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Dr. Gaillard B. Fuller spent his youthful days in his parents' home and at the usual age entered the public schools, where he passed through consecutive grades to his graduation from the Loudonville high school in the class of 1895. He then took up the study of medicine with his father and the latter's partner, Dr. W. H. Wirt, and afterward spent two years in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He was also for two years a student in the University of Wooster, subsequent to which time he made an extended trip through the south and west with his father for the benefit of the latter's health, but the change of climate did not bring about the desired cure and Dr. Amos Fuller passed away in Cali- fornia, April 8, 1899, his son bringing the remains back to Loudonville for interment. In the fall of 1900 the son entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1904. He served for one year as resident physician and surgeon in the Easton City Hospital at Easton, Pennsylvania, and, returning to Loudonville in 1905, formed a partnership with his father's former associate, Dr. W. H. Wirt, thirty- five years after the old firm had been formed. This relation has since been maintained and the firm is recognized as one of the most prominent, capable and successful in the ranks of the medical fraternity in Ashland county. Dr.
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Fuller remains an earnest student of his profession, keeping in touch with the most advanced thought concerning the methods of practice and is now a member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, while of the Ashland County Medical Society he is the treasurer.
On the 27th of December, 1905. Dr. Fuller was united in marriage to Miss Helene Barbara Stitzel, a native of Loudonville and a daughter of Jacob J. Stitzel, who is a clothing merchant of Loudonville. Unto them has been born one son, Carl Stitzel Botchford Fuller.
In his fraternal relations Dr. Fuller is connected with the Masonic order and religiously with Zion Evangelical Lutheran church. He is a young man of genuine worth, enjoying in high measure the esteem of all with whom he has been associated, while in his profession he holds to high ideals and has already attained success in practice that many an older phsyician might well envy. His record reflects credit upon the name of Fuller, which has ever been an untarn- ished one throughout the years which have come and gone since his grandfather first took up his abode in Loudonville.
JONATHAN ALLEN HISEY, D. D. S.
The liberal patronage accorded Dr. Jonathan Allen Hisey is at once proof of his ability in his profession. His success results from his comprehensive knowledge and his correct application of the scientific principles underlying his work together with the superior mechanical skill which he displays. He was born on a farm two and a half miles east of Columbiana, Ohio, in Columbiana county and is a son of John and Elizabeth Hisey. His grandfather, who was of Dutch descent, came to Ohio from the Shenandoah valley of Virginia. In early life he followed the occupation of carpentering, while later he became a farmer and importer of blooded sheep, which he imported from both Saxony and Canada. His wife was a representative of an old Quaker family, her parents coming across the Allegheny mountains on horseback from Chester county, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Hisey acquired his early education in the district school northeast of Columbiana and later pursued his studies in the Columbiana high school. He was interested in his studies and was ambitious to enjoy good educational privileges. He did not complete his high school course, however, because of delicate health and later he took up the study of dentistry in the office and under the direction of Dr. J. T. Barclay, gaining not only a knowledge of the text-books of recognized authority but also much practical experience as the Doctor's assistant. He afterward entered the Philadelphia Dental College, then located at Tenth and Arch streets in Philadelphia, remaining there from 1869 until the spring of 1871, when he was graduated. In the previous year he had opened an office for practice in Canton, Ohio, and in 1871 he began practice in Colum- biana, while in 1873 he came to Ashland, where he has remained continuously since, occupying one suite of rooms for thirty-two years. He has a well ap- pointed office, using the latest appliances to facilitate his work, and throughout
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the years of his practice he has kept in touch with the most improved methods of the profession and the latest theories concerning the preservation and care of the teeth. His judgment is accurate so that he readily discriminates between the essential and the non-essential and that his work has given uniform satisfac- tion is shown by his constantly increasing patronage and the fact that many of his patrons have given him their support for years.
In Washingtonville, Ohio, the Rev. Waggoner performed the marriage cere- mony that united the destinies of Dr. Hisey and Miss Malissa Lucretia Hinkle, a native of Columbiana, Ohio. Her parents, however, came to this state from Hanover, Pennsylvania, and were of Dutch descent. Dr. and Mrs. Hisey had five children : Walter Hinkle; Austin Emerson, now deceased; Nora Mae; Susie Corrine ; and Rhea Regina.
Dr. Hisey is a stalwart republican in his political views for his study of the political questions and issues of the day has led him to the belief that the republican platform contains the best elements of good government. He has served as a member of the city council for four years and was city treasurer for one term, receiving a large vote from the opposition for the two parties are almost equally divided in Ashland. He has always stood for those things which are valuable in citizenship and tend to promote the material, intellectual, social and moral progress of the community. In his religious views 'he is a Congregationalist and is now serving as one of the trustees of the church to which he belongs. A resident of Ashland for thirty-six years, Dr. Hisey is one of its valued and representative citizens not alone by reason of his professional skill but also on account of his personal worth.
RICHARD M. JOHNSON.
Richard M. Johnson, who for many years practiced law in the courts of this and other counties, is a representative of a family which dates its ancestry back to.Revolutionary times, his grandfather having been a major in the Continental army, participating in the battle of Lexington and serving until the surrender at Yorktown. His grandmother was Sarah Ferguson, daughter of Colonel Fergu- son, who fell at the battle of White Plains during that period. His parents were John and Almira (Peet) Johnson, his father having been a native of Massa- chusetts, where his birth occurred September 5, 1797, and his mother of Delaware County, New York, where they were united in marriage. They came to this state in the year 1836. John Johnson was a graduate of the schools of Spring- field, Massachusetts, and also of Dartmouth College, in the latter institution having been a classmate of Daniel Webster. Upon arriving in this state he taught school for twenty-seven years and after giving up that profession he engaged in general agricultural pursuits and stock-raising. When he came to this county it was covered with forests and the woodlands were filled with game which not only afforded sport and adventure in hunting but also played an im- portant part in supplying provisions since at that time it was almost impossible to get other kinds of meats. The farm he afterwards cultivated he cleared and
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made arable himself and for a long time he harvested his crops with the sickle, cradle and scythe and threshed his grain in a primitive way on a tramping floor. His son also had like experiences and in reverting to those days he said: "I have seen the evolution of farming from the sickle to the selfbinder and from the tramping floor to the separator and stacker." The father departed this life on August 11, 1889, his wife surviving him by one year, her death having occurred on February 1, 1890.
Richard M. Johnson was born March 2, 1841, in that part of Ashland county which was once a part of Lorain county. He was an only child and he acquired his education at the common schools of Lorain county and in 1857, at the age of sixteen years was matriculated as a student in Cornell University in Utica, New York, where he pursued a four years' course of study. Upon leaving the in- stitution, which was about the time the Civil war broke out, he enlisted in the Union service on September 7, 1861, in Battery B, First Regiment, Ohio Light Artillery, and continued in the military ranks until July 22, 1865, most of that time serving in the Army of the Cumberland and of the Tennessee. He par- ticipated in most of the battles fought by those armies, and took part in twenty- three engagements. Entering the military service as a private he was later ad- vanced to quartermaster and also served for some time as sergeant and while fol- lowing the army he had a number of thrilling experiences which he vividly recalls, and delights to relate. After receiving his discharge he returned to his father's home where he engaged in farming for two years, at the termination of which time he took up the study of law with R. C. Powers, of New London with whom he remained for two years, when he was admitted to the bar. He then formed a partnership with Mr. Powers and they continued to practice law together until the year 1887, when Mr. Powers departed this life. Mr. Johnson has been quite
a successful attorney and has practiced his profession in all of the courts of the county and state and also in the federal courts. He was recognized everywhere
as a man of extraordinary ability and one who possessed the faculty of express- ing himself in clear and faultless English. After having followed the profession for many years his health began to fail and shortly after his partner's death he decided to give up his practice, and retired to his farm in Troy township. where he actively engaged in agricultural pursuits until a few years ago when he re- moved to the village of Nova, where he has since resided.
On February 11, 1878, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Mary M. Fast, daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Baughman) Fast, her father being a wealthy farmer and land-owner of Troy township, whose birth occurred in 1818. Her mother departed this life some years ago. To this union were born four children, namely : Edith E., who became the wife of George McQuade, of Wellington ; Thomas B .; John L .; and Claude E. Mr. Johnson, a deep student, is one of the most highly cultured men of the community and being very fond of books he is well read upon almost every subject, being particularly conversant with ancient and modern history and biography.
In politics Mr. Johnson is a republican and although he has never aspired to office he has always been a loyal supporter of his party and at the same time has taken considerable interest in the affairs of the community, having served several terms as justice of the peace, to which office he was again elected in 1907,.
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but declined to accept. He is a friend of advanced education and of every movement which has for its object the bettering of local conditions. He is a comrade of C. P. Ogden Post, No. 515, G. A. R., of Nova, and also belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, to which he is a liberal contributor. Mr. John- son is a man of high morals whose life has always been such as to command the respect of all with whom he came in contact and he is today one of the most sub- stantial and worthy citizens of the county.
E. L. BERRY.
E. L. Berry, a prominent citizen of Ashland, now holding the responsible position of county surveyor, the duties of which office he has been performing for the past seven years, deserves the title of a self-made man. He was left an orphan at the age of thirteen years with little means and without influence and -since that time through his own exertions has acquired an excellent education and step by step on the strength of his ability has worked his way among the citizens of the county until his popularity together with this efficiency in his particular line of work merit him the position he now holds as a county official.
He was born in Jackson township, this county, October 21, 1870, a son of William and Margaret (Shutt) Berry. His father was born upon the same farm upon which his son E. L. Berry first saw the light of day. This property was entered by his grandfather, Jacob Berry, who came to the county from Pennsylvania in 1818, at that time buying the land from the government. Upon the death of the grandfather, William Berry purchased the old home place, which is now owned by a son, M. M. Berry. The father devoted his time in agricultural pursuits together with stock raising and in 1874, when fifty years of age, departed this life as the result of injuries received by being kicked by a horse. At the time of his demise he was justice of the peace, having served in that office with exceptional credit for a period of twenty-five years. He was a member of the German Reformed church of Polk at the time of his death. Jackson township was also the birthplace of Margaret (Shutt) Berry, mother of the subject of this review, and her parents came to this county from the Keystone state about the time of the arrival of the Berry family. She passed away here on May 4, 1883, being at that time fifty-four years of age.
On the home farm E. L. Berry was reared, acquiring his knowledge of husbandry under the instruction of his father and during his boyhood days obtained his preliminary education in the district schools. About two years following the demise of his mother he began his business career as a farm hand in Wayne county, which occupation he followed for about three years. At the termination of that time he spent one year as a pupil at school in Polk, Ohio, after which he returned to Wayne county, where he devoted one year to farming. During the winter he pursued a course of study at the Ohio Normal University in Ada. In the spring of 1891 Mr. Berry went to Colorado, where he was employed as a surveyor, at the same time being connected with a lumber firm in
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Pitkin county, that state. Upon returning home in the fall of 1892 he again entered Ohio Normal University as a student in the civil engineering department and was graduated May 13, 1894. After his graduation he spent some time on the old home farm with his brother, and while there engaged in various occupa- tions, teaching the district school during the years 1896 and 1897. In the spring of the latter year he again went to Pitkin county, Colorado, where he formed a partnership with John W. Irion, the firm engaging in surveying lands for the government. This connection existed until he returned to this county, where in the spring of 1898 he was married. He then located upon a farm, where he resided for two years, he and his wife in the meantime teaching school during the winter months, and on the expiration of that period he gave up agriculture and divided his time between carpentry and school teaching until the spring of 1901, when he was nominated on the democratic ticket for county surveyor. He was elected during the following fall, was reelected on the expira- tion of his term, and is now serving in that position for his seventh year. His work being entirely satisfactory, he has won the reputation of being one of the most popular and efficient officials of the county.
Mr. Berry's marriage to Miss Anna E. Hastings, of Redhaw, Perry town- ship, this county, was celebrated March 19, 1898, and to this union have been born two children: Marie and Gladwyn A. Mr. Berry is an excellent type of the self-made man who, depending entirely upon his own resources, started out in life fired with laudable ambition and determined to exert his energies in the direction of success, and although his row has been hard he has been favored at each step and now enjoys a measure of prosperity justly due him for his untiring zeal and noble purpose. He is a democrat in politics, whose study of the principles of his party has convinced him of the feasibility of its policies in promoting the highest interests of the government, and he is always a loyal supporter of its candidates. He is popular throughout the county and is held in high regard particularly for the high grade services he has rendered in his present office.
ISAIAH K. DONALD.
Isaiah K. Donald is now living retired in Loudonville. He was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1844, a son of David and Mary Ann (Clark) Donald. The father was born in America but his parents were both natives of Scotland. The mother was also of American birth but came of Scotch- Irish parentage. David Donald followed the miller's trade throughout his entire life and was an industrious, energetic man. He continued his residence in Butler county, Pennsylvania, until about 1845, when he removed to Westmore- land county, that state, and in 1854 became a resident of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. In 1856, he brought his family to Ohio, locating near Nashville in Holmes county. Here he turned his attention to milling and in following that pursuit provided for his family, which numbered six children. Henry the eldest, started for the Mexican war and was never heard from again. Ann
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and Mary are both deceased. Elizabeth is the wife of G. G. Fraim, of Oklahoma. Isaiah K. is the next of the family. Hosea was drowned at the time of the disaster of the Sultana, on which-he was a passenger. He had enlisted from Lucas, Richland county, Ohio, and was a member of Mclaughlin's squadron.
Isaiah K. Donald was only a year old when his parents left his native county and after about nine years' residence in Westmoreland county he accompanied them to Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Since 1856 he has resided continu- ously in Ohio, living in Holmes county until after the outbreak of the Civil war when, on the 14th of August, 1861, he responded to the country's call for troops, joining Company B, of the Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry under command of Captain William Spangler. He participated in the engagements at Cum- berlands Gap, Powells Gap, Tazewell, Tennessee; Chickasaw Bayou; Fort Hinman, Kansas; Fort Gibson, Mississippi; and Champion Hills, and at the last named place on the 16th of May, 1863, he received a gunshot wound in the left ankle. He was sent to the hospital at Memphis, Tennessee, and afterward was granted a furlough and returned home. He then reported to the Seminary Hospital at Columbus and was transferred to the invalid camp at Dennison, Ohio, where he received an honorable discharge on the 28th of December, 1863.
In the meantime his parents had removed to Lucas, Richland county, and Mr .. Donald joined the family there. In July, 1864, he went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and was married in that city on the 8th of June, 1865, the lady of his choice being Miss Susan Linhart, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1842. She was a daughter of Peter and Margaret (Brown) Linhart, who were natives of Pennsylvania and spent their last days near Turtle Creek, in Allegheny county, that state, Mrs. Donald being reared in Allegheny county from the age of five years. Their family numbered four sons and four daughters : William, who is now living in Stewart, Pennsylvania, and who served for three years as a soldier of the Civil war; Evaline, deceased; Mrs. Sarah McCune, of Nebraska; Henry, who was for four years a soldier of the Civil war and has now departed this life; Mrs. Donald; John, of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Elizabeth Mats, of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania; and James, deceased. The mother of these children, who was born November 1, 1808, died on the 31st of July, 1905. The father died April 20, 1876, when nearly eighty years of age.
Following his marriage Isaiah K. Donald returned with his young wife to Lucas, but because of the injury sustained in the war he was able to do little manual labor until 1869. He has resided in Ashland county for forty-one years and since 1873 has made his home in Loudonville with the exception of five years spent on a farm. In the village he has engaged in house-moving and through his well directed business efforts, his energy and his careful expenditure he has acquired a comfortable competence that now enables him to live retired. He also did business as a huckster for eight years and up to the time of his retirement lived a most active, busy and useful life. He has owned a home here since 1874 and two years ago he erected his present residence, which stands as a monument to his thrift and enterprise.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Donald have been born five children: Margaret, at home; Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Low, of Cleveland; Henrietta, the wife
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of W. A. Mosier, who is living near Wooster, Ohio; Henry H., a structural iron worker; and George G., a railroad engineer.
In his political views Mr. Donald has always been a stalwart republican, giving his vote for all presidential candidates of the party and remaining as loyal thereto at local elections. He is a member of Fisher Post No. 309, G. A. R., and thus maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades, serving as post commander and adjutant ever since the organization of the post. The greater majority of the soldiers were literally "boys," many of them not having passed beyond their teens, among which number was Mr. Donald, but they never ceased to feel the keenest interest in their comrades-in-arms and there is no old soldier who does not enjoy meeting at the camp fires those with whom he marched on the long campaigns or who, like himself, were ranged up in battle array facing the enemy's bullets. Mr. Donald was not only a brave soldier but has always been a progressive citizen, interested in everything pertaining to the welfare of the community.
WILLIAM ST. CLAIR LATIMER.
William St. Clair Latimer is one of the venerable and respected citizens of Ashland county. He started upon the journey of life on the 8th of April, 1815, his birthplace being about two miles east of Canton, in Stark county, Ohio. Few can recall from personal knowledge the condition of things in the state at that time. It was by no means unusual to see bands of roving Indians and there were dense forest tracts into which the white men had scarcely penetrated. Comparatively few roads had been laid out, the streams were unbridged and the trees uncut. Wild game of various kinds could be found in the forest and there were also many wild animals. Life, too, was very different from that of the present time. The homes were widely scattered and the settlers depended upon their own labors for nearly everything which they used. Not only did the fields and the farm yield supplies of harvest and of stock which were con- verted into food products, but also the garments of the settlers were largely home woven and home made. The houses were lighted by tallow candles and later by kerosene lamps and fireplaces were used for heating purposes as well as for cooking. Today the average farm has all of the conveniences known to the city and this result has been wrought through the efforts of such enterprising, industrious and public-spirited men as William St. Clair Latimer, who has lived upon his present farm since 1826, or for about eighty-three years.
Mr. Latimer came to Ashland county with his parents, James and Elizabeth (Travis) Latimer, who were natives of Pennsylvania and were reared and married in that state. They afterward removed to Stark county, Ohio, and in 1826 established their home in Ashland county upon a farm on section 24, Mifflin township, whereon they spent their remaining days. The father died when in the eighties and the mother passed away at the very venerable age of ninety-four. Their family numbered ten children: Rebecca, who died in childhood; John; George, who died at the age of ninety-five years; Samuel ;
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Betsy, who became the wife of Daniel Harlan; Nancy, who married Henry Brown; Margaret, who married William Roberts ; Martha, the wife of Benjamin Cole; Joseph; and William. All were married and lived to a ripe old age with the exception of Rebecca.
William St. Clair Latimer is the youngest and the only one now living. He can well remember the journey to this county which was made by wagon through the forest. Here he assisted in the arduous task of clearing away the trees, preparing the land for the plowing and cultivating the first crops. As the years went by he continued to engage in general farming and in due course of time became the owner of one hundred and five acres of his father's original tract which consisted of the southwest quarter of section 24, Mifflin township. When the former took possession but twelve acres had been cleared and a cabin had been built in the little opening. As his years and strength increased Mr. Latimer assisted more and more largely in the work of the farm, so that he was well qualified to assume its management when he began farming on his own account.
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