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IGOWSKY, AUGUST, Civil Engineer, Journalist, Treasurer of Cincinnati, Chio, was born in West- phalia, Germany, November 220, 1826, and was educated in the German High Schools. Upon the close of his school career he studied civil en- gineering. In 1846 he entered the army, serving one year, the required term for students, and then assumed ; Coshocton county, Ohio, and there engaged with his brother in the manufacture of brick. This occupied him for about two years, when ill health interfered with his business. For several years his health remained in an impaired condition. When it permitted him to resume business he removed to West Carlisle, Coshocton county, and there engaged in mer- cantile pursuits; from there he removed to West Bedford, his professional duties and received his diploma. In 1848 he entered the German navy and served for some years. In August, 1853, he arrived in Philadelphia, and engaged with Percival Smith, map publisher, as the surveyor of Clinton and Lewis counties, New York. Finishing the duties re- quired of him in this connection in 1855 he went to Madison, Wisconsin, where he became Deputy County Surveyor and , and thence to East Union. For over thirty years he was
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engaged in mercantile business in these places. At length he removed to Coshocton, and in May, 1875, he was ap- pointed by the Governor to the position of Probate Judge. In the fall of that year he was elected, without opposition, to fill the office for a term of three years. Judicial honors followed magisterial honors in his case; for, before taking his seat on the bench, he had held the position of Justice of the Peace for over twenty years. Politically, he is a Democrat, and he belongs distinctively to the @ Hard money " school. He has represented his party in the State Legislature at various times. In 1836 he was elected to the House of Representatives for Coshocton and Holmes, and served through one term. In the year 1844 he was elected to the State Senate for Coshocton and Guernsey, and served in that body two sessions. He was again elected to the House of Representatives in 1863, and con- tinued to sit in the House until 1870. In ISOS he was elected Speaker pro tempore of the House by the unani- mous vote of the members. Ile has been twice married. On the 22d of November, 1828, he married Sarah Wolfen- barger, of Pocahontas county, Virginia. She died in August, 1844. In November, 1844, he married for his second wife Mrs. Ellen Wright, daughter of William Ren- frew, an early settler of Coshocton, who is still living.
UBBELL, HORATIO NELSON, Founder and for many years snecessful conductor of the Ohio In- stitution for the Deaf and Dumb, was born in Trumbull, Fairfield county, Connecticut, Sep- tember 9th, 1799. From a sketch of his life, written by Rev. Collins Stone, taken substantially from the "Annals," are called the following facts: lle was the eighth child in a family of eighteen children whose father, Nathan Hubbell, removed from the province of Nova Scotia to Connecticut in 1793. At the age of sixteen he was bound as an apprentice to learn the hatter's trade in the neighboring town of Brookfield. About this time he experienced a change of heart, and consecrated himself to a life of benevolence in the service of God. His mind seems to have turned almost immediately to the Christian ministry and missionary work as coveted fields of useful- ness. These desires were warmly cherished until Provi- dence opened plainly before him another sphere of labor -- one nearly affied to that 'on which his thoughts were centred. It is related as an evidence of his conscientious ness that, although the employment selected for him by bis father was distasteful to him, he yet resoldely and even cheerfully fulfilled his indentures. Among the first depu- tation of missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, which sailed in 1820, was Rev. Samuel Ruggles, of Brookfield. From intercourse with this excellent man he became deeply in- terested in the enterprise, and became filled with an ardent desire to qualify himself for labor in that now and then un
explored field. Accordingly, after the expiration of his apprenticeship, September 9th, 1820, he applied for admis- sion to the Cornwall school for the purpose of preparing himself for missionary work. This institution was under the patronage of the American Board, and was established for the education of heathen youth, the children of mission- aries and those who had a missionary life in view. The lamented Obookiah was at that time one of the inmates of the school. He devoted himself assiduously to his studies, defraying all attendant expenses by his own efforts, and in November, 1825, offered himself to the Board for mission- ary service. Of the obstacles intervening between him and his original intention there exists no visible record. lle was licensed to preach the gospel by the Association of Hartford, north, February 7th, 1826. On the 1st of the succeeding September he sailed from Bridgeport for Bos- ton, on his way to Nova Scotia, the home of his paternal ancestors. Having supplied himself with a quantity of tracts for distribution, he sailed for Halifax, September 14th, and arrived in port after a passage of two days. A subse- quent passage of a week, in a small fishing vessel, brought him to Greysborough, the residence of his relatives. After spending a month there in pleasant intercourse with those relatives, and declining to take charge of a parish in the vicinity, he returned to Connectient. In the spring of 1827, on the suspension of the Cornwall school, he was invited to take charge of twelve Indian boys and conduct them to the Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, where they were to complete their education. The journey was per- formed by way of the Erie canal, and two weeks were consumed in reaching Cleveland. The facilities for travel at that time were so imperfect and uncertain that, after a delay of several days, the company left on foot, taking a straight course through the woods, first to Massillon, and thence, passing through Columbus, to Oxford. After con- ducting his charge safely to the appointed destination, he returned to Columbus and engaged in teaching. A few months previous to his arrival a warm interest in the in- struction of the deaf and dumb had been awakened in the community -- an interest excited and matured into practical resnits chiefly by the efforts of Dr. Hoge, of Columbus. An act incorporating an institution for this purpose had just passed the General Assembly and a Board of Trustees been organized, of which Governor Trimble was (ex officio) President and Dr. Hoge Secretary. It was soon perceived that its successful operation depended upon the finding a suitable person who should be fully qualified to act as in- structor to the deaf mintes. Ile was then selected to fill that responsible post, and in March,1828, went to Hitford to prepare himself for the allotted task. He remained in one of the institutions there for abont eighteen mouths, witness- ing with profit the daily processes of school-room instruc- tion and receiving lessons in sigos. On returning to ? Columbus he opened his School for the Instruction of Deaf Mates, October 16th, 1829. The act incorporating the
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institution was passed in April, 1827. During the interval which elapsed before its organization efforts were made to enlighten the public mind with regard to the number of deaf, and dumb people, their pitiable condition while un. educated and the entire feasibility of the enterprise pro- jected, as shown by the result of the experiment in insti- tutions already established in the country. Circulars were extensively distributed and explanatory advertisements in- serted in the leading papers of the State. Yet, at the opening, but three pupils from the vicinity of Columbus arrived, and of these two were of unsound mind. Before the close of the first year, however, the number of pupils had increased to ten, and in the course of the second year to twenty-two. Eventually the house rented for school purposes became so crowded with the constantly increasing number of pupils that it was found necessary to erect a larger and perm ment structure for the applicants and actual inmites. It is not necessary to dwell upon the care and wearisome labor involved in conducting such an insti- tution after its establishment : to enlist the good-will of the community in the enterprise, to gain confidence by a wise pecuniary management, to erect suitable buildings, to pro- cure and prepare competent instructors, to maintain order among a company of fifty or sixty young persons who had known not a lesson of restraint before-all this demanded no small amount of judgment, prudence, energy and skill. Also, aside from the sympathy of a few benevolent persons the misfortune of the deof mute had up to that time excited little attention beyond the family circle of the afflicted in- chividual. Doubts were entertained respecting the possi- bility of his education, while parents and guardians were not easily persuaded to commit their children to the care of strangers where the prospect of their receiving benefit was so problemitical. In January, 1851, he resigned his position as Superintendent of the institution, but at the re- quest of the trustees continued to perform its duties till the succeeding October. During many of the twenty-two years of his connection with the institution he had discharged the combined duties of superintendent, steward and treasurer. Within this time 452 deaf and dumb children had, for periods varying in duration, enjoyed the privileges of in- struction. The institution, from the small beginning of one sane pupil and two idiots, had grown to be the fourth in the country, and had blessed with its beneficence nearly a generation of the deaf mutes of the State. It had educated and sent forth men to found schools at Indianapolis, Jack- sonville, Knoxville and Louisiana, and from these had sprang the sister schools of lowa and Wisconsin. But his influence and usefulness were not confined to the institution under his charge. Ile was one of thirty-one persons who, in 1839, united to form the Second Presbyterian Church of Columbus. In that enterprise he took a deep and active interest, and, as primarily it labored under many embarrass- ments, contributed liberally of his means to advance its nates upon which has fallen a pall more dreadful than welfare. For many years he held the offices of elder and heathenism itself. His efforts for the relief of idiots, for
trustee, and was ever ready to aid the pastor and his brethren by conusel and by active co operation. In the Holman of 1853 he received the appointment of Superin- tendent of the Institution for the Deal and Dumb at Del .- ware, Wisconsin, then about to be opened. He declined the appointment, but spent a few weeks in that city in organizing the school. Although not engaged in active service, after the close of his connection with the institu- tion, he never ceased to manifest a warm interest in all labors designed to relieve the unfortunate. During the legislative session of 1854 be presented to the General Assembly a memorial urging the establishment of an insti- tution for the education and training of the idiot population of Ohio, thus taking the incipient steps which have since resulted in legislative action securing the desired object. Ile also engaged with żcal in the work of colportage. The last year of his life was spent in preparing for the press a work entitled " Dying Words of Eminent Persons." Its design was to present, in marked contrast with every other principle, the power of Christian faith to sustain the soul in the hour of its extremity. The course of investigation to which he was led in collecting material for the volume " was a source of great satisfaction to his own mind," and doubtless contributed much to prepare him for his peaceful and triumphant death. On a Saturday he completed and arranged his manuscript, and on the succeeding Monday was himself called to be an actor in the scenes through which he had followed so many others. On the morning of January 19th, 1857, he suffered with severe paroxysms of palpitation and distress. Ilis disease, an affection of the heart, was approaching a climax. Ile called his family around him and took leave of each member; he sent mes- sages to the absent, to his former pastor and to the church, for which he expressed his unabated affection. He spoke of his love for his family, of his faith in Christ, of his readiness to depart and of the blessed society he should soon join. While being removed from a sofa, on which he was reclining, to his bed, he ceased to breathe. At his funeral a discourse was delivered by his former pastor, Rev. Henry 1 .. Hitchcock, D. D., from Revelations xiv. 13. On a subsequent Sabbath a discourse, portraying his life, char- acter and labors, was delivered in the sign language in the chapel of the institution, by the superintendent, to a deeply interested and affected assembly of pupils, from Psahus xxxvii. 37. Ilis most prominent characteristic was prob- ably energy, combined with Christian benevolence. Ob- stacles only stimulated him to greater exertions and more determined perseverance. That he possessed a heart of disinterested and warm benevolence the entire current of his life bears testimony. No other proof of this is needed than his early and earnest purpose to spend his life on missionary ground, and its actual devotion to the diffi- cult and self denying labor of relieving a class of unfortu-
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the church and for the neglected and ignorant in his imme- ditte neighborhood, also confirm the testimony. The monument which he has left of his labors for the deaf mates of Ohio and the great West will long remain to reflect honor upon his memory and to attest his title to a place among the real benefactors of mankind. On the day of his funeral, at a meeting of the Instructors of the Ohio Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, January 23d, 1857, a series of resolutions were adopted which adverted in glow- ing terms to his career as a Christian and philanthropist, anil expressed also the profound regret of all at his un- expected and unwished-for demise.
OORE, REV. HENRY D., was born, November 4th, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By reason of constitutional weakness, and frequently recurring sicknesses during childhood and youth, his education was interrupted by withdrawals from school and sojourns in country places with friends of his family. Ile, however, notwithstanding these drawbacks, was prepared in the excellent academy of James Goodfellow, in Philadelphia, for a collegiate course of study, and at the early age of fifteen years was ready to be entered in the University of Pennsylvania, for which dis- tinguished school his parents had designed him. He was compelled, however, to pursue his further studies privately, which he did with some degree of thoroughness under the direction of the celebrated clergyman, Rev. Samuel B. Wylie, I. D., at that time Emeritus Professor of Languages in the University, and also Teacher of Theology to such graduates of the University as sought to pursue the Divine study. Under Dr. Wylie's culture Mr. Moore prosecuted his collegiate and divinity studies, and at the age of twenty years he was a licentiate in the gospel ministry. At the close of hisstudies Mr. Moore's father called on Dr. Wylie to thank him for his kindness and care of his son's educa- tion. In the course of the interview the venerable and facetious doctor remarked : " Mr. Moore, your son Henry will be a good preacher, but he will make a very poor Covenanter," that being the denomination of Christians of which Dr. Wylie was at that time the most distinguished and learned preacher. Mr. Moore entered the active min- istry in the Congregational denomination, after having served for one year as assistant pastor to the Rev. Thomas II. Stockton, at that time pastor of the Independent Church, corner of Eleventh and Wood streets, Philadelphia. Until the year 1853 he was pastor of the Second Independent Church (Congregational), Philadelphia. In that year he left Philadelphia, on account of ill health and the necessity for climatary change, and accepted the call of the Old North Church, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After a short pastorate there, during which time the present elegant and spacious house of worship of that church was built, he was
called to Portland, Maine, at the desire of pastors and church members there, to organize and build up another church of the denomination. In this work he was emi- uently successful; and after a pastorate there of ten years he was again compelled, on account of the health of his family, to remove. Ile came West, and after sojourning in Pittsburgh for a year and a half, and finding the climate West beneficial, he accepted the call of the Vine Street Congregational Church, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the year 1867. In 1873, being very much reduced in strength, and health very precarious, he removed to a prairie city, and as pastor of the Congregational Church in Springfield, Illinois, he labored, in a sort of invalid work, for a year and a half, during which time his health was completely restored. Early in 1875 he returned to Cincinnati, which is now his permanent home. Mr. Moore quite carly developed literary tastes, and for several years indulged literary habits and pursuits to the extremity of health-prostration. At the age af fourteen years he was a poetic contributor to the Satur- day Evening Post and Saturday Courier, of Philadelphia. In Allibone's " Dictionary of American Authors," his name occurs in connection with a variety of literary work of im- portant character and extended usefulness. As a preacher he has always been favored with a large share of the sym- pathy and attention of the communities where he has lived. Though liberal in doctrine, even to the very verge of Orthodoxy, so that sometimes his friends have expressed solicitude concerning his soundness in the faith, yet he has maintained a true evangelical charity and given utterance to a true evangelical ministry throughout. Ilis love of men is large, and his sympathy with the wandering and weary children of the Father will impress any listener who is hearing him, even for the first time. Ilis charity is large, and he is impatient of those churchly rules and re- straints and prudencies which would separate the minister from the " publicans and sinners." Any pulpit or platform, Christian church of any name, or synagogue of the Jews, would be welcome to him if he could, by such or any means, reach the ears and hearts of men with the message of truth and of redeeming love. These characteristics of Christian and ministerial character, together with an elo- quent earnestness of address and a warm genial bearing towards the people, have made Mr. Moore extremely popular in his work and beloved by thousands of admiring friends.
ONFORT, HENRY A., Superintendent of the Ilouse of Refuge of Cincinnati, Ohio, was born at Fishkill Plains, Dutchess county, New York, August 6th, 1835, and was the oldest of seven children whose parents were Albert II. Monfort and Elsie ( Wiltsie) Monfort, both earnest mem- bers of the Dutch Keformed Church. His father, a native of New York, has been engaged through life in agricultural
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pursuits, and now resides on Long Island. His mother, a home in Pelham, New Hampshire, with his young wife native of Dutchess county, also is still living. His days of ' while Cleveland was a small village, and lived and labored boyhood were passed alternately in working on a farm in there and elsewhere in northern Ohio, for the glory of God the summer months and attending school during the winter. "and the welfare of lus fellow-men, till his early death, in While in his eighteenth year he became engaged in teach- 1837, among those who knew and loved him best. Ilis widow, one of the Dana descendants, survived him but one ing school, an avocation which he followed during the ensuing two years. The next two years were devoted to year. Intelligent and beautiful, endowed with all that the business of photographing, at the expiration of which 'Christian grace can bestow, she was the centre of affection time he engaged for a period of four years in merchandis- "of her family and friends and the worthy companion of her ing. In 1857 he moved to the West and settled at Mil- loving husband in all his labors and trials, and their waukee, Wisconsin, where he found occupation in teaching memory is fresh in the hearts of the Lake Erie pioneers, for about one year. In 1858 be removed to Cincinnati, among whom in the Cleveland Cemetery they have long and upon his arrival there became connected as an employée rested. The three children were separated by this bereave- with the house of John Boute & Co., where he remained ment, and Edward was reared in the family of Alexander until the winter of 1861. He then moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, where he devoted his attention for one year to mercantile pursuits, afterward leasing Laurel Bink Semi- mary, in Delaware county, New York, an establishment which was conducted by him during the following two years. In April, 1864, after removing to Cincinnati, he was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Cincinnati House of Refuge, and in May, 1866, was appointed Super- intendent and Secretary of the same institution. That office he has since continuously filled, a convincing proof of the efficiency of his management and of the esteem in which he is held by the able board that controls the work- ings of the establishment. During his years of control of the House of Refuge 2744 children have passed under his supervision, and of this number, the majority being of the criminal classes, it is estimated, on accepted data, that at least 2000 have been thoroughly reformed and led to con- duct themselves with honesty and industry; while the various arrangements and the general management of this institution of Cincinnati are scarcely equalled in similar establishments in any part of the United States. Ile is a member of the Congregational Church. Politically, he is not attached blindly to any party, always votes for those upon whom he can place reliance as loyal and energetic citizens, and has never yet attended . a publie political meeting. He was married in February, 1860, to Ophelia S. Hunting, a native of Cincinnati, and daughter of the late Richard G. Hunting. Garton, a farmer near Oberlin, till he was sixteen years old, when he determined to obtain a liberal education at all hazard, and commenced to attend the Elyria High School, then a prominent institution in northern Ohio. Here he fitted himself for college, working his way as best he could, his inheritance being but little more than an un- sullied and beloved name. Leaving there with the highest honors, he, in 1849, entered Western Reserve College, founded by his father, and pushed his way on till a quarrel among the professors, followed by many of them resigning, induced him and others to go elsewhere, and he chose old Yale, entering the same grade class which he left, after the usual severe examination. Ile graduated in 1853. Re- turning West he taught the academy in Talmadge, Ohio, for a year, and then went to Cincinnati in 1854 and com- menced reading law with the firm of Ferguson & Long, teaching in the daytime in the public schools and studying at night. Ile was admitted to the bar in 1856. After several months' attention to office practice with his precep- tors, he commenced, in 1857, as partner of Henry Snow, Esq., which firm continued successfully for over two years, when Mr. Bradstreet removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, for his future home. In 1860 he was married to Mrs. Dolabella Fraisse, of Vicksburg, who died in August, 1867, lamented by all who knew her. The certainty of coming war induced his return to Cincinnati, late in 1860, where he has since resided, practising his profession. A lending object of his hfe has been to aid and promote all proper attempts to advance religion, morality and the general welfare of his fellow-men. Early in his residence in Cincinnati he was an active member of the Young Men's Christian Association, and one of the founders and early presidents of the Cincinnati Gymnasium. In 1866 he was elected a member of the Board of Education, and aided in the plans and movements for establishing the present public library. In 1867-68 he was a member of an association of gentlemen whose object was to create a public sentiment in favor of enforcing law and order on Sunday, and with his associates devoted much time and labor to the canse in a quiet way, with excellent results, From 1869 to 1871 he
RADSTREET, EDWARD PAVSON, was born, June 5th, 1830, at Vermillion, near Sandusky, Ohio. Ile is a lineal descendant in the seventh generation from Simon Bradstreet, one of the colonial governors of Massachusetts, who came over with his wife, the noted poetess, Anne Bradstreet, in 1630, from England in the "Arabella Stuart." The subject of this sketch was the second son of the late Rev. Stephen 1. Bradstreet, the pioneer clergyman of Cleveland, the founder and long minister of the First Pres- byterian Church in that city, who removed there from his | was one of the trustees of the Homeopathie Free Dis-
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