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MEMORIAL RECORD
OF THE
COUNTIES
.. OF . .
Delaware, Union and Morrow,
OHIO.
1 ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY,
1895.
1217060 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
A
Adams, C. B. 349
Adams, Ziba. 492
Amrin, Henry 211
Andrews, Bertrand.
456
Asman, J. C 126
B
Baker, H. L. 47
Bales, Walter W 196
Bales, William W 193
Banker, A. L. 370
Barry, J. W. 282
Barry, Y. P. 496
Bartlett, Henry. 254
Bartlett, R. F ..
49
Bashford, J. W
29
Beacom, Matthew
307
Beatty, R. A. 96
Bell, G. W
179
Benedict, Aaron,
348
Benedict, Martin
158
Curl, F. M. 345
Curl, W. H .. 245
Curtis, Presley 172
Cutler, James. ¥460
D
Dalrymple, C. L. 487
Dart, J. B. 421
Davis, C. E 403
Davis, J. H. 484
Davis, Joseph, Jr. 112
Davis, Michael. 177
Davis, W. F 151
Davis, W. S.
114
Dean, A. H.
279
Deets, George.
298
Demuth, Samuel 268
Denman, William. 94
Denton, G. R. 224
Deposit Banking Company. 418
De Witt, Hiram.
217
Dickey, Jabez. 497
Donavin, J. W 1
Duncan, T. E 145
E
Edwards, Henry 246
Edwards, H. H.
325
Edwards, John .. 325
Edwards, Lewis 500
Edwards, Rosel. 139
Evans, L. H.
231
F
Fay, D. C. 123
Field, Marshall. 342
Finch, John. 288
Finley, J. E 113
Fleckner, H 238
Fleming, Benjamin 351
Fleming James 396
Fleming, Nelson 94
Fleming, Siuney 276
Fowler, S. W ..
203
Freshwater, B. F.
267
Fulton, James 346
G
Gabriel, J. J .. 269
Gage, William F 308
Gallant, J. W. 310
Gano, Mahlon. 201
Gardner, A. M. 373
Gardner, John. 371
Gardner, R. B. 260
Gardner, Washington. 329
Genier, Abner. 469
Gillespie, J. H. 394
Goodwin, A. H. 263
Gordon, A. J.
334
Gordon, T. F. 163
Gorsuch, J. E. 297
Gorsuch, Noah 492
Gorsuch, Samuel. 279
Gosnell, J. N. 208
Graham, John
473
Granger, George
159
Gray, E. G .. 403
Griffith, J. E. 110
Griffith, J. H ..
337
Griffith, T. H 337
Griffith, T. R .. 79
Griswold, B. H. B 108
Grove, J. G. 88
Groves, Joseph. 225
Greiner & Shirk 314
Chapman, C. S. 391
Chidester, C. W. 284
Clark, Henry 350
Clark, Shepherd. 75
Cole, P. B. 377
Comins, A. B. 190
Condit, E. J. 271
Condit, L. S. 138
Conklin, E. M 357
Conner, T. J 450
Coomer, D. G 275
Cowgill, D. E. 463
Cowles, G. E. 493 89
Cox, Robert J.
Crane, Elbert.
154
Cranston, Peleg
265
Cratty, D. G.
444
Cross, J. W.
118
Culbertson, J. A.
445
Culbertson, S. D. 297
Culver, H. S 410
Culver, J. W. 259
Cunard, L. M 168
Curl, E. S. 259
Bennett, Samuel 207
Benson, L. L. 45
Bigelow, A. R. 176
Blackledge, Robert. 302
Blayney, William B 481
Boerger, J. L. 360
Bolinger, G. W
415
Brodrick, Isaac.
90
Brodrick, J. M.
60
Brodrick, S. J
116
Brown, D. W.
424
Brown, E. P.
252
Brundige, William 102
Buck, H. E
63
Buck, J. T.
467
Budd, John. 493
Burkam, Stephen. 100
C
Cady, P. R. 385
Caris, M. W. 311
Carpenter, Rufus. 153
Caryl, William S. 344
Caton, Andrew. 420
Chamberlin, C H. 183
Greiner, J. W.
314
Guthrie, J. C.
397
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Newcomer, J. K 68
Newson, A. B. 164
Newson, John. 148
Nicholson, Wi
303
0
O'Kane, T. C. 365
Olds, James. 185
Osborn, J. H. 220
Osborn, Win. N 486
Ousey, James
121
Henderson, D. H
439
Henderson, D. W.
6
Lincoln, O. E 86
P
Pattan, Wm. 371
Paul, C. B 57
Paul, E, N. 299
Peck, J. S. 191
Perfect, Leroy 409
Perkins, Peter. 284
Phillips, Marcus. 230
Piersol, George. 434
Piper, L .. 281
Pollock, G. F
414
Poppleton, E. F.
363
Porter, E. W. 291
Porter, H. W 167
Porter, J. L. 70
Pringle, J. M 203
Pugh, J. W.
369
R
Ream, G. W. 181
Reed, Norton 457
Reed, Thomas 122
Reyner, J. R .. 256
Reyner, Theodore. 247
105
Ritchie, Jerome.
216
Robinson, A. B
97
Robinson, J. W.
18
Jones, G. W
67
Jones, H. D
1.52
Jones. J. S.
9
Metzger, C. N
139
Rowe, William .. 490
Rowland, Robert. 501
Ruhlman. G. H 219
Russell, C. L
406
K
Mills Bros. 382
Mills, C. D. 431
Mitchell. G. D
215
Kennedy, J. M
123
Moody. J. M 272
Moore. S. A. 487
Morey, Abraham 464
Morse, J. P 226
Mosher, R. F 380
Shaw, Jonathan, Jr 300
Shelton & Ford. 3.59
Shelton. C. D 359
Shirk, H. A. 314
Shirk, J. H. 315
Shoemaker, Adam 277
Shoemaker, Frank. 389
Shoemaker, J. A. 388
Needels, J. C. 491 Shoemaker, M. B .. 278
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Mann, S. J. 343
Marriott, F. M.
35
Martin. Benj
210
Ingalls, P. P.
324
Inskeep, H. S. 476
Mathews, W. D 3.55
Maxwell, Johnson 423
McAdow, O. W 299
McCabe, L. D. 28
MeCloud, J. B 354
Jackson. J. H. 440
James, L. W. 485
Jarvis, Emanuel 471
M Cracken. John
244
Jenkins, C. W. 156
Jewell, W. S 229
McGinnis, J. S. .
336
McIlroy. Lafayette
438
Johnson, H. A
416
McMaster, W. A
250
Jones, A. H.
165
McNeil, S. A McPeck, G. M.
453
Rogers, H. G. 248
Rosevelt, Solomon 326
Michael, G. W 150
117
Miller, W. D. 135
Milligan. Wmn. 214
S
Salisbury, J. A. 436
Semans, W. M. and E. M. 482
Shaw, A. H. 353
Shaw, Evan 386
Shaw, H. H. 425
King, W. A 419
King, William. 305
Kingman, Orman 330
Klotz, R. B. 152
Kollefrath. A. H 222
Kratt. Adam. 390
Kreis, Daniel. 405
Kritline, J. P 127
Kyle, D. H. 137
Laird, Moses 80
Lane, Jolin.
140
Hamilton, G. B. 289
Layman, L. N. 150
Hamilton, H. C. 234
Levering, R. B3 312
Harlan, H. HI. 379
Lewis, James. 182
Lewis, Joseph 306
Harter, A. J ..
495
Lewis, L. P.
274
Hatch, Enos
176
Lewis, Samuel
53
Hathaway. E.
73
Liggett, N. E
103
Heller. E. M. .
441
Lincoln, C. P. 165
Lincoln, D. H. 368
Henderson, W. C.
82
Linn, A 493
Herd, Thomas
335
Lockwood, D. B. 446
Hildreth, David.
451
Hill, Waterman
54
Hobson. Joseph.
407
Lowther, W. M.
200
Hoffmire, S
374
Luellen, E. 238
Lupton, L. S 234
Lytle, J. R
383
Howard, WI
155
Hughs, D. E ..
442
Hull, Benjamin
328
Hunt, M. A.
500
Main, A. E 229
Main, J. C.
286
Ingalls, Joseph B 324
J
Jackson, J. B. 258
McCloud, S. N 458
McCracken, C. 280
McCracken, J E. 32
221
Rodgers, J. E.
373
Jones, J. W.
437
Jones, T. C. 477
Julian, Aaron
402
Kehrwecker, J. G 292
Kennedy, H. C. 273 Moodie, J. A.
429
Kilgore, S. D 187
Kinikin, Minerva. 233
Kinkade Family 394
Mullen, T. L 136
Myers, J. H. 482
N
Neal, C. H. 247
Neal, E. E. 243
Lockwood. J. W 119
Lower, H. J. 112
Holloway, George 376
Howard, Nathan.
161
M
Mather, E. L
218
Merrick, Frederick 14
Miller, J. B.
Rhoades, W. W
Jolinson, Denison. 495
Hale, Olford. 338
Ilalzmiller, L. H 435
Harraman, W 362
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Sidebottomn, W. H. 448
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Wood, J. D 253
Wood, L. A. 436
Singer, G. S. 375
Wood, Richard. 261
Wood, T. A. 387
Woods, J. F. 140
Worden, Richard. 426
Wright, J. N. 443
Wurtsbaugh, T. F. 427
Smith, J. O.
257
W
Snider, Philip. 11
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Young, W. B.
285
Zimmerman, C. H. 262
Zwerner, J. F
469
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Amrin, Henry 211
Amrin, Mrs. Henry 211
Residence. . 213
Bales, William W. 193
Bartlett, Robert F
49
Davis, Michael. 177
Davis, Mrs. Michael 177
Davis, W. S. 114
Donavin, J. W 1
Duncan, T. E. 145
Henderson, W. C. 82
Howard, Nathan 161
Thornton, Z. R.
412
Tilton, J. W.
317
Timmons, Calvin
447
Turner, E. B
95
Wills, W. H. 430
Wolfley, J. L
84
Robinson, J. W. 18
Southard, J. Q. . 130
Venneman, J. G 241
Ulry, Daniel. 496 Wood, G. J 339
Zimmerman, C. H. 262
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Southard, J. Q. 130
Welch, F. A. 144
Spearman, John 78
205
Spicer, H. V. 295
Staley, William
433 40
Whipple, Lewis.
232
Stanley, F. C.
White, J. D.
Stark, Cepter. 249 293 174
Stickney, F. A.
494
White, W. F.
64
Stillings, William
251
Stratton, W. W 298
Swisher, A. B. 129
Whitney, A. J ..
26
Wiechers, F. W. C.
48
Wight, W. E.
347
Wilcox, Robert. 228
Wilcox, S. M. 266
Wiles, C. W 287
Willey, S ..
499
Thompson, F. A. 408
Williams, S. F.
267
Williams, W. G 15
Williamson, S 490
Willis, R. K. 416
Jones, George W 67
Marriott, F. M. 35
Willits, William 309
Morse, J. P 226
Robinson, A. B 97
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Van Briminer, C. L. 240
Van Tassel, A 494
Vaughan, E. J. 189
Slough, C. J 454
Smart, A. R.
352
Vaughan, J. W. 198
Smith, C. W
395
Vaughan, W. P 189
Smith, H. E
399
Venneman, J. G. 241
Snodgrass, William G 400
Watson, Joseph 452
Snuffin, Levi 92
Watts, J. W. 468
Southard, J. M. 23
Wear, Noble 426
Welch, H. A. 419
Westbrook, A. E
White, W. W.
294
Whitney, A. A.
405
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Taber, Williamn 196
Talmage, D. S. 106
Taylor, J. B. 320
Thompson, L. 120
Thomson, A. 43
Willits, C. N. 255
Wolfley, S. D 372
Wood, A. S. 204
Simpson, J. R. 304
Singer, W. H. 142
White, T. S.
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DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO.
J OHN W. DONAVIN, deceased, for- merly proprietor of the Hotel Dona- vin, Delaware, was born in Ship- pensburg, Cumberland county, Penn- sylvania, on the 18th day of February, 1833, and died in Delaware, Ohio, June 28, 1893, in the sixty-first year of his age. He was the second son of Levi K. Donavin and Mary K. Donavin, née McConnell. His parents were born in the same village, his father in 1799, and his mother in 1800. His father died in 1882 in Delaware, and his mother passed away August 18, 1894, in her ninety-fourth year.
J. W. Donavin's forefathers came from the north of Ireland, counties Tyrone, Arm- agh and Down. The McConnells emigrated to the United States in 1713, spent a few years in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, and then crossed the Susquehanna river, and settled on a tract of land containing four thousand four hundred acres, lying near the Conojoquimet creek, forty miles west of the Susquehanna river. The settlement of the region was very sparse at that day, and was made up principally of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, of which the head of this branch of the McConnell family, David Mc- Connell, was a prominent and devoted
member. On the banks of the creek run- ning through his estate, he erected a flour- ing mill, in the year 1724, which was the first structure of the kind in that section of the Cumberland valley. He became a prominent and influential member of society and prospered in worldly as well as in spir- itual affairs. David McConnell was twice married. Mr. Donavin's mother was a de- scendant of the third son of the second mar- riage. Her father's father was William Mc- Connell, and her father bore the same name.
Two of the sons of William McConnell, Sr., were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. William McConnell, Jr. (Mary McConnell's father), was too young to enter the service. When the patriotic army was lying at Val- ley Forge in the winter of 1777, William McConnell, Sr., determined to visit the army that he might see his sons. Accord- ingly he put twenty-one barrels of flour into a large English wagon-bed (which he had imported) and started for Valley Forge, over a hundred miles distant. The weather was very severe, snow and intense cold prevail- ing. He delivered the flour and was given a receipt therefor, the flour being valued at £20 ($100) per barrel. When he met the
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younger of his two sons in camp, he found him marking the snow with blood from his feet. The father took the boots from his own feet, and placed them on those of his suffering boy. Tying up his own feet with pieces of blankets, he started with his six- horse team for home. On reaching Harris- burg he was taken with the pleurisy, and runners were dispatched to carry the news of his illness to his wife, forty miles west. On hearing of the distress of her husband, the wife took her baby girl in her arms, got into the saddle and started for Harrisburg in a driving rain storm. On reaching the river the waters were so high that she was compelled to remain three days on the west bank, unable to communicate with Harris- burg. On the fourth day she rode upon a flat-boat and was ferried across the river. As she rode up the street of the town, she met a funeral. Stopping the driver of the hearse she inquired, "Whose body does that coffin contain ?" The driver replied, "Will- iam McConnell's !" She turned her horse's head and took position immediately behind the hearse, and, with her baby girl asleep in her arms, followed the body of her hus- band to the grave and saw him buried. She did not long survive her husband, but within two years died, leaving three sons and a daughter. She was of the family " McCal- lister."
In the early forties a young man, a clerk in the State Auditor's Department of Penn- sylvania, with a penchant for delving into musty records, discovered an open account in the books of the Colonial period, unset- tled, in favor of William McConnell, amount- ing to $2, 100, for twenty-one barrels of flour delivered to the Pennsylvania troops at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777. The attention of J. W. Donavin's father was
called to this by the young clerk of the aud- itor's office, and Mr. Donavin, accompanied by the clerk, called on his father-in-law. The old gentleman was sitting on his front porch when the young clerk told him of his discovery, at the close of which Mr. Mc- Connell said, "O, yes; that twenty-one barrels of flour marks an important incident in the history of my family-my father's death. I have the receipt in iny secretary which was given for that load of flour." Rising from his seat he walked into his library and in a few minutes returned with the receipt. On learning of the incident, the member of the legislature from Cumberland called on Mr. McConnell and induced him to visit Harrisburg. The old gentleman was introduced to the House and the Senate. Im- mediately a bill was introduced directing the Auditor of State to draw his warrant for $2, 100 in favor of William McConnell in payment for that flour. The rules were sus- pended and the law enacted, so that Mr. McConnell returned to his home in the eve- ning with the $2, 100 in his pocket.
The Donavin family came from county Armagh. They were landed gentry. John, the grandfather of J. W. Donavin, got mixed up in the Irish rebellion of 1797-8, and was compelled to leave the country. He arrived at Philadelphia in March, 1798, but remained in the city but a day or two, going to a point in Lancaster county, where he lived a short time and where he married Jane McElroy, who had accompanied to America her brother, Rev. William McEl- roy, an ordained priest of the Church of England, but who had quit the established church and was a follower of John Wesley. John Donavin had been converted when a boy of sixteen, under the immediate preach- ing of the great Wesley, and was personally
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acquainted with the brothers, John and Charles. He accompanied Mr. Wesley on one of his trips through Ireland, and was full of sweet reminiscences of the founder of Methodism. He erected the first log church in which the Methodists worshiped in Ship- pensburg. He was full of piety and zeal, and his home was the home of the itinerant.
L. K. Donavin, J. W.'s father, was a highly honored citizen of the people with whom he was reared, sharing in the honors of local government, and was Postmaster of the town during the administration of. James K. Polk. For years he was the foremost Methodist of Cumberland valley, and enter- tained the pastors, from the bishops to the humblest circuit riders. He spent the last twelve years of his life in Delaware, where he died in 1882.
It was from this sterling stock that John W. Donavin sprung. He had all the char- acteristics, strong qualities, and peculiar traits which distinguish the Scotch-Irish race. He was honest in all things, small as well as large, and in his dealings and inter- course with his fellow men, was innately prompted to justice; was fervent in his at- tachments, persevering in his intents, full of conscience, the approval of which he de- manded for every action of his life, was fast in his friendships, loving and lovable, gentle and sympathetic, the latter always accom- panied when necessary by tangible evidence of sincerity ; was courageous without bravado, and tender without weakness. He was a complete exemplification of the lines,
" The bravest are the tenderest, The loving are the daring."
John W. Donavin was a successful man in business. From his early youth he mani- fested a disposition for business pursuits. At the age of ten he insisted on his father let-
ting him have money with which to make money. He was not in love with books, and attendance at school was akin to pun- ishment. He acquired his lessons easily and rapidly, but still the work was irksome. He was always glad when Saturday came, and the preceding days of the week were employed in devising some matter of trade or pursuit whereby he could make money on Saturday. At the age of twelve he was in the live-stock and butchering business. His native town was located on the principal highway between the East and the West, and daily droves of swine, sheep and cattle passed through it. He would go out a mile or two on the road and meet the droves, with the hope of finding some animal that was lame or suffering from some temporary injury which care and attention would soon restore, and which could be bought at a figure much below its real value as a well animal. He secured pasture lots, and it was no unusual thing to see a number of crippled animals corraled and under his care. In this way he made money. When about seventeen years of age he went into his father's hat and cap store as a salesman. In another part of the town his father had a cigar manufactory. John was not long in picking up the business, and in a brief time he had a bench erected back of the counter in the hat and cap store, on which he rolled cigars. He was soon an expert cigar-maker. During these years and up to his leaving home, his pleasures were found in music and horseback riding. As a vocalist he excelled all other persons in the village. He was passionately fond of it, and selecting three companions he formed a quartet which was known from the Shenandoah to the Poto- mac. He was the best horseman in the valley, and was always in possession of a
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saddle horse which obeyed not merely his command, but the nod of his head or the wave of his hand.
In 1853 he came West, stopping briefly at a number of points until he reached Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio. There his necessities compelled him to come to a per- manent halt. He had but sixteen cents in his pocket. He sought work and found it in a woolen mill. He was unfamiliar with the work and about a week after his first employment he came near severing the fingers of his left hand while he operated a large pair of shears, which moved by ma- chinery. His escape from the accident startled him. He held up his hand and soliloquized, " On you and your mate large- ly depend my success in life. Some other body may take the hazard of losing his fingers : I will not." He.stopped the ma- chinery, walked to the office and remarked, "I have resigned," assigning the reason for doing so. He found employment in a cigar manufactory run by Reuben Kendrick. In a brief time Kendrick and he became part- ners and the business was greatly enlarged. Mr. Donavin took charge of the sale depart- ment, and with a span of horses and a wagon he sold the entire out-put, covering all of northern. Ohio and southern Michi- gan. In 1855 he returned to Shippensburg and married Laura C. Trone, who survives him. She was his boyhood's sweetheart and his manhood's wife, and in the thirty- nine years of their married life he never had a disloyal thought. In 1856 he retired from the firm of Kendrick & Donavin.
The Fremont campaign was on that year. There was a grand rally of Republi- cans in Mt. Vernon. Mr. Donavin had been a Democrat, but a visit to the valley of Vir- ginia, where he witnessed slavery as it was,
changed all his politics. He returned to his home an abolitionist. When the Re- publican party was formed he united him- self to it. On the morning of the grand Re- publican rally, Mt. Vernon was filled with people. A man was present endeavoring to sell at a dollar a copy a large and well bound life of Fremont, which also contained fifty campaign songs. The man was doing but little business. Mr. Donavin stepped up to him saying, "Hand me one of those books, and I will show you how to sell them." He opened the volume and the first song was the tune, "Do they miss me at home." Turning a box over he jumped on top of it and in a voice " sweet as silver bells" he commenced singing. In a few minutes several thousand people had gath- ered around him, and in less than one hour the stock of books was all sold. Among those who gathered to listen was George B. Potwin, the largest wholesale and retail dealer in groceries in the town. As Mr. Donavin stepped from the box, Potwin came up and said, "Donavin, what are you engaged in?" "Selling the life of Fre- mont," he replied with a laugh. "When does your engagement close ?" "To-mor- row after the speaking at Fredericktown." " Well," remarked Potwin, "I need you in my business." "I'll call on you to-morrow night," replied Mr. Donavin. On that night business arrangements were made between the two men, which lasted until within a few days of the death of Mr. Potwin, first as head clerk, then as partner and conductor of the retail store, and afterward, in the spring of 1864, in the establishment of a branch store in Delaware with Mr. Donavin in control.
In 1873, at the instance of the officers of the Freedmen's Bureau of the Methodist
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Episcopal Church, he went into the South- ern States and organized a troupe of colored Jubilee Singers to raise money to complete the Central Tennessee College buildings at Nashville. The troupe organized and drilled, he brought it North and commenced a most successful tour. "Donavin's Original Ten- nesseeans" became famous throughout all the land. He sent $18,000 to the college, which completed the college buildings, and in May, 1876, this work was accomplished; and the inembers of the troupe being anx- ious to continue their pursuit; Mr. Donavin reoganized them and conducted the concerts for his own benefit.
In 1882 he purchased a one-half inter- est in the American House property, and two years later, in conjunction with his sons, L. K. and George B. Donavin, he purchased the other half. In 1885 the building was thoroughly remodeled and greatly improved, and in August of that year, under the firm name of J. W. Donavin & Sons, it was opened for business under the name of "Ho- tel Donavin," with Mr. Donavin and his sons in charge. John W. Donavin was a "host" in the full meaning of the word. His aim was to make the hotel a home for the traveling public, and no man ever suc- ceeded better. He was unusually beloved by the traveling commercial life. When a guest who was a frequent visitor of the house entered and J. W. had not met him, the registry was scarcely completed when the question came, "Where is the old gen- tleman?" His guests were his friends, and many of them, not having heard of his death, when in answer to the almost invari- able inquiry they were informed that he was dead, manifested the most profound and tenderest sorrow, many of them weeping like children. His death was from apo-
plexy. Its suddenness shocked the com- munity. As the news spread rapidly through the town, it aroused the deepest sympathy in all hearts. His departure developed the beauty of his life. Scores of the poor who had been the recipients of his benevolence came to weep at his bier and mourn their loss. His left hand had not known what his right one had done, and death was nec- essary to prove the sweetness of his every- day walk. None mourned him more than the youth of the city. He had touched their lives and they were better and stronger that John W. Donavin had lived. Tele- grams and letters from all parts of the country came from traveling men, express- ing sorrow and sympathy, many of them assuring the family that their success in life was largely owing to the counsel and tender- ness they had received from him. He was an earnest, honest Republican, and though not given to seeking office, he was not averse to the appreciation of the confidence of his party friends. In 1887 he was Republican nominee for Senator in the district. His plurality in Delaware county was 1,056, while the normal plurality of his party was 350.
He was strong in his convictions, but was not intolerant. Was always firm in the defense of right, but there was no room in his heart for revenge. With him forgiveness was a cardinal virtue, and compassion and pity dwelt in him as constant guests. Flat- tery could not cajole him into compromise, nor power awe him into silence. All men were his brothers, when their cause was just, and all sufferings were his own when they arose from affliction, misfortune or dis- aster. It may be truly said that " he wept with those that wept, and rejoiced with those who rejoiced." He attracted the
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young who were struggling with the con- trary currents of life, as the sun lifts the flower which the storm has prostrated. Young people loved him because they felt that his strong arins were ready to sustain them. He was always cheerful, Loving God, and trusting to the uttermost in the saving power of the "Man of Sorrows," there was no moment of his life when he was not ready to attest the cause of the Master. On one occasion when surrounded by friends who were rejoicing over a politi- cal victory, he was urged to sing a song. He complied, and the song was,
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