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BONEBRAKE, LEWIS D .; born in Westerville, Franklin County, Ohio, August 23, 1859; father was Rev. Daniel Bonebrake, and a great-grand- father served in the Revolutionary War; his mother was Esther Ann Bishop, daughter of Captain John Bishop, who served in the War of 1812, and came from Dutchess County, New York, to Franklin County, Ohio, in 1818. Attended the district school; graduated from Westerville high school, and also from Otterbein University in 1882; degree of LL. D.
TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
M. D. FOLLETT. E. M. AVERY.
D. J. RYAN.
R. BRINKERHOFF.
G. F. BAREIS. S. S. RICKLY.
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from his alma mater, and also from Ohio University at Athens. Has served as school examiner of his city and county; superintendent of schools at Sparta, Elmore, Athens and Mt. Vernon, serving in the latter place for eight years. Elected state commissioner of common schools at the November election, 1897, for three years, reelected fall of 1900. Has delivered educational addresses in every county of the state. Also deliv- ered institute lectures extensively in Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylva- nia, Michigan and other states. In 1884 Mr. Bonebrake was married to Miss Mary F. Beal, of Hamilton, Ohio; they have one daughter. Mr. Bonebrake is a Mason, member of Knights of Pythias, and Maccabees.
BRINKERHOFF, ROELIFF, born Owasco, Cayuga county, New York, June 28, 1828, of Holland ancestry ; educated common schools and Auburn and Homer (N. Y.) academies; began teaching at age of sixteen; went South at eighteen, and was for three years tutor of family in Hermitage, home of General Andrew Jackson; returned North at twenty- one ; studied law with kinsman, Judge Jacob Brinkerhoff, Mansfield, Ohio; began practice, 1852; editor and proprietor Mansfield Herald, 1855-9 ; mar- ried Mary, granddaughter of Gen. Robert Bently of Ohio. Entered army as first lieutenant and quarter master 64th Ohio Vol. Infantry ; served five years, and attained rank of colonel in quartermaster's department, and brevetted brigadier general for meritorious service. Resumed law prac- tice until 1873, when he became cashier of the Mansfield Savings Bank, of which he is now president; since 1878 member of State Board of Chari- ties, and for several years past its chairman. President National Con- ference of Charities and Correction in 1880; vice-president of the Inter- national Prison Congress, Paris, France, 1895, and president of the Amer- ican delegation; for ten years, from 1884, vice-president of the American National Prison Congress, with Gen. R. B. Hayes as president, becoming president at latter's death. Organized (in 1875) the Ohio State Archæo- logical and Historical Society ; in 1893 succeeded Gen. Hayes as president of that society. and has been retained in said office to present time. Author : "The Volunteer Quartermaster," "Recollections of a Lifetime," 1900. Life member of Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society.
CAMPBELL, JAMES EDWIN, born at Middletown, Butler County, Ohio, July 7, 1843. His father, Andrew Campbell, was a physician of promi- nence., and his uncle, Lewis D. Campbell, a statesman of note. One of his maternal ancestors took part in the battle of Lexington, and one of his paternal ancestors was with Montgomery at the assault on Quebec. Both of his grandfathers were soldiers in the War of 1812. During the Civil War he served in the navy upon the Mississippi and tributary rivers; was discharged for serious physical disability, but recovered, studied law, and began practicing at Hamilton in 1867. He was prose- .cuting attorney of Butler county from 1876 to 1880. In 1882 he was elected to congress as a democrat in a strongly republican district ; was
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re-elected in 1884, and again in 1886, gaining the last victory by the meagre plurality of two votes in a total of more than thirty-two thou- sand. In 1889 he was elected Governor of Ohio over J. B. Foraker, now U. S. Senator, receiving a larger vote than ever cast before for any guber- natorial candidate; and while in the governor's office was noted for an inflexible adherence to that which he deemed to be right. In 1891 he was defeated for governor by Wm. McKinley (late president of the United States), and in 1895 was again defeated by Asa S. Bushnell.
CLAYPOOL, HORATIO C .; born at McArthur, Ohio, February 9, 1858; father, John Claypool, was born at Morefield, Va .; mother was Rose Peterson, born in Augusta, Me. Attended country and village school until seventeen years of age. Engaged in teaching and then pursued studies in school at Normal, Ill., and Lebanon, Ohio. Subsequently again taught in the villages of Sciotoville, Kingston and Bainbridge; at the same time studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882. Began the prac- tice of law in 1884, and was elected prosecutor of Ross County in 1898 and again in 1901.
COURTENAY, AUSTIN MATLACK, pastor of Walnut Street Church, Chillicothe, Ohio, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, of Irish and Scotch ancestry ; educated in the public schools of his birthplace, at a private academy in Maryland, and in England; has served pastorates in the state of Maryland, and the cities of Baltimore, Allegheny and Meadville; has written occasionally in prose and verse for the current reviews, magazines and papers.
COWEN, BENJAMIN RUSH, was born in Moorfield, Harrison county, Ohio, August 15, 1831. His father, Benjamin Sprague Cowen, a native of Washington county, N. Y., (son of revolutionary soldier) was a sol- dier in the War of 1812, member of congress, 1841-2; of the Ohio House of Representatives 1845-6, and judge of the court of common pleas 1848-57. Removed to St. Clairsville, 1832, where Benjamin R., the sub- ject of this sketch resided until 1857. Was educated at the public schools and St. Clairsville Classical Institute; learned the trade of printer, and was editor and publisher of the Belmont Chronicle, 1848 to 1857. Mar- ried September 19, 1854, to Ellen Thoburn, St. Clairsville, Ohio. Chief clerk Ohio House of Representatives 1860 and 1861; elected Secretary of State, 1861, resigned in May, 1862. Private soldier, 1st lieutenant, major, brevet lieutenant-colonel and brigadier general of Volunteers, 1861-5, and adjutant general of Ohio, 1864-8; supervisor of internal revenue for Cali- fornia, Arizona, Nevada and Utah, 1869-70; assistant secretary of the In- terior, 1871-7; editor Ohio State Journal, 1883-4; clerk U. S. circuit and district courts since 1884. Special commissioner to treat with Sitting Bull in 1872; to remove the Modoc Indians in California in 1873; to in- vestigate the New Orleans White League troubles in 1874, with Admiral Rodgers, and, in 1875, to investigate the Mormon troubles in Utah.
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Past Commander Ohio Commandery of Loyal Legion; Past Colonel Union Veteran Legion; member of G. A. R .; ex-president Ohio Society Sons of Revolution; member Society of Colonial Wars; of the War of 1812; of American Wars; the New England Society; Cincinnati Literary Club; Young Men's Blaine Club; 32d degree Scottish Rite Mason; member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Appointed by Gov. Nash member of the Ohio Centennial Commission.
EWING, THOMAS, JR., was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, May 21, 1862; father Gen. Thomas Ewing, at that time chief justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, later member of congress from Ohio, 1877 to 1881, and candidate for the democratic (Ohio) party for governor in 1879. His grandfather, the famous lawyer and Whig statesman, served twice in the U. S. Senate from Ohio, was secretary of the treasury under Gen- eral Wm. Henry Harrison, and secretary of the interior under General Taylor. On the side of his mother, who was the daughter of the Rever- end Wm. Cox of Piqua, Ohio, Mr. Ewing is the great-grandson of Gen. Reasin Beall of Wooster, Ohio. After two years attendance at Wooster University, Thomas Ewing, Jr., entered Columbia University in New York City, where he was graduated in 1885, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in 1886. After three years of post graduate study of the natural sciences, he entered the U. S. patent office and served as an assistant examiner from 1888 to 1890. He was graduated from the law school of the Georgetown University in 1890, and, removing to New York, he was admitted to the bar in 1891. He has made a specialty of the law of pat- ents since 1892. Mr. Ewing, when not in Washington, has resided in Yonkers, a suburb of New Yory City, where he was twice the candidate of the democratic party for mayor, and served for five years as a member of the board of trustees of the public schools. In 1894 he was married to Miss Anna Phillips Cochran, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Cochran, of Yonkers. They have four children, Alexandra, Thomas, William Francis Cochran, and Sherman. Author of drama in blank verse, entitled "Jonathan, a Tragedy," (Funk and Wagnalls, 1902). It is founded upon the Bible story of the first Prince of Israel. Mr. Ewing is a vice-president of the Ohio Society of New York, of which his father was one of the founders and the first president.
FOLLETT, MARTIN DEWEY ; born at Enosburg, Vermont, 1826; son of John Fasset and Sarah Lemira (Woodworth) Follett; great-grandfather killed at Wyoming Massacre, grandfather a soldier with Stark in the Revolution; graduate of Marietta College with highest honors, 1853, A. M., 1856 ; married first, 1856, Harriet L. Shipman, Marietta, Ohio, second, 1875, Abbie M. Bailey, Lowell, Mass .; admitted to bar, 1859; elected Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, 1883, served till 1888; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1864; Democratic nominee for congress, 1866, 1868; delegate to the International Prison Congress at Brussels, 1900; mem-
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ber, the American Bar Association; National and International Prison Associations; State Board of Charities; Ohio National Society of Charities and Correction; Sons of the American Revolution ; life member and trustee of the Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society.
FORAKER, JOSEPH BENSON, born July 5, 1846, near Rainsboro, High- land county, Ohio. Enlisted July 14, 1862, at age of sixteen, private in 89th O. V. I., and served to end of war, becoming first lieutenant and brevet captain; entered Wesleyan University, Delaware, 1866; graduated, Cornell University 1869; married October 4, 1870, Julia, daughter of Hon. H. S. Bundy, Jackson county, Ohio. Admitted to bar and began practice at Cincinnati, 1871. Judge of the Superior Court, Cincinnati from 1879 to 1882; resigned on account of ill-health. Republican candidate for gov- ernor of Ohio in 1883; was defeated by George Hoadley but was elected governor in 1885 over George Hoadley and in 1887 over Thomas E. Powell; again defeated in 1889 by James E. Campbell for the same office. In the Republican national conventions of 1884, 1892, 1896 and 1900 Mr. Foraker was a delegate at large from Ohio in the "Big Four." Placed William McKinley in nomination at St. Louis, 1896, and at Philadelphia, 1900. Brilliant orator and wise statesman. Elected by the Ohio Legisla- ture United States Senator from Ohio, January 15, 1896, for the term from March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1903; re-elected January 14, 1902 for the term from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1909. Life member Ohio State Archæo- logical and Historical Society.
FOSTER, CHARLES; born near Tiffin, Ohio, April 12, 1828; educated in public schools, Norwalk, Ohio Academy, and private studies. Partner in father's general store at eighteeen; entire charge at nineteen. Mem- ber of congress, Ninth Ohio District, 1871-3, Tenth District, 1873-9; served on committee to make examination of Louisiana affairs, 1874, visiting New Orleans as chairman of sub-committee; governor of Ohio, 1880-4; appointed by President Harrison chairman of the commission to negotiate a treaty with the Sioux Indians; Republican nominee for U. S. Senator, 1890; candidate for congress, 1890; member of President Benjamin Harrison's cabinet as Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, 1891-3. Long identified with business interests of town of Fostoria, founded by his father. President of the Board of Trustees State Hospital, Toledo, since 1887; President of the Association of Trustees and Officers of Hos- pitals for the Insane since 1895; life member, Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society.
GRANGER MOSES M., born in Zanesville, Ohio, October 22, 1831; ed- ucated in Zanesville schools and Kenyon College, Ohio; graduated 1850 ; studied law under Judge Charles C. Convers, and was admitted to Ohio bar at Columbus, January 3, 1853. Was city solicitor of Zanesville, 1865-6; prosecuting attorney of Muskingum county 1866; Judge of com-
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mon pleas eighth judicial district of Ohio, 1866-1871; Reporter to Ohio Supreme court 1872-3; Chief Judge of Second Ohio Supreme Court Com- mission, 1883-5. Was Captain 18th U. S. Infantry 1861-2; major and lieu- tenant colonel 122d Ohio Vol. Infantry, 1862-4; brevet colonel U. S. Volunteers, October 19, 1864. His army service was in Kentucky, Ten- nessee and Mississippi, in Gen. George H. Thomas's division, in 1861-2; in Maryland and Virginia in 1862-4, in the 8th, 3d, and 6th corps; in Grant's campaign from the Rapidan to Petersburg, and Sheridan's Shen- andoah battles. His father, James Granger, was of the Suffield, Con- necticut family ; his mother, Matilda Vance Morehead, of Maryland and Virginia ancestry; his wife, Mary Hoyt Reese, a grand-daughter of Judge Charles Robert Sherman. Since April, 1865, he has been the managing administrator of the educational trust created by the will of John McIntire, the founder of Zanesville. Author "Washington vs. Jefferson; the Case Tried by Battle in 1861-5." (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1898). The battle of Cedar Creek in Vol. 3, Ohio Commandery War Papers. His eldest son, Alfred Hoyt Granger, is an architect in Chicago; his second son, Sherman Morehead Granger, is his partner in law practice; his only daughter, Ethel, is wife of Wm. Darl- ington Schultz of Zanesville.
GRAY, DAVID SIMPSON; born in Sussex county, Delaware, February 8, 1829; brought to Ohio by his parents when three months old; his father was a Methodist circuit rider of pioneer days. David Gray's education was that of the district schools of his time, except two years at the Nor- walk, Ohio Seminary under the principalship of Dr. Edward Thomson. Mr. Gray entered the railway service as clerk in the office of the C. C. & C. R'y. Co. at Wellington, in 1849, and has been engaged in the railroad business continuously since that time. Was transferred to Columbus about 1850, and to Louisville, Ky., 1852, where he was appointed general freight and ticket agent. In 1853 returned to Columbus, and appointed general agent of the Central Ohio Railway; during the Civil War, 1861- 65 was general agent in Chicago of traffic jointly of several main rail- roads leading west from Chicago; in January, 1864, was appointed gen- eral superintendent of the Union Railway and Transportation Company, the through freight line of the Pennsylvania system; in February 1869 elected second vice-president and general manager of the P. C. & C. Ry. In 1873, manager of the Union Line through freight traffic of the Penn- sylvania system; January, 1896, elected representative of the Pennsyl- vania Railway and its affiliated lines in the Joint Traffic Association, which held its sessions continuously in New York City. Continued with this association in that position until its dissolution, January, 1900. After over fifty years of active railway service Mr. Gray retired ; trustee and director of various public educational and charitable institutions. Is a member of the board of trustees of the Ohio Wesleyan University, of which he was president for thirteen years; a life member of the Ohio State Archæo-
TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
JAMES KILBOURNE. N. B. C. LOVE. J. H. ANDERSON,
GEO. B. WRIGHT.
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logical and Historical Society, and was appointed by Governor Nash a member of the Ohio Centennial Commission.
GROSVENOR, CHARLES H., born at Pomfret, Connecticut, September 20, 1833. His grandfather was colonel Thomas Grosvenor of the Revolution and his father was Peter Grosvenor, major in the Connecticut militia, and who served in the war of 1812. His mother was Ann Chase, born in Mas- sachusetts and educated in Providence, R. I. Peter Grosvenor with his family, came to Ohio in 1838, and settled in Rome Township, Athens county, Ohio, on a portion of a section of land which had fallen to Col. Thomas Grosvenor as a part of his share in the Ohio Company's purchase. Charles attended three short winter terms in a log school- house, which was constructed (1844) by voluntary contributions of labor and material by the settlers, who had made homes within a radius of three or four miles. Extreme poverty made it impossible for the family to send their children away, or to buy suitable books for their education. But Charles was sent for a single brief term to a country school in the neighborhood of Marietta. He taught school in Athens County three winters. Went to Indiana in the spring of 1854, intending make it his home. Returned to Athens County, and has lived there ever since. He studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1857. Elected to the Ohio Legislature in 1873, and again in 1875. Speaker of the house of (Ohio) representatives in 1876-1877. He was elected to congress in 1884, and with a single exception caused by the change in the congressional district, he has retained his seat in congress ever since, and was nominated on each occasion by acclamation. Chosen presidential elector in 1872, and carried the vote of Ohio to Washington. Elector at large in Ohio in 1880, and the spokesman of the Ohio electoral college when it visited Mentor to notify Mr. Garfield of his election. Delegate at large from Ohio to the republican national conventions in 1896 and 1900. General Grosvenor served in the Union army from July, 1861, to October, 1865, in the 18th Ohio Infantry. Governor Dennison appointed him major of that regiment. Later lieutenant colonel, and colonel of that regiment. Bre- vetted by President Lincoln, first to the rank of colonel, and then rank of brigadier general.
HANNA, MARCUS ALONZO; born New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Ohio, September 24, 1837; son of Dr. Leonard and Samantha Converse Hanna ; residence in Cleveland since 1852; educated in common schools of Cleve- land, and Western Reserve College, from which he graduated; LL. D., Kenyon College, 1900; married September 27, 1864, C. Augusta, daughter of Daniel P. Rhodes, Cleveland. Enlisted May 5, 1864, in 150th O. V. I., was first lieutenant of Company C; Governor Nash was member of Com- pany K; became employe and later partner in wholesale grocery house- (Cleveland, Ohio) until 1867; now head of M. A. Hanna & Co., coal; director Globe Ship Mfg. Co .; president Union National Bank; presi-
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dent Cleveland City Railway Co., all at Cleveland ; president Chapin Min- ing Co., Lake Superior. Directed campaign which secured nomination and election and re-election of William McKinley as President. Governor Bushnell appointed Mr. Hanna U. S. Senator March 2, 1897, vacancy caused by resignation of John Sherman; in January, 1898, Mr. Hanna was elected (by majority of two votes) over Robert McKisson to the U. S. Senate for the unexpired term of Senator Sherman and for the full term ending March 3, 1905; candidate for re-election to Senate for second term, and will undoubtedly be chosen (by largest legislative majority ever given a U. S. Senator) to succeed himself to March 3, 1911; one of the "Big Four" delegates from Ohio to Republican National conventions of 1884, 1892, 1896 and 1900; chairman, National Republican Committee since 1896; life member Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society.
HARPER, JOHN W .; ancestors of British origin; emigrated to America about the year 1675, settling in Snow Hill, Maryland, where they resided until the year 1808, when the family moved to Ohio and settled near Chil- licothe, whence they moved in 1816 to Indiana. John W. Harper was born February 11, 1830, in Indianapolis; educated in private schools, and went to Cincinnati in 1862. Engaged in mercantile business and fire in- surance. For many years a member of the council and school board of Avondale. He was aide de camp on Governor Hoadley's staff with rank of colonel, and rendered faithful service in the memorable Cincinnati riot, receiving special praise from the Governor; was appointed by Gov- ernor Foraker Trustee of the Central Insane Asylum at Columbus; re- appointed by Governor Campbell. On the Board of Supervisors at Cin- cinnati for one term, appointed by Mayor Mosby. A member of the State Decennial Board of Equalization in 1890; member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce; one of the projectors of the great Dramatic Fes- tival in 1883 and 1884. Mr. Harper's grandfather was a private in the Maryland Line during the American Revolution, was in the battle of Brandywine, and with Washington at Valley Forge. A member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and was president (1900) of the Ohio Society; a member of the Ohio Senate in the year 1898 and 1899 from Hamilton county. Though a democrat, he recalls with pleasure the fact that he voted twice for Abraham Lincoln and once for General Grant. Has been a Mason for forty-five years. For many years has been con- nected with the Unitarian church. He was married in 1860 to Miss Jennie Ellis of LaFayette, Indiana. They have three children and seven grandchildren. Appointed by Governor Nash trustee Ohio State Arch- .aeological Historical Society, February 18, 1903.
HALSTEAD, MURAT; born on Paddy's Run, Ross Township, Butler county, Ohio, September 2, 1829; son of Griffin and Clarissa (Willets) Halstead ; reared on farm, attending school winters; attended select school one term; taught school two terms; graduated, Farmers College near
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Cincinnati (1851) ; married March 2, 1857, Mary Banks, Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Murat Halstead are parents of twelve children, nine sons and three daughters. Began newspaper work on a literary weekly; joined staff of Cincinnati Commercial March 8,/ 1853, bought interest 1854; head of firm, 1865; later consolidated with Gazette, as Commercial Gazette, of which he became editor-in-chief. Nominated, 1889, by President Harrison as Minister to Germany; rejected by Senate because of articles he had written about the purchase of senatorial seats. Later edited Brooklyn Standard Union; during past few years special correspondent and mag- azine writer. Went to Philippine Islands during war with Spain. Au- thor: The Convention of 1860; The White Dollar; The Story of Cuba ; Life of William McKinley; The Story of the Philippines; The History of American Expansion ; Our Country in War; Official History of the War with Spain; Life of Admiral Dewey; The Great Century; The Boer and British War; The Galveston Tragedy; etc. He has written six volumes of American Wars and over twenty books in all. Has traveled the world over and visited and written about nearly every country.
HARMON, JUDSON, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, February 3, 1846. His father was Reverend B. F. Harmon, a Baptist minister; his mother, Julia Brunson, both from the state of New York. After a pre- paratory education by his father at home, graduated Denison college at Granville, Ohio 1866; and soon after entered the office of George Hoadley as a law student; graduated Cincinnati Law School, and was admitted to the bar, March, 1869. He at once began practice in Cincinnati. In October, 1876, he was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court, but after a service of a few months was unseated by a contest in the Ohio Senate. In April, 1878, he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati. He was re-elected April, 1883, and served until March, 1887, when he resigned to join the firm of Harmon, Colston, Goldsmith & Hoadley. In June, 1895, he was appointed by President Cleveland, Attorney-General of the United States, and served until the close of Mr. Cleveland's term, March, 1897, when he resumed his practice at Cincinnati. He was president of the Ohio Bar Association in 1898, and is one of the Faculty of the Cincinnati Law School ..
HILLS, REUBEN E., born at Oxford, Ohio, 1853; grandfather Dr. James Harvey Hills, emigrated from Connecticut to Ohio in 1807, set- tling in Worthington; father, Reuben E. Hills, was born at Worthington, Ohio, 1812, subsequently lived at Oxford and Delaware, Ohio; Reuben E., the subject of this sketch, spent his early life in Delaware, and grad- uated Ohio Wesleyan University in 1873; entered the real estate business in Chicago, but returned in 1874 to Delaware where he has since been associated with his two brothers in the wholesale grocery business. Served two terms as president of the Delaware city council; since 1887 has been an elder in the Presbyterian church, and was a delegate to the
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