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the duties of that office with intelligence and zeal. Ile was married, December 28th, 1871, to Martha Craig, of that city, who is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan Female Col. lege, of Delaware, taught the Cambridge High School, and at times writes with ability for her husband's newspaper.
AYLOR, J. BYRON, Lawyer and Editor, was born, April 26th, 1835, on a farm near Fairview, Guernsey county, Ohio, upon which he was reared. Ile received a common school educa- tion, and studied with so much assidnity and intelligence that he was very soon able to teach, and when twenty commenced life as a tutor, conducting village schools, and subsequently the Union school, of Wil- liamsburg, Ohio, of which he was superintendent for several years. While teaching he steadily labored for a collegiate training, and attended during portions of each year Madison College, and afterwards Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. Upon leaving this institution he read law with J. D. Taylor, of Cambridge, Ohio, and graduated at the Cincinnati Law School in 1866, and practised his pro- fession for some years in that city. In the spring of 1875 he returned to Cambridge, where he became one of the editors and proprietors of the Guernsey Times, contributing his skill and influence as a writer, and fine business quali- ties as a manager, to secure the great prosperity that jomnal now enjoys. He was married on the Sth of May, 1873, to E. C. Collings, of Camden, New Jersey.
CELROY, ZENAS COLLINS, Physician, is a native of Ohio, having been born in Belmont county on the 20 of September, 1815. On his father's side he is of Irish extraction, his father having come to this country from Ireland in the year 1790, and settled in 1803 in Ohio, where he at first engaged in farming, and subsequently entered the ministry and labored for over thirty years in the Methodit Episcopal Church. The mother of Dr. MeElroy was a native of Maryland. The time of his youth was not a favorable one for acquiring an education in the region where that youth was passed. . Ile was compelled to content himself with such opportunities as were afforded by the district schools of the region, and those opportunities were by no means brilliant. Such as they were he made the most of them until he had reached the age of sixteen, and then he was placed in a store in the capacity of clerk. The duties of this position he continued to perform until he was twenty-seven years of age, all the time pursuing a rigid system of self-culture, and then commenced the study of medicine with Drs. Boerstler and Edwards, of Lancaster, Ohio. Afterwards he entered the medical department of
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the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated there in the year 1845. Ile settled in Newark, Ohio, and there began the practice of his profession. He remained in Newark for a period of five years, and then, in 1850, removed to Zame wille, where he has ever since resided, and where his practice rapidly grew until it became very large. His repu- tation, not only as a practitioner, but as a contributor to the medical journals of the day, has extended to Europe, where his name and his contributions to medical literature are known to the profession. For the last ten years he has been an industrious writer for the American as well as for the London medical press. The purpose of his published papers has been to explain the phenomena of life, in health and disease, on a purely physical basis; in other words, to bring physiology, pathology and therapeutics within the domain of physical or exact science. He claims to have discovered the function of the lymphatic system; and that that function is the separation from the general debris of the tissues, as they are wasted in functional duty, of the special material in which each organic structure stores up the force for its own reproduction from new material, and its union with the ingoing stream of new material at a proper time and place. And that, seemingly, the only proper place and time in a living human body is just where it actually occurs, to wit: just before entering the right auricle, ou its path to the lungs. The lymph, as it is called, he claims, is the exact analogue of a vegetable seed, animal eggs, or other germ, and fulfils all the ends actually accom- plished by either, or all of them, in the preservation, per- petuation and multiplication of their special forms, or types, in organic life, animal or vegetable; and exactly fulfils every requisite condition for the assimilation of new materials to the types and forms of structure of the bodies of living beings during their natural lives, which we all know is actually occurring in our own bodies all the time during life. And it satisfactorily accounts for that personal identity through life, with changing material, which is the undisputed possession of each individual; while the physical death of the parents is at once a necessity and guarantee of individuality, and hence of immortality and a future state. Dr. MeElroy finds it impossible to reconcile the entity, or almost personality identity of so-called disease, as now re- garded and insisted upon in and out of the profession, with now known facts of the unity of materials and forces run- ning through all organic life. So called disease, or diseased action in living bodies, cannot be anything else than modi- fications of processes natural in health. Acute disease, so- called, being for the most part in the interest of continued life, by removing, by combustion, or peroxidation, structure which has lost its physiological dynamic capacities; and chronic diseases, so-called, depending for the most part on modifications of the structural arrangement of the materials actually composing living tissues, as demonstrated by changed or lost functions, has also a conservative tendency, and are not, as generally regarded, enemies to life. He credit of having been the originator of the Jackson county
was the first President of the Muskingum County Medical Society, before which body he has read many of his papers previous to their publication. He is now a Fellow and the Cmresponding Secretary of the Academy of Medicine, and is also Physician to the Home of the Friendles, etc., etc. Ile was married in the year 1846 to Elizabeth Alice Block- som, daughter of Hon. William Blocksom, of Zanesville.
AKES, CAPTAIN FRANK J., Merchant, Iron Master, Steamboat Proprietor, and Hotel Keeper, was born, September 12th, 1821, in Gallipolis, Ohio, his parents being of French descent, and among the first settlers of that town. He re- ceived a fair education in the schools of his native place, and when thirteen years old went to Portsmouth, where he started in life by becoming a clerk in the store of Charles A. M. Damarin, one of the most honorable and upright citizens in the community. He served him faith- fully from boyhood to manhood, some eleven years al- together. In 1846 he became associated with his former employer in conducting a wholesale grocery business, and continued in the same very successfully for about ten years, and retired with a competency. Ile was subsequently in- duced to embark in a rolling mill and other iron interests, and while so engaged built two of the first stone-coal fur- naces in southern Ohio, and manufactured the first stone- coal iron in that section. Being the pioneer in this line of business he had much to learn ; and he found his enterprise did not, by any means, prove remunerative. Ile, therefore, abandoned the undertaking, leaving it to others to prosccute and reap where he had sown. In 1859 he became actively interested in steamboating, first as clerk on the "Grey Eagle," Captain G. Donnally, the pioneer boat in the trade between Pomeroy and Cincinnati ; and subsequently filled a similar position on other crafts. In 1862 he built the " Imperial," commanding and running her for between two and three years. He finally sold her, and built the " l'eer- less," which he ran for a few years until she was lost near Cairo. She made trips on the Gulf, and was the first to enter Montgomery, continuing on the Alabama river for a part of the season. Ile afterwards commanded different boats in various places until 1867, when he built and com- manded the " Alaska " in the Cincinnati and New Orleans trade, continuing therein until 1871, when he concluded to leave the river. Ile then became interested in the Craw- ford House, where he remained until the autumn of 1873, when he resumed command of the " Alaska " in the same rade, until her loss by sinking near Tiptonville on the Mississippi river. This ended his steamboat career, and, n May, 1874, he again became proprietor of the Crawford House, where he is now engaged in operating it as a fist- class hotel. To Captain Oakes is undoubtedly due the
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stone coal iron business; he being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of making iron with this variety of coal. Ile was married in Portsmouth, Ohio, to Frances 11., daughter of Charles Oscar Tracy, one of the most prominent citizens and lawyers of that section.
6 S ULLEN, THOMAS, Contracting Builder, of Cin- cinnati, Ohio, was born in county Monaghan, Ireland, July 22d, 183). Ilis family, who were of Scotch descent, were of the agricultural class in the north of Ireland. He attended the schools of his native country until 1854, when he went alone to Toronto, Canada, where he continued his studies for a time. In 1855 he apprenticed himself to the car- penter's trade at Wardsville, Canada West, and served faithfully through his full term. After its expiration, in 1858, he removed to Cincinnati, where he became a jour- meyman at his trade, and so continued until the outbreak of the war of the rebellion, in 1861. Promptly on the call for volunteers, in April, he enlisted for three months, and having served through that term enlisted in the 54th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in September, for three years, or during the war; and, having re-enlisted, served until the muster out of his regiment, September 15th, 1865. Ile participated in every engagement in which his regiment took part, and was with General W. T. Sherman in all his memorable campaigns. After the war he returned to Cin- cinnati and engaged in business on his own account, and soon became one of the most reliable, active and skilful builders of that city. His career has been one of uninter- rupted prosperity, and he has contributed much to the im- provement of the city by the erection of substantial and elegant public buildings, stores and private residences. The commodious building erected for the City Infirmary, various model public school buildings, and dwellings of the leading and opulent citizens attest his skill and taste. Ile has never aspired to nor accepted a political office, Though be has not yet reached the meridian of life, his enterprise and energy have secured for him that recognition which places him in the foremost ranks of the self-made men of the Queen City.
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ISHOP, WILLIAM T., Merchant, ex-President of the Board of Aldermen and President of the Board of Trade, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Elizaville, Fleming county, Kentucky, April 29th, 1835. He is the oldest son of Hon. R. M. Bishop, whose sketch appears in this volume. His father moved to Cincinnati, March ist, 18448. He was edneated in the common schools of this city and also in the Woodward College. While in his seventeenth year he
entered the wholesale grocery house of Bishop, Wells & Co., in which his father was the senior partner. For many subsequent years he was constantly occupied by exacting business duties, acting as head salesman for the firm. When the new house, R. M. Bishop & Co., came into ex- istence, in 1855, he was admitted as a partner, and since that date has devoted his time and energies, with tireless assiduity, to the interests of his firm, his keen perception and excellent administrative abifities qualifying him ad- mirably for the responsible position in which he is placed. The trade of this house, under able and systematic man- agement, has within the past few years increased to such an extent that its present business relations and connections are unsurpassed for value in the western country, the amount of sales having aggregated about three millions of dollars. In April, 1871, he was elected, as a Democrat, to the Board of Aldermen from the Eighteenth Ward, by a large majority, although that ward constituted the strongest Republican section of the city. So notable and efficient were his services in this body that in 1873 he was again urged to accept a renomination. After reluctantly consent- ing to meet the desires of his fellow-townsmen, he was re- elected by a handsome majority. Ile was then elected President of the Board, and bore himself so excellently while acting in this capacity that in 1874 he was unani- mously re-elected to the chair. At the expiration of his term, in 1875, he absolutely declined a re-election. In March of the same year he was elected President of the Board of Trade, of which he had been a member for some time, and which is composed of the leading merchants and manufacturers of Cincinnati. He was also appointed by llon. G. W. C. Johnston, in 1875, one of the l'ark Com- missioners. Though not a brilliant reasoner, he possesses that intuitive perception of right and justice which enables one to grasp in an instant all the essential points of a subject, and draw a conclusion which is seldom erroneous. Prompt, far-seeing and active as a business man, nothing escapes his observation, while his merits as an adminis- trator are certainly second to those of but few men.
AVIS, SAMUEL, retired Merchant and senior member of the Chamber of Commerce of Cincin- nati, was born, February ist, 1802, in Brighton, Massachusetts, and is a son of the late Samuel Davis, a resident of Quincy, Illinois, The latter was during life a high-toned, energetic man of business, who took a warm and leading interest in all public measures which tended to develop the resources of the country; he had removed to the West as early as 1835, whither he was shortly followed by nearly all his children. Ilis son, Samuel, embarked in the provision business in Boston when only twenty years of age, which he pursued
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successfully in that city for fifteen years, meanwhile, in 1835, opening a branch house in Cincinnati. After conducting both establishments for about two years, he discontinued his business in Boston, and with his family removed to ('inciu. nati, and thereafter became a permanent resident. in ad- dition to his extensive mercantile pursuits, he devoted a large portion of his time to agriculture, in which he was also interested for over twenty years, but which he has since relinquished, and now devotes himself exclusively to his office. From his earliest years he has been an ardent lover of music, and at the age of thirteen was a constant attendant at the rehearsals of the " Handel and Haydn Society " in King's Chapel, Boston, prior to the first oratorio ever per- formed by that organization, on Christmas night, IS15. Ile was elected a member of that society in 1825, and became subsequently connected with other musical societies both in Boston and Cincinnati. Throughout his entire life, espe- cially during those seasons when the cares of business mo- nopolized his time and attention during the long hours de- voted to it, he has ever resorted to the concord of sweet sounds, both vocal and instrumental, as a means of relaxa- tion and relief; and even now, at his advanced period of life, he still continues his musical studies, and takes delight both as a performer or an auditor. Ile was married in IS24 to Martha Glover, a granddaughter of Dr. Phineas Holden, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, a stern revolutionary patriot. Some time after her decease, he was married in 1856 to Mary A. Davis, a native of Boston.
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VART, THOMAS W., Lawyer, was born on the 27th of February, 1816, at Grandview, Washing- ton county, Ohio. Hlis mother, Mary Cochran, was a native of Virginia, and his father, a Penn- sylvanian by birth, though of Irish parentage, re- moved to Ohio in the early part of the present century, settled on some land beside the Ohio river, and was married in the year following his arrival, Thomas Evart received such early education as he obtained in the common schools of Washington county. When he was six. teen years of age he left school and entered as an assistant in the office of the County Clerk, at Marietta, where he remained until he was twenty-one years of age. He was appointed Clerk of the courts of Washington county in De- cember, 1836. Ile continued to hold this office until IS51. While he was still County Clerk he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, which was held in IS50. On the expiration of his term of office as County Clerk, he was elected Probate Judge of Washington county. . In the meantime, while in the prosecution of his official duties, he had been diligently purseing a rigid course of legal study, reading law under Judge Nye, and, while attending the Con- stitutional Convention at Cincinnati in 1851, was admitted to practise in the courts of Ohio. He held the office of Pro-
bate Judge for Washington county for a period of one year, and then resigned the position in order to take up the prac- tice of his profession. He has continued to reside in Mari- etta ever since, in the minterupted practice of his profes- sion. In politics he was originally a Whig, and he was for many years the Chairman of the Whig Central Committee. On the organization of the Republican party he became a member of that organization, and still remains a Republican. Ile has been counsel for the Marietta, Pittsburgh & Cleve- land Railroad Company since its formation. Ile is a stock- holder in the Marietta Chair Company, and also in the Marietta Union Bank. Ile was one of the organizers of the Noble County National Bank. Ile has been twice married. In 1838 he married Grace Dana, of Newport, who died in IS54; in 1855 he married his present wife, Jerusha Gear, daughter of Rev. Mr. Gear, of Marietta.
IIINN, JOSEPH W., Attorney-at-Law, was born in Jacksonville, Adams county, Ohio, January 27th, 1845. Ile was the sixth child in a family of eight children, whose parents were Francis Shinn and Sarah (Moore) Shinn. His father, a native of Culpepper, Virginia, followed through life principally the occupation of tanner. Ile moved to Ohio about the year IS25, and settled at Hillsborough, whence he removed to Jacksonville in 1840, or thereabout ; he settled in West Union in January, 1846, and there resided until his decease In June, 1851. He was for four years an Auditor of Adams county, and was widely known and esteemed as an upright and useful citizen. Ilis mother, a native of Adams county, Ohio, died in May, 1869. Ile was engaged more or less regularly in farming occupations until his majority was attained, while his early education, which was comparatively thorough, was obtained by his own exer- tions and perseverance. In 1866 he attended Miami Uni- versity, and during the ensuing eighteen months pursued a regular course of classical study. In January, IS68, he left this institution and entered the Ohio University, at Athens, where he remained as a student for about four months. Subsequently, on account of illness, he was compelled to return to his home. In the summer of 1868 he was nomi- nated by a Democratic Convention as Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and in the succeeding fall was elected to fill that office. At this time he was the youngest of five candidates put forward for the desired place. He was re- elected in 1871, and, after retaining the clerkship six years, vacated the office in February, 1875. During the years in- tervening between election and vacation he applied himself to the study of law, and in September, 18741, was admitted to the bar. In February, 1875, he took the contract for building the new Adams County Court House, a magnificent structure, the cost of the creation of which was defrayed mainly by the individual subscriptions of the people of the
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county. This he did, no other person offering to take the ; there until 1851, the date of his graduation. Subsequently' contract, because the county was limited by law to an ex- he commenced the study of law with his father, at Coshoc- ton, and in this city was admitted to the bar in 1853. En- tering upon the active practice of his profession he remained in connection with his father until 1856, the date of the latter's decease. He was afterward engaged in professional labors in conjunction with his brother for about two years, and then practised alone until May, 1868. At that date hie associated himself in partnership with Julius Pomerene, and the firm thus constituted still exists. He has an extensive practice in Coshocton county, and also practises his pro- fession in The environing region, and before the Supreme Court at Columbus. In the year 1860, on motion of Hon. Ed- win M. Stanton, he was admitted an attorney and counsellor of the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, District of Columbia. Ile was married, May 25th, 1868, to Ilelen King, daughter of a distinguished lawyer of Newark, Licking county, Ohio. penditure of $10,000. The greater portion of his time and quergies down to the present time has therefore been de. voted to the superviang of the construction of this mon- ment to the county's enterprise, while he has been constantly engaged also in the general practice of his profession. In 1874 he was a candidate before the State Democratic Con- vention for Clerk of the Supreme Court, but was defeated through the opposition of Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties. Politically, he sustains the creed of the Democratic party, and has brought to its support talents of no mean order. Ilis religious views and sentiments are in harmony with the teaching, of the Presbyterian Church. Ile was married, March 8th, 1870, to Sallie E. Wright, a native of Brown county, Ohio, whose demise occurred November 18th, 1871. lle was again married, September 15th, 1874, to Laura Swearingen, a native of Adams county, in the same State.
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LARK, REV. RUFUS W., JR., Rector of Trinity Church, Columbus, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on May 29th, 1844, being the son of R. W. Clark, D. D., and Eliza Walton Clark. lle was educated at Williams College, Massachu- 6 setts, and graduated from that institution in the class of 1865, having pursued a full and thorough course of collegiate traming. Upon leaving college he entered the General Theological Seminary of New York, from which he graduated in 1868, and during that year officiated as as- sistant minister in Calvary Church, in the same city. From 1868 to 1871 he was Rector of St. John's Church, Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, moving in the latter year to Co- lumbus, Ohio, where he immediately entered upon the rector- ship of Trinity Church, which he still fills. Dr. Clark is an eloquent divine, and has labored with great success in his various positions. Hle combines two very essential qualities in a successful ministry, that of being an excellent parish worker and organizer, as well as an attractive and impres- sive pulpit orator. Ile is a man of the most sincere and earnest piety, and is regarded with the warmest affection by his parishioners,
PANGLER, ETHERINGTON T., Attorney-at- law, was born in Z mesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, January 26th, 1831. Ilis parents were David Spangler, ex-member of Congress and lawyer, and Elizabeth Grafton ( Etherington) Spangler, a native of Baltimore, Maryland. When a year old his parents moved to Coshocton, Ohio, where he attended the common schools until he had at- tained his sixteenth year. He then pursued a course of higher studies in Kenyon College, at Gambier, remaining
2. VANS, EZRA E., Lawyer, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, March 5th, 1816, his father being a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of Loudon county, Virginia. He received his early education in the common schools of Belmont county, which he attended during those portions of the year when his assistance was not required in the culti- vation of his father's farm. When nineteen years of age he followed the bent of his ambition, and commenced to read law with Nathan Evans, at Cambridge, and for two years assiduously, under the capable direction of this gentleman, pursued his studies. When twenty-one years of age he was admitted to the bar, and removed at once to Toledo, where he entered upon the practice of his profession. His health failing him, in 1838 he returned to Cambridge, where he practised with his brother for about one year, and then settled in MeConnelsville, Morgan county, Ohio. From 1844o until December, 1858, he was professionally engaged in that place. Hle practised mainly alone, having been for a few years asso- ciated respectively with Isaac Parrish and with Judge Wood. In 1858 he went to Zanesville, where he has ever since been pursuing his professional calling. From the fall of 1851 until 1853, when he resigned that office, he was the Judge of Pro- bate of Morgan county. In 1861 he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Morgan, Noble and Mus- kingum counties, and retained this office until his resignation of its duties in 1866. On October 31st, 1843, he was mar- ried to Mary Lawrence, who was born in Pennsylvania, but reared in Ohio. During the late civil war Judge Evans took an active part on the side of the Federal government, and rendered material aid in raising and equipping volunteers, and in organizing the 62d, 78th, 97th and 122d regiments from Ohio, as well as the 159th Ohio Regiment, and was chosen First Lieutenant of Company B in the last-named
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