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In 1850 Mr. Corbett was united in marriage with Miss Matilda Brown, and they had four children : Conway W., a resident of Morrow county ; Hor- tense O., Eva C., and Elna I. The daughters are deceased. During the dark days of the Civil war Mr. Corbett enlisted at Columbus, in January, 1865, as a private in Company G, Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for two years or during the war, and was on detached duty much of the time. After serving five months and seventeen days he was honorably discharged and returned home. He is a member of Ashley Lodge, I. O. O. F., in Dela- ware county, and is an ardent Republican in politics. As every true American citizen should, he takes a deep and commendable interest in public affairs and gives his support to every worthy enterprise for the public good.
GUY T. GOODMAN, M. D.
Among the medical practitioners of Mansfield is numbered Dr. Good- man, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1871, and is a son of David B. and Adeline (Lutz) Goodman. His father was born in Cumber- land county, Pennsylvania, and during his boyhood accompanied his par- ents to the Buckeye state, the grandfather of our_subject dying when David Goodman was very young. Since 1890 the latter has been a resident of Mansfield. His wife is a very active member of the Methodist Episcopal church,-an earnest Christian woman whose influence on her family and friends has been most marked. She, too, was born in Ashland county, a daughter of Martin and Matilda Lutz. The father came to Ohio from Pennsylvania and was a well-to-do farmer of Ashland county and widely known in his own section of the state. He was also a prominent Meth- odist and served as an elder in his church. His death occurred in 1872. The Doctor's father was a member of Company I, One Hundred and Sixty-
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third Ohio National Guard, during the Civil war, and was ever loyal to his duties of citizenship. He has been a member of the Mansfield police since 1892.
Dr. Goodman pursued his preliminary education in the public schools, and in 1890, when nineteen years of age, accompanied his parents on their removal to Mansfield. During the years of 1888, 1889 and 1890 he was a student in Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio, and on coming to this city he entered the business college in which he was graduated with the class of 1893. He then went to Chicago and for nine months was employed in the retail dry-goods house of Siegel, Cooper & Company. Returning to make the practice of medicine his life work, he began preparation for the profession by reading medical works, under the direction of Dr. J. Harvey Craig, of Mansfield, and in 1895 he was matriculated in the Western Reserve Medical College, at Cleveland, in which he graduated with the class of 1898. He has since engaged in the practice in Mansfield, and has secured a lib- eral patronage which many an older representative of the profession might well envy. He successfully passed the examination for assistant surgeon in the Lakeside Hospital, at Cleveland, for the treatment of diseases of women. There were twelve candidates for the position, but Dr. Goodman and a fellow student were appointed and he served for fourteen months in that institu- tion. Although he engages in general practice to some extent, he makes a specialty of the treatment of the diseases of women.
In politics he is a Democrat. Socially he is connected with Madison Lodge, No. 26, K. of P., is a prominent Mason, belonging to Mansfield Lodge, No. 35, F. & A. M., Chapter No. 28, R. A. M., and Mansfield Com- mandery, No. 21, K. T. Dr. Goodman is ambitious, resolute and determined. He makes a close study of his profession, keeping abreast with its advance- ment, and his devotion to the duties of his calling, combined with his ability, both natural and acquired, has given him already an enviable rank in the medical fraternity.
In 1899 Dr. Goodman married Miss Lucena Woodward, of Cleveland, Ohio.
HIRAM W. HILDEBRANT.
Hiram W. Hildebrant, the subject of this review, has risen to a high position as one of the representative business men of Richland county. His identification with the industrial and commercial interests of Shelby is extensive and varied and embraces connection with those interests which in 19
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their successful control demand the services of men of master minds, of keen discernment, of reliable judgment and of indefatigable energy.
Mr. Hildebrant was born in Lockport, Niagara county, New York, in 1844, a son of Frederick and Cornelia (Snyder) Hildebrant, both of whom were also natives of the Empire state. The father died in October, 1848, at the age of forty-four years, and the mother passed away in January, 1872, at the age of sixty-six years. In their family were seven children besides the subject of this sketch, namely: George, now a resident of St. Joseph, Mis- souri, who for four years served in the army during the Civil war and was then honorably discharged, with the rank of quartermaster, and was for a long period afterward a well known merchant, but is now living retired; Emeline is the wife of John L. Mosser, who resides in Fond du Lac, Wis- consin, where he is engaged in the grocery business; James M., who is a groceryman in Griffin, Missouri; Harriett Wallace, who is a resident of Lock- port, New York; Mrs. Elizabeth Sanders, who died in Lockport, New York, about 1875; Mrs. Sarah Morris, who passed away in 1868; and Duwan, who was identified with the Union Pacific Railroad Company, died in Omaha, Nebraska, about 1894.
Mr. Hildebrant, of this review, was only four years of age at the time of his father's death. He acquired his education in the public schools of Shelby, including the high-school course. He began teaching in 1868 and followed that profession for about five years. In 1872 he engaged in the real estate and insurance business, to which he has since devoted his energies. From its organization he served as the vice-president of the Plate Glass Insurance Company, and at the latter date was elected its president, since which time he has been the incumbent. He is also the president of the Building & Loan Association of Shelby and of the Shelby Stove Company, which was organized in May, 1900, with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, to manufacture gas and gasoline stoves. Since its organization in 1895 he has been the president and a director of the Citizens' Bank. He also owns stock in the Shelby Tube Company, the Shelby Electrical Com- pany and the Sutter Furniture Company. He is public-spirited and pro- gressive and believes in encouraging the establishment of such enterprises, realizing that from commercial activity arises the progress and . prosperity of the nation.
In December, 1869, occurred the marriage of Mr. Hildebrant and Miss Adelaide Gamble, daughter of Judge Hugh Gamble, of Shelby, one of the first settlers of this section of the state. Three children have been born to them. The eldest, Carlos M., was born in December, 1871, and was
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thrown from a horse and killed in October, 1885. Hugh G. was born in August, 1873, and is now assistant cashier in the Citizens' Bank; and Bessie Fay, who was born in 1882, completes the family.
Mr. Hildebrant is a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities, and of the Presbyterian church. He withholds his support from 110 measure or movement which he believes will advance the material, intel- lectual, social and moral development of the community. He has been called upon to fill a number of public offices, was elected city clerk about 1874. and, after filling the position for about half a term, was elected the mayor of the city, in which capacity he served for three consecutive terms. His admin- istration was progressive and he exercised his prerogatives in a manner to commend him to the confidence and regard of all citizens interested in the welfare, upbuilding and progress of the community. For twenty-one years he was a justice of the peace, and his decisions were marked by extreme fairness and impartiality. For eighteen years he was a member of the school board, and with the exception of one year served as the clerk.
In no other country than ours can the history of a private individual be written which will touch in various points the public interests, and in fact prove to be a portion of the political, social and moral growth of his com- munity, in which the individual himself has sprung from the ranks of the people, and with no assistance from birth, fortune or environments, has carved out his own career and made for himself a name. It is a pleasure to do honor to such men, and their example cannot be too highly commended to our young men as an incentive to laudable ambition and earnest endeavor. Mr. Hildebrant has been indeed one of the active factors in the growth and development of Shelby along many lines and over the record of both his public and private career there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil.
COLONEL JONATHAN W. SLOANE.
Among the well known and honored early settlers of Richland county was Colonel Sloane, who located here when this region was wild and unim- proved. In the work of development he took an active part in the early days and aided in opening up the country to civilization. As the years passed he faithfully performed his duties of citizenship and his interest in the wel- fare and progress of the community never abated. Becoming widely and favorably known, he made many friends, and his death was a loss to the entire community.
A native of Ohio, the Colonel was born in Jefferson county November
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24, 1805, and in 1827 removed with his father, Oliver Sloane, to Ashland county, locating near the present site of Hayesville, where the father con- ducted a saw and grist mill. On the 24th of April, 1828, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Rocella Bushnell, and the same year they came to Richland county, taking up their residence in Washington township, upon the farm now owned by Mr. McCreedy. Here the Colonel's father had entered eighty acres of government land, and in a log cabin upon the place the young couple made their home until a more pretentious dwelling could be erected. At that time the farm was covered with a dense growth of timber, which had to be cleared away before crops could be planted. To the improvement and cultivation of his land Colonel Sloane devoted his attention throughout life, and converted the wild tract into a highly pro- ductive and well improved farm.
In his family were twelve children, four of whom died in infancy. The others were Oliver, who went to California in 1849 and is supposed to have been killed by Indians; Hulda, who first married Martin B. Bowers, who died in 1875, and three years later she married S. A. Gass, who died in 1888: Sterling B., a resident of Kansas, who is connected with the secret service : Lizzie, the wife of William Roland; William B .. a veteran of the Civil war and a merchant of White Cloud, Kansas; Oscar, who was a drum major in the Civil war and is now a resident of Wichita, Kansas; Rosa, the wife of S. M. Martin, a real-estate dealer of Arkansas City, Kansas; and Martin B., an electrician of Mansfield, Ohio.
Colonel Sloane was for many years connected with the state militia, and won his title in that service. In business he was eminently success- ful and became well-to-do. He was a public-spirited and progressive man, who took a great interest in educational affairs, and gave his support to enter- prises tending to advance the moral, intellectual or material welfare of his county and state. He died in 1877, and his wife, who long survived him, passed away in 1898. Both were active and consistent members of the Presbyterian church, and were highly respected and esteemed by all who knew them.
CALVIN McBRIDE.
Calvin McBride is a retired farmer and one of the honored pioneers of Richland county. He was born September 26, 1836, on the farm where hc now resides, and for sixty-four years has been a witness of the growth and development of this section of the state. Great changes have occurred
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during that time: where there were only great tracts of wild land are now seen richly cultivated fields, and churches and schools dot the landscape, giv- ing evidence of the advance of civilization. In the work of improvement in the county he has taken a deep interest and has cheerfully borne his part.
Mr. McBride is of Irish lineage, his grandparents, Alexander and Jean (Raney) McBride, being both natives of the Emerald Isle, the former born in county Antrim February 15. 1759, the latter in the same county on the ist of May, 1761. There they were reared and soon after their marriage they emigrated to America, the grandfather purchasing land in Hampshire ยท county, Virginia. Soon after the war of 1812 he came to Ohio and entered four hundred and sixty acres of land in Richland county,-the farm upon which our subject now resides. He also entered land in Monroe township, and then returned to the Old Dominion, but after a short time he again came to Ohio, accompanied by his two sons.
The father of our subject, Alexander McBride, Jr., was born in Hamp- shire county, Virginia, August 4. 1795, and with the father came to the Buckeye state. He then located in Cass township, where he built a log cabin and made other improvements. A year later he removed to Monroe township, where his brother and father had settled. After some years he returned to the farm which his father had entered in Cass township. Alex- ander McBride, Jr., purchased two hundred and thirty acres of this land and made additional improvements and prepared to make the place his home throughout his remaining days. He was thrice married, his first wife being Miss Susanna Pettit, by whom he had eight children, three of whom are now living: Thomas, of Shiloh, Ohio; Alexander, a farmer of Cass township; and Jane, the widow of Mr. Burner, of Robinson, Illinois. The mother died, and the father afterward married a Miss Smith, by whom he had one child, who is now deceased. For his third wife he chose Miss Elizabeth Calvin, who was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, October 30, 1796, and was a daughter of Samuel Calvin, who emigrated to what is now Mahon- ing county, Ohio, but was then a part of Columbiana county. There he spent the residue of his days. He was a man of quiet, retiring disposition, but commanded the high regard of all by reason of his upright life, his inflexible integrity and many noble qualities. By the third marriage of Mr. McBride there were two children, but Calvin is the only one living.
The father was an active supporter of the Democratic party and held a number of township offices, in which he discharged his duties in a most prompt and faithful manner. During the last twenty-five years of his life he was an active member of the Lutheran church, and was largely instru-
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mental in the erection of the house of worship for that denomination in Planktown in the '40s. Later he aided in building the Lutheran church in Shiloh, and at all times did what he could to promote the work and upbuild- ing of the church, holding office during almost his entire connection there- with. He was an active, energetic man, of determined purpose and marked enterprise, and he not only accumulated a comfortable competence for him- self, but as his sons reached manhood assisted them in gaining a start in life. He was at all times reliable, and his word was as good as his bond.
Calvin McBride, whose name introduces this record, gained a common- school education and was early trained to habits of industry and economy upon the home farm. On the 27th of October, 1858, he married Miss Eliza- beth Gettings, a native of Cass township and a daughter of William and Mary (Fox) Gettings. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania, and in an early day came with his family to Ohio, locating in Cass township, where he spent the residue of his life. His wife came to Ohio from New Jersey, her native state, with the Opdike family. She intended to return in a short time, but made the acquaintance of Mr. Gettings and gave him her hand in marriage. By the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. McBride eight children have been born: Mary, now the wife of Ross R. Barnes, a resident farmer of Cass township; Lillies, the wife of Albert Golden, a farmer of Huron county, Ohio; Owen, who cultivates a tract of land in Cass township; Fran- ces, the wife of Fred Devier, an agriculturist of Plymouth township; Edith, the wife of Benjamin Boardman, a farmer of Huron county; Agnes and Grace, at home; and Arthur, who follows agricultural pursuits in Cass township.
When Mr. McBride was nineteen years of age his father made his will and our subject took one-half of the farm, while his brother, Alexander, came into possession of the other half, the two brothers purchasing the interests of the other heirs in the property. To their parents they gave filial care and devotion until they were called away. Since becoming the owner of the property Mr. McBride has resided thereon and has made many excellent improvements upon the place. In 1884 he built one of the finest residences in the county. There are good barns and outbuildings upon the land, and the fields are under a high state of cultivation, giving the indication of bountiful harvests. Mr. McBride finds time to devote to church work and for forty years has taken an active interest in the Meth- odist Episcopal church, of which he is a member. During the greater part of this time he has served as one of its officers. In his political views he is is liberal. He believes, however, in the free coinage of silver and will vote
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for a party that endorses it. His career has been one of activity, industry and enterprise, and in all life's relations has been found true to every manly principle, his word is as good as his bond, and he enjoys the unlimited con- fidence and regard of all with whom he is associated.
JONATHAN UHLICH.
Faithfulness in public office not only attracts public attention, but also brings substantial reward in the way of continuance of public favor. This is a latter-day development of public affairs which has superseded the com- parative apathy with which the average voter regarded the manner in which public trusts were administered a generation or more ago, and it has been impressed on the mind of the writer by the approbation with which the peo- ple of Richland county regard the management of the Richland County Children's Home by Superintendent Uhlich.
Jonathan Uhlich was born in Madison township, Richland county, Ohio, May 14, 1857, a son of Joseph Uhlich, a native of Berks county, Pennsyl- vania, born December 27, 1818, who arrived in Richland county May 12. 1830, and located in Madison township on a farm just north of the Mansfield corporation line, now consisting of one hundred and thirty acres, on which the subject of this sketch first saw the light of day and of which he is at this time the owner. Joseph Uhlich married Miss Catharine Fiddler, also a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, born April 30, 1821, whose parents settled in Madison township. Joseph Uhlich died June 15, 1890, his wife having died in 1880, aged fifty-six years. Mrs. Ella Fay is their daughter and Mr. Uhlich's sister.
Jonathan Uhlich obtained an education in the district schools, and after he had gained some practical knowledge of affairs he engaged in business in Mansfield and continued with success until he relinquished his enterprise to assume the superintendency of the Children's Home, in September, 1897 .. He came to Mansfield from the farm in 1873, and from 1873 until 1897 he carried on business in this city.
Mr. Uhlich married Miss Hettie Caldwell, a daughter of Samuel Cald- well, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and died in Mis- souri in 1880. She is a granddaughter of Samuel Caldwell, Sr., who died about 1830. Her mother was Sarah, nec Chambers, of Springfield town- ship, whose father, James Chambers, was a pioneer settler from Pennsyl- vania in 1810. Both the Caldwells and the Chamberses were of Scotch-
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Irish descent. Mrs. Uhlich was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1858, and was brought to this county by her parents in 1859.
The consensus of opinion in Mansfield is to the effect that too much cannot be said in praise of the management of the Children's Home by Mr. and Mrs. Uhlich, who have had the institution in charge, as superintendent and matron, respectively, since September 1, 1897. The farm consists of forty acres of well-cultivated land, and the house contains about sixty large and airy rooms. It has a spacious hall and is in every way splendidly appointed, an ideal home with an avenue a quarter of a mile long bordered by young trees, by which it is approached from the street. The average number of children accommodated at the home from different parts of the county is about sixty, ranging in age from one year to sixteen. At the latter age the children are placed in desirable homes, where they are cared for until fully able to take care of themselves. Since Mr. Uhlich assumed the superintendency of the home it has never had less than forty-two chil- dren under its roof nor more than eighty-three. Mr. Uhlich is in all ways an ideal superintendent for an establishment of this kind, for he loves chil- dren to such a degree that he stands to those under his charge practically in the relation of a father, and Mrs. Uhlich is a veritable mother to them all from the oldest to the youngest. Under Mr. Uhlich's supervision the farm is managed exactly as if it were his own personal enterprise instead of a public institution.
SAMUEL S. HOLTZ, M. D.
Samuel S. Holtz, who is engaged in the practice of medicine and sur- gery in Shiloh, has attained an enviable position in the circles of the profes- sion with which he is connected by means of his marked ability and devo- tion to his work. He was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, Octo- ber 24, 1850, his parents being John and Elizabeth (Schaeffer) Holtz, who had two children, but the Doctor is the only one now living.' His father was a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, born March 6, 1826. Upon the farm he spent his early life and in the Keystone state he was married. Soon after the birth of his son Samuel he removed with his fam- ily to Winchester, Scott county, Illinois, where he resided for a year, when he took up his abode near Shiloh, Richland county, Ohio. He purchased a farm of eighty acres and continued its cultivation until about six years ago, when he put aside business cares and removed to the town, where he is now enjoying a well earned rest. His wife also is living and for fifty-one years they have traveled life's journey happily together. They are both of
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Holland lineage and possess many of the sterling characteristics of that worthy people.
The Doctor remained at his parental home through the period of his minority. He attended the common schools of the neighborhood and further continued his studies in the Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio. In 1870 he began teaching and for four years followed that profession, giving satisfaction to the directors in the districts in which he was employed ; but, determining to make the practice of medicine his life work, he began to study under the direction of Dr. J. M. Fackler, of Plymouth, Ohio. In the fall of 1875 he was matriculated in the Hahnneman Medical College, of Chi- cago, and in the following year became a student in the Pulte Medical Col- lege, of Cincinnati, Ohio, in which institution he was graduated in January, 1877. He began the practice of medicine in Plymouth, in partnership with Dr. Fackler, and four years later removed to Shiloh, where he opened an office, and his time and energies have been given to the alleviation of the suffering in this part of the county. His marked ability in the line of his chosen profession has won him signal success and gained him a very large and lucrative patronage. For the faithful performance of each day's duties he finds inspiration for the labors of the next. Cool and collected in the sick room, at the same time genial and kindly, his labors have proven of great benefit to those in need of medical assistance, showing that he is thoroughly familiar with the healing art and the best methods of medical practice.
On the 4th of July, 1878, Dr. Holtz was united in marriage to Miss Mattie A. Flora, a native of Maryland, but at the time of her marriage a resident of Plymouth, Ohio. Their union has been blessed with four chil- dren, but they lost their first born, Gracie Dell. The others are John Frank- lin, who is reading medicine under the instruction of his father; Harry Wells and Fred Schaeffer, both at home.
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