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approbation that he was appointed into the Regular Army as a Lieutenant of Cavalry. At the outbreak of the Rebellion, he was appointed Major of the Second Indiana Cavalry, rose rapidly to the ranks of Colonel, Brigadier, and Major General, and after brilliant and effective service retired at the close of the war with the rank of Lieutenant Col- onel in the Regular Army. His most difficult and dangerous service, perhaps, was penetrating the enemy's lines by way of diversion previous to Sher- man's march to the sea. He returned from this "forlorn hope," having inflicted great damage upon the enemy, defeated and captured a large number whom he was compelled to release, and retired in the face of Wood's entire army. He resigned from the Regular Army to accept the appointment of United States Minister to the Sandwich Islands. He was subsequently twice appointed Governor of Colorado Territory by President Grant.
Brigadier General Anson George McCook was born at New Lisbon, Ohio, October 10, 1835. He was educated in the schools of New Lisbon. He was one of the early gold hunters crossing the plains to California. He returned before the war, and began the study of law in the office of Stanton & McCook, at Steubenville. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he raised a company of volunteers and
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was elected Captain. It was the first company to enter the service from Eastern Ohio. He was as- signed to the Second Ohio and took part in the first battle of Bull Run. Upon the reorganization of troops he was appointed Major of the Second Ohio, and rose by death and resignation to the rank of Colonel. At the battle of Peach Tree Creek he commanded a brigade. He was in action in many of the principal battles of the West, including those of Perryville, Stone River, Lookout Mountain, Mis- sionary Ridge, Resaca, etc. On the muster out of the Second Ohio, after three years' service, he was appointed Colonel of the One Hundred and Ninety- fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and ordered to Virginia, where he was assigned to command a bri- gade. He was brevetted a Brigadier General at the close of the war. After several years residence in Steubenville he removed to New York City, and was elected to Congress several terms, and was for years Secretary of the United States Senate.
Rev. Henry C. McCook, D. D., was born July 3, 1837 at New Lisbon, Ohio. He was a student in the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., at the outbreak of the war. He had made an en- gagement to go West for his summer vacation. He stopped in Dewitt County, Illionis, and was active in raising troops until the battle of Bull Run,
when he enlisted as a private soldier, stumped the county to raise troops, and was mustered into the Forty-first Illinois Regiment as First Lieutenant. He was appointed chaplain of the regiment, and returned to Steubenville for ordination. He served less than a year, resigning with the intention of tak- ing another position in the army, but, being con- vinced that he could serve his country best at home, he returned to the church at Clinton, Ill.
After years as pastor of one of the most influen- tial churches (Presbyterian) in Philadelphia, he recently retired from the active ministry. He is the author of a number of ecclesiastical and the- ological works. He is best known as a naturalist. His studies of ants and spiders, on whose habits he has written several books and papers, have made his name known among naturalists of Europe and America. He is author of "The Latimers," a book based on pioneer life in Western Pennsylvania about the time of the Whisky Insurrection.
Commander Roderick Sheldon McCook, U. S. N., was born at New Lisbon, Ohio, March 10, 1839. He graduated at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, in 1859, and his first service was off the Congo River, Africa, whence he was sent home with a prize crew in charge of a captured slaver. From 1861 to 1865 he took active part in aggressive opera-
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tions before Newbern, Wilmington, Charleston, Fort Fisher, and on the James River. At New- bern he bore an active and successful part in the battle on land. He offered himself and the services of his marines to the land force in moving a bat- tery of guns from his vessel. With this battery he took a conspicuous part in the conflict, and had the honor of receiving the surrender of a Confederate regiment of infantry, probably the only surrender of this sort which occurred during the Civil War.
During his arduous service with monitors he seri- ously impaired his health. He was engaged in the operations on the James River, and also those end- ing in the surrender of Charleston. His last ser- vice was in lighthouse duty on the Ohio River. He retired from active service February 23, 1885, and was thrown from a buggy at Vineland, N. J., and died from his injuries. He is buried in the family plot at Steubenville.
Rev. Professor John James McCook was born February 4, 1843, at New Lisbon, Ohio. He served as Lieutenant in the First Virginia Volun- teers during a short campaign in West Virginia, a regiment which was recruited almost exclusively from Ohio. There were so many volunteers from this State that its quota of regiments was immedi- ately filled, and many of its citizens entered the
service of regiments from other States. He was at Kellysville, one of the earliest engagements of the war. He graduated at Trinity College, Hart- ford, began the study of medicine, but abandoned it to enter the Protestant Episcopal ministry. He is distinguished as a linguist, and is at present pro- fessor of modern languages in Trinity College, Hartford. Thus it will be seen the McCooks have won renown in their various stations in life after they laid down the accoutrements of warfare.
Nearly two-score years have glided into the past since the closing scenes of the great Rebellion. Many of the active participants in its thriling his- tory have answered the last roll call, and in a few brief years the last soldier of that grand army which fought so nobly to maintain and perpetuate the Union, will be mustered out. Today the sil- vered hair, the bent form, the trembling limbs of the survivors betoken that they will soon pass from among us, leaving behind them a record of fidelity to the right and an example for the emulation of the present and coming generations, an example which combines three great American virtues, Courage, Justice and Patriotism.
The medical profession in New Lisbon has always been graced by eminent practitioners and a brief notice of its earlier members should find a
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The History of Lisbon
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place here.
Dr. Horace Potter first visited New Lisbon in 1805, but did not permanently locate for the prac- tice of his profession until two years later. He had a large practice, his ride covering a distance ex- tending from twenty to forty miles in all directions. He continued in the faithful and untiring service
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of his patients for thirty-four years or more until his death in 1841. In addition to the arduous duties of his profession he filled the office of clerk of the Courts from 1813 until the August term, 1828, and was surgeon on the regimental staff in
the First Regiment, Second Brigade, Fourth Divis- ion Ohio Militia, besides being prominent in other public affairs.
Dr. John Thompson was perhaps the first per- manently settled physician in New Lisbon. He came here in 1807, and served in a large field of professional duty as the contemporary of Dr. Potter and Dr. Springer. He served five consecutive terms - twelve years - 1825 to 1837, in Congress, as the representative of Columbiana County. His death occurred in 1852. Dr. Joseph Springer began the practice of medicine at New Lisbon in 1807 and discharged his professional duties with ability. He died in 1843. Dr. John D. Gloss, who had been a surgeon in the Prussian army, began practice in this place in 1810, and eventually re- moved to Stark County. Dr. George McCook began professional duty here as a physician in 1817. His practice became extensive, and his ability led to his appointment to a chair in the Baltimore, Md .. Medical College, that of professor of the theory and practice of medicine. For his intelligent discharge of the duties of that position he was presented by one of the graduating classes with a golden lancet. About the year 1847 he removed to Pittsburg, Pa., where he continued practice for many years. He died in New Lisbon in 1873.
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Dr. John McCook, brother of Dr. George Mc- Cook, began practice here between the years 1827 and 1835, and continued until 1837, or thereabouts, when he removed to Steubenville. He died in 1865 in Washington, D. C.
Dr. George Stoughton, a relative of the Mc- Cooks, was in practice here and died here about the year 1835.
Dr. George S. Vallandigham began the practice of medicine here about the year 1836. After a few years he studied for and entered the ministry. He died at New Lisbon in or near the year 1873.
Dr. Leonard Hanna, the father of Hon. M. A. Hanna, practiced medicine here for nearly or quite fifteen years, beginning in 1836. He removed to Cleveland, where he remained until his death.
Dr. J. Green also settled in practice in New Lis- bon about 1836, and continued, it is believed, about ten years.
Dr. B. W. Snodgrass was a physician here prior to 1840, but appears to have practiced but a short time.
Dr. Hiram T. Cleaver began practice here about 1840, and continued about five years. He was a student of Dr. Leonard Hanna.
Dr. W. J. Parker practiced in New Lisbon for
four or five years, beginning in 1849.
Dr. George McCook, Jr., began practice here in 1851 and continued until 1860.
Other members of high standing in that noble profession have been, or are now, engaged in prac- tice here.
The widespread reputation of the elder Drs. Mc- Cook for skill and ability in their profession, at- tracted numerous students in medicine to New Lisbon.
Being the county seat of a large and important county with great natural advantages for the prose- cution of agriculture, manufacture and trade, and with an ever increasing and busy population, New Lisbon has always had an eminently strong bar. The members of the legal fraternity residing here from the first settlement of the village, have been exceptionally well equipped in legal ability and lit- erary attainments.
The first in the order of time of which there is any authentic record of resident attorneys comes Hon. Fisher A. Blocksom. He was born in Sus- sex County, Delaware, September II, 1772, and commenced the study of law with a Mr. Finney, at Wilmington, Del., in 1802, remaining with him about one year, or until that gentleman removed to Philadelphia. He then pursued and finished his
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law studies under a Mr. Broome, of Wilmington, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1805. The first vote he ever cast was in 1803. Coming toward the setting sun, through an almost unbroken wilder- ness, over the rugged mountains, through the pleas- ant valleys, beside and across the rushing rivers and gently flowing rivulets, charmed by the beautiful scenery, enlivened by the songs of the wild birds or annoyed by the cries of the wild beasts, with a nature and education which eminently fitted him to observe and enjoy all those beauties of nature which he saw and heard on this long and perilous trip to a new country, he came to New Lisbon in May, 1805. and seeing that the land was fair to look upon, he ended his journey and located in the place where he was destined and content to spend the remainder of his busy and honorable life. He was admitted to practice law in this county in 1805, and as a lawyer was active in practice up to 1852, when dis- liking the form of pleading inaugurated by the code system which took effect at that time, after a practice of nearly half a century under the common law form of pleading, and having accu- mulated a sufficient competence to supply all his wants for the remainder of his days, he retired from practice. Mr. Blocksom was prosecuting attorney of the county for several years between 1805 and
1834. He held the position of deputy postmaster in 1812, and attended to the duties of the office at this place for the postmaster who was in the army during that year. In 1814 he was appointed at- torney for the Columbiana bank of New Lisbon. He was a member of the lower house of the general assembly from 1826 to 1828, inclusive, and was re-elected in 1831 to the same body, and served until 1833. He was the presidential elector of the Dem- ocratic party from this district in 1832, and cast the vote of his party for General Andrew Jackson. He was nominated for prosecuting attorney of the county in 1838, and by re-election held the office up to 1843. He was elected to the State Senate in IS47: and by re-election held that office up to 1852.
In 1806 Mr. Blocksom was appointed on the staff of Brigadier-general Robert Simison, who com- manded the second brigade of the fourth division Ohio militia, which was organized May 8th of that year. In 1846 he was elected treasurer of the Agri- cultural Society of this county, and was at various times president of the village council. During the time that Mr. Blocksom was attorney for the bank, which was for a series of years, nearly one-half of the civil cases on the court dockets were those in which the bank was plaintiff in suits brought to
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recover loans made. In the first fifteen or sixteen years of his practice at the bar, in other than bank cases, the records of the court show that he was at- torney on one side or the other, of nearly all the cases tried, and when attorneys of to-day know of the meager libraries of the early practictioners, they realize that more ingenuity and care was necessary in the lawyer then, to show the application of legal principles than to-day, when the courts have estab- lished these principles in decided cases, to which lawyers of to-day resort for authority. During a long and useful life Mr. Blocksom was an honest and honorable member of the church, of the bar, and of society. He was a member of the Epis- copal Church, and always took a great interest in church and educational work. A writer, a short time before the death of Mr. Blocksom, said, " We regard this venerable gentleman as one of the most remarkable men of his age, certainly one of the best preserved. We found him in his old time-worn office, with all the surroundings showing the hands of time, sitting in his old-fashioned chair reading in an old small print Bible, with an apparent calm- ness which to me was truly interesting to behold. Had I not known of his advanced age, I would not have taken him to be more than seventy-five years of age. He is of medium height and weight, and
of fine personal appearance and polished manners. His conversational powers are very fine, his mem- ory, in fact all his faculties are still good, with an extraordinary fund of information, particularly as to his associates at the bar, such as Tappan and
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Look around, get prices, then come and see me. My prices are marked on goods. One price to everybody. A ten-year-old child can buy from me at the same price as the sharpest man in America. I sell everything at a living cost over factory prices. I have no leaders.
I do not leave Instruments or machines or trial. FIRST-CLASS dealers have quit that. The system always was a humbug, and customers paid for agents' loss of time.
I sell the best of everything. The best Sewing Machines. Every machine warranted for five years. Full instruc- tions given. I keep the best Needles, Oil, Attachments. Etc., at LOWEST PRICES for first-class goods. Old machines repaired and put in order at reasonable prices. Don't buy a machine without first seeing me.
I do not have any second-hand. disease-infected, done over and made just as good as new city instruments to offer you at special prices. Mine are all new, right from the factory.
Send for catalogue and prices, or, better still, come and see for yourself. I have been in Lisbon in business since 1871. You are at liberty to judge my future dealings by what I have done in the past.
I am always at home on Saturdays, and will be pleased to have you call. No trouble to show goods, and you will not be im- portuned to buy against your will.
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Mr. Blocksom died in New Lisbon December 14, 1876, aged ninety-five years and three months.
Next in point of time of resident lawyers was Elderkin Potter, who was admitted to the bar in 1806, and for those very early days, had a very fair legal practice during the earlier part of his profes- sional career. He was elected prosecuting attor- ney of the county in 1810, and was probably the second resident prosecuting attorney which the county had. In 1814, on the organization of the Columbiana bank of New Lisbon, he was made nis cashier. In 1827 he was elected a member of the general assembly from Columbiana County. He then took great interest in whatever tended to in- crease the material interests of the town and county, and hence, was an early advocate of the Sandy and Beaver Canal enterprise, and, as has been already mentioned, in 1834, with his own hands, first broke the ground, and made a speech at the commence- ment of the construction of the canal.
In 1837 Mr. Potter was one of the building com- mittee for the erection of the Presbyterian Church, which was destroyed a few years ago, another evi- dence of the confidence reposed in him by his fel- low townsmen. In politics and religion he was firm and at times dictatorial.
John H. Reddick, in 1810, was admitted as an
attorney at the bar, and commenced the practice of law in New -Lisbon. He remained here in active practice for, four or five years. He is said to have been a man of violent temper. In 1812 he acted as attorney for several parties in this county to pro- cure the release on habeas corpus of their sons from military service, who under age, had volunteered and entered the service under Captain Rowland to fight in the war of 1812. Captain Rowland hear- ing that writs of habeas corpus had been issued, to prevent their service on him at once broke camp and marched out of the county with his men formed in a hollow square, himself inside. When outside of the county the sheriff and his deputies refused to fur- ther pursue Captain Rowland with their writs, but Mr. Reddick followed the company to Cleveland, and only left there on a threat of arrest by the mili- tary authorties. He is said to have met a violent death in Smithfield, Jefferson County, the date of which is unknown.
In the issue of the Ohio Patriot of September II, 1819, the following professional card is found :
CYRUS W. HART,
Attorney and counselor at law and solicitor in chan- cery (and late preacher of natural religion). Hav- ing within these few days past been regularly ad-
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done in the courts, he had a good practice when not engaged in official duties. Socially Mr. Russell was pleasant and genial, and no one more enjoyed to while away an hour with his associates. In politics Mr. Russell was a Whig, and the great commoner
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John Laird was in active practice as a lawyer from 1820 to 1824, the time of his death. Nothing is definitely known of the amount of his practice beyond a few cases during that time in which his name appears on the records of the courts. He was a Democrat in politics, and is reported to have been a bitter partisan. He served the county in the state senate in 1823-4, and was a member of several im- portant committees in that body, and measured his actions by what he imagined General Jackson would have done if placed in a similar situation.
De Lorma Brooks came here from Vermont, was admitted an attorney of our courts in the Sep- tember + 1824, and during his earlier years of professional life, had a fair share of the law prac- tice. In politics he was an active worker and parti- san. He was elected to the convention of Federal- ists, held at Columbus December 28, 1827, to favor the nomination of John Quincy Adams for the pres- idency. He was elected to and held the office of county auditor from 1829 to 1832, inclusive. He held the office of township clerk of this (Center) township, from 1832 to 1837. In 1838-9 he was secretary of the old Columbiana County Mutual In- surance Co., and labored hard to make that company strong and efficient.
Next in order among the prominent attorneys is
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Andrew W. Loomis, who opened a law office in New Lisbon in 1825, and at once took a high rank as a lawyer, and besides his practice in this county he was extensively engaged in the trial of im- portant cases in adjoining counties ; and as early as 1832, he was associated in defending Ira West Gard- ner, at Warren. Gardner was tried for the murder of Maria Buel, and the case at the time was re- garded as one of the most atrocious and sensational of any that up to that time had taken place in Ohio. He was the leading counsel for the defense in pros- ecution of Morton in 1829 for the murder of Hol- man in this county, and the fact that Loomis was retained for the defense shows the estimation in which he was held as a lawyer. He was prosecuting attorney of this county, closing his official term in 1834, the exact date of his election is not recorded. He was a delegate to the Whig or Federalist con- vention at Columbus, Ohio, December 28, 1827, to favor the nomination of John Quincy Adams to the presidency. . In 1835 he was elected president of the Columbiana bank of New Lisbon. Mr. Loomis was elected to Congress in 1836 and served one session in that body, covering a portion of the year follow- ing, when, disliking the duties, lic resigned his seat in that body. Desiring a larger sphere for the prac- tice of his profession he removed to Pittsburg, Pa.,
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