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JACOB A. RYSER, florist; Bellefontaine; was born in Germany, May 21, 1821, where he married Sophia Vassaux, of Germany. Ile learned his trade as a miller and baker, com- ing to America with his wife in 1801; came direct to Bellefontaine, where he was engaged in the confectionery business for several years. Mr. Ryser also was engaged in the milling business at Mingo, Ohio. In 1876 he first embarked in his present business of florist, and located south of the city, near the fair grounds; he has under cultivation some two acres; three hot-houses, 14 x 68 each; he do- ing the leading business in his hne in the city.
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STIEG & ZEARING. merchant tailors; Bellefontaine; are recognized as the leading merchant tailors of Bellefontaine; the firm is composed of G. W. Stieg, a native of York, l'a., and a practical cutter, having had some twenty years' experience inthe merchant tail- oring business, first commencing business at his native place; thence to Dayton, O., and. in 18:5. to Bellefontaine. 1. Zearing is a native of Ohio, and served in the late war, enlisting in t'o. G. Bist O. N. G. In 1815 the firm of Strig & Zearing was formed; their place of business is on Columbus street, occupying a room 18x12; fret; front room is used as sales- room, where may be found one of the most complete stocks of broadeloth, cassimeres, piece goods, and a full stock of gent's furnish- ing goods; the rear room is used as a work- shop. This firm, in all departments, employ as high as fifteen hands, doing the leading business of the kind in Bellefontaine, carry- ing a stock of goods amounting to nearly $5,000.
JOHN H. STEWART, County Auditor; Bellefontaine; was born in Guernsey Co., ()., May 1, 1828, and is the son of William Stew- art, who was born in Belmont Co., Ohio, in 1803; his grandfather, John Stewart, came to Ohio from Virginia when this State was a Territory. John's father was a soldier in the late civil war; he enlisted from Logan Co., in ('o. D., 66th O. V. I., at the age of 6] years; he did good service and was honorably mus- tered out. Mr. Stewart, in 1832, with his parents, moved to Logan Co., and settled in Bellefontaine, where his father was engaged in the tannery business: the family afterward moved to MeArthur's Tp., on a farm. Mr. Stewart afterward removed to Rush Crock Tp. where he remained until 1917, during which time he was engaged in working on the firm and in a saw-mill. Leaving Rush Creek Tp., he went to Germantown and learned the potter's trade, which business be followed. working in different parts of Ohio and Indi- ana. He returned to Bellefontaine and worked at his trade until 1859, when he re- tired from this business on account of ill health, and entered the produce business. which he continued for some four and a half years, when, in 1866, he was appointed Deputy Auditor of Logis Co., which he filled for Modne seven years, performing his duty so
satisfactorily that, in 1813, he was elected to the office of Auditor of Logan Co., and re- elected to the same office in 18;5 and IS;, where he has given entire satisfaction to the people, and is recognized as b ing one of the most faithful county officers that Lo- gan Co. ever had, Mr. Stewart is a Repub- lican and a worker in the party ranks, also a member of the C. P. Church for the last thirty-three years, Hlo married in Findlay, Hancock Co., Ohio, to Miss Amanda R. Beardsley, of Ohio. By this marriage they have one child, a son, who is clerk in the Auditor's office. Mr. Stewart's father and two brothers were in the late civil war.
W. D. SCARFF, M. D., Bellefontaine; is the oldest practicing physician in Bellefon- taine, having commenced the practice of medicine here some thirty-six years ago; he was born in this State, in Green to, on the 12th of May, 1819, and is the son of Dr. John and Rachel (Curl) Scarff; both parents are natives of Virginia, but moved to Ohio in about 1812; his father followed the practice of medicine for several years, when, on ao- count of ill health. he retired to a farm. Mr. Scarff, after receiving a good common school education, went to Cincinnati, where he attended a course of lectures at the Cincinnati Medical College: he then went to Louisville, and graduated from the Louisville Medical Institute (one of the best in the country) in 1811, and after graduating, he came to Bellefontaine, and began the practice of his profession, making, including himself, only three regular practicing physicians. Of that three, Dr. Scarff is the only one left in the active practice of medicine, and is per- haps the oldest physician in Logan to. He is a member of the American Medical Asso- ciation, Ohio State Medical Society, and the Logan County Medical Society, In 18;5 ho was President of the Logan County Medical Society. and in 1826 was First Vice-President of the Ohio Medical Society; he has written valuable articles for the Lancet and Observer, and other journals. During the late civil war, he was appointed Examining Surgeon: at the close of the war he was appointed Examining Surgeon for pensions, which office he has filled ever since. Dr. Seall' is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Ho married in 1851, to Miss Lois Whitehead, of
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REV. W. H. SINGLEY, minister of the Lutheran Church; Bellefontaine; was born in Johnston, Cambria Co .. Penn., Feb. 18, 1848, and is the son of G. W. and Mary Ann (Trefts) Singiry; both parents are natives of Pennsyl- vania; his grandfather, George Singley, of Pennsylvania, a soldier of the war of 1812, is now living in Iowa, being 110 years old. Our subject's father was a machinist in early life, but later went to farming. In 1856 our sub- ject, with father and family, moved to Iowa, a d located on a farin; here Rev. Singley en- gaged in farming in the summer months, and in the winter attending the district schools, where, after receiving a good common school education, he began teaching school; alter- wards he entered the Bryant, Stratton & Co. Business College of Davenport, Towa, and graduated from this place of learning with the highest honors in 1866. In 1868 he came to Springfield, Ohio, and entered the Wittemberg College, from which institution he graduated in the class of 18:3, filling one of the highest positions of his class. After graduating from this college, he entered the Theological Department at Yale. After re- maining there a short time he returned to the Wittemberg College, and finished his studies in the theological department in 18;5. During the last year he was editor of the college pa- per called the Wittenberger. His first pas- toral work was the Lutheran charge at Osborn, Ohio, where he remained until Aug. 1, 18;6, when he came to Bellefontaine and became the pastor of the Lutheran Church of this city, where he has remained since, doing good work. In January, 181%, he, in company with several others, entered into the publication of the Lutheran Evangelist Res. Singley be- ing associate editor. In January, 1818, he ed- ited and published a Smalay School paper called the Sunshine and Shadow, a neat illus- trated paper with a circulation of some 6,000. In 18: 9 he became sole editor of the Lutheran Erungelist, which is to-day one of the leading papers of the Lutheran Church, with a circu- I tion of some 3,000 copies weekly. Besides Rev. Singley's regular pastoral work and edit- ing two religious newspapers, he fills the of- five as a member of the Logan Co. School Board. Rev. Singley married in Springfield,
O., May 20, 18:5, Miss Emma E. Houck, daughter of W. Il. Houck, one of the old and respected citizens of Springfiekl; by this mar- riage they have had two children-one de- ceased.
THOMAS M. STEVENSON. Bellefontaine; was born in Washington Co., Penn., April 2:, 180%, and is the son of Rev. Joseph and Sarah (Marquis) Stevenson. They, in 1825, with a family of nine children, started in two wagons drawn by six horses, for Ohio. They arrived in Logan Co. on the 4th of May, of that year, and located on a farm in a dense wood. They moved into a log cabin built on the site of the brick house now known as the old homestead, remaining in this log cabin until 1828, when they built the present brick house, which is, perhaps, one of the oldest residences in Lake Tp. Rev. Joseph Steven- son, who was born March 25, 1:49, was a minister in the Presbyterian Church, taking an active part in organizing the Presbyterian churches at Bellefontaine, Sidney. Stone Creek and West Liberty; he died Feb. 24, 1865. His wife, Sarah (Marquis) Stevenson, was born Sept. 5, 1280; she died July 25, 1849. Our subjoet was married in 1828 to Judith Hover, who was born Oct. 29, 1806, having come to this county with her parents at an early day. By this marriage they had nine children, of whom six are living. She died Feb. 12, 1865. Mr. Stevenson built his pres- ent home in 1829, where he has lived over since building his log cabin in the woods. He set out in clearing the land, and to-day, by hard work, the green fields and pastures stretch out from the old homestead on every hand. Mr. Stevenson, in his younger days, has hunted the deer and wild cat, having killed as high as three deer in one day. The farm is now worked by his son, D. M. Stevenson, who is engaged in the dairy business. He has one son, Joseph H., who is a Presbyterian preacher, now located in Pennsylvania.
JAMES W. STEEN, attorney at law; Bellefontaine; was born in McArthur Tp., Logan Co., O., June 16, 1855, and is the son of James L. and Margaret A. (Wallace) Steen; his mother was born in Pennsylvania, and his father in Virginia; he was a farmer, and moved to Logan Co. in about 1849. Our subject was left an orphan when a babe. At four years of age he was placed in the hands of
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his grandfather. James Steen, where he re- Logan Co. In 199 he was elected from mained until he was sixteen years of age, Richland Tp. to the office of Records of La- during which the he was engaged in farming | gan Co. and re-elected in 1822-45, filling this office for nine years, serving the people of Logan Co. as he serve l the Union. faich- fully discharging his duty. In 18;1 Mr. Sweet began the study of law in the office of I. .. Howenstine. In 1844 he was admitted to the practice of law. In 18;8 the law firm of Howenstine & Sweet was formed. and to-day is one of the leading law firmis of lo- gan Co. He is a member of the Methodlist Episcopal Church.
and attended the district schools; at sixtoen he went to 1) Graff, and accepted a clerkship in the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of D Giraff, where he remained about two years, when he entered the Wooster College, where be remained one year, and soon after entered the Monmouth College, of Monmouth, where h . staid four years, and graduated in class of 18;, with forty-live in the graduating class. Mr. Steen ranking fifth of his class; after graduating with high honors from the Mon- mouth College, taking an active part in a very eveiting debate on the follow ne question: " Resolved, that the President of the Senate. with the aid of the Teller, has a right to declare the electoral vote." The subject was taken up by two Democratsand two Republicans, the latter of whom (one was Mr. Steen) came off victorious. In Isi. Mr. Steen came to Bellefontaine, and began the study of law in the office of the Hon. John A. Price: in 1899. he was admitted to the bar, and the same voar formed a partnership with Mr. Price, styling the firm Prieo & Seen, which is one of the leading law firms of the Loan to. Bar. In ISSO Mr. Stren wes c'estel to th other of City Solicitor of B.M .fontaine, and which offi . b . is now filling with credit.
J. O. SWEET, attorney at law; Bellefon- ta'no; was born in Erbana, Champaign Co., 0), Sept. 26, 1842, and is the son of William T. and Elizabeth (Guyton) sweet; his mother is a native of Maryland, and his father of Ohio. When our subject was about 1 year of age, he, with his parents, moved to Logan Co., and locatel on a farm in L'union Tps; from this township be moved to MeArthur Tp., where lie engaged in farming. At the breaking ont of the late civil war he enlisted as a private in 0h. G, Ist O. V. 1., and served with this regi- Hent two years participating in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Stone River and Lib- oty tap. On account of sickness. he was In raly discharged, when he returned home. and, on the Vr of Sept. 1GB, ho reaenlisted m Ca. 6. 120 0. 1. 1', as Quartermaster- " "Fant, participating in the battle of Mt. Sta. Ky. June 9. Ist, where he was Han dal m the right ankle joint, causing am- just go De lost, returning to his home in
MILTON STEEN, attorney-at-law; B -lo- fontaine; was born in Brook d'o., Va., Die. 24. 1832, and is the son of James and Jane Steen, both parents being natives of Virginia. Mr. Steen, with parents, in ahont 1535, came to Ohio and located three miles east of Dela- ware, where they remained until 1:38; then moved to Me Arthur Tp., Logan Co .; thence to Rush Creek Tp., returning to Me. Arthur Tp .. where he remained until isas, during which time he received a good common school educa- tion and taught in the district schools. Hu hogan the study of law. studying for a short time at Tiffin, O .: theuce to B Hl fontaine, in the law office of West & Walker, his pre- ceptors, In 1859 he was almitted to the practice of law, and commenced his chosen profession at Bellefontaine, meeting with good success, quitting the practice of law to al- cept a position in the People's Bank of Belle- fontaine as Cashier: he remained there some three and a half years; then, as C'ashier of the Citizens' National Bank of same city, three years, when he went to Detirall, and was C'ashier of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of that place for eight years, when he returned to Bellefontaine and resumed the practice of law, being now one of the oldest attorneys at the Logan Co. Bar. Mr. Steen was a law partner of John Pollock for two years. Re- publican in politics and a member of the Presbyterian church.
JOSEPH SHAW. deceased: Bellefontaine; Ev-Superintendent of the Bellefontaine City schools. It is supposed that he was born in Kentucky. He was the son of Robert Shaw, wie was engaged in farming, and when quite young, he, with his parents, moved to Brown (', 1). Here he remained for a number of yours, during which time he graduated from
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the Athens College of Ohio, and was ordained as a preacher. He married Miss N. Waite, daughter of Jonathan Waite, an early settler of Adams Co., O. In 1840 he moved to Washington Co., Penn., where he remained some twelve years, during which time he was preaching and teaching a select school, after- wards returning to Brown Co., (., and re- mained there three years, when he came to Bellefontaine and was teacher in the Union Schools under Superintendent Parsons, re- maining in that capacity some two years. He then went to Sidney, where he was Su- perintendent of the Public Schools about two years. He then returned to Bellefontaine and was made Superintendent of the City Schools. and, after filling that position with marked ability for about three years, he moved to Franklin, Ind., and was Principal of the Academy at that place for two years, when he returned to Bellefontaine and was again elected to the Superintendeney of the Public Schools. He was also engaged in the drug business in Bellefontaine for a number of years, and also in the insurance business. Mr. Shaw was also, for a short time, engaged in teaching school in Carro.l Co., Va. He died in 1815, respected and beloved by his fellow- men, leaving a wife and four children to mourn his loss.
E. J. SHORT, merchant; Bellefontaine; was born in Bellefontaine, O., April 9, 1850, and is the son of Il. D. and Elizabeth (Rive- ley ) Short; both parents are natives of Pennsyl- vania, having come to Bellefontaine at an early day. The father was a contractor and builder, having erected some of the leading houses of this city-Logan Ilouse, Fountain llouse, etc. Ile was for several years Master Mechanic on the C., C., C. & I. R. R. Our subject commenced as clerk; he managed to save a small capital, and embarked in busi- ness for himself, in the frame house west of his present place of business; in a few years he managed to save enough to erect his pres- ent business block, which is one of the neatest on Columbus street. He is holding office as Township and City Treasurer, and married Miss Mary Rutan Magruder, daughter of T. J. Magruder.
Thatcher, who came to Ohio as early as 1825, and located in Greene Co. Our subject, when in boyhood, moved to Champaign Co., thence to Indiana. In 1820, he came to Logan Co., and entered the lumber business in D >Graff; in 1880, he entered the milling and lumber business in Bellefontaine, in company with Mr. J. M. Dickinson, and to-day this firm is doing the leading building and lumber busi- ness of the city; their planing mill is 40x80 feet, two stories high, with steam power, and employing six hands. Mr. Thatcher was a soldier in the lat" civil war, enlisting in the 66th O. V. I., being discharged on account of sickness, contracted while in West Virginia; regaining his health, he re-enlisted in the 330 Ind. Vol. I., where he remained until the close of the war, participating in a num- ber of battles-Antietam, Nashville, Cedar Mountain, etc .; was a brave soldier and prompt to duty. Mr. Thatcher married Miss L. Long, of Champaign Co., O., and have seven children, five sons and two daughters.
THOMAS LEE WRIGHT, M. D .; Belle- fontaine; miternal grandson of Dr. Samuel Huntington, of Craftsbury, Vt., and son of Dr. Thomas and Sophia ( Huntington) Wright; his mother was born in Vermont, his father, lately deceased, of Hamilton Co., Ohio. Thomas L. was born at Windham, Portag . Co, Ohio, Aug. 1, 1825. He was educated at the Miami University and at the Ohio Medical College. He graduated as an M. D. from the latter institution in 1846, and practiced at Kansas City until 1854, chiefly among the Wyandotte Indians, located near that city at that time, but has been since that date estal)- lished in Bellefontaine. During the session of 1855-56, he was lecturer upon theory and practice in the Wesleyan University. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and of the Logan County Medical Society, and in 1812 was President of the latter. Among his published writings may be men- tioned: " Notes on the Theory of Human Ex- istence," I vol., 8vo. p. 3%, 1848; " Disquis'- tion on the Ancient History of Medicine," 1 vol., Svo. p. 84, 1860; "Inquiry into the Value of Testimony Respecting Facts as they Appear to a Mind Partly Conscious;" " Trans- actions Ohio Medical Society, 1860;" " The Deterioration of the Race upon the Western
J. THIATCHIER, milling and lumber; Belle- fontaine; was born in Green Co., O., July 9, 1838, and is the son of A. and 1. (Iledges) ; Continent," in Cincinnati Lanet and Observer
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in September, 18;4. and paper upon "Transcendental Medicine," the publication of which was begun in the November number of the Lanet and Observer of 1818. In 1818 he edited the Ohio C'ensor, a political journal published at Bellefontaine. Ho has written two es ays on " Insane Responsibility-Par- tinl Insanity," and " Responsibility Restricted by Insane Delusion." Dr. Wright married, March 31. 1846, Lucinda, dang it or of Dr. A. H. Lord of Bellefontaine. He has two children Dr. biel L. Wright and Thomas H. Wright. attorney-at-law. While Dr. Wright was a resident of Kansas City. he was adopted into the Wyandotte tribe of Indians, at one of their national feasts. The in dieal lectures delivered by Dr. Wright in the city of Keo- kuk. Iowa, were given before a class in the medical department of the Wesleyan Eniver- sity of lowa. While in Koo. uk, Da. W. de- livered two or three lectures on scient fie sub- jects before large and intelligent popular au- diences. Of one of these lev ures the Daily Evening Times of Feb. 11, 1836, contains an elaborate notice, the editor remarking: "We at- tended the lecture of Prof. Weight last night, at Barrow's Hall, on the . R dations of Physi- ology to Education,' and were highly pleased at the ability with which the lecturer handled his subject, and the fidelity with which he de- picted the various and interesting mental phenomena that presented themselves in con- nection with its consideration," etc. Dr. W. has also delivered several addresses on sub- jeets pertaining to pohties, some of which have bron published. One of them can be found in the Bellefontaine Republican of October, Isso, and another in the same paper of the ISth of May, 1863. An address on the sub- jout of temperance, delivered on the 8th of December, 1866, will be found in a subsequent issue of the Republican. Some of the papers of Dr. Wright, in addition to those above mentioned, are: An article on " Croup " (C'in- cinnati Laned and Observer, August, IST); " Convulsions " (Ibid. October, I); " Can- nabis Inliens" (1b., February, 1863); " Scar- latina " ( /b., February, Isgn): " t'holera" (/h, Mas, 1866.) - the article on Cholera re- raved an elaborate review in the Chicago Medical Examiner of August, Ist "Ilens" t' Punti Lawet and Observer, February.
1822)-this article was extensively copied into scientific papers-" Cerebro-spinal Meningit- is " ( 1b., July, 18;2); " Science and Revela- tion," a pamphlet, Is;8; "Some Points Re- specting the Responsibility of the Partially Insane " (Cincinnati Laneet and Clinic, July 5-12, 1829)-extensively noticed in scientific works, and quoted by the distinguished legal authority. Francis Wharton, in " The Criminal Law " magazine for January, 1880-" R spon- sibility Restricted by Insane Delusion " (C'in- cinnati Medical Nors, November, 1819)- very extensively noticed, and che ting letters of inquiry from Canada to Texas, and from Connecticut to U'tah. Dr. Wright has also written for the Cincinnati Laned and Uh- serrer a series of articles on " Magnetism, Light and Topographical Changes in the Earth's Surface," as they severally influence the cause and course of disease, and the moth- ods of cure. The latest production from the pen of Dr. Wright is entitled, "Cerebral Trance -- A Cure-with Some Critical Re- marks," which is printed in the Cincinnati Lawet and Clinic of Sept. 11, 1880. The Doctor has projected and partly written an essay inqu'ring into the trith and expedi- eney of the arguments against Revelation, which are founded upon the natural sciences; also, questioning the legitimacy of the objec- tions to the doctrine of a first and intelligent cause, which are derived from the same Dr. Wright is still practicing medi- cine in Bellefontaine, and seems to be al- ways hard at work with his brains or his hands.
JOIIN W. WARD, Bellefontaine; was born in Yates to. N. Y., April 21, 1821, and remained in his native State until he was 14. when he came to Ohio and located in Huron C'o., there remaining until about 1839. when he went south, and while there the war with Mexico broke out, when he enlisted, at Lonis- ville, in the 16th U'. S. I. regiment, under Capt. Brauham, for three years or during the war. Mr. Ward went to Mexico with the regiment and did good service, participating in some skirmishing and hard marching. Mr. Ward enlisted as John W. Denslow, which was his mother's maiden name. Returning from Mexi- co, he, in 1855, came to Bellefontaine, where he purchased a lot and built a hotel, which afterward burned. Mr. Ward was engaged
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in flat-boating, on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from 1840 to 1853.
A. G. WRIGHT, merchant; Bellefontaine: was born in Hillsborough Co., N. H., in 1829, and came to Ohio in 1855; he engaged in railroading, being connected with some of the leading railroads in Ohio and Kentucky, and was connected with the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad when Gen. Geo. B. MeCleflan was its President. In 1862 he came to Bellefon- taine and accepted a position on the (., C., C. & I. R. R. as Master of Bridge Building; he fi led this phiee until 18;8, retiring on account of his health. In 1829 Mr. Wright entered the drug business, and it is said that Butler & Wright own one of the finest drug stores in Logan Co.
THOMAS N. WRIGHT, Bellefontaine; was born at Bellefontaine, Logan Co., Ohio, on the 30th of April, 1849. He read law with the firm of Kernan & Kernan, and was ad- mitted to the Bar at the spring term of the Supreme Court at Columbus, in 18:1, and subsequently in the Supreme Court at Denver City, Colorado, in which city he mastered his profession with Gov. Bela M. Hughes, and practiced in that Territory for one year. Re- turning East, he was appointed to a position in one of the Government departments at Washington, which he held several years; resigning at length, he returned to his native town, where he is now engaged in the prac- tice of the law.
FRANK I. WERLEY. Bellefontaine; was born in Seneca Co., Ohio, in 1853, where he remained for a number of years, entering the employ of the C., C., C. & I. R. R., and was engaged in helping to build bridges, working at the stone mason's trade; here he remained for some four years. Mr. Werley also learned the butcher's trade; this he learned at Belle- fontaine, working at his trade for a few years. In 1819 he entered the sample-room business, becoming sole owner of his business in 1880. His place of business is located at the corner of Main and Chillicothe streets.
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