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JARVIS MARTIN ADAMS, CLEVELAND,
was born at Whitehall, New York, in 1827 ; graduated from Williams College, Mass., 1851 ; admitted to the bar at Plattsburg, N. Y., 1853 ; commenced practice in Cleve- land, Ohio, 1855, as senior partner in the firm of Adams & Canfield. He soon after associ- ated himself with the late W. S. E. Otis and J. M. Coffinberry, and continued practice in the firm of Otis, Coffinberry & Adams and its successors until 1888, sinee which date he has been senior partner in the firm of Adams & Hotze.
As a result of Mr. Adams' familiarity with the details of railroad management gen- erally, and his intimate knowledge of the complicated affairs of the N. Y. P. & O. Ry. Co., growing out of his long service as counsel for that corporation, he was, unex- pectedly to himself, in October, 1881, made president of that company, which position he occupied until June, 1887, resigning it when the labor connected with it became so oner- ous as to threaten his health. Mr. Adams' family consists of a wife, the daughter of the late Ferdinand Walker, Esq., of Brooklyn, N. Y., and one daughter, the wife of Mr. Allyne Maynard Bullain, of Cleveland.
HERMAN BRAUN ALBERY, COLUMBUS,
was born, June 23, 1826, in Wayne county, Ohio. Removed with his parents in 1828 to Franklin county, Ohio, where he has ever since resided, except as hereinafter noted. He was brought up on a farm, and received a common school education, supplemented by select school and private instructions. Began teaching in the common schools in 1844.
In 1846 and 1847 he had charge of Cane Ridge Seminary, in Bourbon county, Ky. Was in California in 1850, 1851 and 1852.
In 1853 he was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Probate Court of Franklin County, Ohio, which office he filled until October, 1855. Was Deputy County Treasurer of Franklin count from the fall of 1855 to 1858. In 1855 he was also appointed a member of the Board of School Examiners,
which position he resigned in 1857. Mr. Albery was admitted to the bar in 1855.
At the October election in 1857 he was elected Judge of the Probate Court of Frank- lin County, and was re-elected in 1860. Re- tiring from that position in 1864, he resumed the practice of the law, which he has ever since continued.
In 1862 Mr. Albery was appointed by Governor Tod a member of the Citizens' Military Committee, and as such assisted in raising and organizing several regiments for the war of the rebellion, notably the 95th and 113th O. V. I.
HIe was appointed a director of the Ohio Penitentiary by President, then Governor, Hayes in 1876, and served in that capacity two years. Judge Albery has resided in the city of Columbus since 1853.
THOMAS H. C. ALLEN, CINCINNATI,
was born in New London, Connecticut. In 1848, when about twenty-five years of age, he removed to Cincinnati, and engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he has been actively occupied ever since. He has been financially successful, and has done much in aid of charitable and church organizations.
CIIAS. CANDEE BALDWIN, CLEVELAND,
was born in Middletown, Connecticut, De- cember 2, 1834. His father removed to Elyria, Ohio, in 1835. At fourteen years of age Judge Baldwin attended a boarding school at Middletown, Connecticut, and at twenty graduated with honor at Middletown University. He was graduated from Har- vard Law School in 1857; was admitted to the bar in the following October, and com- menced its practice in Cleveland. Until 1870 he practised in partnership with S. B. Pren- tiss, when, on account of impaired health, he went abroad. On his return he engaged in the insurance business, but later resumed law practice. In 1884 he was elected to the Cir- cuit Bench, and re-elected in 1888. He has been identified with many prominent busi- ness corporations in Cleveland, is the author of upwards of twenty historical pamphlets,
* Only a part of the Patron Subscribers' Record is here given, because unattainable, while those of others are embodied in the main part of the work.
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and the " Baldwin " and " Candee " geneal- ogies. Ile is a member of many antiquarian and historical societies ; was the first secre- tary (is now President) of the Western Re- serve Historical Society, which was organ- ized at his suggestion and chiefly through his efforts. He was also one of the founders of the Ohio State Archaeological and Histor- ical Society. His tastes are literary, and his private library one of the best in the State. In 1862 he married Caroline Prentiss, nioce of Judge S. B. Prentiss.
J. WILLIAM BALDWIN, COLUMBUS, 1
was born in New Haven, Connecticut, April 30, 1822, of that Baldwin family distin- guished for its lawyers and judges. Gradu- ated at Yale in 1842, and began the practice of law in Columbus in 1844, and so continued except for a short period when he served as Judge of the Superior Court of Franklin County, under appointment from Governor Brough on the resignation of Stanley Matthews.
In 1846 he married Margaret Hoge, a daughter of the venerable Dr. James Hoge, the pioneer minister of Presbyterianism in Central Ohio. He died about the year 1888. - His only child, Clara, was married in 1870 to William J. MeComb, of Columbus.
STEVENSON BURKE, CLEVELAND,
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lawyer, jurist, president of sundry railways and many other corporations, commenced practising law in Lorain county in 1848; rapidly rose to the undisputed leadership of the county bar. Was elected Judge of the Common Pleas in 1861, re-elected in 1866, resigned the office in January, 1869, and commenced the practice of the law at Cleve- land, where he is still engaged in practice. His practice as a lawyer has been and still is very extensive. There have been few great . cases tried in Northern Ohio in the last twenty years in which he has not been en- gaged. He has given much time to railway and corporation law and business. For many years he has been a dircetor in the C. C. C. & I., the I. & St. L. and C. & S. Railways, constituting the Bee Line. and has been gen- eral counsel, Vice-President and President of the line. He has been one of the princi- pal owners and Vice-President and President of the C. HI. V. & T. Railway. He is now and has been for many years President of the Cleveland & Mahoning Valley Railway Co. and President and the largest stockholder of the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Co. With Mr. Charles Hickox he is the owner of the recently reorganized Toledo, Columbus & Cincinnati Railway. He has been for years a director in the C. H. & D. and D. & M. Railways and many other railroads. Ile is President of the Aurora Tron Mining Com- pany, a large and successful company. He is President of the Lucky Boy and Osceola
Silver Mining Company of Utah. IIe is President of the Anglo-American Iron Com- pany and Vice-President of the Canadian Copper Company. He is principal owner and President of the Republic Coal Com- pany and president and director of many other manufacturing and other corporations.
JOHN D. CALDWELL, CINCINNATI,
well known throughout Ohio as the "Uni- versal Secretary,". "' is of Scotch-Irish and English stock, and was born in Zanesville, Ohio, December 16, 1816. He was three years at Kenyon College ; was from 1835 to 1843 a clerk on Ohio and Mississippi river steam- boats ; was the first Secretary of the C. H. & D. R. R. Co. ; became sole proprietor of the Atlas and Chronicle newspaper, Cincinnati ; later was a stockholder and city editor of the Cincinnati Gazette; and still later edited the Ohio Teachers' Journal of Education. Since 1850 he has been secretary of various Grand Lodges of Masons. The numerous offices valuable to the community he has held could not be remembered if recorded. Since 1856 he has been the "heart and soul" of the Pioneer Association of Cincinnati and a col- lector of local historical materials. He ren- dered most efficient service in the rebellion. He organized the "Home Guards," the "Sanitary Fair," the "Soldiers' Relief Fund " and the "Refugees' Relief Associa- tion," and was Secretary of the "National Union Association." All these services werc. given freely, without charge, from love. of the public good. In 1845 he married Miss Margaret Templeton, of Cincinnati. He is now proprietor of the Masonic Supply Es- tablishment, No. 233 Fourth street, Cincin- nati .:
JOHN V. CAMPBELL,
EATON,
was born December 27, 1815, and died in Eaton, Ohio, July 2, 1888. His childhood was associated with the early history of Eaton. At the age of sixteen he taught school. From 1841 to 1851 he was post- master at Eaton. In 1852 he was admitted to the bar, and soon after clected Probate Judge, the first elected in the county. 'In 1858 he entered into a law partnership with Judge W. J. Gilmore.
Ile was an active worker in educational, religious, fraternal and charitable organiza -*** tions, and identified with every movement for the welfare of the community in which he resided.
MILTON L. CLARK, CHILLICOTHE,
was born in Clarksburgh, Ross county, Ohio, April 21, 1817. His father was a colonel during the war of 1812, and laid out the town of Clarksburgh. Milton attended the common schools until sixteen years of age, when he entered his brother's store as clerk,
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afterward becoming a partner. In May, 1839, he went to Louisville, Kentucky, serving three years as a bookkeeper, studying law in the meanwhile. Returning to Ohio he con- tinued his law studies and was admitted to the bar in 1844. He commenced practice in Chillicothe. In 1845-49 served as prosecut- ing attorney ; was elected to the State Legis- lature in 1849. At the expiration of his term he refused further politieal preferment and devoted himself to the practice of his profession. In 1873 he was elected a dele- gate to the State Constitutional Convention. In 1860 was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago. In 1884 was elected one of the Judges of the Fourth Judicial Cireuit of Ohio. October 11, 1849, he was united in marriage to Jane Isabel, eldest daughter of Col. Jonathan F. Wood- side, with whom he had studied law. There were nine children from this union, seven of whom are still living.
MENDAL CHURCHILL, ZANESVILLE,
was born in Lawrence county, Ohio, July 23, 1829. Leaving school at the age of fifteen he began his business earcer in a country store near South Point, in the same county. In 1850 he went to Keystone Furnace in Jackson county, Ohio, where he served success- ively as storekeeper, bookkeeper and mana- ger of the furnace.
In July, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-seventh Regiment Ohio Volun- teer Infantry ; was elected Captain of Com- pany E ; promoted successively to be Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel of the regi- ment, and near the close of the conflict was brevetted Brigadier-General U. S. Volun- teers "for meritorious services during the war." He served with credit, and his mili- tary record is without spot or blemish.
On November 28, 1861, he was united in marriage to Mary C. Loughry, of Adams county, Ohio. His wife died in Zanesville, Ohio, January 15, 1886.
He is President of the Ohio Iron Com- pany, large manufacturers of iron ; has been identified with the company since its or- ganization in 1857, and the general manage- ment of its business has devolved upon him since 1866. He is also connected with sev- eral other manufactories of the town, and is a prominent leading citizen of "Zanesville, and universally esteemed and respected for his sterling worth and high character.
AARON A. FERRIS, CINCINNATI,
born in Delaware, Ohio, November 8, 1845. His father and mother were descendants of some of the earliest settlers in Connecticut. He was a printer's boy in the office of the Marysville Tribune at Marysville, Ohio, dur- ing the first years of the war. He then served as a clerk for three years in the dry-goods store of his uncle, Thomas B. Skinner, Esq., in
Battle Creek, Michigan. In 1867 he entered Marietta College, graduating there in the class of '71 with the second honor of his class. In 1872 he entered the law office of the Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, in Cincin- nati, and was admitted to the bar in that city in 1873, where he has continued the practice of law, and is at present a member of the firin of Ferris, Morrow & Oldham. He has frequently written articles for the daily press .. In the Deeember number, 1880, of the North American Review he contributed an article on the " Validity of the Emancipation Procla- mation " in answer to articles of President James C. Welling and Richard H. Dana in the same Review, assailing the validity of that Proclamation, which article at the time attracted not a little attention.
MILLS GARDNER, WASHINGTON C. H.,
was born in Russellville, Brown county, Ohio, January 30, 1830. Lived in Highland county from the time he was two years old till 1854, at which time he moved to Washing- ton Court-House, where he has since resided. He attended the common schools till fourteen years of age, since which time he has entirely supported himself. He was put into a store 'at fourteen years of age and continued in that occupation until he was admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1855; having read law dur- ing the time, after and before business hours, mornings and evenings ; and has praetised his profession since. Was elected prosecut- ing attorney of Fayette county in October, 1855, and re-elected in 1857, serving four years.
Was a member of the Ohio State Senate in 1862-64; was a Presidential Elector on the Lincoln ticket in 1864 ; was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1866- 68 ; was a member of the Ohio State Con- stitutional Convention in 1873; and was elected Representative in Congress from the Third District of Ohio in 1876, and served one term.
Mr. Gardner was raised in the Whig school of polities, easting his first presiden- tial vote for General Scott in 1852; was a member of the first Republican State Con- vention of Ohio, and has voted the Republi- can ticket ever since the formation of the ... party. He has been a member of the M. E. Church sinee his eighteenth year.
HENRY A. GLASSFORD, NEW YORK,
althoughi born in Canada, while still a young man made Ohio his home, and it is safe to say that no man even though " native and to the manor born" was more loyal to his adopted country in the time of its need.
"The Captain," as his friends call him, won the title through long, active and eredita- ble service during the war. He went out with the "hundred-day men" in 1861, and his first service was in Missouri on the staff
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of General Fremont. When the latter was relieved from command Mr. Glassford was transferred to the mortar flotilla under Captain Foote, and took part in the engage- ment at Island Ten, Fort Pillow and Mem- phis. He was then transferred to the cap- tured gunboat Sumter as executive officer under Lieutenant-Commander Henry Erben, U. S. N., and subsequently ran the batteries at Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and joined the squadron under Admiral Farragut. He afterwards was ordered to the command of the steamer Anglo-American, a Balize tow- boat, temporarily converted into a gunboat, and on her he ran the batteries at Port Hud- , son in daylight with coal for the United States steamer Essex, to which vessel he acted as tender. On this occasion he lost several inen, and was nearly sunk by the water batteries before which he passed : only the arrival on the scene of the Essex prevented his sinking in mid channel. When the use- fulness of the Anglo-American was ended he was transferred to and made executive officer of the Essex under Commander Caldwell, and served on her until the end of December, 1862, when he was ordered north by Admiral Farragut, and rejoined the Mississippi squad- ron, with which he continued until late in 1865, when he was honorably discharged. During his long term of service he commanded various vessels and sometimes divisions of the squadrons, and wrote under his name, Act. Vol. Lieutenant U. S. N. Commanding. Back once more into mercantile pursuits he made leisure enough to take an active interest in and assist to organize outdoor athletic sports of which Cincinnatians are so fond to-day. A few years ago Mr. Glassford moved to Albany, New York, and later to the city of New York, where he now is en- gaged in business on Wall street. He as- sisted in the organization of the Ohio Society of New York and is still one of the most ac- tive members ; and for many years has been a Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
T. J. GODFREY, CELINA,
was born in Darke county, Ohio, on the 6th of June, 1831. During boyhood worked on a farm. In addition to common school edu- cation he attended a seminary two years and was a short time a student of Indiana As- bury (now DePauw) University. Taught village school four years ; read law in Green- ville, Ohio ; attended Cincinnati Law College and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1857. A few weeks after admission he located in Celina, Mercer coun- ty, Ohio, where he still resides. From 1857 to 1870 he was actively engaged in the practice of his profession, since which latter date lie has given in addition considerable attention to banking. He also takes deep and abiding interest in education and agriculture. Ile has been prosecuting attorney and county school examiner, represented his county in
the Constitutional Convention of 1873-74, and was eight years a State Senator. He has been a Trustee of the Ohio State Univer- sity since 1878, and now, in 1891, is President of the Board.
MOSES MOORHEAD GRANGER, ZANESVILLE, 3
son of James Granger and Matilda. daughter of Moses Moorhead, was born in "Zanesville, Ohio, October 22, 1831. A descendant, in the fifth generation, from Lancelot Granger, who married Joanna Adams, of Newbury. Massachusetts, January 4, 1654. He gradu- ated at Kenyon College in 1850 ; was admitted to the bar at Columbus in 1853 ; practised at Zanesville ; served in the war with the Re- bellion, as Captain Eighteenth United States Infantry ; Major and Lieutenant-Colonel One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry ; was at Halleck's siege of Corinth ; in Milroy's three days' fight at Winchester, Virginia ; at Locust Grove ; in Grant's battles of the Wilderness, Spotsyl- vania Court-House and Cold Harbor ; in Sheridan's Winchester (Opequan), Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek ; was by President Lin- coln made Colonel U. S. V. by brevet "for gallant and meritorious service in the present campaign before Richmond, Virginia, and in the Shenandoah Valley, to date from Octo- ber 19, 1864."
From 1866 to 1871 he was Judge of Com- mon Pleas, and declined a renomination. From 1883 to 1885 he served as Chief-Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court Commission, be- ing twice chosen by the unanimous voice of his colleagues. Declining candidacy for fur- ther service on the Supreme Court he re- sumed, and still continues, legal practice at Zanesville. In 1858 he married Mary Hoyt Reese, daughter of Gen. Wmn. J. Reese, of Lancaster, Ohio. Her mother was the eldest sister of Gen. W. T. and Senator Sherman.
RICHARD A. HARRISON, COLUMBUS,
born April 8, 1824, in Thirsk, Yorkshire, Eng- land. At six years of age came with his pa- rents to Springfield, Clark county. Learned the printing business. Studied law in Cin- cinnati Law School and in 1846 began the practice in London, Madison county ; was chosen in 1861 to the seat in Congress vacated by the resignation of Governor Thomas Cor- win, he being at that time one of the leading members of the State Senate. His career in Congress was closed in 1863 by the election of Samuel S. Cox as successor. His position as a lawyer is very high, being largely before the Supreme Court of the United States and in eases requiring.the best legal scholarship and capacity.
JOHN W. HIETT, TOLEDO,
born in Jefferson county, Virginia, November 11, 1824, and of a Quaker parentage who were
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among the organizers of the first anti-whis- key and anti-slavery societies of Virginia. When a child his father's family dwelt for a short time in Seneca county. Returning to Virginia they educated him for a teacher, and in 1847 he opened the second free school in Virginia. Returning to Ohio in 1851 he spent some time at Oberlin ; was the first organizer of public schools at Fremont; a teacher in the Normal department in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware ; and in 1860, assisted by his wife, opened a nor- mal school at Maumee City. In 1864 he removed to Toledo and beeame one of the proprietors of the Toledo Commercial. His business now is dealing in real estate, but, being an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his time is largely taken up with the educational work of that denom- ination.
HENRY M. HUGGINS, HILLSBORO,
was born December 2, 1842, in Clay township, Highland county, Ohio. He received a com- mon school education. He was admitted to the bar in 1868 at Dayton, Ohio ; praetised law at Hillsboro, Ohio, from 1872 until 1881, when he was elected Common Pleas Judge. Was re-elected 1886. Ile was married in 1876 to Mary F. Delaplane.
THOMAS C. JONES, DELAWARE,
born in the parish of Myfod, Montgomery- shire, North Wales, February 9, 1816. His father with his family emigrated to America. After many hardships they settled in Dela- ware, Ohio, in the autumn of 1822.
At thirteen Thomas eommeneed to earn his own living on the farm, and obtained such education as was possible during the winter months. At the age of eighteen, having learned the carpenter's trade, he left home and spent two years at St. Louis. Returning to Delaware he taught school and studied law until 1839, when he went to England. Returning to America he was admitted to the Ohio bar and eomineneed praetising law. In 1842 he married Harriet, daughter of Judge Hosea Williams. In 1843 he removed to Cireleville, but returned to Delaware in 1856. In 1859 he was elected to the Ohio Senate. In 1861 was elected Judge of Com- mon Pleas and re-elected in 1866. He was chairman of the Ohio delegation in the Na- tional Republican Convention in Chicago, in 1868, and also a member of the Convention of 1876.
He has always taken a deep interest in agricultural pursuits and the breeding of fine cattle. Ile has served on several national commissions to examine and report on these subjects.
RUFUS KING, CINCINNATI, born in Chillicothe, May 30, 1817, was by
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his father's side (General Edward King) grandson of Rufus King, the statesman ; by his mother's (Sarah Worthington, later Mrs. Peter) grandson of Governor Thomas Worth- ington. He was educated at Kenyon and Harvard, married with Miss Margaret Rives, daughter of Dr. Langdon Rives, of Cincin- nati, and followed the profession of the law, in which he rose to high distinction. He was very active and efficient in serving the higher interests of the publie. So efficient was he in giving his time and fortune to the promo- tion of education, seienee and art, that in the memorial meeting on the occasion of his decease held on March 28, 1891, in the United States court-room, Hon. Wm. S. Groesbeek but expressed the general sentiment when he said "Rufus King was the most valuable citizen Cineinnati ever had." He was author of a small outline history of Ohio. In dis- position and manner he was unusually genial and kindly.
HOMER LEE,
NEW YORK,
a native of Mansfield, Ohio, learned the en- graver's art and in 1876, a young man, left his native city to enter into the strife and competition of the business world in New York city. When he arrived at the metrop- olis he had less than $40 in money, but at onee set to work in a small room, in which he gradually built up a large business. In his efforts to seeure business Mr. Lee was put out of the New York stock exchange twenty- one times, as no one would risk with an unknown youth bonds worth millions of dol- lars. His efforts, however, finally met with success and at the present time he is at the head of the widely known Homer Lee Bank Note Company. This company makes the money of Spain, and their presses are employed by all South American countries.
It was in the office of Mr. Lee that the Ohio Society of New York was first started ; he became its first secretary and has taken a very prominent part in the development of its affairs.
REUBEN C. LEMMON,
TOLEDO,
born in Variek, Seneca county, New York, May 12, 1825. His father was a farmer, and removed in 1837 to a farm in Seneea county, Ohio. Reuben was educated at the Norwalk Academy and the Presbyterian Academy at - Granville. In 1850 he was admitted to the bar at Tiffin ; began practice of the law in Fulton county, then in Maumee City, and lastly in Toledo. In 1874 he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1850 married Amelia Armstrong, of Bellevue. Judge Lemmon stands very high in the Ma- sonic fraternity ; for several years was Treas- urer of the General Grand Chapter of the United States. In 1859 he married his present wife in London, England. He is among the most prized citizens of Toledo.
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