Summit County, Ohio - Chapter 5, 1881

HE history of the County would not be | considered complete, without a sketch of | the professions - legal and medical. | | The following on the Summit County bar is | _ by Judge Carpenter, and is as follows: - [{Ep.] | In the summer of 1832, the writer, a stran- | ' ger in Ohio. alert for information touching its | » people, laws, soil. products and topography. took the mail coach at Ravenna for Hudson. There was sitting on the back seat a man : whose look would have taken his attention | anywhere. A green bag filled with books lay | _ by his side. He was considerably under thirty. tall and slim. but with limbs and contour so round and trim as to suggest an embodiment of muscular vigor. agility and toughness. His dress was simple but fitted with faultless - neatness to his elegant figure. Conversation began at once. The writer's | various questions were answered with a precision which evinced a thorough acquaintance with Ohio, its public interests, its heterogen- | -eous inhabitants. their different habits and - ' peculiarities. Unquestionably that fellow- | passenger was a man of keen observation. But his easy flow of intelligence bore not the slightest show of vanity or ostentation. His : mastery of language, the complete finish of every sentence, his faultless pronunciation and the grammatical accuracy and purity of his English, might mark him for a college pro- | ' fessor. On reaching Stow Corners. he took the - road to Middlebury on foot. green bag in hand. When the writer returned to Ravenna he inquired of Mr. Coolman, the hotel keeper, | , the name of his fellow-passenger. remarking | ' that he had been very pleasantly entertained | | by him. and had set 'him down as a man of | _ mark who had traveled considerably with his | ' eves and ears wide open. Mr. Coolman, who | ; *By Judge James 3. Carpenter and Dr. Alvin K. Fouser.

was himself an invaluable treasury of what open eyes and ears could gather up, smiled at the remark and replied: "That gentleman, sir, is Gregory Powers. He is becoming a very | distinguished lawyer, and is, in truth, a rising ' man: but as to his traveling, he was born and | brought up here in the woods, and I doubt It is trne that he had then seen little of the world outside of Ohio: and that his acquaintance had rarely extended beyond the Western Reserve.

In his profession, Mr. Powers was not a | voluminous reader. His library was not at all extensive, and his reading was mostly elementary. His practice at the bar was earnest. grave, strictly honorable and always courteous. Advocates had not in those days acquired the art of inspiring jurors by blowing in their faces. They stood at a distance of six or eight yards from the jury-box, and maintained a manliness of deportment superior to the more recent practice.

But it was not oratory that most distin- © guished the forensic efforts of Ma. Powers. It was his ability by quick and clear analysis to disentangle the most covert and complex transactions among men. and follow them to their legal consequences. And it was matter of curious observation to a listener that his © high tension of voice and feeling was more frequent and intense in his arguments to the | court on some abstract point of law, than in unraveling facts to the jury. In the latter case, his highest ascents of voice and manner | were more mild and of a more even tenor, intensely pressing the high claims of right | and justice He was born in the township of Stow, then in Portage County, in 1805. His father was a native of Naples, Italy, and had | been a sea captain. His mother was a lady of | Middletown, Conn., and died in 1811. Some- ,

Latin and still more in mathematics. On leaving the academy he began the study of law, in the office of Judge Van R. Humphrey, in Hudson. As a student at law, Judge Humphrey said he was not a rapid reader. He habitually quarreled with what he was reading - turned back and read over and over again, till he was master of the text, and thus reconciled it to his sense of right as he went along.

In 1832, Mr. Powers was elected by the Clay men and Anti-Masons of Portage County, to the House of Representatives of Ohio. In 1833, he was a candidate for reelection, but political alternations had fixed that year for the Democratic party, and Mr. Powers was succeeded by Roan Clarke. In 1838, Mr. Powers was elected by the Whigs to the Senate of Ohio. In both branches of

| the Legislature his course was marked by the _ same high ability which had given him such | eminence at the bar. He came home from the / Senate apparently overworked and suffering | at the heart, which brought him to his death ' at the age of thirty-four, July 10, 1839, end- _ ing a career, which, had it continued to the ' common limit of old age, must have set him ' among the loftiest characters of our country.

' July, 1822, present the Hon. Calvin Pease , and Peter Hitchcock, Judges, Van R. Hum- | phrey was duly examined, admitted and sworn as an attorney and counselor at law and solicitor in chancery, within the State of , Ohio.

In the year 1828, he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Ohio, and was re-elected to the same office in 1829. He was elected by the Legislature of Ohio President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Third Judicial District for the term of seven years, beginning in 1836 and ending in 1843.

From 1830, or perhaps a little earlier, till Judge Humphrey took his seat upon the bench, he and Gregory Powers were pitted against each other in most of the important cases in Portage and Medina Counties. They were both men of commanding presence, yet standing at the opposite extremes of manly dignity and beauty. Powers tall, lithe and excitable, yet always self-possessed. Humphrey cool and imperturbable, tall, large, though not unwieldy or fleshy, but full and rounded out at every point - a manifest embodiment of muscular strength. His manner was deliberate; his voice loud, held back in reserve, and never sought after, always hit its mark. His humor was inexcoming at will. His imagination was splendid, but would have been improved by early discipline. His arguments were not distinguished for consecutive reasoning, but they seemed to be guided by a kind of insight into the essential elements of his case, so that, if his imagination at any time outstripped his logic, there was an inner light that still lured him back to the essential points which he seldom failed

| he immediately removed his residence. | chief indications he then gave of the eminence | which he afterward attained, were his accurate _ knowledge of legal principles, the complete- | ness of whatever pleading or other written the leading points of his case and pressed them to their inevitable sequence, Humphrey swept in much of the surrounding mass, which, under his glowing imagination, took the color and painful. But at length in the libel case of Wilson vs. Blake, in Common Pleas, November term, 1852, he broke entirely away from his self-consciousness, and abandoned himself believed. - However, that may be, Steubenville was the home of his childhood and youth. His education, which was thoroughly classical, was received at several institutions, but lastly, at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania. He studied law under the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, our distin- document came from his hands, and the very careful preparation of his briefs. It was apparent that he distrusted himself before a jury and felt far more confidence in his ability to address the court. Ih truth, diffidence of his own powers was then his besetting impediment. Indeed, it was not till he had toiled under tortured sensibilities through a busy and laborious practice of several years that he had so shaken off this nightmare as to give full play to his forensic powers. He had given proof in many cases of ability to go through an extended statement of logical inferences with extraordinary clearness and force on questions of law, yet his efforts before a jury had always seemed constrained energies of Mr. Wolcott to their highest pitch. For him it was simply a medium of thought; and in his handling it became as transparent asthe air. But the argument which stands, and forever must stand, as the monument of Mr. Wolcott's intellectual power and of his high attainments as. a lawyer, was delivered as of our Supreme Court at Chambers on two writs of habeas corpus, in the cases ex parte Bushnell and ex parte Langston, in May, 1859. It is reported in 9 Ohio State reports, es.

the Governor, to fill a vacancy in that office | occasioned by the death of F. D. Kimball. | He was elected to the same office in 1857, and . continued to discharge his duties with distinguished ability until February, 1860. On the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861, the enlistment of volunteers for the military service was an easy matter. But in a movement so sudden, so extensive and multitudinous, it was no easy matter to bring order and system out of chaos and irrepressible haste and confusion. In this emergency, Mr. Wolcott spent much of that year in aiding Gov. Dennison to regulate and systematize the military operations of our State. Early in 1862 his brother-in-law, Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, having been appointed Secretary of War, Mr. Wolcott was appointed some fifteen miles from Akron. of clearing up his land and applying his labors as a new farm exacts them of a husbandman, he thought there were minutes and interstices of time, which without damage to his agriculture, he could devote to the enlargement of his mind. He had a retentive memory. was a natural humorist, had a keen sense of the Iudierous, a perpetual fountain of ready wit. a rare knack at narration whether of anecdotes or of sober facts. and a yood understandiny, which, with persevering effort. could be disciplined for logical reasoniny. Here was a foundation for a lawrer. The distance of his residence from the county seat and its proximity to the Ohio Canal where Jaw-suits within a justices' jurisdiction were necessarily frequent. would of course often put in requisition a combination of such mental qualities in aid of distressed litigants. Amid importunities of this kind, Mr. Humphrey took up the study of the law under his brother. Judge Van R. Humphrey, of Hudson. Meanwhile his farm and his family occupied his time as usual. His legal studies having been pursued some miles from Judge Humphrey's office. it very naturally . happened that on his admission to the bar he

' time, which to the court and bar was amply comi pensated by the interludes of wit and humor that seemed to flash out in proportion as per-

| plexities thickened. He did not leave his farm, | _ but with his farming went through many a | He died | _ about April, 1877, sincerely lamented by his | the opening of the canal to navigation, at Gov. Trimble was welcomed to Akron in a speech by Wolsey Wells, Esq. In 1535, Mr. Welis was in law practice in company with Harvey Birch. Esy., at Elyria. After some years, practice at Elyria, he migrated to one of the northwestern counties of Ohio, as agent of the State for the sale of public lands. It is reported that he died there a few years since. He was a lawyer of tine abilities and the strictest integrity. He took au active part in the anti-slavery and temperance reforms, in which he was out spoken and disdained all compromise.

George Bliss was a native of Vermont anl eame to Ohio quite young. He commenced the study of law about 1541. in the oftice of Hand & Cartter, and was admitted to the bar about 1543. His examination for admission was, with several other candidates, in the Snupreme Court at Medina; and his thorough understanding of legal principles and practice was remarked on by the committee in their retirement as pre-eminent among the candidates, and as the harbinger of certain success in his profession. He very soon rose to distinction and formed a partnership with D. K. Cartter (now Judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia), their office being in Akron. He had a voice of remarkable It was of the kind which Cicero seems to have meant by his roe argentew. It was a ringing, metallic voice, sliding through gradations so easily and coming forth in full volume with such apparent spontaneity, that it never wearied the hearer however long continued.

A vacancy occurring in the Common Pleas judgeship of this district ~ 1850, Mr. Bliss was a candidate for election to that ottice by the Legislature of 1849-50. There were two other candidates. After numerous fruitless votes were taken, no candidate having received a majority, the Legislature gave the election the Democratic party, appointed Mr. Bliss to The short time he held it was long enough to fix the general opinion of the bar that his administration of it, if continued for another term, would give general satisfaction.

cratic party. He continued his residence in | Akron until about 1860, when he removed to | Wooster. He continued the practice of his profession there until his death about 1875.

at the termination of the custumary college | He taught some years in one or more | . of the Southern States, and then returned to | Ohio and studied law. On being admitted to : and readiness in the dispatch of business. | He svon became very popular as a lawyer, and | Attorney several ' About the year 1836, he » removed his office to Akron, which was then | ' through a contest. he shrank from the rough

Gen. Bierce was neither an extensive nor a profound reader of law. His chief characteristic as a lawyer lay in his extraordinary tact and ingenuity in putting his adversary in a false position. When his opponent had made that no mists could be conjured up to darken | Of all occa- © sions for calling up his magic skill that was the one. Then all sorts of odd combinations of the law and facts which could make the false resemble the true were held up to the gaze of the jury. Hints, suggestions, imag- | inings, possibilities outside and inside of the | case - the winged missives seemed to fill the air and flap in every juror's face, and it was

' good luck for justice and innocence if some | - of them did not lodge in the breast of many a_ ' juryman and puzzle the whole panel, in spite a lucid charge from the court and all the sunshine that had blazed upon the case. | Yet, take him as he was, no member of the Summit bar was so dreaded before a jury as Gen. Bierce. He was never thrown off his

In 1861, he was elected to the Senate of , Ohio by the Republicans of Summit and Port- . age Counties. He took a very active part in | raising troops for the Union in the latewar; and | in 1863 he was appointed Assistant Adjutant | General of Ohio, and discharged the arduous © duties of that office with faultless exactitude. - As a citizen and neighbor, Gen. Bierce was | public-spirited, obliging and generous. He | died November, 1876, and was buried with military honors.

John Harris, Jr., was born at Canton, Stark County, November 26, 1823. He was class- . ically educated at Western Reserve College, - of which he was a graduate. He stud- - ied law under his father's tuition at Canton, and opened a law office at Akron about 1840. | His health was delicate. He, however, showed | himself fully competent in his profession. With abundant intellectual power to carry him collisions which coarser natures often invited. Experience, however, would have given to his sensibility a recoil against coarse and ill-tempered thrusts all the more wounding to an aggressor, because it came unsuspected, from a keen and concealed weapon. Had he lived, he would have taken a high stand in the pro- . fession, which all his practice would have © tended to dignify and refine. He died at Canton March 12, 18595. Harvey Whedon was born at Litchfield, He opened a law office in Hud- ~ son, Ohio, probably in 1838. He soon acquired a good office practice, and a reasonable share of practice in the courts of this county. A | well-read, industrious lawyer, of good judg- , ment, he was often consulted, and acquired a reputation of asafe counselor. He was elected

W.S. C. Otis was born in Cummington, Mass. He entered Williams College, where he took a high stand as a scholar, but left the college some time in his senior year, and, for awhile, followed teaching. In 1831, he entered the law office of Whittlesey & Newton, at Canfield, Mahoning County, and continued there with unremitting application till he was ness, a ready memory, spoke fluently and always to the point, though somewhat wordily. His facts and arguments were laid out with rare To the court and the bar, however, he was much better known as a lawyer than as an advocate. In argument, whether to the court or jury, he was fond of making historical or classical allusions, which

1850, he was elected as a delegate from this county to the Constitutional Convention which framed the Constitution of Ohio now in force. Outside. of his profession, he was a man of large intelligence - a diligent reader of history, of the current literature of the times, of the classics, both ancient and modern, and of the Book above all books. He always kept up a close acquaintance with the ancient authors, both Greek and Latin, in their original tongues. Not long before his last illness, he published a pamphlet containing an examination into the common translation of a passage in one of the epistles of the New Testament, drawing his conclusions from a critical acquaintance with the original Greek. In truth, from the beginning of his professional life, and we know not how much longer, he made the study. of the Bible a specialty.

About 1842, Mr. Otis removed his residence from Ravenna to Akron, where he continued his professional practice. He was elected President of the first bank established in Akron, and held that office for some years. About 1875, he suffered from a paralytic shock, from which he so far recovered as to give attention to his extensive business till 1877, when a second stroke of palsy gave warning that his work was done. He died leaving his widow and family amply provided for.

William M. Dodge was born January 2", 1805, in the State of New York. He obtained a good English education at the common schools of his native place. He came to Ohio probably about 1828; studied law in Geauga County, and was admitted to the bar probably in 1830. Not long afterward, he took up his residence at Middlebury, and there opened a law office. After a short residence there, he settled in Akron, where he continued his professional business until he was elected Probate Judge of Summit County, in 1860. He had before then held the office of Prose- ing been elected to it in 1842, and discharged its duties satisfactorily through the term. Mr. Dodge was a public-spirited citizen. He took a very active part in the organization of the Akron school system. He was especially efficient as a member of the Board of Directors, in all that pertained to building, or otherwise providing schoolhouses. In all such matters, he was a man of first-rate judgment, and he bent himself to the gratuitous work with untiring zeal. He died July 22, 1861. William H. Gaston had been a schoolteacher. At what time or where he studied law r was admitted to the bar, is not known. In 1844, he was doing business as a lawyer, in company with W. S. C. Otis, at Akron. He | gave himself to the work of the law office with unremitting diligence. He was a lawyer of a clear head, and of power to grasp and handle | a matter of manifold complications in chan- | cery and was ambitious to rise in his profession. But a fatal disease seized upon his lungs and took him from the jarring crowds of suitors and lawyers, and jurors, and courts, and all the varied tumults of earthly things.

James D. Taylor was born at Youngstown, Mahoning County, November 24, 1816. He was admitted to the bar at Gallipolis, whither he rode on horseback for that purpose. About 1845, he entered into partnership with Henry W. King, Esq., of Akron, where he immediately fixed his residence. The firm carried on a prosperous business till about 1850, when, the health of both partners declining, their partnership was dissolved. Mr. Taylor's illness was pulmonary. He spent some time in the Southern States, in hopes, by help of a favorable climate, to overcome the malady which was wasting him away. It was sadly in vain. He died at Enterprise, Fla., March 23, 1855. While residing at Akron, he was married to Miss Isabella Howard, now Mrs. James Mathews, of Akron. Mr. Taylor was an industrious, clear-headed lawyer. He had a sprightly imagination, a keen, well-disciplined intellect. memory and ready command of language, an appropriate gestures, a soft though not very sonorous voice, an animated countenance, and a wit that could make a home-thrust almost in a whisper, made him one of the most winning speakers of the time.

security and a high and commanding value to all the mental qualities of the man. His death, and its melancholy surroundings - far from home, where his wife was detained with a sick child - shed a deep and lasting sorrow throughout his acquaintance. °

Charles G. Ladd was a native of Vermont. He came to Ohio in his youth, and read law with his brother-in-law, Gen. L. V. Bierce, with whom, after being admitted to practice, he became a partner, in the firm of Bierce &

Ladd. With no shining advantages, Mr. Ladd soon began to show what influence can be obtained over common minds by self-assurance, and apparently an undoubting confidence that | one's own knowledge is one's own exclusively, and can be shared in by others only as he himself imparts it. This quality of unflinching boldness he used with the address and tact of a master. He entered the arena of politics simultaneously with that of his profession, youthful as he was, and very soon passed through a succession of minor trusts and offices, all of which he discharged faithfully and with fair ability.

On the adoption of our present constitution, in 1851, he was elected to the office of Probate Judge of Summit County in October of that year, but died in the following winter, without entering upon the duties of the office.

Rolland O. Hammond was born in Bath Township, in Summit County. He displayed in his childhood rare aptness in learning - so much so that his parents singled him out from due time, and, in the regular progress of classical and mathematical studies, showed brilliant Chafing against the common restraints of a college upon his irrega i a te b

Oberlin College. Finding the restraints there quite as stringent as those at Western Reserve, he took leave of Oberlin some time in his junior year. Not long afterward, in the of law in the office of Carpenter & McClure, at Akron. He mastered the customary textbooks with great facility, and, at the end of the statutory two years of law-reading, was admitted to the bar.

success were weakened by a ceaseless itching for office and the wonted intrigues to secure it. tled upon his brain, from which, after a lingering illness, he died, in 1866, leaving a widow and out of Portage, Stark, Wayne and Medina _ Counties. Though a man of large influence in a popular body, so strong was the opposition that his indefatigable labors failed to carry the measure through the Legislature. About the same time, Mr. Kirkum took up his residence in Akron, where he opened a law office and practiced his calling for several years. His health failing, he moved his residence to his farm in Norton Township, which he managed for a few years, and then moved to another farm in the vicinity of Cleveland. All the while, his inevitable tormentor, dyspepsia, fullowed him up, till he died at his lastmentioned home some years since. Frederick 5. Hanford was born at Cuyahoga Falls, und was educated at Western Reserve College, where he graduated with distinguished honors. He studied law in the office of McKinney & Tibbals in Akron, and at the Columbia Law School in New York City, where he was admitted to practice May 12, 1569. He entered into a law partnership with Hon. 8. C. Williamson (now Probate Judge of Summit County), and afterward with Hon. N. D. Tibbals (now Judge of the Court of Common Pleas). He rose rapidly in practice. _ But, suffering from hemorrhage of the lungs, he spent some months in Colorado in hopes of | invigorating his health by change of climate. , On returning to professional labor, hemor- _ rhages followed from time to time with fatal _ effect. He died at the home of his father-in- | law in Ashland, Ohio, January 29, 1879.

Leicester King, of Ohio, was born at Westfield, | Mass., September 24, 1815. "=e was brought | to Warren, Trumbull County, when his par- | ents settled there, in 1817. He was fitted for | college partly at Warren and partly at Hartford, Conn., where he entered Washington | (now Trinity) College, and graduated August

He was admitted to the bar at Gallipolis in February, 1839. In the fall of the same year, he opened a law office at Akron, Summit County. June 1, 1844, he formed a law partnership with James D. Taylor, which was dissolved June 1, 1840, on account of the failing © health of Mr. Taylor, who immediately re | moved to Peru, Ill., where, his health improv- | ing, he carried on a very prosperous law busi- | ness for a few years, until his pulmonary weakness could undergo the wear of strife no | longer.

Meanwhile, Mi. King entered into partner- | ship with his brother, David L. King, and vigorously pursued the business of the profession. In 1850, the Levislature of Ohio elected him Secretary of State. The duties of this office he discharged for two years with his customary exactness and punctuality. Mob. King was an indefatigable worker. He shrank from no legal drudgery. This intense labor, however, bore down upon a constitution never strong, until 1So5. when his health gave way, and he was therefore compelled to re linquish his professional practice. As a means of recovering, he betook himself to | a more active life in open air. at Suamico, in the lunber regions of Wisconsin. He also tried a sea voyage, one or more. at mackerel fishing, and a voyage to the Bermudas. But | his malady had laid fast hold on his life. and, | in spite of remedies, and hopeful friends, and | their tenderest cares,and the watchful nursing of her who for years had held her own life sec- | ond to his, on the 20th of November. 1857, he left all for another and a better life.

The following are the names of lawyers who | once practiced in Summit County, but who | are still living elsewhere, or of whose decease | Rufus P. | Spalding, a native of Connecticut, graduate | of Yale College, was one of the Supreme | Judges of Ohio, when our State constitution | took effect in 1851. He represented this dis- | trict in Congress three successive terms, be- | ginning in 1862; and now enjoys a healthy | old age in Cleveland. Daniel R: Tilden, a | native of Connecticut, began business as a lawyer 'n Portage County about 1836; was twice elected to Congress from this district.

ate at Dartmouth College, and was admitted to practice in New England; came to Akron _ in 1844; read law one year in the office of Judge Spalding, and was admitted to practice in Ohio in 1845. He opened a law office in Alon, and after a few years returned to New England. and is now practicing law in Boston, Mass. Alvah Hand opened a law office in Akron about 1827; removed to Oshkosh, Wis., many years since. Seneca L. Hand kept a law office in Middlebury (now Sixth Ward, Akron). from about 1828 till about 1851. when he moved to Dubuque, Iowa. Frederick A. Nash was for some years a partner in law business with Seneca L. Hand: afterward with N. W. Goodhue. Esq.. and still later with Messrs. King & Green. For the last twelve years or so. he has resided at Brattleboro. Vt. Philemon Bliss, a native of Central New York, and liberally educated there. opened a law office at Cuyahoga Falls about 1S41. After a practice there of some three or four years, he removed to Elyria. Lorain County. and there continued his law practice. While residing there he was twice elected to Coneress. After some years' service in a Tervitorial judgeship, he took up his residence in Missouri and became one of the Supreme Judges of that State. He has recently published a book of some note on code pleading, and is Professor of Law in the Missouri State University. H. H Johnson kept a law office some years in Akron. but. upon the erection of the county of Ashland, he took up his residence and pursued his law practice at Ashland, the county seat of that county, where he was soon afterward elected to the House of Representatives in Congress. David K. Cartter is a native of Western New York, where he was admitted to the bar. He opened a law office in Akron about 1837, and removed to Massillon, Stark County, about 1545. He

| preme Court of the District of Columbia; and is still the incumbent of that office. Henry : McKinney was born in Portage County, Ohio; studied law under Judge S. W. McClure at ' Cuyahoga Falls, was admitted to the bar and entered into partnership with him in 1850. _ After some years he removed his residence to _ Akron, where he formed a partnership with Judge N. D. Tibbals. He was elected to the Senate of Ohio in 1869, and, in 1871, he removed his residence to Cleveland. John A. | Pleasants is a native of Virginia' He settled _ in Akron in 1848, where he practiced law for several years, and then returned to Virginia. Charles Baldwin entered into a law partnership with Gen. L. V. Bierce, of Arkon, about 1859 or 1860. He continued in that partnership till _ the General's appointment to the oftice of Assistant Adjutant General, when he a few years later removed to Omaha, Neb. Wilbur F. Sanders was born in New York, and read law under Hon. Sidney Edgerton, at Akron. He was admitted to practice and formed a law

Upon Gov. Edgerton's appointment as Judge for the Territory of Idaho, Mr. Sanders became a resident of that part of the Territory now included in Montana, where he has been in practice as a lawyer ever since. Charles Rhinehart was born in Hopkinton, N. Y. He was |

[ This closes the sketch of the bar of the past, of Summit County, and brings us down to those now living. As the present members of the bar have biographical sketches in another department of this work, we deem it unnecessary to repeat the same in this chapter. One of the oldest representatives of the present bar is Judge McClure, and to whose biograph-

Judge James S. Carpenter studied law with Camp & Canfield, at Medina, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar May 29, 1838, at Springfleld, Ohio. He came to Akron in 1846, and has practiced here eversince. JudgeC. Bryan located in Akron in the fall of 1833, and was admitted to the bar in Columbus in 1834. Hon. Sidney Edgerton. (See biographical sketch.) Judge S. H. Pitkin studied law in Fulton County, Il., and was admitted to the bar at Lewiston (same county) about 1836, and came to this county in 1852. William H. Upson (see biographical sketch), was admitted to | to the bar at Cleveland in September, 1845: | Edward Oviatt, in September, 1846, at Medina; |

N. W. Goodhue, at the September term of the Supreme Court, at Akron, in 1847: Edwin P. Greene, at Akron, in September, 1852; Judge | N. D. Tibballs, at Akron, in September, 1855; John J. Hall, at Canton, Ohio, in May, 1857; | Gen. A. C. Voris (see biographical sketch elsewhere); J. A. Kohler was admitted to the bar in 1859; H. W. Ingersoll, at Columbus, March | 29, 1859; Judge U. S. Marvin, in May, 1860; | Gen. Thomas F. Wilde, at Cincinnati, in 1866; Calvin P. Humphrey was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1866; Edwin W. Stuart, at Cleveland, in 1866; H. C. Sanford, at Ravenna, in April, 1868; George T. Ford, in 1869; Newton Chalker graduated from the Law Department of the University of Albany in 1869; James M. Poulson was admitted to the bar in the fall of | 1870; G. K. Pardee, in 1870; George S. May, in 1872; Richard P. Marvin, in May, 1873; John H. Campbell graduated from the Law Department of the Michigan University in 1873; Charles Baird was admitted to the bar about the year 1874; John M. Fraze, at Louisville, Ky., in 1874; Charles R. Grant, in December, 1874; Newton Ford, at Akron, in August, 1876;

Noah Hodge was admitted to practic in the Super'~r Court of Mississippi, in January, 1875; John C. Means was admitted to the bar in the District Court of Summit County, in August, 1876; John Johnston was admitted to the bar in 1876; James McNaughten was admitted to the bar in 1876; Charles Robin- | son, at Columbus, in December, 1877; E. T. Voris, at Cleveland, in October, 1877; J. V. |

The history of the medical profession in Summit County dates back to the year 1800, or the time of the earliest settlements, the demands for a doctor's services being then as now proportionate with the spread of civilization. The New England and Middle States having furnished most if not all of our earliest physicians, we have only to look at the history of the profession in those States to become were what are called "regulars" - those who bled, blistered, gave calomel, jalap, tartaremetic and the like. Homeopathy was scarcely known on this side of the Atlantic, while Thomsonianism, hydropathy, physiopathy, thermalism, magnetism and kindred dogmas had not yet found their way into the world.

and now, we will pass to the local history of the different towns and townships, giving as nearly as possible the succession of physicians who have practiced in each with as much in the vicinity of Middlebury while that place was yet in its infancy. He was born in 1778, and probably came to Akron about 1815. After practicing about twenty years, he re moved to Michigan where he died in 1840. Dr. Elijah Hanchett, a brother, was born in Connecticut in 1776, and began practice in Saratoga County, N. Y., in 1798, where he remained until 1832, when at the solicitation

' in 1795, and lived on a farm until the age of _ twenty. He then began the study of anda _ few years later graduated from Fairfield Medical College in his native State. In 1824, he was, "to die among strangers," as he expressed it. Dr. E. F. Bryan, brother of Judge Bryan, came to Akron in the summer of 1833, and remained until 1836 or 1837, going then to Granville, Licking County. He was a native of Delaware County, N. Y., and received | his medical education at Yale College. Dr. Ackley came from Rochester, N. Y., about 1834, and practiced in Akron for a few years, going from here to Cleveland, where he became quite prominent in his profession, and in his connection with the medical college. Dr. Crosby came to Middlebury some time about 1835, and remained there and in Akron for a number of years. Though originally of the regular school of medicine, he latterly embraced the homeopathic faith and made How- as most of his time and energies were spent in speculations of different kinds. Dr. Cleveland practiced in Akron between 1830 and 1840. Dr. D. D. Evans was a native of New York State; came to Akron in 1836, and practiced here until the time of his death which occurred in December, 1849. He was a doctor of more than ordinary ability for the time in which he lived, enjoyed a good reputation and an extensive practice; was universally esteemed, and for many years was the leading man in the profession of this section of the State. In connection with the death of Dr. Evans, a sad but very interesting circumstance is related, which in substance is as follows: While treating a case of malignant erysipelas at Cuyahoga Falls, Dr. Evans in some manner became infected with the poison and died within a few days thereafter. A post-mortem examination of Dr. Evans was made at which quite a number of physicians were present, and among them were Drs. Huntington and Angel, both of whom either became inoculated or absorbed the virus, the former dying within a few weeks, while the latter suffered immediate sloughing of one arm, and died from the poison a few years later. Nor was this all. A and, in 1839, began practicing in Mogadore, then in Portage County, where he remained until 1858, in the meantime having taken a course of lectures at Willoughby Medical College, and graduated after that college had removed to Cleveland. He spent two years - 1850 and 1851 - in California, and, from 1855 to 1857, represented this county in the State Legislature. Since 1858 up to the present time, he has lived in Middlebury (Sixth Ward of Akron), and has during all this time followed

Dr. William P. Cushman was born at Randolph, Vt., in 1810, and up to the age of twenty-two he worked on a farm during most In 1832, he went to New York

Dr. E. W. Howard was born in Andover, Windsor Co., Vt., in 1816, and until the age of nineteen lived with his parents on a farm. securing in the meantime a liberal education at the Chester Academy. He then took a trip by him persuaded to study medicine.- He at once began reading in the office of his cousin, where he continued until the following year, when he attended a course of lectures in Pittsfield, Mass. He then went home and read two years with Dr. L. G. Whiting, and. in 1838, graduated from the Berkshire Medical College, Pittstield, Mass. After practicing one year city. During the late war, he was sent South by Gov. Tod, and served several months in the hospitals at Frederick City, Md. and Nashville, Tenn.

removed with his parents to Canandaigua, N. Y. At the age of fourteen, he entered Union College at Schenectady, and graduated two years later. He then began the study of medicine with his father. and soon afterward age of nineteen years. He then practiced some as an assistant to Dr. Valentine Mott, and on becoming of age received his degree after which he returned to Canadaigna, and In 1840, he came to Akron. where he practiced until the time of his death. September. 1855. With his death passed away the last physician in a family which, for at least four generations. had been represented in the regular profession.

Dr. Samuel W. Bartges ( Uriscopist ). was born in Union City. Penn.. in 1814. and. in LS3%. came with his parents to Columbiana County, Ohio, where he was engaged for a few years in a general merchand se store. In 183%, lie began reading medicine with Dr. John Dellenbaugh, with whom he remained for tive years. during the last two of which he practiced to some extent. In 1842. he came to Akron. where he has continued to practice nntil the present time. Dr. Perkins Wallace came tu Akron in 1843, and practiced here a short time.

Dr. J. W. Hamilton, now Professor of Surgery in Columbus Medical College. practiced in Akron a short time about 1850. Dr. Joseph Stanton, brother of Prof. Dr. Byron Stanton, of Cincinnati, came to Akron about 1850: practiced four or five years and died. Dr. Alexander Fisher. for several years a practitioner of Western Star. came to Akron soon after the death of Dr. Evans, and remained several years. He then went West and is now in Chicago. Dr. J. P. Peck read medicine with Drs. Evans and Angel: graduated from Cleveland Medical College, and located in Akron about 1882. partnership with Dr. Fisher. and then went. West. being at present a resident of Omaha. Dr. J. S. Wilson came to Akron about 1856 or 1857. as a successor to Dr. Fisher. and remained a few vears. Dr. J. J. Smith was born in Springtield Township, this county. in 1820. Graduated from Medical Department of University of Michigan in 1858. Practiced six months in Toledo, and located in Akron in 1856.

fessional reading. In 1832, he began practice in Doylestown, Wayne County, where he remained until 1835. He then attended lectures and graduated at the Medical College of Ohio, receiving his degree in 1836. He then practiced two years in Canton, Ohio, going next to Massillon, where he practiced nearly twenty years, gaining in that time an extensive practice and wide-spread reputation. In 1857, he came to Akron, and continued in active practice until the time of his death, Janu-

Dr. George P. Ashmun was a native of St. | ' Lawrence County, N. Y., and, in 1834, came | In 1836. he | ' began the study of medicine with Dr. Amos

_ land. Began reading medicine with Dr. Crit- | . tenden, of Kent, Ohio, in 1841, and four years | later graduated from Cleveland Medical College, 1863. and since then has been in Akron. late years he has given up the regular practice, and devoted his attention principally to the drug business and treatment of chronic diseases.

he began teaching and soon afterward took up the study of medicine with Dr. Estep, but, owing to limited means, was obliged to continue his teaching in connection with his pro- |

| Attended Cleveland Medical College in 1849, after which he practiced in Kentucky and | ' Missouri until 1857, when he returned to Ohio | and took another course of lectures, graduat- | ing in the spring of 1858. He then practiced | then went West practicing at Virginia City and Helena until 1865, when he returned to Montrose. Practiced there until 1873, and then removed to Akron, where he has since remained. Dr. Charles R. Pierce came to Akron about 1858, and practiced until 1862, when he entered the service as Assistant Surgeon. Died in 1863.

Dr. B. S. Chase was born in Vermont in 1834, and was brought up on a farm until he became of age, receiving in the meantime a liberal education at the Chester Academy.

Mich., and after taking one course of lectures came to Akron and continued his studies with his uncle, Dr. E. W. Howard. In 1856, he graduated from University of Michigan, following which he practiced with Dr. Howard until 1862, when he entered the army as Assistant Surgeon of the Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In June, 1863, he was promoted to Surgeon and was transferred to the Fifty-third Mississippi Colored Regiment, with whom he served until the close of the war, becoming very popular as a Surgeon as well as a soldier. He served on the Operating Board at the battles of Chickasaw

Dr. T. M. Leight is a native of Snyder County, Penn.,and was born in 1827. When twenty years of age, he began reading medicine, and after four or five years officé tuition began practicing at McKees Falls in his native county. He remained here about nine years, within which time he attended lectures in Phil

| with his parents to Wayne County, Ohio, | where he was brought up on a farm until the | age of sixteen, after which he xttended the | Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. | 1848, he began reading medicine with Dr. L

H. Baker, of Wooster, and, in 1850, graduated from Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio. Practiced seven years at Nashville, Ohio, and then removed to Millersburg, where going then into the army as Surgeon of the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After serving with the regiment two years, he resigned and came home, but soon after raised the Fifty-ninth Battalion, and, upon the call of the " hundred days' men," his battalion was attached to the One Hundred

Dr. W.C. Jacobs is a native of Lima. Ohio, and was born in 1840. His early life was spent in his native village and on a farm. At the age of sixteen he was appointed a cadet midshipman, and attended school at Annapolis until 1859, when he resigned and began the study of medicine with Dr. Carson, of Cincinnati. In March, 1862, he graduated from Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, and in the following month was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, with whom he served until December, when he was promoted to Surgeon and assigned to the Kighty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. With this regiment he remained until the close of the war, and during the Atlanta campaign, served on the Operating Board of the Sixteenth Army Corps. In October, 1865, he came to Akron, where he has since followed his profession.

chanicsburg, and the next year attended a course of lectures at Jefferson Medical College. In 1862, he went into the army as Assistant Surgeon, serving with the Nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia a short the latter's term of enlistment. completed his course at Jefferson Medical College, and in the same spring (1864) came to Ohio. Practiced at Canal Fulton two

Dr S. T. Odell was born at Bellville, Ind, in 1842, and received his preliminary education at Bellville Academy. In 1861, he entered the army, serving until 1863 with the years, and then came to Akron, where he still | Eleventh Indiana (Zouaves), and the balance | of his term with the Fifty-third United States

Dr. Elizur Hitchcock was born in Tall- | Colored Troops, of which he was First madge Township in 1832, and up to the age ; Lieutenant and Adjutant. While connected of eighteen worked on his father's farm and | with the latter regiment, he read medicine and at the close of his service - fall of 1865, attended a course of lectures at Ann Arbor, Mich., and the next year attended his second course at the Rush Medical College, Chicago, After practicing a few located at West Williamstield, Ashtabula County. continuing there until 1869. He then attended a course of lectures in New York City, and, in 1870, came to Akron, where he has since been practicing.

Dr. A. E. Foltz was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1540, and at the age of seventeen began teaching school. in which calling he continued nntil 1462. In July of the same year, he, with four of his brothers. enlisted in the One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. serving with the regiment until the close of the war. In 1869, he began reading medicine with his brother, Dr. W. K. Foltz, of Sharon Center, Medina County. and. in 1869, graduated at Charity Hospital Medical College in Cleveland. Practiced one year at Ashland and then came to Akron. where he has since followed his profession.

Dr. L. S. Ebright was born at Royalton, Fairfield County. Ohio, in 1844, and received his early education in the common schools of his native town. He served his country during the rebellion, and after its close began the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. Thomas McEbright. of Akron. graduating from Charity Hospital Medical College in 1869 or 1870, since which time he has practiced in Akron. Is quite a politician, and is now (1581) a member of the State Legislature.

Dr. H. C. Howard, son of Dr. E. W. Howard, was born in Akron in 1842, and graduated from the Akron High School in 1863. He then began the study of medicine with his father, graduated from Bellevue Hospital

Dr. W. E. Chamberlin was born in Alle gheny City in 1840, and was educated at Marietta (Ohio) High School. In 1854, he began the study of medicine with his father - then of Peninsula, in this county - and,

Dr. A. F. Chandler was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1845, but at an early age removed with his parents to Rockford, Il. In 1863, he enlisted with the One Hundred and Forty-sixth [linois Infantry, and served with the regiment until the close of the war. He then attended and graduated from Rockford High School, and, in 1847, began reading medicine with Dr. W. E. Chandler, of his own place. In March, 1871, he graduated from

Dr. G. G. Baker was born in Norwalk, Ohio, in 1849, and received his education at the common schools of that place and at Western Reserve College. reading medicine with Drs. Read and Ford,

Dr. H M. Fisher was born in Warren, Penn, in 1848, and received his education in the Franklin and Warren Academies 'and Allegheny College. In 1867, he began reading medicine with Dr. Stranahan, of his native graduated from Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in March, 1876, since which time he has practiced in Akron. Dr. James P. Boyd was born in England in 1850, but came to this country while quite young. Received his education at Jamestown, N. Y., and Ann Arbor, Mich. and, in 1872, began reading medicine with Dr. Haseltine. of Grand Rapids, Mich In 1875, he

Grand River Institute in his native town - Austinburg. In 1872, he began reading med. icine with his brother, Dr. A. B. Reed, of Cleveland, and graduated from Charity Hospital Medical College in 1876. since which time he has followed his profession in the Sixth Ward of Akron.

Dr. C. C. Davison was born in Northampton Township in 1851. and was brought up on afarm. In 1872, he began reading medicine with Dr. E. W. Howard, and graduated from After practicing several months at Botzum Station. in this county, he came to Sixth Ward, Skron. where he is now practicing.

Sixty-fourth [linois Infantry. In 1870, he began the study of medicine with Dr. Thompson, of Princeton, Ill, and graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1875. In the following year, he came to Akron, and. in July, 1877, began the practice of his profession, in which he has since continued.

Dr. W. K. Foltz was born in Mifflin County. Penn., in 1829, and until the age of eighteen remained at home, alternately working and attending school. He then taught school for

' year removed to Sharon Center, where he remained until 1867, in the meantime having attended lectures and graduated at the Eclectic College of Medicine, Cincinnati, in 1859. From 1867 to 1877, he was engaged in the drug business at Ashland, and since then has been practicing in Akron.

Dr. L. S. Sweitzer was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and was educated at Heidelberg College. Tiffin, Ohio. Began reading medicine with Dr. Buchman in 1872, and graduated from Cleveland Medical College in 1579, after which he served eighteen months in the Cleveland Hospital. He then practiced some time in his native county, spent one year in New York City attending lectures, and, in the spring of 1879. located in Akron, where he is at the present time.

Dr. L. J. Proehl was born at Akron in 1850, but at the age of eight removed with his parents into Coventry Township. In 1873, he entered the National Normal School at Lebanon. Ohio, graduating in 1876.- He then began the study of medicine with Dr. W. C. Jacobs, and graduated from Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, in 1879, since which time he has practiced in Akron.

Dr. Eli Conn was born in Butler County, Penn, in 183%. In 1861, he entered the army, serving four years, after which he attended Baldwin University, graduating in 1568. Attended lectures at Cleveland Medical College in 1869 and 1571: practiced a short time. and, in 1872, was elected to the ottice of Prothonotary of his native county, serving four years. In the spring of 1876, he graduated from Charity Hospital Medical College: practiced in Butler County until 1880, when he came to Akron.

Dr. T. K Jacobs, Jr., was born in Lima in 1858, and. from 1873 to 1876, attended Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio. He then began reading medicine with his brother, _ Dr. W. C. Jacobs, graduated from Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati. in 1830, and same year began practice with his brother in medicine in 1874 with Drs. Chase and Underwood, of College in 1877. Practiced several years at Clinton, after which he came to Akron and entered the dental profession.

In addition to the above we have the following-named physicians who have practiced in the county, but of whom, for various reasons, no definite notes could be procured.

Dr. B. B. Brashear is a native of Fayette County, Penn, where he was born in 1822. During the late war he served as Surgeon of the Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and, in 1878, came to Akron.

Dr. Frank A. Hanford, a native of Cuyahoga Falls, and graduate of Western Reserve College; read medicine with Dr. T. Mc- Ebright, and graduated at Charity Hospital Medical College in 1575. He then practiced in Sixth Ward a short time, but his health failing he went to California, where he soon afterward died of consumption.

Dr. A. F. Peck came to Akron in the early | part of last decade; practiced a few years, and | then went to Cleveland where he died in 1877. -

Dr. O. D. Childs (Homceopath), was born | at Moretown, Vt., in 1840, and up to the age . of twenty-one lived at home ona farm, receiv- - ing in the meantime a common and high | school education. In 1863, he began reading homeopathy at Oshkosh, Wis., and graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic College in 1867, since which he has practiced in Akron.

Dr. William Murdoch (Homeeopath), was born in Scotland in 1842, but at an early age came with his parents to this country and became a resident of Trumbull County, Ohio.

ness College. In 1869, he began the study of homeopathic medicine, and graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College in 1873, since which he has followed his profession; two years at Garrettsville and the balance of the time in Akron.

Dr. J. W. Rockwell (Homceopath), was born at Hudson in 1840, and attended the Akron schools. In 1873, he began the study of medicine with Dr. Childs, graduated from Chicago Hahnemann College in 1877, and since then has practiced in Akron.

Dr. DeWitt G. Wilcox (Homcopath), was born in Akron in 1858, and graduated from the Akron High School in 1876, after which he attended Buchtel College for a few years. He then began the study of medicine with

Dr. C. W. Rice, the first physician who was ever permanently located in Cuyahoga Falls, was born in Middlefield, Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1803; studied medicine with Dr. Spafford, of

| Cooperstown, N. Y., and graduated from Fairfield College, at Cazenovia, in the same State in 1829. After practicing one year with his preceptor, he came to Cuyahoga Falls in 1830, and there followed his profession until his death, which occurred in 1861. He was a man of very decided character, positive in his likes and dislikes, bitter in his denunciations of homeopathy, and outspoken in his opposition to Freemasonry; but withal was a skillful

Dr. John Davis came to Cuyahoga Falls in 1840. He was well educated in medicine, acquired a good practice and was highly spoken of by the profession as well as by the people generally. He removed to Michigan about 1853.

Cuyahoga Falls a number of years, during which time he attained a good reputation as a physician and was held in high esteem by the people. He served one term in the State Legislature, and held the office of Postmaster under Lincoln and Johnson.

Dr. Foote, an adherent of the botanical system of medicine, practiced in Cuyahoga Falls a number of years. Among those who practiced in this village at some time or other in the past, but of whom nothing definite could be learned, we find the names of Dr. Corry, Dr. S. Perham, Dr. J. S. Newbury. Dr. Hubbard, Dr. Shoemaker and Dr. Henshaw. the last being of the homeopathic school.

Dr. Mary Watson lived in Cuyahoga Falis some twenty years, leaving there in 1570). She claimed to be an Eclectic, and is reported to have had some practice. especially among

Dr. G. C. Upson, our oldest living practitioner of medicine, was born in Tallmadge Township. He read medicine with Dr. Rice, of Cuyahoga Falls, and attended lectures at the medical department of Western Reserve College, graduating from that institution in 1847. After practicing three years with Dr. Taylor, of Twinsburg, in this county, he located at Cuyahoga Falls, where he has since practiced.

Dr. T. F. Heath was born in Connecticut. but spent most of his early life in Western New York. Attended a course of lectures at the medical college in Pittsfield. Mass.. and afterward two courses at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, graduating from the latter in March, 1851. In July of the same year, he came to Cuyahoga Falls where he has since practiced his profession, besides being of late years connected with the drug business.

Dr. J. M. Crafts was born in 1840, and is tlre son of Dr. Ambrose S. Crafts, who came to Ravenna in 1860. He ,-uduated from Charity Hospital Medical College, Cleveland, in 1864, and then entered the army as Assistant Surgeon, serving as such for nearly three years. In 1873, he came to Cuyahoga Falls, and is practicing there at the present time.

life he studied medicine, and graduated from Charity Hosptial Medical College in 1866. Practiced ten years with Dr. J. C. Ferguson at Mogadore, and then came to Cuyahoga Falls, where he is now practicing in partnership with Dr. J. M. Crafts.

Dr. A. H. Bill was born in Cuyahoga Falls in 1851. Studied medicine with Dr. C. M. Fitch, of Chicago. and graduated from Rush Medical College in 1875. Practiced in the office of his preceptor until November, 1875, when he returned to his old home, where he is now practicing.

Dr. H. W. Carter (Homceopath), was born in Twinsburg. Summit Co., Ohio. in 1841. Graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College in 1869, and after one year of professional experience at Knoxville, Tenn., he located in Cuyahoga Falls, his present got from his worthy preceptors. he went to what is now known as Kinderhook. N. Y.. to practice his profession. While here the Connecticut Company's great land purchase and the consequent Western fever attracted him, and being authorized by his father and brother to go and "spy out the land" for them,

| he came to Hudson with the colony under the _ guidance of Daniel Hudson. Having selected / land for his father and brothers. he went | East on foot and brought back his own family and for some years there was no other physician nearer than Warren, and his ride extended from Cleveland to fifty miles south of Hudson. In 1815, he retired from practice and went into general business, which he followed until his death, which occurred in 1858.

to settle in Hudson, was a native of Connecticut, and received his early education at the academies of Franklin and Colchester, and the public schools of the period. In 1807, he went to Middlebury, Vt., and commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Barr, and during his three years stay here he attended two courses of medical lectures at Dartmouth College. After completing his medical education in the spring of 1812, he started on horseback to look up some good field fur practice in the West. In this way he came to Aurora, then a settlement of a few years' growth, but not being very favorably impressed with the outlook, he was on the point of returning to Pittsburgh, when he met Mr. Hudson, of the Hudson colony, who persuaded him to visit the latter place, which he did on the 6th of pect he decided to remain, and at once began the practice of his profession. At that time Twinsburg and Streetsboro were not yet settled, but subsequently his practice extended into those places as well as to Aurora, Mantua, Auburn, Troy, Hiram, Brecksville and Bath. He retired from active practice in 1850, and died in 1869.

practitioner, his counsel in critical cases being especially in demand. He continued in the practice of his profession until within a few years of his death.

his death. which occurred in 1833. On the occasion of his death, the Congregational Church, of which he was a member, made the following record: "Dr. Everett was chosen to the office of Deacon in November, 1831, which office hé well discharged while living. He adorned his profession as a Christian, and died universally lamented."

Dr. L. D. Osborne, after receiving an academic education, entered the Lake Erie Medical College, since merged into the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio; study-

| in the meanwhile as a private student | under Dr. Delemater, a professor in the insti- ' tution. He graduated in 1845, and, after : practicing in various parts of the State, came ' to Hudson in 1854, where he has since followed his profession up to the present time.

icine with Dr. Baker, of Wooster, Ohio, and subsequently became the private pupil of Prof. Weber, of Cleveland. Graduated from Medical Department of the Wooster University in 1865, after which he practiced his profession until 1880, when he died of consumption. Dr. G. L. Starr is a native of Hudson, and an alumnus of Western Reserve College. Class ' of 'd6. He studied medicine with Dr. Maynard, attended lectures at the Cleveland Medical College, and subsequently graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City. Located in Hudson in i878, and continues in his profession to this time.

the township; the first of whom was one of the earliest settlers, as well as the second physician in the county; the second being now one of the oldest physicians in this section of the. country, while the third has but recently entered the profession.

necticut. our sketch began the study of medicine with Dr. Minor, remaining with him about five years, and being in the meantime licensed to practice by the Litchfield County Medical Society. In 1801, he came to Ohio and settled in Vernon. Trumbull County, where he remained about a year and a half practicing and teaching school, after which he went back to Connecticut and was married to Miss Lydia Kinne. Accompanied by his wife and his father's family, he returned to Ohio in 15/3, and practiced in Vernon, Trumbull County, until 1808, when, at the solicitation of Rey. David Bacon, he came to Tallmadge. At that time there were only three or four families in the township. and Dr. Thompson, of Hudson, was the only physician in Summit County. In 1512, he was appointed Surgeon to a company of militia which was stationed at Old Portage, by order of Gen. Harrison, until after Perry's victory on Lake Erie. Dr. Wright continued in the practice of his profession until near the close of his life; was successful. had a widespread reputation and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He died in 1845.

he was sent to the academy to study the class- , ics as preparatory to a professional education, | ' and, at the age of nineteen, began the study | tice. but, in 1835, at the earnest solicitation of. his father he returned to his native town, where he has been in practice continuously up » to the present time.

_ of eighteen he began reading medicine with ' _ his father. and a few years later graduated | _ from Cleveland Medical College. He practiced '

Dr. Sperry has for many years been a resident of Tallmadge, but during a considerable portion of the time has been engaged in the manufacturing business. His early history and place of birth were not ascertained. Several more physicians have at various times been located in Tallmadge, but none except those named above have ever remained for any great length of time.

Concerning the early history of medical practice in Norton Township, very little can now be ascertained, but from careful research we find that since 18+0 no less than fifteen physicians have at various times been located within its limits for the practice of their profession.

Dr. Alexander Fisher was born in Massachusetts. read medicine with a Dr. Richards in. or near. Skaneateles, N. Y.. and came to Western Star sometime between 1840) and 1845. where he remained until about 1852: then practiced in Akron untii near the time of the breaking-out of the rebellion, when he went West and is now practicing in Chicago. During his stay in Norton he enjoyed the rep- dlebury, now the Sixth Ward of Akron, and | Dr. M. M. Dickson came to Norton Township in 1852, and began the study of medicine, soon afterward taking his degree from Cleveland Medical College in 1855. The next year he located at Johnson's Corners, where he practiced until 1862, when he entered the service of his country as Assistant Surgeon. | Was attached to the Western army under Gen. Rosecrans in the campaign of Stone River and Chattanooga, and thence with "Sherman to the sea." After a service of two years and eight months he returned to Johnson's Corners, where he has continued in the practice of his | profession until the present time. : Dr. A. H. Agard succeeded his preceptor, | Dr. Fisher. in the practice of medicine at | Western Star, but after a stay of only a few | years he went West and is now at Sandusky, | Ohio. Dr. Dreher began practicing at Western | Star some time near the beginning of the late | war, but after a few years removed to Loyal | Oak where he remained two years, going next | to Smithville where he now resides. Dr. John Hill was born in Sussex, England, | in 1823. His father, Mr. John Hill, came to . this country in 1828, and settled near Utica. N. » Y.. where he was engaged in farming until 1837, when he came to Cuyahoga County. in this State. The subject of this sketch left home at the age of fifteen, and by means of hard work and teaching school. succeeded in acquiring a limited education. In 1847, he began the study | of medicine with Dr. Alexander Fisher. of Western Star. and in the two following winters attended lectures in the Cleveland Medi cal College. In 1850. he went to California where he remained about three years. going from there to Australia. then to London and - finally back home again in 1854. During the winter of 1854-55. he attended lectures at | Cleveland Medical College. and the following winter went to Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. graduating in the spring of 1856. After practicing in Sharon, Medina County. for nearly a year. he settled on a farm near Western Star, where he now resides. For a few years he devoted part of his time to prac- | tice. but soon dropped medicine entirely and | paid bis entire attention to farming. In 1870, he was elected to the office of County Comunis- | sioner, which office he held by virtue of reelections until 1879, when he resigned by reason of his election to a seat in the State Legislature.

Dr. F. F. Falk served during the late war as Hospital Steward of the Sixteenth Ohio Volunteers, and while acting in that capacity read medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. B.S. Chase. After being mustered out of service he attended lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, receiving his degree in the spring of 1865. He then went to Nash-

Dr. Charles F. H. Willgohs, a native of Germany, settled at Dennison, in Norton Township, about the year 1870), and continued practicing there until about 1878, when he already long list of Summit County doctors, but, unfortunately for the reader as well as for future historians, little if anything more than a mere mention of their names can be said of a majority of them at this time.

Dr. Smith, tirst name not known. was the first man who practiced medicine in this township, and all that can be learned concerning him is that he was an old man in 1530.

Dr. John Thomas was the first physician in the village of Greensburg. He came there about 1838, and remained two years, removing thence to Wood County.

Drs. A. H. Mann. H. Peters. Jacob Musser, Wesley Boden, David Joseph. Benjamin F. Sampsell and Garber followed in close suecession, each remaining a year or two. Then eame Dr. C. A. Perdue, who practiced in the village about six years. though not continuously. Next came Dr. Markam, who re mained one year: then Dr. O. E. Brownell, who remained ten years, and is mentioned among the Akron sketches. Following him came Dr. Howland who remained two years, Dr. Parmele. one year, anu Dr. Reynolds. who was there at the same time and also remained one year.

East Liberty has had two doctors, L. 5S. Witwer and Jonathan Buehtel, each of whom remained about six years. The township is without a physician at present.

Richfield Township has for the last fifty years or more been well supplied with medical men, so far at least as numbers are concerned; and from the date of the earliest settlements in the county up to 1840, the surrounding towns to a distance of about eight or ten miles depended upon Richfield doctors.

Dr. Secretary Rawson. the first physician in the township, was born in the town of Warwick, now Franklin Co.. Mass.. in the year 176, and received his early education in the common schools of that State. At the age of ten he stuck in the chimney corner, which. "as he says," not only gave light and intelligence to the recipient, but to the whole household. When seventeen years old he began a regular course of study at New Salem Academy, where he continued through the summer months of the next four years, his winters in the meanwhile being spent in teaching school. He then entered the office of Dr. Secretary Rawson, of going thence to Royalston. Mass.. where he spent three years in the office of Dr. Batchel- During the last two years of his medical course of study he practiced enough to pay his and at its close received a diploma from a medical society at Montpelier. Vt. In 1823. he came to Ohio. and after practicing one year in Madison. Geauga County. came to Richfield, where he continued in active practice for the next forty-two years. In 1866. he removed to Des Moines. Iowa. He was always an energetic and well-informed physician, and had the will and ability to defend his opinions with tongue or pen. being then. as he is now. a frequent contributor to the newspapers.

from 1830 to 1836. going then to Brunswick. Medina County. Next came Dr. Hiram Wheeler and Dr. William Munson. both of whom did a large business for a number of years. The former died several years ago, and the latter is now living in Independence, Cuyahoga County. Following these came a Dr. Everett. who practiced in the township a few years only. " Dr. Nathan Stevenson read medicine in Richtield with Dr. Munson. and after graduating from a college in New York City. praeticed some years with his preceptor. He then removed to Illinois; served as Surgeon during the rebellion. and died some years ago.

Dr. A. E. Ewing came to Richtield in 1850, and has ever since resided there except when his roaming propensity has carried him off to some other field for a short time. - He graduated from an old medical college in New En-_ gland. but, as he says, "is not considered quite orthodox in medicine or anything else." Dr. H. B. Johnson, now of Beloit, Wis., practiced in the township some years, and served as Surgeon of an Ohio regiment during the rebellion. Dr. I. B. Beach also practiced here a few years in company with his son-in-law, Dr. Johnson. Dr. William Jones studied medicine with Dr. Johnson, and like his preceptor - served us Surgeon in the late war. Dr. Craven practiced here about three years in the first half of the present decade. Besides the above a Dr. Jewett was here a short time previous to 1840, and a Dr. Dickerson from about 1860 to 1870. have at different times tried to gain a patronage in the township, but their success has

In Franklin Township Dr. Adam Sisler, a native of Pennsylvania. has practiced in Manchester since about 1550. Dr. D. Rowe has practiced in the same place since about 1873 or 1570.

Twinsburg Township has found need for physicians like all the world beside. but very few have ever found it a profitable field for practice.

Dr. Otis Bois. from Blanford. Mass.. came to the township about 1834. and practiced medicine about two years in connection with carrying on a general merchandise store. The next was Dr. Taylor. from Aurora. Portage County. who came to Northtield about 1840.

then went to Youngstown. Ohio. same time or perhaps a little later, Dr. Selby moved into the township from Colimer, and remained a few years. In 1863. Dr. Collins, of Bedford, came into the township where he practiced for the next three or four years. Abont the same time Dr. Seth Freeman, who practice of his profession, and has advanced to a fair business. Not far from the same time Dr. Proctor Clark, after attending lectures in Cleveland began the practice of homeeopathy.

The first physician of whom we have any record as having practiced in Northfield Township was Dr. Hosea Bliss. He graduated from Burlington (Vermont) College, in 1825, and. fn 1834, came to Northfield where he continued in practice until the time of his death. in 1874. | Dr. Perkins Wallace came to Brandywine. in this township, some time about 1836, and | remained one year. After this we find the names of Dr. Caruther, Dr. Jones, Dr. Benjamin, Dr. Haseltine. Dr. Carley, homeopath, and Dr. Cranmer. homceopath, each of whom | remained about one year.

Dr. R. S. Hubbard came to the place in 1877, and continues in practice at the present date. He was educated at Baldwin University, and is a graduate of Charity Hospital Medical College.

The only physician who was ever located in | Stow Township was Dr. Luther Spaulding. ' He came from Connecticut and located at , what is known as Stow Corners in the spring | of 1825. practicing there until August of the same year, when he died.

From Boston Township we get the follow- | ing brief history: Franklin County, Mass.. in 1816, but came to this county before he was a year old. Having received his preliminary education at the common schools and Wadsworth Academy, he began the study of medicine with Drs. Trask and Leonar? of Stringsville, about the year He afterward read one year with Dr.

Pixley, and has been in Peninsula for the last six years or more, though engaged in other business than the practice of his profession during most of the time.

School at Lebanon, Obio. About 1871, he began reading medicine with Dr. W. C. Jacobs. of Akron, and. in 1875, graduated at medical college of Ohio at Cincinnati. Practiced in Akron until 1878, since which time he has been practicing at Thomastown. Dr. John B.

: Thomas was reared in the vicinity of Thomastown, read medicine with Drs. Bowen and Foltz; graduated at Charity Hosiptal Medical College, Cleveland. in 18381). and has since then been practicing at his old home.

It is but appropriate that some notice of the medical societies of Summit County should be made in this sketch of the profession. Our limited space, however, will admit of the very briefest mention. As early as 1842. the members of tlie medical profession met to-