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Thus far we have chiefly spoken of him from the professional standpoint. Viewed under the mirror of the social microscope, he is a most entertaining companion. In his society the portable quality of his good humor seasons all the parts and occurences we meet with in such a manner that there are no moments lost when with him. His courtesies are manifested alike toward friends and strangers ; he has fine sensibilities and exhibits admirable gayety and earnestness of sentiment. If he is familiar with the mysteries of anatomy, he is equally acquainted with the elegancies of conversa- tion. With a disquisition on the former he can readily accommo-
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date you, and in the social circle, if you are not careful, where he sits will be the head of the table. He is frank, cheery, ever-hop- ing and enduring-the thorn might be in his foot a long time before he would tell you. He has intellect and imagination, and lives deeply in the inward nature.
He is ambitious and has moral courage. He is self-made, self- investigating, and believes that in every nature, as in Australia, there is an unexplored territory-green, well-watered regions, and sandy deserts, and into that territory experience should make pro- gress day by day.
He aspires to excellence, and has strong convictions, and will maintain them vigorously, until convinced that they are untenable. He rejects what is specious and simply plausible, on the hypothe- sis that truth is the supreme reality. He does not assent until fully persuaded, and believes that even the logical side of things should be made lucid and available.
If he has fluency and flexibility of conversation he has force and facility of compsoition. He is a correspondent of some of the standard medical magazines, and his productions are pretty sure to arouse discussion. He writes good poetry, and can spear you with a prose jest, or bore you through with an epigrammatic javelin. He loves poetry, not because he has been upon Parnassus, but because he has a natural affinity with the gods of Parnassus. His sentimental and emotional nature have put him in harmony with nature, with whose heart his own must be in tune; hence he not only loves her, but revels in her; plunges into her infinite bosom and fills himself with intoxication with her charms. He is now in the vigor of manhood, and has many years of activity and usefulness before him. He is a member of the Methodist church, and in his private life is blameless and exemplary. He is a valu- able citizen in the community-contributed to Wooster University, aided in the project of the Shreve schools, and is a friend to all popu- lar education. In him the aesthetic faculty is largely developed. Hence he adorns, ornaments, plants trees, flowers, etc. He has faith in man, for God made him; faith in the true religion, for it is intended to save man. Like Tennyson, he looks forward to the Golden Year-
"When wealth no more shall rest in mounded heaps, But smit with freer light shall slowly melt In many streams to fatten lower lands, And light shall spread, and man be liker man Thro' all the season of the golden year."
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Dr. Battles, having frequently visited the courts of the muses, we append the following :
"LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF." BY DR. W. S. BATTLES.
We love Thee, Lord, we've long professed, But do we love our brother ? We love ourselves we fear too much, O help us love each other.
We serve Thee, Lord, in wordy prayer, We praise in lengthy song, But quite forget that we were made To help the weak along.
We give our goods to build Thine house, We give Thy word to spread ; And then forget Thy starving poor Should share our daily bread.
We whisper in Thine ear of love, And tell how kind Thou art; Then turn with bitter words and wound A brother's tender heart.
Help us, O Lord, to love Thee more, Thy goodness more proclaim ; But in this service not forget Our fellow's kindred claim.
Help us to wipe from sorrow's cheek The scalding tears of care, And make these humble charities The incense of our prayer.
Fill us, O Lord, with love divine, Thy blessed Gospel plan, That links with perfect love for God, Our love for fellow man.
J. H. Todd, M. D., was born in Franklin township, February 4, 1838. On the paternal side he inherits the Celtic blood, although his father, James Todd, is a native of York county, Pa. ; but tracing the genealogic tree another generation, we find that he descends from a line of mariners, his grandfather being a sea-cap- tain and the owner of ocean ships plying the waters between American ports and the farther Indies, addicted not only to the daring adventures of the foaming main, but a speculator and im- porter of blooded horses from Arabia-a friend to the amusements
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of the turf and field, and who sought to render life one glad, pro- longed enjoyment.
The subject of this notice spent his earlier years upon the farm and attending the public schools at Jeromeville, Wooster and Haysville. He began the study of medicine in the spring of 1861 in the office of Battles & Bertolett, of Shreve, where he remained till 1863. After the battle of Gettysburg was fought, Dr. Todd obeyed the call of the nation for help, and on July 10th hastened to the scene of that carnival of blood. There and at Harrisburg he continued during the summer and until the lecture term com- menced at Bellevue Hospital, New York, where he remained during the winter of 1863-64. He next placed himself under the private instruction of Austin Flint, Sr., of New York, receiving special instruction in the branches of percussion and auscultation of the lungs, or pulmonary disease, continuing with him during the winter term, at the end of which he received a flattering cer- tificate of qualification. Simultaneously he was taking lessons in the principles of surgery from Professor Smith, of Bellevue.
In the spring of 1865 he received his diploma and settled in Shreve. In the summer of 1869 he was commissioned as delegate by the Medical Society of Wayne county, to the National Medical Society, of New Orleans, to which signal honor he responded, re- turning after an absence of six weeks. In 1870 he re-visited New York, putting himself under the special care of Austin Flint, Jun., as second assistant in the department of physiology. During this time he also applied himself to microscopy, under Delafield, and in this case, as under Professor Flint, he never went into the lec- ture room, but enjoyed all the advantages of strictly private in- struction. His facilities for private instruction under Professor Hamilton in surgery at Bellevue were equally favorable, and forti- fied with this more than ordinary practical experience, he returned to Shreve and entered again upon practice.
He was married October 1, 1872, to Miss Ophelia Campbell, of Dixon, Ill., their issue being one son.
When Dr. Todd entered upon his studies his aim was to be an educated, practical man. Turgid dissertations, florid compositions, plumed didactics and lecture-room prolusions, are not the sole ali- ment of practical men. Opportunity has been gracious to him, of which he availed himself, and by unremittent effort he has made great achievements. He has made a specialty in the domain of surgery, and takes rank with the best operators of Ohio. The flesh-separating knife, and bone-shattering saw move to the govern-
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ment of his eye and the machinations of his hand, with which he is as familiar as Gildersleeve with his rifle, or Bogardus with the science of the wing-circle.
If he did not, like Torricelli, invent the microscope, he is nev- ertheless wedded to the myriad microcosms that, in the twinkling of an eye, may be developed by its mirrors. In this most vital branch of his profession, which reduces the diagnosis of most dis- eases to a certainty there are none in the county to aspire to rivalry.
Dr. Todd has an excellent professional, historical and miscella- neous literary library, and his passion for the accumulation of books is tantamount to a mania. His books-and his library is one of the best in the county-have been selected with extreme care, the professional department embracing many volumes which are not to be found in modern libraries, and which, in fact, can not be procured, only by sales of private collections. On entering either his office or dwelling you are at once impressed with his museum of curiosities and cabinet specimens. Archaeologist, antiquarian, naturalist-all are suggested. Animals, fossiliferous remains, petrifactions, botanical, mineralogical, zoological and geological specimens, stalactites from the Mammoth Cave, gold quartz from Colorado, Peru and Mexico, splintered rock from El Capitan, fishes and alligators from the Gulf, boas, anacondas, elk, bison, lichens and mosses from Alaska ; in short, everything, almost, from a buffalo to the ancient lyre of the tortoise-shell.
He is largely interested in the advancement of the claims of medical science, especially those departments which embrace the higher walks and loftier altitudes of the profession. To under- stand man and his anatomy, the marvel and mystery of him, is the first table of the law. His hospitality is best known to those who have partaken of it. His is an intense life, and calls for enjoyment. His social nature is of a high order, and he believes, with Carlyle, that "man has joined himself with man, and that soul acts and re- acts on soul."
David Yarnell was born in Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa., March 19, 1818, and, with his father, immigrated to Wooster at an early day in its history. He has lived in Clinton township since 1844, having purchased a farm formerly owned by Elijah Pocock. He was married in 1839 to Mary Warner, daughter of Nathan Warner, and had six children-four boys and two girls. His wife dying in 1855, he afterward married Miss Laura Henderson.
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CHAPTER XXXIII.
CONGRESS TOWNSHIP.
THIS township was organized October 5, 1818. By the census of 1870 its population was 2,581. The following is the list of officers of the township, as appears upon the township records :
1822. Trustees-H. Totten, David Garver, Andrew Moore; Clerk-N. W. Perrine.
1823. Trustees-George Poe, Henry Totten, Jacob Shellenberger; Clerk- James Boyd ; Treasurer-George W. Howey.
1824. Trustees-Henry Hall, Hector Burns, James Patterson ; Clerk-James Boyd; Treasurer-David Garver.
1825. Trustees-James Boyd, N. N. Perrine, G. W. Howey; Clerk-Squier Pettit ; Treasurer-David Garver.
1826. Trustees-John Jeffrey, Samuel Sheets, Henry Totten; Treasurer- Hector Burns.
1827. Trustees-John Park, James Carlin, Abram Yocum; Clerk-Michael Debolt; Treasurer-John Nead.
1828. Trustees-John Rickel, David Brown, James Carlin; Clerk-David Perky; Treasurer-Solomon Bonewitz.
1829. Trustees- Michael Totten, Michael Funk, John Vanosdoll; Clerk- Squier Pettit; Treasurer-Solomon Bonewitz.
1830. Trustees-Solomon Bonewitz, James Carlin, Thomas McKee; Clerk- John Vanosdoll; Treasurer-Thomas McKee.
1831. Trustees-James Shallenberger, Walter Elgin, George W. Howey ;. Clerk-John Shafer ; Treasurer-Squier Pettit.
1832. Trustees-James Carlin, Thomas McCoy, Charles Hoffstetter : Clerk- David Perky; Treasurer-Squier Pettit.
1833. Trustees-Joel Fisk, John Jeffrey, Charles Hoffstetter; Clerk-J. Car- lin ; Treasurer-Solomon Bonewitz.
1834. Trustees-Henry Hare, Thomas McKee, John Vanosdoll; Clerk-M. T. Brewer; Treasurer -- David Garver.
1835. Trustees-Hector Burns, David Weaver, Pemberton Pancost; Clerk- M. Anderson ; Treasurer-David Garver.
1836. Trustees-James Patterson, George W. Howey, John Jeffrey ; Clerk- Frank A. Warring ; Treasurer-David Garver.
1837. Trustees-John Vanosdoll, Thomas McKee, William Carlin; Clerk -- John S. Lee; Treasurer-David Garver.
1838. Trustees-Robert Mahan, Sol. Bonewitz, William Gibson; Clerk- David Carlin ; Treasurer-William Carlin.
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1839. Trustees-Jacob Secrist, John Trauger, H. Burns; Clerk-D. Carlin ; Treasurer-William Carlin,
1840. Trustees-Leonard Crawford, John Dulin, Michael Clouse; Clerk-Neal McCoy ; Treasurer-William Carlin.
1841. Trustees- Hector Burns, Thomas McKee, Sol. Bonewitz; Clerk-Mat thew Brewer ; Treasurer-David Garver.
1842. Trustees-James Reed, J. Brinkerhoff, H. Henderson; Clerk-John Vanosdoll; Treasurer-D. Garver.
1843. Trustees-John Brinkerhoff, Christian Garver, Samuel Kline ; Clerk- Saul Littell ; Treasurer-D. Garver ; Assessor-Moses Baxter.
1844. Trustees-John Brinkerhoff, Samuel Kline, C. Garver; Clerk-W. C. Moore; Treasurer-David Garver; Assessor-David Carlin.
1845. Trustees-John Brinkerhoff, Samuel Kline, Christian Garver; Clerk- David Carlin ; Treasurer-David Garver ; Assessor-Moses Baxter.
1846. Trustees-Christian Garver, Samuel Kline, John Vanosdoll : Clerk-H. A. Powell; Treasurer-David Garver; Assessor-Walter Elgin.
1847. Trustees-John Vanosdoll, Josiah Clinker, Robert Shaver ; Clerk-J. W. Zuver; Treasurer-David Garver ; Assessor-David Carlin.
1848. Trustees-Robert Shaver, Sol. Bonewitz, Thomas Beall; Clerk-Isaac Crane; Treasurer-David B. McCoy; Assessor-Matthew Brewer.
1849. Trustees-Thomas Beall, Solomon Bonewitz, Mahlon Myers; Clerk- J. L. Crane; Treasurer-D. B. McCoy; Assessor-M. F. Brewer.
1850. Trustees-Mahlon Myers, John Keeler, William Burns; Clerk-Samuel Vancleve; Treasurer-D. B. McCoy; Assessor-Matthew T. Brewer.
1851. Trustees-John Keeler, Jacob Leatherman, Peter R. Heney; Clerk -- J. W. Johnson ; Treasurer-D. B. McCoy ; Assessor-M. T. Brewer.
1852. Trustees-John Keeler, Jacob Leatherman, Peter Eicher; Clerk-D. K. France; Treasurer-D. B. McCoy ; Assessor-M. T. Brewer.
1853. Trustees-John Keeler, Jacob Leatherman, Henry Herr; Clerk-J. S. Firestone; Treasurer-David Carlin ; Assessor-William Lusk.
1854. Trustees-Henry Herr, William Smith, John Dulin; Clerk-D. C. Dinsmore; Treasurer-Peter Eicher ; Assessor-William Lusk.
1855. Trustees-D. Gindlesperger, J. Leatherman, Samuel Herr; Clerk-D. K. France; Treasurer-Peter Eicher ; Assessor-William Hoegner.
1856. Trustees-D. Gindlesperger, J. Leatherman, D. McCauley ; Clerk-D. K. France; Treasurer-Peter Eicher; Assessor-J. W. Hoegner.
1857. Trustees-D. McCauley, John Meyers, A. J. Burns ; Assessor-J. W. Hoegner ; Treasurer-P. Eicher ; Clerk-J. Breneman.
1858. Trustees-D. S. McCauley, Robert Shaver, A. J. Burns; Assessor-J. W. Hoegner ; Clerk-M. H. Dodd; Treasurer-Peter Eicher.
1863. Trustees-J. W. McVicker, Thomas Howey, Daniel Barnhart ; Treas- urer-Jacob Leatherman ; Assessor-Daniel Gindlesperger ; Clerk-D. K. France. 1865. Trustee-Samuel Ewing, William Smith, Enoch Moore; Treasurer- Peter Eicher; Clerk-William A. Bonewitz ; Assessor-J. W. Hoegner.
1866. Trustees-P. R. Henney, W. W. Reid, J. B. Snyder; Assessor-James A. MCoy ; Clerk-G. A. Whitmore; Treasurer-Daniel Gable.
1867. Trustees-P. R. Henney, W. W. Reid, J. B. Snyder ; Assessor-James A. McCoy ; Clerk-G. A. Whitmore ; Treasurer-Daniel Gable.
1868. Trustees-P. R. Henney, W. W. Reid, A. G. Rittenhouse; Assessor- Thomas Ferguson ; Treasurer-John Moyers; Clerk-G. A. Whitmore.
1869. Trustees-W. W. Reid, A. G. Rittenhouse, Daniel Gable; Assessor- Thomas Ferguson ; Treasurer-John Myers; Clerk-G. A. Whitmore.
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1870. Trustees-Daniel Gable, David Mitchel, James Campbell ; Assessor- Ezra Jacobs; Treasurer-John Myers; Clerk-Paoli Sheppard.
1871. Trustees-Dan Holtzberg, E. Bonewitz, C. Aukerman; Assessor- Samuel Ewing; Treasurer-John Helman ; Clerk-D. Mitchel.
1872. Trustees-William Reid, A. G. Rittenhouse, Peter Funnalman; Asses- sor-Samuel Ewing ; Treasurer-Allen Greely ; Clerk-David Mitchel.
1873. Trustees-Peter Funnalman, William Reid, David Vanorr; Assessor- J. T. Hazzard ; Treasurer-Allen Greely; Clerk-William H. Barch.
1874. Trustees-William Reid, John Zehner, J. B. Snyder ; Assessor-James T. Hazzard ; Treasurer-W. R. McClellan ; Clerk-David Mitchel.
1876. Trustees-David Holtzberg, William Addleman, M. M. Patterson ; Assessor-David Baker ; Clerk-Allen Greely; Treasurer-W. R. Mcclellan.
1877. Trustees-William McKee, Dan. Gable, J. K. Saltsman ; Assessor- David Mitchel; Clerk-John Hosler ; Treasurer-John Zehner.
Justices of the Peace-Nicholas Perrine, 1822; George Poe, 1822; N. N. Per. rine, 1825; Henry Hull, 1825; Michael Funk, June 21, 1831 ; David Park, January 31, 1833; Michael Funk, June 10, 1834; Hector Burns, January 20, 1836; William Carlin, June 2, 1837 ; John Jeffrey, January 22, 1839; William Carlin. April 16, 1840; Hector Burns, February 1, 1841 ; William Carlin, April 10, 1843; D. Gin- dlesbarger, January 13, 1845; David Carlin, March 24, 1846; D. Gindlesbarger, January 1, 1848; David Carlin, March 24, 1849; D. Gindlesbarger, December 17, 1850; David Carlin, February 21, 1852; Solomon Bonewitz, May 8, 1852; Philip Mattison, April 13, 1854; David F. Young, January 25, 1856; G. P. Emrick, April 4, 1856; D. Gindlesbarger, January 8, 1857; Peter Ruff, April 22, 1857; John G. Ford, January 13, 1859; David Carlin, January 9, 1860; Jacob McGlenen, January 21, 1862 ; David Carlin, January 3, 1863 ; Dan Barnhart, January 20, 1865; David Carlin, Jannary 1, 1866; R. Summerton, April 13, 1866; Dan Barnhart, April II, 1868; R. Summerton, April 13, 1869; J. R. Henney, April 13, 1869; Dan Barn- hart, April 10, 1871; Jacob Leatherman, April 9, 1872; J. R. Henney, April 9, 1872; J. K. Andrews, April 14, 1874; Henry Herr, April 12, 1875; Enoch Morr, J. F. Simon, April 1877.
Reminiscences of Congress Township by Hon. Michael Totten and James Carlin .- In 1815 the first families moved into what is now Congress township. Some time during the first week in February Michael and Henry Totten accompanied George and Isaac Poe, and cut a trail from Wooster to where the village of Congress stands, which at that time was all forest, the lands having not been entered. We encamped with George Poe, about one-half mile from the village, until we could erect a cabin, which we built on section 27, on the lands owned by John Garver. When we got our cabin completed, some time during the month of February, 1815, Henry and myself went to Wooster and moved our mother and our sister Catharine the first two white women in the township) and all the household furniture on a sled from Wooster to our cabin.
On the first of- April following George and Isaac Poe and other families came into the township and settled upon the same section. The same spring Peter War- ner, with his family, moved into the south-west corner of the township. In 1816 Matthew Brewer and James Carlin, with their families, moved to the same farms upon which they lived till their deaths.
The next to come were George Ankerman and John Nead, with their families. After this period emigrants came in so fast and settled in such widely different parts of the township that it would be impossible to trace them, or where they located. The first white person who died was Mrs. Amasa Warner, and the second my
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mother. The first school ever taught was by John Totten in the first cabin built. George Poe was the first Justice of the township. The first school-house was built in 1819, on the south-west quarter of section 37. The first year after moving into the township my brother Henry and I cleared five acres and planted it in corn, which we cut off in the fall and put down in wheat, and which was the first corn and wheat raised in the township. Game was very plenty, and for some time after our arrival it was our chief article of food. We could not raise hogs or sheep after our settlement, as they would be devoured by wolves. One winter we had twelve sheep enclosed in the same lot in which the house stood, thinking they were safe, and that the dogs would guard them, but a herd of wolves, during the night, as- sailed them and destroyed eleven; the remaining and last one escaped, and run- ning into the house, awoke the family, but the hungry scavengers of the woods had fled. The next day, there being snow on the ground, I pursued them as far as the Harrisville Swamp, in Medina county, but got no opportunity of shooting at them. Near this swamp were encamped about 30 or 40 Indians. Among other early set- tlers of the township were John Jeffrey, Walter Elgin, David Gardner, Jacob Holmes, Jacob Shellebarger, Peter and Samuel Chasey, G. W. Howey, David Nel- son, the father of James Grimes, James Boyd, Hector Burns, Samuel Sheets, N. N. Perrine, A. Yocum, John Vanasdoll, Rev. John Hazard and family, Isaac Matthews, and others.
James Carlin says : The first couple married in Congress township was Jesse Matteson and Eleanor Carlin, the ceremony by Judge James Robison, and that the first sermon preached was by a Presbyterian minister, Matthews, who spoke with a sword girded to his body. The first grist-mill was built by Naftzger, where a man named Buchanan was killed, waiting for a grist. George Howey was the first blacksmith, and Michael Funk the first merchant. The first physician was a Mr. Mills, and the first carpenter and joiner was Jacob Matthews.
Daniel Chasey was a native of Saratoga county, N. Y., and with his wife immigrated to Wayne county as early as 1814-15, settling a mile north-west of Lattasburg, on old Appletree Moyer's place. He died at his son Samuel's, west of Congress village, about 1867. He married Miss Elizabeth Allen. Samuel Chasey was born in Saratoga county, N. Y., October 21, 1802, and immigrated to Ohio with his father. He was married to Selona Warner July 26, 1826, and had twelve children, as follows : Abner G., Andrew, Ithamer, Daniel, Martha Ann, Mary E., Cyrus, Amanda, Samuel H., Jeremiah, Obadiah and Margaret. His wife died May 2., 1873, he surviving her until July 15, 1876.
Thomas McKee was born in Northampton county, Pa., June 22, 1796, but came from Westmoreland when he removed to Wayne county, Ohio, in 1818. He at once commenced milling for Joseph Stibbs, with whom he remained ten years, during which time, in 1824, he married Anna Brown, daughter of Frederick Brown. In 1830 he removed to Congress township, on a farm he had pur- chased there eight years previously, and where he now resides,
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but which in later years was largely added to by other lands. His wife died January 25, 1851, aged 46 years. They had ten children, as follows: Joseph, Mary, Thomas, Margaret, Ephraim, William, John, George B., A. E. and Sindalena. By industry and good management he has succeeded in surrounding himself with the wealth and comforts of life, and now, in his old age, enjoys the proceeds of a remarkably well-spent life. He is the firmest of Democrats, and popular with his fellow citizens, having been elected Trustee and to other township offices, and was honored with being made one of the first County Infirmary Directors under the new constitution.
Jacob Leatherman came to Congress township March 26, 1842, settling on a farm two miles south west of the village of Congress, land which his father, Peter Leatherman, in early days had entered from the Government, Jacob afterwards purchasing the same from him. He was married January 16, 1841, to Miss Urith Sherrod. In 1857 he quit farming and removed to Congress village, there engaging in the dry goods business, and in April, 1864, went to West Salem, where he continued in the mercantile trade until 1869, and where he at present resides, at the same time owning and managing his farm near Congress village. His life has been an earnest one, and his business career characterized by the strict- est probity. For years he has been one of the most enterprising and leading business men of the township, closely identified with all its projects for improvement, and by dint of unflagging industry and perseverance, aided by good common sense and clear judg- ment, has secured a competency. He is courteous in manner and of kindly disposition-will go all lengths to befriend a friend, but, on the other hand, will exert himself just as much to punish a per- son who has done him an injury. He is an uncompromising Dem- ocrat, taking a prominent part in local and state politics; and as a man, to a great extent, commands the respect and esteem of the community at large.
John Dulin was born near Wellsburg, West Virginia, and with his wife came to Wayne county in 1834, settling upon the farm now partly owned by Abraham Billhammer, where he died May 21, 1845, at the advanced age of eighty-five years. Mr. Dulin served one year in the Revolutionary war and drew a pension until the time of his death. He was married to Miss Sarah Sharp, of
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Virginia. His son, John Dulin, came to Wayne county about a year prior to his father and settled on a farm about three miles south-west of Congress, in Congress township. He was married to Miss Mary Cope, of the city of Dublin, Ireland, and had eleven children. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died Febru- ary 2, 1861. His wife died September 26, 1864. To his daugh- ter, Margaret J., who married C. H. Weltmer, we are indebted for these facts.
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