc}- until the time for an election siiould arrive. On his resignation. Judge Belden returned to the bar and immediately went into a lucrative practice, in wliicli lie continued until his death in 18()!t. Asa lawyer, including all that is understood by the term. Judge Helden had few ecjuals and certainly no superior in this section of Ohio, and at his death left many warm friends who will ever cherish his name and meraorv.

At the expiration of Judge Clarke's term of service, which was at the election following his appointment, to till tlie vacancy, Hon. Lvman W. Potter, of New Lisbon, was nominated and elected for the full term. He held the office until some time in the year 185S, when he resigned and Hon. Jacob A, Ambler, of Salem, Columbiana County, was a[)pointed and held until the next annual election, when he was electe<l for the une.\pired term of Judge Potter, and in Octol)er, 1861, was elected for a full term of five years, when he was succeeded In' Hon. Joseph Frease, of Canton, who served two full terms. when he was succeeded by Hon. Seraphim Meyer, who is now closing his first term. Since the adoption of the present constitution of the State, the judicial force in several of the districts has been Increased b}' special acts of the Legislature. Tlie fii'st suixli vision of the Ninth District was authorized by special enactment to elect a Judge, and Hon, John W. Church, since deceased, was elected, and before his term of service expired the act was repealed. An increase of business in later j-ears rendered it again necessary for an increase of Judges for the district, and the Legislature re-enacted the former law. and Hon. Peter A, Laubie, of Salem, was elected and is now serving his second term of five years, he having the counties of Columbiana and Carroll, and Judge Meyer the county of Stark. Stark County may be said to have been favored in her Judges. Since the people have been authorized to elect, the wisdom of the provision in the constitution of 1851. allowing them to do so, has been fully justified by the selection of worthy men to fill all the judicial positions in the county. The wisdom of the measure was very much doubled, but with rare exceptions the result has been favorable, and few if anjwould be found to go back to the old mode of electing Judges, which was by the Legislature on joint ballot of the .'^enate and House of Representatives,

The .Vssociate Judges to whom reference has been made could come together as a '' Called Court," and attend all probate and testamentary business, appointing executors, administrators and guardians, and in that respect facilitatetl business which otherwise would have had to remain for the stated terms of the Court, Up to about 1845, the Supreme Conrt on the circuit had exclusive jurisdiction in divorce, when l)y act of the General Assembly the power to divorce was given to the Common Pleas. The Legislature also used to exercise the right to annul the marriage contract until Judge Read in a most able opinion in the Supreme Court in banc took the power aw.iy from that liody. These matters, having had the attention of the bench and bar of the State, are deemed worthy of a brief consideration here.

As already noticed, the first Court of Common Pleas was held on the 18th of April, 1809. The first case on the docket was that of James Pearce and others, plaintiffs, against Isaac Van Meter, defendant. The action was debt, $42 ; damages, $40. The law's delay was as apparent then as in later days, as judgment was not rendered until the April term, in 1810, when the plaiutitfs recovered against the defendant a judgment on default for $42 debt and $24.72 damages, and $9.77^ costs, $6 of which was a docket for the plaintifl^s' attorney. At the close of the entry on the appearance docket are the words, " and defendant in mercy," then follows : " Ca. sa. issued to August, 1810." In those days there was imprisonment for debt in Ohio, and whether the ca. sa. - cajnas ad satisfaciendum - was ever returned with the body of the defendant, the record does not show. Potter, supposed to be Horace Potter, of Columbiana, attorney for plaintiflTs, and Obadiah Jennings, of Jefferson County, for the defendant. The first term of the Court lasted just long enough to transact the following : " At a Court of Common Pleas, begun and held for the County of Stark," after reciting the time and place, " Ordered, that John Harris be appointed Clerk j'^o tempore to this Court until a permanent Clerk be appointed. Ordered, that Sampson S. King be appointed Prosecuting Attorney until a permanent appointment be made.

" James Leeper vs. Hamilton J. Hamilton. Bill in Chancery. This day came the plaintiff by his attorney, and the Court, on hearing the petition read. Ordered, that the pendency of this petition be published in the Western Herald, printed in Steubenville, and that a subpa'ua issue directed to John Cox of Brooke County, Virginia, returnable at the next terra, to be by him served on the defendant. Ordered, that the Court do now adjourn sine die.

this term a grand jurj', and the first in Stark County, was impaneled and William Nailor appointed foreman, "and the jur}- having received the requisite documents retired to their room." A " traverse " jury that had been summoned appeared, but, there being no business for them, they were discharged. Several journal entries were made occupying the time of the Court one day, including the labors of the Grand Jury, who " came into court and made no presentments." They returned an indictment in the case of the State of Ohio against George Stidger. indorsed " Not a True Bill."

This day came the plaintitf hy his attorney and thereupon came John Shorli, who acknowledged himself special biil in this case in the sum of $2-56, lo be levied of his gijods and chattels, lands and tenements, conditioned that the said George Thompson shall be and appear before the court at their December term next, and that if judgment be entered against him he will pay the debt and cost or render his body in execution.

The names of Jennings, Tappan, King, Mason, Edgington. Wright - Hon. J. C, afterward Supreme Judge - and Reddick, are the names of practicing law3'ers who appear of record on the first appearance docket of Stark Comity Common Pleas, and which contains all the appearances entered from the organization of the court to January 21. 1812. The journal of the court furnishes the names of man^- distinguished lawyers residing in neighboring counties, but the names of Roswell M. Mason and Sampson S. King are all who appear as tho.se of resident lawyers until after 1815.

The old Supreme Court of Ohio, who shall write its history and do it justice ? In preparing historical sketches of a single county, the history of the old Supreme Court from its organization would be out of place. So far as its labors in separate counties have become a part of the history ,of each county, a brief mention may be made.

On the adoption of the consti tu tion of 1 802,the Supreme Courtof Ohio consisted of three Judges, the Legislature having the power to increase the number to four, two of whom were required to hold court in every county, once in each year, the court was required b^- law to divide the

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State into two districts, tiie eastern and western, ancl tlie Judsjes were assijjned by agreement among tlicmselves to the districts, wliicii arrangement continued for many years and until tile Judges made other arrangements relieving each other, the court being constantly in session in some portion of the State, until the organization of the Supreme Court in banc, which was held at Columbus, by alltlie Judges. The twenty volumes of the Ohio Iteports are the result of the faithful labors of that body as a court in banc and which have made Ohio the -' Land of the Law." The Judges were elected for seven years, and from 1802 to 1851. almost a half century, the Supreme Court of Ohio not only commanded the respect of the bar of the State for the uniformity of its decisions, but of the neighboring States and the highest judicial tribunal in the laud, the Supreme Court of the United States. Over the expiring embers of the old Supreme Court of Ohio, in the year 1851, under the provisions of the new constitution, the present Supreme Court came into existence, and. while inadequate in point of numbers to meet the needs and demands of the State, - has vindicated its industrv in thirt3"-five well tilled volumes of Ohio State Reports. Of the old Supreme Court but three of the Judges yet remain ; the honored names of CoUett, McLean, Sherman, Pease. Burnett, Hitchcock. Wright, Lane, Grimke, Birchard. Reed, Wood, Spalding. Caldwell and Ranney, the last three of whom are the surviving members, will, with the names of those which may have Ijeen here overlooked, always grace the history of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and their memories ever be kindly cherished by the bar of the State. Most of the Judges above named have iield court in this count}- and are well remembered by the older members of the bar who yet remain after forty years' practice. Among the early members of the bar. in addition to those already named, is iiUther Blodgett, who went to Lawrence Co., Ohio, where he continued to reside and practice until his death.

In ISIG. in what was then a celebrated case, that of Moses Gleason againsf Nathaniel Skinner, an action to recover damages for uttering and publishing certain ma'icious, false and slanderous words of and concerning the plaintiff, was the first appearance of James W. Lathrop. He was associated with Mr., afterward. Judge Hallock. for the plaintiff; for the defendant, Wright and G-oodenow. In this case the late Gen. Samuel Stokelj'. also of counsel for the defendant, made his maiden speech, having just been admitted to practice. The slanderous words were, Moses Gleason is a thief, he stole my ha}' on the vvild meadows." In those daj-s the wild meadows in the northeastern part of Ferry Township were resorted to for hay. They were Govern uient lands, and people, especially -'new comers ' who had not been able to clear up their own land and raise food for their cattle in winter, relied on them, Mr, Skinner had cut and cocked up several tons of hay, some of which was taken, an<l he charged Gleason with the larceny. I'roni the well known ability of the counsel employed, the case must have been most ably tried. In the list of witnesses appear the names of Thomas A. Drayton, Aaron Chapman. Nathaniel Ray, Edward Nelson. Matthew Macy, Alexander Johnson, and many others whose names appear also among the pioneer settlers of Perry and Jackson Townships.

From 1811) to ISL'it. the bar of Stark County did not increase rapidly in numbers. As nearly as can be ascertained, John Harris. Loorais & Metcalf, James W. Lathrop, Almon Sortwell, who died in 1840, David A. Starkweather, Sanders Van Rensselaer and Hiram Griswold composed the number, all of whom, except Mr. Griswold, have passed away. Messrs. Loomis & Metcalf graduated together from the same college, the Union College, of Schenectady, New York : selected law as a profession, were admitted to practice at the same time, formed a partnership, and came to Canton, where the}' practiced as i)artners for many years, when Metcalf moved to Pittsburgh, and Loomis to New Lisbon, the partnership still continuing, the Ohio branch being under the control of Mr. Loomis, and the Pittsburgh branch managed by Mr. iMetcalf. Mr. Loomis continued to practice in Stark County for many years, and when the late Gen. Samuel Lahm came to the county, he at once formed a partnership with Mr. Loomis, which lasted for several years, and until .Mr. Loomis joined his life-long friend and partner in Pittsburgh. The firm of Loomis & Metcalf continued until dissolved l)y the death of Mr. Metcalf Mr. Jioomis continued in practice at Pittsburgh for many years, and finally removed Ut Cleveland, where he died a few vears since. He was a man uf rare ability and learning, and commanded the respect of tlie bench and bar in all the courts in which he practiced, including the Supreme Court of the United States. During his residence at New Lisbon, he was elected to Congress to fill an unexpired term, and after that election steadily refused all political preferment. Mr. Van Rensselaer was of the family of that name in the State of New York, a gentleman of fine attainments, but did not remain in the practice after 1829. Mr. Lathrop, whose name appears more prominently in the sketches of the State S3'stem of Common Schools, was prominent as a lawyer until January, 1828, when, as will be remembered, lie died at Columbus, daring his term of service as Representative in the State Legislature.

In the year 182!l, Hon. Hiram (iriswold. above referred to. was admitted to practice at Bucyrus. in Crawford County, after the proper course of study with the late Hon. Van R. Humphrey, of Hudson, then in Portage County, now in Summit. On coming to Canton, Mr. firiswold at once took a prominent place at the bar, and largely enjoyed the confidence of the people of the county, from whom, had he remained in the county, he could have had an}- political preferment from the county or Congressional District. About the year 1852, he removed to Cleveland, where he was at once elected to the State Senate, but not feeling satisfied with his prospects there, removed, after a few years, to Leavenworth. During his residence m this county, he was Reporter for the Supreme Court of Ohio six years, and came within one or two votes of being elected L'nited States Senator, at the time of the late Senator Wade's first election to that body. During his long and active practice, he has always ably sustained himself.

About the time Mr. Griswold settled in Canton, Luther L. Foote. Esij.. a young lawyer and scholarly gentleman, came to the tlien little village of Massillon, the ground plat of which, but three years before, was covered with the leafy honors of the forest, and opened an office. He was a graduate of Yale. He, however, did not, nor could succeed as a lawyer, and left to seek fresh fields and pastures new " In the Sunn}' South, since which time it is not known that he has been heard of by anybody in this county. In 1831. Gen. Dwight Jarvis, who had, in 1822, finished his professional studies at Canton, and located in Athens. Athens County, Ohio, returned to Canton, and formed a partnership with Mr. Starkweather which firm almost iramediatelj- took the lead in the business of the county. Mr. Jarvis was one of the most careful managers of the details of the business of a law office that has over been in the county, while Mr. Starkweather, fond of his ease and a fox-hunt, would have Mr. Jarvis prepare the cases, and he, Mr. S., would try them. This firm lasted eleven years, until the spring of 1842, when the late Hon. Alexander Bierce became a member of the partnership, its style being Starkweather, Jarvis & Bierce. Mr, Bierce had been in practice in Massillon near three years, when he was tendered an equal partnership in the old established firm, and continued a member until 1848, when the senior partners withdrew from practice, and a partnership was formed by Mr. Bierce and Hon. Anson Pease, of Massillon. which continued twenty-four years, when it was dissolved by the death of Mr. Bierce, ot whom it may be well said, " he icijs a laim/er." Few men who practiced in the courts of Ohio ever commanded more attention than did Alexander Bierce. He was a man of fine analytical mind, unyielding integrity. and a thorough .knowledge of the law applicable to his cases, he was rarely o\'erruled in the Supreme Court, as the reported cases in which he was of counsel fully show. The respect entertained for him by his brethren of the bar was exhibited by one of the largest bar meetings ever held in the court house, at the time of his death, at which resolutions of a most complimentary character were passed, and spread in the journal of the court.

Among the members of the Stark County bar who have gone hence, none are remembered in more kindness than Hon. David A. Starkweather. From the year 1827 to the last day of his residence in Stark County, near forty years, it can safely be said of him he never had an enemy. Always a Democrat of the straightest sect, ttie bitterness of parties in the heated canvass of 1828 and 1832, did not disturb his private friendships. On the occasion of his death, one of the city papers at Cle^eland contained the following notice. As it was written by a gentleman always politically opposed to him, its magnanimity is but the more

The Hon. David A. Slarkwciulnr. fatlur in-law of till' Hon. A. T. Bvinsniadc. died at tlie hitter's residence. No. 768 Cusleail Avenue. yest( rdiiy morning after liaving been entirely lielple.'^s for a year past from a paralytic stroke.

Mr. Starkweather formerly lived in Stark County, and was a genlleman long and well known throughout the State, having been quite prominent in the profession of the law and in politics. For three successive terms he was a meinlier of the State IjCgislature and also spent two terms in the State Senate, with honor to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents. He also represented the Stark County District in CniiLirev. fcir two terms, and while tliere greatly di-tinuui-lnil himself. One of the most notalile of hi- m r\ in - ulule there was his speech upon the Oregon (^notion, which lirought out the warmest personal commendations from John Qtiincy Adams. He w as selected liy President Pierce in 18o4, as Miinster Plenipotentiary to Chili, and served there with the same distinguished honor noticed in other positions. He retired from the practice of the law some time since and has of late been residing with his daughter. The only children left by the deceased are Mrs. Hrinsniade and Hamilton Starkweather, of Oregon. He leaves one In-other ii\ New York, and the late Judge Starkweather was a cousin.

In politics, the decea.sed was a Democrat, having been President of two State Democratic Conventions, and in 18.32, acting as President of the National Convention of the party.

Mr. Starkweather must have been admitted to the bar as earlj' as 1825. when he opened an ofiiee in Mansfield, and practiced there with marked success, until he came to this county, which was his final residence, except the period of his illness at Clcvehind. AVhen the lirm of Starkweather. Jarvis & Bierce was dissolved, Mr. Jarvis. who during his residence at Canton, had married Miss Frances I'phain. of Clarcmont. N. II., removed to Massillon where lie died Februaiy 14. 1803. aged sixty-six. I>uring his residence at Massillon, he was elected Major General of the Sixth Division of Ohio Militia, having been Brigade Inspector with tiie rank of Major during the early days of Ocn. Joiui Augustine. He was a gentleman of decided military taste, in politics a Federalist and ardent admirer of Jay. Hamilton, and the Federal leaders of Revolutionary times, and as earnest in his dislike of Jeflersoii and the Hepiiblican leaders, as they were called. As a lawyer he maintained a good reptttation always, until age compelled him to seek that Blest retirement, ti'iend of life's decline. " which with

Among other members of the bar of Stark County, whose names adorn her dockets and briefs through a period of nearly thirty 3-ears, and which will be found in the files as frequently as that of almost any one from 1835 to 1855, is that of the late Hon. Samuel Pease, who came to Massillon in November, 1831, opened an office and succeeded, as a lawj'er. a Juris consu/l and pleader. As an advocate to a jury he never sought celebrity. In the social circle he had few ecjuals and was fond of personal comfort. He died in 18G7. at the age of 05. surviving his wife but a few j-eai's.

There was also among the old members of the bar, who took his place in the profession long prior to IS-J(I, the late Hon. James P. Brown, and also (ien. Samuel Lahm. Mr. Brown was from the State of New York, and Gen. Lahm from the State of Maryland. They were prominent in the profession, Mr. Brown having been fretpiently elected Prosecuting Attorney, as was (ien. Lahm, who also represented this district in Cotigress, and the Senatorial District in the (Miio Senate, and the county in the House of Representatives. He was a man of untiring energy in everything he undertook. He left the bar and went to farming, owning many hinidred broad acres between Canton and Massillon, which he cultivated successfully. He died in ^lav, 1870, at his residence in Canton.

Mr. Brown was an industrious, earnest laborer at the bar, and continued until just before or during the war of the rebellion, when he removed to Omaha, Nelnaska. where he died on the 1st day of July, ISSO, aged seventy years. He was a son-in law of Hon. John Harris. The remains of both repose in Canton Cemetery. Harris it Brown had been a law firm in Canton for many years, and in active practice, and in the fitness of things their final resting place is near the scene of their struggles and successes.

Of those who practii'cd in the courts of Stark county prior to l.'s40. but one remains, either at the bar or on the bench. On looking around the bar at a term of court, none of tlie old faiuiliar faces are to be seen. Not one '

" They arc no longer licre ; they are all gone Into tiie land of shadows - all save one. Honor and reverence and the good repute That follows faithful service as its fniit Be unto him whom living we salute."

Tlie reader of these sketches, accjuainted with Hon. ^erapliira Meyer. Jtidge of the Common Pleas Court of Stark County, and ex officio Judge of the District Court of Ohio, need not be told that it is he to whom reference is made. In 1828, a few weeks after navigation was opened on the Oiiio canal to Massillon. a family of immigraats from the Department of Upper Alsace, in the tiicn Kingdom of France, arrived at the little village which was the southern terminus of internal navigation of the State ; of that family Judge 3[eyer was a son. The family remained at .Massillon, or rather at Kendall, for the two hamlets were not then, as now, one and indivisible, about twelve days, when they removed to Canton, where they have remained.

In 1838, Mr. Meyer was admitted to practice l)y the Supreme Court on the circuit at Springfield, in the county of Clark, and at once opened an office in Canton. Being master of the fterman and French languages, as well as a fine Iwllcy /p?/jy,v scholar, and an intensely close student, he has attained a standing at the bar as a lawyer and on tiie bench as a judge that commands the respect of the district embracing the counties of Stark, Carroll and Columbiana, Portage, Trumbull and Mahoning, and Lake, (Icauga and Ashtabula, to all of which counties, as a l)istrict Judge, his official duties call him. rUiring his practice at the bar, he was a member of the firms of Dunbar & Meyer, Brown & Meyer, and Meyer & Manderson. On the breaking-out of the war of the rebellion. Judge Meyer's two sons did not wait to be called on for the military service of the country ; they volunteered immediately, and remained in the service until the close of the war, when they returned, bearing upon their persons evidence of their courage in the shape of honorable scars, the result of wounds received in many well-fought battles. One son, (len. E. S. Mej'er, has been remembered by President Garfield, in the appointment of Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and the other is the senior partner in the well-known law firm of Meyer & Piero, at Canton. For their distinguished services to the country, they will ever l)e gratefully remembered. When the One Hundred and Seventh Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry was raised, Judge Meyer, then Prosecuting Attorney of Stark County, resigneil, and accepted the command of the regiment, and its history from the day it marched from Camp Cleveland to the day it was mustered out of the service, Jul}' 10, 18(35, attests its bravery and its service to the country, especially at Chancellorsville and (jrettysburg. He who would learn its history, almost written in the blood of the gallant men of whom it was composed, should read ' Ohio in the War." No Ohio regiment furnishes a more terrible record of its slaughter, or one of more distinguished gallantry. Col. Meyer, after severe sickness and suffering, was compelled to resign on the 8th of February, 18fi4, and returned to his home in Canton, and was for a long time unfit even for the lightest labors in his profession. On regaining sufficient healtli and strength, he resumed practice, formed a partnership with Gen. C. F. Manderson, and at the dissolution of which, engaged with his son, C. T. jMeyer, Esq., which continued until he assumed the duties of the judgeship, in Jaimary, 1877.

In 1839, Hon. H. B. Hurlbut, thenayounggentleinan just entered the profession, came to Masillon from Cleveland, and opened an office. Active and energetic, he soon acquired a paying business, and " gathered gear." After Judge Underhill came to the bar, Messrs. Hurlbut & Underhill formed a partnership. After the dissolution of which, about the year 1845, Hon. D. K. Cartter removed to Massillon from Akron, and there was a partnership formed immediately between him and Mr. Hurlbut, by the style of Cartter & Hurlbut, which lasted until Mr. Cartter was elected to Congress, this district being then composed of Stark and Wajne Counties, and that partnership was dissolved. Meanwhile, Hon. Arvine C. Wales, " a native of Stark Count}-, and to the manner born." was admitted to practice with the most flattering prospects, and a partnership was formed bj- the style of Hurlbut & Wales. Mr. Hurlbut, who had continued to " gather gear," had gone into banking largelj- with the late Dr. Isaac Steese, Joseph J. Brooks and Sebastian Brainerd, Esqs., of Massillon, all of whom have passed " into the land of shadows," and he withdrew from practice and removed to Cleveland, where he has since been engaged in hanking and railroad en- terprises with tliu habitual success that has always attended his efforts. Judge Cartter is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Ijeiiitr apjiointcd thereto hx President Lincoln twt'uty vcars since.

Judge Cartter came to Stark County a Democrat ; as such was elected and re-elected to Congress ; when his Congressional terms expired, he returned to his constituency without any political atfiliations tliat placed him in unity with either AVhigs or Democrats. On the formation of the Republican party, he became an active member. Having, meanwhile, removed to Cleveland, he was appointed a delegate to the Chicago Convention, and claims the honor of President Lincoln's nomination l)y that body. Mr. Wales resides at his Spring Hill farm, just outside of the city limits of Massillon, a scientific and practical farmer ; is President of the Stark County Agricultural Society, and an active member of the State Board of Agriculture. He always has a generous welcome for all who call on him. In public life, he has served the people of this Senatorial district - theTwenty-lirst, composed of Stark and Carroll Counties - for the unexpired term of Gen. B. F. Potts, appointed Governor of Montana Territory, and the full succeeding term.

Among the lawyers of Stark County, of fifty years since, was William Bryce, Hs(i. In 1826. he was a stone-cutter, and cut much of the stone work of the " Fulton I^oek," on the Ohio Canal. He concluded, on finishing his job. that he could do better as a special pleader tium in cutting stone on the public works, and entered an otflce in Canton as a student. He put in many years of close study, but finally succeeded in reaching the goal of his ambition, which was his admission to the courts of Ohio as an attorney and counselor at law and solicitor in chancery. His briefs were " few and far between." He tried politics and was elected Recorder of the County for one term, which ended his official labors. His last ajipearance in court was as plaintiff to secure compensation or commissions for having been employed to sell patent steam gauges. He has been dead many years.

Among the memtjers of the bar forty-five years ago. should be m('utioned Klijaii P. Grant, a most accomplished lawyer and scholar, a profound thinker and believer in a re-organization of society by which great and lasting l)enefits should accrue to mankind. In the pursuit of his theory, based upon the doctrines of Fourier and other socialists, he expended a fortune and many years of valuable time, and died in the city of Canton a few years since. He was a gentleman of many genial qualities, and will always be kindly remembered. Among the lawyers of the Stark County bar, prior to lS4ti, was Benjamin F. Leiter. During iiis practice, he was of the firms of IJeldon & Leiter, Leiter & Pool and Leiter & Treat, and at one time with Edward L. Carney, Esq.; was editor of the StarL- ('iiiiiit// Democrat. Mr. Leiter came to Canton from the State of Maryland, before the organization of union schools, and taught school in the winter ; worked as a common laborer in the summer ; was elected a Justice of the Peace ; got some ideas of law, and studied with Gen. Sanniel Lahm ; was elected to the Senate and House of Representatives of Ohio, and was Speaker of both branches. In 1854 and 1856, he was elected to Congress, as a member of the American party or K. N.'s. Ou the breakiug-oul of the war, he entered into the Union cause with energy ; hail two sous in the army, one of whom was killed in battle, the other making an honoralile record. i>h-. Leiter dieil a few years ago at his residence in Canton. On the Ineakingout of the war, Mr. Treat at once went into the service, since which he has not returned to Canton, nor is it known what became of him. Mr. Pool removed to Cleveland, anil went into the army, and now resides in New York City, and is engageil in banking. Of the older members of the bar who commenced their professional life in this county next to Judge .Meyer, are Hon. Louis Schaefer. of Canton, and Robert II. Folger, of Massillon. They were examined and admitted together on the 1st day of March. ISH'. at New Lisbon, liythe Sui)reme Court, then on the circuit, J.,ane and Wood. J. J., holding the term. Mr. Schaefer was born on the 25th of December, 1815. in Arrondisscmcnt of Sarragusmines. Department de la Mosselle. now llio i!c|iul)lic of France, arrived in tiie city of I'liiladelpliia June 7, 1830. in Stark County September following ; has lived in Canton since 18:51. Commenced the study of the law with (Jriswold tVc tirant, March, 1840. the two years of study required by law having expired on the day he was admitted. Mr. Folger was born in Chester Co., Penn.,on the 1 llh of January, 1812, and came to Kendal, now the Fourth

Ward or the city of Massillon, with his parents in 1813, and lived there until February 4, 182S, when the famil}' removed to Massillon where he has resided ever since, and should he and Mr. Schaefer be favored to keep within " this mortal coil " until March 1, 1882, they will have been at the bar of Stark County and in practice forty years. Mr. Folger commenced his professional studies in the office of Samuel Pease, where he remained until November, 1841, when he went into the office of Gen. D wight Jarvis, and completed his studies. Next in the order of time is Hon. James W. Underhill, admitted near the close of the year 1842, and went into practice at Massillon where he remained until elected Probate Judge, which he held by re-election four terras, having flrst served one term in the House of Representatives of the State Legislature. He was a member of several partnerships in addition to the firm of Hurlbut & Underhill ; during his residence in Massillon he was of the firm of Folger & Underhill. and Keith & Underhill, and since his retirement from the Probate Judgeship, has been in partnership with John Lahm, Esq. Being much eng.aged in railroad building, he is devoting little time to the law. Among the young men who came to the bar in the early forties and opened offices in Massillon, were F. M. Keith, from Lorain County, who came in 1840 and formed a partnership with Hon. S. Pease, and the firm, while it lasted, enjoj'ed a successful practice ; George Miller, a son of Hon. Jacob Miller, Associate Judge ; Leavitt L. Bowen and David M. Bradshaw. On the dissolution of the firm of Pease & Keith, Keith and Miller at once formed a partnership and i-emained together until the death of Judge Miller compelled a dissolution to enable Mr. Miller to look after the estate. Mr. Miller was a 3'oung gentleman of education, a graduate of Jefferson College Penn., and excellent native ability, and could he have lived and devoted his time to the law, would have taken a high rank in the profession ; he served one terra in the Legislature and died, suddenly, in 1850. at the age of thirty-five. On the dissolution of the firm of Keith & ^Miller, a partnership was formed by Messrs. Keith & Bowen, but the changes were so rapid that it is not certain how long this firm lasted. When Mr. Bradshaw came to Massillon, he and Bowen formed a partnership by the style of Bradshaw & Bowen. On the dissolution of which Messrs.

Bradshaw and Wales formed a partnership which was dissolved by the death of Mr. Bradshaw in 1852. Mr. Keith removed to White Cloud, Kan., before the war and on the breaking-out of hostilities, entered the service and rose to the rank of Colonel ; at the clo.se of the war he returned to his practice in Doniphan Co., Kan.

Among the gentlemen of the bar in Stark County, against whose names the -' fatal asterisk of death is set," is that of Hon. William K. Upham. Mr. Uphara was a native of Vermont, a son of Senator Upham, and came to New Lisbon about the year 1843. and after practicing law there several years,, removed to Canton ; he was a distinguished lawyer, distinguished in all that is included in the term. As is now recollected, he died in 1807, while attending court in Malioning Countj'. Out of respect for his memory, the bar of Stark County erected a beautiful marble monument over his remains in Canton Cemetery.

Mr. Bowen, on his di.ssolving with ^Ir. Bradshaw. went first to Omaha. Neb., and after a few 3'ears' residence there went to Denver, Colo., in its early days, where, with him, " life's fitful fever " ended.

Another lawyer who, in a comparatively early day. was a meml)er of the Stark County bar, was Col. Lyman Huraphre}'. a resident first of Deerfield, whence he removed to Marlborough, studied with Hon. H. (iriswold, and had he commenced early in life, would have succeeded in the profession as he was above what is termed the average man, intellectually, and by education. His son, Hon. Lyman U. Huraphrey, on the 1st of January, 1881, closed his second term as Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, and is now engaged in a successful law practice in that State. After the war, in which he bore a conspicuous and honorable part, he went West ; the respect entertained for him by the citizens of his native count}' is kindly and affectionately reciprocated. A later addition to the death roll of Stark Count}' lawyers is found in the names of Horace P. Dunbar, Esq., of Canton, and James Harsh, Esq., of Massillon. Mr. Dunbar studied and was adraitted at Canton, where he opened an office, and continued in practice until 1861, when he surrendered to the " King of Terrors." Mr. Dunbar was one of the raost agreeable gentlemen at the bar, of a high sense of honor in practice ; he will, for his urbanit}' and agreeable, social intercourse, be remembered as a gentle- man with whom it was pleasant to be associated. Mr. Harsii was a native of Massillon, studied Lis profession in Fiiidlay, Hancock Co., wiiern be married Miss O'Neill and l)ecame a memlier of the firm of O'Neill, Blackford & Harsh. After remaining at Findlay a few years after admission to the bar. he came to his old home to engage in practice. He had been snl)ject to hemorrhage ol' the lungs which was increased while in the army, where he served as Captain, and death followed a sudden attack in 1870. He was about forty \-ears of age at his death, and gave promise of great usefulness as a lawyer. He was an only son of Hon. George Harsh, of Massillon.

In 1844, Hon. AiLson Pease, who had studied with K. H. Folger mo.st of the time required by law. receivcil his certificate of admission to the bar and at once opened an otHce at Massillon, where iie has remained in active practice. For twentj'-four out of the thirty-seven years that have elapsed since he commenced as an attorney and counselor at law, he was a partner of the firm of Bierce & Pease, then of Pease & Ricks, and now Pease & Baldwin. Mr. Pease was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1874, serving on important committees in that body, and commanding the respect of the members. In 1847, John Lahra, Es(i., now a resident of Canton, took his place among the lawyers of the county, and has faithfully kept it through the third of a century that has since elapsed, commanding the respect of the court and his brethren as well as the confidence of his clients. Three years of the time since Mr. Lahm came to the bar, he served as Clerk of the courts, to the entire acceptance of the bench and bar, all of whom entertain most pleasant recollections, not only of his urbane and gentlemanly deportment, but of the skill and ability with which he discharged the duties of the ofiicc.

In 1851, Hon. Joseph Frease. who had lived in the county from l)oyhood, came from Sugar Creek Township, to the liar, having studied, as is now remembered, with Hon, Hiram (Jriswold. In a few \'ears he was elected Prosecuting Attorney, After serving one term in that position, he was elected and re-elected Common Pleas Judge, and was succcedeil at the annual election in 1876, hj- Hon. S. Meyer, the present incumbent. Excepting the time Judge Frease was on the bench, he has enjoyed an active practice and in his official, professional and personal relations, has always commanded the esteem and confidence of the community. As a Judge, he was ever courteous and conservative, and the records of the superior judicial tribunals of Ohio, will show as few reversals of his decisions as of any judge who has filled that position. He is now in active practice, the senior member of the firm of Frease <.^ Case. Another prominent member of the bar during his residence in this county, was Hon. William Dunbar, who practiced successfully in the courts of the State. .\ portion of the time during his residence in this county, he was senior member of the firm of Dunbar & .Meyer, after the dissolution of which firm he removed to Mount \'ernon, Knox Co,, Ohio. He came to the bar about 1 84:-i.

About the same time Hon. Thomas (Joodman, now a respected citizen of Chicago, was admitted to practice but paid little attention to the law. Fire Insurance being a subject to which he had devoted much careful study, he sought a wider field in which to labor and has met with success. Among the Judges of the Ninth Judicial District who have honored Stark County Common Pleas and District Courts by their presence, the names of Hon. .^Iessrs. Day, Hitchcock, Belden, Conant, Hotl'raan, Tuttle, Taylor, the two brothers, Horace and I']li T. Wilder, Potter. Chaffee, Church, Woodbury, CanHold, Ambler, Clark, Lauliie, Lee, Frease, Meyer, .Vrren, Sherman. Spear, will ever be held in kind remembrance by the brethren of the bar of Stark County, who in triumph or defeat have appeared before them. Among the early transcripts from Justices' dockets on file in the Court of Common Pleas, is one of which the following is an extract. " This day came the said parties, and the defendant being unruly and noisy, was ijy the court ordered into silence, when he replied, profanely taking the name of l!od in vain, whereupon he was by the court ordered into the custody of the Constable, and becoming more noisy and profane, he was fined 25 cents, and on his swearing by the second person in the Trinity, was by the court fined 5(1 cents, whereupon hefioddamti all the Constables in the township of Sugar Creek, and was by the court fined 75 cents, when he hecame so disorderly as to (lod dam all the Justices of the Peace in the township, and this court in particular, for which he was fined SI, making a total sum of $2.25, and on refusing to pa}' the same, execution was issued therefor which was delivered to the Constable, who returned tlie same in due time unsatisfied, for want of goods and chattels whereon to levy. It is ' surmised,' however, that the defendant has lands and tenements sulyect to lev}- and sale on execution." In those days and under an entry stating that it was suggested that the defendant had lands and tenements subject to levy and sale on execution, the Common Pleas was authorized to issue a iSritr Facins, and bring the defendant into court, and if he was not found on the issuing of the first, a second one was issued, and if returned "nihil" the plaintiff" was entitled to an execution for the Justices judgment and costs.

On another occasion, the writer, in the course of his practice, had occasion to meet Mr. James B. Craig, then a young gentleman, just admitted, before the same justice, and when it was common to classify actions under the nomenclature of the English Common Law, such as assumpsit, debt and covenant. This was known as an iiidchitatiiii Ksaumjisit, for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiflf made out his case and rested, when Mr. Craig, now Gen. Craig, of Missouri, on the part of the defendant, moved for a nonsuit, and argued his motion at lensith ; the plaintiffs counsel followed, and Mr. Craig closed the argument, whereupon the Justice decided the motion " thusly : " " Well, gentlemen, you have argued this motion with tact, wit, ingenuity and pathos, but the motion is overruled. If the defendant has any proof, let's have it." On Mr. Craig saying he had no proof to offer, the Justice at once rendered judgment for the plaintiff', saying he thought there had been a d - d sight of fooling over it, and that it was about time to stop it. The case was tried in Tuscarawas County, to which the Justice had removed. Mr. Craig shortly afterward removed to Jlissouri, has been a member of Congress, and during the war rose to the rank of Brigadier General ; he was a man of more than ordinary force of character.

The township of Sugar Creek is entitled to honorable mention for having furnished a member of the Stark County bar, who, althongh he seldom appeared in the higher courts, was nevertiieless a gentleman of much force of character, and commanded respect. Reference is had to Henry W, Stambaugh, Esq., who, after serving many years as a Justice of the Peace, was admitted to practice by the old Supreme Court on the Circuit of Canton. He was a brother of the late Hon. David W. Stambaugh, a prominent member of the Ohio bar in Tuscarawas County, and Senator from the Third District at the time of his deatii, a few years since.

Among the .young gentlemen who have come to the bar, and passed away under the dispensation of the war of the rebellion, no one deserves more honorable mention tlian Frank Spalter, who, in September, 18,'i8, entered the office of Hon. Louis Schaefer, in Canton, as a student, of whom Mr. Schaefer says, " he was a man of superior intellect and acquirements, having a finished French, German and English education." He had been book-keeper for the well-known house of Sharpless & Sons, Philadelphia. He remained in Mr. Schaefer's office two years, and was admitted to practice at CarroUton, the late Hon. William K. Upham being of the examining committee, and who remarked, after the examination, " That boy knows more about the elementary books than does the whole committee. "

After his admission, Mr. Spalter opened an office in Canton, and continued until 1861, when he was one of the first to enlist, and was killed in the battle at Petersburg, Va., in 18C3. He was a native of Berlin, now the capital of the German Empire, and arrived in the United States in 185(i ; politically, he was a thorough Abolitionist, and exhibited his faith by pouring out his life's blood in the cause of human rights. Mr. Schaefer was his friend and patron, and with characteristic benevolence aided him all through his studies, '- without fee or reward, or the hope thereof" a generosity that was well timed, as Frank was without a surplus of this world's goods then. Of the judges named in the foregoing list. Judges Potter, Church, Belden and Canfield have gone to their final account, as has Judge Pearce, of the old organization.

Canton. - Hon. S. Meyer, Judge, Messrs. Frease & Case (this firm is composed of Hon. Joseph Frease and F. E. Case), A. D. Braden, J. J. Parker, J. P. Fawcett, A. C. Hiner, George E. Baldwin, and Robert S. Shields, of the firm of

Baldwin & Shields, Louis Schaefer, and Louis >f. Schaefer. linn of SchaofcM' & Son, Peter Chance, Anihonv House), {'. 1{. Miller, John M. .Myers. Will Wynn, William A. Lynch, William H. May. and Austin Lynch, composing the firm of Lynch. Day & Lynch, Turenne C. Meyer, and William J. Piero. firm of Meyer & Piero, Joim Laiim, ,J. \V. Cnderhill. F. W. Bond, Charles C. Tpham, K. K. Russell. Julius Whiting, Jr., L. M. Jones, IL H. Spencer, Henry A. Wise, Hon. William McKinley, member of Congress, .Miner McKinley, Allen A. Carnes, T. f . McCarly. J. S. Hudson. H. F. Faust. H. W. Harter, Prosecuting Attorney, Stark County, William W. Clark, and James J. Clark, firm of W, W. & J. J. Clark. A. W. Hildenhrand, Prohate Judge. G. W. Raff, Col. I*. S. Sowers, and John C. Mong.

MassiUoii. - Anson T'ease and F. L. Baldwin, firm of Pease & Baldwin, R. H. Folger and John 0. Oarrett. firm of Folger & Garrett, L. C. Cole. Mayor of the city, and Robert W. Mc- Caughey, firm of Cole & McCaughey. Isaac Ulman, Kugcne G. Willison, Robert .\. Pinn, Otto V,. Young, William McMillan and Anilrew C. Robertson.

Allimuc. - Haryey Laughlin. Amos Burden, A. L. Jones ; these gentlemen may be classed as the oldest lawyers in Alliance, having been at the bar thirty-seven, thirty-two and twentj'- seven years respectively, and are gentlemen who command respect, all having held ofticcs of trust and profit, and are prominent in the profession. The rest of the members of the bar in that flourishing city are James Amerman. Samuel F. Rsseck. David Fording, William C Pippitt. .1. M. Harrison. James A. Coulter. .\. B. Hoover. Jndson D. Lewis, James C. Stanley. >L M. King.

Since the organization of the county, there have been many who have entered the profession, and opened oHices in various portions of the county, but not succeeding, have gone, some into other professions, and of some it may be written : profession in this county at comparatively a late dat(! is Gen. Charles F. Manderson, and whom Stark County regards one of her own sons. Mr. Manderson, in lS(i(). in March, was admitted to practice at Ravenna, Portage County, after having studied with Hon. Lewis Schaefer and the late Hon. William K. Upham. On tile breaking-out of the war in 1861, in April, ,Mr. Manderson entered the army as a Lieutenant in Compan3^ A, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Col. Samuel Beatty, and continued in the service until 1H()5, having risen to the rank of Brigadier General of \o\- unteers, for meritorious services. He immediately formed a partnership with Col. Meyer, the firm being Meyer & Manderson, which lasted until October, 18()!1, when the firm was dissolved, and (ien. Manderson removed to Omaha. Neb., where he now resides, in a successful practice.

In 181G. the old court house of Stark County was received from the architect and builder by the Commissioners, and without ceremony, so far as can be ascertained, dedicated to the uses for which it was erected. Those who have seen the court houses at New Philadelphia and Millersburg can form an adequate idea of the buildings erected as temples of justice in the early days of Ohio, The people builded. as well as they knew, they were willing to be taxed all that they could bear, and the old court house was a fair specimen of the public buildings in Ohio, including the old State House, at Columbus, and the Cnited States court house for the District of Ohio, also at Columbus, which will be remembered as having stood in front of th»> first Neil House. A view of the last-described buildings will be found in Howe's Historical Collections, and the old Slate House, as there represented, is strikingly like our old court house. With all its imperfections, it has pleasant memories. Within its walls, the old members of the bench and bar named in these sketches, who have gone to the promised land," achieved a reputation that will last while words are preserved. In that old building, the first death penalty in Stark County was pronounced, the case being The State of Ohio cs. (Christian Bachtel, the indictment in which was prosecuted by Messrs. Starkweather & Jarvis, the defense being managed by Messrs. John Harris and Orlando Metcalf. Few remain who witnessed that trial.

Forty-eigiit years have passed into the great ocean of time, bat tlie circumstance is not forgotten, too sadly liave recent similar events refreshed the mem or \- of the long past. The old building has gone ; it onlj' graces the page of history. In 1867, Oen. Ed F. Schneider, a member of the bar. and Senator from this district, and who died in the city of Berlin, the seat of govfrnraent ot the German Empire, while making a tour of Europe, procured the necessary legislation to enalile the Commissioners of the county to build a new court house. The Commissioners at once took the necessary steps, the work was let to contractors, and finished for occupation at the February term of the Common Pleas Court, A. D. 1870. The taking possession of the noble structure, the gathering together of a large number of the citizens of the county, the presence of distinguished members of the bar from neighboring counties, among whom were Hon. John McSweeny, of Wooster. and Hon. J. T. Brooks, of Salem, all tended to clothe the occasion with uncommon interest. The proceedings of the court and bar on that occasion will be found in the chapter on the organization of the county.

DIVINITY, Law and Medicine are institutions that characterize civilized society. They constitute the foundation upon which the distinctive features of our superstructure rest. The heathen has his religion ; the barbarian, a law unto himself, and the savage, a crude idea the healing art ; but what are known and recognized as the /ciinicd professions, exist only among enlightened nations.

In the beginning, the first of these most likely called into requisition, was that of medicine. The " accidents by flood and Held," and the '- ills that flesh is heir to," must be met and treated. How successfully, would depend upon the progress made bj* observation and experience. In the early settlement of Stark County, the inhabitants were in a measure thrown upon their own resources for the means whereby to relieve suflfering humanity. The first case of sickness and death that occurred in the county was that of James Culbertson, in the fall of 1805. He was in the employ of James F. Leonard, surveyor and land jobber, as an assistant, and his duties consisted mainly in helping about camp, procuring food, cooking, and aiding to show emigrants land. From cxpDsnre. he contracted a severe cold, which settled upon his lungs. There was no ph3'sieian nearer than Steubenville, a distance of sixty miles, and it was out of the question to send there for help,

SO his comrades had no alternative but to do what they could for his relief They made a decoction of snake root, which they gave him ; applied hot fomentations to his chest, and as his prospects of recovery became darker, administered spiritual consolation. The man died on the fourth day after he was taken down and was buried on the Keed farm, immediately north of the present location of the county fair grounds.

The second death was that of a son of John Bowers, of Nimishillen Tp. He was taken with a fever in winter of 1800-7. The few neighbors - none nearer than five miles - were promptly on hand with profl'ers of assistance in whatever way it could be rendered. Every means suggested that was within reach, was tried, but to no avail. The boy lingered and died. He was buried in the woods and a tree cut to fall upon the grave that the body might not be disturl)ed by the wolves. The first case of surgery that occurred in the count}- was that of Philip Smith, residing in the same township. While at work clearing he was struck by a limb of a falling tree, and his leg broken in two places. A young son with him at the time immediately started for help, and in a few houns several of his neighbors were on hand, ready to render such assistance as they were able. No time was lost sending for a doctor, as there was none within reach. A few minutes' consultation de- cided a plan of action. Tliej- straightened the fractured liml). enveloped it with elm l):irk peeled from the tree and held the splints in place l)y wrapping them with withes. lie was Uiken home on a sled, and as he was addicted to an indulgence in intoxicatingdrink. he begged for a dram. This only excited a taste for more, and he was allowed to have it, or rather his wife was compelled to furnish it. There is a witness still living who will testify that Philip Smith, while confined to his bed six weeks with a broken leg. drank six gallons of whisky. At the end of that time the splints were removed and the leg was to all appearaiice i)erfect, and upon subsequent trial, lound completely restored. This, in proof of the common saving, that the whisky of olden times was less pernicious in its eflecls upon tlie human system than that manufactured at the present day.

Tlie first birth in the county was in 180tj, a boy. to the wife of Hugh Cunningham, a resident of Plain Township. On this occasion, Mrs. Jacob Loutzenheiser, mother of Judge Peter Loutzenheiser. otHciated as midwife. For man}- years after the settlement of the county, and long after physicians were within reach, was it the custom to empio}- females in cases of this nature. It was a rare case that a physician was called in. And, so far as results are known of success in the management of bthnr in former years, as compared with later times, it is lielieved, b}- those who have investigated the subject, that the showing is in favor of ye olden times." This may be accounted for, either in the habits of pioneer life being more favoralile to developing and strengthening the system, thereby better enabling the patient to withstand the wear and tear of labor ; or, because there was less interference with the otTorts of nature.

Fifty years ago, there were but few medical colleges in the United States, and graduates were not then, as now, roaming over the country seeking situations. The population of Stark County had attained considerable growth before a phj-sician settled among them, and after the first, it wsis years before the second came. To a gi'cat extent, the people were compelled to rely upon themselves for relief in case of sickness or accident. In ever}' community, there were those who pretended to a knowledge of disease and its treatment. They were not governed by principles in practice.

Theirs was a routine system. It was bleed. l)lister and physic. No matter, whether the individual had been kicked by a horse, had the ague or the itch, all the same, he must be bled, and then jjliysicked. In springtime, the house of the man who had a lancet, and could bleed, was a sort of trystingplace on Sundays, where young i)eople, especially women in an interesting condition, would collect, in order to be bled, under an impression that it was good for the health. The gunsmith and blacksmith pulled teeth. They would wrap the fulcrum of a turnkey with a silk handkerchief and yank out the largest molar. They opened felons with a razor.

A large proportion of the early settlers of Stark C(junty were of (ierman descent, and not favorably disposed toward a liberal education. They were inclined to be superstitious, and believed in the power of words as a remedial agent. There were those who claimed they could, by words, stop bleeding, take out fire, arrest a felon, cure sore mouth, check the tits, and perform divers other miraculous feats.

The diseases most prevalent in early times, were of a malarious character. Fever and ague, bilious fever, and dysentery, during the summer, and pneumonia and pleurisy in the winter. The orthodox treatment of the former was by bleeding, emeto-cathartics, and Peruvian bark. Quinine had not then been introduced. The chief domestic remedies were boneset, dogwood, and snakeroot. The treatment of pneumonia and pleurisy was bleeding, blistering, calomel, opium and tartar-emetic. The absurd practice of interdicting cold water in fever, and excluding fresh air from the sickroom, was religiously observed. T'he physical laljor attending practice at that day, was, at times, very great. The only way of getting o\er the country was on horseback. The roads were rough, and in the winter, very muddy. Often much of the distance to a house was l)y a bridle-path. Hut few of the streams were bridge<l. and in time of high water, there was no alternative Init to plunge in and swim across. It was not an unfrequent occurrence for the I physician to be called after night, fifteen or twenty miles away, much of the distance over muddy roads and through dense forests ; the place, a log-cabin with only one room, and no resting-spot save the puncheon fioor.

wrought, not only in lightening the labor of professional work, but what is more generally appreciated and commended, in those things which minister to the relief of the sick. Almost ever}' branch of scientific research has contributed to the advancement of the science of all sciences - the conservation of human life. Through chemistry, microscopy, experimental physiology, new and more perfect methods of investigating disease have been introduced by which its diagnosis has become more certain. The discover}- has been made by pharmaceutical chemists of the active principles of various drugs, by which they have been rendered more certain in their effect, and less nauseous. In therapeutics, the modern physician has many advantages over his predecessor in the facility and safety with which surgical operations can be performed under the influence of ether or chloroform and the use of medicines hypoderraically, more especially for the speedy relief of intense pain. He has chloral hydrate, the bromides and man}- other valuable remedies unknown as medicine in former years. Different systems of practice have arisen in the past, and will in the future. It is for the regular .scientific physician to investigate their respective merits, appropriate what is good, and reject that which is worthless. From hydropathy, he has discovered that water is generally a harmless comfort to the sick, whether u.sed externally or internally, and has many valuable uses as a curative agent, though not a cure-all. Homoeopathy has taught what nature will do for the restoration of disturbed functional action. Eclecticism enlarged the field of vegetable remedies, and barren must be the new system, claiming the patronage of community that has not some merit.

Scientific medicine - that grounded upon rational ideas, has acquired such momentum that all medical pathirs and ixms can have but one of two fates - extinction or absorption. They may exist for a time in name, but they die in fact. The aggregate experience and accumulated learning of the profession, inevitably assimilate all that is good, and as surely eliminate all that is bad or nonsensical in pathological or therapeutic theories. For centuries, medicine has constantly advanced, appropriating to itself all that is demonstrably efficient in the alleviation of bodily ills, however irregular its source. It has in its ranks, an army of pioneers, sappers and miners, armed with all the appliances of advanced science, toiling day and night, from youth to old age, in an effort to discover something still more efficacious for the relief of suffering humanity. There can be no "schools" in scientific medicine. Truth has no compromises to make. Opposition only lives l\y martyrdom or imitation, or both combined. Medicine is progessive, and the coming physician will have advantages far surpassing those of the present day, in methods and instruments for exact diagnosis, more certain knowledge as to the action of medicines, and understand better the effect of certain ailments and occupations on the human organism. As we review the past, and reflect upon the progress made, we wonder what will the future bring forth '! In the hope that a short biographical sketch of the early practitioners of the county would add to the historical interest of the work, we have gathered the following list. No statement has been made not believed to be truthful. The writer would

The first physician located in Stark County was Andrew Kappe. He was born in Paris, France, 17"!'. Having lost both his parents when quite young, he was left to the care of an aunt, residing near the border of Germany. His medical education was obtained in Frankfort-on-the-Rhine. After serving several years as Surgeon in the army, he emigrated to America, sailing from Hamburg, September 11, 1804, and landing at Baltimore May 5, 1805, the voyage occupying over seven months. He remained in Baltimore about one year, then came to Steuben ville, where he resided until 1808. The same year he changed his location to Canton, where he remained the rest of his life. His practice extended over a wide range of country - l)e}ond the Tuscarawas and east of Sandy. The difficulty of obtaining foreign drugs at that early day. compelled him in many instances to rely upon indigenous plants. To prepare them for use involved much time and labor, and he was often compelled to work late at night after a day spent in visiting distant patients. On one occasion, while manipulating with an acid, an explosion took place, throwing some of the ingredient into his eye whereby it was destroyed. He was very ex- acting in his treatment of patients, insisting upon every direction being carefully observed. He was proprietor of an eye salve, Icnown as " Dr. Happe's Invalual)le E3-e Salve," selling large ipiantities and gaining for it considerable local reputation. He obtained the formula from a French i)liysician aboard the vessel in which he sailed to America. During the voyage, this ph3-sician was taken seriously ill, and Dr. Kappe gave him special attention. On his recovery, feeling grateful for the services rendered him, he said to Dr. Rappe that money lie had none, but he had the recipe for an invaluable eye salve " which he would give him, with the request that he would never part with it - and he never did, it being kept in the family to this day. Dr. Rappe was married in Steubenville to Mary .'^liorb, daughter of John Shorb. They had seven children, only three, however, lived through infancy. These were John 8. Rappe. now of Upper Sandusky, Ohio; the late Mrs. Henry H. .Myers, and the late Mrs. Louisa Faber Kimball. The Doctor died February 5. 1842. of pleurisy, after a short illness, leaving property of considerable value, ac- (jnired by professional industrj'.

William Gardner came from Albany, N. Y., and located in Kendall (now "P'ourtli Ward " of .^lassillon) in 1813. He was married in 1816 to Sarah B. Earl, daughter of the hotel proprietor with whom he boarded. The j'ear following, he removed to Norwalk, Huron County, where he continued in active practice until 182.5, when he returned to Stark County and settled in Canton. Here he remained until his death in 1833. Dr. Gardner was heavj-set, broad-shouldered, quick in action and highly esteemed for integrit}-. He was regarded a man of more than ordinary abilitj', aud had an extensive practice. Independent iu thought, he did not hesitate to express his opinions, though in opposition to the popular current. His law suit with Nicholas Lichley, will be remembered by many still living. A daughter of Lichley had .some trouble of the e^-es and was brought to Gardner for treatment. Instead of improving, under various applications, her sight became worse, and finally she went totalljblind. Lichley, being an impulsive man, and rather free talker, did not hesitate to charge Gardner with mal-treating the ease, whenever the subject was introduced in his presence. This talk became verv annoying to Dr. (lardner, and for the puri)ose of vindicating himself brought suit for slander, laying his damages at $2,01(0. His attorneys were Harris & Belden. Lichley employed Starkweather -and Jarvis. They were the two strongest firms at the Stark County bar. The case excited a wide-spread interest, and the court house was crowdeil during the progress of the trial. Starkweather was then in the zenith of his reputation as a jury lawyer. He had the blind girl seated in front of the jury while he addres,sed them, aud whenever he made an appeal in behalf of his client, the poor girl would turn up her sightless orbs, imploring, as it were, sympathy ibr her father. The defense claimed that the blindness was caused by culpable carelessness - introducing into the eyes something different from what was intended - aud this theory w.as sustained by the testimonj- of Dr. Bennett, a well known, reputable physician of Bolivar. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant ; thereupon, Lichley brought suit against Gardner ibr malpractice, laying his damages at SI 0,000. Before the trial was reached, Gardner died and the case was withdrawn. This was the first mal-practice suit in the count}-.

The two Bonfields, John and Thomas S., brothers, settled in Canton soon after the war of 1812. They were from Baltimore, and both graduates of the medical school of that citj'. John was an Assistant Surgeon of the arm}- at the time of the attack upon Fort McHenry. He was a strange genius, and many thought too much learning had disturbed his balance. He was slovenly in dress, wore his hair long and straggling, and would often appear with a red bandana as a neck-tie. He was slow of speech, and kept his horse so poor that the boys would caw after him on the streets. Many reposed great faith in his medical skill, particularly in the treatment of fevers. He had an itching for olflce, and was repeatedly a candidate, though never successful. He came within one, in a race of half a dozen for the County Treasurer's office. He married a daughter of William Cunningham, by whom he had several children. Several years after her death, he returnt'il to Baltimore, where he died in 1835.

Thomas S. was very unlike his brother John. He was a tidy, dapper young man, fluent talker, (piick in his movements, and prompt to respond to calls. He was a fast rider, stood in his slirru()s. projecting his body forward, apparcnitly iroing taster than liis horse. He was popular as a physician, and had an extensive practice. He died in 1855, leaving a large landed estate, now very valuable.

Thomas Hartford came from Connecticut, and settled in Canton in 1818. He was a kind iiearted man, and generous to the poor, as the following rrr/titfiiit notice in a RijKisitori/ of 1S20 would indicate :

Dr. Thomas Hartford herchi/ informs such as are in indigent circumstances, in the county of Stark, that in eases of sickness, mh-icr and merJiriiie will be given to them gratia."

That he was not prompted to make this offer from ulterior motix'cs, is evident from the bequest in his will, giving a large proportion of his real estate to the poor of Canton. After some ten years of general practice, Dr. Hartford engaged in the mercantile business ; and. about 1833" removed to Pittsburgh. Penn.

James Jerow came to Canton in 1820. He was from one of the New England States, and was reputed a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and well educated in his profession. In managing a case, he was ver^- decided and exacting, and would tolerate no interference. If there was any hesitancy about carrying out his instructions, any distrust manifested as to his skill or judgment, or a disposition to try a remedy recommended by another, straightway would he give the parties to understand tiiat unless he had the exclusive and uninterrupted control of the case he would retire. He would take the whole responsibilitj' or none. He died in 1825 of a malignant fever. John Coulter, the first medical student in Stark County, studied with Dr. Jerow.

Justin Scott, a surgeon in the war of 1812, located in Kendall about the year 1815. From what can l)e learned of him. he was regarded b}' the community a well qualified physician and a skillful surgeon. He remained in Kendall several years, then removed to Burton, Geauga County, Ohio.

George Breysacher was born and educated in Germany, and settled in Canton in 1819. It was said he had been a Surgeon under Bonaparte, which gave him considerable reputation. He did an extensive practice, particularly among the German people, native and foreign. He was a fine horseman and a great hunter, always rode at break-neck speed with several dogs following him. He was once seen comins; into town with two deer on his horse that he had shot. He died in 1844. One of his sous, Augustus L., was a Surgeon in the confederate army, and Medical Director of Hardee's Corps.

Joseph Simmons was one of the early physicians of Canton. He came from Pennsylvania in 1820 ; was a man of fine personal appearance, scrupulously neat in dress, and bore himself with an aristocratic air. He did not succeed in securing a satisfactory run of business, not because of any question as to his ((ualifications, but by reason of this seeming hauteur in his manner. The same has driven many a well-qualified young man from the ranks, while a bloviating ignoramus has succeeded in making money. Dr. Simmons remained in Canton about ten years, when he removed to Cincinnati. There he continued several years, then changed his location to St. Louis, where he died about two years ago.

Joseph Watson was of Quaker descent, born in 1798, near Philadelphia, Penn. His elementary education was such as the scant opportunities of the time and place afforded. He eomme^lced the study of medicine in 1821. with Dr. Wood, of Lycoming County, remain ing with him a year. In the fall of 1822, he came West, stopping in Wrightstown. Belmont Co., Ohio. Here he resumed, the study with Dr. Hartley, and continued with him until he decided to look up a location to practice. He visited Cadiz, New Philadelphia, Wooster and Dover (now called Dalton), and when he made known at the latter place the object of his visit, he was so strongly urged to settle among them that he decided to do so. The town was without a physician, and he had several calls before he could hang out a shingle. He soon had all he wanted to do. His work was laborious. Disturbed at all hours of the night, long rides over rough roads, exposed to all kinds of weather, will eventually dampen the zeal of most men, so after a residence of ten years in Dover, Dr. Watson concluded to change the field of his operations, and, in the fall of 1833. came to Massillon, which at that time was the rising town of this part of the State. While in practice at Massillon, he had several partners, including Dr. Michener and Dr. Bowen, both men of well-known professional reputation. Dr. Watson withdrew from active practice about 1843 and engaged in the drug business, in which he built up a large wholesale and retail tiiule. In this he eoiitiiuieil until 1877, when admonished liy advancing: years und failing vigor, that it was lime for him to retire I'rom active work. Dr. Watson was married in 1824 to Mar}' Ann Walton, of Columbiana Co.. Ohio. The couple are enjoying life's peaceful evening together - the only remaining link in the county connecting the old-time practitioners with the present.

Beriah Brooks, John Shaw and Josiah (!ale were physicians who located in Kendall between 1820 and 1825. Brooks moved over to Massillon as soon as it was started, and died there in 1881. dale abandoned practice for a contract on the canal, and Shaw, after remaining several years, left for parts unknown.

Thomas and John Townsend. brothers, removed from Wooster to Massillon about the year 1828. and set up in [jractice together. They remained a few years, when Thomas went to Wheeling. Va., where he died. The last known of John he had drifted to California.

Robert Estep was born in Fayette Co., Penn., in 1793 ; served an apprenticeship at the trade of silversmith ; pursued that calling several years, when he concluded to study medicine. After reading eighteen months, he commenced practice in I'aris, .^tark Co.. in 1824. He soon ac(|uired a widespread reputation, not only as a skilful practitioner, but as a surgeon of more than ordinary ability. Twice he performed the Cicsarean section, the only physician of the county that ever attempted it. He several times operated for cataract and cut for stone. In 1834. he removed to Canton, where he enjoyed an extensive practice until his death in 1852. at the age of fifty-uine. The honorary degree of M. 1). was conferred upon him by the Ohio Medical College, in 1835.

Joseph H. Kstep. -son of Robert Estep. was horn in ISlSt. He followed painting until twenty-three, when he took u|) the study of medicine, lie read with his father, and graduated at the Cleveland Medical College in 1847. He commenced practice at Waynesburg, and soon succeeded in obtaining a prf)fitablc run of custom. When the California gold excitement overspread the land, he yielded to the temptation and went there. He remained there several years, during which time he was elected a member of the first Legislature. On his return in 1852, he settled in Canton. Here he continued in practice until failing health induced him to return to California in 1873. He died in 187(). Dr. Estep was twice married. His first wife was Miss Policy. l)y whonj he had three children. His second wife was Miss Rank ; Ijy her he had no issue. He was a man of considerable natural talent, an original genius, a ready, forcible writer, not much of a stuilent. but extravagantly fond of light literature, and inclined to take the world easy.

Perkins Wallace was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1808. Studied medicine with Dr. Thomas Bonfield. Canton, and graduated at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1833. Hi; commenced the practice of medicine at Brandy wine Mills. Summit Co.; from thence he removed to Akron, where he remained al)out two years, when he again changed his location to Massillon. Here he continued until 1850, doing an extensive practice. Considerations outside of professional, influenced him to remove to Canton, where he remained until his death in 18(i8, aged sixty. Dr. Wallace was married in 1835 to Rebecca Raynolds. by whom he had six children.

Lorenzo M. Whiting was born in Litchfield County, Conn., in 1811. Received his medical degree at Williams College in 1835. and located in Canton in 183(;. Dr. Whiting has continued longer in practice at the one place than any physician who has ever lived in Stark County. He has always been held in high esteem, not only as a practitioner of medicine, but as a general scholar, versed in literature and the sciences. His consultation calls have exceeded those of any other practitioner, a proof of his standing with the community. He was appointed a Trustee of the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, by (lov. Chase, in 185(1. During the rebellion, he was appointed by (lov. Denisou one of the Board of Examiners of Surgeons to Ohio regiments, also Examining Surgeon for Stark County and for the Board of Enrolment for the Seventeenth Congressional District of Ohio, which position he held until the close of the war. He was Pension Surgeon from 1802 until October, 1880, when, by reason of ill health, he resigned. He was likewise Censor of Cleveland .Medical College. In all these varied positions he discharged the <luties devolving upon him with entire satisfaction to all parties concerned. The Doctor was struck with paralysis in the summer of 1880, since which time, he has been unable to practice.

Auren W. Whiting was born in Connecticut in 1826. Educated in tiie High School of Westfield, Mass. Read medicine witii Dr. W. B. De Forest, Colebrook, Conn., and in 1846 matriculated at the Medical Department of Yale College. After one course of lectures, he came to Canton, and engaged with his l)n)ther L. M., continuing the study, and griidually taking up practice. He attended a second course of lectures at Cleveland, graduating in 1850. He located first in Massillon, where he remained until 1858 ; then spent about eighteen months in Europe, visiting the hospitals of Paris and other large cities. Soon after his I'eturn from J]urope, he was elected Assistant Physician of the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, which position he held several year.s. During the rebellion, he was a contract surgeon, doing duty in the field hospitals near Georgetown. At the close of the war, he settled in Canton, where he has since remained, making a specialty of chronic diseases.

Carl F. Brackebush was born and educated in ( iermany. He came to this country in 1835, and first settled in Osnaburg, but remained there but a short time, when he removed to Canton. He was considered well educated in his profession, and liad an extensive practice. He died in 1849, of neuralgia of the heart, caused by exposure in professional labor.

F. D. H. Dallwick was born in Cassel, Germany, in 1814, and received his medical education in that countrj'. He came to Stark County in 1833, first settling in Greentown. From there he removed to Canton, where he remained some years. He was the first physician appointed to the County Infirmary. From Canton he removed to Canal Fulton, where he died in 1849. His wife was Louisa, daughter of Christian Palmer, a pioneer settler.