Paris Township (part 2 of 5)

GEORGE COLMAN, the subject of this sketch, is one of the wealthiest and most influential Germans of Union Couoty. He was born in Byrne, Germany, April 14, 1828, and is a son of John A. and Mary (Kreitline) Colman; the former a native of Byrne, was born August 9. 1797, and the latter a native of Newburg, Germany, was horn March - , They emigrated to the United States in 1840 and settled in Darby Township, where Mr. Colman purchased a tract of woodland containing 160 acres. He, with his family, occupied it. till his death, which occurred May, 1879. Mr. Colman, our subject, is the fourth of a family of twelve children. He was reared to manhood on afarm, and acquired his education in the common schools of the day, which were by no means noted for their excellence. When of age he embarked in life for himself, working by the month at wages of $8 per month. He was employed as a month-laborer for seven years, at a salary ranging from $8 to $18 per month. At the expiration of this term he nad saved : of the fruits of his "hard and honest toil" $1,400. He invested in seventy-one acres of land, now forming a part of his home farm, on which he located in the latter part of 1855. His farm was in its original state, and no improvements had yet been made. Mr. Colman began the work of clearing and improving his farm. He made:subsequent additions to the original purchase, till his home farm now embodies 600 acres, besides 375 acres located ia Jerome Township. Mr. Colman is a representative of that thrifty class of Germans who had intelligence and principle, and although he went to do for himself when a poor boy, by his censrless industry and energy he has acquired large and valuable property, now owning, in all, 975 acres of finely improved land. He is a man of honor and integrity, and his success in life has been honorably achieved. He displays an important interest in all public enterprises, and is considered one of the most successful farmers of Union County. He was married April 17, 1855, to Mary C. Miller, daughter of John and Rebecca Miller. Mrs. Colman, a native of Germany, was born in May, 1833. Of ten children by this union, seven are living, viz.: John A., William G., John H., John M.. Lizzie, Mary, and Emanuel L. Barbara, Anna and an infant are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Colman are members of the Lutheran Church, and Mr. C. is in political affairs a Republican.

GEORGE W. COURT, retired, Mary sviile. George Court was born March 26, 1835, in Marion County, Ohio, where he was left with limited means and education, and only through his indomitable energy and frugality has made life a pronounced success. He was raised on a farm, and in 1856 began learning the carpenter's trade, and teaching school during the winter. In 1859, he entered upon the mercantile pursuit in which he was engaged until 1863, when he removed to Richwood, Union County. Here he became associated in business with T. P. Cratty, with whom he has since been more or less connected. Mr. Court eagaged largely in building and improving property; erected several dwellings and storehouses in Richwood, and otherwise aided in the improvement and growth of the town. In 1877, he was elected County Treasurer, and the following year became a resident of this city. He pursued the hardware trade during the year 1881, since which time he has been dealing in real estate and landed property. He was married in Marion County, Ohio, in March, 1861, to Miss Eliza, daughter of Thomas Phillips, of that county. Two children born to this issue are living, viz.: Minnie and Edward. Frederick Court, grandfather of George, was a native of Germany, who setiled in Virginia in Joseph, the father of this subject, was born near Harper's Ferry, Va. He was married in Marion County, Ohio, to Miss Maria Sherman, a native of Vermont. Frederick and*family moved and settled in Ross County, Ohio, in 1816, thence to Marion County, where he died in 1842. Joseph raised a family of nine cltildren - six boys and three girls - all of whom are living, as follows. George, eldest; William, Sarah, Mary, Louisa, John, Joseph, Stephen and Frank.

Otway Curry

It is impossible, in this volume, to give an adequate sketch of Mr. Curry, for the thousand particulars which might be included can only be dwelt upon in an extended account of his life, such as only he who is most intimately acquainted with his character and career is competent to prepare.

Otway Curry was born March 26, 1804, on the site of what is now Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio, and was the son of Col. James Curry, a veteran officer of the Revolution, who came with his family to the territory now included in Union County in 1811. Otway Curry was a pupil in the log schoolhouse near the home of his boyhood, and also received much instruction from his parents, of a higher order than that imparted by the half-educated teachers whose services were in demand among the pioneers - eren though they performed a good work in their way. The father was summoned to Chillicothe, a member of the Legislature, in 1812; the eldest son went out with the army to do battle for his country, and the rest of the family remained upon the farm under the superintendence of the prudent and patriotic mother. Alone inthe wilderness, surrounded by savages, they were never molested, though often alarmed. On one occasion their horses showed every indication of fear; their dogs barked furiously, now rushing into the cornfield, and then retreating with bristling hair, as if driven. The famil y, concluding that Indians were near, prepared to fight as well as pray. The mother, in marshaling her forces, stationed young Otway and his brother Stephenson on guard, Otway at the house corner, and Stephenson at the bars, with loaded guns at a rest, and charged them to take aim and fire as soon as they saw an Indian. Fortunately, there was no attack made upon the domestic fort.

As the boy grew to man's estate, he read the small but choice collection of books in his father's library ; and, before he came of age, he attended a select school in the neighborhood taught by Mr. C., a farmer of good education. In 1823, being determined to learn a trade, he went to Lebanon, Ohio, and there learned the art of carpentry. He was subsequently located a short time each at Cincinnati and Detroit, and later at Marion, Ohio. In company with Henry Mason, both possessed of a romantic nature, he made and launched a skiff at Millville, a small village on the Scioto River, and descended that stream to its mouth, proceeding thence down the Ohio to Cincinnati. At the latter point he engaged passage for himself anda box of tools, on a flatboat, and voyaged slowly down the Ohio and Mississippi to Port Gibson, where he spent one year. About this time he summoned courage to offer anonymously some verses to the newspapers, among which were his sweet poems, " My Mother," and " Kingdom Come." His lines wen for him admiration at the outset, and it never diminished in degree during all the subsequent years. Returning to Cincinnati, he contributed more freely to the press, over the signature of " Abdallah," and at this time formed the acquaintance of William D. Gallagher, who was induced to seek, upon perusal of his stanzas, ** The Minstrel's Home." This acquaintance was improved by time, and unbroken by jealousy, envy, or serious misunderstanding. :

On leaving Cincinnati, Mr. Curry returned to his father's house, in Union County, where he passed the winter of 1828-29, dividing his time between the muse and the young lady, Miss Mary Noteman, who was about toand did, in December, become his wife. In 1829, he again visited the South, and spent four or five months at Baton Rouge, contributing, mean while, poetical productions both to the Cincinnati Mirror and the Cincinnati Chronicle. Upon his return, he settled in Trion County and engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he prosecuted with industry till 1839. While on his farm, he courted the muses as opportunity offered, and issued some of his best verses from his rural home. He first appeared in public life in 1836, as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, to which he was re-elected in 1837 and 1842. While serving his last term, he purchased the newspaper known as the Greene County Torch Light, and removed to Xenia; he changed the name of the paper to Xenia Torch Light, and conducted it in an able manner for two years, when he sold out and returned to Marysville. He had previously, in 1838, eine ae s had studied law before his removal to Xenia, but had practiced little up to e time. He became master of his profession, and one of his ablest competitors said of him that, ^ although he entered the law late in life, and practiced it ecarcely ten years, yet hehad no superior as a sound lawyer, within the range of his practice, and bade fair, if his life had been spared a few years longer, to become an eminent legal mind." In 1850, he was elected a member of the second Ohio Constitutional Convention, and with manly firmness and dignity he resisted some of the principles of the instrument which that able body elaborated. In 1853, he purchased the Scioto Gazette, a daily paper published at Chillicothe, whither he removed. He continued to edit this paper with characteristic ability about one year, at the expiration of which time, owing to the failing health of his wife, he sold out and returned to Marysville, where he resumed the practice of his profession. In January, 1854, he was President of the Ohio Editorial Convention, at Cincinnati, and made many friends among the members, who had before known him only by his writings. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1843, and continued in that relation until his death, which occurred February 15, 1855, after a severe illness oftwo weeks' duration. A well-known biographer (tbe late Bishop Thomson) wrote of him:

« Mr. Curry's name is without a spot. In early life he labored with his hands, in later years with his mind - always rendering either moral or material benefit for all that he received. When called to office, it was by unsolicited suffrages, and, when placed in power, he was no tool of party. Nu speeches for sinister ends, no motion for faction purposes, no empty declamations or busy demonstrations or crafty schemes disgraced his political career. Guided by a sense of duty to his country, he walked heedless alike of private threats and popular clamor. At the bar he was the shield of innocence, the terror of guilt and the moderator of Justice. Though liable, like other men, to be deceived by his clien- and influenced by his passions, he would not enforce what he deemed an unjust claim or prosecute a just one in an unjust mode. As an editor, he manifested the same integrity, though sorely tried. Once determined on his course, he stopped at no obstacles, heeded no persecution, and declined no conflict. He was, however, too modest, unambitious and averse to public life for a leader. He was a man of great social and domestic virtue. Asa neighbor, he was considerate, peaceful, obliging and hospitable ; looking with patience upon the weakness, and with silence upon the wrongs of others, he cherished no malignity, fomented no disputes, flattered no patron, and pierced no victim. Though not insensible to ingratitude, meanness and injury, he was too respectful of himself and too charitable toward others to indulge in any utterances that would give pain, unless they were necessary to a prudent maintenance of right. He was as far from being a cynic asa parasite. * * In his home he found a paradise. Thither his steps tended when the toils of the day wereover ; there, among his little ones, he talked as a child, he thought as a child, he played as a child; there, too, he rejoiced with the wife of his youth, and found in her smiles a recompense for his labors and a refuge from . his cares. He was a man of fervent and unostentatious piety, and he delighted in simplicity of worship. * * * * Mr. Curry's chief characteristic was his taste. His mind was in harmony with nature; he had a relish for all beauty. To him it was not in vain that God painted the landscape green, cast the channels of the streams in graceful curves, lighted up the arch of «night, and turned the gates of the day on golden hinges amid the anthems of a grateful world. No thirst for wealth, no conflict for honor, no lust for meaner pleasures destroyed his sensibility to the harmonies and proportions of the universe. Froma child, he was fond of nature and solitude; as he grew up poets were his companions ; with them he sympathized; with them he sat, side by side, in the encbanted land of song; to see, to enjoy what the idle, the worldly and the profane cannot - this was not merely his pastime, but his living. A luxurious melancholy chastened his spirit and mellowed the light which it reflected. * * * * The love of beauty is usually associated with the capacity to reproduce it; that is taste, this is art. Mr. Curry's art was not proportionate to his taste ; it manifested itself in the sweet music of his flute and the sweeter strains of his verse; the former is lost in the empty air, the latter will float down the river of time. His poetry will not be relished by the masses; it has no pæans of battle, no provocations of mirth, no mockery of misery, no strokes of malice. It is the song of a religious soul; faith is the bond which links its stanzas, a faith that brings heaven near to earth and man into fellowship with angels. Like wine, it willbe pronounced better as it grows older; not because it will improve, but because the world's taste will. What he uttered we may suppose was little compared with what he bore away with him into heaven, where he will take up the harp that he laid down too early on earth."

Rebecca S. Nichols, herself a gifted poetess, and a friend of Mr. Curry, speaks thus eloquently of him: " Within the holy fire of poesy burned clear and bright, refining the material man and lifting the more ethereal element of our twofold nature up to the realms of love and faith and peace, where tne indwelling soul preludes the feast of immortal joys. No petty ambitions, no goading desires for name and fame among the great of earth ever soiled the bosom of our friend. To more quietly in his accustomed round of prescribed duties - to enjoy the communion of chosen and congenial minds - to yield himself up to the manifold enchantments of inspiring nature - to utter in verse, smooth and musical as his favorite streams, the live thoughts of the passing moments, made up the sum of his daily happiness; and if a shade of sadness, as of some secret and acknowledged sorrow, bordered the placid beauty of existence, it only added tenderness to the bearts of those who knew and loved him, and made them more eager to minister to his simple and unadulterated pleasures."

Mr. Curry was a man of fine form, tall and well proportioned, possessed a broad, lofty brow, and an open countenance. He wore no beard and was seen always in office and street freshly and cleanly shaven. His taste was unacceptionable in dress, in language, in reading, and, indeed in all things. He was extremely cautious and careful, both in his speech and his writings, and nothing from his pen was ever permitted to go to the press until it had first been scrutinized, word by word, for the sake of correctness and improvement. From this fact, the criticism which, his poems will bear is easily explained. He was, in all respects, a man which any community could ill afford to lose, and the sorrow of his friends and relatives at his untimely taking away was profuse and most sincere.

Mr. Curry was married December 17, 1828, in ihe identical great frame house in which Zachariah Noteman now lives, to Mary, daughter of Andrew Noteman, of Jerome Township, on Darby Creek. Miss Noteman, born August 13, 1806, was a very handsome woman, and was known far and near as the ** Darby Beauty." She had large, lustrous, dark eyes, dark brown hair, and was of a quiet, engaging disposition. She was for many years a member of the Methodist Church, an unassuming Christian woman, and a devoted wife and mother. Her father, it is said, was opposed to the marriage, because of young Curry's too great fondness for books, and the improbability of his ever, in consequence, becoming a thrifty farmer. But the old gentlemen soon became reconciled and was, until the day of his death, a devoted friend of his son-in-law. Soon after the marriage, he gave his daughter and her husband a fine farm on Darby Creek, adjoining Plain City, at present known as the Jones farm. Mrs. Curry died at Marysville, Ohio, April 21, 1856, following her husband to the old Marysviile churchyard in just one year two months and six days. By this marriage there was born to Mr. and Mrs. Curry but two children, a daughter and a son. The eldest, Mary Aletha, was born September 21, 1829, and the son, Llewellyn, November, 28, 1831. Mary was married at her father's house in Marysville, June 24, 1846, to William Cooper, merchant, of Xenia, Ohio (deceased in 1849). She died at her home in Marysville March 18, 1872. Llewellyn studied law with his father and Hon. J. W. Robinson, and in the year 1857 he removed to Chicago, where, as successsively lawyer, journalist and broker, he has since resided.

Sleep on - the cold and heavy hand Of death has stilled thy gentle breast; No rude sound of this stormy land Shall mar thy peaceful rest: Undying guardians round thee close, To count the years of thy repose.

In life's proud dreams I have no part, No share in its resounding glee; 'The musings of my weary heart Are in the grave with thee. There have been bitter tears of mine Above that lowly bed of thine.

And when the twilight hours begun, And shining constellations came, Thou bad'st me know each nightly sun, And con its ancient name ; For thou had'st learned their lore and light With watchings in the tranquil night.

And then, when leaning on thy knee, I saw them in their grandeur rise, It was a joy, in sooth, to me: But now the starry skies Seem holier grown and doubly fair, Since thou art with the angels there.

The stream of life, with hurrying flow, Its course may bear me swiftly thro' ; I grieve not, for I soon shall go, And by thy side renew The love which here for thee I bore, And never leave thy presence more.

The Blossoms Of Life Autumn Musings

"Tis autumn. Many and many a fleeting age Hath faded since the primal morn of Time ; And silently the slowly journeying years, All redolent. of countless seasons, pass.

The spring-time wakes in beauty, and is fraught With power to thrill the leaping pulse of joy, And urge the footsteps of ideal hope With flowery lightness on. In peerless day Resplendent summer garlandeth the world ; And contemplation through her sky serene Ascends unwearied, emulous to lead, To marshal, and to proudly panoply The votaries of ambition as they rise. These, with their gilded pageants, disappear, And vestal Truth leads on the silent hours Of autumn's lonely reign. The weary gales Creep o'er the waters, and the sun-brown plains, Oft whispering as they pass a long farewell To the frail embléms of the waning year, The drooping foliage, and the dying leaves. This is the time for care; to break the spell Of ever-fading fancy; to contrast The evanescent beams of earthly bliss With the long, dread array of deepening ill. The ills of life are twofold: those which fall With lead-like weight upon the mortal clay Are transient in their kind; for the frail dust Erelong shall blend with the innumerous sands, And atoms of the boundless universe, Absorbed in the unfelt, unconscious rest Of lifeless, soulless matter, without change, Save when the far-off period shall arrive Of shadowy nothingness.

The deadlier ills That tinge existence with unbroken gloom Are lost to melioration, for they hold The ever-during spirit in their grasp, And in their kind a withering permanence. To linger in unrest - to be endowed With high aspiring, endless, limitless! On thought's unshackled pinions to outride The air-borne eagles of the Appennines; To pierce the surging depths of endless space; To revel in the stalwart fervidness Of its careering forms! to sweep sublime Through the far regions of immensity, Then fall astounded from the dreaming height, And wake in wildering durance: these are things That well may dim the sleepless eyes of care. And thou, too, Friendship, pilgrim-child of heaven! The balm that brings the spirit sweet relief From the keen stings of sorrow and despair, "Tis thine to give; yet the deep quietude Of the bereaving tomb hath shrouded oft The morning-prime of beings formed for thee.

The Time To Die

Of the unremembered past - Older than the hills their birth, Changing with the changing earth; Countless host succeeding host, Order after order lost ;

And the seas shall disappear. All shall be one mighty tomb, In whose overwhelming gloom Every form of life shall bow ; And of all that greet thee now, Many a loved and loving one, Not a whisper, not a tone,

Of the still and starry night, Soon shall thy sad spirit yearn For the time to part, and turn From the shadowy things of naught To the land of life, thy thought - From the things of lowly dust To the far-off Heaven, thy trust. Then upon the closing eye Heavy shall the midnight lie - Then shall be the hour of doom ; Gird thee for its fear and gloom; Calmly from thy cumbering clay In the silence pass away.

It is said by one who saw Mr. Curry dying, that his dissolution was even as described in the last lines of the above poem - calmly and in the silence his spirit left the « cumbering clay "

The following " Fourth of July Ode" was written by Otway Curry,* and was first sung at a celebration held at Bigelow's Grove, Pleasant Valley, Madison County, Ohio, July 4, 1833, under the leadership of Nelson Cone. The same gentleman led in singing it forty-five years later - September 27, 1878, at & re-union of the Curry family on Mr. Cone's farm in Jerome

Township: ; r God of the high and boundless heaven, We call upon Thy name; We tread the soil that Thou hast given To freedom and to fame. Around us, on the ocean waves, Our starry banners sweep; Around us, in their lowly graves, Our patriot fathers sleep.

The Goings Forth Of God

God walketh onthe earth. The purling rills And mightier streams before Him glance away, Rejoicing in His presence. On the plains And spangled fields, and ip the mazy vales, The living throngs of earth before Him fall With thankful hymns, receiving from His hand Immortal life and gladness. Clothed upon With burning crowns the mountain-heralds stand, Proclaiming to the blooming wilderness The brightness of His coming, and the power Of Him who ever liveth, all in all!

God walketh on the ocean. Brilliantly The glassy waters mirror back His smiles, The surging billows and the gamboling storms Come crouching to His feet. The hoary deep And the green, gorgeous islands offer up The tribute of their treasures - pearls and shells And crown-like drapery of the dashing foam. And solemnly the tesselated halls, And coral domes of mansions in the depths, And gardens of the golden sanded sea, B'end, with the anthems of the chiming waves, Their alleluias unto Him who rules The invisible armies of eternity.

God journeyeth in thesky. From sun tosun, From star to star, the living lightnings flash, And pealing thunders through all space proclaim The goings forth of Him whose potent arm Perpetuates existence, or destroys From depths unknown, unsearchable, profound, Forth rush the wandering comets; girt with flames They blend, in order true, with marshaling hosts Of starry worshipers. The unhallowed orbs Of earth-born fire, that cleave the hazy air, Blanched by the flood of uncreated light, Fly with the fleeting winds and misty clouds Back to their homes, and deep in darkness lie.

God journeyeth in the heavens. Refulgent stars, And glittering crowns of prostrate Seraphim Emboss His burning path. Around Him fall Dread powers, dominions, hosts and kingly thrones. Angels of God - adoring millions - join With spirits pure, redeemed from distant worlds,

The following is the famous ** Log Cabin Song," written by Mr. Curry in 1840, and sung at the great Columbus Convention, on the 22d of February. in that year; tune, " Highland Laddie :"

Oh, where, tell me where, was your buckeye cabin made? Oh, where, tell me where, was your buckeye cabin made? 'Twas built among the merry boys that wield the plow and spade, Where the log cabins stand in the bonnie buckeye shade. 'Twas built, etc.

Oh, what, tell me what, is to be your cabin's fate? Oh, what, tell me what, is to be your cabin's fate? We'll wheel it to the Capital, and place it there elate, For a token and a sign of the bonnie Buckeye State. We'll wheel, etc.

Oh, why, tell me why, does your buckeye cabin go? Oh, why, tell me why, does your buckeye cabin go? It goes against the spoilsmen, for well its builders know Jt was Harrison that fought for the cabins long ago. It goes, etc.

Oh, who fell before him in battle, tell me who? Oh, who fell before him in battle, tell me who? He drove the savage legions, and British armies, too, At the Rapids and the Thames, and old Tippecanoe. He drove, etc.

By whom, tell me whom, will the battle next be won? By whom, tell me whom, will the battle next be won? The spoilemen and leg-treasurers will soon begin to run, And the log-cabin candidate will march to Washington. The spoilsmen, etc.

O what, tell me what, then, will little Martin d6? O what, tell me what, then, will little Martin do? He'll * follow in the footsteps " of Price and Swartwout, too,

Calvin W. McLain, of Jacksonville, Ill., in a letter, dated January 31, 1883, mentioning the foregoing popular song, and the moving of the campaign log cabin from Marysville to Columbus, says:

«I was then but fifteen years old, and of course cannot give as good a history as one who passed through it at mature age. The first I knew of the song, 'O where, tell me where was your buckeye cabin made,' was a short time before the Columbus Convention of February 22, 1840, in my father's* office in the court house at Marysville; he was then County Auditor I think. Otway Curry had written the song, and he had his flute playing, and my father singing. There may have been others present, I cannot say; at any rate, that was the first rehearsal, and they were all wild over it. I was then the printer's devil for the paper called Our Freedom, and at once secured a copy of the song, went to work printing it, and was the first to put it in type and print it without help, The log cabin was then being built; I cannot recollect about the dedication speeches, etc. When the start was made for Columbus, it was before daybreak. I had not obtained permission to go, but secreted myself in one corner of the cabin until we were well out of town, and then showed my big bundle of the song; Consent was given me to go. In addition to yourself, I believe one of the Winget boys was along, but think he did not go through. Well I remember the muddy and toilsome drive until we struck the pike near Jefferson; then all was excitement in that cabin, preparing. for the first grand entry. There we met the delegation from the west, and the town was full of people to remain overnight. The song was sung as we drove through the streets to the hotel, and there was a rush of people from every direction. On arriving at the hotel the crowd closed in on us and demanded the song again; once more was not enough, it had to be repeated, and each verse was followed 'by such shouts as roused the country round about. This first public rendering of the song I catinot better describe than by telling the experience of a relative of mine from near Urbana. He was a stanch Presbyterian of the Scottish type. He told me afterward that at this time, while we were singing the song, he was approaching the town on his way to Columbus; he heard these shouts at intervals, and, as he rode along, came to the conclusion that his party (he was a strong Whig) was going crazy, and he then and there decided that he would not take any part, or in any manner have anything to do with such wild operations. But he approached slowly, and arrived in time to hear the last verse, when he joined with the crowd and yelled as loudly, threw his hat as high, and cut as many antics as any one; farther than that, he did not stop it nor sober down until he got home again. As for myself, in looking back over forty-three years, I have made music a study in all conditions of society - social, religious, political and national - and have engaged with a thousand soldier voices in ' Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom,' during the war, but have never seen anything to excel the effect produced by this song.

« After the song was finished the second time, everybody wanted a copy of it. I was seated in front with the driver, and handed out my bill songs; my hands were cold and numb; I could not handle the money as it rolled in, but by the assistance of all on board, in a short time the songs were all gone, and until late at night I was in demand to teach the tune to the purchasers. At Jefferson we met another log cabin, 1 think from Springfield, Ohio, but it had been built after ours. I claim that the Marysville cabin was the first built for that campaign. I was in the printing office at the time and had access to all the exchanges, and this fact was impressed on my memory. The next dayron to Columbus, the Springfield party singing the questions, and the Marysville cabin boys the replies. I cannot describe the scenes at Columbus; suffice it to say that by the time we got there every one of the phrty was on the roof of the cabin. Crowds swayed from street to street to hear that song again; when the procession was over, the jam around us was so great it was impossible to move, and sing we had to as long as there was anybody on board. We finally wound up by driving in front of the Statesman office; the first verse brought Sam Medary to the window, when we gave him some items for his next issue. Several printing offices published and sold the song. The State Journal office, learning I was the first typo, gave me free all the songs I could seil, and my pockets were well filled when I got home. T cannot now recollect the persons who composed the party, except Mr. Curry and my father. One more incident and I am done: Some years ago, while visiting at Urbana, Ohio, I called at Ab Jennings," then living there, but since moved to Springfield, Ohio. While talking with Mrs. Jennings about Marysville, she excitedly arose and left the room; she soon returned with a flute in her hand, and with a flourish announced, 'that is the identical flute used by Otway Curry in playing while your father sang the log cabin song!' Of course I did reverence it. Yours truly, Carvin W. McLain."

COL. W. L. CURRY, Auditor of Union County, was born on the old Curry homestead in Jerome Township, June 25, 1839. He isthe third son of Stephenson and Sarah D. Curry, and a grandson of Col. James Curry, whose history is given elsewhere in this work. His early life was passed on his father's farm, his education being acquired in the common schools and in the Marysville Academy, and Otterbein University, at Westerville. At the age of eighteen years he engaged in the profession of teaching, which he followed during the winter seasons of four years. On April 24, 1861, in response to the country's first call for volunteers, he enlisted in a company for the first three months' service that was not mustered into service, as the ** three years' call *" was issued before the company was recruited to the required number. On September 8, 1861 he enlisted in Company K, First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and in October, 1861, was appointed Orderly Sergeant of his company. His regiment was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland and after serving on scouting duty in Kentucky during the winter of 1861, they marched with Gen. Thomas' army to Pittsburgh Landing, in April, 1862, and participated in the siege of Corinth. On June 1862, Sergt. Curry was commissioned Second Lieutenant, and on March 3 1863, was promoted to First Lieutenant of his company. The next engagement in which he took part was at Booneville, Mississippi, followed by Courtland, Alabama, where he was taken prisoner. He was exchanged in February, 1863, returned to his regiment and took command of his company and participated in the campaign of Gen. Rosencrans' army, from Murfreesboro to Tullahoma and on to Chattanooga. In August, 1863, he was assigned to the command of Company M, and fought at Alpine and Lafayette, Ga., and at Chickamauga. He commanded this company on the famous raid of the rebel cavalry chieftain Gen. Wheeler through Tennessee, in the rear of Rosencrans' army, in October, 1863, and fought at McMinville, Murfreesboro Shelbyville, Farmington and Mussel Shoals, Ala. Lieut. Curry and his company re-enlisted as veterans at Pulaski, Tenn., January 4, 1864, and after his veteran furlough of thirty days had expired, he joined Sherman's army, early in the spring of 1864, and fought at Moulton, Ala., Peachtree Creek, Noon-day Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and in Kilpatrick's daring raid around the Confederate army in Atlanta, August, 1864. In September, 1864, he was appointed Quartermaster of his regiment, and when Sherman started on his march to the sea, the First Ohio Cavalry marched with the army of Gen. Thomas to Tennessee to intercept Hood, and from there to

Louisville, Ky., to mount and equip. On December 14, 1864, Lieut. Curry was promoted to the rank of Captain. A few days after his arrival at Louisville, he was violently thrown from his horse and received injuries from which he has never recovered and on account of which he was discharged at Nashville, Tenn., December 30, 1864. Returning home he engaged in merchandising in New California, and in 1869, removed to Plain City, where he was engaged in the same business two years. In 1871, he removed to Richwood, where he was engaged in the drug trade until his election to the office of County Auditor, in October, 1875. He is now serving his third term as Auditor of Union County. He takes an active interest in everything pertaining to military matters, is considered the best authority on military law and history, and devotes a great deal of time to the interests of his comrades, in matters of pensions, bounties and other interests. He is now serving as commander of Ransom Reed Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He served for five years as Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourteenth "Regiment Ohio National Guards. Col. Curry is a Republican in politics and always takes an active interest in the affairs of his party and in all political matters. He was married, December 21, 1865, to Martha J. Robinson, daughter of J. D. Robinson, of Jerome Township. She was born in Jerome Township April 12, 1843. Three children have been given to bless this union, of whom two are living - Ivaloo and Lucile. Mr. and Mrs. Curry are members of the Presbyterian Church at Marysville.

JAMES CURRY, fourth son of Stephenson and Sarah D. Curry, was born in Jerome Township, Union County, Ohio, January 4, 1842, He followed farming until February 6, 1865, when he enlisted and served one year in Company B, One Hundred and Lighty-seventh Ohio Volununteer Infantry, under Gen. Steadman, in Georgia. Resumed farming for one year, and in April, 1867, began his collegiate course at Vermillion Institute, Hayesville, Ohio, where he delivered an oration at the tri-ennial re-union of old students, August, 1869. He entered the junior class of the University of Wooster, Ohio, in the spring of 1871, this being the first year of its existence, from which he graduated September 18, 1872, with the degree of A. B., and in 1875, he received the degree of A. M. from the same institution. He was chosen professor of mathematics in Vermillion Institute previous to graduation from the university, and served in that capacity as teacher of Latin and Greek from April, 1872, to June, 1873. He was married to Miss Maggie A. Sloan, of Hayesville, Ohio, September 30, 1873, and went to California to attend the San Francisco Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of San Francisco, March 18, 1874, graduated from the seminary April 29, 1875, and received a call to become pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Carson City, Nev., which he declined, to continue in mission work at San Pablo and West Berkeley, Cul. Under his ministrations a church was gathered up and organized in each place. He was ordained to the gospel ministry and installed pastor of the church at San Pablo, August 28, 1876, while a beautiful house of worship was erected at West Berkeley in 1879. He was elected President of the Alumni Association of the San Francisco Theological Seminary at its organization October, 1880, and was twice re-elected, and delivered the first alumni and decennial oration of the seminary in San Francisco, April, 1881. He resigned his pastorate at San Pablo, February 1, 1883, to concentrate his labors at West Berkeley. At the present time (February, 1883,) he resides in West Berkeley, Cal., is in charge of the Presbyterian Church there, and Moderator of the Presbytery of San Francisco. x

N. P. DAVIDSON, physician, Marysville, was born in Perry County, Ohio, October 10, 1849. Heis the third son of Nicholas and Sirah (Linn) Davidson. He was reared on a farm in his native place till fifteen years of age, when he left home to do for himself. He spent one summer working by the month in Pickaway County, then went to Clay County, Illinois, where he remained till 1872. Hetaught school, of winters for four years, working on the farm during the summer. In the fall of 1872 he returned to Ohio, and entered the National Normal School at Lebanon, in which he remained as a student two years. He resumed teaching and followed it in Warren, Fairfield and Hocking Counties, three years. He read medicine under Dr. G. W. Dawson of Gibsonville, Hocking County, finishing his course in 1877. He attended the Columbus Medical College, graduating February 24, 1882. In 1877-78, he practiced with his preceptor in medicine, and in 1879 began the practice at Oakland, Fairfield County, where he continued until the fall of 1881. In March, 1882, he established himself in Marysville, when he is practicing his profession with success. On February 23, 1877, he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Shepherd, daughter of William and Jenette Shepherd, and a native of Xenia, Ohio. Dr. Davidson and lady are associated with the Presbyterian Church of Marysville. Dr. D. isa member of the Union County Medical Association, and Examining Surgeon for the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company. He had been a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity for twelve years, having joined Clay City, (Ills.) Lodge in 1871. f

LE ROY DECKER, jeweler, Marysville. This enterprising character, with J. B. Cross, established business in this city in 1874, under the firm name of Decker & Cross. This copartnership dissolved the following year and Mr. Decker succeeding, became sole proprietor of the concern. He carries a stock comprising choice selections, in diamonds, watches, clocks, silverware and a full line of jewelery in valuable and artistic designs. He certainly displays fine and judicious judgment in his purchases, buying almost exclusively from the manufacturers. Therefore he is enabled to present to the publica line of goods, equal to any establishment ofour larger cities.

Marysville may well feel proud of this class of enterprise, and the purchaser or visitor will always meet with a pleasant and hearty welcome from its generous and social proprietor. The subject of this sketch whose portrait appears in this volume, emanates from the Buckeye State, and was born in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1845. His father, Frederick Decker, was a native of New Jersey, who, with his family, occupied an early settlement in Bucyrus. Crawford County, Obio, and was distinguished as a pioneer and mechanic. He was a millwright by occupation, and erected one of the first mills in Bucyrus, Ohio. Subsequently he removed to Delaware County, Ohio, where he erected several mills which stand to-day as monuments to his enterprise and. mechanical abilities. For the past twenty-five years he has been engaged in farming, and is at this time, August, 1882, residing on the homestead near Millville, Delaware County. He retains the ownership of the Millville Mill, an e tifice of his construction located near the homestead. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary A. Munson, was born in New Jersey, and Joined her husband in his success and sorrows until death called her from its scenes. Her demise occurred in Delaware County, in 1855. She was a Christian lady, a fond mother and devoted wife. Le Roy Decker was reared on a farm and was taught to toil with his hands. In 1863, he joined the boys in blue in Company D, One Hundred and Forty-fifth O. N. G., and served four months in the field. The regiment was stationed at Arlington Heights performing duty at Forts Craig and Tillinghast. Returning to peaceful pursuits, he was married July 4, 1865, to Miss Maria L. Winget, a native of Delaware County, and'a daughter of W. C. Winget, with whom he subsequently became associated in the mercantile trade at Ostrander. This connection dissolved nine years later, during which time Mr. D. learned the jewelry trade with Spencer Lincoln, of Delaware, after which he further pursued his studies in the wholesale house of G. T. Dorlin, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and became a thorough student and master of his profession. Mr. D. is a member of the Blue Lodge and Chapter in the Masonic fraternity of this city, and the Raper Commandery, No. 19, of Urbana, Ohio. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. His living children are Ella A. and Edith M.

DAVID EDWARDS, book-keeper, Marysville, is the eldest son of Jesse P. and Abrilla (Stephens) Edwards, both natives of Bedford County, Penn., who came to Ohio in 1847, and selected a home in Licking County, where they resided until 1861, when they moved and settled in Jerome Township, Union County, where they yet remain. The subject of this sketch was born in Bedford County, Penn., September 16, 1836. He received his primary education in the schools of Clyde, Sandusky County, completing his education at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and for two years prior to the Rebellion taught school in Licking County. In the spring of 1861, he further pursued his studies in the Narional Normal School at Lebanon, aud the following year taught school at that place. In the summer of 1862, he came to this city, and in August enlisted as First Sergeant in Company K, Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the first engagement against Vicksburg, under Sherman, and at Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863. The following spring he was discharged at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis, on account of disability. Returning to peaceful pursuits, he was appointed Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue, under C. S. Hamilton, and discharged the duties of that office two years, at which time he was appointed Postmaster. In this position he served two years, and resigned. Subsequently he becwme associated as assistant agent of the C., C., C. and I. R. R., and became General Agent and Express Agent, July 1, 1872. This avocation he followed for ten years, and in July, 1881, he engaged as book-keeper for the Butter Tub Factory, in whose employ he is at this time engaged. Mr. Edwards has served on the School Board two terms, and also in the City Council. He ran on the Independent ticket for Clerk, in 1881, and is a citizen well known and highly esteemed. He was married in 1864 to Miss Lucinda, a daughter of Oliver Brooks, a native of Licking County, Ohio. This union has been blessed with four children, three of whom are living, viz.: Dwight B., Orra H. and Arthur H. Mr. Edwards is a member of the Masonic order, the G. A. R., and connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically, he is a Republican.

JOHN S. FLECK, of the firm of Fleck & Chapman, planing-mill, Marysville, is a son of John and Mary (Abrams) Fleck, both natives of Cumberland County, Penn., who settled in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1833. The following year he moved and entered upon a mercantile pursuit at Carrollton, Ohio. In the spring of 1842, he purchased and settled upon a farm in Jerome Township, Union County, which at that time was mostly wooded. Here he industriously worked in clearing the land and plying his trade, shoe-making. He was an energetic man, and a citizen widely known and esteemed. He lost his wife by death in 1858. His demise is recorded in 1872. The subject of this sketch was born in Cumberland County, Penn., January 4, 1827. He became a citizen of Marysville in the fall of 1844, and engaged as an apprentice at the carpenter's trade with Samuel Restler. Three years after he took contracts for building, and entered largely upon the work of his profession. In 1875, he formed the above copartnership, and the firm erected the mill where they have since carried on a large and successful trade in the manufacture of sash, doors and building material. The building covers four lots and has a frontage on Main street of 264 feet. It is fully stocked with lumber, and the house employs from fifteen to twenty men. This firm began business with a capital of $2,500 each, and the sales for year 1881 were $45,000. The estimate for 1882 is $60,000. Mr. Fleck was married in 1849, to Miss

Anna Rose, a native of Lancaster County, Penn., by wh i ivi Fig Mais Kk. Eiern and Charles H. y , by whom he has three children, all living,

' GEURGE A. FOX, farmer, P. O. Marysville, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1824. He, with his step-father, William Boerger, and his wife, Elizabeth, emigrated to this country in 1844. Andrew Fox, father of this subject, died before he (George) was born. He sought employment at Columbus, Ohio, where he became engaged and learned the trade of a bricklayer. This avocation he diligently pursued until 1853, when he moved to this county, and two years afterward purchased his present estate, consisting of seventy-two and three-fourths acres, thirty-three acres of which lie in the limits of the corporation. He also has another farm of 133 acres in Paris Township, most of which is under cultivation. He was united in marriage April 1, 1850, with a daughter of Adam Kuhlman, of this county. Five children born to this union are living, as follows: Emanuel, George W., John L., Nettie M. and Frederick C. Mr. Fleck served in the ranks of the United States Army in 1847, during the war with Mexico, enlisting in Company B, of the Fourth Ohio Infantry, serving until its close, in 1848. He is a Trustee of the Lutheran Church of this city, and a min whose success in life has been marked by energy, economy and unremitting attention to business.

GEORGE EMANUEL FOX, contractor and builder, Marysville, Ohio, was born in Darby Township, this county, November 6, 1851, and is a son of George A. and Susanna (Kuhlman) Fox, natives of Bavaria, Germany, who came to America in 1844 and 1840, respectively. George is the eldest of five children - four sons and one daughter. He removed with his parents to near Marysville in 1854, from Columbus, Ohio, to which place they went soon after his birth. At the age of thirteen, he began learning the trade of masonry and bricklaying, and, seven years later; went to Columbus, in which place and others he followed his trade ten years, and then returned to Marysville. He is an efficient workman, and as monuments to his skill we mention the City Hall, Robinson Building, German Church, Tribune Building, Gunderman Building and a number of elegant private residences. He also built school buildings at the following places: Woodstock, Milford Centre, and Irwin Station. He was married January 24, 1876 to Miss' Josephine. daughter of Andrew and Margaret Burger, who has borne him four children, viz., Carrie, Nettie, Katie and Mary. Mrs. Fox was born March 19, 1853. Both are members of the German Lutheran Church. Mr. Fox affiliates with the Democratic party and is a member of the City Council.

GEORGE W. FOX, Chief of Fire Department, Marysville, was born in Paris Township March 20, 1855, and is a brother of George E. Fox, whose sketch appears in this work. He was reared to farm pursuits until eighteen years of age. at which time he began learning masonry and bricklaying with his father, with whom he served three years. He was afterward connected with his brother in the same business three years, and assisced in the erection of the buildings spoken of in George E.'s sketch. He has been a member of the city fire department since 1878, and was elected its chief in April, 1880, and re-elected in 1882. He was married January 17, 1878, to Barbara, daughter of George and Mary Geier, by whom he has had two children, viz., Mary and George William. Both Mr. and Mrs. Fox are exemplary members of the German Lutheran Church, and are socially esteemed by their many friends and acquaintances. Mrs. F. was born at Columbus, Ohio, in 1855.

~ WESLEY GARRARD, merchant, Marysville. This establishment was opened to the public by its present proprietor, November 19, 1858, at that time located in a building on the present site of the Farmers' Bank. This institution gained notoriety, and became widely known as the Buck-horn Store, by the sign of the horns over the door. The stock consists of groceries, hardware and notions - in fact any article not to be found elsewhere, from a wooden tooth-pick to an anvil, may be had at Garrard's. He purchased the premises of his present location, which he occupied in 1872. His stock is complete, and his trade solid and substantial. Mr. Garrard is a native of Harmony Township, Clark Co., Ohio, where he was born June 9, 1839; he is the only child of Joseph and Lucy (Allen) Garrard, the former a son.of Jacob Garrard, a native of Pennsylvania, and a pioneer of Clark County. He afterward moved to Madison County, where he died. The maternal grandparent, Elijah Allen, was a native of Virginia, a soldier in the war of 1812, and among the pioneers of Madison County. The parents of our subject moved with the family to this city, where he, Joseph, lived to the close of his life, November 23, 1880. He was a social, genial, warm-hearted, home-loviog man, who left a host of friends to mourn his loss. The wife and mother, who survives, is in the eixty-seventh year of her age. Mr. Garrard has been elected Justice of the Peace several terms, and will serve until April, 1883. He was Mayor of this city six years, and is serving the second term on the School Board at the present time, July, 1882, also serving the third year as School Trustee, and is an honored member of the Masonic order. His marriage to Miss Dorcas Cheney, of Jackson Township, Union County, was celebrated in 1859. Three children born to this union are all living, viz., Frank H., Pearl C. and Clyde E. s

SAMUEL G. GILCRIST, farmer, P. O. Marysville, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, February 1, 1837. He is a son of Thomas C. and Eleanor (Guthrie) Gilerist, the former a native of Brooke County, W. Va., and the latter of Harrison County, Ohio; hi» farther was horn August 1, 1812; his parents, William and Jane (Smith) Gilerist, were among tl: eie tt 918 of Belmont County; they removed to Greene County about 1840, where they both died. Thomas C. Gilcrist married Ellen Guthrie, who bore him eight children, viz. - Samuel G., the subject of this sketch; William S.; Austin; Adalaide, wife of William A. Hollenback ; Elizabeth J., wife of B. F. James; Robert A.; Mary R., wife of Nathan Hollenback, and Thomas F. Mr. and Mrs. Gilcrist resided in Harrison and Greene Counties till 1855, when they located in Mill Creek Township, this county, and the following year removed to Bureau County, Ill., where Mrs. G. died January 14, 1862. Samuel G. our subject, was reared to manhood by his parents, and was educated in the common schools and high schools of Princeton, Ill.; he followed teaching, of winters, for ten years ; in 1862 he removed to Marshall County, Ill., and in 1865 returned to Union County and located on the farm that he now occupies. His marriage occured September 9, 1862, with Miss Elizabeth Longbrake, a daughter of Levi Longbrake, one of the wealthiest citizens of Union County. Mrs. Gilcrist was born in Paris Township, September 30, 1844. Four children were the fruits of this union - Franklin M., born April 22, 1865; Levi L., born February 14, 1868; Ellen G., born May 13, 1872, and Samuel S., born August 3, 1878. Mr. Gilcrist owns a productive and well improved farm of 226 acres. He is engaged in the pursuits of agriculture and rearing fine stock, and ranks as one of the successful farmers of the county. He and wife are associated with the Disciples' Church, and are also connected with the Grange, with which Mr. Gilcrist has been prominently identified since its organization. He is now serving the fourth year as Master and has also filled various other offices of that Order. He isa member of the Board of Township Trustees, and in politics is Republican.

MICHAEL GUNDERMAN, farmer, P. O. Marysville, was born in Germany, April 13, 1826; at the age of.ten years his parents, George P. and Sophia Guncerman, emigrated to America and settled in Hamilton, Ohio, where they resided till 1840 and removed to Union County. Mr. Gunderman died in Marysville June 15, 1868, and Mrs. G., December, 1876. Michael is the eldest of eight children; he was reared to manhood on a farm and married, January 27, 1857, to Miss Elizabeth B. a daughter of John W. and Elizabeth B. Borger. Mrs. G. was born in , Germany, January 10, 1836. Their nine children are as follows: Anna M., wife of John Teargardener, Elizabeth M., Anna M., John G., John K., Anna B., Lydia, John W. and John M. When Mr. G. was sixteen, he started for himself at wages of $3 per month, and now owns 105 acres of fine land. He is by occupation a farmer; for thirty-five years he followed the carpenter trade. Politically he is Democratic; he and family are members of the Lutheran Church.

HON. CORNELIUS S. HAMILTON (deceased). This gentleman, the circumstances of whose tragic death are well-remembered by the citizens of Union County, for many years occupied a very prominent position in his county and State. He was chosen to represent the Eighth Congressional District of Ohio, in the fall of 1866, and at the time of his death, December 22, 1867, was yet a member of the National Legislature. The editor of the Marysville Tribune wrote of him as follows:

'* No event has ever occurred in our midst that has cast so deep a gloom over our community as the death of Hon. C. S. Hamilton. He was one of the few men living of whom it might have been said in truth that 'he had no enemy.' He was always foremost in every enterprise designed to build up the interest of Marysville, as well as the entire county. He has left behind him monuments of enterprise that will call up his name for generations to come. He sympathized deeply with every work of charity designed to allay the miseries of others, or to carry on the religious enterprises of the day, and his purse and heart were ever open to all calls made upon him at home and from abroad. It has been truthfully said of him by a cotemporary that he was 'a man of decided convictions and an iron man, and had an impatience amounting to almost intolerance on half-way measures.' No one was ever in doubt as to the position of Mr. Hamilton on any question. He was a radical in every sense of the term, believing firmly in the doctrine that no truth could be safely compromised with error; and thus believing, he acted upon the principle of rejecting any compromise which would have the least tendency to thwart any salutary end desired to be secured. This characteristic was backed by a judgment that never failed to inspire confidence in his views and sentiments. He possessed innate powers of mind, and such a clear conception of right as enabled him to grasp everything he desired to accomplish and give it a practical turn, and every opposition manifested to what he considered to be right and proper only tended to develop a force of character which was irresistible. He was no dogmatist, but was always willing to hear the suggestions and opinions of others, He was one of the comparatively few public men whose mind was schooled to travel in the right direction from a high sense of honor. This gave him a strong hold on the affections of the people, which they at different times acknowledged by electing him to responsible positions in the State and Nation. Few men to our knowledge have combined more of good traits and less evil ones than Mr. Hamilton. He was the noblest work of God - 'an honest man.' There was not a heart in Union County that was not touched by his untimely death. Weare passing through a season of sorrow and gloom such as we have never witnessed. The town and county, as well as the family and friends, are bereaved of one whom to know was to love and respect, and his name and virtues will be cherished for long years to come." an honored member of the bar of his county, and, at a meeting of that body shortly subsequent to his death, resolutions of respect were tendered to his memory, and earnest and heartfelt sympathy to his family. In Congress, the news of his death was received as a great shock, while the press of Washington City and other prominent points united in paying tribute to the memory of the good man fallen in the midst of his life-work. Hon. William Lawrence, of Ohio, a fellowcongressman, performed the duty of announcing his death in the House of Representatives, and in the course of his remarks gave the following facts in the history of the deceased :

't Cornelius Springer Hamilton was born January 2, 1821, in the Township and County of Muskingum, in the State of Ohio, where he resided with his parents until they and he removed to Union County early in 1839. His father and paternal grandfather were men of commanding personal presence, fervent piety, and much native force of intellect. An uncle, Rev. Samuel Hamilton, was, in the early part of his life, and perhaps to the age of fifty years, a man of very superior gifts. The mother of the deceased - of the family of the Springers - like her kinsmen, was distinguished by great force of character. She was diffident, quiet, with deep piety, untiring energy, and strong, vigorous intellect. The paternal and maternal ancestors belonged to the class of independent farmers. The father died only a few months since in the seventy-ninth year of hisage ; and though he raised iwelve children, ten sons and two daughters, every one of whom when the youngest reached majority, yet it is said - and truly - that he did not live long enough ever to have heard one of his children swear an oath, to see one chew or smoke tobacco, or to know of one ever having been intoxicated, or even to have taken a dram at a place of public drinking. The energy, industry and pure morality of the parents were inherited by their children, including the deceased. Up to his eighteenth year, he labored assiduously on the paternal farm in Muskingum, with the ordinary advantages of common schools for two or three months each winter during the latter half of this period. After the removal to Union County, for two years he directed and with great energy and determination assisted the labor by which the father's newly-acquired forest of 1,500 acres was in rapid process of being converted into delightful farms. During his twentieth and twenty-first years, he devoted about eighteen months with great industry in improving his education at Granville College. He early gave evidence of superior intellectual power, and during the years of his farm labor he was a daily student of history, biography, or other works. His early but well-read library consisted of Weem's Life of Washington, the Life of Marion, History of Western Adventures, Goodrich's History of the United States, histories of Rome and Greece, and Américan Biography, to which were added by his uncle, Rev. C. Springer, Johnson's Rambler, Boswell's Life of Johnson, and the Spectator. Upon the removal to the forest home in Union County, a good supply of works of standard poets was added - those of Pollock, Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, Goldsmith, Campbell, Lamb, Kirke White and Rogers, not omitting Burns. Though few, if any, surpassed Mr. Hamilton on that great forest farm in daily labor, yet he was a devoted and industrious student of these great masters. He realized the necessity of great application to develop the mind and store it with abundant knowledge, and he has illustrated the words of a great author of antiquity :

'«« Nil sine magno, Vita labore dedid mortalibus ;'"' or, as Wirt has, with some latitude, translated it into his own almost unrivaled eloquence: 'There is no excellence without great labor. {tis the fiat of fate from which no power of genius can absolve.'

"The age of twenty-two found this rising man a fine English scholar, with a rare knowledge of the autbors I have named, and of that book of books, the Bible, which a father's care and a mother's love had earnestly and always taught him to study, to reverence, and to obey ; whose precepts he accepted and through life made a rule of practice and of faith by practice, rather than in professions, or in adherence to any particular and established school of doctrine. Of him it may be truly said, 'he loved virtue for virtue's sake,' and with a firm belief in the truths of Christianity his 'life was in the right.' q

** He continued his agricultural pur-uits up to about the year 1847. In the meantime, about 1845, he held the office and performed the duties of Land Appraiser and Assessor in his county. In 1850, he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention which, during its sittings in 1850 and 1851, framed the present Constitution of the State of Ohio. He was soon after admitted to the bar and engaged in the practice of the law. About the same time, he became the editor and proprietor of the Marysville Tribune, which he conducted with ability, contributing much to mold the political and moral sentiment of the community in which he resided. In 1856 and 1857, he represented his distriet in the Senate of Ohio with a fidelity and an ability which secured for him a high reputation throughout the State. During the first session, he was made chairman of a committee intrusted with the important duty of investigating certain alleged frauds connected with the leasing of the public works of the State. His investigations and researches were prominent topics of discussion by the press and political parties, but the concurrent testimony of all connected with them is that he dared to do what he conceived to be his duty, and no party fealty could induce him to swerve from that, whatever might be the peril to him personally or to the party whose general principles he supported. In the discussions to which this led he wielded a pen the power of which has never, perhaps, been more for- consideration here. When the national internal revenue act of July 1, 1862, was put in operation, he was appointed by President Lincoln Assessor of the Eighth Congressional District of Ohio, public approval and the confidence of all in his unsullied integrity. After the Philadelphia Convention of 1866, being opposed to the policy of President Johnson, he was relieved of the position he had so welland so faithfully filled. In August, 1866, he was nominated as a candidate. for Congress in the Eighth Ohio District, and in October of that year was elected over his competitor by over 1,800 majority. 1

«While engaged in his duties here as a member ofthe present Congress, during the past month, he Was notified by his wife that one of their sons was seriously afflicted with indications ofinsanity. He immediately repaired to his home to find his worst fears realized. On Saturday, December 21, he had made arrangements to remove the insane son to an asylum the Monday following. On the morning of the next day, the Sabbath, while engaged in feeding his stock, the son, in a fit of frenzy, bereft of reason and unconscious of crime, with a strip of plank struck the fatal blows which, fracturing the skull of his father, produced instant death. This son is described in perhaps the last letter ever written by our departed colleague, thus: ' He has been one of the most quiet, industrious and exemplary boys I ever knew, and my chief reliance for the management of my affairs and the control of my other children in my absence.'

** Thus passed away, in the prime of manhood, by a sad calamity, just as he had entered on an enlarged sphere of usefulness, one among thd able and useful men of the Nation, honored and beloved by all who knew him." Few men in Ohio wielded an abler pen, or wielded it from higher 'convictions of duty, than did Mr. Hamilton. * * * * * When the Thirty-ninth Congress commenced the discussion of thé great work of reconstruction, Mr. Hamilton wrote and published a masterly pamphlet in favor of extending suffrage to men in all the late insurgent States, regardless of race or color. lt attracted wide attention and produced a deep effect on the public mind, being at the time of its publication in advance of public opinion. PAATE

« He has passed from'earth to the *sublimer views of another and a better world which ` Christianity has unfolded with such inexpressible glory - where this corruptible shall put on incorruption and this mortal shall put on immortality.' Men pass away, but the lofty spirits that conceive, and, from right motives, execute good works here, these cannot perish :

'© These shall resist the empire of decay, When time is o'er and worlds have passed away ; Cold in the dust the perished heart may lie, But hat which warmed it once can never die.'

«« Resolved, That in the death of Hon. Cornelius S. Hamilton, late Representative in Congress ` from the Eighth District of Ohio, this House has lost a worthy and useful member, the country a most estimable citizen, and his family,' relatives and associates a steadfast and valued friend.

« Resolved, That, to give expression to our due appreciation of the talents, attainments and patriotism of the deceased, and to indicate their regret and sorrow for his lamented death, the members of this House will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.

«" Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House of Representatives, and that a copy thereof be sent by its Clerk to the family of the deceased.

The announcement of Mr. Hamilton's death was made to the Senate by Mr. McPherson, Clerk of the House, and the members also adopted similar resolutions to those passed in the House. Mr. Hamilton was married to Miss Louisa Vansant, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and left the wife and six children, three sons and three daughters, to mourn him. He was the fifth in descent from Charles Christopher Springer, the Swede, of Wilmington, Delaware, so favorably pon to by Clay in his Annals of the Swedes, and by Ferris in his Original Settlers on the

I. N. HAMILTON, physician, Marysville. Dr. Hamilton is a descendant of a State pioneer family. His father, William Hamilton, was a native of Virginia, from which State he moved to Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1800, being among the first settlers to fell the trees and clear a cabin spot in Springfield Township. He served the county some years as Commissioner, and became widely and popularly known. He was a zealous worker in the cause of Christianity, and devoted many years as a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He grounded the first Methodist organization west of the Alleghanies, at Janesville, Ohio, and farther extended his labors in making long circuits. In 1888, he purchased 1,500 acres of land in Claibourne Township, Union County, upon which he afterward moved and settled with his family. The tract was a dense forest, and he, with his boys, set to work felling timber for a clearing. Large sugar trees yielded a good crop of sugar and molasses, which was followed by the first sown crop of corn, and the work of clearing went on until 500 acres of dense forest had given way to smiling fields, and his acres of woodland rapidly gaye place to acres of wheat. On this farm he lived and toiled and sorrowed and rejoiced for thirty years, and in the bosom of it his body now rests in peace. He was the original organizer of the Methodist Protestant Church of Richwood, in 1838, and founded similar institutions at Essex, Pharisburg, Scioto and other points. At the time of his death, in 1868, he was'in the seventy-eighth year of his age. His first marriage, to Miss Elizabeth Ewing, occurred in Virginia; she died leaving four children. His second wife, Lydia Springer, was a native of Virginia, who died after bearing eight children. The subject of this sketch was the seventh son of William and Lydia (Springer) Hamilton, and was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, June 25, 1828. He was raised on a farm and learned to labor with his hands. He received the common school education of his day, and gave much of his spare time to the study of medicine. He remained on the farm until twenty-two years of age, and in 1852 entered upon a course of study in Starling Medical College. Subsequently, he began the practice of his profession at Amity, Madison Co., Ohio. Two years later, he removed to Unionville, Union County, and in 1862 he returned to the college for graduation. The Doctor became a resident physician of Marysville, in 1868, being in constant practice since that

_time. He enlisted in 1862, as private in the three months' call of the Eighty-sixth Obio Volunteer Infantry, and was detsiled Surgeon of the regiment, in which rank he served the call. He has been Examining Surgeon for pensioners, the past twelve years, served this city in its Council, is a member of the School Board, a tried member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the G. A. R. Also of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Doctor was married in 1850, to Miss Margaret C., a daughter of Michael Cramer, a pioneer of Union County, where she was born. Six children were born to this union, three of whom are living, viz.: Charles S., Frank N. and Michael N. The eldest son, George O., died at the residence of his parents, on Friday, September 1, 1882. He was a member of the Franklin County bar, and after his death a meeting of the bar was held at Columbus, with a full attendance, appropriate speeches were made and a touching memorial prepared.. He was born January 11, 1851, and spent two years reading law in the office of Piper & Robinson, at Marysville, after which he attended Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of the State, May 27, 1874, and shortly afterward formed a partnership with Col. M. C. Lawrence, then one of the leading lawyers of Union County. In October, 1877, he went to Columbus as a member of the firm of Hamilton & Henderson, and continued in the practice there until compelled to give it up by reason of failing health. In July, 1878, his health began failing, and for two years thereafier he struggled to maintain his place at the bar, but in vain; and at last was compelled to give it up and return to his home, where he died k :

COL. JOSEPH' G. HAWKINS, deceased, was born in Goshen, Litchfield County, Conn., January 11, 1828. His father, Joseph Hawkins, was a native of that State and a relative of the Grants, the immediate ancestors of Gen. U. S. Grant. His mother, whose maiden mame was Submitt L. French, was also a native of the said State. When Joseph was a mere infant, his father, with his family, consisting of himself, wife and the subject of this sketch, came to Ohio, and settled in Summit County, near the town of Hudson, where he purchased a farm and commenced business as a farmer, dairyman and stock raiser. The mother of Joseph died. when he was about two years of age. His father again married and continued to reside on the farm first purchased by him, until his death, which occurred in August, 1872. Here Joseph lived, attended school and worked on the farm during his early years. His education was chiefly obtained in the common schools, with some time spent at the " Bissel School," near Hudson, finishing with a term or two at Chester Academy, in Geauga County. Hecontinued with his father until May, 1847, when he enlisted at Columbus in the company commanded 'by Capt. M. C. Lilley, Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Col. C. H. Brough commanding. The regiment, was ordered to Mexico, going first to Matamoras, and, after a short stay, to Vera Cruz, which was reached on September 18th. From Vera Cruz, with the forces under Gen. Joe Lane, he marched toward the City of Mexico, partieipating in all the battles fought by Lane's command until reaching Puebla, from which place the regiment turned back, by reason of the expiration of the term of its enlistment, having been in service fourteen months, two more than the term for which it had been originally enlisted. Mr. Hawkins returned to his home, and again engaged in labor on his father's farm, where he continued until November 20, 1849, when he was united in marriage with Miss Isabel Jane Smart, oldest daughter of Col. William Smart, of Delaware County, Ohio, an estimable young lady, with whom he happily lived up to the breaking out of the rebellion. To them were born two children, a son and a daughter; Leroy S., born September 1, 1851, developed into an amiable, sprightly lad and died April 7, 1864. Submitt ia the daughter, is now living, is an intelligent and well-educated young woman, the wife of Mr. Charles Kelsey, of Marysville. The widow and mother of these children resides in 1 Ohio, and receives a pension from the Government. Soon after his marriage, Mr. Haw en settled on & farm, in Summit County, where for about three years he engaged in farming an i usiness. £ X E moved to Marysville January, 1852, and engaged in the grocery trade; but DRE is occupation not congenial to his taste and habits of life, he soon abandoned it, an HR Ro in various pursuits of a more active nature, being constantly employed in some o ik various branches of industry, up to the time of the attack on Fort Sumter. On receiving the intelligence of this act of treason and rebellion against the Government, his patriotic soul became fired with indignation. He forthwith prepared a roll, inscribed his name thereon, and, mainly by his own exertions, raised a company, for the three months' service, under the call of the President for 75,000 men. On the organization of the company, he was unanimously elected Captain, and the organization completed by electing M. C. Lawrence as First Lieutenant, and Isaiah Slecum Second Lieutenant. This being done, Capt. Hawkins went to Columbus, reported to the proper authorities, and his company was accepted for duty, to report at Camp Jackson at the earliest moment practicable. His purpose being made known, the citizens of Marysville resolved the departure should be signalized by appropriate services. :

The patriotic ladies of Marysville resolved that they would not be outdone, and decided to present a flag to the company when ready for camp. With commendable zeal and industry they set to work; they readily found materia! for the red and blue, but nothing suitable for the white was obtainable at the stores. M'ss Emily A. Carter, an estimable, patriotic young lady, was the fortunate possessor of a beautiful dress of the desired material, which she generously donated, and in due time the flag was completed. It was arranged that on the morning of April 25, 1861, the company should meet the citizens at the Methodist Episcopal Church, and after appropriate ceremonies, the flag be presented. Accordingly, as designated, the citizens assembled, the company filed in and took seats reserved for them ; brief addresses followed, and an appropriate and fervent prayer by Rev. James Smith, at the conclusion of which the company was drawn up in line in front of the church, where the flag was presented, with a most eloquent, stirring and patriotic address, on behalf of the ladies, delivered by Miss Mary Coe, now the wife of Maj. R. R. Henderson, Minneapolis, Minn. Lieut. Slocum received the flag, on behalf of the company, and responded in a feeling manner, and in words fitly chosen. Then came the leave-taking between the soldiers and their families, after which the company fell into line, marched to the depot, and were soon off for Columbus. Reaching the city, it marched to Camp Jackson and was assigned to the Thirteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, then nearly full. On organizing. À. Sanders Pratt was commissioned as Colonel, Columbus D. Mason, Lieutenant Colonel, and Joseph G. Hawkins, Major.

On May 9, the regiment reached Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati, where it was re-organized and enlisted for three years. On re-organization, W. S. Smith, an officer who had served in the regular army, was commissioned as Colonel, Lieut. Col. Mason and Maj. Hawkins retaining their former positions., June 30, the regiment was ordered to West Virginia to re-enforce Gen. MeClellan, and accordingly proceeded, by way of the Ohio River, reaching Parkersburg, Va., on the 1st of July, one thousand strong. July 14, the regiment boarded cars on the Parkersburg Branch Railroad for Oakland, Md., and from thence marched to Greenland Gap. On arriving at that place, no enemy being found, the regiment returned, by way of Oakland, to Clarksburg, Va., thence to Sutton, on Elk River, and went into camp on the hills, where it was joined by infantry and artillery, so that the combined force amounted to about five thousand. During the stay here, the Thirteenth was occupied in picket duty and scouting. Early in September, the army under command of Gen. W. S. Rosecrans set out in pursuit of a large force under the rebel Gen. John B. Floyd, and came up with him on the 10th, strongly intrenched at Carnifax Ferry, where a fierce and hotly contested battle was fought, in which the Thirteenth was engaged, occupying the extreme left of the line. In this engagement the Thirteenth, both officers and men, exhibited such coolness and bravery that it won the lasting respect of the commanding General, and thereafter he regarded it with much favor. There, Col. John W. Lowe, of the Twelfth, fell early in the action, and later in the day, Col. William H. Lytle, of the Tenth, was severely wounded. Here also fell the first Union County soldier killed in the service up to this time - Ransom Reed, of Maj. Hawkins' old company. The enemy retreated during the night and their works were taken possession of by the Uaion troops early next morning, and soon thereafter the Thirteenth took up 2 position at Gawley Bridge. While here, Maj. Hawkins, on October 25, was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, to succeed Lieut. Col. C. B. Mason, resigned.

The Thirteenth now formed a part of Benham's brigade, and with it, on November 6, crossed the Kanawha River, and camped at Loup Creek, where McMullen's battery joined the brigade, and on November 12 the whole force set out in pursuit of Floyd, then in command of the entire rebel army operating in West Virginia. On this march, Col. Hawkins, with his regiment, led the advance, and came up with the rear of the rebel army in full retreat, at or near Cotton Hill. Col. Hawkins deployed skirmishers, while he steadily advanced, delivering a well directed fire into the rebel ranks at short range. The skirmishers, in the mean time, were hotly engaged, one of whom shot and mortally wounded Col. Croghan, in command of the rebel rear. Col. Hawkins soon came up, and assisted in conveying the wounded and dying officer into a house near by, and proffered medical aid, to which the Confederate Colonel replied : ** Sir, you can do nothing for me." At this time Gen. Benham came up, and recognizing in the dying man a once dear friend and class-mate at West Point, with a voice tremulous with emotion exclaimed: "My God! Croghan, is this you?" The recognition was mutual, and was afterward described by Col. Hawkins to the writer as the most affecting scene he had ever witnessed, which soon ended in death - Col. Croghen expiring within thirty minutes.

The rebels immediately fied on the fall of Croghan, were followed by the Union troops as far as Fayetteville, through which Floyd passed and kept up his flight until he reached Louisburg. Fayetteville was found deserted, and the pursuing forces halted and occupied the houses of the place during their stay there. The Union forces turned back from this place, and having driven the entire rebel forces from West Virginia, were ordered to Jeffersonville, Ind., near Louisville, Ky., to which point they were conveyed by way of the Ohio River on transports, the Thirteenth going into camp immediately opposite the latter place. As the army removed from West Virginia, Col. Hawkins obtained leave of absence and visited his family at his home in Marysville, it being his first since going into West Virginia, and proved to be the last as well. He remained a few weeks, mingling in friendly intercourse with his old friends and fellow-citizens, and during the time united with the Presbyterian Church of Marysville, and remained true to its teachings and precepts to the end of life. On December 11, his regiment received orders to join Gen. Buell, then about to march southward in pursuit of Bragg. Col. Hawkins hastened to join his regiment, and came up with it on the march, below Louisville; marched with it, firat to Elizabethtown, thence to Bacon Creek, where a few days were spent in a thorough and rigid drill in order to better prepare the men for the bloody conflict anticipated in the near future. February 10, 1862, he received orders to march on Bowling Green, a strongly fortified place occupied by a large rebel force under Gen. John C. Breckenridge. He immediately pushed forward with his command and entered the place on the 15th, it having been evacuated on the approach of the Union forces. On the 22d, he was ordered, with his regiment, to proceed by cars on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and head the advance of Buell's army, then moving against Nashville, which place was reached on the 26th; crossed the Cumberland and camped about two miles beyond on the Murfreesboro pike. About this time, Col. Hawkins assumed the command of the regiment, in the absence of Col. Smith, who was then, or soon thereafter, promoted to Brigadier General. March 1, he was ordered, with the Seventeenth Brigade, to which * his regiment was then attached, to proceed to Lavergne,to aid a detachment of Federal troops that had been attacked by the rebels. The enemy retreated onthe approach of re-enforcements, and the regiment returned to camp. March 10, Col. Hawkins was ordered to report with his regiment to Gen. Crittenden, and April 2, with that division, joined the forces under Gen. Buell, then marching to re-enforce Grant at Pittsburg Landing. On this march the troops suffered many hardships. It was excessively fatiguing, yet borne with fortitude and cheerfulness by all.

On the evening of April 5, the column under Buell was forty miles from Pittsburg Landing. Marching was resumed early on the morning of the 6th, and, as soon asthe sound of the battle was heard, the speed of the column was accelerated, and Savannah was reached some time in the afternoon, which is about ten miles from the scene of the conflict. From Savannah, Nelson's Division took the advance, closely followed by Crittenden's Division. On reaching Pittsburg Landing, the division under Crittenden was formed in lihe of battle on the right of Nelson's command, where it remained during the entire night, without food or shelter, officers and men lying on their arms, and resting on the damp ground. To add to their discomfort, a cold, drizzling rain set in, that cont:nued through a part of the night. About 8 o'clock, on the morning of April 7, the order was given to advance. Col. Hawkins, with his regiment, soon became hotly engaged witha heavy force of rebels, supported by the famous Washington Battery of New Orleans. He ordered a charge, and led it against this battery in a hand-to-hand struggle, and the battery was taken. Col. Hawkins sprang from his horse, and finding it impossible to take the guns off the field, the horses attached being killed, he spiked one of the guns, and then with soft mud so completely filled and stopped up the others, that the entire battery was rendered useless for a long time thereafter, in consequence of the mud being hardened like bricks in solidity, by the intense heat of the guns. Soon after the capture of this battery the enemy retreated, and the battle of "Shiloh" was fought and won. The Thirteenth Regiment lost heavily in this engagement, in killed, wounded and missing. Of the officers, Maj. Ben. P. Runkle and Capt. R. R. Henderson were severely wounded, and Capt. Isaac R. Gardner soon after died from the effects of wounds received. Silas Kimballand Felix Field, two brave soldiers from Union County, members of Hawkins' old company, were killed and buried on the field,

Soon after this, Col, Hawkins was promoted to Colonel,his commission dating April 7, 1862, the day on which he was engaged in the battle of Pittsburg Landing. He next led his command on Corinth, which place was evacuated by the enemy on May 31. He then joined Buell in his advance on Chattanooga, crossed the Tuscumbia River on June 5, crossed the Tennessee to Florence, Ala., and proceeded to Shallow Creek, and from thence to Huntsville, reaching the latter place on July 1, after a fatiguing march, in which both officers and men endured great hardships from dust, exposure to a broiling Southern sun, and nearly famishing from thirst. After this, the regiment was engaged for a short time on detached duty, guarding the Chattanooga Railroad, and on the 16th joined the division at Stephenson, Ala., and went into camp at Battle Creek, where it remained until August 20. On the above mentioned date the regiment was ordered to advance in pursuit of Bragg, who had left Chattanooga and was well on his way toward Louisville. Such was the celerity of movement, that Louisville was reached in advance of the rebel forces, the Union troops having passed Bragg's army on a parallel road, reaching the city September 26. On this march the soldiers endured suffering, fatigue and privations scarcely equaled in the his-

Aftera much needed rest, again pushed forward, on October 1, in pursuit of Bragg. On the 8th, McCook and Rosseau came up with him near Perryville, Boyle County, Ky. A severe and bloody engagement ensued. 1 ; :

Col. Hawkins with his regiment in Crittenden's Division, forming the right thereof, pursued the retreating rebels, under Bragg, from Perryville, through the valley of Rock Castle River; November &, reached Glasgow, having accomplished the distance by forced marches in twelve days. On reaching Nashville, the Thirteenth encamped and rested for a brief time from its late fatiguing march. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, a brave and accomplished officer, having on October 30, 1862, been assigned to the command of the Army of the Ohio, to succeed Buell, joined the forces near Nashville prior to the arrival of the Thirteenth. December 2, reviewed the Fifth Division of which the Thirteenth formed a part. $

Gen. Rosecrans recognized the Thirteenth as a part of his command of the preceding year; paid it a high compliment for its soldierly appearance, at the same time reminding the officers and men that he bore some very pleasing remembrances of the " Old Thirteenth," as he was pleased to call it, while serving under him in West Virginia. -

On the morning of December 26, the Thirteenth, with Crittenden's Division on the left, Thomas the center, and McCook the right, made the grand advance. The Thirteenth, being in the advance of the division, met and -defeated Wheeler's Cavalry, after a severe fight. Two of this regiment were killed, several wounded, and Lieut. Bates, of Company B, taken prisoner. The enemy was forced back, and Lavergne was reached on the morning of the 27th, on which day that town was evacuated by the enemy. The 28th, being Sunday, was observed as a day of rest by the entire army, by order of Gen. Rosecrans. On the 29th the march was resumed, the whole line advancing toward Stone River, which was reached on the evening of the same day, except the column under McCook, which, by reason of resistance from the enemy, did not get in until near voon of the next day, the 30th. On reaching Stone River, Col. Hawkins was ordered with his regiment on outpost duty, and was thus engaged up to the morning of the 31st, when he was called in, and ordered to take up position in line with the brigade to which the Thirteenth was attached, being the Fourteenth, and constituted the Second Brigade of the Fifth Division. On coming into line, the regiment was ordered, with the division, to cross Stone River and attack the enemy, but had scarcely commenced the advance, when the order was countermanded. The right, under McCook, having been driven in the center, was considered in danger. Col. Hawkins immediately countermarched his regiment, and proceeded on the double quick back te the Murfreesboro pike, where he assisted in rescuing a train that had been attacked by the enemy's cavalry. Soon after rescuing the train, Col. Hawkins received orders to form on the right of his brigade, which brought him on the extreme right, also, of.the Second Brigade. The line being formed, it was ordered by Gen. Van Cleve to advance down a slope thickly covered with cedars, cross an open field, and attack the enemy posted in the wood beyond. Col. Hawkins having reconnoitered the position of the enemy, and knowing its strength, as it was concealed in the wood, which was little more than a dense thicket of cedars, swarming with rebels, informed Van Cleve that the enemy was too strong for the force he was ordering to attack it, and further informed him that the enemy's line was so posted that by the time the attacking force should reach within musket range of the enemy, it would be outflanked and exposed to an enfilading fire. Gen Van Cleve retorted in language discourteous and offensive, implying a doubt of the Colonel's courage, to which Col. Hawkins replied in courteous, yet feeling language - "Gen. Van Cleve, I am not a coward. I have not spoken for myself, but out of regard for my men. I will go inif it takes my life; but I do dislike to see my men slaughtered, without accomplishing any good result." He then turned, placed himself at the head of his regiment, and gave the order to advance, which he led down the slope.