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A
Centennial Biographical History OF
THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
AND FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO
ILLUSTRATED
Embellished with Portraits of Many Well Known People of Franklin County, who Have Been and Are Prominent in Its History and Development
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CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1901
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PREFACE.
UT of the depths of his mature wisdom Carlyle wrote, "History is the essence of innumerable biographies." Believing this to be the fact, there is no necessity of advancing any further reason for the compilation of such a work as this, if reliable history is to be the ultimate object.
The section of Ohio embraced by this volume has sustained within its confines men who have been prominent in the history of the State, and even the nation, for a century. The annals teem with the records of strong and noble manhood, and, as Sumner has said, "the true grand- eur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual." The final causes which shape the fortunes of individuals and the destinies of States are often the same. They are usually remote and obscure, and their influence scarcely perceived until manifestly declared by results. That nation is the greatest which produces the greatest and most manly men and faithful women; and the intrinsic safety of a community depends not so much upon methods as upon that normal development from the deep resources of which proceeds all that is precious and perma- nent in life. But such a result may not consciously be contemplated by the actors in the great social drama. Pursuing each his personal good by exalted means, they work out as a logical result.
The elements of success in life consist in both innate capacity and deter- mination to excel. Where either is wanting, failure is almost certain in the outcome. The study of a successful life, therefore, serves both as a source of information and as a stimulus and encouragement to those who have the capacity. As an important lesson in this connection we may appropriately
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quote Longfellow, who said : " We judge ourselves by what we feel capa- ble of doing, while we judge others by what they have already done." A faithful personal history is an illustration of the truth of this observation.
In this biographical history the editorial staff, as well as the publishers, have fully realized the magnitude of the task. In the collection of the ma- terial there has been a constant aim to discriminate carefully in regard to the selection of subjects. Those who have been prominent factors in the public, social and industrial development of the counties have been given due recog- nition as far as it has been possible to secure the requisite data. Names worthy of perpetuation here, it is true, have in several instances been omitted, either on account of the apathy of those concerned or the inability of the compilers to secure the information necessary for a symmetrical sketch; but even more pains have been taken to secure accuracy than were promised in the prospectus. Works of this nature, therefore, are more reliable and com- plete than are the "standard " histories of a country.
To the Hon. J. J. Bright, a reliable citizen of Columbus, are we in- debted for the very interesting introductory chapter on the "Posthumous Biography of Franklin County."
THE PUBLISHERS.
INDEX.
Adams, William S., 618 Aldrich, Orlando W., 280 Alexander, Thomas J., 907 Allegre, Lorenzo D., 573 Allen, Cotton H., 380 Ammel, Charles S., 485 Anderson, James H., 136 Anderson, James P., 312 Andrix, John F., 168 Armstrong, Charles H. 1003 Armstrong, Frank, 705 Armstrong, Joseph, 246 Aubert, Charles, 728 Austin, Thomas W. 970
Bachmann, Christian, 646 Barbbert, Frederick, 231 Barbee, James W., 181 Barbee, William H., 375 Barcus, Ebenezer, 223 Barnes, John W., 423 Barnhill, James U., 187 Bartlett, John, 379 Bassell, John Y., 965 Beal, William C., 450 Beasley, Austin D., 399 Beckwith, John E., 65 Beery, Joseph E., 479 Bickett, William W., 339 Biggert, Sebastian B., 366 Biggs, Andrew C., 442 Binns, David, 180 Bird, Jacob, 686 Bird, William, 687 Blake, Francis W., 604 Blake, William H., 447 Blesch, Philip E., 654 Boehm, George, 690 Bohannan, Rosser D., 763 Bohl, Henry, 360 Bonebrake, Daniel, 894 Bonebrake, Lewis D., 478 Bonnet, Andrew O., 529 Born, Conrad, 816 Borror, Absalom, 551 Borror, Elizabeth (Watts), 391 Borror, Ichabod B., 133 Borror, Jacob, 589 Borror, Joel, 789 Borror, Silas, 539 Boucher, John, 158 Bowser, Benjamin S., 462
Boyd, John W., 453 Boyer, Adam, 759 Bradford, Joseph N., 560 Brand, John M., 132 Brenneman, Emmett A., 61 Brickell, William D., 102 Briggs, Henry, 691 Briggs, Joseph M., 570 Brinker, Marion T., 903 Britton, James S., 368 Brodrick, George, 131 Brooks, Lewis J., 929 Brothers, Joshua W., 624 Brown, Abram, 525
Brown, Davis, 240 Browne, George W., 756 Brush, Samuel, 22 Buck, Herman H., 595
Bulen, William, 808
Bulford, George H., 131 Burnside, John, 127
Burwell, Samuel, 687 Butterworth, Irvin, 612
Buttles, Joel, 16 Byers, Albert G., 459 Byers, Joseph P., 144
Cameron, Frank B., 924
Carl, John W., 753 Carl, William C., 487 Carlisle, William S., 906 Carr, Hugh H., 334 Cashner, Samuel, 854 Centner, Charles V., 299
Chambers, John E., 1011 Chambers, William J., 967
Chase, Salmon P., 21
Chenoweth, Frank A., 549
Chenoweth, William B., 767 Chrysler, Eli, 866
Clahane, Dennis J., 73 Clapham, John, 207 Clapham, Joseph, 400 Clark, John, 844 Clark, Thomas M., 437 Clark, William J., 594 Cline, William, 871 Clotts, Daniel, 934 Coberly, Edward N., 369 Cochran, Justin R., 732 Cochran, Samuel J., 242 Coe, Almon F., 199
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Coe, Alvin, 410 Coe, Truman H., 383 Coen, Samuel F., 960 Coit, Alonzo B., 555 Coit, Harvey, 382 Cole, Frank T., 648 Collins, Reuben H., 470 Commercial Travelers, Order of, 262
Condit, George W., 921 Connor, Joseph, 736 Converse, George L., 104
Cooke, H. C., 786 Cooke, Rodney R., 248
Cooper, Albert, 173
Cosgray, Barnet J., 344
Cosgray, Jeremiah, 814
Cosgray, Moses, 874 Cott, Lawrence H., 404 Courtright, Edward, 616
Cox, Ezekiel T., 13
Cox, Samuel S., 12
Cromwell, John S., 783
Crum, Ira H., 534
Crum, James E., 575
Cummins, John, 192
Daniell, James H., 513 Darrow, Walter N. P., 533
Dauben, Joseph, 407
Daugherty, John S., 174
Davidson, Alexander, 115
Davidson, Nicholas P., 483
Davis, Christopher, 597
Davis, Samuel A., 717
Davis, William B., 962
Dean, Francis B., 217 Deardurffs, The, 26
Decker, Samuel A., 583
Deem, George W., 156
Demorest, Russel B., 663
Dennis, Charles D., 418
Dennison, William, 24 Derrer, Michael, 876 Devenport, David, 980 Dickey, Moses T., 274 Dill, Frank P., 586
Distelhorst, George H., 864
Dominy, Ezra, 656 Dominy, Henry, 739
Dominy, Jeremiah, 742
Doney, Samuel D., 236
Dorsey, John T., 861 Drake, Elam, 858
Dulin, Nathan W., 727
Dutoit, Eugene E., 725
Dutoit, Francis E., 467 Dyer, George, 617
Eakin, John J., 659 Edwards, Thomas E., 277
Eis, John B., 449 Eldridge, Charles, 755 Elliott, Daniel, 210 Ellis, Otis K., 458 Ellis, Samuel W., 158
Emerick, Edson J., 638 Emmick, Andrew C., 315 English, Lorenzo, 105 English, W. H., 106 Eutsler, J. H., 127 Evans, David, 308
Evans, Edward, 592
Evans, George, 322 Evans, Maurice, 424
Ewing, Simon P., 276
Falloon, Frank L., 613 Farber, Jamies H., 977 Feder, George S., 420
Ferguson, Hugh L., 700
Ferris, Frank C., 149
Ferris, Henry C., 455
Fippin, lames, 226
Fisher, William M., 626
Fitzpatrick, Valentine, 503
Flagg, C. B., 262
Fleming, Frank, 319
Foor, Joseph, 703 Foos, Joseph, 14 Fox, Frank S. 386
Francis, Frederick, 765
Frazier, John C., 968
Freeman, George D .. 776
Galbraith, William, 681
Galbreath, Charles B., 900 Galloway, T. B., 184
Gantz, Albert L., 639
Gantz, Andrew J .. 941
Gardiner, Richard J., 402
Garst, Henry, 468 Gault, William R., 582
Geary, George L., 219
Geiger, Richard M., 497
Geyer, George, Sr., 86
Giffin, Schuyler O., 39
Gillespie-Allen, Alice, 475 Glass, Louis, 831 Gloyd, Nelson H., 693
Goad, Henry A., 663
Goetschius, Stephen, 524
Goldsmith, William C., 270
Goodale, Lincoln, 10
Gordon, John L., Sr., 522
Gordon, John L., Jr., 309 Graham, William M., 748
Grant, Adam G., 824 Grant, Nelson, 433 Grant, Robert D., 607 Green, John C., 978
Gregory, Thomas N., 356
Griffith, Joshua, 683 Griswold, Isaac, 398 Groome, Augustus E., 793
Grotthouse, William H., 233
Hager, Americus S., 206 Haldy, Charles W., 243 Haldy, Frederick, 510
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Hamill, Thomas B., 737 Hamilton, Arthur L., 390 Hamilton, John W., 452 Hammond, Jacob J., 439 Hardesty, William A., 566 Harman, Eber H., 90 Harper, John, 731 Harris, Clark, 894 Harrison, James V., 434 Harrison, Richard A., 46 Hart, John, 733 Hart, Theadore, 643 Hart, Thomas, 870 Hart, William, 729 Haynes, John F., 679 Hays, George W., 159 Haywood, John, 254 Headley, Daniel, 918 Headley, William, 204 Hedrick, Isaac P., 735 Heinmiller, Louis, 848 Heitmann, John H., 1010 Helmick, George W., 526 Helwagen, Edward M., 359 Hempstead, Alexander S., 982 Henderson, Henry T., 392 Henderson, John S, 463 Herd, Joseph, 414 Herd, Robert H., 415 Herd, William, 414 Herr, Christian S., 807 Hess Family, The, 974 Hess, Henry R, 214 Hess, James H., 614 Hess, John M., 976 Hess, Thomas M., 433 Hirsch, Leonhard, 286 Hitchcock, Embury A., 294 Hoffman, George M., 480 Home for the Deaf and Dumb, 431 Hoover, George W., 559 Hopper, Edward, 828 Horch, John F., 578 Houghton, Frank H., 544 House, William, 869 Howard, John W., 809 Hoyer, W. Dallas, 355 Hubbard, William B., 20 Huddleson, Helena (Park), 444 Huffman, Henry, 225 Huffman, Lewis, 788 Hull, Richard E., 1000 Hunt, Franklin G., 995 Hunter, William R., 195 Huntington, Webster P., 257 Hutchinson, Sawyer A., 57 Huy, Henry, 632
Ingham, George W., 803 Innis, Gustavus S., 113 Innis, Lyman H., 182 Innis, Maxwell P., 230 Innis, Robert, 528 Innis, William H., 228
Jackson, Frank P., 972 James, Richard, 447 Jarvis, Charles W., 993 Jeffrey, Joseph A., 120 Jenkins, Isaac N., 1005 Jerman, J. Thomas, 621 Johnson, Richard W., 708 Johnston, Thomas, 846 Jones, Edward S., 431 Jones, Hugh E., 875 Jones, John W., 898 Jones, Joseph F., 873 Jones, Joseph W., 712
Jones, Richard, 540 Jones, Richard E., 494
Joyce, John J., 753
Kalb, James P., 817
Karb, George J., 936 Karch, Charles J., 640
Karns, John M., 827 Karrer, George M., 881
Kauffman, Linus B., 406
Keck, Charles H., 702
Keller, John A., 1009
Kellerman, William A., 42
Kelly, Alfred, 19
Kerr, John, 17 Keys, John, 863 Kilbourne, James, 40 Kilbourne, James, 15 Kiner, Henry, 852
Kiner, John, 416 Kinkead, Edgar B., 435
Kinsman, D. N., 484
Knox, John, 189
Knox, William E., 543
Koebel, John, 172 Koehl, John H., 925
Krauss, Catherine, 365
Krumm, Alexander W., 348
Krumm, Frederick, 264 Krumm, Joseph, 819 Kuhn, Herman, 790
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Lakin, Samuel W., 760 Lambert, James, 971 Lamp, Ora L., 823
Landes, John Q., 329
Landes, Mahala C., 329
Landon, Chauncey P., 990 Landon, Karl E., 991 Lane, Eugene, 244 Lane, Benjamin F., 769 Lazenbv, William R .. 289 Leach, Sherman, 350 Leap, Charles J., 660 Lenhardt. Adam 883 Lentz, John J., 985 Leonard, Francis M.,1008 Leonard, George K., 194 Leonard, Hannah M., 716 Lind, J. P., 272 Lindenberg, Susan D., 167
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Lindner, Charles, 717 Lindsay, James T., 1007 Lindsey, James, 353 Linebaugh, John, 794 Linhart, Christopher P., 620 Linthwaite, Herbert A., 968 Linton, Jonathan F., 107
Lisle, William, 749 Little, M. V. B., 771 Longshore, Isaac, 902 Lowry, Percy S., 244 Loy, Matthias, 317 Lukens, William H. H., 635 Lyons, Rachel H., 313
Machlin, Daiwalt, 610 Maize, Erwin, 162 Maize, Samuel, 445
Mallory, William T., 751
Manning, Jasper, 161 Marion, Edward L., 349
Marion, Elijah, 268 Matthews, George W., 116
Mauk, Newton H., 518
McCafferty, John W., 155
McCann, John W., 719 McCloud, James, 920
McClure, John, 561 McCollum, Edmund O., 331 McCormick, William B., 672 McCoy, Nathan A., 101
McCoy, Robert, 119 McCune, Jonas M., 933 McDermott, Hugh V., 567 McDonald, George O., 932
McGrath, Daniel W., 600
McIntyre, Elmer G., 973 McMillen, Bishop, 964 McNamee, John F., 904 Means, William J., 641 Mecartney, Jacob, 815 Meeker, Claude, 488 Meeker, Garry W., 504
Meeker, George W., 472 Merion, Charles, 405
Merion, William, 96
Merion, William, 926
Merion, William, Jr., 321
Merrick, William J., 550
Meyer, Bernard W., 688
Meyer, William E., 252 Michel, Frederick W., 806 Miles, James A., 552 Miller, Charles H., 956 Miller, Edward E., 602 Miller, Edward J., 565 Miller, Elmer J., 931
Miller, Frank S., 887
Miller, Gideon R., 306 Miller, Ira L., 547
Miller, John I)., 692 Miller, John L., 62 Miller, William, 557 Mills, John H., 290
Miner, Edgar D., 82 Moore, Alpheus B., 198 Moore, Opha, 154 Moore, Robert W., 1001
Morehead, Lewis, 605 Morrison, Andrew, 282 Morrison, William, 146 Mull, David, 307 Mull, Susannah, 721 Munshower, Nathan, 910
Myers, Alpheus D., 701
Myers, David W., 396
Myers, Hanson N., 841
Myers, Joseph, 76
Myers, Lorenzo D., 440
Nash, George K., 266 Near, Milton, 564
Neil, Alexander, 342
Neiswender, William, 216
Newsom, Logan C., 994
Nichols, Alvin L., 69
Nichols, George A., 608
Norris, King A., 347
Oates, Michael J., 928
Ochs, Gustavus H., 401 Offenbarger, Christian, 723
O'Harra, Elias T., 427 O'Harra, Michael, 949
Old Northwest Genealogical Soci- ety, 38
Olds, Joseph, 258
Olmsted, Charles H., 11 Olmsted, Philo H., 10, 495 Order of Commercial Travelers, 262 Orders, Allen, 857
Orton, Edward, Jr., 109
Osborn, James D., 911 Oyler, Frank L., 685
Packard, A. H., 352 Painter, Lewis, 151 Park, Jonathan E., 372
Parker, Stephen W., 129
Patton, Alexander, 397
Pausch, Henry, 792
Pearce, Charles A., 248
Pegg, Daniel, 633
Pegg, Elias W., 337
Pegg, Joseph, 335 Pegg, Lewis L., 637
Pegg, Monroe J., 338
Peiffier, John, 213 Perry, John F., 304
Perry, Robert W., 232 Petersen, Niles M., 976 Petzinger, John, 81 Pfeifer, John, 201 Pflueger, A., 59 Phelan, Edward L., 711 Phelps, H. Warren, 507 Pheneger, Rudolph, 840 Phinney, Barnabas, 872
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Pinkerton, William L., 849 Pinney, Justin, 89 Pinney, William, 796 Planck, Andrew, 657 Pocock, Edgar J., 239 Pogue, Charles A., 704 Polsley, J. M., 238 Porschet, George, 730 Postle, James M., 943 Postle, William S., 948 Postle, William Y., 957 Poston, James D., 916 Powell, Frank E., 499 Powell, Joseph B., 224 Prosser, Charles S., 537
Pugh, Andrew G., 572 Pugh, John M., 408 Pumpelly, Bernard, 305
Rader, George H., 856 Randall, Emilius O., 72 Rankin, Lewis L., 292 Rathmell, John, 87 Reason, James W., 950 Reed, William F., 951 Rees, Washington T., 83 Reese, Purdy M., 746 Reinkens, Ernst, 877 Rellick, Andrew, 477 Rhoads, Paul O., 698 Richards, Clarence E., 163 Richter, Henry, 800 Riebel, Charles, 376 Righter, William, 310 Riley, Samuel, 969 Riordan, George, 320 Ritter, Augustus S., 877 Roach, Perry A., 886 Roberts, Daniel F., 878 Roberts, Daniel O .. 183 Roberts, John G., 781 Roberts, William M., 183 Robinson, Stillman W., 520 Rochelle, Winfield S., 169 Rogers & Rogers, 577. . Ross, Courtland, 261 Ross, James, 593 Ross, Thomas R., 528 Rubrecht, Franklin, 209 Ryan, Daniel J., 200
Sanderson, Winslow F., 469 Sauer, Joseph, 428 Savage, James, 177 Schart, Matilda. 694 Schirner, Herman F., 370 Schlegel, Lewis, 988 Schleppi, Lewis, 822 Schoedinger, Frank O., 961 Schoedinger, Alice W., 167 Schott, George R., 227 Schueller, Erwin W., 153 Schueller, Orloff W., 987 Schwartz, George P., 255
Scofield, Asbury, 801
Scofield, Nathan A., 481 Scott, George, 680 Scott, Oscar W., 123 Seeley, David S., 411 Selbach, Charles, 327
Seymour, Augustus T., 158
Shade, Adin H., 144
Shattuck, Simon, 536
Shawan, Jacob A., 96
Shedd, Edmund E., 516
Sherman, Sylvester M., 922
Shoaf, Joseph, 865
Shocker, John M., 718
Shoemaker, Alvin M., 377
Shoemaker, Christopher, 689
Short, John, 664 Shriver, William J., 773
Sibel, Henry T., 421
Siebert, Amelia, 165
Siebert, Charles M., 167
Siebert. Henry L., 164
Siebert, Louis, 122
Siebert, Wilbur H., 298
Siegel, Ferdinand, 374
Simonton, William D., 171
Simonton, William H., 548
Sinclair, Richard, 285
Sinks, Frederick N., 947
Slyh, Daniel M., 845
Slyh, Henry C., 300
Slyh, Jacob E., 843
Slyh, John W., 362
Smiley, David D., 799
Smith, David, 18
Smith, Eldon F., 358
Smith, Emery J., 77
Smith, Jasper, 777 Smith, Lemuel, 653
Smith, Nathaniel, 490
Smith, Samuel G., 984
Smith, William B., 358
Souder, Serenus S., 952
Sowers, Daniel H., 291
Stagg, George W., 530 Stanberry, Henry, 23 Starling, Lyne, 12
Steickley, H. G., 631
Stellhorn, Frederick W., 568 Stelzer, John, 466 Stephens, Adam, 112
Stephens, Luther P., 519
Stewart, Emily, 103 Stinemetz, James, 709 Stombaugh, Frederick, 958
Strain, Harrison E., 706 Strait, Whitney, 938 Straub, Andrew, 695
Strickler, William, 647 Sullivant, Lucas, 13 Summy, David R., 328 Swartz, Samuel J., 623 Swagler, Sarah J., 860 Swayne, Noah H., 23
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Swickard, Frederick, 914 Swickard, John W., 946 Swickard, Noah, 945 Swickard, Peter, 272 Swisher, Charles C., 124 Swonger, William M., 820
Taft, Daniel H., 135 Taylor, Alfred, 744 Taylor, David, 325 Taylor, Edward L., Sr., 425 Taylor, Edward L., Jr., 625 Taylor, Henry M., 888
Taylor, Lorenzo, 74 Taylor, Reuben, 724 Tharp, William, 762
Thoman, Arthur A., 899 Thomas, Edward B., 511 Thomas, James J., 1004 Thomas, Morgan J., 332
Thomas, Wray, 387
Thompson, Elmer E., 1006 Thompson, James G. 715 Thompson, Joseph C., 713
Thompson, Robert, 992 Thompson, William H., 297
Thompson, William O., 64 Thurman, Allen G., 25 Tidd, Everett T., 60 Tilton, James J., 662 Tinnapple, Jacob, 784 Tipton, Jonathan, 536 Tipton, Joseph W., 202 Titus, Charles A., 418 Towns, William L., 927 Townsend, Stephen, 805 Trish, Adam, 601 Trumbo, Jacob H., 944 Tuller, Ele W., 832 Turner, Charles E., 607 Turney, Charles F., 413 Turpie, William, 710
Tusing, Clinton W., 215 Tusing, George N., 456 Tusing, Leroy W., 333
Vance, Clinton H., 939 Vance, Edward P .. 303 Vance, Margaret J., 388 Van Schoyck. David R., 346 Virden, Milton H., 851
Walcutt, Absalom M., 629 Walcutt, Charles C., 26 Walker, James M., 385 Wall, William, 514 Walton, Jesse, 403 Walton, Randolph W., 590 Wanamaker, William H., 311 WVare, Valverda A. P., 890 Warner, John, 609
Wasson, John H., 323 Waterman, Frederick, 712 Waterman, George A., Sr., 148. Watkins, Quincy A., 885 Watt, George, 253
Watts, Albert, 532 Watts, William, 85 Weber, Frederick, 278 Weber, Henry A., 655 Weibling, Jacob M., 230
Westervelt, Charles E., 893
Westervelt, H. Douglas, 646
Westervelt, Howard B., 889
Westervelt, Mathew, 892
Westervelt, William, 644
Westervelt, William A., 741 Wetmore, Charles H., 997
Weygandt, Daniel, 649
Wharton, Mary M., 296
Whayman, Horace W., 896
Wheeler, Benjamin G., 288
Wheeler, George F., 696
Whip, George P., 770 Whitaker, Emanuel, 743
White, Emerson E., 34
White, Will S., 959
Wickham, Joseph W., 909
Wiechers, Frederick W. C., 913
Wilcox Tracey, 461
Williams, Benjamin F., 179
Williams, Curtis C., 80
Williams, Henry A., 515
Williams, Neville, 145
Williams, William C., 999 Wilson, William A., 868
Wing, Frederick F., 811 Winterringer, Frank G., 965
Winters, Martin A., 430
Wisler, Andrew C., 699
WViswell, John L. B., 651
Witteler, Anton, 880
Wolf, Charles G., 79
Wolfe, Albertus C., 501
Woodbury, William B., 263
Woodruff, Elmer W., 94
Woodruff, Lafayette, 563
Woodruff, Norman, 91
Worthington, Charles E., 351
Worthington, Clark, 70
Wright, G. A., 500
Wright, John T., 256.
Wright, Joseph, 67 Wright, Samuel P., 67
Yeager, Peter, 628 Youmans, Thomas G., 419
Zellers, Isaac 989 Zimmer, Frank A., 882 Zirkel, Julius, 341 Zuber, John, 150
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
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THE CITY OF COLUMBUS AND FRANKLIN COUNTY,
OHIO.
POSTHUMOUS BIOGRAPHY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY.
HE responsibility of preparing a preface to the introductory chapter of the posthumous biographical history of Franklin county which the publishers of this work have assigned to me is a duty the performance of which I approach with diffidence and distrust. The numerous obstacles necessarily incident to the collection of miscellaneous facts insepar- ably connected with the life and history of various individuals are of difficult comprehension to those who have had but little or no experience in
this respect. It should be a duty paramount to all others with every biographer to guard against error which may mislead and misstatement which may disparage the life or character of his subject. Many or most of the subjects whose sketches are embraced in this chapter have been dead for many years. Some of them died perhaps beyond the recollection of but few who are living to-day. The source of information concern- ing them and their life work and history-to the writer-has been recourse to the recollection and memory of those who yet live in the community, and to periodical publications at different times and in various forms, which are necessarily subject to the inaccuracy and uncertainty which the lapse of time is so likely to produce.
In the portrayal of historical facts pertaining to the various subjects whose biographies are here given, the writer has not upon the one hand sought unduly to magnify the achievements, or embellish the character with fulsome praise or flattery, or upon the other to detract a scintilla of merit, or pluck a single flower from the garland which adorns the brow of these venerable men whose zealous lives and sturdy co-operation for the welfare of their
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adopted county is so intimately blended and inseparably connected with the early and material history of their pioneer home.
Dr. Lincoln Goodale was a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was born February 25, 1782. His father, Nathan Goodale, was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and a few years subsequently to its close emigrated to Ohio and located at Marietta in the year 1788. Here he remained until 1794, when he moved to Belpre, fourteen miles below, on the Ohio river, and opposite the "classic isle" of Blamerhassett, a spot of ground rendered forever famous by the exploit of Aaron Burr in the year 1806, together with the graphic description of, and touching allusion to, the same by the distinguished priest, William Wirt, in the celebrated and sensational trial of Burr on a charge of treason before Chief Justice Marshall at Richmond, Virginia, in the following year.
Mr. Goodale had scarcely lived a year in Belpre when he was captured by a band of Indians who at that early day infested the neighborhood, and was taken to Sandusky, Ohio, where he died in captivity a few years after- ward. Thus at twelve years of age our subject found himself alone and friendless in a region of country affording but few opportunities for advance- ment or promotion for a youth so early in life cast upon his own ingenuity of resource to solve the problem which was to contribute in no small degree to the success which crowned the subsequent years of his life. Selecting medi- cine as a profession, he began a course of study at Belpre, and in 1805 came to Franklinton (now a suburb of Columbus), where he commenced the reg- ular practice of his chosen profession. Here he continued to live until he moved to Columbus in 1814, and embarked in the business of general mer- chandising and land speculation. This venture proved eminently successful and resulted in the accumulation of a large fortune during a period of thirty years in which he was engaged in it. He was liberal, generous and phil- anthropic. He was particularly attached to the home of his adoption, and his love for Columbus was munificently attested in after years by a donation to the city of an extensive plat of ground comprising forty acres dedicated to the uses and purposes of a public park, which bears his name. The park is situated in a beautiful and fashionable part of the city, and has been appro- priately and handsomely adorned with shade and ornamental trees and shrubs and flowers of various kinds, together with numerous carriage drives. A handsome bust of the donor in bronze presents itself to view near the main entrance supported by a granite monolith. Though Dr. Goodale has been dead for more than thirty years, his many virtues and liberal deeds still linger in the fond recollection of many persons who have been the recipients of his generous bounty, while the city of Columbus cherishes him as one of her greatest benefactors.
Philo Hopkins Olmsted was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, the 26th of February. 1793. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and bore upon his person to the time of his death the evidence of many hard-fought
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battles. He left his New England home for the "far west," as Ohio was then called, in the fall of 1808, and arrived at what is now known as Blendon Four Corners about the middle of the following December, the journey requir- ing about six weeks. On the journey from Connecticut to Ohio the crossing of rivers, and points at the crossing were as follows: The North river at Newburg, New York; the Delaware river at Easton, Pennsylvania; the Sus- quehanna river at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the Ohio river at Wells- burg, West Virginia.
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