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pensary. In 1871-72 he was President of the Ohio De- partment of the National Capital Life Insurance Company, till it was merged in the Penn Mutual Company. In the same year he was chairman of a private organization whose object was to unite all good citizens to vote for the best candidates for city offices, regardless of politics. Ile has been for years a director of the Young Men's Bible Society of Cincinnati. In 1865 he was appointed Superintendent of St. Paul's Episcopal Church Sunday-school, and has re- mainel so ever since, gathering around him a corps of remarkable teachers, till the school has become celebrated for successful efficiency. During the same period he was elected and served as vestryman, but declined re-election. In 1870 he was one of the founders of the Church Guild of Cincinnati, and continued one of its foremost members and officers, especially in mission work, during its three years of successful existence. In 1872 he was among the first to aid in establishing the Cincinnati Society for Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, and has ever since been one of its officers, devoting his time and professional services gratuitously. Ile has been for years one of the trustees of the famous Kilwinning Chapter of Royal Arch Masons. In since 1874 has been its President, and has aided in making it now the largest and best in the country and one of the prominent features of the city. During the yellow fever plague in Memphis he devised and superintended in Cin- cinnati and incited in New York and other cities the " Bal- lot-box charities " on election day, by which about $20,000 was realized for the orphans and sufferers, and afterwards also a large sum in Cincinnati for the victims of the great Southern flood. In 1875 he was elected President of the Vale Club. To attend to these various interests, in addition to the demands of a large practice, has left little time for rest except in summer vacations. In politics, his party has until lately offered smill inducements to seek for personal preferment, but in 1874, when the new Ohio Constitution seemed about to be adopted, he was a prominent condi- tional candidate for Common Pleas Judge, and no doubt would have been nominated and elected had the constitu. tion been adopted. There are few harder or more success- ful workers at the bar, and he finds in rotation of outside duties the recreation that too many seek only in the foibles of fashion and the dissipations of city life.
JWLES, HENRY, Professor in Oberlin Theologi- cal Seminary, was born at Norfolk, Litchfield county, Connectient, on the 24th of April, 1803. When he was about one year old the family re- moved to Colbrook, in Connecticut, where he resided until 1822. As soon as he was old enough to work he was occupied in farm Liber, except the time spent in the district winter school : as pupil till the
age of fifteen ; as teacher one term, at the age of seventeen, and one year spent at home in preparation for Yale Col- lege (1821-22). A specially favoring Providence gave him a teacher in the common school able to introduce him into algebra, trigonometry and surveying, so that in a class of one he had the opportunity there to make himself ac- quainted with these sciences in advance of the usual district school course. These facilities, coupled with the township library, which was pretty thoroughly explored, constituted mainly the intellectual nutriment and stimulus of his youth. The opportunities for college culture were eagerly em- braced and richly enjoyed from 1822 to 1826, when he graduated at Vale, after which he was a member of the Theological Seminary of Yale University two years; was then ordained as a home missionary, July, 1828, and came to Ohio in September ensuing. Having spent about two years in missionary labor, chiefly in Ashtabula and San- dusky City, and five years as pastor of the church of Austinburg, he accepted a call as Professor to Oberlin College, where he has resided since September, 1835. Ile has been ardently devoted to his chosen vocation, but nevertheless he has found some time and abundant energy
1872 he was again elected Director of the Gymnasium, and i to devote to other objects of public interest. From 1851 to 1854 he was a director of the Cleveland, Norwalk & Toledo Railroad. In the line of literary labor he edited the Oberlin Evangelist eighteen years, and wrote for it regu- larly during the other six years of its existence. Since 1863 he has written ten volumes in exposition of the Scriptures, embracing the entire Old Testament, except Job, and also the entire writings of the Apostle John in the New Testa- ment. In politics as politics he has not taken an active part. Of course, being a New-Englander by birth and education, an Ohioan by adoption and an Oberlin Professor by vocation, he was a devoted anti-slavery man, and warmly advocated the principles of his faith. He acted with the Whig party till 1840; then with the anti-slavery party until the Republican party was organized, and ever since then he has labored in the ranks of that body. Ile has been twice married. On the 27th of July, 1830, he married Alice Welch, of Norfolk, Connecticut. She died on the 14th of October, 1843, leaving him six children, of whom only two are now living. On the 21st of March, 1844, he married his present wife, who was Mrs. Minerva D. Penfield.
ONNALLY, AUGUSTUS, retired Steamboat-man, was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, February 2d, 1820. Ilis father dying when he was a child he had culy to shift for himself, so obtained the most valuable part of his schooling among men in the business world. Until he was eighteen years of age he worked on a farm and otherwise for the support of his mother's family. Now thinking that he could better his condition by some river occupation, the Ohio river then
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being the great trade channel for the surrounding country, | Speaker of the House of Representatives of Ohio from 1818 he commenced his eventful career as deck-hand on the steamer " Tribune," working two years in this position. Being temperate, industrious and trustworthy, at the end of this hard service he was made watchman on the " Tribune." From this time he gradually worked along from the various steamboat ranks until, in 1842, he became commander of the "Wm. Phillips." When a mere boy he had formed the determination to be a'captain of one of the beautiful floating palaces on the Ohio; at this his good mother laughed, thinking it a boy's dream, yet the good lady lived long after he had gained the desired goal. The " Win. Phillip," he ran for two seasons on the Wabash and Kanawha rivers, owning a small interest in her through the instrumentality of friends. Selling his interest in this boat, he immediately purchased another, building, equip- ping and running, in all, on the Ohio, Mississippi and their tributaries, nineteen boats, over a space of twenty-two years. In 1863 he went to Pittsburgh and built the " Paragon," at a cost of $66,000. This boat he at once put, without in- surance, into the Missouri river trade, running from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth, chiefly in private business. In 1864, having had a fortunate season, he sold the " Paragon," realizing handsomely on her. Now having accumulated enough to satisfy a reasonable man, and risks being very great on available steamers, the captain determined to retire from river business; accordingly he purchased his present fine farm near Morrow, Ohio. This is said to be the finest farm in Warren county. Ilaving his farm in the most desirable condition, and having gathered every convenience and comfort around a quiet and happy home, he found himself at the expiration of ten years yearning for a little of the old excitement and fascination of the river; accord. ingly, in 1874, he bought the " Mary Miller." Captain Donnally thinks that hard work, correct habits, strict economy, with the exercise of a few grains of common sense, have more to do with the accumulation of wealth than lucky stars or so-called strokes of fortune. Ilis was not an even plain road to fortune; twice he lost all that he had gathered in years of toil, and his history is that of few other men of his trade; although some have made fortunes, few have served apprenticeships in all the hard grades of this craft. Ile married Elizabeth Smith, of Marietta, Ohio, and has six children living.
ENDENHALL, GEORGE, Physician, was born at Sharon, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 5th, 1814, his parents being Aaron and Lydia Men- denhall. His descent runs down from the early Quaker settlers of Pennsylvania, one of his pater- nal ancestors having taken a prominent part with William Penn in the " Ehm Tree Treaty " with the Indians. Ilis mother was a sister of the Hon. Joseph Richardson,
to 1822. During his early childhood his parents removed to Columbiana county, Ohio, where, when quite a youth, he entered the office of Dr. Benjamin Stanton, of Salem, Ohio, as a student. In 1835, when he was less than twenty-one years of age, he graduated with credit at the University of Pennsylvania. In May of that year he went to Cleveland and at once entered upon a successful prac- tice. In 1837 he was appointed Resident Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, where he remained but a few months, when he resumed his practice at Cleveland. In October, 1838, he was married to Elizabeth S. Maule, of Philadelphia, formerly of Richmond, Virginia. In 1843 he was attacked with a pulmonary disease, which threatened permanent loss of health and compelled him to abandon the lake region for a more genial climate. He settled in Cin- cinnati in October of that year. Ilis health was impaired, he was among strangers, but by a strong energy and the. help of his devoted wife his circumstances, at first discour- aging, soon brightened. Ile associated himself with others in the conduct of the City Dispensary, a charitable medical institution, with no compensation to the attending physi- cians. They also organized a summer school of medicine, which was carried on successfully for years; and in 1852 organized the Miami Medical College. The prevalence of cholera from 1849 to 1852 entailed upon him very great labor, but he lost only a single day from sickness. Ail through the twenty years dating from that time he labored unremittingly as a practitioner, as a medical teacher and as a contributor to medical journals. " Mendenhall's Vade Mecum " was one of the most successful books of the class ever published. In the year 1870 he was elected I resident of the American Medical Association, and shortly before his decease had conferred upon him the high honor of a fellowship in the Obstetrical Society of London. Ilis repu- tation as an obstetrician was indeed world-wide. During the rebellion he was President of the Cincinnati branch of the Union Sanitary Commission. Dr. Mendenhall fell a victim to overwork. Ile was stricken down with an at- tack of apoplexy in the year 1872, from which he never fully rallied. Ile subsequently visited Europe for his health, and died after his return, June 4th, 1874, in the sixty-first year of his age. He was a man of indomitable promptitude, and despised one who shirked duty ; was ever unsparing of himself, and in his practice was so systematic and continuous that the amount of labor he accomplished was the astonishment of his professional brethren. Ilis love for his profession was such that it amounted to a passion. Ilis greatest happiness was in its practice. Ile never used tobacco nor alcoholic stimulants, nor would he, from conscientious motives, prescribe the latter for his patients, excepting in very rare cases, and then with ex- treme reluctance, from fear of the formation of an evil habit. He was firm as a rock for the right; but gentle, modest and kindly as a woman ; free from all vanity,
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hating pretence, with an exceeding love of truth, a warm, | in 1838 was re-elected. In IS40 he was elected to and loving heart and the most delicate sense of honor. A pro- fessional brother said of him, he " never had the privilege of knowing a man whose virtues and talents so strongly commanded his regard."
r) GOODMAN, JAMES IL., Lawyer and ex-State Auditor, was born, October 19th, 1808, in Berk- eley county, Virginia, and moved with his parents to Ohio in 1812, settling in Fairfield county. Here he remained until IS.8, when he went to 3 Franklin county, where he obtained his education in the common schools. Deciding upon following the pro- fession of law, when eighteen years of age he selected as his preceptor Judge O. Parish, of Columbus, with whom he read. In 1828 he was admitted to the bar, having passed a very meritorious examination, In November of that year he was married to Anna Davis, of Marion, Ohio. Settling in that place, he opened an office and entered upon his practice, which, more rapidly than is usually the case, be- came both large and remunerative. Ile continued in his professional calling until 1850, when he was elected Presi- dent of the Bellefontaine & Indiana Railroad Company, and administered for six years the duties of this important office with care and rare executive ability. Hle then re- signed the presidency of the road and resumed practice. Colonel Goodman was trying a case in court when the news reached Marion that Fort Sumter had been taken and that President Lincoln had called for troops. Ile asked for and was granted a continuance of the cause, and en- listed as a private in the 4th Ohio Regiment. Hle set about raising a company, and in a few days had its ranks full, and was appointed its Captain. He went with his com- mand to Camp Jackson, where he was elected Major of the regiment, which was shortly after ordered into Western Virginia, where it formed part of MeClellan's army. Mr. Goodman participated in the battle of Rich Mountain, and within a few weeks was commissioned as Lieutenant .Col- onel, being advanced eventually to the position of Colonel. Ile served gallantly in the battles of Romney, Winchester, Blue Gaps, Charles City Court House and Fredericksburg. In the latter he was wounded in three different portions of the body, and in July, 1863, on account of his physical disability, resulting from his injuries, was honorably dis- charged. After the war he was brevetted Brigadier-General for distinguished services on the field. During 1863 he was nominated, without his consent, and elected as Anditor of the State of Ohio, and upon the expiration of his first term was re-elected. In this position he conscientiously and ably discharged the duties devolving upon him, and earned the esteem of the entire citizenship of the State without regard to party affiliations. Ilis political career commenced carly in life. In 1835 he was elected by the Whigs to the Legislature, serving in the lower House, and
tilled for one term a seat in the State Senate, Ilis first presidential vote was cast for John Quincy Adams. Ile was a Whig up to the formation of the Republican party, with which he has been prominently connected ever since. Ilis familiarity with accounts has led to his appointment as an Examiner, to visit the various counties of the State to look over the books of their auditors and treasurers. Ile is a profoundly read lawyer, a careful and impartial official and an enterprising and energetic citizen, and is generally respected officially as well as professionally.
UPPER, BENJAMIN, was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts, in 1738. He served thoughout the Revolutionary war, and became Brigadier- General. In 1785 he was appointed to survey lands northwest of the Ohio, and helped to form the Ohio Land Company. Its affairs he managed, living in Marietta from 1788, in which year he assisted to hold the first Civil Court in the Northwest Territory. Ap. pointed Judge, he presided until his death in June, 1792.
RIGHT, ROBERT, Manufacturer, was born in Portage county, Ohio, June 20, 1809. Ilis parents were residents of l'ennsylvania, whence his father, a farmer, removed to Ohio in 1800. Ilis early education was received at the county school, in Hocking county, whose winter sessions he attended until he had reached his eighteenth year. During the summer months of those years he was engaged in farm labor. Later, he also taught school for two or three terms in the winter season. Ile was thus employed as a farm hand until 1835, but during the latter years of that time was engaged in agricultural pursuits on his own account. From 1835 until 1842 he was interested in the construction of the Ilocking Valley Canal, having secured a contract to finish five miles of this enterprise, partly in Athens and partly in Hocking county. From 1842 until 1855 he was employed entirely in agricultural pursuits, and in the latter year purchased the larger portion of the Ilock - ing Falls Mills, securing the balance of the property in 1862. This mill was built by Governor Worthington, of Ohio, about the year 1818, and remained in the possession [of his family until 1855. Since its sale the present owner has continued to conduct its affairs, and in connection with it is extensively interested in farming and stock-raising. The farm operated by him at the present time has been in .his possession since 1829. In 1844 he was elected a Jus- tice of the Peace, but resigned this office in 1846. Ile also served two terms of three years each as County Commis- sioner. In 1850 he was appointed by the Legislature
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Associate Judge of the Court of Common Plcas, and served [ was elected a member of the Ohio State Senate, being the three years. In 1852 he was appointed also by the Legis- lature one of the trustees of the Ohio University, at Athens, Ohio, a position which he still holds. He was for several years a director in the Logan Branch Bank of the State of Ohio. Since 1866 he has been a director in the First National Bank of Logan, and is a stockholder in the Columbus & Hocking Valley Railroad. He is interested also in the building development of the town and in its several improvements. His present residence, the hand- somest place of its kind in Logan, was completed in 1873. Ile was married in October, 1840, to Elmira Hamblin, by whom he has had four children, three boys and one girl. Of the former, two are lawyers and the third a farmer.
IRK, ROBERT C., Collector of Internal Revenue for the Thirteenth Ohio District, was born on the 26th of February, 1821, at Mount Pleasant, Jeffer- son county, Ohio. Both his parents were natives of Pennsylvania. Ilis father was a Quaker, a hatter by trade, but eventually gave up that occu- pation for that of a farmer, and died in 1838. His mother is still living, at the age of eighty. Robert, in his early boyhood, attended district school in his native place, and having obtained the full benefit of their resources he be- came a student in Franklin College, at Athens, Ohio, and shortly after leaving college he commenced the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. William Hamilton, at Mount Pleasant. After a time spent thus in preliminary study he entered the old University at Philadelphia, where he attended lectures until he was twenty years of age. Then he left the University and at once removed to Fulton county, Illinois, where he began professional practice. Ile practised there for a short time, when he returned to Ohio in the fall of 1843, when he abandoned the practice of his profession and in the spring of 1844 engaged in mercantile pursuits in Mount Vernon. Ile formed a partnership with T. W. Rogers in the dry-goods business, but the associa- tion ended by the death of Mr. Rogers. When it ter- minated he formed a partnership in the same business with John Hogg, his father-in-law, and this continued until the year 1853, when the firm sold out and he left that branch of trade permanently. In 1857 he went to Winona, Minne- sota, and was associated with his brother as dealers in real estate, business interests and the associations in his native State causing him to return to Ohio in 1858, and has re- maincd there ever since except when holding official positions abroad. Ile has always been active in politics, and was a member of the Democratic party till IS54, but, disagreeing with his party on the currency and slavery questions, when the Missouri Compromise was repealed he left the Democratic ranks, and has ever since been an earnest opponent of the Democratic party. In 1856 he
first Republican elected from that district, and served in that body during one term, In the year 1859, after his return from Minnesota, he was elected LieutenantGovernor of the State, on the ticket with Governor Dennison. Ile served for two years. In 1862 he received from President Lincoln the appointment of Minister to the Argentine Re- public. During his official residence at Buenos Ayres he was successful in settling all the old claims due American citizens, amounting to over four hundred thousand dollars ; these claims originated in 1814 and were abandoned by our former ministers. Over nineteen thousand dollars were sent from Buenos Ayres to Mr. Bellows, President of the United States Sanitary Commission, for the benefit of our soldiers, during Mr. Kirk's residence there. This position he held until 1866, when he resigned and returned to Ohio. In 1869 he was reappointed by President Grant to the same position, but resigned again in 1871, returning home in January, 1872. In February, 1875, he received from President Grant the appointment of Collector of Internal. . Revenue of the Thirteenth Ohio District, at Mount Vernon, and that position he still holds. He is an earnest stump- speaker, and does effective work in political campaigns. Ile was married on the 11th of December, 1843, to Eleanor llogg, daughter of John Hogg and niece of old William Hogg, of Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
EVIS, HENRY, Architect, was born in Newport, Isle of Wight, England, on November 10th, 1834, and attended the schools of his native place, acquiring by industry a substantial educa- tion. He remained in these schools until four- teen years of age, when he removed with his father's family to Toronto, Canada, where he resided two years. From this place he went to Hamilton, Canada, and was apprenticed to learn the trade of a builder and mill- wright, and in this occupation continued three years and a half. In 1858 he came to Cincinnati, and followed pattern- making until 1861. When the war broke out he was in Illinois, and enlisted, under the first call to arms, as a private in the 4Ist Illinois Volunteers. Ile was in a short time appointed Orderly Sergeant, and subsequently pro- moted to a First-Licutenancy, in which position he served fifteen months, and then was compelled to resign on ac- count of failing health. Upon leaving the army he returned to Clinton, De Witt county, Illinois, where he was engaged as a carpenter and builder until 1866. Ile then removed back to Cincinnati, where he resumed pattern-making, which he followed until 1868, when he commenced archi- tectural drafting, and has continued thus engaged up to the present time. IIe is a skilful and rapid designer, bis plans displaying originality and fine taste in their arrangement and adornment. lle is a member, in excellent standing,
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of the Architectural Chapter of Cincinnati, and is liberally patronized by the builders and capitalists of that city. His place of business is at No. 163 Central avenue. Ile was married, July 4th, 1862, to Kate, daughter of Patrick Develin, Esq., of Dublin. He is highly esteemed in social and pro- fessional circles, as a gentleman of energy, culture, and public spirit.
IIILLIPS, THOMAS HI., M. D., of Canton, was born in Cannonsburg, Washington county, Penn- sylvania, on March 25th, 1839. Ilis parents were John W. and Nancy ( Hanson) Phillips. Having acquired its rudiments, he finished his education at Jefferson Literary College, located in his native town. Selecting the medical profession, he en- tered the office of Dr. George II. Cook, in Cannonsburg, in 1859, where he pursued his studies until the winter of 1862- 63, when he matriculated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated in the spring of 1864. Previous to graduating, however, and during the summer of 1863, he entered the United States service for nine months as an Assistant Surgeon. At the expiration of his term of service he completed his course at Jefferson, and receiving his degrec, again joined the army in 1864, as As- sistant Surgeon of the 79th Pennsylvania Volunteers. In this capacity he rendered valuable service until he was mus- tered out in September, 1865. Ile then located himself at West Middletown, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and successfully practised there until his removal to Canton in the spring of 1869. During his residence in Pennsylvania, he became a member of the State Medical Society, and since locating in Canton has connected himself with the District Medical Association. Although but lately settled in Canton, Dr. Phillips' professional ability has been duly recog- mized in his new abode, and he has acquired a good share of patronage, and ranks among the ablest of the profession in that town. While his practice necessarily is a general one, his special aim is the treatment of diseases of women. Hle was married in February, 1868, to Irene Lindsay, of West Middletown, Pennsylvania.
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