History of the city of Columbus, capital of Ohio, Volume I, Part 63

Author: Lee, Alfred Emory, 1838-; W. W. Munsell & Co
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: New York and Chicago : Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1202

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The enemy apeoed his batteries yesterday morning. and continued the w.adonaidiug. bombutuing -od rochel Bringbout aunett by this sime one battery bed completely theoced those al out encmy.

J'he lignt tro y's and militie are now în full pursun of the eneiny, making prisoners 10 all directions Deserters are continually ciming io, so that tho Son of the Britian army in thil enter- arizz will be considerable.

A möte dotalied report will be medo of the geige, and circumetancas ettend- Aug iros early Ja possible.

Our accounts Iroin Erie are to Sep- l'ho off-era and ment hese ell done tember 10 Beiweea 3and 4000 mili- their duty. The artillery aml the en.

The Militia of New- York and the Valuateers of Vermont have been cx- cuedingly serviceable and have evin- ced a degree of patriotism and brave- ry worthy of themselves and the states to which they respectively beloog.

. The strength of the Garrison is only 1500 effective mes rank ind lile.

I have the honor to be, nun perfect respect, air, your most obedient selv- atıt,

ALEX'R MACOMB. The Hoa. the Secreiny of War.

[In addition to the ebeso. we learh that the naval hatile was mnosi sati-

guttary ; That the British last 10G kitt- - OOunce to). you, thit .af er an acting -id on board their largest vessel ; und that our total loss was 115 killed, and 13.1 wounded.

Every officer oo board one commo- dure's vessel was kitud or wounded, chcepl himself. 1 be Brinsh Cummo- dort was killed the first five. Gloria Dea ! Gloria Patrio

New York, Sept. 18, Sunday 12 0- clock. The Steamboat Car of Neptune has just arrived from Albaoy, by which we have the following :

Names and force of bemsels engaged in the late ond memorable Boule on Lake Champlain.

Guna.

Saratoga,

Superior, 20

Ticonderoga

President,

BASTISH.

Guna

La Confiance,

35)

Brig, name unknown,

18 5

(,lowler,

11)

Taken.

Eagle, 11

13 Row Gallien,

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A geotleman from Burlington, who left there on Wednesday, informe, that goveroor Prerest, with his army, had cliccted his retreat, without recely- ing any material check subsequent 10 gen. Macomb's communication, which wi published on Saturday.

Gen leard and suite had arrived at S.n kett's Harbor, where 50 row bonte, carryon; otto lung guo ésch, and cap i ble ul takiog on board 150 mco euch, were really. An attack on Kingstoo or Fort George was contemplated. Giaz.

Albony, Seht 16.

Major Generals Scott and Galnet, with their auito, arrived io this city ou Wednesday creolog.

tia hud volunteered in cross to Fort E- Encere have perlermod ilisir fonctions ris ; 1500 bed goon eret that day ;

the 'rem. inder were to follow the next, morning.

We aro vathally informed, that on the nights of the 11th_ end 12th inst. thice thousand militia crossed From Ruffalo to Fort Erie. that the British are fetre ating to Fort George, und This three thousand more of the militia have mirched down to cross the N. iga- ta belu tho falls, with a view to ru! . ff their retreal, War paher.

Copy of a letter from the pomimas" ler at Plattshurgt.,, to the' echior_ of the Albsoy Argus, dated Suo- day mormag, Sept. 12th, 11 o'emk ?. SIR; Thave the pleasure tu 40- b! two hours, this morning, C .. my aindJie M'Doneugh, car avval command r. took the WHOLE BRITISH FORCE op thủ L .; with the exception of 5 _or 6 gol- lies, that inade their, escape. The vessels captured are, 1 frigate of 32 guns, 1 hrig of 22 guos, tạo sloups uf 10 guns, each and sever ,l gullies. I'saw the action, which has just closed-the battle? was it Plattsburgh Bay. I walk with. enziety tue event of the battle now peaoing on the laod -- i have strong hopes there likewise ; bar it is ve -. ry warm and we have to contend + with say 8000 Bruigh regolas. "The chore ut the river. is huurd with our militia ' dod abont 3 . 14 4000 volunteers trom . Verniost, which the enemy must pass belure they can reach our boucles-but if they eff. ct a passage ul the tiv- er and approach the works, they. will Gud the battle bot just begun. Mure as soon as evenis tran.pire.

Yours, &c. J LYNDE. Postmaster, Plattsburgh.

N. B. The wlisge ol Plattsburgh has beenin possession of ine cuemy woce 10 o'clock Just Tuesday, sind many of the best houses are destroyed.

From letters . received in this plaro from New-Orleans. dated the sr. .. d Sept. we learn that Gen. Jo.korn wi.lt the second aud third regimelita, nad re-occupied Mobite Point on The twainy eight ult. snd ordered the gon bod.s to resumo their formier station ucar the polot. An iovassion of that part of the country was apprehended and active preparations bave been beide und wie making to ajcet the enemy s wuld he attempt it. Gen Jackson bab laid un embargo on vessels bound out liom New-Orleans with Auut &e in cunso. quence ol which it is thought that Bour will be low at that Dore . Grorgetyou Ky Linfer.

Col. NEWTON CANNM elected to Congress front difc State of l'ennessre vice Mr. Grundy resigned.

EXTRA OF WESTERN INTELLIGENCER, OCTOBER 1, 1814.

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city October 27, 1887. By service on the staff of one of the governors of Michigan be acquired the military title of colonel by which he was popularly known.

One of the most remarkable men ever connected with the press of Columbus was John Greiner, born in Philadelphia, in 1810, and located as a young man at Marietta, Ohio, where he worked at his trade as a painter, married his first wife, Laura Bennett, and acquired reputation as a composer and singer of songs on the subject of temperance, of which he remained thronghont his life, even through the hardciderdrinking campaign of 1840, an ardent and consistent advocate. Of the famous political struggle of 1840 he was the principal songwriter and singer, although the identity of the verses of which he was the author is somewhat ambiguous. Most of his compositions were impromptu, written on his hat while riding to a meeting, or upon the platform while the orators were speaking. He never failed, however, to strike the popular chord. The phraseology of many of his songs was preserved in print, but affords no idea, it is said, of the power which his verses exerted when sung by himself, with a great crowd joining in the chorus. His songs were conspicuous in the Corwin-Shannon campaign of 1842, and of the Presidential campaigns of 1844 and 1848. Removing in 1841 to Zanesville, where he resumed bis trade as a painter, he was elected by the General Assembly to the position of State Librarian in 1844, returned to Columbus and continued to reside there until 1849, was in that year appointed Indian Agent for the Territory of New Mexico, was appointed Secretary of that Territory by President Fillmore, served as acting Governor of the Territory until displaced for political reasons by President Pierce, and in 1861 was appointed by President Lincoln to be full Governor of New Mexico, in which position he served until 1865. During the interim of this public service he was connected as a writer with the Ohio State Journal ; later he was editor of the Columbus Gazette, from the office of which paper be returned to New Mexico in 1861. On his return from the West in 1865 be settled in Zanesville, where he bought the City Times which he conducted until 1868 when he sold that property and began the publication of a Republican campaign paper called The Workman. In 1870 he returned to Columbus, resumed for a short time the editorship of the Gazette, retiring from which he again took up his original occupation as a painter. He was stricken with paralysis while making an address before the Odd Fellows' Grand Lodge in Toledo, where he died from the effects of this stroke May 13, 1871. His remains are interred in Green Lawn Cemetery.

William Dean Howells, the wellknown novelist, became engaged as a compositor on the Ohio State Journal in 1851. He was then fourteen years of age, and had learned to set type in the office of the Hamilton Intelligencer, of which paper his father was for some time the publisher. Later, the elder Howells disposed of the Intelligencer and removed to Dayton, where he bought and published the Dayton Transcript, which be transformed into a daily. William worked in the composing room, and when the typesetting was done, aided in the distribution of the paper to the subscribers. The Transcript failed, and soon afterward William secured a posi- tion, as above stated, on the Ohio State Journal, and received for his services the sal- ary of four dollars a week, which is said to have been the first money he ever earned as his own. Here his talent began to crop out, and he frequently composed verses

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and put them into type without the use of manuscript. Some of these effusions found their way into the columns of the Ohio State Journal. After his connection with that paper ceased, Mr. Howells took up his residenee with his parents in Ashtabula County, from whence he reappeared in Columbus in 1857-8 as legislative correspon- dent for the Cincinnati and Cleveland papers, a dual position which would now be considered phenomenal if not impossible. In 1858, when Henry D. Cooke, brother of Jay Cooke, the banker, reorganized the working foree of the Ohio State Journal, Mr. Howells became its new and literary editor, in which position he was for some time associated with the late Samuel R. Reed, who was the leading edi- torial writer on the paper. In 1860 a little volume entitled "Poems of Two Friends" was published in Columbus by William D. Howells and John J. Piatt. Mr. Howells remained with the State Journal until President Lincoln appointed him Consul at Venice in 1861. Before that event, however, he had begun writing for the Atlantic Monthly, of which periodical he became, in 1866, the associate editor. On December 24, 1862, he was married at the United States Legation in Paris, to Miss Eleanor G. Mead, of Brattleboro, Vermont. His later career as a novelist and as editor of Harper's Monthly is wellknown.

General James M. Comly was born in Perry County, Ohio, in 1832, came to Columbus a fatherless boy in 1842, became a messenger in one of the printing offices of the city, and when the late Rev. D. A. Randall came here to assume the assistant editorship of the Cross and Journal, worked in the office and became an inmate of the household of that gentleman. While learning the printer's trade he conned the old dictionary in the composing room, attended a night school, fre- quented the State Library, the accumulated lore of which had a wonderful attrac- tion for his youthful mind, and wrote for the press occasional contributions which led to his becoming an accredited correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette. Ile studied law in the office of Attorney-General Wolcott, and was made Chief Clerk to A. P. Russell, Secretary of State, in 1858, about which time he was a roommate with William D. Howells in the Starling Medical College building, where he was also associated with the Rev. Thomas Fullerton, now of Washington, D. C. Both Howells and Fullerton had made some ventures in the realm of poetry, and Fullerton had been so fortunate as to have one of his productions accepted by the Atlantic Monthly. Subsequently Howells realized a similar success and was delighted to receive one day twentyfive dollars in payment for his contribution. This money having been placed in bank to Howells's credit, he not long afterwards sought in great perplexity his roommate, Comly, to whom he put the query : " Jim, when you've put money in the bank, how do you get it out again ?" Messrs. Iluntington, E. A. Fitch, R. S. Neil, Charles Scarritt and E. L. Taylor were addi- tional members of the circle of young men in which Howells and Comly moved. These friends were addicted to long walks on Sunday, which took them out into what was then the open country. One of the remote points reached by them in these walks was what is now the corner of Parsons Avenue and Town Street. In his daily peregrinations between the Starling Medical College and the Statehouse, Mr. Comly passed the residence of Doctor S. M. Smith, at the northeast corner of State and Fourth streets, where he became acquainted with the Doctor's accom-

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plished daughter, Miss Libbie Smith, to whom he was afterwards married. At an early date in the Civil War he became a Lieutenant in a Home Guard Company of which M. C. Lilley was Captain. Later he was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fortythird Ohio Infantry, of which Wager Swayne was Colonel. From this regi- ment, to gratify his desire to get into active service, he was transferred to the Twentythird Ohio Infantry, of which regiment he was much of the time during its Virginia and West Virginia campaigns, in command. In the course of his military experienee he rose through sueeessive grades to the rank of brigadier-general by brevet. In October, 1865, he became the editor and part proprietor of the Ohio State Journal, with which paper he retained these relations until he was appointed United States Minister to the Sandwich Islands. He was a pureminded, warm- hearted man, and the aid that was given him in his early struggles he was glad in his later years to give to others who needed a friend. His memory as a man, a soldier and a journalist is rightly cherished by all who knew him.

The late Rev. Dr. D. A. Randall is not often thought of as an editor, but he was a man of great versatility and was at different times in the course of his life of seventyone years teacher, preacher, editor, business man, lecturer, author, journal- ist and traveler. His editorial career began when he was pastor of the Baptist Church at Medina, Ohio. For four years while there, beginning in 1840, he edited the Washingtonian, a weekly paper devoted to the great temperance agitation which was then sweeping over the country. His work attracted favorable notice, and in the fall of 1845 he was invited by George Cole, proprietor of the Cross and Journal, the organ of the Baptist denomination in this and adjoining States, to become the associate editor. Mr. Randall aceepted in November of that year, and removed to this eity, which was his home from that time until his death in 1884. He made himself familiar with all departments of newspaper work, and in 1847 became one of the proprietors of the paper, Mr. James L. Bateheler being his part- ner. Mr. Randall's literary style was most pleasing, and all his writings were characterized by force of conviction tempered by charity and good will.

Alfred E. Lee, a native of Belmont County, Ohio, spent the first twenty years of his life on a farm, graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1859 and at the Ohio State and Union Law School at Cleveland in 1861; and after the close of the Civil War, in which he served from 1861 until July, 1865, as an officer of the Eightysecond Ohio Infantry and as Adjutant-General of a brigade, he began the practice of law at Delaware, Ohio, but was soon afterward invited by General Carl Sehurz, chief editor of the Detroit Daily Post, to accept a position on the edi- torial staff of that paper, the duties of which position thus tendered he assumed with the issue of the first number of the Post in March, 1866. In August of that year he bought a controlling interest in the Delaware, Ohio, Gazette, of which he remained chief editor and proprietor about seven years. After having sold his newspaper interest at Delaware in 1873 he was invited by Doctor S. M. Smith, one of the proprietors of the Ohio State Journal, to assume editorial charge of that paper during the illness of the chief editor, General Comly. Acquiescing in this request, he was from that time forward assistant or acting chief editor of the paper until his appointment as Private Secretary to Governor Hayes in January, 1876.

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Returning from his services as Consul-General at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Ger- many, he resumed his connection with the State Journal, this time as chief writ- ing editor, in November, 1881, and continued to serve in this position, notwith- standing the sale of the establishment, until June, 1882. In 1883, he united with Messrs. Comly and Francisco in the purchase of the Toledo Daily Telegram, but a few months later sold his interest in that paper, having meanwhile accepted an appointment tendered him as assistant writing editor on the Cleveland Daily Herald, from which position he resumed, and for one year continued, his connec- tion with the editorial staff of the State Journal. A complete sketch of his life to the present time appears elsewhere in this work.

Charles S. Glenn, son of Alexander E. Glenn, was one of many whose names are inseparably connected with the career of the now defunct Gazette. Born at Rising Sun, Indiana, September 23, 1834, he came to Columbus with his father in 1840, learned the printing trade, went to Washington City and worked there on the Globe in 1855, and, returning to Columbus, in 1858 bought a half interest in the Columbus Gazette, the other half being retained by Governor John Greiner. The firm name, at first Glenn & Greiner, then Glenn & Thrall, became at a later date Glenn, Thrall & Heide, and still later Glenn & Heide. In 1873 Mr. Glenn became by purchase the sole proprietor of the paper and printing office, which he continued to own until his death in 1875. Like his father, Mr. Glenn was active in secret society work, and at the time of his death belonged to the Masons, the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Improved Order of Red Men. He was a selfmade man, upright, industrious, and held a warm place in the hearts of all who knew him.

Jonathan F. Linton, for several years proprietor of the Ohio Statesman, and whose connection with the Record and the City and Country is elsewhere men- tioned, was born December 16, 1831, near Springfield, Ohio, and attended school at Clifton, Greene County, in a cabin which had been built for the use of Whig political meetings. His great grandfather, John Linton, was one of the first settlers in the Little Miami Valley, and his grandfather, Nathan Linton, a pioneer in Clinton County, held the office of County Surveyor in that county continuously for fifty years. Jonathan F. Linton learned the printing trade in the office of the Springfield Republic, then owned by Gallagher & Crane, in 1845, and in 1847 worked in the office of the Wilmington Republican, then owned by David Fisher, a member of Congress. After a varied experience in the study of engineering and in the pursuit of that profession he bought the Peru, Illinois, Democrat, which, after changing its name and politics, he converted into a daily. In 1855 he sold this paper and engaged in farming, but in 1857 returned to the printing business. In the summer of 1861 he enlisted as First Lieutenant in the Thirtyninth Illinois Infantry, a Chicago regiment, and in the course of the war served on the staff's of General Howells, Osborn and Vogdes. Quitting the army in 1864 he has since been engaged in milling, printing and farming.

Franklin Gale, who was for many years connected with the Statesman and other local papers, was born at Oxford, Massachusetts, October 25, 1802. In early life a farmer, he taught school in winter, removed to Barnesville, Ohio, in 1833, was

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admitted to the bar, practised law at Zanesville and Columbus, and made his first newspaper venture at Zanesville in the forties. This publication he removed to Columbus in 1849 and consolidated with the Columbian, which was itself merged into the Statesman. For a time he practised law, but during the greater part of his residence at Columbus he was connected with the press. During the war and after its conclusion he was one of the editorial writers of the Statesman. In 1868 he was chosen official reporter of the Ohio Senate, a position which he held until his death in 1874. During his newspaper career, lasting about twentysix years, he was connected editorially with six or seven different papers.

Colonel James Taylor was born on a farm in Harrison Township, Perry County, May 3, 1825, and began newspaper work at the age of sixteen. In 1846, in connection with Philander H. Binckley, he began the publication at Roseville of a monthly called the Souvenir, which was continued for eighteen months. Later, in anticipation of the establishment of a new county to be composed of portions of Belmont and Guernsey, he published a paper at Fairview, which undertaking not being successful, he sold the property and in 1850 went to New Philadelphia, where he became associated with Hon. Charles Matthews in the publication of the Ohio Democrat. In 1856 he returned to Perry County and established at New Lexing- ton a paper called the Ambrotype, which he edited for one year, then sold. Sub- sequently, in conjunction with his brother, George W. Taylor, be established at New Lexington the Locomotive, which still lives in the New Lexington Tribune. Serving in the Thirtieth Ohio Infantry and other regiments during the war, he resumed, at its close, his newspaper work, wrote for a number of journals, and during the proprietorship of Comly & Francisco became an editorial writer of the Ohio State Journal, a position which he held, except during short intervals when other enterprises interfered, until his death January 25, 1891. Colonel Taylor was a man of large and varied information, and was first to disclose to capitalists the great mineral resources of Perry County. In conjunction with General Thomas Ewing he conceived and undertook to carry out the project of building a railway from Lake Erie to the Atlantic Coast, but the panic of 1873 prostrated this enterprise, and nearly all that was invested in it was lost. The Toledo & Ohio Central Railway was built by others; mines were developed and towns grew up on land that Colonel Taylor and his associates had once owned, and he lived to sce his great project a success, although others were its beneficiaries. While he was at the height of his prosperity as a cooperator and railroad projector he was named the " Duke of Ferrara," a soubriquet which clung to him for many years.

William D. Brickell, proprietor of the Evening Dispatch, was born in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1852, and is the only son of Captain D. Z. Brickell, of Pittsburgh. His grandfather was Captain John Brickell, at one time commander of the Boston, the first of the fast line of steamers on the Western rivers. His grandmother, Mrs. Catharine E. Brickell, is still living at Pittsburgh at the age of ninetyone years. John Brickell, who was one of the earliest settlers in this locality, and was for some time held captive by the Indians, was a cousin of William D. Brickell's father. Mr. Brickell spent his early life in Pittsburgh and was educated at the Western University of Pennsylvania. He learned the

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printer's trade on the Pittsburgh Post when it was owned by the late Ilon. James P. Barr, and did work in all the various departments of that paper. He was also at different times connected with the St. Louis Democrat, Indianapolis Sentinel and other Western papers. In 1876 he became part owner of the Dispatch, and in 1882 acquired also the interest of his partner, Captain L. D. Myers, and has since then remained sole proprietor of the paper.

Samuel J. Fliekinger, the present editor of the Ohio State Journal, was born on a farm near Millville, Butler County, Ohio, in 1848 and spent his boyhood there. His education, as far as the schools are concerned, was completed at Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio. He began his newspaper work on the Dayton Journal in 1876, as telegraph editor. Two years later he came to Columbus to engage in work on the Ohio State Journal and was successively reporter, city editor and telegraph editor. In 1881 he was the Columbus correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial for three or four months, doing such excellent work in that time that the Cincinnati Enquirer sought his services and secured them. For three years, ending in November, 1884, he. remained correspondent of the Enquirer, resigning at that time to become managing editor of the Ohio State Journal, a position which he has ever since filled.

The newspaper career of Colonel W. A. Taylor dates back to 1855, in which year he began work on the Perry County Democrat, then published at New Lexington. A few years later he went to Zanesville where he became connected with the Press, a daily paper, and began contributing to the Cincinnati Enquirer. In 1865 he went to Cincinnati and became a member of the Enquirer editorial staff, from which he resigned in 1868 to accept a position on the Pittsburgh Post, which he retained until 1872, when he went to New York to accept a position on the Sun. In 1873 he returned to the Pittsburgh Post and remained with that paper until 1876, when he resigned to accept a place on the editorial staff of the Evening Telegraph. In 1878 he came to Columbus to edit the Democrat, with which paper he remained until shortly before its consolidation with the Statesman. Later he was connected with the Times until 1882; published the Saturday Critie from April, 1882, until April, 1883; then staff correspondent of the Cincinnati News Journal, and a correspondent of numerous other papers until April, 1885, when he accepted the position of staff correspondent of the Enquirer, which he still holds. Colonel Taylor was Clerk of the Senate in the Sixtyninth General Assembly, and while in that office prepared an official register of the Territorial and State officers of Ohio from the beginning of civil government in the State until the present time.

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History of the city of Columbus, capital of Ohio, Volume I, Part 63

Author: Lee, Alfred Emory, 1838-; W. W. Munsell & Co Publication date: 1892 Publisher: New York and Chicago : Munsell & Co. Number of Pages: 1202

Author: Lee, Alfred Emory, 1838-; W. W. Munsell & Co
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: New York and Chicago : Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1202