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OUDON, JAMES, Farmer, Major-General of the Ohio State Militia and ex-State Senator, was born in Henry county, Kentucky, October 21st, 1796, and was the oldest of three children whose parents were John Loudon and Dorcas ( Master- son) London. His father, a native of Washing- ton county, l'ennsylvania, followed through life agricultural pursuits, and was a participant, under General Wayne, in the battle of Fallen Timbers. He died in Henry county, Kentucky, where he had settled in 1794. Ilis paternal grandfather was actively engaged in association with the patriots during the Revolutionary struggle. Ilis maternal grandfather, John Masterson, was one of the body-guards of General Washington, and was intimately identified with colonial measures and efforts. His mother was a native of Washington county, and one of a family whose male mem- bers were prominent throughout the troublous period of uprising. In 1806 he moved with his mother to Brown county, Ohio, settling at a point distant about six miles east from Georgetown, on the farm of Neil Washburn, whence, at the expiration of four years, he and the family removed to Arnheim, Brown county, where a farm was rented and a residence maintained for a period of about two years. ITis mother was then again married to Joshua Jordan, one of the earlier pioneer settlers of the country, whereupon the family moved to River Hill, on the Ohio river, a short distance below Ripley. Here he made his home during the ensuing fourteen years, employed in laboring on the farm, and during the summer months of five or six of those years in clerking in dry-goods stores, while river occupations con- sumed his time through the winters. Ilis first boating was on the Ohio, in the old keel-boat line. In the fall of 1813 he made a trip to the salt works on the Kanawha river ; the next fall he made a trip from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh, and attempted to go to the head of navigation on the Allegheny river, but after getting up about sixty miles found there was not water enough to allow the boat to pass over the shoals; so the boat had to wait for a rise in the river, and the men went back to Pittsburgh. Here he found his old boat
a situation on the boat as a hand; arriving at Cincinnati the freight for that poit was discharged and preparations made to descend to Louisville. The captain desired very much to have him continue on the boat, and offered lim a clerkship; so he continued on to the port aforesaid, and, after " keeping boat" a few weeks, was discharged. Thus ended his keel-boating; and now, in the year 1876, he con- fidently believes himself to be the last survivor of that strong, hardy, daring race of men who carried on the com- merce of the Ohio valley in keel-boats, propelled against the current by long poles, with heavy iron sockets on the lower end, and a round smoothed knob, turned from the root of the laurel, to fit the shoulder, on the top end. In the fall of 1818, and also in 1819, he made trips to New Orleans in what were then designated broad horse-boats, afterwards called flatboats. On both these occasions he had to work his way home on foot through the wilderness and two savage nations of Indians. He made many other trips to that southern eentre in the same class of boats, and was always lucky enough to find a steamboat to return in. In 1820 he associated himself with William Butt and David Ammen in the printing of a newspaper at the little village of Levana, two miles below Ripley, on the Ohio river, and in July of that year the Benefactor made its appearance. This was the pioneer newspaper of Brown county. His connection with the paper continued one year; he then soll his interest to one of his partners, and the paper was removed to Georgetown, where its publication was con- tinued for many years. Although his early education had been excessively limited in both degree and kind, his read- ing and study and one year's drilling with the composing- stick at the type-case, together with keen powers of obser- vation, counterbalanced to a considerable degree the lack of primary training. In 1822 he taught a country school, with more satisfaction to his employers than to himself. In the fall of this year his friends elected him to the office of Coroner of the county. In 1824 he was re-elected to the same office. In 1826 he was elected Sheriff of Brown County, and re-elected to the same position in 1828, thus serving his county as Coroner and Sheriff eight years. IIe was married, July 11th, 1826, to Elizabeth Chapman, a native of Brown county, Ohio, a daughter of Henry Chap- man, one of the early pioneers of the country, who came from Kentucky in 1800. Ile was a native of Pennsylvania and an active participant in the war of 1812. In 1831 he was employed in a dry-goods store in Georgetown. In the spring of 1832 he left Georgetown and settled on his farm, about four miles south of this place, and engaged in general agriculture, taking a hand himself in any branch incident to the business. In 1834 many of his friends urged him to be a candidate for the lower House of the Ohio Legislature; he finally consented to stand a poll, and was elected. In 1835 he was re-elected to the same place. This year trouble arose between the authorities of the State of Ohio
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and those of the Territory of Michigan, in regard to the northern boundary of Ohio. A long and threatening cor- respondence was kept up between Governor Lucas and the Department of State at Washington. Governor Lucas called an extra session of the Legislature of Ohio, which met in June of that year; at this session General London took a very active part in support of the claim of Ohio, and indorsed the course of her Governor. He was greatly pleased to see in the course of a year Michigan Territory changed and admitted into the Union as one of the States, agreeing of course to the boundary lines as claimed by Ohio. This forever settled that vexed question, leaving Ohio in possession of the mouth of the Maumee bay and the ground on which the beautiful city of Toledo stands. In 1836 he was again elected to the lower House of the General Assembly. At this session he took an active part, and probably did more than any one else, in electing his friend, William Allen, to the United States Senate. March 2dl, 1837, having been previously elected by the Legislature, he was formally commissioned Major-General, by Governor Vance, and given command of the 8th Division Ohio Militin. In 1842 he was elected to fill a vacancy in the Ohio Senate, occasioned by the resignation of Senator Foose, of Clinton county. In 1843 he was re-elected to the same position and served two terms, during 1843-44-45 and '46. In 1849 he was elected a delegate from Brown county to the Constitutional Convention ; was made Chair- man of the Committee of Finance and Taxation, and suc- cessfully carried through the Twelfth Article, and it became a part of the Constitution. He addressed the people in every township in his district, and urged them to vote for the adoption of the Constitution. When his labors termi- nated with that deliberative body he returned to his farm, intending never again to mingle in the arena of politics; nor would he, if it had not been for the terrible rebellion that came upon the country. On the arrival of the news that Fort Sumter was fired upon, and that the wicked war had begun, he declared his ardent love for the "old star- spangled banner," and, like his political godfather, " Old Hickory," swore " By the Eternal, the Constitution must be preserved." From that time he was outspoken in his denunciations of the rebel spirit, South or North, doing all in his power to encourage the patriotic sentiment of the country. In 1863 the Republicans and Union men of his Senatorial district held a convention to select a candidate for State Senator, and in his absence gave him a unanimous vote for that position. On being notified of the action of the convention, he accepted the nomination and took carly steps for a vigorous canvass. Although he had to encounter a Democratic majority of some 1500 votes, he was elected. Hle took his seat in January after the election, and for two years gave his best efforts to the cause of the country. Ile was the sitting member of his district in the Ohio Senate when the news was received that General Lee, of the Con- federate army, had surrendered himself and command to
General Grant, which event terminated the war. Since his retirement from the last-mentioned office he has led a tranquil and secluded life in his home at Georgetown. Hle is a thm believer in the Christian religion, but never at- tached himself to any particular denomination. From 1824 to iSoo he was a " hand-money Jackson Democrat." Since the outbreak of the rebellion he favors the Republicans.
BATMAN, HION. THOMAS II., Banker and President of the Cincinnati Pioneer Association, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 8th, 1805. lle was the only son of Griffin Yeatman and Jaune Yeatman. His father, one of the carly pioneers of Ohio, was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, March 8th, 1770; at the time of his anival, June 27th, 1793, in what is now justly entitled the Queen City of the West, it was scarcely more than a village of a few thousand inhabitants; he was the first Free Mason initiated in Cincinnati, Ohio, and remained an active mem- ber of the Masonie organization until the day of his de- cense, March 4th, 1849; he held various offices of trust in the city, and for twenty-seven years served as Recorder of Hamilton County. . Ilis son, Thomas 11. Yeatman, received his education under the tuition of Rev. Joshua II. Wilson, Caleb Kemper and Edmund Harrison, of the Lancasterian Seminary ; at the age of sixteen he graduated, under Presi- dent Elijah Slack, at the Cincinnati College. He then left his home, and through the assistance of General William Henry Harrison, afterward President of the United States, received the appointment of Midshipman in the United States navy. Subsequently, at his expressed desire to go to sea at once, he received orders to report to Captain R. T. Spence, of New York, in command of the corvette " Cyane," a vessel captured with the " Levant " from the British by the United States frigate " Constitution," off the coast of Afrien, in 1815. The " Cyane" was then on the point of sailing, and, wasting no time, he reported himself as ordered, and within thirty days from the time of leaving Cincinnati-having travelled alone over the mountains on horseback -- was on the high seas journeying toward the West Indies and the African coast, where the ship was eventually detained, in the suppression of the slave trade, for more than a year. On his return to the United States he was again ordered to the port of South Africa and West Indies, in 1822 or 1823, on the frigate " Constella- tion." IIe then accompanied the United States Minister, the celebrated Joel R. Poinsett, of South Carolina, to Vera Cruz, en route to Mexico, and was for two years in active service under Commodore David Porter, the hero of the " Essen," at Valparaiso, who had charge of the " Mosquito fleet " in the West Indies ; was shipwrecked on the United States schooner " Terrier," off Wilmington, North Carolina. On his return to the United States, having served over five
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years in the navy and narrowly escaping a watery grave, he again took up his residence in Cincinnati, Ohio; retired from the naval service and entered into business life as a broker, on 'Third street, in 1828 or thereabout. He was the initial introducer into this street of the banking busi- ne>>, whose vast extent, since acquired, has made it the Wall street of the West. He was at a later period con- nected with the firm of Yeatman, Wilson & Shield, and Voorhes & Co., in the manufacture of steam'engines, sugar- mills, etc., branches of industry which eventually con- tributed in a highly important measure to the commercial prosperity of Cincinnati. Many of the works erected by him, in conjunction with other business men, are still in use in the city and are a recognized source of wealth to it and the county. In 1831 he purchased the site of his pres- ent residence, just below the city, which he improved and ha, resided on for the past forty-four years. He was one of the marshals who received the remains of President William Henry Harrison in Cincinnati, when on the way from Washington, District of Columbia, to North Bend, Ohio. During his residence of nearly two years in Mem- phis, Tennessee, he served as United States Assistant Treasury Agent for that place, and afterwards received the appointment of Government Purchasing Agent at Vicks- burg. After the close of the rebellion he returned to his home in Ohio, and in ISGS was elected President of the Cincinnati Pioneer Association. In the fall of 1869 he was elected State Senator from Hamilton county, Ohio. Ori- ginally a member of the old Whig school, in politics, he has of late years pursued an independent course, and on the Independent ticket was elected to the Senate by a majority of 2500 votes. He was initiated in the Lafayette Lodge of Free Masons, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1829 or thereabout, and has taken the council degrees. He was married in 1827 to Elizabeth Hartzell, of Cincinnati, and hopes to live to celebrate their golden wedding, which takes place Feb- ruary Sth, 1877.
township, Perry county, Ohio, for the period of a year. At the conclusion of this term of teaching he began to turn his attention to the profession which he has since successfully followed. For a the he studied under the direction of Dr. Boerstler, at Lancaster, Ohio. Then he went to Baltimore and entered the medical department of the Uni- versity of Maryland. Here he graduated in March, 1847, and immediately after his graduation he returned to Som- erset, Perry county, Ohio, and there commenced practice. He remained there for a period of eight years, laboring faithfully in his profession. Then, in the year 1854, he removed to Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, which had been for so many years the scene of his father's work. For twenty years he continued there, laiboring hard and labor- ing successfully, and securing a very extensive patronage. In 1870 he formed a professional partnership with Dr. Kinsman, and four years later they removed to Columbus. Ilere, in a more extended field of labor, he bids fair to establish very soon a professional reputation equal to that which he enjoyed at Lancaster. In the year 1862 he was appointed United States Pension Examining Surgeon at Lancaster, and continued to hold that position until he re- moved to the State capital. He has always taken an active interest in politics. . Ilis early allegiance was given to the Whig party, and ever since the breaking out of the war of the rebellion he has been a steadfast member of the Repub- lican party. He was chosen Elector of the Twelfth Dis- triet of Ohio in the year ISOS, when General Grant was elected to the Presidency. In 1847 he married Susan E. Shaeffer, daughter of F. A. Shaeffer, of Lancaster, Ohio. The marriage has been blessed by twelve children, nine of whom survive.
ONELSON, REV. PARK SHATTUCK, D. D., was born in Franklin county, Massachusetts, April 17th, 1825, and is of Scotch origin. Ile graduated at the University of Michigan, and, after taking a theological course in Auburn, New York, became a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church. His first station was at Lansing, the capital of Michigan. In 1856 he moved to Delaware, Ohio, in order to assume the Presidency of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, where he officiated with notable success for a period embracing more than seventeen years, gradu- ating in that time eighteen classes, numbering in all over three hundred students. During the major portion of these years, under his admirable and thorough management, the
AGENHALS, PHILIP M., Physician and Sur- geon, was born on the Ist of March, 1825, at Carrollton, Carroll county, in what was then Columbiana county, Ohio. His father, the Rev. John Wagenhals, came to this country from Wit- temberg when he was eighteen years of age, and soon afterwards began a long and honorable career as min- ister of a Lutheran Church. He still lives among his people, much beloved, and assisting occasionally in pulpit ministrations. On the mother's side Dr. Wagenhals is Fattendance at the college was larger than that of any similar connected with the family of Governor Snyder, of Penn- institution in Ohio. Through his labors in this field he won an enduring reputation as an excellent instructor, and to-day is widely known and recognized as one of the lead- ing educators in the State. In 1873 he resigned the presi- sylvania. In his early life he received a sound German literary education at the institution which is now the Capitol University of Columbus, At the age of fifteen he was intrusted with the charge of a school in Hopewell | dency of the college and accepted the position of pastor of
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St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, of Toledo, Ohio. ' cupies, and, in addition to the careful conduct of an exten. He is now Presiding Elder of the Toledo District, which sive and lucrative private practice, presides also over the management of a private hospital for the treatment of dis- cases of women. He is a member of the American Medical Association ; of the Ohio State Medical Society, of which he was formerly President, and of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine. He is also a corresponding member of the Zanesville Academy of Medicine, and a corresponding member of the Northwestern Medical Association ; and corresponding member of the Van Wert Medical Society. He was married in 1853 to Sarah A. Chappelear. Their only child is the wife of Dr. G. S. Mitchell, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
embraces a large part of northwestern Ohio, including twenty live charges and pastors, seven of which are located in the city. His degree of D. D. he received from Indiana Asbury University, and is noticeable as being the first hon- orary degree conferred upon any alumnus of Michigan University. He is favorably known as a facile writer, an able divine and a ready speaker and preacher; and, while his charges and sermons bear convincing evidence of close study, careful arrangement and conscientious research, he dispenses entirely with manuscripts while in the pulpit, pre- ferring, as a more effective means to gain the end in view and touch his listeners, to deliver them in the guise of a discourse. He was a member of the General Conference in 1868, and took a prominent part in its deliberations. He was married in 1851 to Katharine Dexter, daughter of the late Judge Dexter, of Dexter, Michigan, and grand- daughter of Samuel Dexter, of Boston, Massachusetts; she is sister also to IIon. Nicholas Dexter, of Chicago, Illinois, and possesses powers of mind scarcely inferior to those of that noted citizen.
EAMY, THADDEUS A., A. M., M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Clinical Midwifery in the Medical College of Ohio, a distinguished phys- ician of Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, April 28th, 1829. Ilis father, Jacob A. Reamy, a native of Virginia, was of French extraction ; his mother, Mary W. (Bonifield) Reamy, also a native of Virginia, was of Scotch-English origin. While quite young he moved with his parents to Ohio and settled near Zanesville, where his mother still resides and where his father's decease occurred, at the age of eighty- two years, in 1872. In the spring of 1854, at the com- pletion of the usual course of studies, he graduated at Starling Medical College, in Columbus, Ohio. Subse- quently he received from the Ohio Wesleyan University the degree of Master of Arts. In 1857 he was elected Profes- sor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, which position he oe- cupied for two years. In 1861 he was elected a member of the State Legislature from Muskingum county, and during the same year was appointed Surgeon of the 122d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In 1865 he was elected Professor of the Diseases of Women and Children in Starling Medical College. This position was held by him until, after his return from Europe, in the spring of 1870, he removed to Cincinnati, where he was immediately elected Professor of Obstetrics and Clinical Midwife , in the Medical College of Ohio, and Gynacologist for the Good Samaritan Hospital. These positions he now oc-
EID, REV. ALEXANDER M'CANDLESS, PH. D., Proprietor and Principal of the Steu- benville Female Seminary, Ohio, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, April 20th, 1827. Ilis father, Henry Reid, also of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, was well and favorably known as a Presbyterian elder of unimpeachable reetitude; his mother, Jane (M'Candless) Reid, a woman of notable piety, was so sorely afflicted with rheumatism that for twenty years she was unable to walk or to move from her chair. He was educated at Cannonsburg, in the Jefferson College, and at the Allegheny Theological Seminary. Upon relinquishing school life he engaged in teaching at Sewickley Academy, Pennsylvania, associated with Rev. Joseph S. Travelle, and there remained for several years. In 1855 he went to Europe for the purpose of extending his sphere of knowledge and finding improvement in foreign travel. Ile was married in 1855 to Sarah Lambert, of Mercer county, Pennsylvania. In October, 1856, he became associated with Rev. Dr. Charles C. Beatty in the management of the Steubenville Female Seminary, an in- stitution over which' he has presided as proprietor and principal for several years past. During the nineteen years of his connection with the seminary the average number of pupils has been about one hundred and fifty ; the number of boarding pupils about ninety; the whole number of pupils that have attended here is over four thousand. Ile received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) from Washington and Jefferson College. In 1875 he went as a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Assembly at London, representing the Northern Presbyterian Church. After the close of his labors with that body he made an extensive tour of the continent, visiting France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, after having journeyed through England and Wales. While abroad, in 1855, he was the European cor- respondent for two newspapers, and for many years has written more or less regularly for the general press. Of his many brilliant sermons several have been published, and in a printed form elicited warm encomiums from many quar-
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ters. The following condensation of facts is gathered from j is remarkable for the exemption from disease, death and various reliable sources : " Nineteen years ago Rev. A. M. calamity it has enjoyed. Long years have passed without a serious case of sickness. Death has made few visits. Pestilence and fire have spared it." The seminary is note- worthy also for its average of scholarship and character. Its graduates are known as sensible, intelligent women, showing breadth of mind and symmetry of character; abreast of the times; ready for emergencies; occupying positions of responsibility and usefulness all over the country, as wives, as mothers, as teachers. Its religious in- fluence has been wielded in a manner, and with results direct and indirect, far from usual or common: revival after revival bas swept it with beneficent effect; ingathering after ingathering has recalled the careless and the unthink- ing; twenty per cent. of the pupils have yearly been brought within the sheltering portal of the church, while, in all these awakenings, the means used and blessed have ever been scrupulously freed from all devices of an emotional or ecstatic character. The education of the spiritual nature of the pupil is here inevitable, from the constitu- tion and spirit of the school. The prominence given to Bible instruction, the family prayers, the half hours for devotion, the weekly prayer meeting, the prayer meeting at the dawn of the new year, the motto for the year, the serious word, the gentle reminder, the frequent visits of the pastor, the Sabbath services-all have been found to be means of grace greatly blessed. Its excellent prin- cipal, an ardent lover of pure, strong literature, poctry, history and essays, finds, perhaps, his greatest pleasure in teaching Latin, Greek, astronomy and literature, branches to which he devotes his special attention in his class-room work. But, perhaps, his personal influence is most felt and his best work accomplished by his lectures to the whole school on a great range of subjects of importance to all well-informed people. These are such subjects as the "Current news of the world, culture, manners, men and women of note, art, science," etc. These exert a powerful influence in making the girls thoughtful and well-informed, and so fitting them to be forces in society. And besides these his earnest addresses on subjects connected with spiritual culture-the need of an exalted Christian character-have a moulding power the measure of which eternity alone can reveal. Reid, Ph. D., and wife, who had been teaching for a number of years in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, became con- nected with the institution (Steubenville Female Seminary), and for a number of years its active management has been in their hands. To take the place of Dr. and Mrs. Beatty was not easy ; but Dr. and Mrs. Reid have demonstrated their entire fitness for this high and responsible situation by the most marked success in government, discipline and in- struction, and in making the seminary a real home for its pupils." In the curriculum of study, in the method of teaching and in all acknowledged improvements they have maintained their position with unvarying energy, and kept the seminary in its original and leading position; while the religious influence, which has been one of its notable fea- tures, has been maintained without the slightest abatement. " Providence brought together two stranger tourists, in Switzerland, on Mont Blanc. Dr. Comingo, on his return, spoke to Dr. Beatty of the pleasant meeting he had with Mr. Reid, and this led to the relation. Mr. Reid, with his fine literary taste, ripe scholarship, love of and rare aptness for teaching and earnest devotion to his work, has kept the standard of scholarship up to the demands of the age. Gifted with the faculty of examining a case from different standpoints; uniting gentleness with firmness, the family type originally impressed upon the school has been pre- served." Ilis estimable wife has in countless ways and guises assisted importantly in the arduous yet pleasant work of preserving and developing the home and family feeling ; by her plans for social and zesthetical culture, in the way of frequent opportunities for social intercourse, the monthly birthday fetes, the observance of family and school oc- casions, special anniversaries, post-prandial speeches, the cultivation of plants and flowers, and the love of nature, fostered by frequent rambles in the lovely glens around Steubenville and on the health-giving hills of Virginia, across the river. Together Dr. and Mrs. Reid, as the guides of the seminary, have, it is everywhere cheerfully acknowledged, ever kept in mind the high aim of the in- stitution : to give solid culture, refined manners and true Christian character to those under its roof. This seminary, now moulding the third generation, is remarkable on ac- count of the widespread and plainly discernible influence which it has so beneficially exercised throughout a long array of years-an influence which has controlled with ad- mirable results not only individuals, but also institutions, homes and churches, in New England, in the Middle, TANTON, HON. EDWIN M., L.L. D., Lawyer, Attorney-General and Secretary of War, was born at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1814. He was of Quaker descent, his grandparents having been prominent and widely respected residents of New England, and noted for their anti-slavery opinions. His early education was acquired chiefly at Kenyon College, which he left in 1832, when advanced in his junior year. Southern and Western States, in the Territories, in foreign lands and in the isles of the sea. In its earlier days, when the river, the canal-boat and the lumbering stage-coach were the only means of transit, " its daughters came from afar;" while to-day, even when facilities for education have advanced so wondrously, the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Gulf and the lakes meet here in their representatives. " It
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