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TIMSON, RODNEY M., Marietta, Ohio, was lorn at Milford, New Hampshire, on October 26th, IS24. He was descended from John Stin- son, who came from England to Boston, Massa- chusetts, about 1640. Ile received his education at Marietta College, from which he graduated in 1847. Hle then commenced the study of law, and in 1849 was admitted to the bar. But his fancy for newspaper life being greater, he abandoned the law and established the Register, at Stouton, Lawrence county. This new work received his best energies, and until the spring of 1862 he gave his entire attention to that paper. He then moved to
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Mnietta, and there edited and published the Marietta Kagider, in which he continued und May, 1872. Since that he has been out of business, and has devoted his time between lerine and study, possessing a love hinary of over two thousand euchally selected volumes, He can always be found among them. This contributions, which are many, are of the highest order. In 1869 he was elected to the Ohio State Senate as a Republican. The universal satis- faction felt by his constituents caused his re-election to the same office in IS71, where he served in all four years. His record while in the Legislature was highly honorable, and the record shows him as one of the ablest and most ener- getie men in the Legislature during his time. Ile has been married twice; Gist in 1851, and then again in 1862.
ORRILL, HENRY ALBERT, Lawyer, is the third son of Sumuel Morrill and Martha Morrill, and was born in Potsdam, New York, February 13th, 1835. His paternal grandfather was one uf tive or six brothers who in early life emigrated from New Hampshire to Caledonia county, Ver- mont, then a wilderness, and there became ultimately the possessor, of large and productive farms. They were men of prominence in clunch, benevolent, and in Christian en- terprises. His maternal grandparents, whose name was Tilton, were members of a family prominent in business circles in northern New York. His father, soon after mar- riage, settled near the home of his wife's parents, where he was engaged in various business pursuits, meeting with wied success, until his decease, which occurred about thirteen years ago. He was a man of inflexible integrity in all the affairs of life, and was endowed with more than ordinary intellectual powers. At the age of four years, his mother dying and leaving a large family of young children, he removed to Vermont to live with his paternal grand- parents, with whom he remained until their death; then with their married daughter, who had succeeded to the homestead as head of the household, continued to reside there until he had attained his eighteenth year. During this time he was engaged in working on the farm, and at- tended also the village school and academy. Conceiving about that period a distaste for agricuboral pursuits, he visited St. Louis, proposing to turn his attention to business, and was there engaged for six months in a large commission house. At the close of his engagement with that establish- ment he returned to his home, whence, after completing a preparatory course of studies, he entered Dartmouth College in 1856, and graduated with honor in 1860. Daring his college course, and also while fitting himself for it, he taught school in the winter, and in the summer vacations worked for hire on the farms, thus defraying his entire ex- penses, receiving no outside help from any source, After graduating he at once began the study of law, and during 1
the ensuing fall presided over an academy at Lisbon, New Hmmpshire. In the early part of 1861 he removed to Cin- ciumati, where for thice yes he was engaged in teaching in private schools, continuing also the study of law, and in the meantime taking an active part, as an orator and de- bater, in the current political movements of the State. In 1863 he was admitted to the bar. and entered on the prac- nice of his profession. In the spring of 1865, General E. F. Noyes, since Governor of Ohio, with whom he had read law, having been elected City Solicitor of Cincinnati, he was appointed by him Assistant Solicitor. In the fall of 1866, after the election of Noyes to the Probate Judgeship of the county, he was appointed by the City Council to fill the vacancy in the Solicitor's office, and in the following spring was elected to the Solicitorship for the term of two years. Retiring from office in 1869, he formed a law partnership with his father-in-law, and since then has been constantly engaged in carrying on an extensive and remunerative practice, to which, with the exception of the work he has done in connection with the Law School of Cincinnati, he has devoted his entire attention. In 1870 he was appointed Professor of Mercantile Law, Contracts, and Evidence, in the Law School, and still retains that position. He is a zealous and prominent officer and worker in his church -- Presbyterian-and in political matters, while holding him- sell apart from the machinations of corrupt partisanship, is fearless and outspoken in delivering his views and senti- ments concerning every important measme. He was mar- ried in 1867 to Anna Metintley, eldest daughter of A. 11. McGuffey, a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati.
ALDWIN, DWIGHIT 11., Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Pianos and Organs, was born in North East, Erie county, Pennsylvania, on September 15th, 1821. His parents were from the State of Connecticut, and were of English and Irish ex- traction, Ilis mother was the daughter of Cap- tain Samuel Waugh, who enlisted in the Revolutionary war when he was but sixteen years of age, and served as an officer seven years. Câu tain Waugh married Miss Good- win, who was a lineal descendant of one of the best families of that name in England. Our subject acquired his educa- tion principally in the public and select schools of his native town, and subsequently entered Oberlin College. After spending several years as a student in preparing for the ministry, on account of failing health he was compelled to abandon his studies and college, and relinquish his cher- ished object of becoming a regularly educated minister of the gospel. Having thus been frustrated in obtaining the profession of his choice, he visited Kentucky and engaged in teaching music, which he found agreeable, and therefore continued several years in that State and m that business. lle then removed to Ripley, Ohio, and after remaining
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there a few years, being engaged in teaching music, he | the idea of entering some profession, and, holding that de- went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has since resided. Dming the hist seven years of his residence in the Queen C'ity of the West he wa, engaged in teaching music in the public schools. It has been estimated by those who are qualified to know, that he has given music lessons to more than one hundred thousand pupils in classes, and more than one hundred persons are now teaching music who were at one time his scholars. In 1863 he began in a very small way to sell pianos and organs. This business has gradually but constantly increased until now it extends over ten or twelve different States. He began with the determination of building up a large business on a basis of strict integrity, and the results have far surpassed his most sanguine expec- tations, his sales of pianos and organs being more than double that of any other house in the State of Ohio. The name D. II. Baldwin on a bill is a sufficient guarantee that every musical instrument sold from his warerooms is quite as good in every respect as it had been represented to be by the salesman. In his remarkable success in business he has not for an instant forgotten how ardently he desired to be- come a clergyman by profession. Although defeated by ill-health in attaining to that position, he has found many opportunities in the church and Sabbath-school to labor for his Divine Master. In July, 1863, he was elected a Ruling Elder in the Third Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, and still holds that honorable and responsible position. Since 1868 he has been the efficient and tireless Superintendent of the Sunday-school of that church. The printed reports of the Sabbath-schools of the Presbytery of Cincinnati, for the year ending May, 1875, show that the school over which he presides had a larger number of pupils than any other. Every day, at an carly hour in the afternoon, he leaves the cares of his business and devotes the remainder of the day in visiting the families of the pupils of his school, thus reducing to practice the religion which he professes. On December 30th, 1844, he married Emerine Summers, of Elizaville, Kentucky.
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ERARD, CLINTON W., Lawyer, Prosecuting Attorney for Hamilton county, Ohio, was born in Newtown, Hamilton county, Ohio, September 20th, 1842. llis ancestors were known as es- teemed companions of the earlier pioneers and settlers in the southwestern section of Ohio, where E. they located themselves when that part of our country, now so thriving and populous, was sparsely settled 'an I wholly undeveloped. His parents were Isaac Gerard and Maria Gerard. Until he had affained his seventeenth year he lived on a farm, engaged in agricultural labor during the summer season, and in the winter months attending the neighboring country schools, where he received a limited and preliminary education. He subsequently conceived
sign steadily in view, employed himself in teaching a common school, thus seeming the desired opportunity which enabled him to complete, in a measne, his store of crude acquirements, and to prepare his mind, by a con- sistent course of drilling, to receive profitably a higher system of training. Upon the outbreak of the rebellion, however, he temporarily relinquished his student life, and entered the service of the United States to assist in the maintenance and defence of the Union. Enlisting as a private in the 83d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he served actively during the ensuing three years as a non-commis- sioned officer, participating in many hard-fought battles, and at all times, under the most trying and perilous circum- stances, acquitting himself with intrepidity and efficiency. While acting in a military capacity he was recognized as an ardent and useful sollier, and upon various occasions was favorably mentioned by his superiors. Receiving his discharge in August, 1865, he re-entered the college at the beginning of the September term of this year, resuming the prosecution of his former studies, and through indefatigable exertions and economical management graduated in the fall of ISOS at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. In the following September he received the appointment of Pro- fessor of Mathematics at the Farmers' College, located at College Hill, Ohio, which position he filled with ability for a period of two years. In the meantime, also, having re- solved to embrace the legal profession, he studied law, under the directions of Dickson & Murdoch, of Cincinnati, and attended the Cincinnati Law School, whence he grad- uated April 19th, 1870, receiving his diploma in that year. In the ensuing June, the college session having closed, he removed to Cincinnati, and entering at once upon the active practice of his profession, rapidly secured an extensive and remunerative clientage. In the fall of 1872, the position of Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Hamihon county being tendered him, he accepted it, and in January, 1873, received his appointment. During 1873-74, having performed the fimctions of his office with faultless ability and well-directed zeal, he was widely named as a fit candidate for the posi- tion of Prosecuting Attorney, and in 1875 was unanimously nominated by the Democratic party for his present office, ultimately seenring an election by a majority of over five thousand in the county, running far ahead of his ticket. Nominated by acclamation by the Democratic Convention, elected by an overwhelming majority, he was installed in his new office on January 4th, 1875, under the most felici- tous circumstances. Throughout his administration his course and actions have been invariably characterized by a fearless and impartial construction of the law, an inflexible determination to repress the growth and spread of the crim- inal classes, and an undeviating attention to every detail connected with the proper fulfilment of his many important duties. He is what may be termed, in the fullest seuse of the expression, a self-made man, Encompassed with diffi-
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culties at his outset in life, he met them with vigor and with a Drawing of the Plant ; " in 1822 a " Treatise on determination, and now-holling an honorable and im- portant office, an esteemed and prominent citizen, a skilful
Hydrophobia," and another on a curious case similar to that of the Siamese twins, which occurred in his practice. lawyer-reaps deservedly the reward of his tireless ex- These papers were published in the New York Aledical ertions. Repository. In 1824 he published in the Philadelphia Journal of Medical Science a full history of the great Epidemic Fever that visited the Ohio valley and Marietta ILDRETHI, GEORGE OSGOOD, M. D., was born in Marietta, Ohio, November 17th, 1812. His father, Dr. Samuel Prescott Hildreth, widely known as a medical practitioner, author and scientist, was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, September 30th, 1783, descending from a distin- guished New England ancestry, traced directly to Richard Hildreth, who emigrated from England more than two centuries ago. Ilis boyhood was passed on his father's farm and in studies at a common school. His preparations for a collegiate course were made at Phillips' . Andover Academy, but before the completion of his college training he entered upon the study of medicine with Dr. Thomas Kittredge, at Andover, North parish. In May, 1805, not then twenty-two years of age, he began practice in Hamp- stead, Rockingham county, New Hampshire, and after a sixteen month' residence in this place he started, Sep- tember 9th, 1806, on horseback for the West, arriving at Marietta, Ohio, October 4th. Here he remained nine weeks, and then went to Belpre, twelve miles distant, to practise. Here, on August 19th, 1807, he married Rhoda, daughter of Captain Pardon Cook. She was a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and came to Ohio in 1804 with her mother, then a widow. In ISos, after a stay of fifteen months in Belpre, Dr. Hildreth returned to Marietta, and there resided until his death, July 24th, 1863. 1lis wife, a lady of most estimable qualities and many accom- plishments, died at the same place, June 21st, 1868. In ISio, when twenty-seven years of age, Dr. Hildreth was elected to the Ohio Legislature, and re-elected in IS11. |fossil insects, shells and plants of Ohio, to which were At that time he was a supporter of the Jefferson and Madi- son administrations, His unsuccessful opponent in ISI was the lite Judge Ephraim Cutler, a Federalist. In later years both acted in concert as Whigs. Upon the expiration of his second term he declined to act further in that capa- city. Ile was a man of decided political opinions, and of such unswerving integrity that there was no inducement that could lead him against the right. He was a Repub- liean from the formation of that party, in 1854. The Legis- lature of which he was a member, in ISHI, elected him Collector of Non-resident Taxes, at a salary of $250 per annum, and he held that office for eight years, when, in 1819, it was abolished. In 1810 he became clerk of the Trustees of the Ministerial Lands, and retained that po- sition until his death. At home and abroad he was highly esteemed for his scientific labors. Among his publications were, in 1868, a " History of the Epidemic of the Year 1807; " in 1812 a " Description of the American Colombo, in 1822 and 1823; and in 1825, in the Western Journal of Medicine, of Cincinnati, an account of the minor diseases of the epidemic. In 1826 he became the author of a series of papers on the " Natural and Civil History of Washington County," printed in Silliman's Journal of Science, New Ilaven. From that time until his death he was a frequent contributor to that journal on conchological, geological, meteorological and medical subjects. These were all very valuable, especially those treating on the salt-bearing rock in Ohio, and the history of salt manufacture from the first settlement in that State. ITis " Diary of a Naturalist " was exceedingly interesting and instructive. In 1837 he became one of the assistant geologists on the Ohio State Geological Survey, and in 1839 became President of the Medical Society of Ohio, and delivered before it, at Cleveland, as the annual address, a " History of the Diseases and Climate of Southeastern Ohio from its First Settlement," which was printed by the society and widely circulated. In the same year he published a " History of the Settlement of Belville, Western Virginia," which was continued through several numbers of the Hesperian, a magazine issued in Cincinnati. In 1842-43 he contributed frequently to the American Pioneer, then published monthly in the same city. In 1848 he issued his " Pioneer History," an octavo volume of 525 pages, which was " an account of the first examinations of the Ohio valley and early settlement of the Northwest Ter- ritory." This was followed in 1852 by his " Lives of the Early Settlers of Ohio," an octavo volume of 539 pages. In 1830 he began a cabinet of natural history, from the added minerals, insects and marine specimens from other quarters. In a few years he had gathered four thousand specimens, including many relies from " ancient mounds." In 1855 he donated this valuable cabinet to Marietta Col- lege, together with his scientific library, and many rare works pertaining to the pioneer history of the West. These occupy a room known as " Hildreth's Cabinet," and by this donation he became one of the leading benefactors of that institution. Ile was a man of sincere piety, and was every- where esteemed for his profound learning and his attractive social qualities. George Osgood Hildreth, his son, was educated at the Ohio University, at Athens, from which he graduated in 1829. Upon leaving this institution he entered at once upon the study of medicine with his father, and soon after entered the medical department of Transyl- vania University, at Lexington, Kentucky, from which he graduated in 1835. 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continued it until the present time, with the exception of in its skirmishes and battles. Subsequently he went as lom year,, from 1819 to 1853, when he was in Califomia, to which the prevalent " gold fever" bad impelled bim. Hle resumed his professional duties upon his return, and continued alone in their performance since the death of his father, in 1863. In June, 1863, he was appointed Ex- aminer of United States Pensioners, and still retains that position. For a number of years he has acted as clerk of the Ministerial Trustees of Marietta; is a stockholder in the First National Bank and in the Marietta National Bank; a member of the Washington County Medical Society; occupies the family homestead on Putnam street, and is still unmarried.
ATTERSON, JOHN E., M. D., was born, Febru- ary ISth, 1830, at Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and was the third of six children whose parents were A. O. and Maria S. (Speer) Patterson. His father, a native of Fay- ette county, l'ennsylvania, was a graduate of Washington College, Pennsylvania, and became a promi- nent clergyman of the Presbyterian church. Ile was a learned and eloquent divine, and during the last year of his life preached at Oxford, Ohio, where he died, Decem- ber 14th, 1868. Ilis wife was born at Chillicothe, and was a woman of many virtues and accomplishments. John E. had in youth the advantages of a liberal education, and became at quite an early age a student .in Washington Col- lege, which he left in 1850, going in that year to Cincin- nati, where he commenced to read medicine with Dr. I. J. Dodge. He remained with this gentleman three years, and in this period attended three courses of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, from which, in the spring of 1855, he graduated with high honor. He at once located in Cincinnati as a practitioner, remaining there for seven months, when he went to Pittsburgh, and followed his profession in that city until the breaking out of the rebel- lion. In 1862 he entered the United States service as Assistant Singeon, and was stationed at Paducah, Ken. tucky, having change of the hospital-boat " Dr. Robinson." lle remained here about six months, when he moved his boat to Columbus, Kentucky, where he was stationed for another half year. Here also he was assigned charge of the hospital-boat " Nashville," which he retained for six months. Then he accompanied this boat as Assistant Surgeon to Vicksburg, where he was stationed for a year, being part of the time in the hospital of that city and the remainder of the time on the boat. In March, 1864, he went to Columbus, Ohio, and was there commissioned as Assistant Surgeon of the 118th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and, after a short sojourn with this regiment, was placed on the " Operating Board of Surgeons " of the 2d Division of the 23d Army Corps, and was actively connected with that corps during the active campaign against Atlanta, engaging
Assistant Surgeon in the Marietta Hospital, Georgia, and after this he was stationed in the hospitals of Atlanta mutil the troops were ordered out of that city, in contemplation of Sherman's march to the sea. Ile then went to Louis- ville, Kentucky, and for about two months served in Crittenden Hospital, when he was ordered to Nashville, where he remained six months in Hospital No. 1. Ilis regiment was then ordered to the Atlantic coast, and at his request he joined it in Jannary, 1865, and acted with it during the balance of its service in North Carolina, at Wil- mington and at Saulsbury. Ile was mustered out, June 24th, 1865, and returned to Cincinnati, where he practised medicine two years. Then, on account of his father's im- paired health, he moved to Oxford, Ohio, where the latter was residing, and followed his profession in that place for two years ; and upon the expiration of this period located in Glendale, where he has since lived. Ile is a physician of great skill, and his long hospital service in the army has been of great benefit to him and his patrons, as well as to the science of which he is a leading exponent. He is a gentleman of great energy of character, of fine culture and attractive social qualities, and is highly esteemed for his public and private services. lle is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a Republican in his political affiliations.
ARD, WILLIAM W., Lumber Merchant, was born in Underhill, Chittenden county, Vermont, July 6th, 1811, and was the fourth child in a family of seven children whose parents were William Ward and Anna (Spenser) Ward. Ilis father, a native of Vermont and the direct de- scendant of Revolutionary ancestry, followed agricultural pursuits through life, and was a man of influence and edu- cation; he died in East Poultney, Rutland county, Vermont, in 1850. Ilis mother was a native of Hartford, Connecti- ent, noted for fervid piety; she died, January 3d, 1819. Ilis grandfather, Hon. William Ward, was one of the first settlers of Poultney, Rutland county, Vermont, and during the Revolutionary war took an active and zealous part, as an officer, in the Continental army in his country's defence. lle was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of the State, and for six years presided as one of the Judges of the County Court of Rutland county. For twenty-two years he was Judge of Probate for the District of Fairhaven; served for forty years as Justice of the Peace; and during eighteen years represented the town in the State Legislature. Also, for more than a half century, he made a public profession of religion, and for nearly forty years served as deacon of a church. He was a direct de- seendant of General Artemas Ward, of the Massachusetts Continental troops. Ile was engaged in labor at an early
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age, and his elementary education, obtained solely by his | Hle was married, September 13th, 1860, to Rosanna C. own exertions, was limited in degree and kind. When Jobson, a native of Germany; and again, July 18th, 1875, to Caroline Henzler, of Cincinnati. but twelve years of age he was compelled to maintain bim- self, and up to 1850 remained in Vermont, employed in laborious but honorable pursuits. Ile then, in company with Horace Greeley, afterward so fumnous, left his native State on foot for the West. His total capital was nine HOWEY, HON. JOHN F., Lawyer and Represent- ative in the Sixtieth and Sixty-first General Assemblies of Ohio, was born in Champaign county, where he still resides, December 7th, 1846. The name was originally spelled Goewey, and his ancestors settled and lived in Rensselaer county, New York. He is the son of Hartland D. Gowey and Eliza A. (Willey) Gowey. His mother, whose ances- tors were natives of Connecticut, was born in Ohio. Ilis father was a native of Madison county, New York, and after his arrival in Ohio engaged in mercantile pursuits in the town of North Lewisburg, Champaign county. Ilis education was acquired primarily in the Ohio Wesleyan University; and at the age of twenty he began the study of law under the preceptorship of Hon. John II. Young, of Urbana. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar, and at once entered on the practice of his profession. In 1872 he was elected, on the Republican ticket, to fill a vacancy in the House, and in 1873 was re-elected for the next full term. While a member of this body he has served on the Committees on Privileges and Elections and on Insane Asylums. In 1875, declining a re-election to the House, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Champaign county. To un 'ertake to estimate the life and career of one so young as he, would be a premature proceeding; but, marked as it has been by integrity and the profitable exer- cise of sound abilities, there can be no danger in predicting that his future will satisfy every reasonable hope of his many friends. Ile was married, April 25th, 1867, to Clara MeDonald, of Champaign county, Ohio. dollars, while Greeley's capital was eighteen dollars. At Albion, Orlean, county, New York, he was attacked by illness, and rested there temporarily with a friend. Greeley had then but nine dollars left, out of which sum he gave five dollars to his comrade, and, the latter not permitting him to remain, he proceeded on his journey. This was the beginning of a friendship between the fortune-seekers that lasted through life, and which was abundantly evidenced by the correspondence and exchanged favors of subsequent years. He was detained at Grines, three miles from Albion, by sickness, for about one month, at the expiration of which time he found employment as a clerk there, and served in that capacity during the ensuing three years. In 1833 he went by stage to Silver Creek, Chantanqua county, New York, where he established his head-quarters for the sale of goods. In 1839 he set out for Cincinnati, and, ac- complishing the journey on foot, arrived at his destination in the spring of 1840, without a cent in his pocket and with not even an acquaintance in the town. He had accumu. lated a few dollars while in New York, but had lost every- thing in trading ventures on the lake. His first occupation in Cincinnati was the measuring and selling of lumber for Captain Calvin Corvin, whom, two months later, he accom. pinied on business to St. Louis, where he succeeded in gaining $300. At the expiration of two months he returned with his employer to Cincinnati, and there engaged in Inmber selling on his own account. Within eighteen months from this time he laid aside a sum of $10,000, and has since continued to prosecute the business in which he met with such speedy and extraordinary success. In 1856, exhinsted by sickness, he was taken to western New York, presumedly to die, and simultaneously was crushed by di- - astrous reverses in business. Two years elapsed before his health was re-established, and he then returned to Cincin- nati, as poor as upon his first arrival in the place; resumed, by the aid of a little credit, his former business, and was soon again on the full tide of prosperity. From the time of his failure to the present day he has never given a moneyed obligation, and he is now widely recognized as a far-seeing and able man of business. Ilis lumber yard is located at 156 Harrison avenne. Politically, he is attached to the Republican party, and for many years was noted as a zealous abolitionist. At the time of Lovejoy's murder by a pro-slavery mob at Alton, Illinois, he was energetic in his denunciations of the ontrage, fearless in his advocacy of true right and justice. Religiously, he is a Spiritualist, believing firmly in the immortality of man and the possi- bility of communication with friends in the spirit land.
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