Youngstown City (part 10 of 33)

Hon. Samuel Huntington was lx>rn in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1765. He graduated from Yale College at the age of twenty years. He read law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law for several years thereafter in his native town. In 1800 he made a visit to Ohio, reaching Voungstown on horseback. July 25th. He was so well pleased with the Reserve that he determined to settle here. Before his return to Connecticut he visited Marietta, where, the territorial court Inring in session, he was admitted to the bar of Ohio. It is said that he was present with Governor St. Clair, as counsel, at the trial of Joseph McMahon for murder of Captain George, an Indian, though on which side or whether as advisory counsel to the Governor, is not known. He returned to Norwich on horseback in the fall. In the following spring he came Itack to Voungstown, bringing with him his wife and family in a covered wagon. He remained but a year or two in Yoiigstown. after which he removed to Cleveland. Ohio. In 1X01 he was appointed by Governor St. Clair, lieutenant-colonel of the Trumbull county militia, and in January. 1802. was commissioned a justice of the court of Quarter Sessions, of which he became the presiding officer. He was a member of the convention which formed the first constitution of Ohio, and on its adoption was elected Senator from Trumbull county, in the first General Assembly, which convened at Chillicothe. in March, 1803. On April _». 1804. he was elected by the Legislature a judge of the Supreme Court, his commission, signed by Governor Tiffin, being the first issued in the name of the State of Ohio. He served one term of two yens as Governor, being elected in 1808. He was in the State Legislature, as representative from Geauga county, in 1811-12. In the War of 1 8 1 2 he served two years in the Northwestern army, as district paymaster, with the rank of colonel. He died on his farm at Painesville.

Homer Hine was born in New Milford, Conn.. July 25. 1776. of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His great-grandfather, who was the founder of the family in this country, was one of the early settlers of Milford, Conn. James Hine, the grandfather of Homer, was born in Milford in i6(/>, and removed in early manhood to New Milford, where he married Margaret Noble. He had two sons - Austin and Noble - and several daughters. The son, Noble, was a colonel of Connecticut militia in the Revolutionary war. He had three sons, including the subject of this sketch, and six daughters. The youngest daughter, Sophia, became the wife of Kev. Charles A. Boardma 11. who was for many years pastor of the First I'resbvtcrian church of Voungstown. Obi...

Homer Hine was graduated from Vale college in 1797. He had some distinguished classmates, among them being Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher. Horatio Seymour. Cnited States Senator from Vermont, and Henry Baldwin, judge of the United States Supreme Court. For a year after his graduation he was preceptor of an academy at Stockbridge, Mass., where he had for one of his pupils Miss Catherine Sedgwick, who subsequently became a noted authoress. During the same period he read law with her father, Judge Sedgwick. His law studies were continued in the following years with a Mr. Ruggles, of New Milford, and subsequently be attended the law school of Judge Reeves and Gould at Litchfield. Conn. He was admitted to the bar in Litchfield in 1801. In June of the same year he removed to Canfield. Ohio, making the journcv on horseback, and carrying his wardrobe in his saddlebags. In 1806 he came to Voungstown. where he continued to reside until his death at the age of eighty years, in July, 1850. He was engaged in the practice of law from the time he arrived on the Reserve until he had attained the age of sixty years, after which he declined to engage in any new

I line, where practicable, to advise his clients to settle, compromise, or arbitrate, though he often sacrificed his own interests by so doing. He had compensation, however, in the approval of his own conscience, ami also in the fact that his well known fairness and justice often gave his arguments more weight with judge and jury, who placed the greater confidence in his statements on trial. He was four times elected to the office of representative in the Ohio legislature - in 1804, 1805. 1816 and 1824. He served five years .Is non-resident tax-collector, or until that office was abolished, about 181 _>. He was a soldier in the War of iSu under Colonel William Raven. In 1805 he was appointed, by the legislature. .1 commissioner to lay out a State road from Warren t" such point on l^ike Kric as. in his judgment, would make the most feasible route

II oin Pittsburg to l.:ike Kric. The route he selected wa- one with a terminus at the mouth of (hand river, 111 I'ain-ville township. Lake county, the r:\er at ('"airport affording the best natural harbor at that time on that part of Lake Erie. Mr. Hme was a regular attendant at the Presbyterian church, and was frequently called up>n. in the absence of a clergyman, to read a sermon. He took an interest :n all useful reforms, and was csivecially active in the temperance cause for many years lieing president of the Youngstown Temperance society. On removing to Youngstown. in 1 So'), he had purchased a frame house and tw<> acres of land east of the Diamond, of Ri lhert Kyle, the house l>cii)g one of the first frame structures erected in the city. Here he dispensed a generous hospitality, and was parlicnlarlv fond of entertaining clergymen, on which account his house was familiarly referred to as "The Ministers' Tavern."

He married. October 5. 1S07, Miss Skin ner. daughter of Abraham Skinner, of Painesville, Ohio, and a native of ( 'd.istouhury. Conn. In 181X they removed to a farm of 1 10 acres, which he had purchased, at the mouth of Crab Creek, and on which was a two-story frame dwelling built by Col. James Hillman. which h id In-en occupied by him as a tavern, This house was for many years one of the landmarks of Youngstown. After the death of her husband, in 1856, Mrs. Hitie resided in that homestead until 1872, when she went to live with a son at Painesville. She died at ! an advanced age, retaining to the last a lively I interest in the welfare of her children and descendants.

Hon. Calvin Pease, another pioneer lawyer of the Reserve, was born in Sutfield, Hartford county, Conn., September 9, 1770. Admitted to the bar in Hartford, in 1798. he practiced law in his native state until March. 1800, when he removed to Youngstown, Ohio, and commenced practice here. He was the first postmaster of Youngstown. being appointed January 1, i8oj, and holding the office until he removed to Warren in 1803. He was for some time one of the township trustees of YoungstoWn. jjt. Was app -inted clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Trumbull county at 4 he first session in August. iStx). At the first session of the legislature after the admission of Ohio into the Federal Union, Mr. Pease, then only twenty-seven years of age, was elected president judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which was then the third

I circuit, and comprised the counties of Washington, Belmont. Jefferson, Columbiana, and Trumbull. He ably served m this position until March 4. 1X10. when he resigned, lie was

; subsequently elected by the legislature one of the judges of the Supreme Court, ami entered upon his duties in 1810. Here he was called npm to decide upon the constitutionality of some portion* of an act of the legislature, passed in 1805. defining the duties of justices of the peace, His decision that such portions of the act were unconstitutional, though it was concurred in by a majority of the judges of the Supreme Court, caused great excitement among those who favored legislative supremacy, and lie and Judge Tod were impeached. When brought In-fore the Senate he maintained his right to make such a decision, and to determine cases brought Ik- fore him according to his conceptions of the law- After an investigation lasting some .lavs he acquitted, it being found impossible to obtain the necessary two-thirds vote for conviction. The principles for which he stood were laid down long before by Lord Coke and other eminent judges in England, and are well recognized by lawyers ami judges of today. His action in standing firm when he knew he was right, in spite of much personal abuse and uii|x>pularity, will receive the commendation not only of every law student but also of every intelligent and fair-minded citizen. During the War of 1812 with England Judge Pease held tlie important position of senator in the sfite legislature, the duties of which he performed with his usual ability and conscientiousness. He subsequently rendered good service in the legislature, to which he was elected in 1831. by urging the construction of a new penitentiary and improving prison discipline.

Judge Pease possessed a keen wit. which J he exercised sometimes, though without inlending any offense, to the embarrassment of the young lawyers in court. He died Septeml>er 17, 1839, leaving a family of five children. His wife, to whom he was married in 1804, was in maidenhood. Miss Laura (i. Kisley of Washington City. Judge Pease was a man of tine presence - full six feet in height and corpulent, with a face indicating strong diameter, softened by lines of kindness and humor. He was an ornament to the bar. and in private life a man of whom none could sjn-ak evil

Perlee Brush, another native of Connecticut, and a man of considerable note in early days on the Reserve, was graduate* 1 at Vale College in 1793. He read jaw in Connecticut and was there admitted to the bar. After removing to Ohio he Ix'came a member of the Trumbull county bar. He resided for many years at or near Youugstown. and practiced law in the justices' courts in the vicinity, and also to some extent in the higher courts at Warren. He was also, 111 all probability, the pioneer school teacher of Youugstown, having charge of the log school-house on the Diamond as early as 1806. He is said to have been still teaching school near Youngstown in 1814. In i8_>6 he purchased a farm of al>out too acres of land in Hubbard, where he afterwards resided. A small stream flowed through his farm, on which there was an old-fashioned carding machine and fulling mill, which he operated for alxmt a year. He does not seem to have married, as at this time he lived hy himself, and boarded himself until his health began to fail, after which he took his meals at a neighbor's, still living at home. He is said to have been a fine scholar, well versed in Latin. Greek, and Hebrew. He died in 1852, at the age of eighty-four years.

Elisha Whittlesey was bom in Washington, Litchfield county. Conn.. October 19, 1783. son of John and Mollie Whittlesey. He was a descendant of John Whittlesey, who emigrated from England to Say brook. Conn., about 1630. In bis youth he spent his summers in working on his father's farm, and attended school in the w inter. In 1803. at the age of twenty years, he began to read law with his brother, Matthew R. Whittlesey, a lawyer of Danbury, Conn., with whom he had previously resided. He was admitted lo the bar at Fairfield, Conn., in March, 1805. and began practice at New Mil ford. On January 5, 1806. he married Miss Polly Mygatt, a daughter of Comfort S. Mygatt of Danbury,- who afterwards removed to Caniield, Ohio. Prior to their marriage they had decided to emigrate to Canricld. Early in June. 1806, in company with other pioneers, they started on their journey in a covered wagon. They came by way of Pittsburg, which at that time was an insignificant village, and arrived at Cantield on June 27. 1800. having been twenty-four days on the road. In the following August Mr. Whittlesey was admitted to the bar of Ohio by the Supreme Court at Warren. Soon after he hecame prosecuting attorney of the county which office he held until 1823, when he resigned. In 1808 he was commissioned captain of a military company in Canficld. Two years later General Elijah Wadsworth of the Eou-th Hi vision. Ohio Militia. ap|x<inted him as his aide-de-camp, and in that capacity he entered the service of the I'nited States in (he War of 1812 w ith Great Britain. He was afterwards appointed brigade-major and inspector under Gesieral Perkins, and so remained until February 25, 181 3, when the troops that bad served six months or more were discharged. He continued in the service a few months longer as aid and private secretary to General Harrison, at the latter"s own request. In 1X20 and 1821 be was elected representative in the state legislature. Beginning with 1822 he was elected eight times representative in Congress from the district composed of Trumbull. Portage, Geauga, and Ashtabula counties, making his congressional term alx>ut sixteen years. During a great part of ibis time be was chairman of the committee on claims. From 1822 to 1S41 he was engage* I in the practice of law with Kben Newton, under the firm name of W hittlesey & Newton. The firm enjoyed a large practice and was widely and favorably known. This connection was interrupted by Mr. Whittlesey's appointment by President Harrison, in 1841, as auditor of the treasury for the |x>stoffice department, which oblige*! him to take up his residence in Washington. In September. 1843, be resigned the office of auditor, and returned to Canficld, and engaged in practicing law and other business. From 1847 to May. 1849. be was general agent of the Washington Monument association, which office be resigned on being appointed by President Taylor, first comptroller of the treasury. He held this office through the Taylor and Fillmore administrations, resigning on the election of President Pierce, to whom he was opposed in politics. President Pierce, however, so well understood his value, that in disregard of his political opinions, be urgently requested him to remain. This Mr. Whittlesey did. but resigned again for the same reason on the inauguration, bis resignation being then accepted. In May. 1861. he was appointed to the same office by President Lincoln, and performed its arduous duties to the day of his death. January 7, 1863, lieing stricken down at hi^ |nc-t in his office at Washington City. Said a Washington paper: "He was gifted with that admirable courage which never quailed before the seductive blandishments of wealth or the threatening importance of power. He never hesitated to espouse the cause because it was weak. Strong combinations by men of position to carry a point which he believed to lie wrong bad no terrors for him." At the time of bis death he had established a national reputation for perseverance, ability, and moral rectitude.

Hon. Eltfn Newton was born in the town of Goshen, Litchfield county. Conn., Octnter 16. 1795. His parents were Isaac and Rebecca Newton, the lather a farmer, who died at Goshen. Mrs. Rel>ccca Newton, who removed to Ohio in 1820. died at the home of her son in Canfield in 1833. Young FIkmi's early education was acquired principally during the winter months in the sclmols of Goshen. In May. 1814, he emigrated to Portage county, Ohio, where for a while be worked on a farm. Subsequently, while a clerk in his brother s store, he k-gan to read law in the office of Darius Lyman at Ravenna. After a short visit to Connecticut, in 1822, during which he continued his law studies, he returned to Ravenna, where he read law with Jonathan Sloan. He was admitted to the bar at Warren, in August. 1823. and receiving an im itation from Flisba Whittlesey to enter into partnership with him. he consented, and removed to Canfield, which was subsequently his place of residence until his death. The firm of Whittlesey & New ton continued for twenty years, fifteen years of which time Mr. Whittlesey was in congress. Their business extended all over the Reserve and into other parts of the state. In 1840 Mr. Newton was elected to the state senate, and during bis term he was elected president judge of the third judicial district, which otfice he filled w ith marked ability. He resigned the judge-ship in 1846 and resumed his law practice. Fleeted to congress in 1850. he served two years, and then again resumed practice. In 18(13 he was elected for the seeon* I time to the s;;,te senate. Subsequently be took charge of the settlement of the Simeon Jennings estate, which involved much litigation in many states, required extensive travel in this country and tw<i vi-its to Furopc. and occupied much of his attention for many years.

He was also for a number of years president of the Ashtabula it New Lisbon Railroad Company, later known as the N'iles & New Lisbon, and it was largely owing to his exertions that it maintained its existence. He was greatly interested in farming and stuck raising, and for several years was president of the Mahoning Comity Agricultural Society. W hile engaged in practicing law. before he entered congress, he had many law students, some of whom afterwards l>ecame noted lawyers, judges, and legislators, among the latter lading Senator Benjamin !-'. W ade and his brother Edward W'adc. Ralph P. Buckland and Joshua R. Ciiddings. Mr. Newton was married at Canfield ' ii May jo. i8_>(i. to Miss Mary S. Church, a native of that place, and daughter of Ensign Church, an early pioneer, who was | a son of Nathaniel Church, one of the proprietors of the township.

Hon. Robert W". Tayler was lx>rn in Har- . risburg, Pennsylvania, November o, i8i_\ sou of James and Jane (Walker) Tayler. His parents removed with their family to Youngstown in 1815. where the father died in 1834. Mrs. Jane Tayler died ten years later. They were honest, industrious people, who gave their children a sound moral training and as good an education as they could afford, the father l>eing a man of much reading and of more than ordinary intelligence.

Rolen W. Tayler. alter teaching school for a while, liecame deputy to George 1 'arson-,, clerk of the courts of Trumbull county , Ohio He e\inced his business ability in the summer of when he accompanied Calvin t one, appraiser of real estate for taxation, as his secretary, through Trumbull c unty. his general aptitude, and the knowledge of real estate values which he displayed being considered remarkable for one so young. He suhse- (|tieiitlv read law with Whittlesey i\ Newioii, of Canlicld. and was admitted to the bar at Warren. Ohio, in August. 1K-4. Iieginuiiig practice at Youngstown. Here he continued in pnictice until iSi*>. when he wenl to (. . . luniluis. Ohio, to assume the duties .if sutc auditor. He was afterwards in law partnership for a time with John Crowcll. of Warren, and still later with William G. Moore, of Youngstown. Elected prosecuting attorney of Trumbull county in ]8.Vj, he held that office two years, ably performing its duties. On the organization of the Mahoning County Bank at Youngstown, in 1850, at the earnest request of its directors, he l>ecame its cashier, continuing, however, in the practice of his profession. In 1855 he was elected state senator on the Republican ticket for the counties of Mahoning and Trumbull, and re- elected in 1857. His record while in the senate led to his nomination by his party, almost without opposition, for the office of auditor of state, and he was elected in 1850. beginning the duties of the office in i860, "Upon the death of Elisha W hittlesey, his former legal preceptor, first comptroller of the Cniled States treasury in 180^. he was called by President Lincoln, at the suggestion of Salmon 1'. Chase, then secretary of the I'nited States treasury, who knew his eminent fitness, to fill the vacancy in the office of first comptroller. For nearly fifteen years he faithfully discharged the duties of that office and death found him at his post as the honest and incorruptible watchman of the treasury." I le was stricken w ith paralysis at his desk in Washington, February J> 1878, and lived ..r,ly tw - I* n: - II 1- lutiei a> was one of the largc-t ever held in Youngstown.

Mr. Tayler was first married March 24, 1840, to MisS Louisa Maria, daughter of John E. W'oodlbridge. of Youngstown. She died February 11. 1853. lie married for his second wife. 011 January u. 1854. Miss Rachel Rutland Wick, daughter of Colonel Caleb B. Wick, a s,.|, ,,f Henry Wick, one of the earlysettlers of Youiigstown.

Hon. David Tod was bom in Youngstown, Ohio. February J 1 . 1805. His parents, George and Sally 1, Lanes ) Tod. were early settlers on the Reserve, coming here from Connecticut The father. Judge George Tod. a sketch of whom may lie found elsewhere in this volume, was a man of marked ability and high character, though not successful in accniiinlatitig wealth. On tins account, chiefly, the early education of the subject of this sketch was limited to a term or two at the academy. He made the best use, however, of his facilities for the study of law , was admitted to the bar in 1827, and at the age of 22 years began practice in Warren. He was a successful lawyer, and his active practice covered a period of fifteen years. After the death of his father in 1841 he came into actual possession of the old Brier Hill farm near Youngstown, which lie had really owned for some time, owing to the fact that, while yet a briefless barrister, he had, by the most strenuous efforts, and with the assistance of friends, saved it from falling into the hands of his father's creditors. This farm subsequently became the source of great wealth to him owing to its large deposits of what was afterwards known as the famous Itrier Hill coal. Mr. Toil gradually developed a market for this coal, which was greatly expanded on the introduction of raw coal blast furnaces, making the extensive deposits still more valuable. Mr. Tod also showed his business ability as a director in the Cleveland and Mahoning Railnxid Company, his efforts l>eing largely instrumental in extracting it from a seriously embarrassed financial condition.

Karly in young manhood Mr. Tod became an anient supporter of the Democratic part v. and soon began to take an active part in politics. He made a good stump orator, his clearcut, pithy speeches appealing directly to Unpopular ear. In 1838 he was elected to the State Senate, running several hundred votes ahead of his ticket. During the campaign of 1840 he rendered good service to his party, making speeches all over the state, and leaving everywhere a good impression. Nominated for the governorship in 1.S44. lie cut down the majority of In-. Whig op|xnient. Mordecai Partly, to one thousand, while Clay carried the state a month later by six thousand. In 1S47 Mr. Tod was tendered by President Polk, and accepted, the office of minister to Brazil. He remained in that 0 untrv five years during which he negotiated some ini]«. riant commercial treaties, and was instrumental in settling a number of government claim- of over thirty years standing. On his farewell he was the

1 the emperor. As vice-president of the convention which met at Baltimore in i860 to nominate a candidate for the Presidency. Mr. Tod took an im|>ortant part in restoring order in the scene of confusion which ensued on the lx>It by the southern delegates. Although favoring Douglas, he doubtless preferred the election of Lincoln to the success of the Breckenridge wing of his own party. When the secession movement was started in the southern states Mr. Tod did all in his ]xnver to restore peace; but after treason had thrown off the last disguise and the guns of Fort Sumter had sounded a challenge to every loyal Union man, his voice was heard among the first in arousing his patriotic neighbors to action. The first company of troops organized at Youngstown. a company of the N'iuteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was recruited largely at his expense, and l>efore leaving for camp, each meml>cr received from him. as a present, an army overcoat. These coats were known in

In 1 861 Mr. Tod obtained the nomination of the Republican party for the Governorship, and was elected by a majority of abnt fifty live thousand, lie made an efficient war Governor, aiding the soldiers in the field by every means in his power, and lieing particularly active in suppressing sedition. He was heartily in favor of the arrest of Yallandigham in 18113, for which lie became the special object of hatred on the part of the anti-war element of the Democratic parly, and a favorite target for their abu.se. Owing to the condition of politics in the state il was deemed advisable by the Republicans, in 1S64. to bring out a new man. and John Brough was accordingly nominated. Although somewhat disappointed, tire u'overin r gave his cordial support to the nominee. Retiring from ifi lec in

I January, 1864. he retired to his farm at Iirier Hill, and t!u leafier devoted his chief attention to business alfau s. th. -ugh o -ntinuing to relain an active interest in polities. His death occurred on November 13. iNi.S. and caused wide spread s. .rrow and regret among ad who

Henry J. Canlield was a native of Connecticut, ami son of Judson Canlield, a lawyer, and one of the proprietors of the township of Canlield, Ohio, to which he gave his name. Henry J. was graduated .it Sale College in 1806, read law with Judge Reeve, of Litchfield. Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar in Connecticut. Shortly afterwards he came to Canlield to take charge of his father's lands. Being admitted to the har of Ohio, at Warren, he gave some attention to practice, but was chiefly engeged in tanning, land-surveying and sheep-raising. He was the author of a highly-prized work on sheep. At the first special court held in Mahoning county, after its organization in 184^1. he was ap|>oiiitcd clerk pro tern of the court of Common Pleas, which office he held until the first regular term of court held May nth. that year, when the clerk for the full term was appointed. He died in Canlield in 1856, respected as one of the old and useful residents of the township.

Hon. Benjamin P. Hoffman was turn in Chester county, Pennsylvania, January i8u. son of Joseph and Catherine (Stile'ert Hoffman. He was educated in his native state, and removed with his parents to Trumbull county. Ohio, in 1833. After lining read law with Hon. David Tod. at Warren, for two years, he attended for si\ months the Cincinnati Law Sell'"!, conducted by Wright. Penham & Walker, litre he was graduated in 1836 as bachelor of law, ami was at once admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court at Cincinnati. Returning to Warreti. he practiced law there tor several yea is as .1 member of the firm of Tim',, Hoffman & Hutchm*. Prom October, 1 N3S. to June. iXji. he was postmaster at Warren. Mr. Tod removing to Price Hill in 1S44. and s,x,u after retn-ing from practice, and Mr, I Jnti Inn- bring elected to the legislature 111 iSto. Mi. 1 1- 'liin.i'i carried on the law business by himself until iN.^, when Col. R \\ . Ratliff Ixvatue his pariuer. lit October. 1850. he was elected judge of the

Common Pleas court for the second suh-di vision of the Ninth judicial district, and served in that capacity five years. In 1861 Mr. Hoffman became private secretary to Governor David Tod. and accompanied him to Columbus, where he capably performed the arduous duties which devolved upon him during the first two years of the Civil War. In if«>> though a resident of Warren, he opened a law office in Youngstowii. where he resumed the practice of his profession; in 1870 he removed to this city.

Mr. Hoffman was first married, in December, 1837, to Klizalteth H. Cleveland, daughter of Dr. John Cleveland, formerly of Rutland. Vermont. She died in i8f>>, leaving two children, both of w horn are long since deceased.

I In 1870 Mr. Hoffman married, for his second wife, Mrs. Alice W. Ilezlep. of which union there was one daughter, liorn in 1877. Originally a Democrat, Mr. Hoffman, as early as 1841, become interested 111 the AI>olition movement, and subsequently liccame a firm champion of the cause at a time when it took some courage to express Abolition sentiments. Some years ago lie removed with his family to Cali-

John M. Hdwards wasl-orn in \"ew Haven, Connecticut. October j), 1S05; so,, ,,f Henry W. and Lydia ( Miller 1 P.dwards. His paternat grandfather was Judge Pierre)* 'tit lidwards, one of the original proprietors of the Western Reserve, and a great- grandson of Jonathan Pdwan's, the noted divine and early ptVMdeut of Princeton College. On his mother's side he was of English descent, the maternal grandfather John Mtl'ar, Wing a name of London, and a sea-e:iptain. who settled in America prior to the Revolutiomrv War.

Mm M Kdwards was gradual vi I a" Vale College 111 the cl.i-s ..f 1SJ4. He read law with Judge Bristol at New Haven, was there admitted to the bar of Connecticut in iSji>, and to the bar of the Circuit Court of the I'nilcd States in 1828. After practicing law for a few yens in \cw Haven, he rem-'wd tit 1 t->

Ohio, at first settling in Youngstown. Here, however, at this time, lie remained but a few months, soon removing to the north part of Trumbull count), where he engaged in other than law business. He was admitted to the bar of Ohio by the supreme court August 30, 1838, at W arren, and sixm after began practice there. For a number of years, 1>eginning with 1840. he was engaged also in editing the Trumbull Democrat, a weekly newspaper. In 1841 he was appointed by the United States district court commissioner of bankrupts for Trumbull county, which office he held until the repeal of the bankrupt law. Nominated in J 84 2 by a Democratic convention as representative in congress from the old Nineteenth district, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. Joshua R. (jiddings. he largely cut down the usual Whig majority. About 1843 he was appointed by the court of common pleas school examiner for Trumbull county, and held the office for three years, or until his removal from the county. About 184! he was elected and commissioned captain of militia under the old military system. Removing to Cantield on the organization of Mahoning comity in 1847, he practiced law there until 1804. when he removed his office to Youngstown. where in 1868 he also came to reside. At the first term of the court of Common Pleas he was app>inted school examiner for Mahoning county for three years, and subsequently held that office by successive reappointments until his removal to Youngstown.

Shortly after his removal to Cantield. in 1846. he became editor and one of the publishers of the Malumhig Index the first newspaper published in Mahoning county, and continued as such for several years. From that time on he was intimately connected as editor, correspondent, or contributor, with newspapers in Warren, ( anfield. Youngstown. and Cleveland. During the 1S64-1X05 session of the Ohio legislature he was one of the clerks of the Senate. From iSo<» to tS-S he served several terms as justice of the peace of Youngstown township, 1 It- was one of the founders of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society in 1X74. and was editor with William Powers of the interesting volume of Historical Collections published by the society in 1876. As journalist and historian he performed a useful work in rescuing from oblivion many interesting reminiscences of pioneer days while some of the early settlers were still alive, and in preserving the biographies of many of the pioneers.

Mr. Kdwards was married, July 14, 1842. at Warren, Ohio, to Miss Mary P., daughter of Joseph ('rail. Mrs. Kdwards was a talented amateur artist. She died at Youngstown, May 15. 1877, leaving three children, of whom Henrietta Frances married Stanley M. Caspar of Youngstown, and Henry W. became a merchant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

David M. Wilson was Imrn in Guilford. Medina county, Ohio, July 21, 1H22, son of David and Abigail (Porter) Wilson. His grandfathers were Revolutionary soldiers. He was educated in the common schools, and at Norfolk seminary, and taught school tor one term. He read law with Hiram Floyd, at Medina, Ohio, and was there admitted to practice in 1844. In the following year he removed to Warren. Ohio, whence on the organization of Mahoning county, in 1846. he removed to Cantield. where he commenced practice. For a few years he w as a partner of John W.. afterwards Judge Church, the style of the fun) l«- ing Wilson & Church. In 1858 he removed to Youngstown, where he was successively the partner of James 15. Block som, Roliert G. Knight. Halsey H. Moses, and James P. Wilson, his nephew, In 18(13 he was nominated lor attorney-general of Ohio, and in 1874 for representative in Congress, each time on the Democratic ticket; though not elected in either case, his personal popularity caused him to run ahead of his ticket. He first married Miss Nancy Merrill, a native of Orangcvillc. New york. She died in 1851. He married for Ins second wife, in 1871. Miss Grisclda Camplwll. of Trumbull county. Ohio. Mr. Wilson died February 11. iSN_>. at Youngstown.

His parents, Edwin and Mary A. Moore, were natives of county Leitrim, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States in 1829, settling in Youngstown a few years later. Mr. Moore begati the study of law in the office of John Crowcll, at Warren, Ohio, and continued it with Robert W. Tayler, of Youngstown. Ikwas admitted to the bar by the supreme court in 1847, and to the bar of the supreme court of the United States in 1854. He began the parctice of law at Youngstown, in 1847, as partner of Mr. Tayler, and was afterwards a partner of Gen. Thomas \V. Sanderson, which continued until Mr. Sanderson joined the army in 1861. He was afterwards in partnership for a time with William (.'. Bunts, and still later with William J. Lawthers. He was elected mayor of Youngstown in April. 1854. and re-elected in 1856. In 1869 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning count v. and served two years. He was married March 18, 1852, to Miss Lura A. Andrews, a native of Vienna, Trumbull county, Ohio, whose father, Norman Andrews, was an early settler of that county, but later a resident of Youngstown.

Gen. Thomas W. Sanderson was born in Indiana. Indiana countv. Pennsylvania. Octo- Ix-r 17. 1820. His father. Matthew U. Sanderson, was of Scotch descent. His mother. Mary (Wakefield) Sanderson, was the daughter of Thomas Wakefield, who was Imrn in Armagh, Ireland.

Thomas W. Sanderson acquired his preliminary education in the schools of Youngstown. He read law with William Ferguson at Youngstown, and was admitted to the bar by the district court at Canheld in August, 1852. While reading law ha spent a part of the time in land surveying and civil engineering, and for a period after his admission to the bar he followed the profession of civil engineer. In 1854 he commenced the practice of law ; t Youngstown in co-partnership with, his broth er-in-law, Prank K. Hutchins. under the style of Hutchins & Sanderson, which partnership was continued for several years. In 1856 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county, and served one term. In 1861 he abandoned for a time the practice of law and entered the United States army as lieutenant and adjutant of the Second Ohio volunteer cavalry He remained in the service over four years, passing through the several grades of promotion, and in 1864 was made brigadier-general for gallantry in action. A more detailed account of his army record may be found in a biographical sketch of the General which appears elsewhere in this volume. On leaving the arniv he returned to the practice of law in Youngstown, which he has followed up to a very recent date, but is now practically retired. He has never sought but always refused political office, but in 1872 was a delegate-at-largc [ from the State of Ohio in the National Republican convention which nominated General Grant for re-election as president. General Sanderson was married December 19, 1854, to Miss Elizabeth Shoemaker, of Mercer. Pennsylvania, a member of one of the oldest families of that state.

Asahel W. Jones was born at Johnstonville. Trumbull county. Ohio. September 18, 1838. His paternal grandfather and great-grandfather were early settlers in Trumbull county, removing there from Burkhamstcad, Connecticut, in 1801. and erecting the second cabin in the township. William P. Jones, father of Asahel, was lx>rn in Hartford, Trumbull county, Ohio. July 11. 1814. He married Mary J. Bond, a native of Avon Springs, X. Y.. who emigrated to Hartford in 1833. at the age of seventeen years. She died in Youngstown, in March 1882. The subject of this sketch, after reading law with Curtis & Smith, at Warren. Ohio, was there admitted to the bar Septeml>er 27. 1859. He practiced there a few years anil then, in t864, removed , to Youngstown, where he was in partnership at different times with H. B. Case. Gen. T. W. Sanderson, R. B. Murray, W. S. Anderson, and W. J. Terrell, for many years while thus connected he did a large amount of railroad and corporation law business. He was twice prosecuting attorney, being first appointed, on the death of Henry G. Leslie, in 1868, as his succes.sor, an . the second time by election. He was also judge advocate general of Ohio for two terms. In 1874 he was active in the organization of the Second National Bank of Youngstown, and for many years subsequently was one of its directors. In 1878 he became a director in the Brown. Bunnell & Co.'s manufacturing concern, which is now included in the Republic Iron & Steel corporation. He was a delegate, with Judge Tripp, from the Seventeenth Ohio Congressional district, to the Republican National Convention held in Chicago in 1880. He also served two terms as lieutenant-governor. Alxnit a year ago Mr. Jones retired from the practice of law and removed to Berg Hill, Trumbull county. Ohio, where he now resides, engaged in farming. He was married, Septemlur 24. 1861, to Miss Annette J. Palmer, who was born at Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, June 23, 1840. He afterwards married Miss Louisa Brice of Obcrlin, Ohio.

Hon. Laurin D. Woodworth was liorn in Windham, Portage county, Ohio, September 10, 1S37. His father was William Woodworth, a substantial and highly respected farmer. His literary education was acquired at Windham Academy and at Hiram College. Ikread law in the office of O. P. Brown, in Ravenna, Ohio, and was admitted to the liar in 1 850. After pursuing further studies at the Ohio State and I'nion Law lollege at Cleveland, he formed a partnership with Mr. Brown, which continued until the fall of 1S61. In 1N62 he was appointed major of the One Hundred and Fourth regiment. Ohio infantry volunteers, which was ordered to Kentucky and was there engaged for some ten months in Carrying on a guerrilla warfare. He was soon after obliged to resign on account of ill health which hail Ik-en brought on by the hard-hips and exposure incidental to the service, and tin- ne\t tw> years were spent in traveling, under medical advice, in an endeavor to recover his health. Having lost the use of his right eye. he was rejected on his attempting to re-enter the service. About 1865 he removed to Youngstown and resumed the practice of law. In October, 1867, he was elected State Senator for the Mahoning and Trumbull district, and being re-elected in 1869, was chosen president protein of the Senate. At the close of his second term he declined a renomination and resumed his law practice. In Octol>er, 1 87 2, he was elected representative in Congress from the Seventeenth Ohio district, and was re-elected in 1874. At the expiration of his second term he resumed the practice of law in Youngstown. He died in March. 1896. Mr. Woodworth was married, October (>, i860, to Miss Celia Clark, of Windham, Ohio.

Ilalsey H. Moses was born July 12. 1830, ; in Morgan, Ashtabula county, Ohio, to which 1 place his parents, Jonathan and Abigail ( Plum- [ ley) Moses, came in 1841 from Norfolk. Litch- I field county, Connecticut. After attending the Grand River Institute, he read law with C. L. Tinker, of Painesville. and was admitted to the bar at Jefferson. Ohio, in August, 1861. He practiced for a few years in Ashtabula county, and then removed to Warren, Ohio, where he was a partner successively of Matthew Birchard. Ira L. Fuller, and of General Robert W. RatlitT. In 1872 he came to Youngstown, though still retaining his law practice in the firm of RatlitT & Moses. In 1877 he became a partner of George F. Arrel in the firm of Moses & Arrel, and so continued until Mr. Arrel became judge of the Court of Common Pleas, after which he practiced for some time alone and also in partnership with Cecil 1). Hine. Subsequently he retired from the practice of law. and went to Nebraska, of which state he is still a resident, k-ing engaged in farming. He married, in 1852. Miss Mary L. Murdock. a native of Mesopotamia, Trumbull l.eroy D. Tinman was Kirn in Salem, Ci hunbiana county, ( >luo, July 31. t.S;i. son of Jacob S. Thoman. His parents were e.ulv set tiers in Springfield township. Mahoning county, Ohio. His mother, who was a daughter of

Rev. Henry S> >nnedcckcr, was born in Wooster, Wayne county. Ohio, an.l accompanied her parents to Springfield in |8_>7. After a preliminary education obtained in the common schools, with one year at an academy. Leroy IX Thoman read law with Joseph II. Adair, of Columbia City, Indiana, ami was admitted to the bar there August 13. 187.'. and to the bar of Ohio, in Mahoning county, in September. (873. He was deputy prosecuting attorney of the Ninth judicial district of Indiana from August 14, J87J, until February. 1873. He then resigned and removed to Youngstown, where he formed a law partnership with Isaac A. Justice. In October. 1875, be was elected pro) Kite judge of Mahoning county, and reelected to that office in 1878. After serving two terms he declined to be again a candidate, and resumed the practice of law. He also lx-- camc connected with the Vindicator Publishing Co. as editor and part proprietor, in which he is still interested. A few years ago be removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he is now engaged in the practice of law. His wife, who in maidenhood was Miss Man- E. Cripps. of Young-town, whom he married March Jo.. 1870, died December 4, 1876.

Isaac A. Justice was horn in Austintown, Mahoning county. Ohio, March 10, 1837. His parents, J,,hn and Nancy (Sexton) justice, were natives of Washington county. Pennsylvania, and pioneers of Mahoning county. Ohio, coming here when i|inte young. Thev l">th died at Austintown in 1881, after >i\t\ years of happy and prosperous married lite,

1 heir Si -: 1 Isaac was educated at the Mahoning Academy, in Canficld. his winters from 185'. to iN(m> living spent in teaching school. After reading law with S. W. Gilson, Esq., at t anfield, he was admitted to the bar there m the fall of 1867. Soon after be entered into a pattucrship w it'll Mr. < >il-on. which wa> con tinned f..r ,im. tune. In 187-' itc removed to \ 1 unj,' -1 1 i'.vm . wlieic he w.t* engaged m the l>ractice of law until his death, which took place April 15. i.jon. "In Oci.,;,er. iS;,;, and during the contest for the removal of the county scat to Youngstown, he was elected on what was called the -removal ticket,' prosecuting attorney and held the office for one term ! commencing January 7, 1874. and terminating - January 7, 1876." He was subsequently teu- ' dcrcd the office of school examiner of Mahoning county, but declined localise of want of time to perform the duties of the office. In the late 70's he began to take an earnest interest in the temperance movement, and devoted considerable time to lecturing and otherwise advancing the cause. He was for some time president of the Ohio Christian Temperance Union, and was a prominent meml>er of several fraternal societies. In 1802-3 he was city solicitor, lieing appointed by Mayor E, H. Moore. On the election of W. T.' Gibson as prosecuting attorney in 1800. he again became city solicitor and served in that office until his death.

She died in Dceemlier, 1870. leaving two children. In 1871 he married for his second wife Miss Helen A. Warner, of D.ram county, Ohio, another class-mate. She died in 1881, after having been the mother of four children.

Walter L. Uampbcll was born in Salem, Columbiana comity. Ohio. \oveml>er 13, 1842, a son of John ami Rebecca P. 1 Snodgrass) Campl-ell. When alxuit five years old. an accidental injury to one of his eyes resulted in a total loss of sight. From his ninth to his sixteenth war he was an inmate of the Ohio institute for the blind, at Columbus. Here, It-sides gaining a high standing in the ordinary branches taught, lie became proficient hi the organ. Alter leaving the institute he taught iiu-.MC for' Tit arl\ ;i year, and then, for t])c purpo.se of perfecting his musical education, spent live uioniiis at die Pcnusvlvania Institute for the Mind, at Philadelphia. He ne\: entered the Salem, < iltiu, High se|-,o,i|. 111 order to prcpare for college. He entered Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, in 1863, and was graduated in 1 8' .7. standing sec .ml m his class, and delivering the salutatory oration. During his freshman year he took the prize for the best written translation, in Latin. In his sophomore year he took the prize for t>est English written composition, and at the junior exhibition delivered the philosophical oration. He commenced the study of law with Judge Ambler, of Salem, with whom he remained for a year, and then spent one year at the law school of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, by the supreme court, at Boston, June 17. i860. Soon after he went to Wyoming territory, which was just then organizing, and of which his brother had been appointed governor. He received the appointment of United States commissioner, and spent some time in the territory engaged in the practice of law. Returning subsequently to Ohio, he was admitted to the bar at Warren, in May. lS73- A year later, not having engaged in practice in Ohio, he purchased an interest in in the Mahoning Register, of Voungstown. and was the editor of that paper, and of other papers which grew out of it. and with which it was consolidated, until January, iKK*. He then resumed the practice of law. and continued it up to the time of his death, which occurred in Voungstown early in kjo;. bar a number of years Mr. CamplK.ll was organist of the First Presbyterian Church of Voungstown. He had a remarkable memory, which enabled him, after listening, to correctly repTt law testimony, political speeches, etc., which he frequently dictated or reproduced on the typewriter. This faculty was of great service to him in his editorial career. Although totally blind, he was able unattended, and with the aid only of his cane, to visit all parts of the city, turning corners, crossing streets, and entering doers without hesitation or mistake; and also to make railroad journeys, visiting other cities, and rinding hi* way about with ease and facility, as though he had full pisscssion of his eyesight, lie was married, at Voungstown. April 4, 1N77. to Mi-s Helen C. LaGourge, a former resident of Cleveland. He left two children, a son Allen, now a member of the bar of New York City.

Monroe \V. Johnson was born in Pvmatuning township. Mercer county. Pennsylvania, June 28, 1840, son of William and Hannah (Harris) Johnson. He was educated at Westminster College, Lawrence county. Pennsylvania. At the opening of the Civil W ar. being then a young man of twenty, he enlisted in Company P.. Twenty-third Ohio Volunteers. President Hayes' regiment, and served three years, taking part in the battles of Carnifax Ferry, South Mountain, and Antietam. Reing severely wounded in the last-named engagement he was subsequently discharged for disability. After recovering in part from his wound he re-entered the service and went into the quartermaster's department, and participated in the l>attlc of Gettysburg. In 1867 he came to Lowellville. Mahoning county, Ohio. He read law with T. W. Sanderson at Voungstown. and was admitted to the bar at Canheld in 1808. He then began the practice of law in Voungstown. and so continued until his death, which occurred only a few years ago. From 1878 to 1882 he was prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county. He was married in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in September, ]8(hj. to Henrietta Book, who was liorn in Poland, Ohio, in i86y. She was a daughter of John Book, a merchant and prominent antislavery man during the period of Abolition agitation. She was herself warmly interested in the same cause, and was a teacher of colored people at Fortress Monroe during the war. He left one child. Henrietta, now the wife of [). F. Anderson of Anderson.

Sidney Strong was lw>rn in Strongsville, Cuyahoga county. Ohio. June 12. 1839. He read law with C. X. Olds, of Columbus. Ohio, and was there admitted to the bar in 1867. Shortly after he came to Voungstown and l>cgan practice, soon Incoming recognized as a very able lawyer, and having a tine office practice. The death of his son, which occurred when the latter was abutt ten years old. was so severe a blow to him that it caused him to lo-e much of his interest in his profession and even seemed to affect his own vitality. He , soon became a less conspicuous figure in law circles, and in 1883 he gave up practice and went to California to regain his health, afterwards going to Asheville, North Carolina, where he died in July. 1885. His wife, to whom he was married Decemher 10. 1872, was in maidenhood Miss .Mary A. Garlick. of Youngstown. He left one daughter, Ada Strong, now married and residing in Cleveland

Jared Huxley was born in Ellsworth, Mahoning county. Ohio, July 23, 1840. His father, Socrates L. Huxley, was a native of New Marllxirough, Massachusetts. His mother, whose maiden name was Pauline Spaulding, was born in Pomfret. Connecticut. After being graduated from Oberlin College in 1867, he read law with Charles W. Palmer in Cleveland. Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Norwalk, Huron county, Ohio, April 3, 1871. During the Civil. War he was clerk in the quartermaster's department at Nashville. Tennessee, and at Mobile. Alabama. About 1868 he became professor of mathematics and the theory of accounts at the Star City Business College at Lafayette. Indiana, and subsequently for two years, or until his admission to the bar, he held the same position in Felton & Biglow's Business College at Cleveland. He lx.-g.in the practice of law at Canfield, but on the removal of the county seat to Youngstown he came to this city where he continued in the practice of his profession until his death, which took place abmt two years ago. He never married.

Albert J. Woolf was !*>rn in Berlin township, Mahoning county, Ohio, April j6. 1852. His parents, Jacob and Christina (Reichard) Woolf. were of Cerman descent, the father being a native of Martinshurg. Virginia. Mrs. Jacob Woolf was lx>rn in Franklin county. Pennsylvania. Married December y. 1847, they came to Ohio in May of the following vear, setling in Berlin township on the east bank of the Mahoning, nearly opposite the village of Frederick. There they resided until 1861. when thev removed to Milton township.

Mount Union College in 1876, after a four years' course of study, having completed a commercial course at Hiram College in 1871. During a part of the year 1874, also, he attended Wittcnljcrg College, at Springfield. Ohio. Prior to entering college and during his collegiate course he taught school at intervals in Mahoning county, and also in Johnson county, Missouri. His law studies were pursued in Youngstown. with Van Hyning & Johnston at Canfield and with C. R. T ruesdale at Youngstown. He was admitted to the bar by the supreme court at Columbus, Ohio, in June, 1878, began the practice of his profession in Youngstown and continued to practice up to the time of his death, which occurred not long ago.

John H. Clark was born at New Lisbm, Ohio. September 18, 1857, a son of John and Melissa (Hessin) Clark. His father was a well known lawyer of New Lislion, and at one time judge of the Court of Common Pleas. '. John H. Clark was graduated at the Western i Reserve College at Hudson in 1877. Having read law with his father, he was admitted to the bar at New Lisbon in 1878, and commenced practice. In April. 1880. he removed to Youngstown, where he purchased an in- 1 terest in the } 'indicator, then a weekly Demoj cratic newspaper, which he engaged in editing and publishing, at the same time practicing law in partnership with Leroy D. Thoman under the firm name of Thoman & Clark. He afterwards removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where is still engaged in the practice of law. being one of the attorneys for the Nickle Plate Rail road Company. He is well known as one of the most noted and able lawyers of that city. He was one of the promoters of the Youngsf wn Free Library. He still retains a part interest in the VotmgslWH Vindicator. He is not married.

Clate A. Smith was lx>rn in Canfield, Ohio, in September. 1850. son of Edwin E. and Jane E. (Crane) Smith. When quite young he removed with his parents to Youngstown. He read law with Jones & Murray of this city.

and l>eing admitted to the Iwr at Warren. Oliio. -o uniucnced practice. AUmt 1881 lie became. connected editorially with the /::v»ii/ig .Vi".'.v, a daily and weekly newspaper, ami subsequently, in chronological succession, with the Xtics-Rcgistcr, Daily AYr.'.t and Trir^nnn , which succeeded each other in the order mined. In 1801 he hecame city editor of the Youngs - slii'^ni I'liuliciitor, which position he -til! holds He was married in 1870, to Miss Melinda Mvcrs. daughter of I'oston Myers of Youngs town, Ohio. She died, and he married for his second wife. July to. njn;. Mr-, Catherine Lavoo. the ceremony U-ing |xTtorme»l at lluiini, Ohio.

the bar hv the supreme court at t ilumbus. Ohm. in Decani it. 1K71. In 1874 he f. irmed .1 partnership with hi- hrother Disney, tinder the -(vie of Rogers & Rogers, at Young-town, winch was continued until iijni, when Disney Rogers was elected judge of the o urt of common pleas. In 1878 Mr. X'olney Rogers waelected city solicitor of "YoungHtOwn, and reelected in 1880. He was the |>romi>ter of Mill Creek Park, one of the 1110-t cxten-n e and beautiful parks of the country, and from the beginning ha- heen the nn'! active trustee thereof, giving largely of his time and means to its development. He is unmarried.

Hon. Disney Rogers, judge of the court of common plea-, ha- lieen a re-Merit of Yoiingstown since 1874. and prior to assuming his duties on the bench, wa- ,1 meii-.lK.-r of the widely known firm "f Roger- X Rogers, of this city He was horn at Middle! on. I'ofuiu hiatia county. Ohio. Decemher m. 1844. -m of fames and Fli/abeh D rjamic-on > Roger- His father was of Wcl-h. and In- mother of Scotch descent.

Smith, at .New Lisbon, and was admitted to the Kir by the district cmrt at St. Clairsville, Belntotit county . Ohio, Septeml>er 1-'. t8<>6. From 1800 until 1874 he was engaged in the practice of his profession at Mt. 'lilead. Morrow county. Ohio, in partnership with Judge llcrtrand Andrews, under the firm name of Andrews X Rogers. In 1874 he liecame the law partner of hi- brother Vnhicy. the style of the firm I icing Rogers & Rogers For a nunilwr of years this firm maintained a marked reputation before the bar, both mcmlK-rs ln-iiig men of tinrked ability. In ii>oi Disney Rogers wa- elected to the common pW-as U-ncli. a pisition for which he is admirably fitted, and in Kjn'i w a- re-elected 1o tile same position. \\ hilc residing in Mt. Gilead he wa- appointed by Judge Sherman, of the Tinted State- district court, a commissioner for the northern district of Ohio. He was ;il-o president of tile Mt Citli.nl council for live years. In lie was made chairman of the Republican central coiuimttee of Mah, ming county Judge Rogers was marped. February 1 -, i8(k,, at Mt. t.iilcad, Ohio, to Ida S. Andrews. a daughter of Hun. I'.ertrand Andrews. Ins former law partner.

lion, Louis W. King wa- a native ot Columbiana co'.mty. ()Iim. If -rn at Unity. November J4. 1854. -on of Flea/cr and Margaret * Mollenkopf 1' King. On his lather's side lawas of Irish ancestry. Hi- mother, whose ancestors were German, was a daughter "i one of the earliest settlers of Unity township. W

> Mr. King removed t- Canfield, Ohio, where until January. 1875 he officiated as clerk in the oliite of the probate judge. Front that lime until February , 1877. be was assistant to the clerk of the court of common pleas, while holding- these offices he studied law with Anderson \ Roller, and wa- subsequently admitted to the bar. In 1S77 he began practice as partner of William S Anderson, in the firm of Ander-on & King. Fleeted probate judge m ( VtoU-r. iNNt. he commenced bis official term February 9. i88_>. and served until 1888. Inring re-elected at the expiration of his first term. He then re-umeil the practice of law. as a partner of John F MeYev, under the tinn name of King & McVey, Mr. Harry Robinson being subsequently admitted as a member of the firm. Mr. King died July 14, 1899. He had gained a high professional reputation and his lois was deeply felt throughout the community. He was an ardent supporter of the Republican party, and was prominently connected with the fraternal orders of Flks, Odd Fellows, and Free Masons. At the time of his death he was the senior member of the law firm of King, McVey & Robinson.

Henry C. Cassidy was born in Butler county. Pennsylvania. February ->_>, 1856, son of Charles and Mary ( Mc(iillop) Cassidy. His father was a native of Ireland, his mother of Tyrone, Blair county, Pennsylvania. Heremoved with his parents to Youngstown. Ohio, in Novemlxr. 1858. (Graduated from Notre Dame University. Indiana, he read law with Moses \- Ariel of Youngstown, was admitted to the bar at Orfumbus. Ohio, in May, 1880. and l>egan practice in Youngstown. He was a man of more than ordinary talent, and an able young lawyer. He was postmaster of Youngstown during the second term of President Cleveland. He subsequently removed to Denver. Colorado, and thence to Cripple Creek, where he is now engaged in the practice of law. and is a prominent citizen of that place.

John J. Butler was born in Cambridge. Mass., January 9, 1848. He attended school there until the age of sixteen, when he enlisted in the army, serving under General Myer in the signal corps. He was present at the passage of the forts in Mobile Bay. and assisted in the reduction of Mobile City under General Canity. I'mm the close of the war until 1867 he resided in his native city. He then engaged in the oil business in Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1875. and in the meanwhile was admitted to the bar in W arren county, that state. He returned to Boston in 1878 with the intention of spending the remainder of his days there, but the climate proving too severe for the health of his wife, he removed to Youngstown, Ohio, where he engaged in the practice of law. He was independent in politics, supporting only those whom he regarded as worthy candidates, and denouncing wrong measures and false principles wherever found. His wife, in maidenhood. Miss Josephine Swisher, a native of Petersburg, Mahoning I county, Ohio, was a woman of literary ability, I and at one time wrote for the Youngstown and other Mahoning count v papers under the nom de plume of "Rose Wilde." Mr. Butler's father was a first cousin of General B. F. Butler, the noted lawyer, politician, and Civil War General of Massachusetts.

Rolicrt B. Murray was horn in Youngstown. Ohio. March 6. 1843. son of Ira and Hannah (Carothem) Murray. He attended the public schools of this city, was a student at

' Allegheny College. Meadville, Pennsylvania, and afterwards attended Ann Arbor University, Michigan, for about two years. Six years of his life were devoted to teaching, during which he was principal of the Union School at Mercer, Pennsylvania, and of the academy, at Meadville, Pennsylvania. He pursued the study of law at intervals, and was admitted to the bar at Canfield, in September, 1867. He at once began practice in Youngstown, and continued alone until 1870, when he entered into partnership with Asahel \V. Jones, under

Mr. Murray was married in 1872 to Miss Sophia Bond, of Gcncssee. New York. She died November iq, 1895. January 30, 1897, he married for his second wife, Wealthy A. Darby, of Meadville. Pennsylvania. A fuller biography of Mr. Murray may be found on another page of this volume.

Hon. George F. Arrel of the firm of Arrel, Wilson it Harrington, was lx>rn in Poland township, October 1, 1840. His parents were J David and Martha (Moore) Arrel, both born I in Poland, the father on May 6, 1803. Mr. Arrcl s grandparents were among the earliest settlers of Mahoning county. George F. Ar- rel's literary education was obtained at New I Wilmington College, Lawrence county. Penn- sylvania, where he was graduated in 1865. lie read law witli Francis E. Hutchins at Warren, Ohio, and afterwards attended the law department of Albany University, where he was graduated in 1867. After being admitted to the bar at Canficld, Ohio, in August of that year, he removed to Youngstown, where he has since resided, engaged in the practice of his profession. For some time he was in partnership with Ilalsey II. Moses, under the firm name of Moses & Arrel. In July. 1870, Mr. Arrel was elected city solicitor of Youngstown, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation and removal from the city of Joseph Harris, and was re-elected f< >r every successive term until 1878, when he declined a further reelection. Appointed judge of the court of common pleas in Septemlicr, 1880. to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge E. H. Taylor, he was elected at the annual election in October, 1880, fur the remainder of Judge Taylor's term; and was reelected in Octnlnrr, 1881. for the full term <>f five years. On retiring from the bench he resumed his law practice, which has included much railroad and corporation work. Since January 1. iyo6. he has been a memlierof the well known law firm of Ariel, Wilson & Harrington. Mr. Arrel was married October 18. 1876. to Miss Grace Tod, a daughter of Governor David Tod. He has two children, David and Frances M, Further biographical mention of Mr. Arrel may l>e found on another page of this volume.

Charles K. Trucsdalc was born in Boardman. Mahoning county, Ohio, Septemlicr 13, 1841. His father. Alexander Tnicsdale, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania; his mother. Harriet (Leach) True-dale, was lx>rn in Morristown. New Jersey. As a member of Company E. Second Ohio Cavalry, he served in the Civil War from July. 1801. to July, 1803. taking part in many of the most important battles, lie was graduated at the Western Reserve College in 1871. and read law with Taylor \- Jones at Warren, Ohio, where lie was admitted to the bar m April. 1 87 j.

In 1873 ne uas elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county and held the office for two years. He has since continued in the parctice of his profession in Youngstown and is well known to all its members as an able lawyer.

He was married in Youngstown, June 19. 1872, to Miss 1-ouisa M. Jacobs, of Youngstown. A more extended mention of Mr. Truesdale may be fount; elsewhere in this work.

William J. Lawthers was Imrn in Leesville, Carroll county. Ohio, Octol>er 17, 1837. His father, Col. Garvin Lawthers. was of Scotch and Irish descent, and an able physician; his mother, whose maiden name was Price, was of Scotch and Welsh descent. He was educated in the public schools of his native place. He served several months in the Civil War. being discharged at Zanesville. Ohio, in December. 1864. After having read law with K. E. Knight of Cleveland, he was admitted to the bar in Carrollton, Ohio, in i8frfi. He began practice there, but removed in the spring of 1868 to Youngstown. where he has since resided, engaged in law practice. He has l>een in partnership at different times with II . B. Case. William G. Moore, and James P. Wilson. In 1876 he was admitted to the Ixir of the United States, at Cleveland, Ohio. From 1880 to 1884 he was mayor of the city of Youngstown. Mr. Lawthers was married at Cleveland. Ohio. September jo. 1870. to Miss Josephine Wilson, daughter of Captain William W ilson, of that city, and niece of Hon. David Wilson of Youngstown.

Mason Evans was lx>rn November J4, 1849. in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- \ v.mia. He was a son of Owen Evans, who was Uirn in Montgomery county, that state, but who s|kmu most of his life in Philadelphia, where he died m 1830. Mr. Evans' mother, whose name in maidenhood was Sarah Roe. was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Evans was graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in the class of

1869, and was admitted to the bar at Philadelphia November 30, 1 870. In September of the following year he removed to Voungstown, and in 1875. he was admitted to the bar of Ohio at Warren. He was for some time in partnership with General Thomas W. Sanderson, under the style of Sanderson & Evans. On the organization of the Commercial National Bank in 1881. Mr. Evans retired from the practice of law to become cashier of that institution, and so remained until January, 1906, when he was elected president of the bank, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George M. McKelvey. This office he lias since retained. Mr. Evans was married at Voungstown, June 8, 1876, to Miss Lucy E. Gerwig, daughter of Frederick Gerwig. A more extended biographical mention of Mr. Evans may be found on another page of this volume.

Cecil D. I line was bom in Hubbard. Trumbull county, Ohio, August 3. 1849. His father, Samuel I line, was a native of Voungstown, and son of Homer Hine, one of the earliest lawyers on the Reserve. Samuel married Ellen I.. Montgomery, of Coitsvillc, daughter of Robert Montgomery, who. as early as 1806, built anil operated in Poland a furnace for making iron.

Cecil D. Hine was educated at the Western Reserve College, which he attended up to the beginning of his senior year. He subsequently received from the college the degree of A. M. After reading law for two years with Taylor & Jones at Warren, Ohio, he was there admitted to the bar, April 15. 1872. Not long afterwards he commenced practice in Voungstown. where he has since resided. He is now a member of the firm of Hine, Kennedy & Robinson, one of the strongest law firms in Voungstown. and is a lawyer of exceptional ability. Mr. Hine married Miss Elizabeth W. Woodruff. October o. 1872. Further bingraphical mention of Mr. Hine may l>c found elsewhere in this volume.

son of Jacob and Catherine Burky. His parents were of German ancestry. He pursued the study of law with F. G. Servis and G. Van Hyming, at Canfield, Ohio, and was there admitted to the bar, April 19, 1869. Beginning practice in Canfield, he remained there until August, 1870, when he removed to Voungstown, where he has since resided. From April to October, 1870, he was in partnership with W. S. Anderson, under the firm name of Burky & Anderson. Since October. 1899, he has had as partner his son, A. E. Burky, the style of the firm being Burky & Burky. Mr. Burky was mayor of Canfield from April, 1871, to April, '1875. He was married October 23. 1870. to Miss Mary A. Burky, of Berlin, Ohio.

William S. Anderson was born at North Jackson, Mahoning county, Ohio. December 31. 1847, son of David and Hannah L. (Shaw) Anderson. He studied law with Hutchins & Glidden of Warren, Ohio, and was there admitted to the bar, April 7, 1870, shortly afterwards beginning practice in Canfield. Jn 1877 he removed to Voungstown, where he formed a law partnership with Louis R. King, which lasted until February. i88_', when Mr. King commenced his term as probate judge. Octolier 6, 1864, he was married to Miss Louisa M. Shields, of Boardman, Ohio. A more complete biographical sketch of Mr. Anderson may l>e found elsewhere in this volume.

William T. Gibson was born in Voungstown, Ohio. Dcccmlier jo. 1850. His father, Samuel Gibson, was born in Voungstown, March 17, 1819. son < i a pioneer settler here. Samuel married Nancy J. Gault, who was born in Mercer county. Pennsylvania, September 25. 18.25. William T. Gibson was graduated from the R iven School at Voungstown. Tunc 20. 1872. and from the Western Reserve College, at Hudson. Ohio. June 25. 1870. Ikread law with George F. Arrel of Votings town, and was admitted to the bar at Warren. Ohio. September 3, 1878. He has since re sided in Voungstown. engaged in the practice

I' rank Jacobs was Itorn in Youn^stow n. Ohio, Mav _>_«. 1S55, v>:i ui Philip an. I Sally (kimmcli Jacobs, IU- w;h graduated at the Allwuiy Law School. Mareli _»<.. 1N77. and admitted In tin- bar in Y< mug-stow n March _-'>. 1S7S, where he has since Urn engaged in the practice of his [in t"i --i>>n. Further biographical mention of Mr. Jacobs may lie found eUe Where in this work.

I. Barclay Miller was l«>rn January in, i«X;o. in Mahoning county. Ohio, mid of |o*eph and lane 1 Jones > Miller. lie was iiiamlv educated in \oungstown, and «> graduated at the Raycn School in 1X7 _> He rea<! law with ( .en I . \V. Sanderson and was admitted to the har at Canticld in 1X7^. Me has since successfully practiced his profession in Yoitngstow n, his present location l>cing al No. 11; \\'. ledcra] street. W hile sen ing :iliistice of the pence he was clcctc- t may r of lames | '. WilvN was Imrn in Lyons. |..n ;i. Fchrnarv <.,. 1S57. son of James ami Harriet I I law c* I Wilson. Ills |:u!Ur was ,, native of Medina county. Ohio, his mother of (.'lies ii-r, I icauga county, t Urn. \tiu graduating ...t [be Cleveland High School in 1X75, he read law in the office of Knfns I'. Ranncy at ( I eve* land, ami subse-picntl) attended the Colombia Law College »t \*ew York city, where he was graduated in the s*iine yeai he was h.is gained a high reput.if.on as an aide and successful lawyer. \ large part of Ins practice has consisted of railroad an>l corp>rati<ai w. 'ik. He w as at lint ni partnership with Ins uncle. I). M. Wilson, and after the hitter's decease, with W . I Law tilers. Later he be came a member of the firm of Wilson. McN'ab tV Hamilr 11. Smce January- J, 1906. lie has heen a partner in the law firm of Arrel. Wilson & Harrington. Mr. W ilson was married, in 1W7. to Frances K. Patton, a daughter of the late I hotiKis I'atton. once proprietor of the Youngstown l'iiiiln,i!i>r. lie has three children - Richard R.. James T.. and Harold L. A more extended biographical sketch of Mr. Wilson may 1-e found elsewhere m this work.

Benjamin F. Wirt was U,rn m West Middlesex. Mercer county, I Vunsyh ania. March jo. 1S5J. His patents were William and Lli^a Jane 1 S.uikey ) Wirt. His lather was a name of Yoimgsrowu, Ohio, and his mother of Pennsylvania. After being graduated from the Raven School he read law with !-. 1> Wis' lworth of Youngstown, and was admitted M the bar at t'olumhus. Ohio. March ti. 1S71. He then U-gan the practice of law 111 Youngs town, where he has since resided. I'ntil 1SX0 he was in partnership with his former instructor. L. 1>. Wooilworth. Afterwards he hei-itue associated as partner with M. A N orris, hut since 1000 has practiced alone. In tXN, he was elected to the stale legislature and was re-elected for the second term ill K)Oi- In 1XX1 he married Mis- Maty Mc< .cell in. daughter > | [l.aiiel MiCccliin of New Bedford. I'eiiiisv'eania. Further biographical mention of Mi. Wirt appeals elsewhere 111 this volume.

under the mcntorship of Gen. T. W. Sanderson (if Youngstown. and lie was admitted to the bar, March if), 1870. He immediately began practice in Youngstown, where for some years he was associated in partnership with William A. Maline. and later with Thomas Connell. He gradually lx"gan to take an active interest in politics, and soon became known all over the state as one of the most finished and effective speakers of the Republican party. In July, 1902, at Salem, Ohio, he was nominated for congress after a long and spirited tight, and was subsequently elected by an overwhelming majority. His subsequent career in Washington has been one to tully justify the judgment of his constituents in making him their standard-l>carer, and has added lustre to his own reputation as a man of farseeing wisdom in public affairs. Mr. Kennedy married in 1884. Miss I 'belie Irwin, a daughter of Henry Irwin, of Xewton balls. Ohio. '. He has one child. (I race Kennedy. The reader j will find a fuller reference to Mr. Kennedy in j the strictly biographical portion of this volume. ;

I.. H. K. Ijowry was horn at Lowellville, Mahoning county, Ohio, in 1863. son of James J. and Margaret (Smith) Lowry. He is a descendant in the fourth generation of Robert Lowry, who came with his family from county Down, Ireland, in 1804. and settled at Roland Center. L. H. K. Lowry was reared on his father's farm. He obtained his preliminary e<lucation in the Lowellville schools and at Hudson Academy, and was later a student for a while at Adclbcrt C ollege. Cleveland. In 1888 he was graduated from the University of Michigan. He subsequently read law with C. D. Hine and John H. ( lark, and after being admitted to the bar began the practice of his profession in Youngstown. In June, 1906, he became a partner oi W. T. Gibson, in the firm of (iilison & Low 1 \ , and has built up a large and successful practice. Mr. L wry stands high in the local councils of the Republican party, and has served as secretary of the Republican county central committee. He is a past master .if Hillnian Lodge. X'o. 481, F

Hon. Joseph R. Johnston, a member of both bench and bar, was born at Jackson, Mahoning county, Ohio. September 12, 1840. son of John and Coroline (Roberts) Johnston. His paternal grandfather was a native of Ireland, and his grandmother of Scotland. They settled in Milton township, Mahoning county, in 181 1. Judge Johnston's father, John Johnston, was born in 1800, in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania; the Judge's mother was a native of Fayette county, that state.

Joseph R. Johnston spent his early years on his lather's farm, and obtained his schooling in the academies of Cantield and Jackson. In August, 1 861. he enlisted as a private in Company K, Second Regiment, Ohio Yolunteeer Cavalry. February 17. 1863, he was com-1 missioned as second lieutenant of the Twentyfifth battery of Ohio Light Artillery. He remained in the service until Septeml>er, 1864, when he was obliged to resign on account of ill health. He had participated with his regiment in many of the most imjxirtant battles of the war. After retiring from the army he began the study of law. and was admitted to the bar September i_\ 1866. He has since achieved great success in his profession, and is now recognized as one of the ablest lawyers in Youngstown. Soon after his admission to the bar he was elected proliate judge, and was re-elected to the same office in i860.. After his retirement Irom the bench he took up practice in Cantield. where he remained until 1888. lie then came to Youngstown. where he has since practiced his profession. A prominent memlxT of the Republican party in Mahoning county, he was nominated in 1875 for the state senate, and was subsequently elected. He was re-elected in 1S77, and during a part of his term did efficient work as a meml>er of the judiciat\ committee. Alter retiring from the senate he resumed the practice of law. which he followed uninterruptedly for about -even years. lie was then elected judge of the court of common pleas, and in jSol was re-elected to the same office. He has held numerous offices of trust ami responsibility, and he belongs to several fraternal and military societies, including the Free .Masons, the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Loyal Legion. He is highly esteemed by his fellow citizens for his ability, and for the fidelity with which he has guarded their interests in the state halls of legislation. He was married, in 180S, to Mary S. Hansel!, a lady of rare culture and refinement, who died April .'5, iox>o.

R. and Flizahcth ( Bird I Kennedy. He is of Scotch Irish ancestry, and a descendant of James Kennedy who settled in Cuml>criand county. Pennsylvania, late 111 the eighteenth century, and there married a daughter of Lord Stewart. When but six years old lames B. Kenncdv had the misfortune to lose U'th his parents, and he was placed under the care of his paternal grandfather. He first attended school in Coitsvdle, later in Youngstown. and afterwards in Poland, where he prepared for college. He entered Ann Arbor (Michigan) University, but after a year's study had to leave on account of ill health. Siiscqnently, after Ids health had somewhat improved, he took a commercial course at Duff's Business College at Pittsburg. with the expectation of entering commercial life: but having inclinations for the legal profession, he l>egan about iSoj-N; to read lai\. while engaged in teaching school. To litis studv lie subsequently devoted several years. In March, he was admitte.1 t.. the lor at Columbus. Ohio. Coming to Youngstown. he »«m proved his ability and his ]>ractice began to grow in a very satisfactory maimer. In Xovcmlicr, iKi>o. he was elected pn '--.-cul inv; attorney of Mahoning county. This proved for him a stepping >t oikjo the heiuh of cmmoti pleas, on w li ich lie served from i*o; 1,1 Further details

Melviu Cary McXab was lx>rn in Poland, Mahoning county, ( )hio, (Vtolx'r 14, iSjj. His parents were L. B. and Mary McXab. b.th natives of l'..lan<l. After graduating from Poland Union Seminary 111 1K70 he rcnioveil to Salem. Ohio. His law studies, 1k-- gun m iJs/4. were pursued in the office "t Pro- ks & l.aubie. under the mentorsh:]) of L. L. Gilbert, and with W illiam M. OsU.ru of Youngstown, to which city he removed 111 i.S-t>. lie wa> admitted to the bar in Youngstown April 1N77. and has since pracr.ccd his profession here. In iNSo and 1HS1 he was in partnership w ith Wiilis \\ . Powers, under the style o.f McXab Powers For four years, beginning with mo.', he was as-socialcd with James P. Wilson and J. J. Hamilton, the firm being known as Wilson. McXab iS: Hamilton. Since early m H;o'> lie has had as partners \\ S. Anderson and W. X. Anderson, in the very successful law linn of Anderson. McXab St Anderson. Me was married, in lSSo. t" Miss Clara P Stambaugh. of Trumbull county, who died April 7. loot, He has since man its] a Miss Ambler, a daughter 01 Judge I A. Ambler, late of Salem. Ohio.

William A Maline was horn in Canton, Ohio. SeptemU-r 1. tS;.-. 11 is parents. John aiul Catherine il'iri'ong l Maline. came to the L'nitcd States. jr, ,m Bav aria and resided for some years in ("anion. Mr. Maline read law with ilenrv A. Wise jn Canton, and subsequently with M W. |ohn>oU and Isaac A I Justice in YoungStftWII, where he was admitted to tlie bar \pril 3, 1S77. He has since resided in Yoiingsp.vv 11. and has built lip an excellent practii-e. with a corres>niding re|>utatiou as an able and successful lawyer. Hi» present partner is (,. J Carcw. with w h- 011 be became assfH-iated in o>o-. |M iNN_- he was elected c:tv solicitor of Youngstown. He was married in Youngstown June _u. iS>'o. to Mi-s I-oiusa Kudge. who 'is of Fnglish ancestry. F'U ''- biographical reference ti> Mr. Maline may be found on another page of tin's volume-

Sidney de Lamar Jackson was born in Hubbard. Trumbull county, Ohio, April 9, I 1855. son of Joseph W. and Relwcca I.. Jackson. He was educated in the schools of Coitsville, and read law in Youngstown with Hon. David M. Wilson. He was admitted to the bar in Canfield, Ohio, in April, 1877. Soon alter he liegan practice in Youngstown, of which city he has since remained a resident. He was married in December. 1880. to Miss Mary E. Cushitig, of Fredonia. X. V. A more extended biography of Mr. Jackson may lie found elsewhere in this volume.

William McK. Osborn was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1842, son of Abncr and Abby Osborne. He was educated at the Poland. Ohio, Academy. In 1861 he enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After l)eing in the army a few months only he was taken sick, and lx:ing incapacitated for service was discharged. His law studies were pursued under Judge Glidden at Poland, and at the law department of the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar at Warren, Ohio, about 1869, and began practice in Youngstown, at first alone, but afterwards for a time with General T. W. Sanderson. At the close of this connection he again practiced alone. He was elected mayor of Youngstown in 1874. In February. 1878, he removed to Cleveland, where he engaged in law practice. His wife, whom he married in Boston, Massachusetts, [ was formerly Miss Fanny Hastings of that | city, an adopted daughter of Walter Hastings, and a niece of Judge Glidden. After his mar- i riage he removed to Boston, and was aj>- pointed and served as police commissioner. I le was a cousin of President McKinlcy, and was by him appointed consul-general at Ixmdon and died while serving as such in 1906.

Halbert B. Case was born in Mecca, Trumbull county, Ohio, about 1838. He was educated in the Western Reserve Seminary at Farmington, Ohio, and at Oberlin College. He read law at the Michigan University, and was admitted to the bar in Trumbull county. Ohio.

in 1863. He had previously served in the Civil war as captain of a company in the Seventh Ohio Regiment. Coming to Youngstown in 1864, he practiced law here for a few years, being a partner for awhile of A. W. Jones, in the firm of Jones & Case, and for a while also of William J. Lawthers. in the firm of Case & I-iwthers; the rest of the time he practiced alone. About 1870 Mr. Case removed to Iowa, and thence subsequently to Chattanooga, Tenn., where he still resides. He was first married to Carrie, daughter of Austin D. Kibltee of Farmington. She died at Des Moines. Iowa. He afterwards married at Chattanooga Miss Jennie Spooner, a former resident of Ohio. He is still in practice at Chattanooga.

Henry G. Leslie was born in Poland, Ohio, May 17, 1839, a son of John G. Leslie. He was admitted to the bar in Canfield in 1862, and subsequently practiced his profession in Youngstown until his death. He was elected city attorney of Youngstown in 1864. and was elected prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county in 1867. He died March 2, 1S69, during his term of office. He married in 1865 Miss Amelia Burton, daughter of Rev. Lewis Burton, an Episcopalian clergyman, of Cleveland, Ohio.

James B. Blocksom was born in New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio. July 19, 1821. His father. Fisher A. Blocksom. a pioneer lawyer of this state, came from Wilmington, Delaware, settling in X'ew Lislx>n about 1800. His mother, Margaret (Graham) Blocksom, was a native of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. After attending the public schools he read law with his father, and was admitted to the l»r at Zanesville. Ohio, in 1842. He practiced his profession in New- Lisbon until 1846, and then removed to Confield. Two years later he was elected prosecuting attorney of the county, and served one term. In 1861 he was elected justice of the peace, and for several years also was mayor of the village of Canfield. He was in partnership in Canfield for some time with John M. Edwards, in the law

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K. (lunch, and ^randi laughter of Nathaniel Church, "tu- --!' the pr. 'pnet, .<r< of the township of Caiitield. who still survives, residing in California.

Fusion Church l\l 'cksom, si>n of lames B. and Frances M. I Church ) Blocks. >ni. was horn in ( anlidd. Ohio. August I. 1S55. lie reail law in the office of Van Hvminjr -v Johnston at Caiitield and was admitted to the bar abmt 1S77. He practiced law at C infield abmt two years, anil afterwards removed to Canton, where he was a meml>cr of the law firm of Bowl & Hlocksom. In 1NX0 he went to San Francisco, t ali forma, where he retired from practice.

Fmil J, Anderson was birn in Sweden. Mav IS. 187S. He studied law 111 Youngstown with Charles K.Mince. Jr.. W T. Gibson, and (ieneral Thomas W. Sanderson, and was admitted to the bar in June, loo.v He was in partnership with < ieneral Sanderson for about two years, and with A. M. Henderson for ah -tit a year. He is now practicing alone at N". W est Federal street, associated with (ieneral Sander-.. 11 and \\ 1' Barrium. lr. He is a member of the Y outlet, .wn Hoard of Fducati.m. He makes a specialty of personal injury eases.

W. Noble An. let-on was b'rn at ('.'infield. Mahoning county, (ilir... May -5. iN;j He studied law with 11. K Taylor and with (infirm of Jones & Anderson, Iieing admitted to the bar 111 M.avli. |X.>S. He ha- l«n m put ncrsbip will', hi- father a- W S Anders, ,u vY Son. and is imn a member of the firm of An dcr.so!i. M< -Yah X Anderson, located m ilie Dollar Hank Building He io\c- in- chief attention to criminal ami damage cases, admittcd to the har in 1877. and has since pr.utned a pan of the unie mi Youu^stovvn. l-'or si Hie lime p -sl lie has Ucn clerl. of (he Yomtij-'a-wn Burd .-f education, and dev. tes his time to the interests of the schools of \ ' inngstuwn.

John S. Roller was b<rn in < ireeu tovvn- -li 1 1 dun 11 1 1 ' i ' ' 1 1 1 ' e- .iii'.t> ' -v 111 M; " honini; county. ( )hio. September JJ. He studied law with Hon. F. (i. Servis and J. C. Ryan, and was admitted to the bar. in May, 187 j. He has practiced at Leetonia. Ohio, Caiitield. Ohio, and I.owelhille. Ohio, with W. S. Anderson as Anderson & Roller, and with Frank Jacobs as Roller \- Jacobs. He has served in public office as mayor of W ashingtonville. niavir of ("anlield. Ohio, prosecuting attorney of Mahoning county. Ohio. Republican presidential electot f,.r Ohio, campaign of 18H4. and as city clerk ol 1 - .utujst. iw n. Ohio. Mr Roller resides in I.ovvellvi'le. Malvininir county

William IV Banium, Jr.. was born at Rock l reek, \sl-.tabula countv. Ohio, Ocb'U-r 15. 187'* He read law with Frank I. Baldwin, and was admitted to 'he bar in |)tveml*r. too.'. W ith the exception of two years spent 111 Idaho, iiH.j ;iii,| ion;, he has since practiced his profession 111 Youit£*towu. .-mil has been associated since September. 1 <*>''. vvith Fmil J. Anderson. He has made a social study of the law relating to negligence cases. His office is in the Commercial Bank BmlduiL,'. at \o $ W'e-t I-"<-deraI -treet

Harold L. Beard was lorn 111 Yoitussl urn, Ohio. Decemk-r s. 1 S71 .. lie -tudied law at the Ohio Normal University, at Ada. Ohio, where he obtained the decree of f.l. B.. :uii| in the I.n.'. depannu-nt of the Western Reserve Cniversity. at Cleveland, where he

\\fi.« graduated in tin- cl.i-- .f (uoj. He was admitted to the liar hint- 17. thai year, au.l began practice in \ < nuigst. w n On June 1. kjov he formed a |«artt»ership with his brother, Ralph A Beard, under the rirm name of Bean] \ Beard, and the linn has smkc carried (Mi a general law business at No. <) Wick avenue. Youngstown,

Ralph A. ileai 1 1, senior partner of the law firm of Beard & Beard, was b->rn in Beaver township. Mahoning county. ()hii>. September 10, 1S71. He studied law with M C. Mc- Nab, and was admitted to die bar March 11, 1K07. lie has since been engaged in the practice of law in Youngstown since June 1, 11)03, in partnership with his brother Harold I-, in die firm of Beard & Beard. He has made a special study of criminal law, but is engaged in general practice.

John J. Boyle was liorn in Hubbard, Trumbull county. Ohio, July 7, 1876. He read law with A. J. W'oolf. and spent a similar length of tune in the law department of the Western Reserve University. He was admitted to the bar 111 June. 190J, and had since been engaged in general law practice in Youngstown. His office is in the Malouv Work.

1>. J. llartwell was bom in Tryouville. Crawford countv, Pennsylvania. April J<>, 1K5.V He read law with judge J. E. Bickering at Warren. Ohio, ami was admitted t" the bar June 7. iSSX. From that time until iSi>o be practiced law 111 Hubbard, < )hio, but since the date la<t named he has followed his profession in Youngstown. He is located at Xo 1 15 W est Federal street.

Theodore A. Johnson w as b«rn at Decatur, Indiana, in 1S70. He read law with E. S. Atherton al Dmand. Michigan, and with I'Yauk Jacobs in Y> lungsiow 11, < Miio. lie was admitted to tlie liar December _>.>. hi<i;, and has since ]>racticed in Youngstown. making a Specialty of real property and negligence cases. He has served as attorney Ei the Retail Oncers' Association, His office is in the Dollar Bank Building m, 1K07. He studied law under Ju Igc (George 1 Arre! a Youngstown. Ohio. ;nl Myron 1*. Davis of Meadxille. Pennsylvania, at which last named place he was admitted to the bar m Derei niter. iS<jH. He practiced m Meadville until August. 100,,, when lie Canute Youngstown and entered into partnership with William A Malme, under the firm' name

Roltert C. Huey was In mi at I'.noii Valley. Lawrence county, 'Pennsylvania. August 15. 187.'. He read law at the Ohio Northern I "mverdtv. where he was graduated in June, t My." with the degree of I.I. D.. and was admitted to the bar in December. kjoo. He has since tieen engaged in law practice in Youngstown. bis office being in the Wick Bank building, at the comer of Federal and Phelps streets. Mr Huey is now serving his second term in the Ohio Ceneral Assembly.

C. H Baker was born at ( .ranger. Medina countv. Ohio. Mav i.V iK?f». »c read law at tlie National University l.aw School, Washington. D. C. and with ME Mc.Nab of Youngstown. Ohio. He was admitted to the bar lune !<>o4, and has since been engaged in genera! law practice in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania.

William W. Zimmerman was U.mi at New Middleton. Ohio, SeptemK-r I.V lle read law in New York City for one year, and with A. W (ones of Youngstown. Ohio, one year. He was admitted to die bar in June, lSS-. and has since resided in Youngstown, engaged in general law practice.

Charlt- W Cilgen was |».ni on a rum : near Orrvflle, Wayne countv. Obi". Scptcml,er SI iSh'. lie read law with C. D line am! Mm II Clark of Youngstown . and was admitted l«> the har January, 1S95. He was associated for a lime with S. D. L, Jacks' >n and \\ . J. Jenkins, hut since I <S< »S has practiced alone. giving liis especial attention to pmliate court practice. His office is in the J k-.liar I lank Building, lie -er\e.I fur four years as secretary of the county and city board of elections, ami f« >r the past two years has been secretin,' of the Youngstown t "handier of Commerce.

Arthur K. Burkv was horn in Youngstown, Ohio, August u, 1877. lie read law with his father, M H. Murky, and was admitted to the l«r October 14. 1899. He is engaged in general law practice with his father under lite firm name of Murky & Murky.

George Kdwards was I torn at Coalhnrg. Trumbull comity. Ohio. Septemlier <S. 1K7 1 . He read law with A. J. Woolf, and was admitted to the har June S. jS^. He has since lieen engaged in genera! Jaw practice in Youngstown. In April. 1890. he was elected a justice of the peace and served one term. He has an office in the Dollar Bank Building.