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Hanford organized the society. It was greatly strengthened by a revival in 1827. On the 30th of April, 1828, Rev. Bissell was given charge of the society. Rev. Hair was its Pastor in 1835. At this time or soon afterward, a division was made in the society, and Rev. Bissell became the Pastor of one of them. Revs. Treat, Ward and Chapin occasionally preached at the Center. Rev. R. C. Learned was Pastor in 1843; Horace W. Palmer, in 1848 ; Joseph H. Scott, in 1853 ; Sidney Bryant, in 1860, and the President and professors of Western Reserve College have also filled the appointment. A proposition to build a combined church and schoolhouse on the square met with opposition. Timbers were prepared, and, finally, under protest, the house was erected. The house was twice moved, and then torn down. Another building was erected in 1831, at a cost of $700. The present one was built in 1848, at a cost of $3,000.

The fine marble monument standing in the public park is a credit to the patriotism of the citizens and an emblem of gratitude to the brave boys, living and dead, who fought in the last great war. Their names and the companies and regiments in which they served are chiseled into the white stone. The structure was erected the "semi-centennial year of the settlement of Twinsburg." Its total height is twenty-eight feet, and it rests upon three superimposed bases of sandstone, which form a series of steps to the foot of the marble column. Standing on the summit, with wings outspread, is a life-sized statue of the American eagle.

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ALLEN FAMILY, Akron. Jesse Allen, Sr., the progenitor of the Allen family, was born in 1770, in Cornwall, Conn. His father Nathaniel Allen was killed in the Revolutionary war, when Jesse was rather young. He (Jesse) lived with a family in Connecticut, until he grew up, and there learned shoemaking. When a young man he went to Tompkins Co.,N. Y., where he married a lady of German origin named Catharine Teithrich, in 1796 ; she was He abandoned determined to remove to Ohio, and, in the summer of 1811, set out with his family of seven ' children, and brother's family, bound hither ; he bought land which adjoins the Sixth Ward, then Middlebury. During the war of 1812, he served under Maj. Spicer, and, while gone an Indian spy came into the house, and the little axes to hew him down ; it issupposed the same Indian was killed near Summit Lake. Mr. Allen continued to reside in Coventry Township until his death, Sept. 12, 1837. Mr. A. was a member of the Baptist Church, and in the early days, before ministers came to the country, he, being an excellent reader, used to read sermons at the pioneer religious meetings. father of ten children, seven of whom were born near Ithaca, N. Y., as follows :

The following incident is not inappropriate. When on the beach of Lake Erie, the wagons with the provisions were delayed by accident, and Levi and other boys, with John, a little fellow, were on before with the cattle and were without provisions, except the milk of the cows. At night, he (Levi) covered John with sand to keep him warm, and thus they passed the night alone. Their first work upon arriving, in J uly, 1811, was reaping in a harvest field for Mr. Norton. He (Levi) grew up a close thinker, and was a man of sound judgment.

DaviD, the third son, was born Dee. 2, 1800 ; when about 18, he learned the trade of machinist ; he and his brother Jesse and McMillin commenced the manufacture of carding machines about 1833. He (David) married, in 1829, Beulah Jones. He died in 1842.

Jacos, the fourth son of Jesse and Catharine Allen, was born in Lansing, Tompkins Co., N. Y., Feb. 11, 1803 ; he was 8 years old when his family removed to Akron ; he learned his trade with Humphrey & Bagley in the woolen mills at Middlebury, went to New York State and built a woolen factory near Ithaca, where when he returned to Akron and built several woolen factories, which he started, and sold while in successful operation. | pany with Simon Perkins and Jedediah Cummins for several years, and was int.uested in all the railroads, doing all he could to promote the interests of and making various improvements. He was interested in the manufacture of flour for sev-

New York City. He was a Democrat ; never sought office, but was several times in the Council. He married Miss Catharine Van Sickle Feb. 16, 1830; she bore him five children, three of whom are living - Frank H., Mrs. Rufus Wright, of Brooklyn, Long Island, and Miss Lizzie Allen. He was liberal in the support of all churches, and died Nov. 25, 1879, in his 77th year.

Joun, the fifth son, was born Dec. 5, 1804 ; he learned the trade of stone-cutter, and was a contractor on the locks of the Ohio Canal. died at Piketon, Ohio, Nov. 23, 1829.

JESSE, the sixth son, was born May 1, 1807 ; he learned the trade of stone-cutter also, and, with his brother David, manufactured carding machines in Akron in early times ; he engaged until his death, Sept. 24,1863. He wasa strong Whig during the last thirty years of his life, and an active business man, and firmly established in uprightness and integrity ; of high moral standing, talented ; to know him well was to esteem him.

SaRAH was born Jan. 3, 1812, and was the first one of the children born in Ohio. She married James M. Hall, March 22, 1832. She died Jan. 27, 1877.

Hiram was born Sept. 14, 1814; he came to Akron in 1840, and. with Jacob Allen. his brother, erected in succession a woolen mill on Cherry street, the old portion of City Mills and brick mills, now occupied by Allen & Co., first used as woolen factories; he erected the block north of the Beacon Block, and which burned in 1871, when he immediately put up the present one. He died Sept. 21, 1878. unmarried.

CurisTiana (Allen) Caldwell, the youngest of ten children, was born Jan. 30, 1822; she came to Akron in 1840, where she still resides in a pleasant home on Broadway.

ALBERT Allen, the son of Levi Allen and the grandson of Jesse Allen, Jr., was born larch 12, 1827, in Coventry Township, where, until he attained his majority, he was employed at farming and clearing, after which he learned millwrighting under John S. Gilcrest, of Springfield, and engaged in plying his trade fora period of nine years. In 1856, he built for mins, in 1880, since which time the firm name has not been altered. The mills doan entirely merchant business, and grind from two hundred and fifty to three hundred barrels of flour per day. In the spring of 1881, the mills were changed to the Hungarian process, which enlarges the capacity of the mills to four hundred and fifty barrels of flour per day.

FRANK ADAMS, President and Superintendent of Akron Sewer Pipe Company. Sixth Ward; was born in Windsor Co.. Vt.. July 5. 1819, and is the son of Benjamin and Betse: (Crowley) Adams. who were natives of Massachusetts. and were married in Vermont. where they had moved with their parents when young. In 1838. they came to Ohio, the journey being made by a wagon to Troy. N. Y.; thence by canal to Buffalo ; thence by lake to Cleveland : and thence to Norton Township. in what is now Summit Co., where they settled on a farm previously purchased ; they farmed there about ten © years, when they removed to Akron. where they lived a retired life until his death, which occurred Noy. 22 about twenty years later. They were members of the M. E. Church for more than forty vears. and took an active interest in all church affairs. Frank remained at home until within a few months of his majority ; his education was confined to a limited attendance at the district schools. Upon leaving home, he went to lire years. when he engaged in the map business. forming the partnership of Manning & Co., and remained one year, when the firm became Adams & Egleston, the latter buying out Manning. They continued until the spring of 1848.

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the discontinuance of the business in Akron. He then took an active part in the campaign, and was Treasurer of the Whig Club. In March, 1849, he was appointed Postmaster of Akron by President Zachary Taylor, and held the office during his administration and that of his successor, Millard Fillmore. After retiring from the post office, he opened a hat store, which was burned in the spring of 1855. In May following, he purchased an interest in the the firm became Hill & Adams, which continued until 1868. when the business was merged jnto a stock company, known as the Hill & Adams Sewer Pipe Company, and, in January, 1871, Mr. Hill retired, and the corporate name pany," of which Mr. Adams was made President, also Superintendent, which offices he still retains, having held them from the first formation of the stock company.- During the war, Mr. Adams served as a member of the School Board. member of Council, Treasurer of

ISAAC C. ALDEN, Treasurer of Whitman & Miles Manufacturing Co., Akron, Ohio ; is a son of Henry and Abbie ©. (Smith) Alden, and was born Noy. 20. 1851, at Bridgewater. Mass. When very young, the family moved to Abing-

ANGELO ANDREW, of R. L. & A. Andrew, Akron ; was born Feb. 1, 1846, in Boston Township, this county ; he lived at home until 17 years of age, when he was apprenticed to the printer's trade with the Akron Beacon. After serving two years, he went to Cleveland and worked on the Ohio Farmer until Aug. 23, 1864, when he enlisted in Co. H, 177th O. V. I, and served until the close of the war, taking part in all the engagements in which his regiment participated. On his return from the army, he fol- | lowed the business of painting, in Peninsula, | for three years; he then engaged as clerk in the same village, in a general merchandise business, for a period of five years. He then | brother, and, in 1877, formed the partnership | indicated above. Their business is confined to wall paper decorations for public buildings and residences, which they handle by the wholesale as well as retail, and all kinds of painting, em- | ploying from six to twelve skilled workmen. Their store is 22x66 feet, with two stories and | a basement: church and hall decorations are a | special feature of their business. Aug. 14, | 1873, he married Miss Lizzie Warburton. a | native of Northampton Township ; they have three children - Maybelle, Frank and Bessie. R. L. ANDREW, of R. L. & A. Andrew, Akron. R. L. Andrew, senior partner of the firm of R. L. & A. Andrew. is a native of Boston Township. this county ; his parents, Robert and Ann A.( Tubbs) Andrew. were natives of England ; his father came to America in 1838, and lived with a brother in Boston, Summit Co., Ohio ; in the following year, he returned to En- - gland and married, returning to Boston with his , wife in 1840 ; here he followed the trade of orna- ; mental painter, remaining in Boston until 18i5..3 when he moved to Akron, where he has since resided. Mrs. Andrew died in Akron Oct. 3, 1879. R. L. Andrew was born May 24, 1841, the eldest of three children; he lived at home, learning . the trade of his father, and clerking at Penin- | sula and Akron for some five years until 1862. - In June of this year he enlisted in the 85th O. V. L. Go. B. and served four months, taking purt. in the meanwhile, in the engagements at : Prentiss. Miss., and Vickburg. In August, he in the store of E. H. Cole, at Peninsula. He subsequently went to Michigan and clerked in a store in Iona, then at Marshall, and finally at Ann Arbor, for E. B. Thompson & Sons, who moved their business about as_ indicated.

the business connected with his trade of ornamental painting. In 1873, he built the present store property, 240 East Mill street, where he has since conducted his business. Jan. 1, 1877, he formed the partnership with his brother Angelo. Sept. 6, 1866, he married Miss Emerancy Hall, a native of Northampton ; she died April

Akron, Ohio ; was born Dec. 2, 1842, and is a son of Daniel and Susanna (Orwig) Auble, natives of Mifflinburg, Union Co., Penn., where our subject was born. His parents came to Ohio in 1854, and settled near Wadsworth, Medina County. He worked on a farm until 15, when he entered the store of E. G. Loomis, at Wadsworth, as a clerk, until July, 1861, when he was made a partner, under the firm name of Loomis, Auble & Co. He was doing a prosperous business, when he enlisted in Co. I, 103d O. V. L, Aug. 2, 1862. Soon after enlistment he was detached as Clerk A. G. O., under Maj. Gen. A. J. Smith, and served in the army of Mississippi ; was in active service first against the rebel Gen. Kirby Smith, in Kentucky ; at the siege of Vicksburg, with Gen.

surrender. He was in the Missouri campaign under Rosecrans, with Thomas at Nashville, and in Gen. Scofield's department during the last months of service.

J. PARK ALEXANDER. The subject of these lines was born to John and Mary (Scott) Alexander on Aug. 7. 1834, in Bath township, Summit Co., Ohio, where he worked on a farm until the age of 18, attending district school and the academy at Richfield.

1865, and returned home. employed as salesman by M. W. Henry & Co., of Akron, where he remained five years, and, in 1871, engaged in the real estate, insurance, foreign passage id exchange business. In January, 1875, he took the business manage- entering the engineering class under Prof. Holbrook, being a class-mate of Prof. Mendenhall. Having completed an engineering course, he was, in 1856, employed in the public schools of Akron, where he taught two years. In 1865-66, he bought the present site of his tirebrick manufactory, then used as a manufactory of stoneware, being. at that time. a small concern. He enlarged the buildings. and at the same time contracted for such au amount of stoneware as twelve or fifteen manufactories of Summit county could make. The aggregate amount of some years was two million gallons of ware. He established a warehouse at Detroit, maintaining it eight years. and one at Chicago five years. In 1867. he began manufacturing fire-brick, which he has greatly improved in quality. In 1875. he succeeded in obtaining a patent for the manufacture of a nearly pure (98.78) silica brick from white This was the first business of the kind in Ohio. They make about one and one-half million bricks per year, employing twenty men in the making, and a large number in the hand- In 1872. he bought two oil refineries in this city and ran them. in connection with the Standard Oil Company. for five years. In 1858, he was elected Secretary of the Summit County Agricultural Society, holding the position for five years, which were _ followed by seven years in the presidency of the | same, during which time (1858 to 1870), great in the fall of 1877 with its financial condition greatly improved. He is Secretary of the Akron Coal Co., operating rich mines in Guernsey County. In May, 1880, he was appointed improvements were made in the society. In the State Board of Agriculture, and, in 1872, Treasurer of the same. He was made member of' the City Council in 1865, and, with the exception of two years. has continued such, being for the past eight years President of the same. and witness- ing during that time all the public improvements, the city having grown from 3,500 to 20,000 inhabitants. Religious and educational institutions have repeatedly been the recipients of his munificent gifts. On Sept. 5, 1860, he was married to Miss Martha D. Wright, of Tallmadge, Ohio, daughter of Francis H. Wright, of which union there were eight children, one of whom, George B., is dead. Those living are Clara W., Helen B., Grace F., Mattie D., Bessie H., J. Park, Jr., and Alice S.

DAVID S. ALEXANDER, agricultural implements, Akron, Ohio; is ason of John and Mary (Scott) Alexander, both of whom were born in Washington Co., Penn., and were married in 1828. In February, 1831, they came to Ohio, and settled in Bath Township, where he had previously bought 175 acres of land, upon which was some improvements. He followed farming there for several years, and, about from Washington Co., Penn., of the McKeever stock, driving overland. He was for some years a prominent breeder and wool-grower, and brought into the county the first flock of He died in 1856, aged 58, and his wife in June, 1880, at the age of 80 years. They had four sons, of whom David, the

' and. in 1851, bought the farm of J. P. Baldwin, | and for eleven years followed grain and stock | In 1861, he came to | | Akron, and bought several lots on "Ely ; | Tract," and commenced dealing in sheep, but | _ dogs were very destructive to them, and he > In 1871, he began to deal | _ in agricultural implements, which he still con- | His establishment was destroyed by | ' fire in 1879, entailing upon him a loss of | - $12,000. ' and broke his thigh. ' ried Miss Sarah C. Hale,a daughter of William | ' Hale, of Bath Township.

In rebuilding, he fell from a scaffold In June, 1853, he marborn to them. Lucy J. was the wife of C. R. Grant. of Akron. and died June 8,1880. Three brothers of subject died when young ;

FRANK M. ATTERHOLT, lawyer, Akron, son of John and Emeline (Williams) Atterholt, was born Dec. 19, 1848, near New Lisbon, Ohio, where he lived on a farm until he was 14 years of age, in the meantime attending school, and then entered the New Lisbon High School, which he attended for three years. At the age of 17 he began teaching, and continued some twelve years, spending his summer vacations in the National Normal School of Lebanon. He graduated from Mt. Vernon College in 1870, having entered three years previous. He was for three years Superintendent of the Columbiana Public Schools, and for some time editor of the Independent Register' of that place. In the Medina Normal School of 1872 he taught mathematics, and in 1873 was made Principal of the West Salem Public Schools, which position he retained for five years. In June, 1878, he began the study of law under the direction of Upson, Ford & Baird, and pursued his studies with them two years, being admitted to the bar on Oct. 5, 1880, at the session of the Supreme Court at Columbus, and has since been in practice here, having moved here in 1879. He was married to Miss Mary E. Beard, of Columbiana, Ohio, Dec. 31, 1872; she was a teacher in the public schools of that place. She bore him one child, a son.

Match Co., Akron. is a native of Middlebury, now Sixth Ward of Akron, Ohio. and is the fourth of eight children born to George and Eliza Barber, who were natives of Connecticut and Ohio respectively. George

Barber was born in the year 1804. His par- | ents, Ezriah and Ann Barber, moving to Onon- | daga Co., N. Y., when he was 1 year old, and | where he remained until he became of age, | spirit that had actuated his parents and grandparents before him (he being a descendant of » a family that came to this country from En- | ' gland in 1620) - he thought he would take a | look ut what was then considered the far |

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West, i. e., Ohio, and, after a few years' travel | through the State in the clock business, he ~ .finally settled down at Middlebury, where a considerable milling interest was well established, and where and at Akron he followed his trade until the year 1845, when he began the manufacture of matches, being one of the first to take up the business in the West. Meeting with indifferent success at first. owing to the great difficulty of distributing the goods he manufactured. There being no railroads at that time that would transport matches. it was necessary to distribute his product by wagons. In the year 1852, feeling somewhat tired of the struggle, and the necessity of a rest, he concluded to retire from the business. and traded his fixtures and factory for a hotel at Middlebury, and was appointed Postmaster of Middlebury, under Pierce's administration. Of this he tired in about one year. and again engaged in the manufacture of matches and buttons, the latter part of the enterprise proving unprofitable was soon abandoned. and he again gave his entire time and attention to the manufacture of matches. the facilities for which were inproved from time to time, to keep pace with the growing demands of the trade: and trom making matches by hand in a barn. step by step the business was so increased that in the year 1880. the business was conducted in buildings that, if on one floor twenty-two feet wide. would be over one mile long, and in which are made enough matches every twenty-five days. if placed end to end, to span the earth. and from which the Government received for internal revenue stamps over $2.000 per day. Our subject, who is the only surviving son of the founder of this immense business. was raised in his native village, and received a course of study in the common schools. The circumstances of the family early ushered him into business affairs, thus at the age of 16, he began selling matches for his father, operating in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania, in which States, through his activity and industry, the reputation of the Barber match soon became well-established. In the year 1862, the entire management was left to his dictation, from which time the success of the enterprise became more marked. Very much of this success Mr. Barber attributes to his associate and active | business friend, J. K. Robinson, who about this | time took charge of introducing the goods into new markets, as well as the taking charge of the markets where the reputation of the goods were established, and no man in the entire West is better or more favorably known to the jobbing grocer trade of the country than Jack Robinson, as he is familiarly dubbed by his many friends. In 1864, the business was merged into a stock company, known as the Barber Match Co., of which George Barber was the President and QO. C. Barber the Secretary and Treasurer. and John K. Robinson was General Agent. In January, 1881, the company had by far the largest and best equipped match works | on this continent. The same enterprise that | had made it what it was. suggested to Messrs. | Barber & Robinson the propriety and economy | of consolidating all the match companies of the | States into one ownership or one company. and | through them and other active manufacturers. . a consolidation was made of twenty-eight of the leading manufacturers of the country. under the name of the Diamond Match Co., - with a capital of $2.250.000, of which William H. Swift. of Wilmington. Del., is President ; O. C. Barber. Vice President ; and William B. Gates. of Frankfort, N. Y.. is Treasurer. The business of this company is conducted or managed by these officers. as an Executive Committee. with co-ordinate powers. the subject of this sketch having charge more directly of all the company's factories in the States west and south of Pennsylvania: the sales depart- | ment in the same territory being in the charge of John K. Robinson. O. C. Barber married Miss Laura L. Brown. of Akron, Oct. 10. 1866. By the marriage there have been two children, one of whom is living, viz. Anna Laura: Charles H. is deceased. JOHN RICHARD BUCHTEL. manufacturer of reapers and mowers, Akron. whose por- | trait uppears in this work, was born Jan. 18, 1822. in Summit Co., Ohio. He was the son | of John Bucbtel. a farmer, and the grandson of Peter Buchtel. who was a native of Pennsylvania, whence he moved to Ohio in 1809, | entering service here as a soldier in the war of 1812, and dying in the army. He engaged in farming when a youth, with no opportunity of | obtaining other education than such as he | could acquire by himself. so that, when he at- | tained his majority, he could with difficulty | write his name. At that age he began to work | land on shares, continuing it for several years, | farm of twenty acres. Finally disposing of this, he bought a farm of 160 acres in Coventry Township, Summit Co., Ohio, which he improved and lived upon until 1854. when he the employ of Ball, Aultman & Co.. of Canton, then just beginning to make and intreduce very extensively the " Ohio, and afterward the " Buckeye" mower and reaper. continuing as their agent until the spring of 1856. The firm was burnt out soon after. and made an assignment to him for the benefit of its creditors. They obtained ai extension, and he gave them such important aid that the firm, C. Aultman & Co., was again on a sccure foundation. In 1864, he succeeded in persuading the Canton manufacturers of the « Buckeye ' machines, to build a manufactory at Akron also. and he superintended the censtiuction of the necessary buildings. and purchased a one-sixth interest in the new establistment. By the following spring they began manulacturing their machines in the new buildings. The next year the business was organized as a stock ccmpany, ot which he was elected President. This ccompany has over S$1.U60.6C00 of paid-up capital, and $500.0C00 surplus. Its works have capacity for building over ten thousand machines annually. The Akron Jron Company, with its large rolling-mills and fine blast furnaces. and the Akron Knife Werks. of the Whitman & Miles Manufacturing Ccmpany. for the preduction of knives and sickles for mowers, grew indirectly out of the establishment of the Buckeye works: and the Akron paper-mill of Themas Phillips & Co.. the rubber works, the the chain works. and many other flourishing industries. owed very much te Mr. Buchtel for their location in Akron. He was an officer of the Canton incorporation of C. Aultman & Co.. a Director of the Akron Iron Company. of the Bank of Akron. and of the Weary. Snyder & Wilcox Manufacturing Company, besides many smaller business interests. In politics a Republican. and in temperance matters a prohibitionist; he was the candidate of the latter party for Secretary of State of Ohio. in 1874. He was appointed by Gov. Hayes. and confirmed by the Senate, one of the Trustees of of the executive committee during the erection of its buildings. Throughout the war of Secession, his services to the community were simply invaluable. When others deemed the obstacles to filling up the quota and escaping the draft to be insurmountable, he, by his direct and supervisory efforts obtained the apportionment laid upon his town. In religious belief, he is a stanch Universalist, but neverthe- | less contributed for the erection of every church built in Akron, after he began to take an active part in affairs. of his unstinted liberality was reached in the establishment and endowment of Buchtel College, Akron. an institution under the control and patronage of the Universalist dencmination of Ohio. As the outgrowth of three years of earnest thought and persistent effort, college, at first an experiment, steadily made | its way forward until it holds a place of ac- © knowledged merit ameng the most flourishing | earned, and was a great public and private benefactor. beth Davidsen. issue. Co., Ohio. where he purchased for the Akron Iron Company. on the line of the Heckand their union same name. eral manager of the company during the past four years, he has made five openings and established large furnaces. which combined. re- | account of contiguous quarries of limestone which produce lime suitable for fluxing. CAPT. GEORGE BILLOW, undertaker, Akron, the representative of his line of business, has an eventful history.

Akron, and for a time was employed by E. A. Collins. About this time he was married to Miss Mary, daughter of Conrad and Charlotte (Graff) Fink; their marriage took place on Sept. 19, 1854. His wife, as well as her father and mother, were natives of Germany. After the army ; he enlisted in Co. I, 107th O. V. L., as a private; this was a German regiment, and was enlisted specially for Sigel's command: he mand known thereafter as Gordon's Division. They went to Folly island, under command of Gen. Q. A. Gilmore. Capt. Billow was at the capture of Fort Wagner, and about Christmas, 1863, he was at the battle of James' Island; he was subsequently ordered to the assistance of the troops at Jacksonville, Fla.; there he covering, he was detailed Brigade Commissary of Subsistence, which position he held for three months, and had the honor of having been complimented by Commissary General Kilbourn on his success. Again he was detailed, and this time on the staff of Gen. Foster, as there about nine months. and was then sent to Jacksonville as local Provost Marshal, and was there for three months. and then he was returned to Fernandina. where he remained till the close of the war. When he returned from the army he engaged in the grocery business in Akron. with Mr. C. Kolb: they were in business for about two years, when he took charge entered the army in July, and in the following | November he was promoted to Second Lieu- | tenant ; shortly after this he rose to the rank ' of First Lieutenant, and then was made Captain | cellorsville from July 1 to 4; in the first bayonet charge at this battle, the Captain and thirty men of his company were lost. Hagerstown and Boonsboro will also be remembered by him as places of battle in which he participated.

trade. He is a member of Akron Commandery, No. 25; and while he was in Alabama, he was a member of Huntsville Commandery, No. 7, and held the office of Grand Captain of the Guard of the order in that State. Politically, he is a Republican. following children: Anna, George W., Charles Fernando (named after the Major), Ida, Albert C., Jacob L.. Edwin M., and the baby, Claire.

WILLIAM BUCHTEL, lumber, ete., Akron; a son of John and Catharine (Richards) Buchtel, was born Dec. 23. 1822, in Green Township of this county. His father had but little means, except bis land (106 acres) and his children only went to school when they could be spared from the farm in winter. He (subject) and his brother. John R.. cleared a large portion of his father's farm. At 22, he commenced for himself,and in one year bought the homestead, and engaged largely-in wheat-raising. He followed farming until 1856, when he bought an interest (having rented out 'his farm) in the Chamberlin Mills, which he operated for some time with good success. He served in the 164th O. N. G. during the late war, and was honorably discharged i in the fall of 1864. army, he removed to Akron, and in the following year he made one of the firm of Jackson. Buchtel & Co., and engaged in the lumber business for five years - subject being most of the time in the pineries near Saginaw, Mich., acres of Government and State lands, in Clare, | and | He was . 7. 1842. to Miss Martha Hen- ' | derson; of Springfield Township. By this mar- | a short time and then went to Chautauqua Lake | where he clerked in a hotel for three months. ' He then came back to Akron. and in November, |

CHARLES W. BROWN. barber, Akron, a son of John and Margaret (Groves) Brown, was born in Cleveland. Ohio. May 7, 1843, where he lived until 15 years of age, attending the public schools of that city. At the age of 14 he entered his father's barber shop as an apprentice : for some fifty years. Subject worked in the shop until the war broke out. He had drilled with a company of colored men under Capt. Paddock of the "Cleveland Grays." This company, through John Brown (subject's father) tendered their services to Gov. Tod, who telegraphed in response: " When we want niggers we'll let you know." Subject then recruited fifteen men, and upon offering themselves to Rhode Island were accepted. He then returned and raised twenty men more, but Ohio had, in the meantime, discovered that "niggers" would stop bullets as well as whites, and got out an injunction against their leaving the State.

Gov. Sprague of Rhode Island was notified, and | sent two of his ablest attorneys to manage the | In the trial of the case, Gov. Tod's tele- | gram was offered in testimony, and after a full | lst Sergeant of Co.K. Hecame to Akron in the fall of 1865, and has done a good business as barber ever since. His shop is located under the Academy of Music, and runs from three to five chairs with competent artists, and has a bath room attached. He has always been a stanch Republican and is the first colored man elected to office in Summit County, by a popular vote, being elected Trustee of Portage Township in 1880, an office he has faithfully filled. He was married, July 29, 1867, to Miss Laura V. Lewis, of Cleveland ; they have two daughters and one son. His parents were free-born and came to Cleveland about 1820, where the

They had two sons and two daughters. Subject is a fine musician, and was leader of the first colored band ever raised in Akron. DAVID BUNN, policeman. Akron, Ohio ; a son of Jacob and Sarah A. (Whaler) Bunn ; father having moved to that locality in an early day. Subject worked on a farm. and helped to clear 200 acres of woodland. school, two miles distant, and, at 19, came to enlisted, Aug. 22, 1862. in Co. G, of the 120th | - O. V.L, and participated in the Trans-Missis- | ' sippi and Vicksburg campaign, and the Red _ roled 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 _ Springer. of Doylestown. where he lived until . 1875. They have three children, two sons and one daughter. Mr. B.. in 1866. engaged in the grocery business. and afterward dealt in dry goods. In 1875, he came to Akron. and opened he entered as an apprentice in a wholesale gro- | / cery and drug house, and served four years | ' without compensation. and paid over 8300 to | He passed a regular ex- | year. | W. Henry & Co., Mr. Wolf, his half-brother, , being a partner. | 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 partnership with John Wolf and H. J. Church, : in the dry goods business, until 1878, when he | sold out, and shortly after formed a partner- | ship with E. G. Kubler, and established the | Akron Varnish Works, the first and only fac- | tory of the kind in the county. | has largely increased since its establishment. Jan. 12. 1871, he married Miss Kate J. Buchtel. daughter of William Buchtel, Esq. They 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, be entered the army. cope e 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 und bones of the neck. The wound was probed by surgeons, and they removed a half ounce ball. His hearing and eyesight were affected tor some time. He joined his regiment at (rreensboro. 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 & Sons. 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 reapers 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 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

He 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, Solo- | mon 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.

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 youngest and the oldest children died in infancy.

years of age, began working in the paper mill at Cuyahoga Falls, where he worked a number of years, and learned the different departments of the work. In Aug. 2, 1862, he enlisted in Co. G, 115th O. V. L., 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 employed at the Monroe Falls Paper Mills. In 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. O. 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 Staffordshire. England. When 12 years old, he entered a rolling mill at Wednesbury, Eng., in the heart of the iron country. He worked in almost every 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 twenty-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 settlers 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 honored 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 nishing the troops with beef cattle. During | this war he had some chance to form his own boyish judgment of men and measures, and to , become somewhat familiarly acquainted with many who figured before the country in after - years. 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 anything 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 Chris- | tianity, 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 piety, and of

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. Day. 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 year, 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 enga in the wool business with Mr. Oviatt, of Richfield. In 1844, 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 by him, and his efforts in that direction pushed forward. until he expiated with his life the zeal on starting for Kansas, he again moved his household to Essex Co., N. Y., where now his "body 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 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 employed as book-keeper and Secretary of the Chamberlain Company, continuing until 1878, in which year he formed a partnership with George W. MeNeil, and

- leased the .Htna Mills, which they have conducted with fair success since. In March, 1864, he was married to Miss Augusta Eldred, of Akron, who bore him two children; she In July, 1879, he married Miss Harriet L. Andrus, of Akron. DENNISON BABCOCK, butcher, Akion, is a son of George, he of Samuel Babcock, who George, with 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. trom 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 years of age. he enlisted in Co. H. 104th O. V. L. 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.

iness. 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 « (o.. steam-heating apparatus. subsequently 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.

| who came, among the early settlers, to Coventry and Springfield Townships. The wife of Itha- - mar was Lanah Haynes, born June 28,1796 ; ' died Jan. 17, 1867.

Conn., to Coventry, in the fall of 1811, for Capt. Amos Spicer, with whom he lived until his marriage to Lanah Haynes, by whom he had seven children - Laura, born March 30,

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 always a very 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., education, he being employed in assisting his father in clearing up the old homestead until He was married, Oct. 9, 1857, to Lydia Ann Myers, daughter of 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 year; then came to the city of Youngstown, Ohio, where the father now lives, and is engaged as an horticulturist. His mother was a sister to John Beese, whose history appears in Coventry Township. James attended school until 13 years of age, when he engaged as a mule driver in the Mahoning Valley until | the hreaking-out of the war, when he enlisted as drummer in an independent band called | « Dixon's Band ;" but was subsequently connected with the 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, the band being discharged some time after enlistment. he returned home, and re-enlisted in the 84th O. Y. I. three months' men; but were kept several months overtime, when they were' | discharged. He then, immediately, Jan. 2. 186+. 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 bookae, ER time he accepted the position which he now occupies. Harriette E. Beatty, daughter of John and Lucretia (Darrow) Beatty, natives, he of Ireland, she of New England. By this marriage, there were five children - Harrison J., Franklin P., Clara May, Alfred and Martha J.

under the firm name of Wetmore & Baldwin, and in 1867, it became Wetmore, Baldwin-& Paige, so continuing until 1869, when he retired, and in March became General Agent for the Akron Tron Company, a position he still retains, representing the company throughout the East, West and South. November 10, 1863, he married where he spent two years. 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, where 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. CAPE A. Py BALDWIN, Acent Akron Iron Company, Akron, oldest son of James and Mary (Robertson) Baldwin. was born Jan. 28, 1838, near 111 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 Battery, organized at Mansfield, Ohio, by John Sherman, by whom he was commissioned 2d Lieutenant. After the battle of Mission Ridge he was pro-

JAMES BALDWIN, Akron, was born at Amsterdam. N. Y.,in 1805, and cameto Akron in 1831. having but little means: he was a carpenter and _ builder.

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 | land, California; Aaron P. (of whom see sketch) ; James W.. died in 1875. near Cincinnati; Mary 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

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

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 language ; he went back to France in 1851 on a visit, and while there 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 long, however; he, being an only child was again called to France by his parents for the While there his father died accidentally, and, after arranging matters relating to the estate, he returned to Buffalo, and, Dec.

Furope. In 1860, he returned with his family 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 Harmonie Block. at a cost of 323,000: in November, 1871, he engauged 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

(x. 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 a resident of Summit County when he was 3 vears old; in 1863, he became a partner in the firm of which he now stands at the head, which

' 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.

evidence of his ability and the confidence of the people ; he is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 50, I. O. O. 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 time, he paid $32. of apprenticeship, he began life among strangers on his own account, by beginning a tour of five years' travel through the States of Germany, 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 money and investing it in real estate he has become the owner of valuable residence and business property in Akron. To aid him in succeeding better in his business, he for a time, shortly after his arrival in Akron, tion 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 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

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.

the family, of whom was Almon, our subject. walking the entire distance. The trip required twenty-six days. 160 acres of timber land. and. while building a cabin, lived with a friend. The cabin put up five children. his death. when she went to Indiana, and passed the remainder of her 'life with her children. Catharine. the wife of our subject.

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

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., ~ho 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 county. ject. he followed carpentering for about twenty in Norton Township. and, in 1866, came to Middlebury. where he has since resided. He has

Peace: also served as Ward and Township Assessor some eight or nine years. He was mail agent for several years. and is now serying his fifth term as County Coroner. He was Mayor of Middlebury two terms - the last dur- He has

1834. and an Elder 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 Quincy Adams. 1840 ; then anti-slavery until the organization 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 Bryan's practice has been chiefly in , | | 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 J udge 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. | Sandwich. Ontario, at the age of 20, remaining | there three years, then entered St. Thomas

| Harbor. on Lake Superior, Mich., having a ter- | | ritory of fifty miles in length, containing three - , churches and sixteen missions, comprising over | _ one thousand families. _ sion every month and church every two weeks, | for three years, often traveling on foot. / 1866, he came to Cleveland, and was sent to | ' St. Bernard's Church at this place, where he 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 Mollie (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 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, contin- established the present business, which they have since continued. In May, 1853, he married Miss Caroline Thayer, a native of New York, who bore him three children, two of whom are living, viz., Frank and Alice. Palitically, he is a Democrat.

CHARLES BAIRD, Prosecuting Attorney, Akron. Is ason 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 May, 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, immediately 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 .\ttorney 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.

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 they lived until 1870. except a period of seven years. The subject of this duties of Deputy Auditor, remaining such until | 1856, when he was elected Auditor of Portage | | County on the Republican ticket, which posi- but one term.) In 1863, he becams Deputy Clerk in the Probate Judge's oftice, 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 | ness since then has been conducted under the firm name of Baldwin & Weeks. They carry 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. IL.. Methodist minister. now located at Gilmore. Ohio; Rev. Chancey. of Centralia. Ill.. and Eucebia. wife of Thomas Kingsbury. of Berwick. Ill. His sister Sarah A.. who was the wife of Harvey Laughlin. died at Deertield. Portage Co.. Ohio. in her 25th year. One sister. Armelia, died at 16 years of age.

TALMON BEARDSLEY. retired. Akron. 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 wel! 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. where Talmon aided at clearing and farming. makinz out of chaos a clean spot for a home: here also, he went to school about three months per vear. 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 ' chimney. 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 fora 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 him, working by the year at farming and teaming, doing a considerable amount of the latter, as his employer had contracted to furnish 16,000 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 Rensselaers and other distinguished personages who, on their arrival, accompanied by their colored waiters, and a fine display of baggage, were met near Newark and greeted with cannonading and martial music. On that day, Mr. 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.

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

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. father died when he was 5 years old, at New London, Conn., of yellow fever. After the he went to district

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 this. he was made Captain of the canal boat *' Western Reserve." carrying

' ions to Cleveland, Ohio, from 1832 to 1835. | from which date up to 1858 he followed farm- _ ing in Coventry, when he left that place and ' moved to Akron, where he has since retired

. . from business, except attending to affairs con- ' nected with his estate. He was a Whig. cast his first vote for Henry Clay. and has been a | other pursuits. For five years he held a Lieutenant's commission. He raised five daughters and one son, viz., Mary, wife of Edward F. Pulsifer. of Chicago. and Prudence, wife of

PHILO BENNETT, retired, Akron. 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 with her sister until her marriage. By their marriage there was one child, now deceased. ANTON BERG, lock and gunsmitb, 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 year, when he was drafted into the army. He served twenty-one months in active military service, but during the remainder of his six years' term of service, he worked at his trade. A part of the time he was employed at the arsenal, manufacturing friction cannon caps, the inventor of which was his commanding officer, Capt. Hartman. service, and being discharged, he began preparations for emigrating to America. He manufactured the tools he needed for his trade, and reaping aud mowing machine. the first knife bar for machines, a business that has since grown to large proportions. spring of 1848. he came to Cleveland, Ohio, until 1849. On June 16 of that year, he walked to Akron, and found work on stove Sept. 6, 1854, he returned to his old business, manufacturing and repairing guns, etc., which he still continues. Mr. Berg is a Republican in politics, beginning asa 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

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,

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. Edward 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 O. V. L., and served until the close of the war; he entered the service as First Lieutenant, and in three months was promoted to Captain of hiscompany. During this term, 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

He was married March 10, 1863, to Miss Frances Johnston, adaughter of John and | Elizabeth (Newton) Johnston, old residents of | By this marriage there have been | 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 taste for the pleasures and sports in which young men usually indulge, but preferred spending his leisure hours with some favorite 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 en-

. Years he was engaged in the practice of his profession in that city. 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 Qhio and located at Akron. During all these

| 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.

duced 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. 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 7dth year of his age. He married Miss Huldah Chittenden while engaged in the study of his 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 efforts, improving the circumstances and advantages as. they presented themselves.

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 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 Deputy Auditor for , | Brewster Coal Co.. Akron; was born in Augusta | Township, Oneida Co., N. Y., Sept. 19, 1808. on

G. W. Crouse, and also as Deputy for &. S. Wilson, County Treasurer. serving in both nearly four years, and serving as Auditor for an unexpired term by appointment. In March, 1862, he became County 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 Assembly, 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 Secretary. He was married, Nov. 5, 1848, to Miss Anne M. Row. a native of Connecticut ; she came to Medina Uo., Ohio. with her parents when quite young ; they had six children, three of whom are living, viz.. Lillie M., Charles S. and Clifford D.

A. A. BARTLETT, 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, subsequently 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. L, for three years 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 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 1879. During the latter eight vears of that time. he served as foreman of the establishment. though conducted under several

| 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 his fathers 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 Rey. 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 one child, 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

They lived here until 1815, when they were enabled to build a better one. He was a carpenter, and worked at his trade. building many of the houses of the early 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 trade 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 they lived until their death: he died about 1820, and she in 1861. Mr. Brewster now owns the place on which they settled. Mrs. Brewster, the wife of subject, died in Novemver, 1854, leaving five children. tour 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. Mecham, of Akron; Mary M., now Mrs. Russell Kent. of Akron. Mr. Brew. ster married a second time in December, 1857, to Mrs. Brown, formerly Minerva Dyer, a native i Cuyahoga Co. Ohio; she died June 27, 1873. In September, 1877, he married Mrs. Chamberlain. formerly Lucy Jane Gale. a native of Massachusetts. who came to Ohio with her parents in the year 1825. Mr. marriage, followed farming in Coventry until 1848. Coal having, in the meantime, been dis- terests of Norwalk most of the time ima ninibtnes the year 1858 or 1859, when he became interested in 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, a member of the Union Medical Association of Northeastern Ohio, of which he has been Recording Secretary a number of years. In June. 1873, he married Miss Celia, a daughter of Dr. George 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,

He prosecuted his coal mining, and. about the year 1863, formed a stock company. President, the capital being $100,000. He and his sons subscribed the stock. They built a

B. ¥. BATTELS, photographic art gallery, Akron, was bornin Wadsworth, 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 Massachusetts and Vermont ; he came to Middlebury, Ohio. when he was young ; arriving before the locks on same. Mrs. Battels came to Ohio with her parents. who settled in River Styx. Medina Co., Ohio, at an early day, they being pioneers in that locality. After the marriage. Caleb, children born to Daniel A. and Harriet (Vandercook) Baker. They were natives of Conyears of age; he was brought up on the farm, and received 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 to Ohio when about 17 years of age. or about the year 1831. and located in Huron ('o.. where he began asaclerk in a mercantile business, and, after a number of years, he became a partner, and was identified with the mercantile inability 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 he moved from place to place. In 1852, he located

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, came to Akron, and opened his present place in the spring following, and has 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 native 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 Mary. a daugh- | ' ter of Samuel and Lucinda (Coy) Brown. | Samuel Brown was a Revolutionary soldier and ' | a pensioner during latter years; he was a na- | | tive 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 mem- | ber of the Presbyterian 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 1345, 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 Henry and Mary (Emmons) Vansickle; after the marriage, he re- | mained 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 ex- tensive trade; the volume of his transactions have amounted to 31,500,000 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 com- . modious 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 8. 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 lubricating oil tu the complicated machinery 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 year, by which time he had acquired a fair knowledge of the English branches. Inthe winter of 1825-26. he taught in New York, and in the 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.. during the summer of 1829: in the fallof that year he entered the freshman class of Amherst College, where he remained until his health failed from overwork, being engaged 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 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. 1833. he was admitted to the bar. at Springtield. 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,

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 slavery and freedom could not co-exist in this Government, a doctrine which, ten years later. blazed from a higher standard. when Mr. Seward proclaimed the " irrepressible conflict.' in the United States Senate. While in the Senate. Mr. Carpenter had