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Hervey H. Hubbell was born in Scotch Ridge, Wood county, Ohio,
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November 4, 1873, is a son of Rev. S. C. Hubbell, long a resident of Wooster while a retired minister of the United Presbyterian church. Hervey H. is a graduate of the Wooster high school, class of 1891, and a graduate of the University of Wooster, class of 1895; was admitted to the bar in June, 1897.
Silas N. Coe was born in Sugar Creek township, Wayne county, Ohio, in June, 1837. His father was a farmer and mill owner, and he remained in his service until the death of the father in 1854. He served for some time as a private in the Sixteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, enlisting in 1861, and was ranked as sergeant-major. He was admitted to the bar in 1874, and opened an office in Orrville. He served as United States commis- sioner. He was married February 14, 1877, to Ellen Steele.
Aquila Wiley was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. His fa- ther, William Wiley, was a farmer. In 1852 he came to Wayne county, Ohio, with his father, who purchased land and settled a short distance northeast of Reedsburg. Although quite a young man, his education was sufficient to qualify him for the duties of teaching, and for several years he successfully engaged in this vocation. He read law in Wooster, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in June, 1857. He was married May 19, 1876, to Emma, daughter of Hon. Neal Power, a former dry goods merchant of Wooster. Mr. Wiley entered the Union army in 1861, and by a series of promotions became brigadier-general in 1865. He was prominent in politics, was elected probate judge of Wayne county in 1876, elected to Ohio Legislature in 1897.
James E. Snyder was born near Burbank, Congress township, Wayne county, January 14, 1869, and is a farmer's son. He studied law, graduated from the University of Wooster in 1893, winning a reputation as an orator ; graduated from the Ohio State University in 1895, admitted to the bar that year.
Charles C. Jones is the only son of ex-State Senator Lake F. Jones and Jennie Jones, of Wooster, and was born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, October 22, 1873. He is a great-grandson of Hon. Benjamin Jones, who settled in Wayne county as early as 1811, who served in both houses of the General Assembly of Ohio, and two years in Congress. He received his education in the public schools of Wooster, taking a commercial course at Bixler's Business College of this city, later attended the Ohio State University, and was admitted to the bar in 1900.
Walter J. Mullins is the youngest son of James Mullins of Wooster, who permanently established himself in this city a number of years ago. He
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graduated from the University of Wooster in the class of 1881, subsequently becoming a student of law, was admitted to the Ohio bar, and for a period engaged in the practice of his profession in Wooster, later engaging in the coal business.
Cyrus A. Rider was born in Wayne county, January 16, 1844. He enlisted in the Union army in 1862, was wounded at Mission Ridge and mus- tered out June 13, 1865. He studied at various academies after the war, was admitted to the bar in 1876 and filled several local offices.
Benjamin Eason was born in a log cabin in Worcester, May 5. 1822, the son of a millwright and farmer. He had a hard time securing an education ; went to California in 1850, returned to Wayne county, filled local offices. elected state senator in 1859 and in 1882 ; entered the Federal army in 1862, becoming captain, later colonel. He purchased the Wayne County Democrat in 1864, opened a law office in 1870.
Other living members of the Wayne county bar whose sketches appear in the biographical section of this work are, Ross W. Funck, J. O. Fritz, W. F. Kean, John McSweeney, J. C. McClarran, T. W. Orr, Mahlon Rouch, H. B. Swartz, Frank Taggart, James B. Taylor, W. E. Weygandt and C. A. Weiser.
FORMER MEMBERS OF WAYNE COUNTY BAR PRACTICING ELSEWHERE.
Frederick J. Mullins, son of James Mullins, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and came with his parents to Wooster, Ohio; graduated from the university here, was admitted to the bar and opened an office here; located later at Salem, Ohio, as attorney for the Pennsylvania lines.
Enos Foreman was born in Baughman township, Wayne county, Au- gust 9, 1820, and was educated at Wadsworth Academy. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1847, when he commenced the practice of law in Wooster in which he continued for a number of years. In August, 1852, he, with H. C. Johnson, purchased the Wooster Democrat, which, in 1853. they changed to Wooster Republican, selling the same in 1870. He removed to Kansas City, Missouri, a number of years ago.
J. C. Christy came to Wooster from Washington county, Pennsylvania, in the early eighties, where he remained about a year. He had served three years as a soldier in the Union army. He was a lawyer of average ability. He removed to Kansas City, Missouri.
Lucius Adams came to Wooster from Pennsylvania in 1868. He was
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a graduate of Jefferson College, and also of the Albany Law School. His sojourn in Wooster was of short duration, during which time he practiced law and was local editor of the Wooster Republican. In 1869 he removed to Rock Island, Illinois, began practice and has twice been elected county judge. .
John F. Maxwell was born in Holmes county, Ohio, May 27, 1835, and was reared on a farm. He attended the public schools and the Fredericks- burg Academy. He was admitted to the bar in 1860; two years later he entered the Union army ; he was elected common pleas judge in 1896.
W. H. Spence practiced law for a short time about 1888. Abandoning his office in Wooster, he returned to Columbiana county, whence he came.
Martin George Pauley was born in Wooster in 1862, though reared in Massillon, Ohio. He was a student of law in Wooster but attended the Cincinnati Law College, from which he graduated in 1890. He began legal practice in Wooster, but removed to Massillon where he remained.
William G. Myers was a resident and land owner and lawyer for many years in Chippewa township, Wayne county. In 1873 he removed to Canal Fulton, Ohio, where he continued in the practice of his profession. He was captain of Company G, One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, enlisting in 1862.
Wellington Stillwell studied law in Millersburg, Holmes county, where he was born in 1859; in 1882 he was elected judge of the common pleas court of the sixth judicial district.
Ezra W. Miller was born in Wayne county and was reared on a farm. He read law, and after his admission to the bar opened an office in Wooster. He removed to Dakota when it was a territory, and under both of President Cleveland's administrations he was appointed receiver of public moneys in one of the territorial districts.
D. H. Twomey located in Wooster in 1868, where he remained for one year, during which time he engaged in the practice of his profession. He was born in the city of New York. He was admitted to the bar in Lafayette, Indiana. From Wooster he went to Davenport, Iowa, from there to Duluth, Minnesota, and thence to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Josiah Given was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1828, and in his early life was a farm laborer and blacksmith, and with his par- ents came to Holmes county, Ohio, where they settled when he was ten years old. He was a soldier in the Mexican war, was admitted to the bar in 1851 and served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Holmes county. He
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entered the Union army in 1861 with the rank of captain, became colonel of the Seventy-Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and subsequently a brigade commander. He served as postmaster of the thirty-ninth congress. For a short period he practiced law in Wooster and in 1868 he removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he has held many important offices.
James R. Woodworth is a native of Paris, Lamar county, Texas, but when he was six years old his parents removed to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was reared and obtained his education. At the outbreak of the Civil war the family removed to Kansas. He served in and obtained promo- tion in the Union army. He read law in Kansas City, Missouri, and was admitted to the bar in 1870, beginning practice in that city. In 1874 he located in Wooster and was elected mayor of the city in 1887, serving one term. He subsequently removed to Kansas City.
William Reed descends from a patriotic ancestry. His father, William Reed, was a product of Adams county, Pennsylvania, and his grandfather. William Reed, who was of Scotch genealogy, was a soldier in the war of 1812. His son was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1823. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1847 and immediately began the practice of law in Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio, where he became common pleas judge and prosecuting attorney.
A. H. Walkey located in Orrville, Wayne county, Ohio, probably twenty years ago and began the practice of his profession. He was a politician as well as lawyer and was the Republican nominee for Congress from this dis- trict upon one occasion. He went to Denver, Colorado.
Thomas Y. McCray was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1837; came to Ohio with his parents in 1845. He was admitted to the bar in 1862 in Ashland county. In March, 1866, he moved to West Salem, Wayne county ; held many public offices; later moved to Mansfield, Ohio.
Ezra V. Dean was born in Wooster about eighty years ago. His father had been judge of the court of common pleas and had served in Congress two terms and gave the son a college education, who, when he was admitted to the bar in 1853, formed a partnership with his father. He served in the Ohio Legislature from Wayne county from 1854 to 1856. When the One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry was organized he was appointed quartermaster, resigning in thie the fall of 1863. In 1865, with his family, he removed to Ironton, Ohio.
Thomas Johnson was a native of Virginia, born November 13, 1817.
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He settled in Wooster in the fifties and began practicing law. He was twice elected probate judge of Wayne county, serving from 1858 to 1864. After this he was, for a number of years, engaged in the banking business in Wooster. He removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1875, and thence to Kansas in 1882 and later to Chicago, Illinois.
George W. Ross was born in Milton township, Wayne county, Ohio, June 8, 1854. He was admitted to the bar March 9, 1879, opening an office at Sterling, practicing at the Wayne county bar until 1889, when he removed to Findlay, Ohio.
Linneus Q. Jeffries is a son of the late Hon. John P. Jeffries and was born in Wooster in 1844, educated at the Wooster schools, read law with his father and was admitted to the bar June 6, 1866, opening an office that year at West Salem, Wayne county, practiced law here, later went to South Da- kota, then Chicago.
Celsus Pomerene, representative of a distinguished family, born in Ber- lin, Ohio, June 18, 1866, received a generous education, practiced law in Cleveland and elsewhere.
Henry McCray was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, his par- ents removing to Ohio in 1845. He read law in Wooster with his brother, T. Y. McCray, and was admitted to the bar in this city by the district court of Ohio July 6, 1868. Here he practiced his profession until March, 1872, when he removed to Ashland, Ohio, where he served as judge of the common pleas court.
Wilbert I. Slemmons was born near Creston, Wayne county, September 20, 1861. He is a son of Samuel M. Slemmons, who was born in Milton town- ship. The son graduated from the University of Wooster in 1884, practiced law here, then removed to Peoria, Illinois.
Florien Giaugue is the son of Augustus and Sophia (Guillaume ) Giaugue, who were born of good families in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, and came to Holmes county, Ohio, where Florien was born, May II, 1843, the family moving to Wayne county in 1849. The son was highly educated and became a prominent lawyer and author.
LAWYERS WHO DIED WHILE MEMBERS OF THE BAR OF WAYNE COUNTY.
Edward Avery, an eminent and distinguished lawyer of his day, was a native of the state of Connecticut and a graduate of Yale College. He was one of the legal pioneers of Wayne county, removed to Wooster in 1817,
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where he permanently located and where he lived and practiced his pro- fession for forty-nine years. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Wayne county in 1819, and with conceded ability executed the functions of that office until 1825. He was a member of the Senate of the state of Ohio, serving from December, 1824, to December, 1826. He served in the capacity of judge of the supreme court of the state of Ohio.
Levi Cox was emphatically the pioneer of the legal profession and the printing press in Wooster, Wayne county, to which he removed in 1815, in which he permanently and continuously lived for forty-seven years. The introduction of the newspaper press in Wooster is due to his intelligence and enterprise. In 1817 he established the Ohio Spectator, the first newspaper ever published in the county. From 1819 to 1833 he was state senator, later, for five years, was judge of the common pleas court.
William M. Orr was born in Baughman township, Wayne county, January 7, 1826. He was reared on the farm with his father, Judge Smith Orr, remaining with him until he was sixteen years old, when he commenced teaching school. He attended the Dalton and Wadsworth academies, and in 1846 entered Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1847. At the annual contest of 1846, between the literary societies of the college, he took the highest honors in debate and was vale .. dictorian of the class of 1847. He was admitted to practice and opened an office in Wooster in 1859, where he remained until 1865, when he removed to Orrville, where he lived until his death, August 19, 1893.
James C. Miller, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, moved to Wayne county, Ohio, in an early day, became prominent as a lawyer, dying suddenly in 1844, when a young man of about thirty years.
Samuel Hemphill was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and in 1827 he came with his father to Wayne county. He attended college at Athens, Ohio, and became an excellent scholar. He read law with Judge Levi Cox of Wooster, with whom he was associated in practice after his admission to the bar. He died in his thirty-sixth year, February 22, 1853.
Lucas Flattery was born in 1821, on a farm in Fairfield county, Ohio. His father was an early settler and farmer in that county, from Pennsylvania, and a man of good education. He served as county surveyor for several years before he died in 1837. Mr. Flattery moved to Wooster in 1846, where he resided until his death in 1889, having held many public offices.
John W. Baughman resided in Wooster from 1868 until his death in 1894, his grandfather settling in Wayne county in 1816, Baughman township
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being named in his honor. John W. served in the Legislature in 1856 and 1888, held a number of local offices.
Arnold A. Ingram was born in Pennsylvania in 1843 and came to Wooster in 1866 and studied law here. In 1861 he entered the military service of the United States. In 1885 he was elected city solicitor of Wooster on the Republican ticket.
George Bliss was born in Jericho, Vermont, January 1, 1813. He came to Ohio in 1832 and held some important offices here, including that of con- gressman. He came to Wooster in 1858 and lived here until his death in 1868 .. He was a very prominent lawyer.
Daniel C. Martin was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1816 and died at his home in Reedsburg, Plain township, Wayne county, in May, 1889. He was admitted to the Ohio bar by the district court at Wooster, Ohio, in April, 1857. His practice was of a local character. He was a good business man, a most successful collector, aiming to conciliate misunderstandngs between neighbors rather than foment litigation. He was for a number of years justice of the peace of Plain township.
Nelson Ferrell was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in December, 1834. He read law in Carrollton, Ohio, and was elected mayor of that city. He removed to Orrville in 1884 and acquired considerable popularity in his profession and was regarded as a good business lawyer. There were many pleasant traits to his character, and he aimed to be just and fair in his dealings with men. His life was suddenly terminated at Orrville several years ago.
Hamilton Richeson died in Wooster June 19, 1870, in the thirty-seventh year of his age. He was prosecuting attorney of Wayne county two terms and he was a Union soldier.
Edward S. Dowell was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1847, edu- cated in Wayne county, admitted to the bar in 1869 and opened an office in Wooster. became prosecuting attorney in 1874 and was re-elected. In 1887 he was elected judge of the common pleas court. He died in 1896.
William Given was born in 1819 in Pennsylvania. In 1838 he removed with his family to Holmes county, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1843, and the same year was elected prosecuting attorney of Holmes county, to which he was re-elected. In 1849 he was elected to the General Assembly of Ohio. In 1850 he located in Wooster, and in 1858 was elected judge of the common pleas court. He remained on the bench until 1862, when he resigned. and in August of that year was commissioned colonel of the One
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Hundred and Second Regiment Volunteer Infantry, serving in the army for nearly three years. In March, 1865, he was commissioned brigadier-general. He died in Wooster in October, 1866.
Benjamin F. Eason was born in Plain township, August 3, 1847. He died August 21, 1895, and was a son of Col. Benjamin Eason of Wooster. He was admitted to the Wayne county bar in 1873 and also held local offices. He was about fifty years old when he died.
Joseph H. Carr was born in Wayne county, in 1842, and was educated at the public schools of Wooster. He commenced studying law in 1859 and afterwards was admitted to the bar. He entered the Union army in 1861 and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He practiced law in Wooster and held public offices. He died in 1898.
Ohio F. Jones was born in Wooster in 1822 and was a son of Benjamin Jones, at one time a member of Congress. He studied law and was admitted to practice in 1846. Until the time of his death, 1882, he continued in the prosecution of his professional duties.
William S. Peppard was born in Salt Creek township, Wayne county, in 1829. He read law in Steubenville, Ohio, with Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's war secretary, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He began the practice of law at Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio, but subsequently located in Fredericksburg. Wayne county, where he continued in practice until his death, July 1, 1889.
Wilson S. Orr was born December 28, 1846, in Canaan township, Wayne county, and died at Wooster, Ohio, September 1, 1888. He was ad- mitted to practice by the supreme court at Columbus in 1874, and immedi- ately thereafter entered upon the work of the law in Wooster, where he con- tinued in practice until the time of his death.
John K. McBride's father came from Pennsylvania in 1813 when John K. was three years old and located in Wayne county. He became probate judge and a noted lawyer.
George Brauneck was born in Prussia in 1813 and came to the United States in 1835., settling in Wooster in 1843. He studied law under the direc- tion of George Rex, was admitted to the bar in 1858, and began practice in Wooster.
Hiram E. Totten was born in Wayne county in 1838. He was a son of Michael Totten. He was reared upon a farm, but came to Wooster with his parents in 1858 and was admitted to the bar in 1861, when he opened an office in Wooster. He joined the Federal ranks, was wounded and died in Wooster in 1863.
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George Rex was born in Canton, Ohio, July 25, 1817. He removed to Wooster in 1843 and began the practice of law. He was elected and served for several terms as prosecuting attorney of Wayne county and as a con- spicuous member of the Ohio Senate. Was appointed judge of the supreme court in 1874. He died March 27, 1879.
Joseph H. Downing was a native of Belmont county, Ohio, and with his family removed to Wayne county in 1826. He was one of the most suc- cessful school teachers in Wayne county. In 1853 he was elected to the Ohio Legislature. He was admitted to the bar in 1860 and opened an office in Wooster. He became a captain in the Union army, became judge of the common pleas court and judge of the probate court. He died in 1879.
Eugene Pardee was born in the town of Marcellus, Onondaga county, New York, in 1814, and died at Wooster, Ohio, on the 14th day of October, 1888. He was elected prosecuting attorney in the fall of 1841, re-elected in 1843, held other offices.
James C. Glasgow was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1811, and came to Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio, with his father about 1824. He removed to Wooster in the early thirties where he studied medicine and law, although he never practiced medicine. He practiced law in Wooster until his death in 1860.
Solomon R. Bonewitz was a native of Wayne county, Ohio, and was born November 28, 1820, and died in his seventy-eighth year. He was raised on a farm in Wayne township, working upon it during the summer months and going to school in winter. In 1844 he removed to Wooster, studied law and opened an office here in 1845.
Isaac Johnson, the subject of this sketch, was born in Wayne township. in this county, January 10, 1836. He engaged in the mercantile business in Wooster, later practiced law until 1881 when he was elected probate judge and was re-elected in 1884.
James Taylor was a Virginian by birth, born May 10, 1802. Was admitted to the bar, at Wooster, October 23, 1840, at the age of thirty-eight years. He died at Fredericksburg, Ohio, July 8, 1873.
John P. Jeffries was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, July 19, 1815. In 1836 he removed to Wayne county, Ohio, and settled in Wooster. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1842. He served four years as prosecut- ing attorney of Wayne county. In 1858 he was a candidate on the Demo- cratic ticket from the fourteenth congressional district for a seat in the House of Representatives, but the district being largely Republican he was
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defeated. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Charleston. South Carolina, in 1860, under instructions to vote for Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency. He served one term as probate judge of Wayne county. Mr. Jeffries, in 1844, commenced collecting facts concern- ing the primitive peoples of this continent, and continued his research until 1868, when he produced his volume entitled the "Natural History of the Human Races," which was published in New York in 1869. He died in Wooster, August 13, 1888.
Because of his honesty, impartiality and good judgment, none among the men who have served the state of Ohio in a judicial capacity deserves a higher place than Charles C. Parsons. He was born near Ithaca, New York, on September 25, 1819, and while he was still very young his parents removed to Rochester, in that state, where they lived until 1830. In that year the family came to Ohio and settled at Medina. He was admitted to the bar in 1840, practiced at Dalton until 1849 when he removed to Wooster. Held local offices, including common pleas judge, retiring in 1887 and dying in 1890.
John McSweeney was born, as best we know, in the town of Black Rock, Erie county, New York, August 30, 1824. He came to Wooster in 1845 and began practicing law at once. Was prosecuting attorney in 1852, won great notoriety as an orator and became one of the leading lawyers of Ohio, his reputation being national.
LAWYERS WHO WERE MEMBERS OF THE WAYNE COUNTY BAR AND DIED ELSEWHERE.
George L. Willyard was a native of Knox county, Ohio, born in 1818, admitted to the bar in 1839 and opened an office in Wooster and died in 1840.
Wyllys Silliman was a state senator as early as 1803. He came to Wooster in the thirties, and subsequently removed to Cleveland where he died.
Charles Wolcott practiced law in Dalton and Wooster about 1838, be- came a representative and a state senator. He died in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he was practicing law.
John A. Holland was in the forties a partner of Gen. Samuel R. Curtis, had studied law at Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1837, later came to Wooster, then moved to Rockport, Illinois, where he died.
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Hayes Holliday was a member of the Wayne county bar and for a number of years was a justice of the peace in Wooster township, moved to Dubuque, Iowa, where he died.
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