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for five months without losing an individual. During the [ identified with the temperance agitation, which awoke the same year he was appointed Associate Judge for Williams county, in which office he served five years. The doctor in his early years was an active politician of the Jackson school, though never desiring for himself office, that would interfere materially with the duties of his profession. Dur- ing the late civil war he supported the administration in such capacity as his health would permit ; was Chairman of a military committee during the war; was appointed Ex- amining Surgeon for his county, for exemptions from mili- tary duty ; was commissioned Military Surgeon with the rank of Major for three years, by Governor Brough, and subsequent to the war was Examining Surgeon for Pensions.
9) GALLOWAY, HON. SAMUEL, was born, March 20th, 1811, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His youth was spent in his native village, and just before his majority and very soon after the death of a most worthy father, he removed to the State
of Ohio, to make his home among relatives in
Highland county. From his home he entered Miami Uni- versity, Oxford, passed through the curriculum of study and graduated with distinguished honor in the class of 1833. In his college associations were men who have since attained to prominence in professional and political careers. His eminence was not in mere text-book scholarship, but he added to this the broader attainments that foreshadowed his future success as teacher, orator and leader. On leav- ing college he at once, in accordance with tastes that were the outgrowth of temperament and mental characteristics, and no doubt early fostered by daily intimacy with his dis- tinguished townsman, Thaddeus Stevens, for whom he entertained profound admiration, entered upon the study of law at Hillsborough. In the midst of these studies he became deeply impressed with the obligations of religion, and promptly abandoning his law studies, he was entered as a student of theology, at Princeton, New Jersey. At the end of a year the bent of nature, the strong bias of taste and temperament, so obviously unfitting him for the pro- prieties and the rigid decorum of the pulpit, but so clearly drifting him to the bar and the political arena, asserted their rule and carried him back to the law. He did not at once complete his legal studies, but accepted for a term the chair of Greek in his Alma Mater, Miami University, and went from there to South Hanover, Indiana, to enter upon the congenial pursuits of literature and language. Ilis. success as a teacher in these departments is attested by most competent colleagues, who expressed the deepest regret at losing him from the faculty. His attainments in classical literature were thorough and extensive, rendering him an elegant scholar, and a graceful and ready writer. Hle soon renewed and completed his preparation for the bar, during which time he became intimately and zealously
public sentiment to the necessity of an organized reform, and was styled the Washingtonian movement. By con- stant example, fervid speech, and active work, he promoted this much needed movement. In 1843 he began the prac- tice of law with Nathaniel Massie, in Chillicothe. He made his maiden speech at Hillsborough, in the presence of several of the most distinguished members of the bar of southern Ohio. All gave him high commendation for this effort, the jury according him the verdict without leaving their seats; and such was the impression upon the mind of the Hon. Thomas L. Hamer, who was present, that he said : " Galloway, retire with your laurels : you will never be able, in any future effort, to equal or surpass this." During this year he was chosen, by the State Legislature, Secretary of State, and removing to Columbus, he entered upon the duties of his office, with the added responsibility of Com- missioner of Common Schools. From his known zeal in the interests of education, popular and collegiate, he was expected to inaugurate some system that would place them upon a sure basis, and carry out, to some large and pro- ductive results, the liberal contributions of its citizens, HIe had, in his association with the Ilon. Horace Mann and other distinguished teachers of the country, who made up that noble body of talent, zeal, and power, the Western College of Teachers, become fully inspired with the weighty interests and grand results that hung upon educating the people of the State that had in charge its destinies. Pro- fessor Calvin E. Stowe had returned from Europe reporting the best system of education there; and the friends of a popular system hailed the election of the new secretary, as one to aid in carrying out their great aims. In his first report he began arranging the chaotic materials found in the crude, imperfect, and very partial reports of the county auditors and local school boards. In his second report great advances were made, and great interest developed in the popular mind, especially in the organization of teachers in institutes, and the management of schools under the supervision , of district or county superintendents. From these labors, accomplished under many difficulties and obstructions in his personal visitations, special correspond- ence, vigorous pleas, and legislative importunities, can be dated some of the most important results bearing on popular education in Ohio. Institutes were organized at several points, over which Mr. Galloway presided, and at which he delivered stirring addresses. No great question that in- volved principle or popular rights could be presented that would not enlist a temperament so ardent and a mind so discriminating. Hence, when the greatest of all national questions, slavery, loomed up in 1832 and 1840, he promptly and decidedly ranged himself in the anti-slavery ranks, though he was never identified with what was called the " Liberty party." Ilis attachment was with the old rather than the new, here as well as elsewhere ; and with patriotic conservatism he did not sunder the tie that bound him to
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the old Whig party, to which, in political faith, he had always been devoted. In the conventions and councils of this party he was an acknowledged leader. From the very ontset of his political career he began to make his muk. In the days when such men as Ewing, Corwin, Stanbmy, and others were recognized leaders, though much younger, his gifts of speech and pen were none the less noted and effective. And here it may be said that it was, perhaps, as the living speaker he is most vividly recalled by those who had the privilege of knowing him. In this department he had few equals ; none, who had ever heard him, can ever forget the power of his eloquence. No description can convey a just idea of his manner or style. His efforts were unequal, often affected by a depressed nervous system, but at his best, his speeches were a rare union of scathing wit, brilliant sarcasm, intense pathos, and inimitable humor, intensified in their delivery by the profoundest feeling of the man. Though full of anecdote and thrilling illustration, yet they were governed by a strictly logical order, and story and fable were linked in a chain of convincing argument. No man could sway more successfully the feelings of a crowd. And when he rose in a popular assembly it was the signal for a tumultuous outburst of applause-the " peo- ple heard him gladly," and listened with delighted interest, often under most unfavorable circumstances. IIe was a member of the National Convention which nominated Zachary Taylor for the Presidency, and there made a very able speech in favor of the nominee. In 1854-55 he repre- sented his district in Congress, when his party was largely in the minority, during an anomalous commingling of parties, and under the ascendency of a narrow, bigoted order, the Know Nothings, with whom he had no real sympathy. In two other Congressional contests his per- sonal popularity was demonstrated by a large vote, irrespec- tive of party ties. In the two years of Congressional life he added renown to his name as the tenacious advocate of common rights to all conditions of men, and his speech on the Kansas bill was a theme for eulogy in this country, and in foreign periodicals. Blackwood and the North British Review gave it deserved commendation. In the nation's struggle against the encroachmems of slavery, though his physical organization wholly unfitted him for the contest on the battle-feld, yet he remained to do successful battle with different weapons, against other enemies, but all aiding in the last grand consummation. In the new national policy that made up this mighty war party, he took no mean place, and performed no subordinate amount of the libor that bad its climax in the nomination of Lincoln to its triumphant leadership. His intimate friendship with Lincoln was not in the bonds of political association only or chiefly, but in deeper ties -of community of nature, genial humor, generous sympathies, hearty impulses. These brought them together with no consciousness of station or rank to make a differ: ence. The mutual geniality of the men expressed itself when the courtesy of a Columbus delegation was extended
to Mr. Lincoln, who, grasping Mr. Galloway's hands with characteristic cordiality and emphasis, said : "1 would rather see you than any man in America." Governor Tod, too, found him a congemal spuit, and loved him. The memory of an evening, when Lincoln, Galloway, and Tod met in the President's room, in the days of care, anxiety, fears and hopes for the country in her great struggle, recalls the characteristics of each, and much that was common to all. The noble war Governor of Ohio did not know fully the joke-loving President, and had felt that he was not fully impressed with the solemn drama in which he was acting so leading a part. But that interview, prolonged into the stillness of midnight, dispelled all such impressions. The rapid transitions from the highest humor, or most piquant, subtle application of a story or incident to the gravest and most momentous events then transpiring, their most serious statesmanlike consideration, the grave, hearty care impressed upon the then spare face, the prompt return of genial ex- pression of personal interest, all ended in a commingling of a deep sympathy and fullest mutual confidence, that only ended as one after another they have dropped from their places in these great historie scenes. As Judge-Advocate a commission was given to Mr. Galloway for the examina- tion of military and civil prisoners at Camp Chase, in 1863, and in that service he continued until the close of the war. The demands of military justice and discipline were there supplemented by tender mercy, and while jealous of his country's honor, he cared for many who were victims and sufferers in the casualties of war, and his heart and purse and friendly aid were ready to alleviate their wants, ex- hibiting the spirit of his illustrious prototype, " Malice towards none, charity for all." Coupled with devotion to the welfare and integrity of his country was that of church. That part of his life and character represented by his reli- gious views and habits is perhaps least understood by the world. In fact, here he could only be known by those who were taken into sympathy with his inner life, for few men wore more distinctly an outer and an inner life. In the rough struggle, the sharp conflict, the Cromwellian fight with the outer world, the combatant, armed with all the power of truth, eloquence, and sarcasm, seemed to reveal the whole man. Hence many, who considered themselves his intimate friends, knew nothing of his inner life, with its struggles, its deep controlling convictions, its sustaining faith and religious hope. These constituted almost an independent existence of which he was as reticent as William the Silent, except as it was manifested in church administration or religious assemblies. In ecclesiastical councils he acted with sound judgment and prudent con- servatism, though he was bold and aggressive in spirit, asking for a positive pronunciation when questions involv- ing great and important matters were at issue. The Gen- eral Assembly of the Old School Presbyterian Church made him one of its Commissioners at its meeting in Philadelphia to accomplish the union of the two schools, a position of
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dignity and importance, and which demanded wise judg- ment and careful discrimination. It may be added that Mr. Galloway had great personal popularity. Ilis sympathy with the people was well understood and appreciated. His manners, so entirely simple and unostentations, made him the best known public man in the State. One of his many obituary notices closed with these words : " Many there are who will miss the generous grasp of the hand that shall no more be raised in eloquent gesture or sublime utterance to the assembled multitudes as in days gone by. Of him, more than of others, many will say with Halleck-
"'None knew thee but to love thee,
None named thee but to praise.'"
RAZIER, HION. WILLIAM HUGHI, Lawyer and Jurist, was born, March 11th, 1826, at Ilub- bard, Trumbull county, Ohio, and is the fourth son and seventh child of George and Betharab (Randall) Frazier. Ilis father was a native of Kent county, Maryland, and followed agricultural pursuits. Ile removed with his parents to Ohio in 1802, and settled in Trumbull county, where he married his wife, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Wil- liam attended the common school of his district until he was twelve years old, and then accompanied his parents on their removal to Guernsey county, where he resumed his attendance at school during the winter months, continuing his studies until he was twenty-one years old, working during the summer on his father's farm. Ile then entered Madison College, at Antrim, remaining there two terms, meanwhile studying at home and laboring on the farm; but finding his health enfeebled, and believing that he would be unable to continue his work on the plantation, decided to apply himself to the study of law. At this time an elder brother was pursuing a course of reading for that profession, and he placed himself under that brother's tutelage, and so continued until he was twenty-six years of age, when he was admitted to the bar, at Coshocton, Ohio, May 17th, 1852. He commenced the practice of his profession with his brother immediately after his admission, at Sarahsville,
continues to hold. Ile was connected with the organiza- tion of the Marietta, Pittsburgh & Cleveland Railway Com- pany, and was Vice President of that corporation until his election as Judge, and was a Director until February, 1875. In the spring of 1873 he organized the Noble County National Bank, with a capital of $60,000, of which he was elected President, and still occupies that office. Ile has attained his present position in life by dint of industry, energy, and perseverance; and he is respected by all who know him as a valuable citizen and an impartial judge. Ile was married, November 30th, 1854, to Minerva E. Staats, of Noble county, Ohio, who is still living.
ORRIS, JOIN A., United States Pension Agent, was born in Perry, Geauga county, Ohio, August 10th, 1835, his parents being natives of Massachusetts, and his father by occupation a farmer. Ile was cducated at Kenyon College, Gambier, Knox county, and in 1860 graduated from that institu- tion with credit. Prior to his collegiate course at Kenyon, he attended the district schools during the winter seasons, assisting during the remainder of each year In the labor of cultivating his father's farm. In 1860, shortly after his graduation, he went to Louisiana as private tutor in a family, and upon the breaking out of the war returned to his native State. Upon his return to Ohio he became Superintendent of Public Schools, at Cadiz, Ohio, and remained in charge thereof for one year. In July, 1862, he resigned that posi- tion to enter the Union army, and was mustered in as Cap- tain in the 98th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Ile served in that position until 1864, when he was promoted to the posi- tion of Major of the same regiment. On July 19th of the same year, while engaged with his command, he was wounded and suffered the amputation of one of his limbs. On the 4th of the following October he was honorably mustered out by a special order from the War Department, and was appointed as United States Provost Marshal of the Sisteridh Congressional District, and served until October Ist, 1865. In the fall of that year he was elected Commis- sioner of Common Schools, was re-elected to that position he was appointed United States Pension Agent at Columbus, and in March, 1872, reappointed to the same position. Mr. Norris is a man of scholarly culture, and a practical educator. Ile has taken a deep interest in publie educa- tion, and while at the head of the school system of his State discharged his duties with ability and to the acceptance of his people. As a soldier he distinguished his service with gallantry, ability, and patriotic devotion to duty. He is in every way qualified for his present office, the important duties of which he administers with integrity and intelli-
then the county-seat of Noble county. In the following ! in the fall of 1868, and acted as such until May, 1869, when month of August his brother died, and he continued alone until 1858, when the county-seat was removed to Caldwell. Ile likewise removed his domicil to the new shire town, and in March, 1865, formed a partnership with James S. Foreman, which continued for one year. In 1855 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the county on the Repub- lican ticket, and re-elected four successive times, making his incumbeney a period of ten years. In October, 1871, he was appointed by Governor Hayes for four months to fill an unexpired term of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and at the election held the same mouth was elected ' gence. On March 6th, 1865, he was married to Nettie to that office for a term of five years, which position he yet , B. Beebe.
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ANNA, HON. JOHN E., Lawyer and Jurist, was bom, December 19th, 1805, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, of American parents. His father was a saddler by trade, but subsequently became engaged in agricultural pursuits. The family removed to Ohio in 1815, and settled at Cadiz, in Ilarrison county, and John attended school at the academy in that town. He commenced studying law in 1823, with Chauncey Dewey, of Cadiz, and' was admitted to the bar in September, 1825. Ile immediately entered upon the practice of his profession, and in 1826 removed to McConnellsville, Morgan county, where he opened an office, and where he has since continued to practise, except when on the bench. In 1829 he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for the county, and in 1831, when the office was made elective, he was elected, and held the same until 1838. Ile was appointed Postmaster of the town in 1831, but resigned that office in 1833. In 1834 he was elected Brigadier-General Ohio Militia, and served as such until 1840, when he resigned to take his seat as Judge. He was elected to the Legislature in 1838, and re-elected in 1839. In 1840 he was elected President Judge of the Eighth Judicial District, embracing eight counties, including Mor- gan, Washington, Meigs, etc., etc. Ile was on the bench for seven years. His political creed has always been Democratic ; nevertheless he was of great assistance in rais- ing troops for the Union army during the war of the rebel- lion. lle was married, June 7th, 1826, to Susanna Robert- son, of Cadiz, Ohio, who was the mother of six children, of whom five are living; she died April 15th, 1865. Ile was again married, October 25th, 1865, to Sarah, daughter of Rev. William Swayze, of Ohio.
stand, and a partnership with Davis of five years, which proved pleasant and profitable for those times. At the expiration of that partnership be removed to Milan, Hurou county, Ohio, in May, 1835. In September, 1833, he was married to Delia Conger, by which mariage he had four children, two of whom survive. His wife died at Peru, Huron county, on July 7th, 1840; and on May 19th, 1841, he was married to Mrs. Amey A. Draper, by which mar- riage he has four children, all of whom still survive. In May, 1836, he gave up business in Milan, and removed a part of his goods to Jackson county, Michigan. In October of the same year, having sold out in Michigan, he removed with his family to Buffalo, and embarked in a wholesale and retail hardware business. This proved a failure owing mainly to losses of debts for goods sold to parties in Michi- gan, Indiana, and Ohio, aided by the " Wild Cat " times. He returned in May, 1840, with his family to Ohio, where his wife died. In September, 1841, he commenced again at Milan with very limited means; and the year following sold out his stock of goods, settled all his debts, and asso- ciated with a Mr. Shaw as partner in the produce commis- sion business. This association was dissolved by the death of his partner. Three years later he turned his attention to farming, buying in August, 1844, one hundred and cighty acres of new land, lying one mile from the village of Milan. This he cansed to be improved and cultivated, and sold in August, 1856, having in the meantime been awarded the first premium offered on the best farm, by the Huron and Erie County Agricultural Society, in 1852, and again in 1853 that offered by the State Agricultural Society for the best regu- lated and best cultivated farm in Ohio (see "Agricultural Reports "). This farm he purchased at eight dollars per acre, and sold at fifty dollars per acre. In April, 1857, he moved to Toledo, and opened a warehouse and general commission business, in company with John Stevens and Charles N. Ryan, under the firm-name of Stevens, Ryan & Chase. This business proved unprofitable, and continued nuce, on the night after the October election, the ware- house and canal elevator was destroyed by fire. After pursuing the commission business, in company with Mr. Stevens, until the spring of 1866, Mr. Chase retired to accept the office of Collector of Internal Revenue. Ilis commercial experience has been quite varied-sometimes successful, but at other times quite disastrous, so that now, as the evening of life is upon him, he has passed the limit of threescore and ten, he finds himself poor. Politically, his first vote was cast for De Witt Clinton, for Governor of New York, and he has been a Whig, and is now a Republican. At the October election in 1849 he was elected by the Whig electors of Erie and Iluron coun- ties to the Legislature of Ohio; these two counties then composing an election district for senator and representative. He was the last Whig elected on the Western Reserve.
C HASE, HARRY, Superintendent of the City Infirmary, Toledo, Ohio, was born in Hoosic, one year, when Mr. Ryan withdrew. During its continu- Rensselaer county, New York, on May 19th, 1So5. As early as iSo6 his parents removed to Fabius, Onondaga county, New York; in 1816 to Clarkson, Monroe county (then Genesee county), New York, and in 1836 to Medina, Orleans county, New York, where they both died. His father was a farmer, and he himself was raised on a farm until fifteen years of age, having up to this time received only the rudi- ments of a common school education. On October 20th, 1820, he was placed in a small country store, where he commenced to learn the trade of a merchant. There he continued until May, 1827, when he was engaged to take command of a line boat on the Erie canal. In May, 1828, he was employed by his uncle, Arad Joy, an old merchant at Ludlowville, Tompkins county, to take charge of his store, which resulted in the purchase, in company with Charles Davis, of his uncle's old stock and good-will of the
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ARRISON, GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY, Soldier, Statesman and Ninth President of the United States, was born, February 9th, 1773, in Berkeley, Charles City county, Virginia, and was the third and youngest son of Hon. Benjamin Harrison, a member of the Continental Congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and three times Governor of Virginia. Ile died in 1791, when his youngest son was in his nineteenth year. Being left by his father's death to depend upon himself, he joined the army with the commission of Ensign, which was then under the command of General St. Clair, and afterwards under Wayne, against the western Indians. Ilis spirit and sa- gacity attracted the attention of Wayne, who appointed him an Aide-de-camp, in which capacity he served through the war. Soon after its close, in 1795, he was promoted to the rank of Captain and placed in command of Fort Washington, then ocenpying the site of the present city of Cincinnati, laid out soon after by John Cleves Symmes, a daughter of whom Captain Harrison married. In 1797 he resigned his commission in the army and was appointed Secretary of the Territory northwest of the Ohio, from which, in 1799, he was chosen a delegate to Congress. The Northwestern Territory having been divided, Harrison was appointed, in ISO1, Governor of the new Territory of Indiana, embracing the present States of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. Almost the whole of it was then in possession of the Indians, with whom, as Superintendent, he made several important treaties, in which large cessions of territory were obtained. The agitation among the In- dians, caused by Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet, having assumed the character of hostilities, Harrison, in the autumn of ISI1, advanced against the Prophet's town at the head of Soo men, partly regulars and partly volun- teers, Ilis camp at Tippecanoe was furiously, but unsuc- cessfully, attacked on the night of November 5th. The defeated Indians were at first inclined to treat, but the breaking out of the war with Great Britain made them again hostile. After Hull's surrender Harison was ap. pointed, in September, 1812, to the command of the North- west frontier, with a commission as Brigadier General. It was not until the next year, by which time he was promoted to the rank of Major-General, that he was able to commence active operations. Several mishaps grew out of the inex- perience of his subordinate officers, but the victory of Perry on Lake Erie enabled him to recover from the British in- vaders the American territory which they had occupied and to pursue them into Canada, where, on October 5th, they were totally routed in the battle of the Thames. A peace with the Northwest Indians soon followed. Not long after, in consequence of misunderstandings with Arm- strong, the Secretary of War, Harrison resigned his com- mission in the army. In IS16 he was elected from the Cincinnati district a member of the United States House of Representatives, in which body he sat for three years.
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