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ple of Canada to the British government, which appeared to him so " wholesome and satisfac- tory." This estate of Lord Dufferin was in Down county, Ireland. When Mr. Young was twelve years old his parents brought him to this country, and he was educated in the com- mon schools of New York city. When he was sixteen years old he enlisted in the regular army, serving in all ten years. At the expira- tion of his enlistment he visited the home of his parents, in the northern part of Pennsyl- vania, on one of the upper tributaries of the Susquehanna river, where he engaged in the business of country merchant until 1859, when he removed to Cincinnati, and took charge of the house of refuge, a youths' reformatory in- stitution, which position he retained until the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion. Having, while in the regular army, spent sev- eral years among the people of the south, he knew that they had determined upon war, and in March, 1861, he wrote to Gen. Scott, whom he personally knew, offering to assist in organ- izing volunteers for the defense of the govern- ment. Gen. Scott thanked him for his loyalty, but expressed his incredulity as to the southern people entertaining any such purpose.
In August, 1861, Mr. Young was commis- sioned a captain in Gen. Fremont's body guard, serving in that capacity until the following January, when that organization was disbanded by Gen. Halleck. For some months after- ward Capt. Young was engaged in editing a democratic paper in Sidney, Ohio, in which he severely condemned the indecision manifested in the conduct of the war. In August, 1862, he was appointed to raise a company for the . One Hundred and Eighteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and became the first major of the regiment. In February, 1863, he was promoted to lientenant-colonel, and com- manded his regiment in the Tennessee cam- paign. In April, 1864, he was commissioned
colonel of his regiment and served as such until the 4th of September following, when he was honorably discharged on account of phys- ical disability resulting from his services and exposures in the field. At the battle of Re- saca, Ga., Col. Young led the first charge on the enemy's works, the severity of the contest being indicated by the fact that he lost 116 men out of 270 engaged. For this and other acts of bravery the president brevetted him brigadier-general of volunteers, March, 13, 1865.
Upon leaving the service he engaged in the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1865, being in the same month appointed assistant city auditor of Cincinnati. In Oc- tober, 1865, he was elected to the Ohio house of representatives for Hamilton county, and in December, 1868, was appointed, by President Johnson, supervisor of internal revenue for the southern district of Ohio. This position he re- signed at the end of one year. For some time afterward he was engaged in the purchase and sale of real estate, and in 1871 was the only republican elected to the state senate from Hamilton county. In 1873 he formed a law partnership with Gen. H. B. Banning and Jacob McGarry, and in 1875 he was elected lieutenant-governor. Upon the resignation of Gov. Hayes he became governor, serving the remainder of the term. In 1878 he was elected to congress by the republicans of the second dis- trict, and died July 19, 1888, thoroughly admired for his integrity of character and manliness.
ICHARD M. BISHOP, the twenty- sixth governor of Ohio, was born No- vember 4, 1812, in Fleming county, Ky. His parents, who were of Ger. man and English lineage, removed from Vir- ginia in 18oc. They were members of the regular Baptist church, of which he also be came a member in 1828.
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At this time the Baptist churches in Ken- tucky were greatly excited in consequence of the criticisms made by Mr. Campbell, and his co-laborers, upon the religious corruption of the age. This excitement continued to in- crease in the immediate neighborhood of the Bishop family until 1832, when they and others were excluded from the Baptist church on account of " Campbellite heresy." Since then Mr. Bishop has been associated with the church of the Disciples or Christians. Mr. Bishop began his business career in Flem- ing county, Ky., at the age of seventeen, and before he was twenty-one he became a part- ner in the store which he had entered as a clerk. From 1838 to 1841 he was engaged with his brother in the pork business, which proved unfortunate in consequence of the sud- den depression in prices, and the failure of the Mississippi banks, in which state they sold largely. They were compelled to suspend, but this temporary embarrassment did not dis- courage him, for he soon resumed business in the same place, where he continued until 1847. He then removed to Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where he established a branch house, his brother remaining at the old stand. In 1848 he removed to Cincinnati and commenced the wholesale grocery business under the style of Bishop, Wells & Co. This firin continued until 1855, when the business was reorganized and conducted under the firm name of R. M. Bishop & Co. The firm was composed of himself and three sons, and at one time did the largest business in the city, the sales amounting in some years to nearly $5,000,- 000. In April, 1857, he was nominated for council in the Second ward and was elected by a large majority. At the end of the second year he was elected presiding officer. In 1859 he was elected mayor of Cincinnati by a handsome majority, holding the same office until 1861, when he declined the renomination
tendered him by each of the political par- ties. In January, 1860, when the Union was threatened by the leaders of the Rebellion, the legislatures of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee visited Cincinnati to encourage each other to stand by the old flag. At a grand reception given them at Pike's opera house, Mayor Bishop delivered an address of welcome amid a storm of applause. In the September ensuing his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, visited Cincinnati at the in- vitation of the mayor and received from him a cordial welcome. In February, 1861, when President Lincoln was passing on his way to his inauguration through Cincinnati, he was received in a speech by the mayor. During his administration the laws were rigidly en- forced, of which the Sunday ordinance, and those against gambling houses, were notable examples. Liquor selling and various other forms of Sabbath desecration were in the main suppressed. He inaugurated, amid much op- position, most important reforms in the man- agement of the city prison, work-house and the police.
Mr. Bishop has become widely known for his liberality and devotion to the Christian church. From 1859 to 1867 he was president of the Ohio State Missionary society, and was the successor of the late Dr. Alexander Camp- bell in the presidency of the general Christian Missionary conference, which office he held until 1875. He was president of the board of curators of Kentucky university from its or- ganization until 1880, when he declined a re- election; he was also one of the curators of Bethany college; also for many years trustee of the McMicken university. He was director of the First National bank for many years, and of several other business enterprises, as well as philanthropic institutions. He was a member of the Ohio state constitutional con- vention held in 1873 and 1874, and was presi-
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dent of the great national commercial conven- tion held in Baltimore in 1871. He was one of the prime movers in that great enterprise, the Southern railway, the building of which he so successfully managed, having been a trustee from the beginning, and the laborious work of obtaining charters for the road is largely his.
In 1877 he was elected governor of Ohio by a majority of nearly 23,000 over the domi- nant party, and served two years with entire satisfaction to all parties. His first annual message was well received and complimented by the press generally. Upon his return to Cincinnati he was given a cordial and enthu- siastic reception at Lytle hall, where a large number of ladies and gentlemen had assembled to welcome him home. Since the expiration of his terin as governor he has been urged by his friends to accept the nomination for various important offices, but always declined.
Few men in the state can point to so many substantial benefits conferred upon society as the results of their single labors. Prompt de- cision, constant industry, sound judgment, and a desire to benefit his fellow-men, are his chief characteristics.
a HARLES FOSTER, twenty-seventh governor of Ohio elected by the peo- ple, was born in Seneca county, Ohio, April 12, 1828. His parents, Charles W. Foster and wife, the latter of whom was a daughter of John Crocker, were from Massa- chusetts, reaching Seneca county, Ohio, in 1827.
Charles Foster received only a common- school education, and went to Rome, now Fostoria, Ohio, when he was fourteen years old, where he was compelled to take charge of his father's store, and thus failed to secure a liberal education, which his father intended he
should receive, and for which he had prepared himself at the Norwalk seminary. His success in the management of the store was very marked, and he soon became sole manager. The town of Fostoria, named from the Foster family, was the result of the consolidation of Rome and Risdon, which lay but a mile or two apart. In 1870 Mr. Foster was induced to accept the nomination for congress at the hands of the republicans of his district, and he was elected by a majority of 776 over Hon. E. F. Dickinson. In 1872 he was again elected to congress by a majority of 726 over Rush R. Sloane. In 1874 he was elected by a majority of 159 over Hon. George E. Seney, and in 1876 he was elected by a majority of 271. In 1878, the democratic party having secured a majority of the state legislature, in order to defeat Mr. Foster most outrageously gerry- mandered his district, and he was defeated by a majority of 1,255. In 1879 he was elected governor of Ohio over Hon. Thomas Ewing, by a plurality of 17, 129, and in 1881 he was again elected, by a plurality of 24,309, over John W. Buchwalter.
Upon the death of the secretary of the United States treasury, William Windom, Mr. Foster was appointed his successor by Presi- dent Harrison, February 27, 1891, and served until the close of the Harrison administration, March 4, 1893. The successful adjustment of the four and one-half per cent. loan was one of the notable events of his first year's admin- istration of the treasury department of the government. Of the $50,869,200 of the four and one-half per cent. bonds, July 1, 1891, $25, 364, 500 were presented for continuance at two per cent., the rest being called in for re- demption. No other financial officer of the general government has ever negotiated a public loan at so low rate of interest. Since retiring from the national treasury, Mr. Foster has been engaged in arranging his own financial
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affairs, which were thrown into confusion, while he was in public office by those whom he had trusted.
EORGE HOADLY, who was the twenty-eighth governor of Ohio, was born in New Haven, Conn., July 31, 1826. He is the only son of George and Mary Ann (Woolsey) Hoadly. Mary Ann Woolsey was a daughter of William Walton and Elizabeth (Dwight) Woolsey of New York, and she was a great-granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards, the famous New England theologian. She was a niece of President Dwight of Yale college, and the eldest daughter in a family containing among its members President Wool- sey of Yale college. Theodore Winthrop was her . nephew and Sarah Woolsey, known in literature as "Susan Coolidge," her niece. George Hoadly, Sr., was at one time mayor of New Haven, Conn., removed in 1830 to Cleveland, Ohio, and resided there the re- mainder of his life, serving as mayor of that city five terms, from 1832 to 1837, and again one term, 1846-47.
George Hoadly, the subject of this sketch, received his preliminary education in Cleve- land, and when fourteen years old was sent to the Western Reserve college at Hudson, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1844. He then spent one year in the Harvard law school under the tuition of Judge Story and Prof. Simon Greenleaf, and after studied a year with Charles C. Convers, of Zanesville, Ohio, then removed to Cincinnati and entered the office of Chase & Ball as a student. He was admitted to practice in 1847 and in 1849 be- came a member of the firm of Chase, Ball & Hoadly, the senior member of which was Sal- mon P. Chase. In 1851 he was elected judge of the supreme court of Cincinnati, and in 1853 formed a co-partnership with Edward Mills.
In 1855-56 he was city solicitor of Cincinnati, and in 1859 succeeded Judge W. Y. Gholson as judge of the new superior court, holding this office uutil 1866, when he resigned, in order to form the firm of Hoadly, Jackson & Johnson. He was a member of the constitu- tional convention of 1873-74, and served as chairman of the committee on municipal cor- porations. For eighteen years he was profes- sor in the law school at Cincinnati, trustee of the university, and of the Cincinnati mu- seum. He was one of the counsel in behalf of the board of education in its famous case of resistance to the attempt to compel Bible reading in the public schools, in which the victory was with the board.
Originally a democrat, he left that party and became a republican on the question of slavery, but during the campaign of 1876 sup- ported Tilden as against Hayes. In 1877 he appeared as counsel before the electoral com- mission and argued in favor of the democratic electors from Florida and Oregon. In isso he was temporary chairman of the democratic national convention which nominated W. S. Hancock for president. In 1883 he was elected governor of Ohio, and in March, 1887, he removed to New York city, became the head of a law firm there, and has resided there ever since.
In 1851 he married. Mary Burnet Perry, third daughter of Capt. Samuel Perry, one of the earliest settlers of Cincinnati. He and his wife have had three children, viz: George, Laura and Edward Mills.
J OSEPH BENSON FORAKER, ex-gov- ernor of Ohio and United States senator, elect, was born near Rainsborough, Highland county, Ohio, July 5, 1846. His parents, who are still living, represent the
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agricultural class of the population of this conntry, and upon their farm he spent his car- Hier years.
When the war of the Rebellion broke out young Foraker enlisted in company A, Eighty- ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, being then but sixteen years of age. With this regi- ment he served until after the fall of Atlanta, at which the, by successive promotions, he had risen to the rank of first lientenant. Im- mediately after the fall of Atlanta he was detailed for service in the signal corps as a sig- nal officer on the staff of Maj .- Gen. Slocum, commanding the left wing of the army of Georgia. After the marches through Georgia and the Carolinas he was promoted brevet captain of United States volunteers, and as- signed to duty as aid-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Slocum, holding this position until he was nmstered ont of service at the close of the war.
Returning home and resuming his studies, he graduated from Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y., in 1869. To gain time lost while in the service of his country in the army he read law while attending the university, and was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati, October 14, 1869, and he at once began in that city the practice of his profession. He was married October 4, 1870, to Miss Bulia Bundy, a daugh- ter of Hon. H. S. Bundy, of Wellston, Ohio, and they have five children, two sons and three daughters.
In April, 1879, he was elected judge of the superior court of Cincinnati, Ohio, and held this position nntil May 1, 1882, when he re- signed on account of ill health. Recovering his health he resumed the practice of the law . in Cincinnati, and in 1883 was nominated for governor of Ohio, but was defeated by his op- ponent, Judge George Hoadly. In 1884 he was a delegate to the national convention of the republicans which met in Chicago, and as chairman of the Ohio delegation, placed Hon.
John Sherman in nomination before the con- vention for the presidency. In 1885 he was again a candidate for governor of Ohio, and this time was elected, defeating his former opponent, Judge Hoadly, and in 1887 he was re-elected governor of the state. In 1888 he was again a delegate to the republican national convention and was again chairman of the Ohio delegation, placing Hon. John Sherman again in nomination before the convention for the presidency of the United States. In 1889 he was again nominated for governor of Ohio, but through the persistent cry of " third term- ism " he was defeated by James E. Campbell.
In Jannary, 1892, he was a candidate for United States senator, receiving thirty-eight votes, but was defeated by Senator John Sher- man. This year he was a delegate at large to the national republican convention, which met at Minneapolis, serving in that body as chair- man of the committee on resolutions. The state convention held at Zanesville, May 28, 1895, unanimously endorsed him as the repub- lican candidate for United States senator to succeed Hon. Calvin S. Brice, whose term of office will expire March 4, 1897, and at the November election, 1895, a republican legisla- ture was chosen by a majority of nearly 100, - 000, which was practically instructed by the people to elect Mr. Foraker to the position named above. In obedience to these instruc- tions the legislature of the state, on January 14, 1896, elected Mr. Foraker United States senator from Ohio, for six years from March 4, 1897, by a majority, on joint ballot, of eighty-five, the majority in the senate being twenty-three, and in the house of representa- tives being sixty-two, the entire legislative ma- jority being, as stated, eighty-five. Mr. For- aker is, therefore, the people's choice for this high position, in which it is confidently pre- dicted he will confer honor on his native state, even as he has had honor conferred upon him.
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In his speech accepting the office Mr. Foraker used the following language:
"I go there (to the United States senate) as a republican. I belong to that party. 1 believe in that party. I believe in its past; I believe in its present; I believe in its future. I believe it the most acceptable agency we can command in the administration of national affairs. I believe it is better calculated than any other political organization to contribute to the strength, power, dignity, happiness and glory of the American people." After speak- ing in favor of the American marine interests and of the construction of the Nicaragua ca- nal he then referred to financial questions as follows: "I believe in bi-metallism. I be- lieve the world made a mistake when it de- inonetized silver. I sincerely hope some safe way may be found for the restoration of silver to its rightful place alongside of gold as a money of ultimate redemption. I shall favor every measure calculated in my judgment to bring about that result, subject always, how- ever, to the condition that it provides for the maintenance of the parity of the two metals."
J AMES EDWIN CAMPBELL, ex-gov- ernor of Ohio, was born in Middletown, Ohio, July 7, 1843. He is a son of Dr. Andrew and Lanra P. (Reynolds) Campbell, the former of Scotch and the latter of English descent. John P'. Reynolds, the father of Mrs. Lanra P. Campbell, was at one time a publisher of the state of New York, but later a resident of Madison, Ohio. The Rey- nolds family came originally from Devonshire, . England. Jonathan Reynolds emigrated from Plympton Earl, in that country, in 1645, to America, taking up his residence near Plymp- ton, in the colony of Massachusetts bay, and from Jonathan Reynolds Mr. Campbell is of the sixth generation. By another branch of
his family on his mother's side he is a descend ant of John Parker, who commanded the American troops at the battle of Lexington the first battle of the American Revolution Both his grandfathers were in the war of 1812
Upon reaching his maturity Mr. Campbel began reading law. In the summer of 1863 he became a master's mate on the gunboats Ell and Naiad, and took part in several engage ments, but on account of ill health he was dis charged at the end of one year's services During the winter of 1864-65 he was a law student in the office of Doty & Gunckel a Middletown, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1865. Beginning practice in 1867, he was elected prosecuting attorney of Butler county in 1875 and again in 1877. In 1879 he was defeated for the state senate by twelve votes. Up to 1872 he was a republican, but then voted for Greeley, and has since acted with the demo- crats. He was elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth congresses, and in 1889 was elected governor of Ohio. In 1891 he was again a candidate, but was defeated by Maj. Mckinley. In 1895 he was the third time a candidate, but was defeated by the pres- ent incumbent of the office, Hon. Asa S. Bushnell, by a plurality of 92,622 votes.
On January 4, 1870, Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Libbie Owens, a daughter of Job E. and Mary A. (Price) Owens, the former of whom was a native of Wales, and the latter of Welsh descent.
ON. WILLIAM MCKINLEY, who has recently retired from the governor- ship of Ohio, is one of the most dis- tinguished politicians of the state and
nation. His ancestry lived in western Penn- sylvania, his father, Wilham Mckinley, who died recently at the age of eighty-five years, having been born on a farm in Pine township,
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Mercer county, that state-a farm which was recently and may be to-day in the possession of the Rose family, which is related to Mr. Mc- Kinley, and of which ex-mayor W. G. Rose of Cleveland, Ohio, is a member. William Mc- Kinley, Sr., was in the iron business all his life, as was also his father before him.
Gov. William McKinley was born at Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, January 29, 1843. He was educated in the common schools, in the academy at Poland, Ohio, and in the fall of 1860 he entered Allegheny college at Mead- ville, Pa., with the view of taking a full college course; but owing to sickness he was obliged to return home before the winter came on. During the winter of 1860-61 he taught a dis- trict school, and intended to return to Alle- gheny college, but in April, 1861, Fort Sumter was fired upon by the rebels, and the spirit of patriotism in young Mckinley's heart was so strong that he enlisted in company E, Twenty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, as a private soldier, and in that company and regi- ment he marched and fought in the ranks for fourteen months. His regiment was with Rosecrans and McClellan in Virginia and West Virginia. His first battle was that of Carnifax Ferry. After this he joined the army of the Potomac and fought with McClellan. Subsequently Private Mckinley was promoted, first to second lieutenant September 24, 1862; then to first lieutenant, February 7, 1863, and then to captain, July 25, 1864. Then he served on the staff of Gen. R. B. Hayes and was afterward detailed to act as assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. George Crook. He was with Sheridan in the Shenan- doah valley, in the battles of Winchester, Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill, Opequan, Kerns- town, Cloyd Mountain and Berryville. For meritorious conduct he was brevetted major by President Lincoln, and after Gen. Crook's capture, in Maryland, he served on the staff
of Major Gen. Hancock, and later on that of Gen. S. S. Carroll, commander of the veteran reserve corps at Washington, D. C. Ile was present at the surrender of Gen. Lee, April 9, 1865, was with his regiment all through its campaigns and battles, and was mustered out of service July 26, 1865, having been in the army four years and one month.
Returning to Ohio Maj. Mckinley studied law with Hon. Charles S. Glidden and David Wilson of Mahoning county, and then at- tended the law school at Albany, N. Y. In 1867 he was admitted to the bar, and in May of that year located in Canton, Ohio, where he formed a law partnership with Judge Bel- den, practicing in that relationship for two years. In 1869 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Stark county, notwithstanding that county was democratic usually by a reliable majority, but in 1871 he was defeated for re- election by an adverse majority of forty-five. In 1876 he ran for congress, and to the sur- prise of the older politicians was elected, and was then continuously in congress, from his district (notwithstanding several gerrymanders made for the sake of defeating him), for four- teen consecutive years, with the exception of a part of his fourth term, when he was unseated by a democratic majority in congress and his place given to his competitor. He was a candidate for re-election to congress in 1890, but on account of fictitious aların awakened by his political enemies as to the effect, and the probable effect, of the " McKinley tariff bill," which went into effect about October 1, 1890, a little more than one month before the election, he was defeated, the majority against him and in favor of his competitor, Lieut .- Gov. Warwick, being 303 votes. The year before the counties com. posing this district, which had been most out- rageously gerrymandered for the sake of ac- complishing his defeat, gave a majority to James E. Campbell for governor of 2,900
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