History of Sandusky County, Ohio : with portraits and biographies of prominent citizens and pioneers, Part 61

Author: Everett, Homer, 1813-1887
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : H.Z. Williams
Number of Pages: 1040

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cates an aptness to acquire learning which is quite unusual. He continued to teach in the winter, and attend school in the summer until he commenced the study of the law, which was in the summer of 1876. He, however, taught the Hessville graded schools when studying, and there closed his career as a school teacher in April, 1880.

In June, 1880, Mr. O'Farrell passed examination under the new rules of the supreme court at Columbus, Ohio, and was there admitted to practice. He was elected a justice of the peace for San- dusky township in the spring of 1879, but resigned the office on the 16th of August, 1881. He was appointed a member of the board of county school examiners on the 3d day of July, 1881, which office he still creditably fills.

On the 24th day of May, 1881, Mr. O'Farrell married Miss Catharine O'Con- nor, daughter of Bryan O'Connor, who is now one of our most popular county commissioners.

Mr. O'Farrell has fine, natural gifts of perception, memory and language, which, if properly used, will make him a good advocate and lawyer.

MARCUS D. BALDWIN was born at Fre- mont, Ohio, on the 25th day of Septem- ber, 1851. He received his early educa- tion at Toledo, Ohio, finishing a course at Oberlin, attending the latter institution about four years. He commenced read- ing law at Toledo, Ohio, borrowing the books he read from Messrs. Dunlap and M. R. Waite. He subsequently was located at Green Spring, Ohio, and while there read law under the tuition of Hon. T. P. Finefrock, of Fremont, Ohio. He was admitted to practice at Fremont by the district court on the Ist day of March, 1874, and began practice at Green Spring, May 1, 1874. He subsequently removed to Fremont and opened a law office. He

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was chosen city solicitor for the city of Fremont soon after settling in the city, and satisfactorily discharged the duties of that office for several years. At this writ- ing (May 1, 1881,) Mr. Baldwir. is still in practice, doing quite a successful business as an attorney, and dealing in real estate, but contemplates a removal to Shelby, Ohio. At one period Mr. Baldwin re- sided and taught school at Mitchell, In- diana. On the 31st day of October, 1874, he was married at Shelby, Ohio, to Sarah S. Rogers, by whom he has two living children, having lost one.

THOMAS P. DEWEY, now residing at Clyde, Ohio, was born on the 27th day of December, 1852, in Crawford county, State of Pennsylvania, and was educated at the common schools, mainly at Kel- loggsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio. He commenced reading law at Painesville, Chio, with Tinker & Alvord in the spring of 1876, came to Clyde in the spring of 1877, and finished his course of legal study in the office of Lemmon, Finch & Lemmon at that place, reading there until 1879. He was admitted to the Bar April 27, 1879, and commenced practice in Tiffin, Ohio, in September following. He, however, returned to Clyde, and is now practicing. Mr. Dewey was married on the 9th day of September, 1879, to Miss Jennie Stilwell. He is a young man of good faculties, and no doubt will in time make a successful lawyer.

BYRON R. DUDROW was born in Adams township, Seneca county, Ohio, on the Ist day of March, 1855. He was educated at Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, from which institution he received the degree of Master of Arts. He commenced the study of law in the office of Basil Meek, at Clyde, Ohio, on the 18th day of June, 1877. On the 26th day of April, 1879, he was admitted to the Bar by the district court of the county. He did not, how-

ever, at once enter into active practice. He served as deputy county clerk from the time of his admission to the Bar until April 26, 1880, at which time he com- menced practice in Fremont. On the 22d day of November, 1878, he was married to Miss Mary E. Meek, daughter of Basil Meek, who is now the popular clerk of Sandusky county. Mr. Dudrow is a prom- ising young member of the Bar, and with his excellent habits and genial good man- ners will probably attain a high professional standing. He is now, by election, the city solicitor of the city of Fremont, and is to all appearance on the road to pros- perity in his profession.

JOHN B. LOVELAND was born in New Haven township, Huron county, Ohio, on the 20th day of February, 1827. At the age of nineteen years he left his father's farm for Oberlin College to supplement the education picked up in a pioneer dis- trict school on the classic Huron River. On the 22d day of August, 1850, he was married to Miss Martha Jane Watts, of New Haven, by whom he has had three children. In 1854 he removed to Fre- mont, Sandusky county, Ohio, to take a position as teacher in the Fremont graded schools. This position he held with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned for the term of ten years. From his position in the schools of Fremont he was called to the superintendency of the schools at Belle- vue and Green Spring respectively, in which position he spent eight years. All this time he was one of the reliable mem- bers of the board of county school exam- iners, in which position he well and faith- fully discharged the duties of the office for the term of fourteen years. He com- menced the study of the law while super- intending the schools of Green Spring, with Marcus I). Baldwin, esq., and was ad- mitted to the Bar by the district court of

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Sandusky county at Fremont, Ohio, on the 20th of March, 1876, where he com- menced the practice of law, and has con- tinued to practice until the present time. Although a member of the legal profes- sion Mr. Loveland does not make the practice of the law a specialty, preferring the retirement of his farm, situated one and a half miles southwest of the city. In solid scientific attainments, and in that practical common sense which is the re- sult of learning and original thought, Mr. Loveland has few superiors. His father, Mr. John Loveland, one of the oldest pioneers of Huron county, is still in good health at the advanced age of eighty-three years.

BASIL MEEK was born at New Castle, Henry county, Indiana, April 20, 1829. In 1832 he removed with his parents to Wayne county, Indiana. In August, 1841, with his parents, he went to Owen county, Indiana, and there resided until September, 1864, when he came to Ohio and settled at Clyde. His school educa- tion was that of the common schools. He was married to Cynthia A. Brown, in De- cember, 1849, who died August 14, 1861, at Spencer, Owen county, Indiana. By this marriage he had four children, viz. : Minerva B., Mary E., Lenore Belle, and Flora B. Mary E., who is the wife of B. R. Dudrow, esq., and Lenore Belle, only, are now living. He was married to Mar- tha E. Anderson, September 30, 1862, by whom he has had two children, both liv- ing, viz .: Clara C. and Robert C. He served as clerk of the courts of Owen county, Indiana, continuously from February 20, 1854, to February 20, 1862. At the No- vember term, 1861, of the Owen county circuit court, he was admitted to the Bar, and formed a law partnership with Hon. Samuel H. Buskirk, practicing at Spencer till his removal to Ohio. In 1871, at Clyde, he resumed the practice of law, continuing

in the practice until he entered the clerk's office of Sandusky county, February Io, 1879, to which office he was elected in October, 1878. He is at this time serv- ing as such clerk, and was, at the October election, 1881, re-elected to said office.

THOMAS P. FINEFROCK was born at Frank- lin county, Pennsylvania, January 9, 1826. He came to Ohio and settled in Lancaster, where he studied law with Medill & Whit- man. He was admitted to the Bar in August, 1851, and came to Fremont and began practice with Brice J. Bartlett in the following September. He soon be- came well known as a lawyer, and the firm became prominent in the legal business of the county. Mr. Finefrock was chosen to the position of prosecuting attorney in 1853, and served two successive terms. In 1857 he was the Democratic candidate for representative in the General Assembly, his Republican opponent being Ozias L. Nims, a prominent merchant of Fremont. After a closely contested campaign, Mr. Finefrock was elected by a small majority. During the war he took an active interest in politics, being a leader of the ultra- Democratic party. In 1866 he received the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Tenth District, but was defeated by General R. P. Buckland, the Republican candidate. His practice from the time he located in the county was large and re- munerative. In 1874 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas, on the Democratic ticket, and served for the full term of five years, when he again re- turned to the practice of law, entering in- to partnership with Charles H. Bell, under the firm name of Finefrock & Bell. The firm is now in full practice. He has always maintained the reputation of a good jury lawyer. Mr. Finefrock was married in May, 1854, to Miss Emma E. Carter. They have raised a family of children, and reside east of the city.

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S. S. RICHARDS is a native of Townsend township, this county, and was born Au- gust 8, 1857. He was educated in Clyde, and graduated from the high school of that place in 1875. Just after graduating he went to California, where he spent about one year. Re- turning, he began the study of law in the office of Basi! Meek, at Clyde, in the fall of 1876. He was admitted to the Bar by the supreme court at Columbus in the spring of 1879, and immediately opened an office at Clyde. In June, 1879, he formed a partnership with D. A. Heffner for the practice of the profession, which partnership still continues. Mr. Richards is a promising young member of the Bar.

D. A. HEFFNER came to Sandusky county with his parents, who settled in York township in 1856. He was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1849. He was educated in the common schools and in Hillsdale college, Mich- igan, where he spent one year ---- 1869 -- 70. From 1870 to 1875 he taught school in the winter and farmed in the summer. In the spring of 1875 he entered the Nor- mal school at Lebanon, Ohio, where he re- ceived the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1877. He then entered the office of J. H. Rhodes and continued two years, teaching school cach winter. In April, 1879, he was admitted to the Bar by the district court at Fremont. He began to practice in partnership with S. S. Rich- ards in June, 1879. He was married May 27, 1879, to Miss Belle Haff, daugh- ter of Hiram Haff, of Townsend town- ship. He is an honorable and worthy member of the Bar.

JOHN T. GARVER was born in Congress, Wayne county, Ohio, July 26, 1848; was educated in the common school and at the academy at Smithville, Ohio; taught school six terms. He commenced read- ing law in March, 1846, in the office of

Hon. H. G. Blake, at Medina, Ohio, where he remained until September, 1869, when he entered the Ohio State and Union Law college at Cleveland, where he took a reg- ular course, and from which institution he was graduated on June 29, 1870, receiv- ing the degree of Bachelor of Laws; was admitted to the Bar by the supreme court of Ohio at Columbus, on March 17, 1870, and in June of the same year he was ad- mitted to practice in the West Salem dis- trict and circuit courts at Cleveland. He commenced the law practice at West Salem, Ohio, in July, 1870, where he remained until May, 1871, when he re- moved to Fremont, where he has ever since been engaged in the active practice of his profession. In politics a Demo- crat, he was elected to the office of solic- itor for Fremont in April, 1873 and re- elected to the same office in April, 1876, holding that position four years. In Octo- ber, 1877, he was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney of Sandusky county, and re elected in October, 1879, which position he now holds. He has been a member of the board of teachers' examin- ers of this county since August 5, 1876, of which board he is now president ; was married, in February, 1878, to Miss Sarah E. Gilbert, of Medina county; and is the father of two children. Mr. Garver has built up a good practice, and is now in part- nership with his brother, S. C. Garver.

JAMES H. FOWLER is a native of Fre- mont, Ohio, and was born January 5, 1846. His father was, by birth, an Englishman, and his mother a Pennsylvania German. He attended common school and desired more extensive school privileges, but the financial circumstances of his father seem- ed to forbid. James, however, met these circumstances honorably, by amply re- munerating his father for the loss of his services, from the time of leaving home -- eighteen -- to the time of his majority. He

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taught school for several terms and then learned the printer's trade in the office of the Sandusky County Democrat. H enlisted as a private in the One Hun- dredth Ohio Volunteer Infantry April 24, 1861. He was advanced from the ranks to the first lieutenancy. At Limestone Station he was taken prisoner, with many others of his regiment. For four months he suffered the hardships of prison life at Salisbury and Libby, the greater part of the time at Libby. While in prison he fell into association with a well-educated Frenchman, who was also a prisoner. Mr. Fowler indicated a desire to learn the French language, and was instructed by his fellow prisoner. He was an apt stu- dent, and advanced rapidly until the time of his escape, which was really a romantic episode of prison life. The suffering in- mates of Libby were detailed each day to gather wood to supply the prison. One damp day, while on this dreary mission, a companion and Mr. Fowler made a daring and successful attempt to escape. As soon as they reached the woods they speed on their way northward, being aided and guided by negroes. They slept dur- ing daylight and travelled at night. Pur- suing blood hounds were evaded by travel- ling the rocky beds of streams. At last they safely reached the Union lines at Knoxville, and re-entered the service. At the close of the war he was mustered out with his regiment as first lieutenant, and returned to Fremont. He at once began the study of law in the office of Homer Everett, and was admitted to practice August 15, 1876. After a short time of practice, he formed a partnership with Mr. Everett, and the firm has been continued without change since that time. Mr. Fow- ler has a fair knowledge of the French and German languages, has a large fund of general information, and by his own in- dividual efforts has earned a good standing

among members of the Bar of the county.

ERNEST B. WILLIAMS is a native of Salem, Oregon, and was born February 15, 1853; was educated at Willamette Uni- versity, Oregon; studied law at Portland, Oregon, with W. W. Thayer, now Governor, and was admitted to practice by the su- preme court of the State, in August, 1874. He began practice at Salem immediately after his admission, and came to Fremont, Ohio, in May, 1880. He shortly after entered into partnership with M. D. Bald- win, who has since removed from the county, and Mr. Williams is now practic- ing alone.

GEORGE W. GLICK and CHARLES S. GLICK for some time practiced law at Fre- mont. Both removed to Kansas, and practiced there for some time. Charles S. died there several years ago. George W. is still living at Atchison, Kansas. He has been a member of the State legisla- ture, was a centennial commissioner, and is a man of considerable local influence.

GEORGE R. HAYNES practiced in San- dusky county during the early part of his life. He removed to Toledo where he enjoyed a high reputation as a lawyer and citizen.

WILLIAM AUNESLY was a graduate of Oberlin College; studied law many years ago with Buckland & Everett and was ad- mitted to the Bar in Sandusky county, and after a short term of practice here he re- moved to Port Clinton, Ottawa county. He was elected prosecuting attorney of that county, and after acquiring considera- ble reputation and a remunerative practice he died in the prime of manhood.

WILLIAM W. AINGER located in San- dusky county for the practice of law about 1837, having come from the Western Re- serve. He married, in Fremont, the daughter of Dr. Daniel Brainard. After practicing for a few years he removed to Chagrin Falls, where he died years ago.

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JOHN K. HORD came from Tiffin to Fremont about 1856 or 1857 and began the practice of law. He practiced here successfully a few years, when, on account of ill health, he was induced to remove to Louisiana, and engaged in the manage- ment of a sugar plantation. When rebel- ion was threatened he came North and settled in Buffalo. After a short time he removed to Cleveland, where he has at- tained a standing in his profession. He is still in practice in Cleveland.

EDWARD F. DICKINSON, son of Rodol- phus Dickinson, was educated at Cincinnati and was admitted to the Bar at an early age. He was a bright scholar and well qualified for the profession. He is a man of talent, but has never devoted himself arduously to the profession. He was pros- ecuting attorney for two terms, beginning in 1852. He was elected probate judge in 1866 and served three years. While in this office he was elected to Congress in 1868. He represented this district in Congress one term. He has also been mayor of the city.

ALPHEUS P. PUTNAM was born in Wy- andot county, Ohio, in 1837. At the or- ganization of the Seventy-second he en- listed, and was wounded at the battle of Shiloh. He rose in rank from private to captain. After the war he studied law in the office of T. P. Finefrock and was ad- mitted to the Bar in April, 1867, and prac- ticed in Fremont till the time of his death. He was prosecuting attorney four years.

HIRAM W. WINSLOW began practice in Bellevue, but afterwards removed to Fre- mont about 1860. He was a good advo- cate and ranked well as an attorney. He was elected prosecuting attorney in 1864, and served two years. He afterwards rep- resented the county in the legislature. He was for a time the law partner of Judge J. L. Green, sr. While in the General Assem- bly his eyesight failed entirely, but he con-

tinued in practice with the assistance of a guide. His health finally failed, and after a protracted sickness he died. Mr. Wins- low never married, nor had he any rela- tives in this vicinity. During his last sick- ness, however, he was kindly cared for by personal and professional friends.

JOHN MCINTYRE LEMMON was born in Townsend township, Sandusky county, Ohio, July 25, 1839, his father being Uriah Blake Lemmon, and his mother Emily A. McIntyre Lemmon. John McIntyre remained with his parents until eighteen years old, and received a common school education. He taught a district school in the winter of 1857-58; attended school at Oberlin college in the summer of 1858; taught again the follow- ing winter, and in the spring of 1859 went to Missouri, and began the study of law in the office of Knoll & McIntyre. In No- vember, 1859, he went to Jefferson City, Missouri, and studied with Mr. Knoll, who had been appointed attorney general of the State. In April, 1860, Mr. Lem- mon was admitted to the Bar by the su- preme court of Missouri, and soon after returned to his home.

July 12, 1860, his mother died, after a lingering illness. In the winter of 1860-61 Mr Lemmon again taught a district school. April 24, 1861. he enlisted in com- pany F, Eighth Ohio, in the three months' service, and was discharged August 18, 1861. October 9, 1861, Mr. Lemmon again enlisted in company B, Seventy- second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and con- tinued in the service until the close of the war; was promoted to second lieutenant May 23, 1862, and to captain July 23, 1863, and was mustered out at Selma, Alabama, June 21, 1865. During part of the war he was on detached duty as judge advocate of a military commission at Memphis, Tennessee.

March 29, 1864, Mr. Lemmon was

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married to Miss Annie Covell, of Perkins, Erie county, Ohio. In December, 1865, he settled in Clyde, and began the prac- tice of his profession. He has met with good success in his practice and has for many years past enjoyed an extensive practice in the State and Federal courts. He has one child living, named Mack, born April 8, 1870. One child, Frank, born October 8, 1865, died November 9, 1867.

When the village of Clyde was incor- porated, in May, 1866, Mr. Lemmon was chosen its first mayor, and was re-elected in April, 1867. He has never held any other civil office.

Mr. Lemmon is one of the most studi- ous, active, and industrious members of the Bar now in practice in the county. He has accumulated money and property by his practice. His library at Clyde con- sists of fifteen hundred well selected vol- umes. Mr. Lemmon's energy and indus- try have brought him into such prominence in the northwest portion of Ohio, that a bright career is opening before him. His practice already extends into Erie, Huron, Ottawa, Seneca, and other counties in northwestern Ohio. He also practices in the circuit, district, and supreme courts of the United States, as well as the su- preme court of Ohio.

MORRIS ELBERT TYLER was born No- vember 16, 1836, at Lower Sandusky. His father was Captain Morris Tyler, and his mother Sophia (Bristol) Tyler. He attended the common schools of his na- tive place until qualified to enter Kenyon college, at Gambier, Ohio, where he grad- uated. He began the study of law in the winter of 1853-54, in the office of Buck- land & Everett, at Fremont, and was ad- mitted to the Bar in 1857. He at once opened an office in what is known as Buckland's old block, in Fremont. In the summer of 1861 he volunteered in com-

pany F, of the Forty-ninth Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, and was made first lieuten- ant. Afterwards Lieutenant Tyler was promoted and commissioned as captain of company I, of the same regiment. Cap- tain Tyler is naturally a brave man and soon after entering the service became a good soldier. On the 24th day of July; 1864, while fighting in front of Atlanta, Georgia, he received a severe wound from a rifle ball, which struck him in the mouth, knocking out some of his front teeth, and passing into the roof of his mouth passed on and out behind his left ear. This wound was received, it will be noticed, just two days after General Mc- Pherson fell, he being killed on the 22d day of July, 1864. Captain Tyler, on the 24th day of November, 1864, was honor- ably mustered out of the service on ac- count of the disability resulting from this wound. On returning to Fremont he was for some time engaged as assistant editor of the Democratic Messenger. Captain Tyler was elected justice of the peace soon after he began practice in 1859, and has since held that office, with the excep- tion of the time spent in the military ser- vice of the country, and as a civil officer is as good and true as he was faithful and brave in the army of the Union.

HORACE STEPHEN BUCKLAND was born in Fremont on the 2 1st day of April, 1851. He is the son of R. P. and Charlotte (Boughton) Buckland. In early boyhood he attended the common schools of Fre- mont. For a time he attended the pre- paratory school at Gambier, Ohio, and afterwards a like school at East Hampton, Massachusetts. He then entered Cornell college, New York, and after remaining there about one year returned to Fremont and studied law in the office of Buckland & Everett about one year and a half. He then attended the law department ( f Har- vad college about a year, when he re-

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turned to Fremont and read law for a short time with Everett & Fowler. In September, 1875, he was admitted to the Bar after a close examination by a com- mittee appointed by the district court at Elyria, Ohio. Upon his admission Mr. Buckland at once formed a partnership with his father, General Ralph P. Buck- land, in the practice of law, in which he is still engaged.

Horace Buckland is a promising young member of the Bar, of peculiarly exem- plary life and conduct, and already begins to develop those qualities of mind and habits of industry which will surely place him high in his profession.

Mr. Buckland was married to Eliza C. Bowman, on the 10th day of June, 1878, with whom he is still living in Fremont.

HEZEKIAH REMSBURG was born in Ha- gerstown, Maryland, February 2, 1812; emigrated with his father to Lower San- dusky, arriving at the latter place on the IIth day of March, 1822. His education was in the common school after he came to Ohio, and began in the first school house built between the Sandusky River and the Maumee. The house was a rude log structure which stood on the east bank of Muskalonge Creek and north of the Maumee and Western Reserve turn- pike, and was probably erected about the year 1825. Mr. Remsburg helped his father to clear off a fine farm on Muska- longe Creek, south of the turnpike above mentioned and adjoining it. The father of Mr. Remsburg was a mechanic, whose services were in much demand as a millwright, and the son learned the trade by working with his father in the prepara- tion of the mills which were built in an early period in different parts of the county. Young Remsburg inherited his father's mechanical talent, and afterwards worked at various mechanical jobs when his services on the farm could be dispensed

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History of Sandusky County, Ohio : with portraits and biographies of prominent citizens and pioneers, Part 61

Author: Everett, Homer, 1813-1887 Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : H.Z. Williams Number of Pages: 1040

Author: Everett, Homer, 1813-1887
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : H.Z. Williams
Number of Pages: 1040