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dren, four of whom are living, namely: Rhodà A. Goodman, Thomas C., Elizabeth T., and Louisa.
As above stated, Mr. Hobson has been a minister in the Friends' Church for forty years, and until recently he has had active work. By his own plain, Christian life he has exemplified the truths he has so earn- estly taught, and few have exerted a greater influence for good than has Joseph Hobson. In his early life he was an Abolitionist, and took an active part in that movement. He has always been a temperance man, and is now identified with the Prohibition party, and, indeed, throughout his whole life, his influence has ever been directed on the side of truth and right.
IELDING A. THOMPSON, who is deserving of specific inention in connection with a review of the life histories of the leading profes- sional men of Marysville, Union county, Ohio, is an attorney of marked ability and one whose relative precedence among the younger barristers of the county cannot but be conceded.
Mr. Thompson is a native of Union county, having been born in Mill Creek township, March 5, 1862, son of Andrew J. and Lauvina (Farnum) Thompson, who are respectively of English and Irish lineage. The father is at the present time a resident of Dover township, this county, where he conducts a fine farm. Our subject thus springs from that sturdy, honorable element of our social fabric whose pursuits have been those incidental to the cultivation of the soil, whose affection for the productive fields comes as a direct heritage to those in -
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whom courses the Aryan blood. He was born on the farm and was reared to agri- cultural pursuits, in the meanwhile enforc- ing his character with those attributes of character, honesty, probity and independ- ence, which seem the natural concomitant outgrowth of such a life.
The early education of our subject was secured in the district schools, and at the age of twenty-one he put his acquired knowl- edge to a practical test by teaching school for one term. He then entered the North- western University, at Ada, Ohio, where he completed a two years' course of study, im- mediately thereafter taking up the reading of the law in the office and under the pre- ceptorage of Porter & Porter, prominent at- torneys of Marysville. He remained with this firm until October, 1892, when he was admitted to the bar, having devoted himself closely to his professional studies and having acquired a more intimate knowledge of legal jurisprudence, rulings and essential princi- ples than is usually secured by the student in the average law school.
In May, 1892, Mr. Thompson opened an office in Marysville, and at once entered into the general practice of his profession. He is progressive and enterprising, is de- voted to his work, and has met with a due quota of success in the retaining of a representative clientage. His office is lo- cated at the southwest corner of the public square.
In his political proclivities our subject is a Democrat, and is an active worker iu the cause of his party. In 1893 he was placed in nomination for Prosecuting Attorney of the county, made an excellent run, but was defeated, it being impossible to overcome the very large Republican majority which the county has always rolled up.
EROY PERFECT, who is engaged in the livery business in Sunbury as a member of the firm of Per- fect & Culver, is numbered among the native sons of Delaware county, his birth having here occurred on the 31st of January, 1835. His father, Middleton Per- fect, was a native of Kentucky, and when a lad of five summers, he was brought by his parents to the Buckeye State, the family locating in Delaware county, where he was reared to manhood in the usual manner of farmer lads. Having attained to years of maturity, he was united in marriage with Miss Huldah Patrick, who was born in Pennsylvania. They became the parents of a family of five sons and five daughters, -- Norman, Drusilla, Sarah, Leroy, Amelia Cornelia, Wayman, Truman, Jane and Win- field Scott Of this number Cornelia and Winfield are now deceased. The father of this family was a Whig in early life, but when the Republican party sprang into ex- istence, he joined its ranks and voted with it during his remaining days. His death oc- curred in November, 1891; his wife is also deceased. She was a consistent member of the Christian Church and a most estimable lady.
Mr. Perfect, of this sketch, soon became familiar with the duties of farm life, aiding in the cultivation of his father's land during the greater part of his minority. His school privileges were somewhat limited. His first business venture was in buying, selling and shipping horses, and from this he branched out into the livery business, which he is now successfully following in Sunbury, as a mem- ber of the firm of Perfect & Culver. Their stable is a well-appointed one, furnished with first class equipments along that line, and their liberal patronage is well deserved.
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Turning from the public to the private life of Mr. Perfect, we note that he led to the marriage altar, Miss Lyde Selby, daugh- ter of Amos Selby. One son has been born of this union, Clyde, who is now employed as a salesinan in a grocery store in Dela- ware.
In his political views Mr. Perfect is a Republican, and by his ballot supports the men and measures of that party, but he has never sought office for himself, preferring to give his time and attention to his business interests. Socially he is a Mason, belong- ing to the blue lodge of Sunbury. He takes an active and commendable interest in everything pertaining to the welfare and advancement of the community and is recognized as a valued citizen.
ENRY S. CULVER, ex-Mayor of the city of Delaware, Ohio, was elected to this honorable and re- sponsible office in the spring of 1890, having been a resident of the city since the centennial year, 1876, when he located here and established himself in the practice of his profession, that of law, forin- ing a professional alliance with Mr. Frank Marriott and remaining thus associated for the period of one year, after which, in 1878, he was elected to the office of Prosecuting Attorney of the county, and served in that capacity until 1882, proving one of the most able incumbents the county had ever re- tained in that capacity. In the meantime he associated himself with Mr. C. H. Mc Elroy and this professional partnership con- tinued until our subject had completed his term as Prosecutor, when Mr. McElroy was elected Judge. Since that time Mr. Culver has been alone in his professional work, his
practice being one of general order and his clientele being one of distinctively represen- tative character.
He received his preliminary education in the public schools at Sunbury, this county, completing the high-school course. He then attended a commercial college in Cleveland and graduated at the institution, after which lie began the work of preparation for that profession which he had determined to fol- low as his vocation in life. He accordingly went to Columbus and entered the office of Judge G. H. Stewart, and under such favor- able and discerning perceptorage he con- tinued his technical studies until 1875, when he was admitted to the bar.
He at once made ready to put his legal acquirements to a practical test, coming to Delaware, where he forthwith entered upon that professional career which has been one of distinction and honor and which has re- dounded to his credit.
In politics he is stanchly arrayed in the support of the Republican party and its prin- ciples, and has long been an active worker in the cause, -- one whose efforts have done much toward advancing party interests in a local way. It is a significant fact that he was the first Republican Mayor the city had had in a number of years, and his administration was one that proved most satisfactory to his con- stituents, and gained the good will and en- dorsement of the general public, irrespect- ive of party affiliations. During his regime the city prospered in a material way and its government was directed along safe, con- servative lines, the affairs of all depart- ments having felt the influence of the able chief executive. His term expired in 1894. Always ardent in his political work he has occupied a position of prominence in the party ranks and has been a delegate to State
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and county conventions on numerous occa- sions.
In his fraternal affiliations he has secured distinguished official recognition and has manifested a lively interest in the various societies with which he is identified. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Lenape Lodge, No. 29, and was one of the prime movers in effecting the organization of the Uniform Rank of that order in the State, having been the first Major of the Second Regiment, and having passed all the chairs in the order. He organized the first com- pany in the city of Delaware and was made Captain of the same. He is also a member of the Masonic order, Hiram Lodge, No. 18, F. & A. M., and Chapter No. 88, R. A. M. He has represented his chapter in the Grand Lodge on two different occasions, and is also a member of the National Union, Whetstone Council, No. 393.
Our subject was born at Sunbury, Dela- ware county, Ohio, April 19, 1854; was reared to the sturdy pursuits and unevent- ful life of the farm. When he attained the age of seventeen years he put into practi- cal use the scholastic attainments which were his by reason of his discipline in the public schools of Sunbury, engaging in pedagogic labor in district schools for a period of two years, and proving a successful teacher. The more salient points in his subsequent career have already been noted in this con- nection and there is no need of recapitu- lation.
Realizing the truth of the prophet's statement, that it is not well for a man to live alone, in 1876 he led to the hy- meneal altar Miss Mary D. Sprague, who is a native of Oregon, but who has pass- ed the greater portion of her life in Dela- ware, this State. She is the daughter of
Judge F. B. Sprague, now of Westerville, Ohio, but formerly of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Culver are the parents of four chil- dren: Stanley E., Mary Louise, Dorothy and Sidney. Our subject and his wife are members of the Williams Street Metho- dist Episcopal Church.
The parents of Mr. Culver were Sidney and Jane (Carpenter) Culver, both of whom . were natives of Delaware county, Ohio. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a Vermont Yankee, his name being Edward Culver. He married and reared a large family of children in Vermont. where he remained until deprived of his wife by death, when he emigrated to Ohio, and here continued in that line of occu- pation which was his by birthright, -that of farming. After he arrived in Ohio he made the acquaintance of the Widow Stark, née Catherine Rosecrans, who came from the Wyoming valley, in Pennsylvania, and in due time a marriage was consummated with this estimable woman. She had rear- ed a large family from her first marriage, but the only offspring of her union to Mr. Culver was one son, Sidney, the father of our subject. The Culver family is of stanch old Puritan stock, while the Rosecrans is of lineage tracing back to Holland.
Sidney Culver was born on the paternal farmstead, in Berkshire township, this county, in November, 1822, and he there grew to manhood, having received his education in the district schools. He and General Rosecrans were playfellows as well as second cousins, and as boys they conned their les- sons together before the light of the primi- tive old fire-place, around which lingers so much of romance and whose glowing shad- ows fell upon the form of many a boy who attained fame and distinction in the later
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years. Sidney Culver remained in the same neighborhood in which he was born during his entire lifetime, and devoted his attention to the noble art of husbandry. He was successful in his efforts and was accounted one of the solid men of that section, being upright and honorable in all his ways and a inan of unimpeachable probity. In the lat- ter years of his life he became a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. . He died in January, 1893. His wife was also a native of this county, where she was born in October, 1826. She is still living and resides with her daughter in Columbus. Her parents were pioneer residents of Dela- ware county. Sidney and Jane Culver be- came the parents of three children: Ed- ward T., who resides on a farm in the east- ern part of the county; Susan M., wife of Burns L. Maynard, of Columbus; and Henry S., the immediate subject of this review.
ACHARIAH R. THORNTON is the genial host of the Byhalia Hotel, of Byhalia, a valued and popular citizen and an honored ex- soldier. The record of his life is as fol- lows: A native of this city, he was born on the 18th of May, 1845, and is a son of Boyd Thornton, who was born in Cham- paign county, Ohio. His mother bore the maiden name of Elizabeth J. Scott, and was a native of the same county. The parents lived upon a farm, and Zachariah early became familiar with all the duties of farm life, beginning work in the fields at a tender age. The district schools of the neighborhood afforded him his educational privileges, which were therefore somewhat limited.
When in his seventeenth year Mr. Thornton responded to his country's call for troops to aid in crushing out the Rebel- lion, and in 1861 became a member of Com- pany C, Forty-fifth Ohio Infantry. He faithfully served his term and was then hon- orably discharged, but afterward re-enlisted, in 1864, in Company D, One Hundred and Ninety-second Infantry, with which he re- mained until the close of the war. He was ever true to the old flag and the cause it represented, and where duty called he was always found.
The lady who now bears the name of Mrs. Thornton was in her maidenhood Miss Emeline Hendricks. Our subject and his wife had one daughter, Laura Jane, who died in December, 1892. She was an in- telligent and popular young lady, beloved by all who knew her, and her death has proved a deep loss to her parents and many friends.
In politics Mr. Thornton is a stalwart and earnest Republican, but has never been an aspirant for political honors. Socially he is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a lover of fine horses, and owns some of the best roadsters and draft horses in this section of the county. To the hotel business he now devotes the major part of his time and attention, and his frank and cordial manner makes him a favorite with the traveling public.
J. LOWER, M. D., who occupies a position of unmistakable promi- nence as one of the leading citizens of Irwin Station, Union township, Union county, is a man of marked profes.
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sional ability, and one who holds distinctive official preferment as Postmaster of the thriving little village in which he resides.
The Doctor is a native son of the Buck- eye State, having been born in the vicinity of Coshocton, April 20, 1860. His father, Jacob B. Lower, was one of the successful and influential agriculturists of Coshocton county, where he resided for many years and where he ended his earthly career in December, 1893, having attained the vener- able age of sixty-eight years. The maiden name of our subject's mother was Susan Deetz, and she still resides at the old home near Coshocton.
Jacob and Susan Lower became the parents of twelve children, -six sons and six daughters,-and of this family our subject was the sixth in order of birth. His boy- hood days were passed on the farm, assist- ing in the work pertaining thereto and at- tending the district schools. After this un- eventful routine the days passed along until he began to think for himself and to long for broader opportunities than the old farm could offer. His parents were people of much intelligence, and they had instilled in his plastic mind not only the principles of truth and honor, but had taught him to be- lieve in the dignity of industry and to ap- preciate knowledge from whatever source acquired. He had attended the public schools at Ada, in the vicinity of his home, and at the age of seventeen years he as- sumed a personal responsibility and began to labor for the accomplishment of his de- sired end, a good education. He accord- ingly devoted himself to teaching, and that he proved an efficient and popular instructor needs no other voucher than a statement of the fact that he was retained in pedagogic work for a period of twelve years.
All this time he had been considering ways and means, and, never vascillating in his actions or thoughts, he determined to prepare himself for a professional life and to adopt as his vocation the profession of medicine. He commenced the study of medical science under the preceptorship of Dr. J. W. Winslow, of Spring Mountain, and later continued his study with Dr. Scott Buker, of Spring Mountain.
The funds which he had acquired by his teaching enabled him to complete the course of study in Starling Medical College, at Columbus, where he graduated in 1891, being a member of a class of fifty-six in- dividuals and being one of four to receive the honors at the commencement.
Within the same year the Doctor located at Irwin Station and here entered upon the general practice of his profession. His ability and honest worth gained to him the confidence and esteem of the community and he soon secured a representative sup- port, building up a large practice. To his professional work he still devotes his atten- tion, though he has held official preferment as Postmaster since June, 1893. Politically he is an ardent supporter of the Democratic party, and has been an active worker in the ranks. He has been a member of the School Board for the past two years, and has been one of the most potent factors in securing the systematic grading of the schools at Irwin Station, maintaining at all times a lively interest in educational work and in all that conserves the welfare and normal advancement of the public. Fra- ternally he is a member of Mechanicsburg Lodge, No. 113, F. & A. M., of Mechanics- burg; of Kilbuck Lodge, No. 167, I. O. O. F., of Kilbuck, Holmes county, Ohio; and of Bald Eagle Lodge, No. 124, Improved
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Order of Red Men, at Milford Centre. In a professional way he is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society.
Dr. Lower was married, at the age of twenty years, to Miss Nannie M., daughter of Franklin and Eliza Hamontree, of Spring Mountain, Coshocton county, and they have five children,-Clifton, Albion, Dallas, Flossie Fern, and Starling. The Doctor has a fine modern residence, erected at a cost of $1,600, and he also owns three other excellent residence properties at Irwin Station.
Dr. and Mrs. Lower are devoted mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the former has for years been a most active Sunday-school worker, having organ- ized a Sunday-school while still a boy in his 'teens and while teaching district school in this county. He is at the present time Superintendent of the Methodist Sunday- school at Irwin Station. A man of deepest honor, sympathetic and charitable, and ever ready with kindly deeds and words, it is but in natural sequence that he enjoys a notable popularity and the esteem of all who know him.
F. POLLOCK, Postmaster of Card- ington, Ohio, was born in this city August 9, 1868, and is one of the most enterprising and progressive young business men of the place.
H. H. Pollock, his father, is a native of Martinsburg, Ohio, born April 1, 1836, and was left an orphan at the age of fifteen years. A portion of his boyhood days were spent in Champaign county, Illinois, and in early life he learned the trade of blacksmith. During the war his home was in Mount Ver- non, Ohio, from which place he came to
Cardington in 1867 and engaged in the lum- ber business. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in Company A, Fourth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, and was subsequently promoted to the rank of Corporal. He served three years, two months and two days, at the end of which time he was honorably discharged. At the battle of Cold Harbor he was wounded in the left arm by a musket ball, which dis- abled him from afterward following his trade. Some time after the war he went to Lawrence county, Illinois, where he spent five years, and upon his return to Ohio he again settled at Cardington, where he has since resided. At one time he served as Corporation Clerk of Cardington. He is a charter member of James St. John Post, G. A. R., of this place, is connected with the Masonic order, and is a member of the Episcopal Church. The grandfather of our subject was Samuel Pollock. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and beyond this fact little is known of his history.
H. H. Pollock married Caroline Rose, who was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1846. Her father, George Rose, a native of Orange county, New York, was married in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and from there came direct to Guernsey county, Ohio, where he resided until 1857. That year he came to Cardington. He was of German descent. Mr. and Mrs. Pollock had three children, two daughters and a son, the daughters both dying in infancy.
G. F. Pollock graduated in the Carding- ton high school in 1887, and, after his grad- uation, accepted a clerkship in the store of Hon. G. Kreis, of Cardington, where he remained until 1890. In January, 1890, he was elected Engrossing Clerk of the Sixty- seventh General Assembly of Ohio, and served as such two years. In the spring of
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1892 he was elected Mayor of Cardington, which office he filled until July, 1893, when he resigned. He received his appointment as Postmaster, the position he now fills so acceptably, April 2, 1894. He is Demo- cratic in his political affiliations, and has served as Chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee. Fraternally he is identified with both the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias at Cardington, be- ing the first Chancellor Commander of the latter order.
Mr. Pollock was married July 6, 1894, to Miss Daisy Bartlett, an amiable and ac- complished young lady, a graduate of the Cardington high school with the class of 1890. She is a daughter of Elroy and Har- riet (Fisk) Bartlett.
EORGE W. BOLINGER, a farmer of Cardington township, Morrow county, is a son of Peter Bolinger, a native of Three Springs town- ship, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. He was a son of Benjamin Bolinger, also a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent, and a soldier in the war of 1812. The , mother of our subject, née Sarah Horn, was reared in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Samuel Horn, of Irish descent. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bolinger were married in that State, and in 1833 located in the woods of Franklin township, Marion, now Morrow, county. Several years later they sold that land and bought a farm in Canaan township, but again sold out and went to Van Wert county, where the father died, the mother having departed this life several years previous. They were the parents of five sons and three daughters, five sons and two daughters still surviving : Benjamin,
of Marion county, married Sarah Adams; George W., our subject; Mary, wife of An- drew Gear, of Van Wert county, and they have four children; Andrew, of Cardington township, married Matilda Lindsay, and they have four sons and one daughter; Sam- uel, of Illinois, married Mahala Bartlow, and also has four sons and one daughter; John, of Minnesota, married Harriet Adams, and has three sons and two daughters; and Re- becca, wife of James Miller, of Van Wert county, and they have four sons and three daughters. Two of the sons, Andrew and Benjamin, were soldiers in the late war. In political matters the father affiliated with the Democratic party. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Protestant Church.
George W. Bolinger, the subject of this sketch, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1827. When seven years of age he came to Ohio, where he worked for his father until twenty-one years of age, and then learned the carpen- ter's trade, following the same for twenty- five years. After his marriage he located on a farm in Cardington township, and sev- eral years later came to his present farm of 147 acres, all of which he has cleared and put under a fine state of cultivation. He lost his residence by fire two years ago, but soon afterward built another, one of the finest in the township.
In 1849 Mr. Bolinger was united in mar- riage with Mary Ann Singer, who was born in Ohio in 1829, a sister of W. H. Singer, of this county. To this union have been born eight children, only one now living, Delora, wife of John McClenathan, of Marion coun- ty, and they have seven children. In poli- tical matters our subject is identified with the Republican party, and has held the of-
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