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UILEN, HON. THOMAS J., Attorney-at-Law, was born in Clermont county, Ohio, Febru- ary 24th, 1824. He was the eighth child in a family of nine children, whose parents were James Mullen and Catherine (Dougherty ) Mullen. His father, a native of Virginia, followed through life the occupations of shoemaker and farmer. Ile settled in Ohio, on a farm in Clermont county, at an early day. Ile
was an active participant in the war of 1812. His mother, also a native of Virginia, died in 18.15. His grandfather on the paternal side took part in the strugles of the patriots of the Revolution. Until be was eighteen years of age bis days were passed alternately in attending school dning the winter months, and in laiboring on the farm in the summer seasons. Hle then began the learning of the shoemaker's trade at Felicity, Clermont county, and was engaged in this employment for about two years. The succeeding two years were spent at the High School in Felicity. In 1846 he assumed the role of educator at Pekin, Clermont county, and taught school for a period of six months. During sev- eral preceding years, his father had been a resident of Felicity, but removed finally to Georgetown, and to that place he accompanied the family. In 1846 he entered the law office of Thomas L. Hamer and Sanders W. Johnson, of the last named town, but remained there for only a brief period. Ile afterward made two trips on flatboats to the South, which were rendered necessary by the precarious condition of his health. In 1848 be returned to George- town, and resumed the study of law. In 185t he was ad- mitted to the ban, and entered upon the practice of his pro- fession. In 1852 he was a candidate for the position of Prosecuting Attorney, but failed to secure an election. In 1853 he was elected Justice of the l'eace for Georgetown, and in the ensuing fall removed to West Union, Adams county, where he has since resided, engaged in the control of an extensive legal practice. For a number of years hie was School Examiner of Adams county, and for four years acted as Prosecuting Attorney for this place. He is at- tached to the Democratic party, and was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, which met at Columbus, Ohio, in 1873. The Christian Union Church contains for him the desirable doctrines and service. Essentially a self- made man, his success in life has been brought about by his untiring energy, and a rule of conduct based upon unvarying integrity and persistent industry. He was married in 1851 to Sydney A. Scott, a native of Clermont county, Ohio, by whom he has had six children.
ING, HON. GEORGE W., Lawyer, was born near Gettysburg, Adams county, Pennsylvania, October 15th, 1797. Ile was the sixth child in a family of ten children, whose parents were Hugh King and Abigail ( Voorhees) King. His father, a na- tive of Adams county, Pennsylvania, followed through life agricultural pursuits, and was an active partici- pant in the revolutionary war from its initiation to its termi- nation. Ile was a commissioned ensign in the Continental service, and at one time was taken prisoner by the British, and kept in confinement for about four years. Upon his re- lease, at the close of the conflict, he returned to Adanis county, Pennsylvania, and there resided on his farm until
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his decease, which occurred in 1810. His mother, a native in the office of his father, Dr. E. A. Farquhar, he attended of Long Island, New York, formed the acquaintance of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, dur- ing 1857 and 1858. Upon quitting this institution the
Ensign King while he was a prisoner, was married to him on his release, and accompanied him to his home in Adams | practice of medicine was begun at Putnam, in partnership county, Pennsylvania, where she lived until her demise in with his father, and continued until October, 1875, when the 1805. Until his thirteenth year was reached he worked on 'firm was dissolved by mutual consent, O. C. Farquhar re- a firm, attending through the winter months a neighboring tiring. In 1872 he had graduated at the University of country school. In iSto he entered an educational institution ' Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For several years past he has in Gettysburg, and there pursued a course of classical studies taken an active interest in municipal political proceedings. for about three years. Later he attended Dickinson College, For six years he was a valued member of the Board of Edu- Pennsylvania, for about eighteen months. Ile then turned his attention to the study of law, and for three years applied himself to his legal text-books in Gettysburg. After passing the requisite examination, he was admitted to the bar in November, 1817, and in the following December moved to Ripley, Brown county, Ohio, where he remained during the en ning twelve years, actively engaged in the control of an extensive legal practice. The first court of Brown county, after its organization in 1818, was held March 3d in the same year, and he was then appointed the first Prosecuting Attorney of the county by Judge Joshua Collett, and the three Associate Judges, William Anderson, James Moore, cation, was subsequently a member of the village council of Putnam, and became prominent as an able advocate of the annexation of Intnam to the city of Zanesville-an event which was brought about in a great measure through his earnest and well-directed labors. After the accomplishment fand ratification of that annexation, the members of the dominant party elected him on the Republican ticket to represent them in the City Council for two years. At the expiration of the first term he was re-elected to the same po- sition. During the exciting times of the Temperance Crusade and the existence of the Prohibitory Beer Ordi- nance, he had the moral courage to write an ordinance re- and Joseph N. Campbell. Ile discharged with ability the peating the original one. He was married, April 2d, 1856, duties of this office for five years, at the expiration of which to Elizabeth J. Irvine, who died in 1859. June 7th, 1860, he was again married, to Mary L. Ransom, of Coshocton, Ohio, with whom he now lives. time he was, through pecuniary considerations, induced to resign it, declining to serve the remaining two years of his appointed term. In 1831 he selected Georgetown, Brown county, as his field of professional labor, and has since re- sided there uninterruptedly, constantly busied in the man- agement of a large business, In 1832 he was appointed Clerk of the Supreme and Common Pleas Courts, The ap- pointment was for seven years, but he served in all eight years before a successor was appointed. He is a supporter of the Republican party, and cast his first vote for James Monroe in 1820. Ile is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church. He was married in 1818 to Elizabeth M. Wills, a native of Chillicothe, Ohio. The fruits of this union have been eleven children.
ARQUHAR, ORLANDO C., Physician and Sur- geon, was born near Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio, March 4th, 1835. Ilis parents were of Scotch descent, and in religious faith belonged to the Society of Friends, or Quakers. Ile was educated primarily in the village school of Putnam (now the Ninth Ward of Zanesville), under the in- struction of Professor Z. M. Chandler. The first movement made after leaving school was a trip down the Muskingum river and Ohio river on a trading flatboat. About two years were thus spent in the Western waters and their tributaries, and at their expiration he returned to his home, and de- voted himself, after dne consideration, to the study of medi- cine and surgery. After remaining as a student three years
CCREA, CHARLES T., Merchant, was born in Addison, Champaign county, Ohio, April ISth, 1832, and is of Scotch and Irish extraction. Ile was educated at Woodward College, entering that institution October 9th, 1848, under the presidency of the celebrated Dr. Thomas J. Briggs. On leaving college he began at once his mercantile career. Ile first located at Dayton, Ohio, where he was engaged for one year and a half. He then entered the house of Barcroft, Beaver & Co., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he re- mained two years. In 1856 he removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, and began business for himself in a wholesale house of hats, caps and straw goods. During his two years of merchandising at the capital of the Hoosier State, he won the respect and confilence of all with whom he asso- ciated. Ilis next location, in the summer of 1858, was again in Dayton, the city where his mercantile life began in the autumn of 1852. The business he had commenced so auspiciously in Indianapolis he continued with vigor two years at Dayton, when, on the first day of January, 1860, he opened in Pearl street, Cincinnati, Ohio, a large wholesale house with an excellent stock of hats, caps, furs, gloves and straw goods. The wisdom of this move is proved by more than fifteen years, with a fair prospect of many more in the future, of useful activity in the same business and in the same street. Mr. McCrea's remarkable success in business
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is due to his steadfast honesty, courtesy and punctuality. Esity, of Ohio. In 1858 he passed the requisite examination No one could be more conscientious in the fulfilment of an ! and was admitted to the bar, whereupon he entered on the engagement. Many of his patrons, residing hundreds of miles from the Queen City, have learned that they can send orders to his store and have them filled with the same care and fidelity as if they were personally superintending the selection of the goods. The subject of this sketch has ever manifested a deep interest in the welfare of his adopted city, and is always found with those who are laboring to improve society, physically, morally and religiously. When the " Citizens' Protection Society " was organized in 1873, Mr. McCrea was unanimously elected Treasurer of the same, showing how highly he is esteemed by those whose good- will is of especial value. On June 27th, 1861, he was married to Ada Betts, of Cincinnati, by whom he has five children, all boys. practice of his profession in his native place, and remained there until 1861. He then removed to Aberdeen, Ohio, where he was engaged in professional labors until the spring of 1864. Between the former and the latter date he was ap- pointed Prosecuting Attorney of Brown county, and per- formed the duties of that office for about one year. Leaving Aberdeen in 1864, he established his office in Georgetown, where he has since resided, engaged in conducting the af- fairs of a very extensive clientage. In this year he was elected Probate Judge of Brown county, and later was re- elected to the same office. That position was occupied by him in all for a period of five or six years. His first election to it was the consequence of a vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Charles F. Campbell. In 1868 he was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention, at New York. In 1871 he was elected Judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas, which office he now holds. Ile gives to the Democratie party his favor and influence, and cast his first vote for President for Stephen A. Douglas. He is attached to the Methodist Church, and is an useful coworker in all important measures projected to ameliorate the condition of society or to hasten the development of the best interests of his State and the general community. For many years past he has been a Mason, and is a member also of the Odd Fellow Fraternity. In the Masonic Order he is a Knight Templar, and is a member of the Cincinnati Commandery, No. 3. lle is a member also of the Order of the Knights of Pythias, and is warmly interested in the welfare of the various societies in which he is a valued associate. Ile was married, January 1st, 1861, to Nancy Sallce, a native of Brown county, Ohio.
ARBELL, DAVID, Lawyer, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the First Subdivision of the Fifth Judicial District of Ohio, was born in Ripley, Brown county, Ohio, December 34, 1836. Ile was the second child in a family consisting of five children, whose parents were William T. Tarbell and Martha (Stevenson) Tarbell. His father, a native of Massachusetts, having been born near Groton, followed in early life the occupation of sea-captain, and in later years traded through the West with the Indians, About the year 1833 he settled in Ripley, Ohio, where, continu'ng his trading operations, he remained until his decease in 1852. Ile was widely and favorably known as a public-spirited and an en- terprising citizen, and was noted also for his enthusiastic devotion to the now extinct Whig party. His mother, a native of Adams county, Ohio, was the daughter of one of the pioneer settlers of that county, and died in 1854. Ilis paternal ancestors were active participants in the revolution- ary struggle, and were of Scotch and German extraction. On the maternal side his ancestors were natives of Ireland, and his mother's father, having been engaged against the British crown in the revolution of 1798, was forced to flee from his home, and came to America to find the haven denied him in his own land. Judge David Tarbell, in his sixteenth year, began life on his own resources as a shoe- maker, at Ripley, Ohio. This occupation monopolized his time and energies for about one year, at the expiration of which period he found employment as a clerk in a dry-goods store of the same town. This business occupied his atten- tion during the following six months. Up to that time he had been attending school as regularly as circumstances would permit, and had accordingly acquired a thorough English education. After relinquishing the clerkship, he assumed the role of educator in a country school situated near Decatur, Brown county, and, while pursuing a course of literary and legal study, sustained it for about six years. During this period also he attended the Wesleyan Univer-
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EIDMAN, JOHN C., Wholesale Grocer, is of Ger- man birth and of German ancestry. Ile was born in Steinsfeld, Wittenberg, Germany, but came, when a child, to this country, and thenceforward his home was in Ohio. He attended school in Medina county in that State, and after having procured his education, he entered the wholesale grocery and liquor house of Messrs. Loomis & Brown, of Cleve- land, as a clerk. He remained with that firm in the capacity of clerk until the year 1845, when he went to Liverpool, Medina county, and started in business on his own account, opening a grocery store there. Ile continued in this business until 1848, when he left Ohio, and went to East Bloomfield, Ontario county, New York. There be went to work as a farmer and nurseryman, and continued so employed for a period of two years. At the end of that time he returned to Cleveland, and re-entered the whole- sale grocery and liquor business, in the employ of W. J. Gordon. Ile remained with this house for four years and
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then left, and went to work for the firm of Edwards & | popular satisfaction at the present time. He labored in. Idings, wholesale grocers, in Cleveland. With this firm he remained for seven years; and then, in 1861, he left them, formed a copartnership with J. D. Hildebrand, under the firm-name of Weidman & Co., in the wholesale liquor business. This partnership was continued for four years, and then the finn dissolved, and he carried on the same business alone for some four months. At the end of that time he entered into a partnership with Hannis Tiedman, under the firm-name of Weidman & Tiedman, in the whole- sile grocery and liquor trade. In 1867 Oliver G. Kent was admitted as a member of the firm, and in 1870 Mr. Tiedman retired from the firm, selling his interest in the business to Mr. Kent. In 1871 C. T. Hasbrouck was admitted to a membership in the firm, and the house now stands under the name of Weidman, Kent & Co. John C. Weidmin is a fair example of the self-mule man, achieving through his own exertions, and by his own energy, ability and courage, a goodly degree of prosperity and a high position in the social and business community. He was married on the 17th of AApril, 1853, to Laurie Muntz, of Liverpool, Medina county, Ohio,
6 RAND, MICHAEL., Violoncellist, Conductor of the Cincinnati Grand Orchestra, was born in New York city, January 11th, 1849. Michael took his first instruction in music at the early age of six years. Ile developed, thus early, an excellent taste, and very readily acquired facility and skill as a musician. lle performed principally at garden con- certs, and when eight years of age became first violinist in the organization. When ten, he formed a boys' quartette band, playing the violoncello himself, having had no pre- vious instruction on this instrument save one lesson. After playing a number of years in Brand's Band, and three years in Pike's Opera House Orchestra, he determined to go to New York, where he believed he could secure a more rapid advance in the science of instrumental music, by association with the talent of that city, and through the instruction of the most talented teachers. He appeared at first as a sub- stitute in theatrical orchestras, but was in a very short time offered by Mr. Thomas a place in his orchestra, which he gladly accepted, seeing in this acceptance the advantages he would have in an organization led by so competent a master of the art. He filled this position about five years, during which he became the favorite pupil of the celebrated Cart Anschutz. He resided with him and was his close com- panion up to the day of his death. Under this distinguished musician he took a thorough course of theoretic training, and became an accomplished instrumentalist. In 1872 he was induced by Mr. Louis Billenberg, Manager of the Cin- cinnati Orchestra, to accept the conductorship of that body, then newly organized. He returned to that city to enter upon the duties of this office, which he discharges with
dustriously to make this orchestra without a superior, and all his landable efforts were rewarded with success, exhibit. ing rare tact and ability as a conductor, and winning for that organization not ouly a fine reputation, but the patron- age of the patrons of music in that city. The violoncello is the instrument of his choice, and his performances are mainly with it; but there are few men, perhaps, whose skill has a wider range than his. Ile plays with facility and taste on nearly every other orchestral instrument, with a power of giving every shade of expression which shows him the pos- sessor of a real genius for his art. Ilis long course of theo- retical and practical training, especially under Mr. An- schutz, developed this extraordinary versatility. When twelve years of age he composed his first piece, and has since produced others, adapted for the use of bands and orchestras, which are more than usually meritorious, lle is to be credited with raising the Cincinnati Orchestra to its present standard of efficiency, and to have gratified the ex- pectations of its friends when he first entered upon its leader- ship. Ilis whole nature is enlisted in the cause of music and its intelligent and artistic development, and few men, in this or European countries, have achieved a more honorable reputation as one of its exponents. He is in the prime of manhood, and labors still with unabated enthusiasm in a field which has already covered him with distinction.
EAD, HIRAM, Professor of Sacred Rhetoric, in Oberlin Theological Seminary, is a New Eng- lander by birth. Ile was born in Cornwall, Ver- mont, on the 10th of May, 1827. His father was Rufus Mead. One of his six brothers, Rufus Mead, Jr., was late United States Consul to Nicaragua ; another, Martin 1. Mead, M. D., is a physician in Cleveland, Ohio; and another brother is Rev. Charles M. Mead, Professor of Hebrew Literature in Andover Theologi- cal Seminary. Like so many of the New England men who have gained for themselves prominence and distinction, he was a farmer's son, and was born to hard work instead of to luxury and wealth. Ilis early education was mainly ob- tained at the common district schools of the neighborhood in which he lived, and his mental training was largely ac- companied by physical training in the shape of farm-work. After going through the course of study in the district schools, he was prepared for college at Butr Seminary, in Manchester, Vermont, and that done, he entered as a student at Middlebury College. Ile graduated at Middlebury in 1850. After leaving college he was employed for a period of two years as teacher in the Flushing Institute, on Long Island. At the end of that time, in 1852, he became a tutor in Middlebury College, holding that position for two years longer. Then, in the year 1854, he entered as a student at Andover Theological Seminary, and graduated there in
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1857. In September, 1858, the year after his graduation at Andover, he became pastor of the Congregational Church at South Hadley, Massachusetts, Ile continued to fill the pulpit of this church until November, 1867, at the same time holding the positions of Secretary and member of the Board of Trustees of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. In the month of December, 1867, he was installed as pastor of the Olive Street Congregational Church in Nashua, New Hamp- shire. He continued his service as pastor of that church until October, 1869, when he entered upon his duties as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in Oberlin Theological Semi- nary, a department of Oberlin College, which position he still continues to occupy. In 1871 he received the degree of I. D. from Middlebury College, and in 1874 he was invited to assume the presidency of that institution, an honor which he declined. In addition to his duties as Professor in Ober- lin Theological Seminary, he has acted for six years as associate pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Oberlin. He was married on the 5th of August, 1858, to Elizabeth Storrs Billings, of Andover, Massachusetts.
PANGLER, DAVID, ex-Member of Congress and Attorney-at-Law, was born at Sharpsburg, Mary- land, on the 24th of December, 1796. Ile was the eldest son of Christian Spangler and Annie Spangler, zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, In November, 1872, the family removed from Maryland and settled at Zanesville, then a frontier and important town in Ohio, Zinesville, even at that early day, was favored with liberal means of primary education, to which the subject of this sketch had free access, and he was not slow to profit by his opportuni- ties, limited as they were. In early life he was engaged in the business of clerking in his father's dry-goods store. Tiring at length of the monotony of a shopkeeper's life, about the year 1821, when twenty-five years of age, he en- tered upon the study of the law under the direction of Ilon. Alexander Harper, long a distinguished Judge of the Com- mon Pleas Court and subsequently a member of Congress. At the term of the Supreme Court held at Cleveland in 1824, Mr. Spangler was admitted as an attorney-at-law and solicitor in chancery in this State. After his admission to the bar he at once entered on the practice of the law at Zanesville. In 1830 he was pat in nomination by his polit. ical friends for a seat in the Legislature, and though the opposing party was strongly in the ascendant in Muskingum county at that period, he came within a very few votes of success. In 1832 an eligible opening offering for increase of professional business, he removed to Coshocton, Ohio, which was theuceforward until the day of his death his per- manent residence. Professional business poured in upon him from the start, and very soon after he settled in Coshoe. ton, he was called upon to take a leading part in politics, In
{ the fall of that year he was elected a Representative to Con- gress from the Twelfth Ohio District, then composed of the counties of Coshocton, Knox, Hommes and Tuscarawas, and in 1834 was re-elected to the same position. Ile was a Whig in his pohtical principles, but although his district was overwhelmingly in the hands of his political opponents, such was his popularity that he was elected each time by a triumphant majority. During his first term of service in Congress, and at the January term, 1834, of the Supreme Court of the United States, Chief-Justice Marshall presiding, he was admitted as an attorney and counsellor of that comt. About the same time he argued orally before the same emi- nent jurist a case on appeal from Ohio, and gained his client's canse. In 1844, the Whig party being then largely in the as- cendant in the State, he was unanimously nominated by a State convention of that party for the office of Governor of Ohio. Preferring the quiet of domestic life, and desirous of superintending the education of his two sons, and tired of the turmoil and excitement of the political arena, he re- spectfully but firmly declined the flattering distinction of- fered him by his fellow-citizens. He was emphatically the architect of his own fortune. In his youth he had not the advantages possessed by many. Ile was never at college. But this great want was more than made up by his energy, industry and perseverance in after years. He became by his self-directed efforts a good belles lettres scholar, a pro- found lawyer, and an eloquent advocate. Ilis strong phys- jeal constitution harmonized admirably with his clear and vigorous mind, and in social life he was esteemed and ad. mired for his wit, genial manners, and his joyous humor. lle was engaged in all the important cases of his time in the locality in which he lived, and when professionally oc- cupied never failed to elicit the warm commendation of all who witnessed his unassailable deportment. He was mar- ried December 30, 1828, to Elizabeth Grafton Etherington, of Bhimore, Maryland, by whom he had two sons, Ether- ington T. Spangler, and Alexander 11. Spangler, both of whom applied themselves to the study and practice of law. Ile died at Coshocton on the afternoon of Saturday, Octo- ber 18th, 1856.
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