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the 1724 Ohio National Guards, having some time previously { gan reading with Dr. John Russell. Ile remained there served as Captam in the 15th Ohio. He was discharged on account of failing health, and in 1864, upon his return to Cambridge, commenced business again as a telegraph oper- ator and agent for the Admums Express Company, a position which he held until 1869. Being then appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue, he served with ability until 1871, when he became Agent for the Marietta, Pittsburgh & Cleveland Railroad at Cambridge, and held that agency for two years. In 1873 he was elected Auditor of Guernsey county, and in 1875 was re-elected. The functions of this responsible office he has discharged with intelligence and fidelity, and has earned the respect of the community in whose midst he resides. On November 22d, 1864, he was married to Annie Tingle, daughter of Dr. J. P. Tingle, who is still living. Mr. Brown has five sons.
ARIMORE, FRANK C., Physician, was born in Columbus, Ohio, on the 12th of April, 1846, of parents who had come to Ohio from Virginia. When he was four years of age his parents re- moved from Columbus to Ripid Forge, Ross county, Ohio, and there the next four years of his life were passed. Ile commenced attending school at Rapid Forge, and subsequently, when he was eight years old, he went to Chillicothe, and there attended the Union School. After two years spent at Chillicothe, he went to Knox county to live with an unele. There he went to work upon a farm, and continued to do farm work in the summer and to go to school in the winter until IS61. When the war of the rebellion broke out he lost but little time in enter- ing the army. Ile went into service as a private soklier in the 20th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the battle of Shiloh, on the 7th of April, 1862, he was wounded by a cannon ball, which struck him on the left knee and hands, inflicting such injuries that in the fall of 1862 he was dis- charged from the service on account of disability. Return- ing to Ohio, he commenced attending the High School at Utica. Ile continued his attendance there during two sessions, and then, after leaving there, he taught a country school for a number of terms. When the call was made for troops for the " hundred-day service," he again entered the army, going as Sergeant in the 142d Regiment Ohio Volun. teer Infantry. Having finished his military service, he pre- pared to enter the medical profession. His predisposition to this profession came to him by hereditary right, bis ma- ternal grandfather, Dr. Joseph Doddrige, having been a celebrated physician in West Virginia. On the 19th of March, 1865, he commenced the study of medicine in the office of Drs. Thompson & Smith, at Mount Vernon. He read with these gentlemen until the winter of 1866 and 1867, when he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan for a session of lectures. In April, 1867, he resumed office-study, and in September of the same year be-
until iSos, and then he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and there attended a course of lectures: He graduated and received his diploma in March, 1869, and in the following June he commenced the practice of medi- cine at Mount Vernon. He continued steadily in practice there until May, 1872, when he departed on a trip to Europe. Ile remained abroad for thirteen months, and during that period he visited the principal medical schools of Europe. Hle spent six months in Vienna, receiving private instruction in medicine at the Vienna University. In June, 1873, he returned to- Mount Vernon, and there resumed his practice as physician and surgeon. He has been remarkably suc- cessful in his practice, and has secured a patronage exten- sive and lucrative. He is recognized as a leading man in his profession, and a number of important cases, successfully treated, are identified with his name. The only successful operation in a case of cleft palate, performed in the county, was performed by him, the patient being a lady of that vicinity.
AMPBELL, THOMAS C., Lawyer, was born in Monroe county, New York, April 27th, 1845. Ile is of Scotch extraction. In April, 1861, he enlisted as a volunteer in the three months' ser- vice, and at the expiration of his term of enlist- ment entered the Commercial College of Bryant & Stratton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1862. Ile then spent several months in the Military School of Colonel Taggart, in the same city, and in the fall of 1863 presented himself to General Casey's Board of Ex- aminers as an applicant for a position in the army. Hle was passed as a First Lieutenant, colored troops. Ile declined the appointment, and in the spring of 1864 he enlisted at Syracuse, New York, as a private in Colonel Van Pelton's regiment, New York Volunteers. In the following summer he was promoted to a Second Lieutenancy, and subsequently to the rank of First Lieutenant, commanding his company. In this capacity he served until mustered out in the fall of 1865. Ile soon after this moved to the West, and on April 27th, 1866-his twenty-first birthday-arrived in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he obtained employment as a bookkeeper in the carriage factory of John Curtis. While thus occupied he commenced the study of law. In May, 1867, he became assistant editor of The Republic, the official organ of the Grand Army of the Republic, published at Columbus, Ohio. Becoming editor and proprietor of this journal in the fall of 1857, he removed its head-quarters to Cincinnati, where he continued its publication until his office was entirely de- stroyed by fire, in February, 1869. In the summer of that year he was appointed Assistant Internal Revenue As- sessor for the Second District of Ohio, and during his occu- pancy of this office pursued his law studies, graduated in the Cincinnati Law School, and in April, 1870, was admitted
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to the bar, and in the same month was elected to the City Council, where he served until April, 1571, the date of his election as City Prosecuting Attorney for two years. In April, 1575, he was re-elected to the same position, as a Ke- publican, although at that election the Democratic party swept the city. In the ensuing summer he visited Europe on professional busmess. His name was brought before the Republican Congressional Convention for nomination for Representative of the Second District in the national legis- lature in 1874, but he was defeated by Hon. Job E. Steven- son by a small majority. In February, 1875, he received the appointment, by the Ohio Legislature, as Attorney for the House of Representatives in the bribery investigations case, and in the performance of the duties of the position won the unqualified indor-ement of the press of both parties. Ile retired from office in April, 1875, and resumed the pri- vaite practice of his profession in connection with M. L. Buckwalter, with whom he had formed a copartnership, under the firm-style of Buckwalter & Campbell, in 1870. Ile is attorney for various corporations, and is identified with important local enterprises.
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CLAUGHLIN, JAMES W., Architect, of Cincin- nati, Ohio, was born in that city, November Ist, 1834. Ile is of a Scotch- Irish family, whose first ancestor in this country originally settled at Work, Penylvania, in the early part of the last century, and afterwards removed to Hagerstown, Maryland. Ile died at the advanced age of one hundred and four years, and his wife reached the equally remarkable age of one hun- dred and two years. Their descendants in Maryland, and also in western Pennsylvania, where they are still more numerous, have been noted as a handy and long-lived fam ily. The father of the subject of our sketch removed from Sewickly, Pennsylvania ( where he was born), to Cincin- nati in iSis, and, after a long and honorable career as a merchant, died in 1574 at the age of eighty-two years, Our architect was educated in the private schools of his native city, and in IS49 entered the office of Jumes K. Wilson, then a young architect, as a student. In 1855, when he had seircely attained his majority, Mr. Jolm Shillito, a former partner of his father, intrusted him with the designing of the plans of his great dry-goods store in Cincinnati, and the Ilon. D. K. Este at the same time engaged him to erect a residence, then considered the finest in the city, and even now conspicuous for its massive front among the later eree- tions. In 1857 he formed a partnership with the late J. R. Hamilton, which lasted but one year. In 1861 he entered the army as a Lieutenant in the Infantry Body Guard of General Fremont, and was afterwards in the corps of Gen- eral Sigel. On the disbanding of the organization, he be- came a special artist for Frank Leslie's Illustrated News- paper in the army of the Southwest. In the fall of 1862 he
resumed his professional duties, since uninterrupted, except during a visit to Europe in 1873. Among the most promi- nent of his works are the Public Library buildings at Cin- cinnati and Northampton, Massachusetts; the Masonic Temple, Counmercial Building and Gas Office of Cincin- nati, and the grand suburban residences of John Shillito, William Hooper and Hon. William S. Groesbeck. Ile is, at present writing, the Architect of the Johnston Block and the buildings of the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens, which, as well as those previously mentioned, attest his professional skill. Ile is an active member of the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, by whom he was selected as one of its representatives for this work.
ALLACE, HENRY II., County Auditor of Butler County, Ohio, was born in Butler county, Ohio, September 30th, 1824. His parents, natives of Pennsylvania, were reared in the Cumberland valley, a short distance from the town of Cham- bersburg. Ilis futher, who was a millwright by trade, came to Cincinnati in 1806, at which date the site of the present Queen City was occupied by a tranquil village. In 1815 he moved to Butler county, where numerous mills. of his construction, still standing, testify to the extent and excellence of his labors in past years. He obtained a fair education in the public schools located in the vicinity of his home, and supplemented it by private study. At the age of eighteen he assumed the role of educator, and was subse- quently engaged in teaching for a period of nearly eight years, In 1853 he was elected Recorder for Butler county, and at the expiration of his term was re-elected, serving until 1859, the date of his election to the office of County Auditor. In 1802, at the close of his ter, he entered the mamy, with the commission of Captain of Company C, 93d Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In the course of the following year, however, his health was undermined by an attack of typhoid fever, which compelled him eventually to resign his commission and return home. After the re- establishment of his health, he engaged in mercantile pur- suits in Hamilton, Butler county, and followed them until 1874, when he was again elected to the County Auditorship. Although he has never adhered very strictly to party lines, but, under all circumstances, pursued that political course which candor an I loyalty to the public interest required, he has had the singular felicity to retain the confidence and esteem of the constituency whose suffrage has repeatedly elevated him to positions of trust. Ile is an intelligent ob- server of passing events ; prompt in his recegnition of the strength or weakness of this or that measure; and indefati- gable in endeavoring to crush the sway of corruption, and to place in office men of ability and spotless integrity. Ile was married, August Inth, 1857, to Sarah J. Bacon, of Butler county, Ohio, by whom he has had four children.
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ARTEN, BENJAMIN F., Lawyer, was born on the where he remained two years, and then obtaining a school he taught for about the same length of time. During the year ISos he attended the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Col- lege, after which he taught school, and at the end of one year re entered the college, from which he graduated with high honors. Ile commenced the practice of medicine with Dr. Wesley Smizer, of Sharonville, and in nine months entered 22d of June, 1819, in Columbus, Ohio, He may be said to have been born in the legal profession, for his father, although a native of Pennsylvania, came to Columbus in 1815, shortly thereafter was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace-sub- sequently Mayor of the town, County Recorder and Asso- ciate Judge of the Count of Common Pleas-and was the | the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and after author of " Martin's History of Franklin County." Benja- five months of diligent application he graduated from there in February of 1874. Ambitious to excel in the knowledge of his profession, he pursued a course of reading at the Pulte Medical College ( Homeopathic) of Cincinnati, receiving a diploma from that institution in the beginning of 1875, and in March of the same year he was elected Physician to the County Infirmary. With unceasing energy and perseverance he had succeeded in carrying on the practice of his profession in Sharonville. Politically, the doctor is a Democrat. Dur- ing six months of the year 1865 he served in the 138th Regi- ment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Ile is not a member of any particular religious denomination, but is pure and up- right in character, unaffected in manner, and a man whose social qualities are extremely agreeable. min F. received his early education mainly at the common schools of Columbus. After leaving school he was ap- pointed City Clerk of Columbus; subsequently Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and while prosecuting the duties of that position he also read law diligently with Judge Matthews. He finished his course of reading in 1847, and in November of that year he was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of his profession in partnership with Lorenzo English, which partnership continued for nearly twelve years. In the fall of 1850 Mr. Martin was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Franklin county, and re- elected in 1852. Ile continued the practice of the law until August, 1865, when he was by President Johnson appointed to the office of Collector of Internal Revenue for the Seventh District of Ohio, which office he held until 1869, when he . was removed by President Grant. The various public duties and trustis committed to his charge were faithfully and hon- estly performed and executed. Mr. Martin has dealt largely in real estate in and about his native city, and his many "additions to Columbus " bear evidence of that fact. He won, by industry and application to business, a very high reputation at the bar, but he has now virtually retired from the active practice of his profession. Ile was married in 1843 to Amanda A. Ogden.
(GREW, HENRY, M. D., was born at Mont- gomery, Hamilton county, Ohio, on December 23d, 1844. His father, Andrew MeGrew, was a native of North Ireland. About the year 1835 he emigrated to America, and engaged in labor for a short time at Buffalo, New York. Kemov- ing to Ohio, he resided a while at Reading, Hamilton county, after which he came to Montgomery and became employed as a carpenter; locating permanently in this place, he pur. chased a very handsome furm, on which he now resides. He married, early in life, Henrietta Crain, a native of Syca- more township, daughter of Oliver Crain, who removed from New Jersey to Hamilton county, becoming one of the most prominent of its early settlers. Of a family of eleven chil- dren, Henry is the fifth. His carly education was received at the public schools. When seventeen years of age he was apprenticed to a black smith at Sharon, and for a period of three years and a half applied himself diligently to the learn- ing of that trade. Having a desire to obtain a more thorough education, he entered the Normal College, at Lebanon, Ohio,
ARX, GUIDO, Merchant, Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, was born at Carlsruhe, Baden, Germany, June 28th, 1827. Ilis father, D. R. Marx, was engaged as a bookseller and publisher in both Carlsruhe and Baden, Ilis earlier days, from his sixth to his twelfth year, were passed in the lyceum at Carlsruhe. During the following two years he was a student in the Baden-Baden High School. He was then engaged for three years as an apprentice to the book and printing trade in Brunswick, Germany. Afterward, until his nine- teenth year was attained, he was employed in assisting his father in his business, partly at home and partly in Paris, France, and elsewhere. Becoming interested in the revo- lutionary movements of .1848-1849, he left Germany at the period of their adverse termination, and abandoned his native country for the United States. On his arrival here, October Ist, 1849, he purchased forty acres of government land in Wood county, Ohio, and found occupation in agricultural pursuits. In the spring of 1851 he moved to Toledo, in the same State, and there engaged in the grocery business. In 1861 he associated himself in partnership with R. Brand, whose decease occurred in 1865. At this date he became senior partner in the firm of R. Brand & Co., wholesale dealers and importers of wines and liquors. lle subse- quently made several trips to Europe, for direct purchases, and for the purpose of securing desirable business relations and connections. In conjunction with his brothers, Emil Marx and Joseph E. Marx, he founded the first Free-soil German paper in northwestern Ohio, the Ohio Staats Zeitung, now the Daily and Weekly Express-a Republican organ
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from the date of its establishment down to the present time. During the war of the rebellion, by appointment of the gov- ernor, he was occupied as a member of the County Military Committee. He was also for a member of years a member of the Board of Examiners of Public Schools, and in 1871-72 served as a member of the City Council from the Fourth Ward. In 1872-75 he was a member of the General Assembly of Ohio (LX. and LXI.) In the spring of 1875 he was elected on the Republican ticket Mayor of Toletlo. The story of his career, both as a man of business and as a public functionary and official, has in it no element of baseness or disloyalty ; his record is wholly honorable. He was married in Febru- ary, 1853, to Elizabeth Brehm, by whom he has had cleven children, of whom nine are now living.
ERSIIISER, WILLIAM A., Contractor, Builder and Lumber Merchant, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, February 18th, IS23. Ilis parents, Henry Hershiser and Maria ( Barbara Kegg) Hershiser, belonged to the class of thrifty people known as Pennsylvania Germans. IIe lived on the farm until his tenth year was reached, when he moved with the family to Seneca county, Ohio. There, until 1838, he remained at his home, engaged in assisting his father on the farm, and in attending the public school. Ile was then placed to learn the bricklaying business, at which he subsequently worked for about four years. In 1842 he became disabled, and consequently returned to in studying and teaching. During this year, he moved to Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio, and took a position as Clerk in a dry-goods store. There he remained until December Ist, 1855, at which date he received the appointment of Chief Clerk in-the State Treasury Office at Columbus, under Wil- liam II. Gibson. That position he retained, under different treasurers elected from time to time, until Jannary, 1873. Then, having engaged in 1863 with R. B. Adams, in the lumber business, it became necessary for him to give to its conduct his undivided attention. Eventually the relations of this business assuming large and successful proportions, it was extended so as to include contracting and building. The firm as now existing is known under the style of IIer- shiser & Gibson, and has an extended and favorable reputa- tion as a reliable and enterprising house. Ile was for twelve years a prominent member of the First Congrega- tional Church of Columbus, Ohio, and in 1871, in connec- tion with others, organized the High Street Congregational Church. To the support of this church, and to the relief of the poor in various guises, he gives a large portion of his means. Having started in life without capital or influential friends, he owes his success to his own unaided energy and ability, and now deservedly enjoys the fruits of his industry
and tireless efforts in his beautiful home located in the sub- urbs of Columbus. Ile was married in 1848 to Lydia A. Suyder, of Tiffin, Ohio. - -
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school, and afterward, until 1845, was, alternately employed ; learning. In 1838 he entered Miami University, and there
SIIBURN, THOMAS QUIN, Attorney-at- Law, Judge of the Common Pleas Court of the First Subdivision of the Fifth Judicial District of Ohio, was born at East Walnut Hills, Hamilton county, Ohio, February 9th, 1820. He was the oldest child in a family of seven children whose parents were Richard Ashburn and Mary ( Williams) Ashburn. Ilis father, a native of Lancashire, England, came to Amer- ica when but nine years of age in company with his father's family. At the termination of the voyage, during which his mother had died, he moved with his people to Cincinnati, Ohio, about the year 1797. Ile has followed through life, at the outset, the trade of brick-mason, and at a later period agricultural pursuits. His grandfather settled in New Rich- mond, Clermont county, Ohio, at a later date than 1797, and there laid ont the town of Susanna, thus named in honor of his wife, and was one of the original proprietors of New Richmond. Ile resided there until his demise. ITis mother, a native of Ilamilton county, Ohio, was a daughter of Thomas Williams, an early settler of this section of the State. ITis boyhood was passed in laboring on the paternal farm, while his early education, up to the age of eighteen, was limited in degree and kind. He was about this time afflicted so severely by rheumatism, that for two years he was entirely incapacitated for mannal labor, and conse- quently turned his attention toward increasing his store of pursued a course of study for about eighteen months. In 1839 he temporarily adopted the vocation of educator in a school at New Richmond, Clermont county, where he taught during two winters, occupying his leisure time through the summer by farming labors. In 1841 he became an in- mate of Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained for three terms, completing half the junior year. Ile then returned to Clermont county, and again en- gaged in teaching school for two terms, at a salary of twelve dollars per month. While thus employed he commenced the study of law, under the guidance of Shields & Howard, prominent attorneys of Batavia, and eventually was ad- mitted to the bar. In May, 1846, he removed to Batavia, and entered upon the career which has since been uniformly attended with fair success. From 1848 to 1852 he was Prosecuting Attorney of Clermont county, having been twice elected to fill this important office, and in 1855 was a can- didate for the Legislature, but on account of the " Know- Nothing " opposition failed to secure an election. In the fall of 1861 he was elected Judge of the Common Pleas Court of the First Subdivision of the Fifth Judicial District of Ohio, and has since filled this office continuously. In 1$75 he was a candidate on the Democratic ticket for Judge
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of the Supreme Court, but was defeated through the minor- ity of his party. He is in the vigor of life mentally and physically, of studious, indications habits. He investigates with care, aniving at bes conclusions with a commendable degree of accuracy. In manners modest and rething, with sufficient executive ability and administrative force to do that which hi, judgment tells him is right, he is endowed with a firm will, yet so tempered with justice as to yiekl ready attention to the demands of right and the opinions of others. If, by inadvertence or otherwise, he should happen to injure another or wound his feelings, a sense of justice prompts him to seek the first opportunity to make reparation. Ile loves his profession, finding its principles and precepts not only honorable in themselves, but calculated to ennoble the man by teaching him a delicate sense of conscious honor in thought and action. His career at the bar as a practi- tioner was attended with success, and as Common Pleas Judge has given fair satisfaction to the bar and the people. An independent actor in the world's life-battle, he believes in that democracy which teaches that one man, however humble his station in life, is just as good as the most ex- alted in station, whilst he acts honorably and to the best of his judgment his part. He does not belong to any man or church, but religiously is in sympathy with the Methodist Church. In the righteousness of God's providences he has unquestioning faith. Whilst his life has been checkered by many and great sorrows, he acts in the belief that a God of infinite love has sent them to him in infinite mercy. Politi- cally his views harmonize with the principles and measures of the Democratic party, and his first vote for President was cast for James K. Polk. He has always been an unflinch- ing Democrat of the Jackson school, and to all movements based on his political creed he has given his ardent and un- qualified support. Whilst in the discharge of his official judicial duties, his conduct and judgments have been free from political bias. He was married December 30, 1846, to Sarah W. Penn, a native of Clermont county, who died November 30th, 1854, leaving four children, two of whom are living; the oldest, A. W. Ashburn, is a practising physician now in Batavia. He was again married March 27th, 1856, to Mary Ellen Griffith, also a native of Clermont county, by whom he has twp children living. His term of office will expire in February, 1877, at which time he expects to resume the practice of the law.
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