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lent purpose, and as time went by he became better in- formed than very many who had enjoyed the amplest opportunities at good schools. He served out his appren- ticeship and mastered his trade, and having mastered it he worked at it for a considerable time as a journeyman. For about twelve years, as apprentice and journeyman, he labored at the potter's trade; not continuously, however, for at intervals he devoted himself to teaching school, avail- ing himself of every such opportunity that presented itself. In the year tSajt he definitely and finally gave up the potter's business, and devoted himself for the time being to that of teaching. He obtained a situation as teacher in the public schools of Zinesville, and, notwithstanding his limited opportunities for obtaining a school education, he proved admirably qualified to fulfil the duties of his voca- tion, and illustrated anew the fact that native capacity and a well-directed will are better than opportunity. Ile con- tinned in his position as public school teacher for a period of about three and a half years. He had long since de- vided, however, that his career in life was not to be that of a school teacher any more than that of a potter. Having mastered for himself the difficulties in the way of obtaining a general education, he had set about mastering for him- self the special difficulties of professional study. He had decided that he would become a lawyer, and all his spare time while engaged in teaching was given up to legal study.
| He studied law under difficulties, but he studied it effectu- ally and successfully; so effectually and so successfully that in the year 1811, at the age of thisty one, he was admitted to the bar as a practising lawyer, He immediately set to work in his new profession, and in time was in possession of a large and increasing practice. He has continued his practice without interruption ever since, and has prospered in his professional work. For many years he has been an active and prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1855 was ordained a local elder in that church, a position which he still holds. For over ten years he filled the position of County School Examiner, and from 1859 to 1869 he was Secretary of the County Agricul- tural Society, both of which positions he filled in the most satisfactory manner. He has also been twice elected Justice of the Peace, and since 1847 has been a Notary Public.
OORE, REV. WILLIAM THOMAS, one of the most successful, scholarly, progressive and popu- lar clergymen of the Disciple or Christian Church, was born in Henry county, Kentucky, August 27th, 1832. Ile is of Scotch-Irish extraction, his immediate ancestors being Virginians. From these he inherited great physical strength and many remark- able traits of character, as may, to some extent, be seen in the accompanying portrait. The lofty, broad, prominent, whole countenance at times an almost prophetically stern aspect, although his benevolence has such a controlling in- fluence on his character as to manifest itself constantly in his personal appearance. Ilis tall angular and powerful physique, with the massive superstructure, indicates the man of uncommon endowments. Many of the circum- stances of his boyhood conduced to the development of this remarkable character. His father, dying when he was in his ninth year, left him and five other children with his mother dependent upon their own exertions. This neces- sarily subjected him to the rugged discipline of toil and poverty. These carly struggles led to the development of those elements of character which were some time to place him among the first preachers of his day. At an early age he showed signs of uncommon mental strength, and distin- guished himself among his fellows. Through perseverance and self-denial he gathered the rudiments of an English education at home, and early entered the academy at New Castle, Kentucky. Here he studied and taught for several years, until in 1855, when he entered Bethany College, Vir- ginia. In 1858 he graduated, and delivered the valedictory for his class at the commencement. Shortly after this he was called to the pastorate of the Christian Church in Frankfort, Kentucky. This position he beld until 1864. But in that year he was forced to resign on account of fail- ing health, brought on by over-study and over-work. Dur-
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ing this year he was married to Mary A. Bishop, daughter | In 1874 Mr. Moore was a delegate from the Disciples to of Hon. R. M. Bishop, of Cincinnati. In 1805, after a the Triennial Conference of Free Will Baptists, held in Providence, Rhode Island. Here he delivered an earnest ad. dress on the faith and practices of the Disciples, and proposed to the Conference the appointment of a committee to meet a committee from the General Convention of Disciples, to consider the matter of a union of these denominations. Ilis address and proposition were enthusiastically received in the Conference, and the committee appointed to meet a similar one subsequently appointed by the Disciples. Of this latter committee Mr. Moore is a member. A preacher of uncommon attractiveness and strength, deservedly popu- lar in his church, an earnest worker of remarkable exceu- tive ability, and in the prime of life, with all the enthusiasm of youth, Mr. Moore seems yet at the outset of a beneficent career. few months' rest, he became pastor of Jefferson Avenue Christian Church, Detroit, Michigan. This charge, how. ever, he resigned in the following year to occupy a chair in the Kentucky University. About the same time he was invited to the pastorate of what is now the Central Chris- tian Church, Cincinnati. Both of these positions he ae- cepted, and delivered a brief course of lectures in the Uni- versity every season, while performing the duties of his pastorate, nutil, in 1869, the growing importance of his work in Cincinnati compelled him to resign his professorship. Mr. Moore's church, with a membership of about Soo, is the largest and one of the most important in the city. In 1863 he made a trip to Europe, visiting the principal cities and remarkable places. On his return to the United States he resumed charge of his oldl church and started the publica- tion of the Christian Quarterly. Ile is a voluminous writer. Added to the vast number of sermons, lectures, AYNES, DANIEL A., Lawyer, and for fourteen years Judge of the Superior Court of Mont- gomery County, was born in Columbia county, New York, September 9th, 1815. His parents were Daniel and Magdalena (Simmonds) Ilaynes. Ilis father, who was a physician, was a native of Ilampden county, Massachusetts. Ilis mother was a native of New York. Hle received his education at Union College, Schenectady, graduating in the class of 1835. Soon after he came to Ohio, settling at Dayton, where for a year he taught in the Dayton Academy, and then began the study of law with Judge Crane. In the fall of 1839 he was admitted to the bar, and in January, 1840, began practice in partnership with Henry Stoddard. In 1843 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Montgomery County, and again in 1845. In 1847 he was elected to the Legislature, and at the elose of the session, in the spring of 1848, he formed a law partnership with John Howard, which continued till 1856, when the Superior Court of Montgomery County was created, and he was elected to the bench. He was re- elected to the same position in 1860, and again in 1865, and resigned February 14th, 1870, after having held the position fourteen years, and associated himself with the late Ilon. Clement I. Vallandigham in the practice of law. This was terminated by the death of Mr. Vallan- digham, in June, 1871, and a few months after he again formed a partnership with Mr. Howard and his son, under the style of Haynes, Howard & Howard, which still con- tinues. Judge Haynes has never been a politician, but his political allegiance has been with the Whig and Republican parties. He was at one time a director of the Dayton & Western Kailway, and was also once President of the Dayton Bank. In October, 1875, he was again elected Judge of the Superior Court, and will take his seat July Ist, 1876. Ile is also President of the Dayton Insurance Company. On June 13th, 18.18, he married Emily, addresses and controversial papers that have come from his active brain, stand most prominent among his literary works " Views of Life," a book of beautiful practical thoughts, put in the most entertaining manner, without any of the cant of the pulpit ; and the " Living Pulpit of the Christian Church." He was many years literary editor of the American Christian Review. He was one of the compilers of the "Christian Hymn Book," and the editor of the " Christian Ilymnal," where his hand and taste may every- where be seen. Ile edited Alexander Campbell's " Lee- tures on the Pentateueh," and is now editor-in-chief of the Christian Quarterly. The Quarterly is largely composed of doctrinal and polemical discussions, and is regarded as the ablest religious periodical in this country. Its editorial reviews are liberal and scholarly, and in short it represents the theological brains of the denomination. Mr. Moore is now also engaged with other distinguished men of his church in the preparation of a " Commentary on the New Testament," the Book of Acts having been assigned as his share of the work. One of the great works of his life is the put he has taken in the building of that beamiful temple to the Almighty-the Central Christian Church of Cincinnati. Mr. Moore is one of the most energetic and effective workers in his denomination. When it became apparent that the Disciples should organize a uniform plan of church co-operation, he first indieated the methods neces- stry to reach this end. In the General Convention, held in St. Louis in 1869, he offered a resolution submitting the whole matter of church co-operation to a committee of twenty. This committee, of which he was chairman, com- posed of the ablest men in the church, met in Louisville and reported a plan of organization, which was adopted by the entire church. This was the first systematic organiza- tion of the churches of the Disciples for cooperation in missionary work. No man rendered more effective service in bringing about this result than the subject of this sketch.
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daughter of General Sampson Mason, of Springfield, Ohio, j of his professional as well as official duty in combating one She died September 20, 1848, and he has since remained a widower. of those malignant epidemie southern fevers, at the military post at Augusta, Georgia, where he had been assigned to duty. Ilis death occurred on the 18th of August, 1821, and his remains were interred at the post where he fell, a victim to that remorseless foe, that strikes first, the best, the bright- est and the most attractive mark.
REVITT, JOIN, Surgeon in the United States Army and Navy, the third son of Henry Trevitt, a sketch of whose life, etc., appears elsewhere, was born at the family residence at Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, February 26th, 1790. After having acquired a good common school and academic education in his native and neighboring villages in his own county, he prosecuted and completed his profes- sional education under the careful instruction of Dr. Peter- son, who in those early times ranked high as an eminent surgeon and physician in the town of Boscawen, Merrimac county, New Hampshire. The second war with Great Britain broke out about the time of the completion of his profesional studies. Devotedly zealous in his support of the cause of his country, he at once tendered to her his ser- vices. Ile was without delay appointed a surgeon, received his commission, and was assigned to duty on board one of those ships that had been extemporized from the merchant service, commissioned and adopted into the service of the United States as a ship of war. In her first cruise she un- fortunately encountered a British man-of-war of many times her strength and capacity. After a gallant defence and heavy losses on both sides, she was captured, and with all on board sent to Halifax, where, after the usual delays, her officers and men were exchanged or sent home on parole. Surgeon Trevitt was soon transferred to the army, where his services were greatly needed. He was a' the battle of Plattsburg and in other important engagements, where his services as an expert surgeon were highly appreciated. After the establishment of peace, he was retained in the peace establishment and accompanied the army in many of its frontier expeditions and Indian wars. Indeed, from the close of the war with England to the time of his death, he was constantly in active and laborious service, Ile accom- pmnied General Andrew Jackson in his famous Cherokee and other campaigns, and was a favorite of that distinguished general, to whom he was devotedly attached. He was one of the surgeons selected to be present in attendance upon the fatal duel fought at Bladensburg between Commodores Decatur and Barron, on the 22d of March, 1820, and upon him devolved the sad duty of assisting in bearing the former from the fatal field, and attending him professionally up to the moment of his death. Faithful in the discharge of every duty to his country, his noble profession, and to his fellows, alike upon the ocean, upon the battle-field, in the regular service against the best drilled army in the world, and in the tangled fastnesses, adroitly selected by the savage warrior for purposes of ambuscade, upon the pestilential frontier, his brief but eventful career was suddenly brought to an end, falling a victim while in the faithful discharge
ONES, SIDNEY B., General Southwestern Passen- ger Agent of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, May 26th, 1837. On the death of his father, his mother moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while he was in his infancy. In that city he received his elementary education. While in his thirteenth year, he removed with his mother to Brook- lyn, where he remained until 1852, when he went to New Orleans, and was there engaged in clerking until 1856. Later he moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was appointed Freight Agent of the Star Express Company. In 1860 he removed to Ludlow, in the same State, and here engaged in business on his own account, as a bookseller, in partnership with the general agent of Johnson, Fry & Co., of New York. In 1861 he raised the nucleus of a company of volunteers, in Covington, Kentucky, and also in Ludlow, and accompanied it to " Camp Dick Robinson," where he was assigned to duty as drill master. At the consolidation of the companies, he was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company I, of the 4th Kentucky Volunteers, which took the field in Kentucky. At Gab Orchard he was detailed as a special messenger to carry important despatches from General Thomas to General Sherman, and on his return was assigned to duty as Assistant Division Quartermaster, on the staff of General Thomas, in which capacity he served until 1873. He participated in the meanwhile as volunteer aide in the engagement at Mill Spring, and in several other actions. He continued on the staff of General Thomas until after the battle at Pittsburgh Landing, then returned to Newport, Kentucky, a step prompted by his failing health. Upon resigning his military commission, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Campbell County, Kentucky. At a sub- sequent period he was elected Lieutenant-Colonel of the 42d Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers, and later was pro- moted to the Coloneley by Governor Thomas E. Bramblette, and placed in command of the Twenty-third Military District of Kentucky. In the latter part of 1864 he resigned his commission, and removed to Louisville, Kentucky, to accept the position of General Agent of the Little Miami Railroad. In this capacity he was employed until 1868, at which date he was appointed General Passenger Agent of the Lonisville & Cincinnati Shore Line, The duties of that office he per- formed until 1871, when he accepted the position of General Passenger Agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, In
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the latter part of 1874 he accepted the appointment to his in this place, during the progress of which he felt compelled present position, General Southwestern Passenger Agent for through consideration for his country's honor to pursue a the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati ' & St. Louis Radway Company, course of policy which deshoyed the friendly relations pre- with head quarters at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was mamied in 1856, to N. J. Bennett, daughter of a prominent merchant of New Orleans, Louisiana,
viously existing between him and the Chilian authorities, bic sought from his own government a removal. As an ummis- takable mark of approval of his line of conduct under the circumstances, he was subsequently advanced to the consul- ship of Callao, Peru. While sojourning there, Mr. Clay, United States Minister, on account of various difficulties with the Peruvian government, retired from his post, thus leaving him, in 1861, in sole charge of affairs. Shortly
REVITT, WILLIAM, Physician and Surgeon, ex-Secretary of State for Ohio, etc., was born at Mount Vernon, Hillsborough county, New Hamp- after this, the United States government, at his own request, shire, February 7th, 18og. ( For details of the relieved him of his arduous duties, and he returned to Columbus, where he has sice lived in comparative seclu- sion, following his profession only among a limited circle of friends, occasionally as consulting physician, in the culture of favorite literary pursuits, and in the management of his private business affairs. After the decease of ex-Gov- ernor Medary, from 1865 to 1871 he became the sole pro- prietor, and assumed the exclusive management of the Crisis, a journal which at that time had a larger circulation than that of any other paper at the capital of Olno. In 1867, while conducting the Crisis, he established the Sunday Morning News, and continued in its management till its success had become assured. Its publication is still continued as one of the permanent enterprises of the city and State. Ile was married in the fall of 1839 to Lucinda Butlet, of Columbus, Ohio. Ile has buried two daughters and his eldest son, John Noble Trevitt. Ilis present family consists of his wife and three sons. family see sketch of Henry Trevint. ) He was the youngest of seven sons and two daughters. He received his carlier and preparatory education at Amherst and Francestown, and completed his literary and profes- sional courses at llanover, New Hampshire. He pursued his professional studies in his native town under the instruc- tion of Daniel Adams, M. D., an eminent physician of Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, and at the New Hamp- shire Medical Institution, at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1830, and subsequently he attended the classes of the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. In the year 1830 he commenced the practice of his profes- sion in Baltimore, Fairfield county, Ohio, whence, after the lapse of two years, he removed to Thornville, Perry county, Ohio, where he was engaged in the practice of medicine until 1840. During his residence at Thornville he repre- sented his county in the State Legislature for three succes- sive terms, and throughout that time was the youngest member of this body, having been but twenty-five years of age when first returned. In the spring of 1840, having been appointed Secretary of State for Ohio, he found it necessary, for the proper performance of the duties attached to his important office, to remove to Columbus, where, after the expiration of his term of service, he proposed to reside permanently and devote himself exclusively to the practice of his profession. From this date down to 1846 he held the appointment of Physician to the Penitentiary of Ohio. Subsequently, on the outbreak of the Mexican war, he was appointed by President Polk, Surgeon of the army, which post he occupied until the close of the conflict. During its progress he served in the field in charge of General Moyan's regiment, and later was assigned by General Taylor to the post of Surgeon at his head-quarters, thus becoming a ' member of the staff-, primarily of General Taylor, and after- ward of General Wool. In 1849, peace being established, he returned to the civil practice of medicine in Columbus. In 1851, on the adoption of the new Constitution by his State, by which the Secretaryship of State became elective, he was the first to receive the election to that office, and in 1853 was honored by a re-election. In 1857 he was appointed by President Buchanan, Consul to Valparaiso, the chief mercantile port of Chili. A revolution breaking out
LANDY, IHENRY, senior member of the firm of 11. & F. Blandy, Proprietors of the Portable and Stationary Engine and Saw Mill Works, at Zanes- ville, and Newark, Ohio, was born in the city of Bristol, England, October 26th, 1810. Ilis paternal ancestors were people of distinction in their native country, and could point with natural pride to an honorable coat of arms. On the death of his grandfather the estate became involved in litigation, and caused the financial ruin of the family. His father reared and liberally educated his eleven children, and throughout his life was a tender guide and protector to them. He accumulated and brought to this country considerable means, and upon arriv- ing here in the spring of 1832, was in easy and comfortable circumstances. In the ensuing fall his family rejoined him in the city of New York, and all rested during the winter at the Orange Spring mansion in New Jersey. Leaving his parents he returned to England, and spent the winter in travelling, as a commercial man in the ent glass business. In the spring of 1833 he rejoined his father, and they settled finally in Zanesville, Ohio, where he has since resided. He was educated at Ashton Gate Academy, a private boarding.
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school of Bedminster, Bristol, England, whose average attendance was from eighty to one hundred scholars. In that school he won distinction as a leader, and became pro- ficient in latin, Greek and mathematics. To his instructor in the last-named branch of study, John Lewton, now of Panlton, near Bristol, England, he became devotedly at. tached. Thus tutor, a scholar of varied abilities, though a coal-heaver's son, was noted for his intellectual attainments as a linguist, historian, and theologist, and also for his many admirable personal characteristics, When quite a young man, so great was his affection for his preceptor, he was in the habit of walking fifteen miles, on Saturday evenings, in order to spend with him the Sabbath hours. After his set. tlement in this country, the two friends corresponded with each other for thirty-three years. In 1866, when prosperity had smiled upon his persevering labors, he again crossed the Atlantic, influenced almost solely by his ardent desire to renew the tender personal associations which in bygone years had been of such inestimable value to him. "To grasp the hand, . . . to converse with one of the purest and best men that ever lived ; to whom he has ever felt so greatly indebted for the implanting and nourishing in his young mind those great principles which have been the guide of his life, his stay and support through its trying vicissitudes. He still lives at the age of seventy-six years." In the spring of 1834 he married Mary Amanda, the second daughter of Judge Blocksom, of Zanesville, by whom he had seven children, Jennie B., Anna B., Benjamin A., and Harry B. ; three died in childhood. At that time he formed a partnership with Judge Blocksom in connection with J. T. Fracker and Lloyd Dillon, for the prosecution of the furnace and forge and mercantile businesses, the firm-style being Dillon, Blandy & Co. Aided by his brother and present partner, Fred. J. L. Blandy, he undertook the management of the mercantile department, and made a success of it. But Judge Blocksom becoming Postmaster of Zanesville, and John T. Fracker being continuously engaged in the foundry business of Blocksom & Fracker, the furnace and forge department encountered disastrous failure and fruit- lessly absorbed a large amount of capital. The partnership was then dissolved, and he found himself not only penniless but hampered with debts. He subsequently cutered again into the mercantile business, possessing no capital of his own, and during the three ensuing years prosecuted it very successfully. At the expiration of that time he engaged in the foundry business in conjunction with Judge Blocksom and his two sons, George W. Blocksom and A. P. Blocksom, the firm-style adopted being Blocksom & Sons. Subse- (ment financial embarrassments eventually eansed the disso- Intion also of this partnership, and he was left with a debt hanging upon his shoulders of over five thousand dollars. In the spring of 1840 he connected himself with his brother in the foundry business once more, and at a later day added to it the machine business in many varieties. That venture, including the manufacture of locomotives, portable and sta.
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