Twinsburg Township (part 2 of 38)

Biogkaphical Sketches

Wayne Coimty, on farm and in coal bank. He enlisted, Aug.* 22, 1862, in Co. G, of the 120tli 0. V. I., and participated in the Trans-Mississippi and Vicksburg campaign, and the Red River expedition. He was captured at Snagg Point, Red River, and imprisoned at Camp Ford for thirteen months ; was at one time sentenced to be shot by the rebels, and taken out for that purpose, but was not executed for some cause. After being inhumanly treated, rendering him an invalid for five years, he was, in 1865, paroled at Camp Ford, and returned to Doylestown, Ohio, and clerked for one year for his old employer, on farm and in coal bank. He was married, October 11, 1866, to Miss Almira Spriiiger, of Doylestown, where he lived until 1875. They have three children, two sons and one daughter. Mr. B., in 1866. engaged in the grocer}' business, and afterward dealt in dry goods. In 1875, he came to Akron, and opened a boot and shoe store on Howard street, for about three years, when he closed out and entered the employ of Teeples & Maxim for about one and one-half years. In 1878, he was appointed, by Mayor Scott, policeman for the Fourth Ward, and has been on the force ever since, a faithful and vigilant officei'. He has always been a stanch Republican in politics.

J. MARTIN BECK, Akron Varnish Works, Akron, Ohio, is a son of Adam and Christina (Hoefer) Beck, and was born in the town of Selb, Bavaria, Germany, Oct. 14, 1843. At 14, he entered as an apprentice in a wholesale grocery and drug house, and served four years without compensation, and paid over $300 to learn the business. He passed a regular examination, and came to the United States in 1862, and to Akron in August of the same year. Here he first entered the employ of M. W. Henry & Co., Mr. Wolf, his half-brother, being a partner. He remained six 3'ears, when his health failed, and he changed his location to Cleveland, where he was employed by E. I. Baldwin & Co. as a salesman for one year. In the spring of 1869, he went to Europe and remained till fall, and returned to the United States in improved health. He entered into partnership with John Wolf and H. J. Church, in the dry goods business, until 1878, when he sold out, and shortly after formed a partnership with E. G. Kubler, and established the Akron Varnish Works, the first and only factory of the kind in the county. The business has largely increased since its establishment. Jan. 12, 1871, he married Miss Kate J. Buchtel, daughter of William Buchtel, Esq. The}' have two sons and one daughter.

SOL J. BUCHER, Constable, Akron; son of David and Catherine (Baird) Bucher, was born in Franklin Township, this county, April 10, 1846. He lived there until the war broke out. At 16, he entered the array, enlisting August 5, 1862, in Co. H, 104th 0. V. I. He served in the Kentucky and East Tennessee invasion, and the Atlanta campaign. At Columbia, Tenn., he was wounded on the 28th of November, 1864, while on skirmish line ; he was shot by a sharpshooter, and the ball entered under his left nostril, crashing through the hard palate, grazing the base of the skull, and lodged between his ear and bones of the neck. The wound was probed by surgeons, and they removed a half ounce ball. His hearing and eyesight were affected for some time. He joined his regiment at Greensboro, N. C, in May, 1865, and was mustered out at Cleveland with his regiment. On his return, he engaged in farming in Coventry Township, until 1869, when he removed to Akron, and was there in the employ of Thomas & Sous, in the planing business, for about a year ; then, for some time, engaged in the grocery business. Next, he worked in the different departments of the '' Excelsior Works," on i-eapers and mowers, and subsequently in the Akron Rubber Works. In 1875, he was elected Constable for Portage Township, which position he has filled by annual elections ever since. He has been a member of the Republican County Committee for two years. September 28, 1866, he married, at Millersburg, Ohio, Mrs. Harriet L. Bucher, widow of the late David Bucher, Jr., and daughter of David Flickinger, formerly of Summit Co. His father was born in Maryland in 1808, and came to Canton with his parents in 1810, the present city having then but four cabins. He grew up there, and moved near Clinton, this county, in 1838. He married Miss Catharine Baird, of Canton, a lady of Scotch descent, born in 1813. He farmed in Franklin Township until his death, in 1858. Ho was one of the "Minute Men" during the Mexican war. He was the father of fourteen children, eleven of whom are deceased ; but six grew up, viz., David, Jr., John, Joseph, Solomon J., Lavina and Amelia, Henry (deceased).

John was a member of the 1st Battalion of the 18th U. S. A., and died at Park Barrack, Louisville, Ky., Dec. 9, 1862. Mrs. David Bucher, Sr., is still living. Theobald Bucher, grandfather of subject, was a French soldier, and removed from Alsatia, France, to America, just after the American Revolution, settling at Baltimore, Md.; then removed to Bellefonte, Center Co., Penn., and, in 1810, to Canton, Ohio, with his family.

JAMES BUCHANAN, foreman in paper mills, Akron ; is a son of James and Elizabeth (Patterson) Buchanan ; she a daughter of Frank Patterson. All were natives of County Donnegal, Ireland ; but emigrated to America, and settled at Quebec, Canada, in 1853, the same year coming to Cuyahoga Falls. James and Elizabeth Buchanan had four children, two of whom are living - our subject, born in 1846, and Helen, now a Mrs. Fred Langs ; he a molder at Webster, Camp & Lanes. The j^oungest and the oldest children died in infancy. James received a limited education, and, at 9 years of age, began working in the paper mill at Cuyahoga Falls, wliere he worked a number of years, and learned the different departments of the work. In Aug. 2, 1862, he enlisted in Co. G, 115th 0. V. I., and was afterward transferred to the Second U. S. Calvary, in which he served two and a half years. He was mustered out of service in August, 1865 ; returned home, and learned the harness-maker's trade, at which he worked three years. In 1868, he re-engaged in the paper mill at the falls, working with the engines and machines, until, in the year 1874, from which time until, in 1876, he was emploj^ed at the Monroe Falls Paper Mills. In 1876, he came to the Akron Paper Company, and, in 1879, accepted the position of foreman of the works. He was married to Mary Ann Nesbitt, by whom he had four children, three of whom are now living, viz., Ellen, Emma and Frank. He is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 50, I. 0. 0. F. He is also connected with the Episcopal Church.

FREDERICK BISHOP, Superintendent Akron Iron Company, Akron ; son of Thomas and Ann (Warner) Bishop ; was born in the county of Warwickshire, England, October 30, 1843. When a child, his parents removed to the iron region of South Staffoi'dshire, England. When 12 years old, he entered a rolling mill at Wednesbury, Eng., in the heart of the iron countr}'. He worked in almost ever}^ department of the business there, and came to the United States in 1868, stopping at Pittsburgh, Penn., from August to November, when he came to Akron, and entered the employ of this company, as puddler's helper for some six months, when he was assigned the management of the finishing mills, a position he held some six years, after which he was employed in the mills of the Mahoning Valley as superintendent of mills (at different points) for four years. He then entered the employ of the Akron Iron Company, in September, 1878, as superintendent, which position he has held ever since. He has been in the iron business for twentj'-six years, and is thoroughly acquainted with all the processes known as to its manufacture. May 31, 1869, he married Miss Ann Baldwin, of Wednesbury, England. He has two children living, and three dead. His father was a farmer, and is living with his wife in England. They were once in the United States.

JOHN BROWN, deceased. The champion of universal liberty, the zealous friend of the colored race, and the hero of Harper's Ferry, was born at Torrington, Conn., on the 9th of May, in the year 1800, and was the son of Owen and Ruth (Mills) Brown. His ancestry is traced back in an unbroken line to Peter Brown, one of the fugitive pilgrims, who landed from the Mayflower on Plymouth Rock in December, 1620. Without tracing the family back to this renowned ancestor, suffice it to say that Capt. John Brown (the grandfather of subject), was an officer in the Revolutionary army, and died of disease during his term of service. He was of the fourth generation from Peter Brown in regular descent. Capt. John Brown's youngest son was named Owen, and was the father of our subject. He came to Ohio in 1805, when the latter was but five years old, and settled in Hudson Township (now in Summit County), where he became one of the principal pioneer settler's of that section. He was commonly called Squire Brown, and was one of the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College; was spoken of as being endowed with energy and enterprise, and of going down to his grave honoi-ed and respected, about 1852, at the age of 87 years. Subject's mother died when he was but 8 years old, a loss he mourned long and sincerely. When the war broke out with England (1812), his father engaged in fur- nishing the troops with beef (sattle. During this war lie had some chance to form his own bo3'ish judgment of men and measures, and to become somewhat familiarly acquainted with many who figured before the country in after 3'ears. A circumstance occurred during this war that made him a most determined Abolitionist, and led him to declare eternal war on slavery. He was staying for a short time with a man who owned a slave boy about his own age. This man made a great pet of him (subject), brought him to table with his first company and friends, and called their attention to every little smart thing he said and did, while the negro boy was badly clothed, poorly fed and lodged in cold weather, and beaten before his eyes with anything that came first to hand. At the age of 10 an old friend induced him to read a little history, by which he acquired some taste for reading ; formed the principal part of his early education and diverted him, in a great manner, from bad company. By reading the lives of great and good men, and their writings, he grew to dislike vain and frivolous conversation and persons. In early life he became ambitious to excel in an3'thing he undertook to perform, and especially in the full labor of a man in any hard work. At an early age he became, to some extent, a convert to Christianity, and was ever after a firm believer in the divine authenticity of the Bible. With this book he became very familiar, and possessed an unusual memory of its entire contents. He was married June 21, 1820, at Hudson, to Miss Dianthe Lusk, an industrious and economical girl of excellent character, earnest piet^^, and of good practical common sense. By this marriage he had seven children, viz., John, Jason, Owen, Frederick. Ruth, Frederick (2d), and an infant son, buried with its mother, Aug. 10, 1832. three days after its birth. By his second wife, Mary A. Da^-, to whom he was married at Meadville, Penn., he had thirteen children, viz., Sarah, Watson, Salmon, Charles, Oliver, Peter, Austin, Anne, Amelia, Sarah (2d), Ellen, infant son, Ellen (2d). From his 21st to his 26th 3-ear, he was engaged in the tanning business and as a farmer in Ohio. At 26, he went to Crawford Co., Penn., where he carried on his old business until 1835, characterized as a thoroughly honest man. In 1835, he moved to Franklin Mills, Portage Co., Ohio, where he remained until 1840, when he went to Hudson and engaged in the wool business with Mr. Oviatt, of Richfield. In 1814, he moved to Akron, and in 1846, to Springfield, Mass., where he lived until 1849, and then removed to Essex Co., N. Y. In 1851, he returned, with his family to Akron, Ohio, where he managed Mr. Perkins' farm and carried on the wool business. It was in 1839 that he first conceived the idea of liberating the Southern slaves. He had seen the blasting and blighting manhood of the nation, and had listened to the "voice of the poor that cried." This sentiment was cherished b}' him, and his efforts in that direction pushed forward, until he expiated with his life the zeal he felt for the down-trodden African. In 1855, on starting for Kansas, he again moved his household to Essex Co., N. Y., where now his "bod}' lies moldering in the dust." But from the period of his going to Kansas, until an ignominious death closed his eventful career, his acts and his deeds are a part of the nation's history, and require no repetition in this sketch.

JAMES N. BALDWIN, merchant miller, Akron. Benson C. Baldwin was born in 1797, in Granville, Mass., and his wife, Louisa A. Neal, in Tallmadge, Ohio, in 1812. He was a minister in the Presbyterian Church, and preached up to the time of his death, which occurred at Medina in 1844. He was the father of three sons, and James, the second child, was born Feb. 22, 1839, in Medina, Ohio. He lived in Middlebury from 1844 to 1851, when his mother moved to Hudson. Here he attended school until he was 19, when he came to Akron and clerked for the Hall Bros, until 1862, when he was emplo^'ed as book-keeper and Secretary of the Chamberlain Company, continuing until 1878, in which year he formed a partnership with George AV. McNeil, and leased the ^Etna Mills, which they have conducted with ftiir success since. In March, 1864, he was married to Miss Augusta Eldred, of Akron, who bore him two children ; she died in January, 1875. In July, 1879, he married Miss Harriet L. Andrus, of Akron.

DENNISON BABCOCK, butcher, Akron, is a son of George, he of Samuel Babcock, who were natives of Groton, Conn. George, with two brothers and one sister, came to Ohio at an early date, he settling in Middlebury, and engaging in mercantile pursuits, which he afterward pursued in Akron Cit}' proper. He was married, June 14, 1829, to Clarissa Williams as a second marriage, by whom he had five children - ^Martha Calista, born July 1, 1830; Sarah Susannah, May 18, 1833; Williams Pierpont, Oct. 27, 1835 ; Clarissa E., Jul}' 31, 1840 (now deceased), and the subject of 'this sketch, born Feb. 12, 1844. Paul Williams, born in 1767, and Sarah Williams, born in 1763, the grandparents of our subject, came to Akron and erected the first log-house in the cit}' proper, the location of which was on Broad street, near the knife works. The family nearly all died during the building of the canal, none being left except the grandmother and the mother of the subject of this sketch, who lived until 1868. The grandmother died in 1832, from the effects of sickness in 1827. Dennison attended school in Akron until 17 years of age, when he learned butchering, and worked for a time at the carpenter's trade. At 18 j-ears of age, he enlisted in Co. H, 104th 0. V. I., in which he served until July, 1865, receiving in the meantime a wound at the battle of Knoxville which sent him to the hospital for a considerable time, which he occupied in filling the position of Hospital Steward. In the spring of 1867, he engaged with his brother in the feed-store business, but disposed of the same the following fall. Then engaged in butchering for about two years, after which time he traveled four years for Alfred Pitkin & Co., steam-heating apparatus, subsequent!}' engaging in the business of carpentering and pattern-making for

D. W. Thomas, continuing for about three years. In March, 1879, he began the butchering business with a meat market at No. 322 East Mill street, where he is now engaged with

E. W. Russell, doing an average business. He was married, Nov. 12, 1873, to Lucy Maria Upson, daughter of Julius Upson, a resident of Cuyahoga Falls. He is prominently identified with the Republican party.

JOHN H. BELLOWS, retired farmer ; P. O. Akron ; is the eldest son of Itharaar Bellows, who was born Feb. 11, 1794, in Groton, Conn., and died in 1868, he being a son of Ephraim, who came, among the earh' settlers, to Coventry and Springfield Townships. The wife of Ithamar was Lanah Haynes, born June 28, 1796 ; died Jan. 17, 1867. Her parents were Daniel and Jane (Ha3'nes) Haynes, who were the first white settlers in Coventry Township. The father of our subject drove an ox -team from Groton, Conn., to Coventry, in the fall of 1811, for Capt. Amos Spicer, with whom he lived until his marriage to Lanah Haynes. b}^ whom he had seven children - Laura, born March 30, 1816 ; John H., April 24, 1818 ; Samantha J., Oct. 20, 1823; Ephraim G., Dec. 15, 1825; Harriet D., March 11, 1830 ; Henry J., Dec. 18, 1833, and Mary E., Dec. 22, 1837. He was alwa^'s a ver}' hard-working man, honest and upright in all his dealing, by which he amassed a considerable fortune, although very liberal, and meeting with many reverses. John H., being the oldest son, received a very limited education, he being employed in assisting his father in clearing up the old homestead until about 25 years of age. He was married, Oct. 9, 1857, to Lydia Ann Myers, daughter of Simeon Mj^ers, an old settler in Norton. They have two sons - Francis Leroy, born Dec. 25, 1859, now engaged as Assistant Superintendent at Akron Rubber Works - and Charles Orlando, born Oct. 25, 1861, now engaged in the manufacturing of brooms, with Bechtel & Pontius.

JAMES H. BURT, book-keeper at Brewster Coal Chutes, Akron ; was born Aug. 19, 1843 ; the son of William Burt, whose father was also named William ; they were natives of England. Our subject is a native of Glamorganshire, South Wales ; and, in the fall of 1853, came from Liverpool to New York with his parents and four sisters. They resided at Wampum, Penn., for one 3ear ; then came to the cit}' of Youngstown, Ohio, where the father now lives, and is engaged as an horticulturist. His mother was a sister to John Beese, whose histor}' appears in Coventr}' Township. James attended school until 13 years of age, when he engaged as a mule driver in the Mahoning Valley until the breaking-out of the war, when he enlisted as drummer in an independent band called " Dixon's Band ;" but was subsequentl}^ connected with the 155th Penns3'lvania Regiment, the band being discharged some time after enlistment, he returned home, and re-enlisted in the 84th 0. V. I. three montlis' men ; but were kept several months overtime, when they were discharged. He then, immediately, Jan. 2, 1864, enlisted in the 15th Ohio Battery, in which he served until June, 1865, when he returned home, and worked on a farm and attended school until April, 1866. when he was engaged as bookkeeper l)y the Crawford, Davis & Co. Coal Mining

Companj', near Youngstown, until 1874, at which time he accepted the position which he now occupies. He was married, Nov. 28, 1867, to Harriette E. Beatty, daughter of John and Lucretia (Darrow) Beatty, natives, he of Ii'eland, she of New England. B_y this marriage, there were five children - Harrison J., Franklin P., Clara May, Alfred and Martha J.

ARTHUR F. BARTGES, Akron ; son of Dr. Samuel W. Bartges ; was born in North Georgetown, Ohio, April 2, 1838, and came with his parents to Akron in 1842, where he attended the public schools until he was 16, entering Western Reserve College of Hudson in 1856, where he spent two j-ears. In 1857, he entered the law office of Ranney, Backus & Noble, of Cleveland, being admitted to the bar at the session of the Supreme Court at Columbus, April 4, 1859. Returning at once to Akron, he formed a partnership with Gen. A. C. Voris, which lasted until 1864. In 1865, he opened a coal mine in Norton, and engaged in the coal business, going to Cleveland in 1869, vvhere he had his principal office, and did a large business in the sale of coal until 1877, when he again came to Akron, and resumed the practice of law, being in active practice ever since.

CAPT. A. P. BxiLDWIN, Agent Akron Iron Company, Akron, oldest son of James and Mary (Robertson) Baldwin, was born Jan. 28, 1838, near 110 North Howard street, Akron ; at 14, he entered the employ of P. D. Hall & Co., as clerk, where he remained until 1859, when his father opened a hardware store on Howard street, under the firm name of James Baldwin & Son ; this they conducted until the war broke out, and, in October, 1861, he enlisted in the 6th Ohio Light Batter}^ organized at Mansfield, Ohio, b}' John Sherman, by whom he was commissioned 2d Lieutenant. After the battle of Mission Ridge he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant, and during the Hood campaign he was made Captain of the 6th Battery ; he was mustered out at New Orleans September 1, 1865, having served nobly in the Pittsburg, Shiloh, Perryville, Stone River, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta Campaign, Resaca, Atlanta (Jonesboro), Spring Hill and Nashville battles. For his gallant services at Spring Hill, of Franklin, Tennessee, he was offered a commission in the regular army, by Corps Commander Gen. D. Stanley, but declined it. On his return to Akron he went into the hardware business with H. W. Wetmore, under the firm name of Wetmore & Baldwin, and in 1 867, it became Wetmore, Baldwin & Paige, so continuing until 1869, when he retired, and in March became General Agent for the Akron Iron Compan}', a position he still retains, representing the company throughout the East, West and South. November 10, 1863, he married Miss Celia F. Ayres, of Akron ; he has four children - James A., John Sherman, Susie and Mary E

JAMES BALDWIN, Akron, was born at Amsterdam, N. Y.,in 1S05, and came to Akron in 1831, having but little means ; he was a carpenter and builder. The firm of Kilbour & Baldwin was presented with lots on corner of Howard & Market streets, for the purpose of erecting a hotel, which they did, and named it the "Pavilion Hotel;" they rented it to Charles B. Cobb, who kept it for several years. Mr. Baldwin put up the present block, comprising Nos. 102,104 and 108 North Howard st. He went into the hardware business in 1859, continuing until 1864, when he retired, and died Sept. 19, 1865. His wife, Mary (Robertson) was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., in 1805, came to Ohio, with her parents, in 1831, and was married. She died in 1872, leaving a family of six children, viz., Miranda P., resident of Aki'oii ; Isabella R., wife of William C. Sullivan, of Oakland, California ; Aaron P. (of whom see sketch) ; James W., died in 1875, near Cincinnati ; Mar}' J., who was the wife of B. D. A. Melvin, of Akron, and died in 1877 ; and Olive J., wife of C. L. Benjamin, of Dennison, Tex. James Baldwin was a civil engineer on the railroad from Schenectady to Albany, N. Y., in 1830, the first railroad in the United States, with Hon. Horatio Allen and James Mills ; he was a man of great industry, and possessed a character without a flaw.

JAMES F. BRUOT, Notary Public, general insurance and real estate agent, Akron ; was born Jan. 29, 1827 ; is the son of John Nicholas Bruot and Catharine Bruot, nee Guyot, of Valentigney, near Montbeliard, Department of Doubs, France, and the descendant of an ancient Huguenot family. He was educated in the normal school of his native town, and in 1843 came out best of his class and drew the first prize of honor ; in May, 1848, he came to the United States, stopping at Buffalo, N. Y., where he engaged to work for an attorney in order to learn the English hmguage ; he went back to France in 1851 on a visit, and while tliere received a power of attorney from Mr. Peter Gressard, of Coventry Township, Summit Co. On his return to the United States, and at the solicitation of Mr. Gressard, he came to this count}' and visited the latter, when he first became acquainted with his wife ; he did not remain long, however ; he, being an only child was again called to France by his parents for the third time. AVhile there his father died accidentally, and, after arranging matters relating to the estate, he returned to Buffalo, and, Dec. 2, 1854, was married in Akron to Miss Kosalie Gressard. He took his wife to Buffalo, and remained there in the grocery and provision business until November, 1857, when he sold out his house, lot and business, at a good margin, and took his wife and first child on a visit to Europe. In 1860, he returned with his lamily to Akron, where, a few months later, after the death of his father-in-law, he purchased the latter's farm. In 1864, he erected a large building on South Main street, where he opened a wholesale and retail grocery store, and, a few years later, erected the Harmonic Block, at a cost of $23,000 ; in November, 1871, he engaged in the general insurance and real estate business, and is at present Notary Public, insurance and real estate agent. He has five children, all of whom are living. Mr. B. has made eight trips to Europe, which, with his original trip to the United States, makes seventeen times crossing of the Atlantic.

G. C. BERRY, merchant, Akron, of the wellknown firm of G. C. Berry & Co. - of which so much is said in the sketch of Mr. Henry of this firm - is a native of Medina Co., Ohio, though he became aresidentof Summit County when he was 3 years old ; in 1863, he became a partner in the firm of which he now stands at the head, which change was made in 1874. His has been a life without remarkable incident, yet crowned with success. During his early life he had the advantage of the public schools of Akron ; his opportunities were not left unimproved, the result of which was the acquirement by himself of a good education. In social as well as in business affairs, he is not given to ostentation. He was a member of Co. F of the 164th 0. V. I., 100 days service during the war of the rebellion ; he has been a member of the Board of Education of Akron, which fact is pretty good evidence of his ability and the confidence of the people ; he is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 50, I. 0. 0. F., and a Republican in politics. He has been almost wholly dependent upon his own resources, and, however prominent his position may be in connection with the mercantile industries of Akron, that position has been attained by his own energy, ambition and honesty.

GEORGE BURKHARDT, retired, Akron, who is a representative of the industrious and enterprising German element of Akron population, was born in Baden, Germany. When he was 11 years old, his father died, and, at the age of 13, he was doubly orphaned by the death of his mother. He, however, had the advantage of attending school until he was 14 years of age. When 15 years of age, he was apprenticed for three years to a toolmaker to learn that trade, in addition to serving which time, he paid $32. At the closing of his term of apprenticeship, he began life among strangers on his own account, by beginning a tour of five years' travel through the States of Germany, and by special pass into France and Switzerland. This period of travel was for the purpose of working in the different States of Germany, and was what was known as his term of journey-man workmanship, at the end of which time he was termed a master workman. In 1848, he emigrated to America and came direct to Akron, where he has since resided. He first began work for a Mr. James Hale, at Lock No. 7, of Akron. His work has been principally in iron and brass. He has received good wages on account of his being a fine workman. By saving his mone}' and investmg it in real estate he has become the owner of valuable residence and business propert}' in Akron. To aid him in succeeding better in his business, he for a time, shortly after his arrival in Akron, attended a night school for the special instruction of Germans in the American or English language. Mr. Burkhardt has not been a political office seeker, though he has held the office of Chief Engineer of the Akron Fire Department, and has been a member of the Akron City Council from the Fourth Ward. He is a member of the order of A., F. & A. M., and of a number of secret societies that are strictly German. He is also a member of the Reformed Church. In 1870, he paid his Fatherland a visit, where he remained for about three months. He is now one of that class of the residents of Akron who are reaping the reward of their early industry and economy in the possession of a comfortable home and a competency for old age.

ALMON BROWN, County Coroner and Justice of the Peace, Middlebury (Sixth Ward, Akron), was born in Tompkins Co., N. Y., Nov. 26, 1801, on his father's farm, and is the third child of a family of eight children, born to Holland and Sarah (Mix) Brown. They were natives of Brimfield, Mass., and Litchfield, Conn., and were married in Tompkins Co., whither they had removed with their parents. In January, 1814, Mr. Brown and family, then consisting of seven children, came to Ohio. His means of transportation was a sled, drawn by two yoke of oxen, the stronger members of the family, of whom was Almon, our subject, walking the entire distance. The trip required twenty-six days. Upon his arrival he bought 160 acres of timber land, and, while building a cabin, lived with a friend. The cabin put up b}^ Mr. Brown was twenty feet square, and of round logs ; there was one room, " cut down " inside, oiled paper window, board door, made from the sled box, and a stick chimney. He lived here two years, then sold his improvements and bought 135 acres adjoining, on which he erected another log cabin, and commenced clearing his land. He lived in the vicinity some ten j^ears, making in the meantime several improvements. He then removed to what is now Wadsworth Township, Medina Co., where he bought land, upon which he lived until his death, which occurred in April, 1844. His wife died in Medina in. 1861, where she had lived with a daughter most of the time after her husband's death. Almon Brown, our subject, made his home with his parents until he was 21 years of age. He received but a limited education - his schooling amounting to about four months' attendance, one month each at four different terms of district schools. He was married, Jan. 1, 1828, to Miss Rosalind Hinman, a native of Allegany Co., N. Y., who came to this county (Coventry Township) with her parents about the year 1818. She died May 13, 1847, leaving five children. He was a second time married, on Sept. 9, 1847, to Miss Evan Shively, a native of Columbiana Co., Ohio. She died June 17, 1857. Two children were born of this marriage. May 13, 1858, he was again married, to Mrs. Read, formerly Miss Catharine Paulus, a native of Huntingdon Co., Penn. She was born June 13, 1811, and was the third of five children born to Daniel and Hannah (Miller) Paulus. They were natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and were married in Pennsylvania, removing to Ohio in the year 1815. The}' settled in Jackson Township, Stark County, where Mr. Paulus died the next year after settlement. His widow, two years later, married Mr. Jacob Jubb, and bore him five children. They lived in Stark Co. until his death, when she went to Indiana, and passed the remainder of her life with her children. Catharine, the wife of our subject, lived at home until her first marriage to John Read, a wagon-maker in Middlebury. He died Aug. 18, 1856 ; they had no children. She has since resided here, with the exception of about eight 3'ears passed in the western part of the county. x\fter the first marriage of our subject, he followed carpentering for about twenty years, and then worked at wood-turning in Norton Township, and, in 1866, came to Middlebury, where he has since resided. He has served most of the time as Justice of the Peace ; also served as Ward and Township Assessor some eight or nine years. He was mail agent for several years, and is now serving his fifth term as County Coroner. He was Mayor of Middlebury- two terras - the last during the vote to annex it to Akron. He has been a member of the Disciples' Church since 1834,. and an J]lder of the same a number of years. Mrs. Brown was a Methodist about thirty years, but since 1860, has been a member of the Disciples' Church. Mr. Brown's first vote for a Presidential candidate was for John Quinc}- Adams. He was a Whig until 1840 ; then anti-slavery until the organization of the Republican party, since which time he has been a zealous member of it.

JUDGE CONSTANT BRYAN, lawyer, Akron. A son of Elijah and Content (Fowler) Bryan ; was born Sept. 6, 1809, in Delaware Co., N. Y., where he was brought up on a farm until he was 16 years old. He then commenced teaching, continuing it for three years, when he entered upon the stud}' of the law at Bainbridge, Chenango Co., N. Y., in the office of John C. Clark, remaining with him about two years. In the fall of 1831, he went to Milford, Conn., and afterward to New Haven, where he continued his studies in the Law Department of Yale College, teaching in the public schools during the summer vacation. In the fall of 1833, he came to Ohio and located in Akron, and, in 1834, was admitted to the bar at Columbus, he walking to Wooster, and going by stage from that place. He opened an office for practice at once ; was the partner of George Bliss for two or three years. In 1852, he was elected Probate Judge of Summit Co. Judge BrN'an's practice has been chiefly in civil cases and in the chancery courts. He was the first Recorder of the incorported village of Akron, and long a member of the School Board. He was one of the early Free- Soilers, and was elected Probate Judge by that party and the Democrats. He was married in May, 1839, to Miss Sophia Dennison, a native of Rutland, Vt. Two children were born of this marriage, one of whom is living - Henry E., City Clerk of Columbus, Ohio. His wife died, and in September, 1854, he was again married, to Miss Susan L. Barnum, of Florence, Huron Co., Ohio. Of this marriage, there are two children living - Fred C, in the Cincinnati Law School, and Isaac J., at home. Judge B. is a member of the Congregational Church.

REV. JOHN B. BROUN, Pastor of St. Bernard's (German Catholic) Church, Akron, was born in Rennes, France, March 2, 1834. When he was 13, his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Monroe, Mich., in 1847. He entered Assumption College at Sandwich, Ontario, at the age of 20, remaining there three years, then entered St. Thomas College, near Bardstown, Ky., where he graduated in June, 1859 ; was in St. Mary's Seminary one year in Cleveland ; studied theology three years in Assumption College, and, Aug. 28, 1863, was ordained priest, in the Cathedral St. Mary, by Bishop Baraga. He was located at Eagle Harbor, on Lake Superior, Mich., having a territory of fifty miles in length, containing three churches and sixteen missions, comprising over one thousand families. He visited each mission every month and church every two weeks, for three years, often traveling on foot. In 1866, he came to Cleveland, and was sent to St. Bernard's Church at this place, where he has since remained, with the exception of a short visit to Europe in 1873. The church had but sixty families when he came, and now it has three hundred with about nine hundred communicants, full particulars of which are given in the history of St. Bernard's Church in another chapter.

J. W. BAKER, of Baker, Merriman & Co., Akron, was born in Auburn, Cayuga Co., N. Y., Jan. 27, 1827, and was the youngest of ten children born to Edward and MoUie (Sherman) Baker, who were natives of Massachusetts. He was an edge-tool maker. In 1843, he came to Ohio and settled in Akron. The subject of these lines lived at home about one year after coming to Akron, and then went to Columbus, Ohio, where he learned the cabinet-maker's trade, serving until he became of age, and then returning to Akron, working at his trade until 1850. In company with others, he then went to California overland, where he remained two years, engaged in mining. He returned via Panama and New York, and engaged in the manufacture of musical instruments, continuing until the spring of 1857. He then became a member of the Akron Melodeon Company, manufacturers of musical instruments, continuing in that business ten j^ears, when he engaged in the manufacture of cigar boxes, and gradually added wood-turning and -japanning. In about 1870, he and Mr. J. C. McWilliam established the present business, which they have since continued. In May, 1853, he married Miss Caroline Tha3er, a native of New York, who bore him three children, two of whom are living, viz., Frank and Alice. Politically, he is a Democrat.

CHARLES BAIRD, Prosecuting Attorney, Akron. Is a son of Robert and Helen Knox (Moir) Baird ; was born in Akron March 25, 1853. His father was the son of William and Susan (Smith) Baird, and was born in Kineff, Kincardineshire, Scotland, March 8, 1818. His father and grandfather were blacksmiths, and while quite a boy he learned the trade, which he has followed all his life. In 1842, he and his brother came to the United States, and he worked at his trade at Buffalo until Ma}-, 1843, when he came to Akron, engaging his services at his trade until 1846, when he established a shop of his own on Main street, at which place and in which business he still continues. On Sept. 21, 1846, he married Miss Helen Knox Moir, a native of Buchan, Forfarshire, Scotland. She bore him five children, viz., William (of Akron), Isabel, Charles and Mary (of

Akron), and Helen, who died at the age of 21. Charles, the subject of this sketch, attended the public schools of Akron, from which he graduated in 1872. In August, 1873, he entered the office of Upson & Ford, where he studied law, being admitted to the bar at the session of the Supreme Court at Columbus Nov. 2, 1875, immediatel}' afterward forming a partnership with William H. Upson, under the firm name of Upson & Baird, which continued until the return of Mr. Ford from Mexico Jan. 10, 1877, when the firm became Upson, Ford & Baird. Oct. 20, 1875, he was appointed Clerk of Portage Township, which office he retained until April, 1878, being twice elected. On Feb. 15, 1879, he was appointed Canal Collector for the port of Akron, which he continued to be until, on Jan. 15, 1881, he resigned the office to take charge of the Prosecutor's office, having been elected Prosecuting Attorney of Summit Co. in October, 1880,*at which election he ran largely ahead of his ticket. With the exception of one year, he has been a member of the Republican Central Committee since 1875.

ALFRED BALDWIN, undertaker, Akron. William and Lucinda (Ladd) Baldwin were natives of Vermont, and were the parents of three sons and three daughters, their second son Alfred, the subject of these lines, being born to them on March 18. 1823, near Sackett's Harbor, in Northern New York. In 1836, they moved to Ohio, and settled on a farm in Portage County, where the}" lived until 1870, except a period of seven years. The subject of this sketch lived there on a farm until 1853, when he went to Ravenna, Ohio, there to assume the duties of Deput}^ Auditor, remaining such until 185G, when he was elected Auditor of Portage County on the Republican ticket, which position he held for two years, at the end of which time he again served as Deputy- for two years. (At that time, the County Auditor was given but one term.) In 1 863, he became Deputy Clerk in the Probate Judge's office, which he continued two years. During these years, he retained the farm which he owned at Rootstown, on which he lived until 1865, when he came to Akron and purchased the furniture establishment of E. D. Dodge, and, with E. A. Reed, continued the business one year, when Reed retired. In February-, 1880, Mr. George W. Weeks became a partner, and the business since then has been conducted under the firm name of Baldwin & Weeks. They cany a full line of undertakers' goods, burial robes, caskets, and the elegant appointments of the business. On Sept. 29, 1850. he married Miss Anjanette E. Reed, of Rootstown, Portage Co., daughter of Horace Reed, who was born in 1806. in Rootstown, and who is said to be the first white male child born in Rootstown. One daughter - Lois E., was born of that marriage. Subject is a member of the Congregational Church. His father died in 1870, aged 90 years, and his mother, nine years later, followed him, aged 91. Both were consistent members of the M. E. Church. His brothers and sisters are Wm. L., Methodist minister, now located at Clilmore, Ohio ; Rev. Chance}', of Centralia. 111., and Eucebia, wife of Thomas Kingsbury, of Berwick, 111. His sister Sarah A., who was the wife of Harvey Laughlin, died at Deerfield, Portage Co., Ohio, in her 25th 3'ear. One sister, Armelia, died at 16 years of age.

TALMON BEARDSLEY, retired, Akron. On Dec. 15, 1799, to Daniel and Hannah (Bailey) Beardsley, was born a son, whom they named Talmon, and who, over eighty years later, becomes the subject of our sketch, and we would pen a few incidents in a life well spent. The place of his birth was Delhi Township. Delaware Co., N. Y., where he lived on a farm until 1810, when his parents moved to Licking Co., Ohio, settling on wild land, whore Talmon aided at clearing and farming, making out of chaos a clean spot for a home; here also, he went to school about three months peryenr. The schoolhouse was one of those primitive kind, having slab-seats, paper windows, and a fire-place the full length of the building, with a "cat-and-clay " chimne}'. In the summer of 1818, he started for Middlebury with only his walking stick as a companion, intent upon finding something to do as a means of earning a livelihood, and further schooling. When he reached this place, he found the old Cuyahoga furnace in operation, and secured work there for a few months, going to school a part of the time. He was employed in 1819 by Henry Chittenden, and for fourteen years, he made his home with iiiin. working by the year at farming and teaming, doing a considerable amount of the latter, as his employer had contracted to furnish 1 6.000 bushels of lime for the locks of the Ohio Canal then in progress. In hauling the lime, he drove a six-horse team. On the memorable occasion of the first breaking of the ground on the Licking Summit for the Ohio Canal, he was present, and a witness to the formal and ceremonious reception of De Witt Clinton, two Van llensselaers and other distinguished personages who, on their arrival, accompanied b}- their colored waiters, and a fine display of baggage, were met near Newark and greeted with cannonading and martial music. On that day, 3Ir. Beardsley drove the team which bore the waiters and baggage. Clinton, who threw out the first shovelfuls, did so with great ceremony. Under the contract of Chittenden & Crosby, Mr. Beardsley superintended the construction of the deep cut on the canal of a half-mile between Bolivar and Zoar, having charge of about fifty hands, and he built the locks near Zoar for a man named Rhodes. The first boat was sent on July 4, 1827, to Cleveland. In the years 1824 and 1825, he was employed in a hotel. On Oct. 27, 1831, he married Miss Temperance Spicer, who was the fourth daughter of Maj. Minor Spicer. The five children are, viz., Ann, wife of George Hart, a farmer of Stow Township ; Mills H., hotel keeper at Ogden, U. T.; Avery S.. farmer in Portage Township ; Harriet, wife of A. Gr. Babcock. of Akron, and Louisa D., wife of George Stover, Canal Fulton, Stark Co. A daughter, Emily, died at the age of 19. After marriage, he settled near Middlebury on a farm of 75 acres, which he purchased for .$6 per acre. This land was where the shaft of Pa3aie & Cross, of Cleveland, mines are now. At that time, the existent coal in that locality was unsuspected b}' any one, else he would not have sold the land as he did two or three years after for the small sum of $20 per acre. After selling that, he moved to Coventry Township where he bought 100 acres of land and farmed it. The date of his going to Coventry was 1833 ; a year previous to tlys, he was made Captain of the canal boat " Western Reserve," carrying iron ore from Zoar to this place, and provisions to Cleveland, Ohio, from 1832 to 1835, from which date up to 1858 he followed farming in Coven tr}', when he left that place and moved to Akron, where he has since retired from business, except attending to affairs connected with his estate. He was a Whig, cast his fii'st vote for Henr3' Clay, and has been a

Republican ever since the organization of the part}-. He was Justice of the Peace at Coventry, and filled man}' other township offices. He has been Assessor of the ward in which he lives a number of times. He is a Universalist, and a member of the church.

CHARLES W. BROWN, Akron, whose portrait appears in this work, son of Jonas and Mary (Williams) Brown, was born Oct. 2, 1796, in North Stonington, Conn. His father died when he was 5 ^eai's old, at New London, Conn., of yellow fever. After the death of his father, he went to district school until he was 18 j-ears of age, attending about two months per year. When he was 16 years jold, he commenced learning the carpenter and joiner trade, serving as an apprentice two years, at the end of which time he commenced working at Lyme, Conn., where he remained a year. On Feb. 3, 1817, with one 3'ear's wages as his onl}- capital, he. in company with two other 3'oung men, shoul- -dered their knapsacks and started, on foot, for Ohio - for the purpose of making places for themselves in the great, bustling world - reaching Middlebury, on the evening of the 28th of February, after a journe}- of about 700 miles. On his arrival he found about sixteen buildings, the majorit}' of which were log. there being but a very few frame houses then at this place. (Previous to his coming here, he was married in Connecticut, to Miss Henrietta Halsey, which marriage occurred on June 9, 1816 ; his wife came here in August, 1817, with Capt. Gear, who drove through with an ox team.) At Middlebur}' he kept house some fifteen years, engaged at his trade, and putting up many of the first frame houses there, and in that vicinity. In 1825, he purchased 45 acres of woodland, where his present place is situated, moving there in 1832, and adding to it various lots, until he owned 115 acres. Several of the earl}' bridges were built by him, and quite a number of buildings in Akron are of his handiwork, among which is the Baptist Church. He helped to cut the way for Market street, and, in after years, graded the same road for five miles, reaching from Akron to Copley. After 1840, he devoted himself to other pursuits. For five years he held a Lieutenant's commission. He raised five daughters and one son, viz., Mary, wife of Kdward F. Pulsifer. of Chicago, and Prudence, wife of

J. W. Sabin, of Akron, both of whom are dead. Antoinette, wife of Benjamin McNaughton, of Akron ; Luc}', who died in 1850, and was tlie wife of Robert Henry ; Alice, wife of William H. Mills, of Akron, and Henry H. Brown, of Akron. His wife, Henrietta, died on Sept. 23, 1859. On May 14, 1864, he married Mrs. Lydia Williams, of Connecticut, who died on Sept. 6, 1865. For some years he has enjoyed the rest which his toiling has so richly deserved. At the present time, in the same house, are four generations of the Brown family, each of which is represented by a male member.

PHILO BENNETT, retired, Akron. This gentleman was born in Herkimer Co., N. Y., Feb. 16, 1810, and is the oldest of three children born to Ephraim and Lucinda (Hutchins) Bennett. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Brownville, where he lived until he was 22 years of age. At the age of 16, he was apprenticed to the harness and saddle trade, and served until he became of age. A year later, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and worked at his trade and at carriage trimming until 1837, when he moved to Tallmadge, and worked at his trade. The following year he visited St. Louis, returning in 1839. In 1842, he came to Akron, engaged in the harness business, and was identified with the same until 1862, since which time he has retired. In September, 1852, he married Miss Emma Francis, a native of England, who came to Akron about the year 1843, where she lived with her sister until her marriage. By their marriage there was one child, now deceased.

ANTON BERG, lock and gunsmith, Akron ; is a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. He was born Feb. 14, 1820. His father. Christian, was a farmer, and Anton assisted in work on the farm until he reached his 16th year, when he was apprenticed in the city of Worms, on the Rhine, to the locksmith business. After serving three years, he worked as a journeyman for a 3'ear, when he was drafted into the array. He served twent3^-one months in active military service, but during the remainder of his six 3'ears' term of service, he worked at his ti'ade. A part of the tiine he was empioj-ed at the arsenal, manufacturing friction cannon caps, the inventor of which was his commanding officer, Capt. Hartman. After serving his full term of service, and being discharged, he began preparations for emigrating to America. He manufactured the tools he needed for his trade, and on June 9, 1847, he started for the new country, landing in New York in the following August. He left immediately for Buffalo, where he met friends and got work at his trade, being employed by Mr. Ketchum, an inventor of a reaping aud mowing machine. Mr. Berg made the first knife bar for machines, a business that has since grown to large proportions. In the spring of 1848. he came to Cleveland, Ohio, where he had relatives, and worked at his trade until 1849. On June 16 of that year, he walked to Akron, and found work on stove mounting, which he followed five years. Sept. 6, 1854, he returned to his old business, manufacturing and repairingguns, etc., which he still continues. Mr. Berg is a Republican in politics, beginning as a strong anti-slavery man. He was a personal friend of John Brown, and when the latter went to Kansas, Mr. Berg repaired his arms free, working nights in order to escape the detection of hostile parties. Dec. 17, 1849, he married Miss Augusta Cappella, a native of Germany, who had that year come from her native land, and came to Akron the same day he did, though not formerly acquainted. Four children have resulted from this marriage, three of whom are living : Sarah, now Mrs. William Durand ; Edward, grain dealer in McPherson, Kan.; and Libbie, a teacher in the South School, in Akron, Ohio ; Hermann died in infancv.

CAPT. EDWARD BUCKINGHAM^ ex- County Auditor, Akron ; was born in Watertown, Conn., July 15, 1835, and is the eldest of three children of George and Betsy (Merriman) Buckingham, who were natives of Connecticut. In 1844, they came to Middlebury, Ohio, where he engaged in the manufacture of woolen machinery, and followed the same until his death in 1861. Mrs. Buckingham is still living on the old homestead. At about the age of 18, Edwai'd engaged as clerk in a wholesale house in Cleveland. A few years later, he became a clerk in the post office at Indianapolis, a position he obtained through his acquaintance with Judge Weeks, the Postmaster, and served there some three years. In August, 1862, he enlisted in the 115th 0. V. I., and served until the close of the war ; he entered the service as First Lieutenant, and in three months was promoted to Captain of his company. During this term, he served as Provost Marshal of Cincinnati for awhile, also of Murfreesboro ; of Cincinnati during the Morgan raid. After the close of the war, he returned to Akron, and became Collector of Internal Revenue, which office he held until 1871, when he entered the office of County Auditor - serving continuously for nine years, being elected to the office on the Republican ticket. He was married March 10, 1863, to Miss Frances Johnston, a daughter of John and Elizabetli (Newton) Johnston, old residents of the county. By this marriage there have been born six children, of whom four are living, viz. : George E., John S., William J. and Hulda ; all of them are living at home.

G. S. BEATTY, dentist, Akron ; is an old member of the dental profession, though located in Akron but for a few months. He began the stud}' of dentistry in Meadville, Penn., and after finishing his studies, he went to Mercer, ^Mercer Co., Penn., and practiced there for one and a half 3'ears. In 1844, he removed to Canton, Ohio, where he practiced until the fall of I860, and then he went to Silver Creek, Chautauqua Co., N. Y. From there he removed to the cit}' of Toledo, Ohio, and for thirteen years he was engaged in the practice of his profession in that city. He was married in Silver Creek, and while a resident of Toledo, his wife died. From Toledo he went to Pennsylvania, and in the fall of 1880, he returned to Ohio and located at Akron. During all these travels, he has been an earnest student of the profession, and now, after so many years of practice, he is able to do the very finest of operating ; the fitting of celluloid plates, or of the artificial palate, known as the Kingsley patent. In his short term of practice in Akron, he has already become well and favorably known, and bids fair, in a short time, to stand as an equal in reputation to an^- of the dentists of the city. He is a member of the Order of A.. F. & A. M., and has made frequent contributions to scientific journals.

DR. WILLIAM BOWEN (deceased) , was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., July 30, 1805 ; his father was a soldier of the war of 1812, and, having served out his term of enlistment, was returning to his home across Lake Erie on the ice, and, losing his way, perished from cold. His widow was left with six small children, and in ver}' limited circumstances. Our subject was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade when very young, and, completing his terra of service, he came West, stopping in Stark Co., Ohio, where he obtained employment with John Brown, at that time building a grist-mill near Canton, for William Reynolds. The subject was what was termed a " book- worm," and had but little taste for the pleasures and sports in which young men usually indulge, but preferred spending his leisure hours with some favoi'ite book. These facts coming to the knowledge of Mr. Reynolds, who being pleased with the young man, he kindly proffered to lend him assistance. Mr. Reynolds also assisted him to attend the select school of Barak Michener, at that time a popular teacher in the higher branches of education. Upon the completion of a term at school, he commenced teaching in the village of Paris, Stark Co.; while thus engaged, he made the acquaintance of Dr. Robert Estep, then living in Paris, and a warm friendship at once sprang up between them. Through the influence of Dr. Estep, our subject was induced to undertake the study of medicine ; but as this part of Dr. Bowen's life is given in the chapter devoted to the medical profession, it will be omitted here. In 1853, he purchased a tract of land near New Portage, in Summit Co., and, without giving up his practice, he devoted considerable attention to farming. He moved to Akron in 1857, where he remained until his death, which took place Jan. 14, 1880, in the 75th year of his age. He married Miss Huldah Chittenden while engaged m the study of his profession ; there were born of this marriage nine children, seven girls and two boy, only three of whom, with their mother, still survive him. Dr. Bowen was emphatically a self-made man ; his success was the result of his own individual eflTorts, improving the circumstances and advantages as they presented themselves. S. M. BURNHAM, Secretary Webster, Camp & Lane Machine Compan}-, Akron ; was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., Jan. 23, 1824, and is the second of ten children of Simeon and Anna (St. John) Burnham, natives of Massachusetts and New York. He moved to New York with his parents about the j-ear 18U9, and lived at home with them until his marriage, about the 3'ear 1821 ; his wife moved to New York with her parents a few years after he did, and after their marriage, IMr. B. followed farming, and also was in the insurance business as an agent - a business followed during the latter years of his life ; he died May 10, 1862 ; his death resulted from an accident with a run- away team ; she continued on the old homestead, and died a few days later. S. M. (the subject) lived at home until 1844, and received an academic education in a neighboring village, finishing off at the Wyoming Academy. In 1844, he came to Ohio and taught school in Madison, Lake Co., and the following summer he returned to New York and attended school at Wyoming Academy ; after this he took a commercial course in Buffalo, where he afterward taught penmanship. In April, 1848, he settled in Akron, and engaged as a clerk in the Rattle & Tappan warehouse on the Ohio Canal ; two years after, Mr. Tappan retired and opened an iron store, where Mr. B. went with him as clerk and with his successor until 1855 ; he then engaged with the Austin Powder Co., and was with them two years, and. after being book-keeper in Franklin Mills for a time, he, in January, 1858, engaged as Deput}- Auditor for Gr. W. Crouse, and also as Deputy for S. S. Wilson, County Treasurer, serving in both nearly four yeai's, and serving as Auditor for an unexpired term b}^ appointment. In March, 1862, he became Count}^ Auditor by election, and was re-elected for the three succeeding terms. In the fall of 1872, he was elected to the Legislature from the Summit County District in the Sixtieth Assembl}', in which he took an active part. Upon his return in vacation, he was made Secretary and one of the Board of Trustees building Buchtel College. In 1873, he engaged in his present business, and was made Secretar}-. He was married, Nov. 5, 1848, to Miss Anne M. Row, a native of Connecticut ; she came to Medina Co., Ohio, with her parents when quite 3'oung ; they had six children, three of whom are living, viz., Lillie M., Charles S. and Clifford D.

A. A. BARTLP:TT, Recorder, Akron ; is a native of Chautauqua Co., N. Y., and was born June 22, 1840. Until the age of 17, he lived upon the farm ; he then went to work in a sawmill for a year or two, subsequentl}' conducting the mill on the shares. He was thus engaged at the breaking-out of the war. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 49th N. Y. V. I., for three 3'ears or during the war. He served with the regiment in the Potomac army, and was in all the engagements of the command up to the battle of Antietam, where he was wounded, which occasioned the loss of his left arm. April 6, 1863, he was discharged, and returned to his home in New York, and gave his attention to a small place he owned. Some two years later, he went to Corry, Penn., where he engaged in a steam saw-mill as engineer, and, one year later, took charge of the business. In the spring of 1867, he came to Akron, and soon engaged in the planing-mill of George Thomas & Son, and was connected with the business until 1870. During the latter eight years of that time, he served as foreman of the establishment, though conducted under sevei'al different firm names. In the fall of 1878, he was elected on the Republican ticket as County Recorder, and entered upon the duties of his office in January following. In 1860, he married Miss Imogene Travers, a native of Chautauqua County, N. Y.; by the marriage, there has been three children, two of whom are living - Mary and Jennie.

ALEXANDER BREWSTER, President Brewster Coal Co., Akron ; was born in Augusta Township, Oneida Co., N. Y.,Sept. 10, 1808, on his father's farm, and is the youngest of six children, born to Stephen and Lydia (Bellows) Brewster, who were natives of Connecticut. Mr. Brewster traces his ancestors back to Rev. William Brewster, one of the Pilgrims who came over in the Mayflower. Stephen Brewster, the father of our subject, was born May 4, 1770 ; in 1797 he moved to New York, with his wife and onechild, and, in 1811, he came to Ohio. He bought 160 acres of land in what is now Coventry Township, and then returned to New York, and the next year brought out his family. They started in June, and came by ox team, and were thirty-three days on the way, landing in Coventry July 4, 1812. His cabin was the fourth built in the township, and was the proverbial log cabin. They lived here until 1815, when the}- were enabled to build a better one. He was a carpenter, and worked at his trade, building many of the houses of the early settlers. He died July 4, 1858, at the advanced age of 88 years ; his wife died in the fall of 1842, aged 71. Our subject lived at home until of age, receiving a limited education at the district schools. He learned the carpenter's ti'ade with his father. He was married Jan. 9, 1830, to Miss Margaret Ann Kinney, a native of Ontario Co., N. Y., and who came to Springfield, Ohio, about the year 1813. She was the youngest of three children, born to Ephraim and Mary (Danes) Kinney, natives of New

York. They settled in Springfield Township in 1813, where the}' lived until their death; he died about 1820, and she in 1861. IMr. Brewster now owns the place on which they settled. Mrs. Brewster, the wife of subject, died in November, 1854, leaving five children, four of whom are living, viz., Alfred A., General Agent of the Brewster Coal Co. ; Austin K., Secretary and Treasurer of the Brewster Coal Co.; Louisa, now Mrs. J. F. Meeham, of Akron ; Mar^^ M., now Mrs. Russell Kent, of Akron. Mr. Brewster married a second time in December, 1857, to Mrs. Brown, formerly Minerva Dyer, a native of Cuyahoga Co., Ohio ; she died June 27, 1873. In September, 1877, he married Mrs. Chamberlain, formerh' Luc\' Jane Gale, a native of Massachusetts, who came to Ohio with her parents in the year 1825. ]\Ir. B., after marriage, followed farming in Coventry until 1 848. Coal having, in the meantime, been discovered on his farm, he turned his attention to mining, and, in 1849, shipped over 1,000 tons to Cleveland via canal. In 1850, he left his mines in competent hands, and went to California overland, his object being mining. He remained in the land of gold but a short time, and returned home via Panama and New Orleans, arriving home in 1851. He prosecuted his coal mining, and, about the year 1865, formed a stock company, of which he is the President, the capital being $100,000. He and his sons subscribed the stock. They built a railroad from the mines to the basin of the Ohio Canal, a distance of five miles, which cost about $120,000, the rolling stock making it about $150,000. They mine from 30,000 to 60,000 tons of coal per year, and own docks in Cleveland for the purpose of handling coal, and sell as high as 200.000 tons per annum. In July, 1872, Mr. B. moved to Akron, where he has since resided. In 1871, he visited California, in company with his eldest daughter.

GEORGE G. BAKER, physician, Akron ; is a native of Ohio ; he was born at Norwalk, Huron Co., Dec. 3, 1849, and is the third of four children born to Daniel A. and Harriet (Vandercook) Baker. They were natives of Connecticut and New York. Daniel A. Baker came to Ohio when about 17 j'ears of age. or about the year 1831, and located in Huron Co., where he began as a clerk in a mercantile business, and, after a number of years, he became a partner, and was identified with the mercantile interests of Norwalk most of the time until the year 1858 or 1859, when he became interested ui the banking business of that place, and has continued in the same to the present time. Our subject entered the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio, at the age of 17. and graduated in 1869 ; he began reading medicine in 1868, with Drs. Read & Ford, of Norwalk, Ohio, and, having in the mean time taken two courses of lectures at Ann Arbor and Brooklyn, N. Y., he began practice in 1872 with Dr. George P. Ashmun, of Akron ; in 1875, he graduated at Ann Arbor, Mich. The Doctor is a member of the Summit Count}' Medical Society, and also a member of the Union Medical Association of Northeastern Ohio, of which he has been Recording Secretar}' a number of years. In June, 1 873, he married 3Iiss Celia, a daughter of Dr. George P. Ashmun, of Akron ; by this marriage there has been four children, of whom three are living, viz., Fred A., Harry and an infant.

B. F. BATTELS, photographic art gallery, Aki'on, was born in Wadswortb, Medina Co.. Ohio, April 21, 1832, and is the second child in a family of seven children born to Caleb and Juliana (Hard) Battels ; they were natives of IMassachusetts and Vermont ; he came to Middlebur}^, Ohio, when he was young ; arriving before the canal was built, he overseeing the building of locks on same. Mrs. Battels came to Ohio with her parents, who settled in River Styx, Medina Co., Ohio, at an earl}' day, they being pioneers in that locality. After the marriage, Caleb, who is a natural mechanic, worked as a carpenter and builder ; about the year 1852, he came to Summit Co., Ohio, and bought and occupied his present place where he now lives. Our subject lived with his parents until he was 20 years of age ; he was brought up on the farm, and I'eceived a common school course of study ; also taught a number of terms during the winters. In 1852, the family moved to Mount Vernon ; B. F.. tiring of farm life, began looking around for a suitable change, and was favorably impressed with daguerreotyping, then quite a new business ; he soon obtained an opportunity, and learned the new business, and such was the ability he displayed that within a few weeks he had a set of tools and was on his way to Wadsworth, where he opened an office ; the business those days was of a transient character, and lie moved from i)lace to place. In 1 852, he located at Bucyrus, Ohio, and in the winter of 1855 he came to Akron, and opened his present place in the spring following, and lias remained in the same location since. In his chosen field he has found ample room for his genius, and his popularity as an artist attests the appreciation of his patrons for his genius. He married Miss Sarah M. Edgerly, a natiA'e of Hudson, Ohio.

A. M. BARBER, buyer and shipper of grain and produce, Akron. The subject of this sketch was born in Bath Township, Summit Co., Ohio, Oct. 2, 1830, and is the fourth of five children born to Isaac W. I. and Mary (Brown) Barber ; they were natives of Connecticut and New York. Isaac W. I. Barber was raised on a farm ; about the year 1820, he left Connecticut for the West, coming with a wagon load of boots, shoes, etc.; arriving in Bath Township he bought 110 acres of wild land, which he cleared and improved. March 1, 1824, he married Miss MarjJ^, a daughter of Samuel and Lucinda (Coy) Brown. Samuel Brown was a Revolutionary soldier and a pensioner during latter years ; he was a native of New York, and came to Ohio about the year 1810, settling in Boston Township, and later moving to Springfield Township, where he died in 1845 ; he was twice married ; his first wife died in Boston Township soon after they came there; in 1817, he married Miss Lucinda Bishop. I. W. I. Barber settled on his land in Bath Township after his marriage, and lived there until his death, in 1833 ; he was a member of the Presbj'terian Church, in the affairs of which he took an active interest ; foremost in improvements, he was well known, and his death was lamented by a wide circle of friends. Some years after his death, Mrs. Barber married Capt. Fanning, who died in 1845, she continuing on the old homestead until 1856, when she sold her interest to A. M. Barber and moved to Kansas, where she lived with her children until her death, about the year 1874. A. M. Barber was raised on the farm ; the country being new, and he losing his father during his infancy, afforded him limited opportunities for obtaining an education. Oct. 6, 1857, he married Miss Sarah, a daughter of Henr}^ and Mary (Emmons) Vansickle ; after the marriage, he remained on the farm one year, and in January, 1859, came to Akron and bought the Pearl Mills, which business he was identified with for four years ; he then engaged in the grain and produce business, in which he has done an extensive trade ; the volume of his transactions have amounted to $1,500,000 per annum ; he was a director upon the formation of the Bank of Akron, and is also identified with several of the leading manufacturing interests in the city. In 1880, he had finished his elegant and commodious brick block, Nos. 150 and 152 South Howard street, known as Barber's Block, which ranks among the leading business blocks of the city. Though starting out in life in the most adverse circumstances, he has by his energy and perseverance been successful, and, while remembering that he has been the architect of his own fortune, he has also lived so as to not only win, but also to deserve the respect and confidence of all who know him.

JUDGE JAMES S. CARPENTER, attorney, Akron ; is the son of William and Lucina (Sumner) Carpenter ; he was born at Swanzey, Cheshire Co., N. H., on Aug. 17, 1805, from which place his father moved eighteen months later to the woods of St. Lawrence Co., at Potsdam, N. Y. ; here he labored hard on the farm and at clearing. He does not know when or where he first learned the beauties and mysteries of the alphabet, but it was probably at home, for his earliest recollections of school experience was spelling in his a-b, abs, in one of the primitive log cabin schoolhouses, where subscription teachers applied the kibricating oil to the complicated machiner3' of the human mind ; his first lessons in reading he well remembers were at the side of his mother's footwheel, which was fast flying, when, after some assistance on her part, and utter unbelief of his ability to read " in readings," he astonished himself by finding that with a little help from her he could and did read " The history of a little boy found under a haycock." He spent the greater part of his youth on the farm, and at the age of 17 attended the St. Lawrence Academy, in Potsdam ; he taught in the State of New York a part of each year until he attained his twentieth 3'ear, by which time he had acquired a fair knowledge of the English branches. In the winter of 1825-26, he taught in New York, and in tlie spring of 1826 he went to Lower Canada, where he taught until the fall of 1828, a part of the time in Montreal ; from there he went to Amherst, Mass., and became assistant teacher in the Amherst Academy, and later teacher of the Ladies' Seminary at Springfield, Mass.,duringthesummerof 1829 ; in the fall of that year he entered the freshman class of Amherst College, where he remained until his health failed from overwork, being engaged simultaneously in the capacity of both pupil and teacher. He then returned to his home in New York, where he resumed teaching, and kept up his studies in the branches of the college course. In June, 1832, he came to Cleveland, Ohio, where he taught languages in the Cleveland Academy, but the school was shortly' after broken up by the sudden appearance of cholera, which was brought to Cleveland by the steamboat " Henry Clay." Mr. Carpenter next removed to Ravenna, Ohio, where he organized a class in French, but departed soon after for Massillon, where he taught that winter ; in the spring of 1833, he returned to Ravenna, and became Principal of the Ravenna Academy, which position he held for two years. He retii'ed then, being still in a poor state of health, and rented a portion of a farm near there, which he farmed one season. On May 1, 1835, he was married to Miss Frances C Saltonstall. of Geneva, N. Y. In November of the same 3' ear, he went to Medina, Ohio, and there started the Medina Constitutionalist, a Whig and anti-slaveiy paper, of which he was the editor, at the same time studying law under the direction of Camp & Canfield ; he continued with the paper until the winter of 1838-39. On May 29, 1838, he was admitted to the bar, at Springfield, Ohio, reaching there on horseback, after a journey of four days. He practiced at Medina, with Judge McClure, from 1840 to 1850. In the fall of 1839, he was elected a member of the Ohio Legislature, and of the Ohio Senate in 1840, serving with distinction in both houses ; in the Legislature he was the onl}- avowed Abolitionist. While he was a member of the House. Mr. Fisher, of Shelby, introduced a set of resolutions denouncing the Abolitionists with barbaric vituperation. It was in a speech upon these resolutions that Mr. Carpenter declared that slaver}' and freedom could not co-exist in this (xovernment, a doctrine which, ten years later, blazed from a higher standard, when Mr. Seward proclaimed the " irrepressible contiiet," in the United States Senate. While in the Senate, Mr. Carpenter had frequent occasion to defend his Abolition principles, on bills introduced by him to charter institutions for the education of the colored people ; they being then wholh' excluded from the common schools and from the common school fund, and yet taxed to support that fund, and in numei'ous other ways, when the course of legislation brought before the Senate the injustice and cruelty they were suffering in Ohio, both under and against its laws. About the last of these conflicts was on a bill to repeal the charter of Oberlin College. It was defeated. Our subject never joined the Liberty party ; he said he was for the abolition of slavery everywhere. The Liberty part}' was organized not for the abolition of slaverj', but to stop its advance. The abolition movement was by the diffusion of moral truth, while the Liberty party was political. Whatever moral truth it disseminated was outside of its platform, and but auxiliary to its political end. He was Secretary, in 1834, of the first County Anti-Slavery Society, at Ravenna, and has held various prominent positions of trust. He came to Akron in 1846, and has practiced law here ever since. In 1856, he was elected Judge of Court of Common Pleas, and served a term of five years. He is the father of three children, viz., Gilbert S., Captain in regular army at Camp Douglas, near Salt Lake Cit}', Utah ; Dr. William T. Carpenter, of Ishpeming, Mich., and Abbie L., still at home. He is a member of the Congregational Church.

N. A. CARTER, contractor and builder, Akron, Ohio ; was born in Twinsburg, Summit Co., Ohio, and is the second of nine children born to Thaddeus A. and Esther A. (Marshall) Carter ; they were natives of Connecticut ; he was brought up on a farm and early went to peddling clocks, operating principally in the Western Reserve ; about the yeav 1826, he settled in Twinsburg Township, Summit Co., Ohio, where he cleared a farm upon which he lived until his death in 1870. He was twice married; his first wife died Sept. 1, 1845. In December of that year, he married Miss Margaret McKisson, a native of Marj-- land ; she died about the year 1846. He was a member of the Metliodist Episcopal Church, and took an active interest in its affairs ; he was well-known and respected b}' all. Our subject lived at home seventeen years : he then apprenticed to the carpenter and joiners trade at Hudson, serving three years, after which he worked as a journeyman in that vicinity until 1871, when he came to Akron, where he has continued in the business as contractor and builder. la all he has followed the trade for a third of a century, during which time he has built many buildings, principal among which are the Buchtel College, the Bttckeije office and many other leading structures. He served on the Board of Education of Hudson, and also as a Councilman. In 1879, he was elected a member of the Akron Council for Second Ward and was re-elected in 1881. June 24, 1852, he married Miss Jane R. Herrick, a native of Twinsburg; they had live children, four of whom are living - Ella J., Frank N., Walter T. and Emor}' J. Mr. Carter is a u:ember of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has held man}- of the offices usual to that denomination, and has otherwise taken an active interest in its affairs.

DR. MASON CHAPMAN, dentist, Akron ; was born on his father's farm in Copley Township, Summit Co., Ohio, June 28, 1838. His parents, Lucius and Sally B. (Mason) Chapman were natives of New York ; he was a farmer ; was born Nov. 20, 1807, on a farm called Cone Hill, in Onondaga Co.; were married in Sennet, N. Y., June 2, 1829; they came to Ohio in June, 1833, and settled in Copley Township, where they lived until 1857. Mrs. Chapman died in 1852. In 1857, he moved to Wisconsin, and later, to Anamosa, Jones Co., Iowa, where he now resides. His father, Ashbel Chapman, was born in Massachusetts May 20, 1775 ; he came to Ohio about the year 1836, and settled near Copley Center, where he died Jan. 25, 1865 ; his wife also died there March 9, 1862; they were married in Massachusetts Aug. 8, 1800. Our subject lived with his father until December, 1 864 ; his early life was spent on the farm. In Wisconsin he clerked in a grocery and boot and shoe store, after which he joined his father in Iowa, and assisted on the farm. The following winter, he attended Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, alternating on the farm and at college for two 3'ears. He then taught school for two terms, and, in the fall of 1862, he began the study of dentistry- with Dr. Matson, of Anamosa, with whom he studied for two years ; he then visited in New York State, and, in the spring of 1865, he came to Akron and practiced one year with Dr. Bolles, after which he bought the business, and has continued the practice since. Nov. 3, 1867, he married Miss Alice L. Randall, a native of Copley Township, Summit Co., Ohio.

DR. JOSEPH COLE, deceased ; was born in Winfield, N. Y., in September, 1795 ; he was raised on the farm and began reading medicine in 1820, with Dr. Clark, graduating from the Fairfield, N. Y., Medical College. In 1824, he came to Summit County, Ohio, and practiced for three years at Old Portage ; he then came to Akron, where he jn-acticed until his death in 1861 ; he was married in November, 1826, to Miss Charlotte Dewe\', a native of Westtield, Hampden Co., Mass. ; she came West with her parents in 1822 ; there were ten in the family ; all came in one wagon, the male members often walking ; they settled at Old Portage and within three years, father, mother, three brothers and one sister died from the fever then prevalent in that localit}'. Charlotte lived with her brothers, who were farming in that vicinity, until her marriage ; by the marriage were seven children, all of wliom have since died. Mrs. Cole is living in the old homestead, where she has lived since 1832, and by her family has thi-ee grandchildren - Helen L. Agard, of Saratoga, N. Y., and H. D. and Fannie F. Cole, living with her. Their father, H. D., was the youngest son of Dr. Joseph and Charlotte (Dewe}') Cole ; he was born in Akron in 1840 ; he received a high school education, and in his latter years was engaged in the livery and undertaking business ; he died in April, 1876. In 1864, he was married to Miss Hattie Farnam, a native of Akron, daughter of Daniel Farnam ; they had two children, viz. : H. D. and Fannie F. Mrs. Hattie Cole is also living in the old homestead with her mother-in-law.

CHARLES A. COLLINS, carriage manufacturer, Akron ; is a native of Richmond, Berkshire Co., Mass. He was born July 26, 1816, and is the 3'oungest of six children born to Ralph and Hannah (Hickox) Collins ; the}' were natives of Connecticut ; he died in Massachusetts Aug. 4. 1817. Our subject lived with his mother until 1827, when they moved to Berkshire, Tioga Co., N. Y., where she lived for three years with her married daughter. Charles A., while in Massachusetts, worked about at farm work, and attended district school. In New York he lived with an uncle, working on the farm in summers, and attending select school winters. In the fall of 1830, he and mother came to Ohio and settled at Talhnadge, where his brother-in-law, Mr. Amos Aveiy, was engaged in the manufacture of wagons. Charles A. apprenticed with his uncle, and remained until he became of age. His mother lived there with a 'laughter until her death in November, 1849. In 1838, the firm of Collins & Hale established a carriage manufactory in Middlebury, now Sixth Ward, Akron. The}' continued until 1841, though Mr. Collins was identified with the business until it was burned in 1860. During this year, the business was established b}' Collins & Bell in South Akron, where the business was conducted until 1869. In February, 1870, the present firm of C. A. Collins & Son erected a shop corner of Main and Church streets, Akron, where they have done business since. While residing in the Sixth Ward, Mr. Collins served as a member of the Board of Education for several terms, a member of the Village Council, and Mayor of Akron for the years 1 862 and 1863, also member of City Council, 1876 to 1878. Jan. 16, 1839, he married Miss Louisa Hine, a native of Milford, Conn., and youngest child of Abraham and Abigail (Elton) Hine, who came to Summit Co., Ohio, about tlie year 1820. By the marriage there have been seven children, of whom four are living, viz.: George A., with father ; Mrs. Josephine A. Kent, of Kent, Ohio ; Charles E., formerly cashier Second National Bank of Akron, now with the Colwell & Collins Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland, and Nettie E., at home.

A. L. COTTER, retired, Akron City; was born in Cornwall, Conn., Dec. 28, 1795, and is the second of five children born to Andrew and Rhoda (Rogers) Cotter, natives of Connecticut, and who died in their native State. Our subject lived at home until he was 22 years of age. He assisted his father at farming, and in his blacksmith-shop. His education was limited, and confined to the district schools. At the age of 22 years, he opened a blacksmith-shop of his own some three miles from his father's, where he continued in business for about two years, when he went to Bristol, and worked there for one 3'^ear, engaged in ironing wagons. He returned to his native place, where he was identified with the blacksmith business until 1824, when he came to Ohio, with a cousin who lived in Middlebury. Satisfied with the country, he returned home, made himself a wagon, and removed to Ohio with his family, consisting then of a wife and one child. He located in Middlebury, where he followed blacksmithing until about the 3'ear 1868, when he retired to his present place, where he has since resided. His residence was destroyed by fire on Feb. 12, 1875, and the following year he built his present dwelling. He served a number of years as Trustee of Tallmadge Township while a resident of Middlebury. He was married, Nov. 21, 1821, to Miss Mary Ann Pratt, a native of Killingworth, Conn. ; she died July 28, 1836. The result of this marriage was seven children, of whom five are living. Samuel A. and James P. live in Connecticut ; Charles S. lives in Ravenna, Ohio ; Mary E., now Mrs. Myers, lives near the old home ; Henry C. lives in Toledo ; Edward died in 1831 and Emily in 1868. Mr. Cotter was married on Nov. 1, 1837, to Miss Mary Talcott, a daughter of Alvin and Philomelia (Root) Talcott. Mr. Talcott traces his ancestry back to the family of Warwickshire, England. The original emigrant, the Worshipful John Talcott, came to Boston, Mass., Sept. 16, 1632, in the ship Lyon. He soon after went to Hartford, Conn., where he was married, and afterward lived. Mr. Cotter is a Presbyterian, and has been a member of that church for over fifty 3'ears ; Mrs. Cotter has been a member for over fort}^ years. Mr. C. has been a Republican in politics ever since the organization of that party.

JAMES H. CASE, druggist, Middlebury (Sixth Ward), Akron ; was born Dec. 23, 1844, and is a native of Middlebury, Ohio. He is the eldest of two children, born to S. S. and Jane (McDowell) Case, who were natives of New York. S. S. Case came to Ohio in an eai-l}^ day, and located in the vicinity of Painesville, where he followed harness-making ; and, a})out 1842, came to Middlebury. Here he followed the harness business, and later, became an extensive dealer in stoneware. He also took some contracts on the Mount Vernon Railroad. In 1864, he enlisted in the army, and was transferred to the Government shops at Chattanooga for the manufacturing of harness, etc. He served until the close of the war, and then located in Cincinnati, thence to Xenia, where he died June 9, 1879, at the age of 67 years. James H. (the subject), has always made his home in Middlebury. At the age of 17 A'ears, he apprenticed himself to the carriage-ironing trade, at Greenville, Penn.; be did not complete his apprenticeship, but retired to Middlebury, and worked one and a half 3-ears in the machine shops of Kent & Baldwin. In ISUa, he enlisted in the Second Ohio Cavahy, and served until the close of the war. He was in the battles of the Wilderness, Petersburg, Shenandoah, Cedar Creek, Winchester, Five Forks and at the surrender of Lee. He was at the grand review at Washington, and then moved West, remaining at Springfield, Mo., until the September following, when he, with regiment, was mustered out at St. Louis, and returned home. He then completed his trade as a machinist, and followed it some four years. He then worked in the Buckeye Reaper W^orks until the spring of 1876, when he opened his present business. He was married, Jan. 1, 1872, to Wiss Ella S. Farrar, a native of Massachusetts, and a daughter of C. S. Farrar, of Akron, whither they came about the year 1870. By the marriage, there is one child, viz., Charles F."^ Case.

DR. W. E. CHAMBERLIN, physician, Akron, was born in Allegheny City, Penn., Nov. 29, 1840, and was raised in Maryland and Virginia, where his parents lived during his infancy, moving to Peninsula, Summit Co., Ohio, in 1858. His father, C. W. Chamberlin, was a physician and druggist. Our subject began at the age of 12 years to assist in his father's store and to read medical works, which he continued in connection with his schooling, which consisted of a high-school course and a course by a special instructor, which included French and German. At the age of 18, he began practice under his father, and Sept. 9, 1861, he enlisted in Co. D, 1st Ohio Light Artiller3% and was detailed by Gen. Nelson as physician and surgeon, in which position he served until October, 1862, when, owing to ill health, he was discharged and returned home. During the winter, he attended lectures at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, resuming his profession in the spring at Brimfield, Portage Co., Ohio. Tn September, 1865, he removed to Clinton, Summit Co., where he practiced until Januar}^, 1875, during which time he became well known as a newspaper correspondent, corresponding for the Akron Beacon, City Times, Cleveland Hemhl, the Plaindealer and numerous others. From Clinton he came to Akron and located at 1 04 North Howard street, where he has remained since. In 1869, he graduated at the Charity Hospital Medical College of Cleveland. A member of the Union Medical Societ}' of Northeastern Ohio, he has served the same as delegate to the State and National Medical Conventions. March 31,

1862, he married Miss Mary E. Pritchard, of Medina Co., Ohio, Of their two children, one is living, viz., M^-rtle. June 22, 1875, he married Mrs. McCoy, formerly Miss Wilhelmina Kohler. While in Franklin Township, the Doctor served as Justice of the Peace and Notar}'. He also conducted a drug business, which was destroyed by fire in 1874.

B. S. CHASE, M. D. (deceased), was born Jan. 9, 1834. He was a native of Vermont, and lived on a farm until he came of age, gaining an education in the meanwhile at the public schools and an academic course at the Chester Academy. On reaching his majority, he came West and engaged in the sale of some maps for which he had secured territory in Michigan. After several years spent in this way, he came to Akron and began reading medicine with his uncle, Dr. E. W. Howard, of Akron, and afterward graduating at Ann Arbor, Mich. He began his practice in partnership with his uncle and preceptor, continuing in this way until 1862, when the war opened up a new avenue for his services. He entered the army as Assistant Surgeon of the 16th 0. V. I., remaining with the regiment until June,