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After the battle of Stone River, Beatty was commissioned a Brigadier General of Volunteers, to take rank from November 29th, 1862. When the army of the Cumberland was reorganized at Murfreesboro, he was placed in command of the Ist Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps. In the Tullahoma campaign, after the rebels evacuated their stronghold, and retreated south- ward, he overtook their rear guard at Elk River, drove it from the heights beyond and led the column which pursued it to the summit of the Cumberland. While Rosecrans' army rested in the vicinity of Winchester, Tennessee, General Beatty was Presi- dent of a Board to examine applicants for commissions in col- ored regiments and continued on this service until the army crossed the Tennessee and entered upon the Chattanooga cam- paign. In this advance into Georgia he had the honor of being
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the first of Thomas' corps to march over Lookout Mountain. He was with Brannan and Negley in the affair at Dug Gap, and subsequently took part in the two days' battle of Chickamauga and the affair at Rossville. After these engagements General George H. Thomas recommended his promotion "for gallant and obstinate defense in the battle of Chickamauga against over- whelming numbers of the enemy." He was at the same time also favorably mentioned in the reports of General W. S. Rosecrans, Division Commanders Brannan and Negley, and Brigade Com- manders Stanley, Stoughton, and others.
In the reorganization of the army at Chattanooga in the fall of 1863, General Beatty was put in command of the Second Brigade, Davis' Division, Thomas' corps, but he was with Sher- man in reserve at the battle of Missionary Ridge. When the rebel line broke he led the column in pursuit of the retreating enemy, overtook his rear guard near Graysville, where a short but sharp encounter occurred, in which General George Many, commanding the opposing force, was wounded and his troops compelled to retire in disorder. Subsequently Beatty accompanied Sherman in the expedition to Knoxville for the relief of Burnside, and the close of this campaign virtually ended his military service.
Major General Joseph Warren Keifer, in his book entitled "Slavery and Four Years of War," refers to his old companion in arms as follows :
"John Beatty, who became later a Colonel, then a Brigadier General, was my Lieutenant Colonel; he did not, I think, even possess the equivalent of my poor pretense of military training. He was, however, a typical volunteer Union soldier; brainy, brave, terriby in earnest, always truthful, and what he did not know he made no pretense of knowing, but set about learning. He had by nature the spirit of a good soldier. As the war pro- gressed the true spirit of a warrior became an inspiration to him; and at Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga, and on other fields he won just renown, not alone for personal gallantry, but for skill in handling and personally fighting his command."
General Beatty was elected to the Fortieth Congress from the 8th Ohio District, and re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty- second Congresses. During his last term he succeeded by a per- sistent and energetic struggle in breaking down the old Con-
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HON. JOSEPH H. OUTHWAITE.
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gressional Globe Monopoly, and in transferring the Congressional printing to the Government printing office.
In 1884 he was one of the Republican presidential electors- at-large for Ohio; in 1886-7, a member of the Board of State Charities ; in 1891-95,, president of the Ohio-Chickamauga Na- tional Military Park Commission. He is the author of "The Citizen Soldier," published in 1876; "The Belle O'Becket's Lane," 1882; "High Tariff or Low Tariff, Which?" 1894; ; "An Answer to Coin's Financial School," 1896, and "The Acolhuans," 1902.
General Beatty was married in 1854 to Miss Lucy M. Tup- per, daughter of Charles Tupper, of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and a lineal descendant of Governor Mayhew, of Martha's Vine- yard, Massachusetts. He has five living children, one son and four daughters, as follows: Ellen, now Mrs. Charles G. Hen- derson, of Columbus, O .; Caroline, now Mrs. Dr. W. C. Denman, of Marion, O .; Jane Stockman, now Mrs. Ira E. Stevens, of Chi- cago, Ill .; William G. Beatty, Columbus, Ohio; and Lucy Tup- per, now Mrs. Albert Green Joyce, Columbus, Ohio.
Hon. Joseph H. Outhwaite.
Ohio can boast of no better, cleaner or stronger man than Hon. Joseph H. Outhwaite, of Columbus. In an active public career as teacher, public prosecutor, philanthropist and Congress- man he has grandly fulfilled every obligation, and stands to-day on the pinnacle of a life well and profitably spent, and enshrined in the hearts of his friends. In whatever sphere of public service he has been called, beginning with teaching in the Zanesville pub- lic schools and extending to the discussion of national affairs on the floor of the House of Representatives, where he was among the leaders, Hon. Joseph H. Outhwaite has proven himself the true man, with a career behind him that the young may with profit emulate. A strict party man he was not afraid to disagree with the organization when new leaders and new fads and politi- cal foibles sought to entrench themselves behind the traditional organization and in spite of the shoutings of the Populistic cap-
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tains, stood out for the principles that had made that party glo- rious and triumphant in former State and National campaigns. That madness is now about to disappear and in all probability his judgment will be vindicated by the action of the next Democratic National convention casting off what Mr. Outhwaite and his friends everywhere believed to be political heresy, with the party again clothed in its right mind. No less in the work of charity and philanthropy than in politics, has Mr. Outhwaite been a shining light, and actively associated in the management of several enterprises, that have for their object the betterment of unfortun- ate mankind.
Hon. Joseph H. Outhwaite was born in Cleveland, Ohio, De- cember 5, 1841. He was educated in the public schools of Zanes- ville, and one of the first tasks after reaching his majority was to engage as teacher in the Zanesville High School, a place he held 1862-64. In the latter year he removed to Columbus, and en- gaged as Principal of the Grammar School, where he remained three years or until 1867. While teaching he read law and was admitted to practice. He engaged in the practice of his profes- sion in Osceola, Mo., for the next four years, returning to Ohio. As a Democrat he participated in the Liberal political movement of 1870, which enfranchised the Confederates and negroes.
Shortly after his return to Columbus he was elected prose- cuting attorney of Franklin county, serving from 1874 to 1878. From 1880 to 1884 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Franklin County Children's Home, and from 1882-85 one of the board of Sinking Fund Commissioners of Columbus. His active political career began with his election to Congress from the Columbus district, in 1884, succeding the late Hon. Geo. L. Converse. He served as a member of the National House of Representatives ten years or five successive terms, being defeated in 1894 by Hon. D. K. Watson, on account of the strength of the Populistic sentiment in the district at the time. His services in Congress were most conspicuous. He was twice member of Com- mittee on Elections, member of Committee on Pacific Railroads and Committee on Military Affairs and chairman of the latter two-once on Committee of Revision of the Laws and once on Expenditures in the Treasury. During his first term he was a member of the select committee on the investigation of the South-
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western Railroad strikes, and during his last term a member of the Committee on Rules. While conducting the business of the committees of which he was chairman he secured the passage of much important legislation. He also participated actively in the general legislation before the House, especially that pertaining to appropriations, the tariff and the currency, being one of the leaders for revenue reform and in opposition to the free silver legislation. After his retirement from Congress he was appoint- ed by President Cleveland as the civilian member of the United States Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, serving from 1895 to 1900. In 1896 Mr. Outhwaite was appointed a trustee of Ohio State University by Governor Bushnell.
In 1896, when Bryanism stood for Democracy, Mr. Outh- waite participated in the organization of the Gold Democratic party and was a candidate for Elector-at-Large in Ohio on the Palmer and Buckner National ticket. He was actively engaged in that campaign and the succeeding one for the Presidency, do- ing all in his power for the defeat of free silver that he believed had no place in a Democratic platform of principles.
In 1900 he was President of the Columbus Board of Trade, President of Associated Charities of Columbus, Ohio, 1900-1903 : President of The Ohio Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1902, and chairman Ohio Tuberculosis Commission 1902.
On June 8, 1870, Mr. Outhwaite married Miss Ellen Pea- body, daughter of Jeremiah D. Peabody, and neice of the philan- thropist, George Peabody. They have two sons, S. Peabody Outhwaite and Charles P. Outhwaite, the first named being as- sociated with his father, T. P. Linn and Albert Lee Thurman in the practice of law in Columbus, O.
Hon. Thomas E. Powell.
The bar of Ohio has for more than a half century, recog- nized the name of Powell as representing the brightest legal lights of the Buckeye State, and as being the synonym of honesty, loy- alty and integrity. From the opening of the last century down to the present time the father and son in this Powell line have
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been closely identified with the public affairs of Ohio and in their time known as representative citizens. The father, Thomas W. Powell, was an attorney and for years a recognized leader at the Delaware bar. He was a native of Wales, admitted to the bar about the time he removed from New York to Ohio, and for forty years was in active practice, and judge of the court for ten years.
Hon. Thomas E. Powell, the son of Thomas W. and Eliza- beth (Gordon) Powell was born at Delaware, Ohio, February 20, 1842. The mother was a native of Ohio and of Scotch parentage. Mr. Powell received his early education in the com- · mon schools of Delaware, graduating from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1863. He served in the Union army for about a year, in the 84th and 145th Ohio Regiments, being mustered out in 1864 as a lieutenant. He at once entered his father's office in Delaware and continued the study of the law having begun the task while in the army. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar and formed a partnership with W. P. Reid. This firm continued twelve years. In 1879 upon the death of Mr. Reid, he associated himself with Judge J. S. Gill. That firm contin- ued until Mr. Powell removed to Columbus in 1887, when he became the senior member of the firm of Powell, Owen, Ricketts and Black. This firm was dissolved in 1895, and he then formed a co-partnership with F. B. Minahan, under the firm name of Powell & Minahan. The same year Mr. Powell had been associated with his son in the practice of his profession.
As an attorney Mr. Powell has been engaged in the general practice, but his services have been employed in several notable cases. He was counsel against the will of Mrs. Louise Deshler, counsel in the famous Church divorce case, and counsel for the defense in the noted Inskip murder case, saving the life of the accused. He has also been closely connected with much corpor- ation business, having to do with the Hocking Canal lease, touching the right of the State to donate lands, and other great questions.
Mr. Powell has always been an active Democrat and closely allied with his party. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Demo- cratic National Convention which nominated Horace Greeley, and was a candidate for Presidential Elector for his district on the
HON. LAWRENCE T. NEAL.
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Greeley ticket. In 1875 he was nominated for Attorney General on the ticket headed by William Allen. In 1879 he placed Ģen- eral Thomas Ewing in nomination for Governor at the State Con- vention. In 1882 he performed the same service for James W. Newman. In 1882 he was the candidate of his party for Con- gress in the old Ninth district, and though defeated, ran ahead of his ticket. In 1883 he presented the name of Durbin Ward for Governor, to the State Convention. In 1884 he presented the name of Governor George Hoadly to the Democratic National Convention for President. He was also a candidate for elector- at-large on the Democratic ticket. In 1885 he was Chairman of the State Executive Committee. In 1887 he was nominated by the Democrats for Governor, and defeated by Governor Fraker, allthough leading his ticket many thousand votes. In 1888 he nominated Hon. A. G. Thurman for President before the St. Louis Convention. In 1896 he was at the head of the presi- dential electoral Ticket in Ohio.
Mr. Powell has always taken a great interest in educational affairs, aiding as one of the trustees of Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity, his Alma mater, for many years, a position he yet holds. In 1872 Mr. Powell married Eliza, daughter of Bishop Thomson, of the M. E. Church, and by this union there have been born six children, who are living, four sons and two daughters. One son, Edward T. Powell, is now a practicing attorney in his father's office.
Hon. Lawrence T. Neal.
Among the men whose records are an honor to the state, and who have risen to positions of influence and importance among their fellow-citizens, the name of Hon. Lawrence Talbott Neal, stands prominent. The architect of his own future, he has mounted steadily upward until to-day he is among the Ohio leaders in thought and action. His life has been an open book, admired of all men, and none yield more cheerful obeisance than those who know something of the struggles he has had to meet and conquer in an active career of nearly a half cen- tury. From an obscure clerk in a Parkersburg (West Virginia)
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store, fired with an ambition to excel, he has reached the proud station of splendid attorney, represented his county in the Gen- eral Assembly, his district two terms in Congress, been a dis- tinguished figure in three Democratic National conventions, and led his party as its candidate for Governor of Ohio in a state campaign.
Hon. Lawrence T. Neal was born in Parkersburg, Wood county, Va. (now West Virginia), Sept. 22, 1844, and descends from Scotch-Irish stock. His great-grandfather, James Neal, was a Captain in the Continental Army, and made the first perma- nent settlement in Wood county, in the shape of a block house near Parkersburg. He served as a Justice of the Peace and Cap- tain of the Frontier Rangers organized for the defense of the people of that section. John Neal, the grandfather of Hon. Law- rence T. Neal, was a Judge of the court of Wood county, serving from May, 1800, until his death in 1823. He was also High Sheriff of the county, and elected a member of the Virginia House of Bur- gesses and served two terms. Lawrence P. Neal, father of the subject of this sketch, was a merchant of Parkersburg. He was married December 9, 1841, to Mary Hall Talbott, a descendant of the well-known Talbott family of England.
Mr. Neal received his education in Asbury Academy, Park- ersburg, a private school taught by Professor John C. Nash, quitting school when but seventeen years of age, fairly well equipped as he thought, for the battle of life. He first en- gaged as a clerk in a general store, at a small annual pittance, but the young man had an ambition to become a lawyer, so he went to Chillicothe, where he has ever since made his home, and entered the law office of Hon. W. H. Safford, one of the leaders of the Ross county bar. On the 23rd of Feb., 1866, he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his chosen profession with great ambition and much success. When scarcely of age he was chosen City Solicitor of Chillicothe by the Democrats, but declined a re- election. In 1868 he was elected to the 58th General Assembly from Ross county, and had the honor of voting for Hon. Allen G. Thurman, who was a member of the committee that admitted him to the bar, for United States Senator, to succeed Hon. B. F. Wade. Although the youngest member of the House he bore a leading part in the general public business and stood among
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the leaders of his party. He refused to serve more than a single term. In 1870 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Ross county, against his vigorous protest, when an event occurred that had a great influence on his future career, and brought him into prominence of the first magnitude as a lawyer. Reference is. made to the famous Blackburn-Lovell tragedy, in which John S. Blackburn was charged with the killing of Mary Jane Lovell, in March, 1871. This was one of the greatest criminal cases that ever engaged the attention of an Ohio court. Mr. Neal had the prose- cution of the famous prisoner almost alone, and to him were op- posed for the defense Hon. Geo. E. Pugh, James W. Fitzgerald · and Chas. H. Blackburn, (a brother of the accused) of Cincin- nati ; Judge James Sloane, Hon. H. L. Dickey, S. L. Wallace and Thos. Beach, an array of legal talent hard to duplicate. The trial lasted 22 days and Blackburn was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the Ohio Penitentiary for life by the court.
His great success in the conduct of that case, at once di- rected public attention to Mr. Neal, and the next year he was nominated to the 43d Congress from the 7th district, and elected. In 1874 he was returned to the 44th Congress. He was a member of the National House of Representatives during the stormy period following the election of Rutherford B. Hayes to the Presidency, and with Speaker Randall and other conservative Democrats, did much to bring about a peaceable solution of a difficulty that at times threatened to engulf the country in a fratricidal strife. He was a delegate from his district to the Democratic National Conventions at Cincinnati in 1880, and in St. Louis in 1888, and served on the Committee on Resolutions, taking a leading part in the tariff declarations of the platform adopted by the latter body. In 1882 and 1888 he made the race for Congress in his district that had been made strongly Repub- lican, and in 1882 came within ten votes of being elected.
Mr. Neal was a delegate at large from Ohio to the Dem- ocratic National Convention at Chicago in June, 1892, and was again selected by the delegation from the state as its member of the Committee on Resolutions.
When the tariff plank in the platform, which had been pre- pared by the party leaders at Washington, and had received the
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approval of Grover Cleveland, was read to the committee, Mr. Neal opposed its adoption and offered as an amendment thereto the following :
"We denounce Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Demo- cratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties except for the purposes of revenue only, and demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the government when honestly and economically administered."
His amendment was rejected by the committee, but he after- wards, pursuant to notice of his intention to do so given to the committee, again offered it in the convention itself as an amend- ment to the platform when it was reported to that body, and it was adopted, after an exciting debate, in which he took a promi- nent part, by the decisive vote of 564 yeas to 342 nays.
The prominence assumed by Mr. Neal in this instance ar- rested the attention of the Democratic leaders and he was urged to allow the use of his name as a candidate for the second place on the ticket, on account of his stalwart position on the tariff question. He was assured of the support of the New York dele- gation and Bourke Cockran and Gov. Flower begged that he stand for the Vice Presidency. But he refused to do so, with 300 votes in sight, and Stevenson, of Illinois, was substituted. He had given his promise to Mr. Stevenson to support him and a broken promise was too high a price for Lawrence T. Neal to pay even for such a glittering prize.
The next year the Democrats of Ohio held their convention in Cincinnati, and Hon Lawrence T. Neal was nominated for Governor against Governor William McKinley for a second term, but the fates were against the Ohio Democracy and the party was defeated, although Mr. Neal ran thousands of votes ahead of his ticket.
With his defeat for the Governorship, Mr. Neal retired from politics and devoted himself assiduously to the practice of his profession. He opened an office in Columbus, and his business is both extensive and lucrative. Quiet and unobtrusive, but with a heart that responds to all proper calls, Lawrence Talbott Neal has
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fairly earned the title of honest and able advocate, faithful public servant and generous friend.
Hon. Horace L. Chapman.
A plain business man who has made a success of everything he has undertaken; a man whose advice and views are always of value, and whose record bespeaks the confidence the people have in him; who has never betrayed a trust - such are the prominent features in the life of Horace L. Chapman. No man stands higher where he is known ; no man better deserves the encomiums and good will of his friends.
Horace L. Chapman comes from good old English ancestors. They emigrated from England between 1633 and 1640. On his mother's side the family name was Leet, a direct descendant from the first Colonial Governor of Connecticut, William Leet, who concealed two of the regicides, Goff and Whaley, who came to this country. His ancestors some of them from both branches of the family were in the Revolution and the war of 1812. His father and grandfather on both sides were farmers.
Horace L. Chapman was born in the town of Independence, Allegany county, New York, July 10, 1837. He only had the ad- vantages of a common school education. When but 17 years of age, or in 1854, he came to Ohio, and rode from Columbus to Portsmouth in a stage coach, making the trip in a day, there being no railroads at that time down the Scioto valley. He at once embarked in business, engaging with his uncle, Horace Leet, in the lumber trade, where he remained until 1861. He then read law in the office of Col. Oscar F. Moore, in Portsmouth, and was admitted to the bar in 1865, but never practiced his profession. In 1863 he went into the private banking business under the firm name of Kinney & Chapman. In 1865 he went to Jackson, Ohio, and established a private bank, converted the same into a National in 1870, and became its President, a position he still holds. He engaged in the coal and iron business later and was connected with the building of what is now the Detroit Southern Railroad, also the Ironton division of the C., H. & D. From 1861 to 1865
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he was First Lieutenant of an Independent Rifle Company in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Mr. Chapman has always been a staunch defender of the Democratic faith and on several occasions been honored by his party. He was twice elected city treasurer of Portsmouth ; mem- ber of the school board and town council of Jackson for several terms, and refused to stand as the Democratic candidate for Con- gress when the district in wich he resided was Democratic and he could have had the honor unopposed. In 1897 the Democratic State convention that assembled in Columbus nominated Mr. Chapman for Governor. The outlook from a Democratic stand- point was poor. Governor Bushnell had been elected in 1895 by 92,000 majority in round numbers but the popularity of the candi- date was such that he was defeated by 28,000 before the people, cutting down Bushnell's majority for second term 64,000 votes. It is no secret that but for the very queer management of that campaign by the Democratic State Executive Committee, that Mr. Chapman would have come still nearer to an election. He has been a district delegate to several Democratic National conven- tions, and was one of the delegates-at-large from Ohio to the Kansas City National Democratic convention in 1900.
In 1868 Mr. Chapman was married to Miss Frances Benton, daughter of Hon. A. M. Benton, of Port Allegany, Mckean County, Pa., and two children have sprung from this union, a son and daughter, F. B. Chapman and Grace B. Chapman. Some years ago the family removed to Columbus, but they still own a residence in Jackson, where Mr. Chapman has always voted and claims as his place of citizenship. He belongs to the various branches of the Masonic fraternity and takes a great deal of in- terest in the secret work.
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