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this honorable position, his full term of service embracing in | of which he became President, and owned one-third of the all fifteen years. Upon his retirement from office, a series of resolutions were adopted by the members of the bar cx- pressing in warm terms their high appreciation of his judi. cial services, and of his character as a jurist, and disclosing also the remarkable fact that out of seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-three civil cases decided by him during his term of office, only forty three had been disturbed by the superior courts. That fact, presenting in itself the most welcome and desirable encomium applicable to a judge, tes- tifies abundantly to his learning, integrity and judicial capa- city : praise would be superfluous. lle united with the Free-Soil party in 1848, and during the exciting and troub- lous days of dispute and contention over territorial rights and privileges, was ever outspoken and fearless in language and in action. At the present time the general policy and measures of the Republican party run parallel with his views and sentiments, and to it accordingly he gives his influence and support. He was married, January 4th, 1838, to Jane Maria Jenks, of Albion, New York.
AMPBELL, JOIIN, is one of the few remaining Pioneers of the Hanging Rock iron region. Ile has done more towards developing its resources, and at present controls more real estate and iron 6 interests, than any other one man of the region. The following is a synopsis of the many branches of iron industry in which he has engaged. In 1833 he was employed in building the old Hanging Rock Iron Forge, long since demolished. The same year he, together with Andrew Ellison, built Lawrence Furnace for J. Riggs & Co. These were the first iron works in which he engaged ; but it was a beginning that gave to him the experience so need- ful in the many enterprises he afterward originated and controlled. In connection with Mr. Robert Hamilton he built Mount Vernon Furnace in 1834. The following year he left Hanging Rock to manage the furnace. It was from Mount Vernon that grew up the large non interests which were for a period of over thirty years known as Campbell, Ellison & Co., of Cincinnati. In 1837, through the guar- antee against any loss by Mr. Campbell and others, Vesuvius Furnace was induced to erect the first hot blast in America. In 1841 he made the change of placing the boilers and hot blast at the top of furnace stack. The iron region was des- tined to become one of the most important in the country, and none appreciated this fact more than Mr. Campbell. Mr. Hamilton and he were the heaviest capitalists of the region. While the former built a railroad from Hanging Rock to his coal mines at Newcastle, Mr. Campbell was in- vesting in other furnaces. In thpt, with Mr. John l'eter, he built Greenup Furnace, Kentucky, and in 18.16 Olive Furnace, Ohio. In 1817 he built the Gallio Furnace. Ile then proceeded to organize the Olno hon & Coal Company,
stock. This association, composed of twenty-four members, twenty of whom were ironmasters, bought np lands above Hanging Rock, and founded the city of Ironton. He gave the new town its name, the first of some five towns after- wards so called in the United States. The propriety of the name becomes more and more apparent as time passes. While the town was thought to be of much importance, yet it was looked upon as but an auxiliary to the Iron Railroad. This latter enterprise, in which Mr. Campbell owned over one-third of the stock, was carried on by nearly the same individuals who founded the town. In 1849, with others, he built Keystone Furnace, but gave his attention principally to the new town and railroad. In 1850 he moved from llanging Rock to Ironton, and with the Ohio Iron & Coal Company purchased Lagrange Furnace. The same year he built the stove foundry of Campbell, Ellison & Co., and in 1851 was one of the founders of the Iron Bank of Ironton, now known as the First National Bank. In 1852, besides taking large stock in the Ironton Rolling Mill, now known as the Iron & Steel Company, he subscribed to one- half the stock for building the Olive Foundry and Machine Shop. Ife also purchased the lecla Cold Blast Furnace. In 1853 he became one of the largest stockholders in the Kentucky Iron Coal Manufacturing Company, which founded the town of Ashland, Kentucky. With Mr. D. T. Woodrow he built Iloward Furnace, to which has since been added the Buckhorn Furnace, under the firm-name of Charcoal Iron Company ; and with Mr. John Peters he built the Washing- ton Furnace, upon the Portsmouth Railroad. In 1854, with S. S. Stone, of Troy, New York, and others of Ironton, he built a large establishment for the manufacture of the iron beam plow. The same year, With others, he built the Mad- ison Furnace, and also became one of the heaviest stock- holders in the erection of the Star Nail Mill, one of the largest in the region, and now known as the Bellfont Iron Works. In 1855, through the influence of himself at frouton, and Hon. V. B. Honton, of Pomeroy, first tele- graphic communication was established between these towns and Cincinnati. In 1856, with Colonel William M. Bolles and others, he built Monroe Furnace, the largest charcoal furnace in the region. This and the Washington Furnace are now under the firm-name of Union Iron Company, of which Mr. Campbell is President. In 1857 his rolling mill interests extended to Zanesville, Ohio, where he was one of the incorporators of the Ohio Iron Company. The Oak Ridge Furnace was operated by him at this date, but for a short time only. The stress upon the iron market which followed was relieved by the high prices obtained during the war. During the war his course was marked by intense loyalty to the government. Although constantly devoted to business, he is known as a very public spirited citizen. Of the fonteen furnaces in which he has been engaged, he totais controlling interests in eight, and has lately been in terested in the election of the fronton Furnace. This is
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the eleventh furnace he has assisted to build. He is of large, ; massive frame, and has inherited a strong constitution which | His acts of public and private benelicence are his best and gives to him an energetic, active old age. Although hus parents were wealthy at their decease, yet they were of but little assistance, and his life exhibits what can be accom- plished by industry and integrity combined with good judg- ment. Ilis parentage is Scotch- Irish, his ancestors having removed in 1612 from Inverary, Argyleshire, Scotland, into Ulster, near Londonderry, Ireland. Their descendants in 1740 moved to Augusta county, Virginia. From these were descended many who attained to civil and military distinc- tion in the States of Virginia, Tennessee, and Ohio. Mr. Campbell's grandparents came from Virginia to Bourbon county, Kentucky, in 1790, and from thence in 1798 to the part of Adams now called Brown county, Ohio. At the date of his birth, January 14th, ISO8, Staunton; now known as Ripley, was not laid out, but in early life he engaged in business with an uncle at that place ; from thence he came to Hanging Rock.
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GOODALE, LINCOLN, M. D., Physician and Mer- 6 chant, was born in Worcester county, Massachu- setts, on February 25th, 1782. In his seventh year, his father, Major Nathan Goodale, an officer in the war of the Revolution, removed to Mari- etta, in the State of Ohio, reaching that place with his family about August of the year 1788. The party which then settled in Marietta was made up almost exclusively of revolutionary officers and their families, and this was the first regular settlement within the limits of what is now the State of Ohio. Major Goodale settled soon after at Belpre, on the Ohio river, sixteen miles below Marietta ; was there captured by the Indians in 1794, and died a few months after near Sandusky, on his way to Detroit, to which place the Indians were taking him in the hope of getting a ransom for him. Ile was a brave man of high character and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, in which Dr. Goodale by inheritance succeeded him and took a deep in- terest in its proceedings and history. Dr. Goodale studied medicine at Belpre; came to Franklinton, Ohio, in 1805, and commenced the practice of his profession. In IS12 he volunteered and joined the army before war was declared, and was appointed by Governor Meigs, Surgeon's Mate in Colonel McArthur's regiment. Ile was taken prisoner at Ilull's surrender and was sent to Maklen, where he re- mained for some time with our wounded men, and brought them, as soon as they were released, to Cleveland, arriving himself at Franklinton, in October, 1812. Ile soon after engaged in mercantile business, and pursued it successfully for the next twenty-five or thirty years, removing to Colum- bus about the year 1814, where he died April 30th, 1868. Hle was a resident of Ohio for about eighty years, and prob- ably the oldest citizen of the State at the time of his death. Integrity, energy, industry, and economy gave him large
wealth ; kindness and charity taught him how to use it, most eudming monument.
ILLEY, GEORGE, Lawyer, born in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, January 2d, 1821, was a son of Newton Willey, a merchant largely connected with iron and ship interests in that city. Until the age of fourteen he received instruction in the Boston schools. Ilis father died when he was quite young, and after that time his uncle, Judge John W. Willey, superintended his education. He spent four years in Jeffer- son College, Washington, Pennsylvania, where he graduated. After leaving college he went to Cleveland and read law, the first year in the office of Judge Willey, and the second with Bolton & Kelly, when he was admitted to the bar in 1842. In 1843 he formed a copartnership with John E. Cary for the practice of law, which continued many years. During the time it required for his practice to grow, he de. voted a portion of his time to the cultivation of literary tastes, and also to the subjects connected with the educa- tional institutions of the city. His abilities as a public speaker and writer upon the fine arts and subjects of popular science made him a favorite lecturer upon these and kindred topics. His addresses before popular assemblies were models of elegant diction, and full of useful and interesting points. Ilis strong interest in the cause of education soon brought him into sympathy and co-operation with a large number of energetic and public-spirited men. In Cleveland the public schools were in their infancy. He was anxious to have them organized so that children could be educated as thor- oughly in the high schools as in the primary. . Ile had much prejudice with which to contend in demanding thor- oughly graded schools, which are now the pride of that city. Several years after 1845 he filled the office of Man- ager and Superintendent of the public schools. His efforts towards perfection of organization were very effective and important. Ilis printed reports are full and exhaustive on all the topics connected with systems of teaching and the policy to be pursued by the authorities in fostering the edu- cation of the city's youth. Such reports had a wide influ- ence and circulation. The perfection of the school system which he established was so great that no private schools could be maintained in Cleveland. One of the most offi- cient teachers of the high schools, since an author of valu- able text books, writes of Mr. Willey as follows : " Ilis mind is remarkably well balanced, and he sees the relative values of knowledge better than any man I ever knew. It was just here that he made himself so valuable in the early organization of our schools and in forming plans of instruc- tion. Enthusiastic teachers are exceedingly apt to get into narrow channels and see but a few things at a time. Willey, with his broad and splendid views, in half an hour's talk
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would fetch them into clearer seas and show them the big earth." These broader and more philosophical notions of education for the millions especially characterized the schools during the eight or ten years that Mir. Willey was Secretary of the Board of Education. His gifts, natural, physical and mental, were thoroughly disciplined and cul- tivated. Ilis practice has been largely devoted to those special departments of the law which embrace the trans- actions of a large commercial and manufacturing seaport. Hle has been largely engaged in cases in the admiralty courts and in those arising under the patent laws. By his thorough research and originality of views he has made valuable contributions to the science of maritime law, and is conceded to have no superior in the qualities necessary to a mastery of the scientific principles and technical diffi- culties of the patent law. When General Grant was elected to the Presidency he appointed Mr. Willey United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio; and when he was elected the second time he renewed his commission. Hle has at times filled the chair of President of the Library Association, and also of the Cleveland Homeopathic Col- lege, and has been often connected officially with other public institutions. Ilis official duties as United States At- torney, in connection with his varied and general legal practice, have been discharged with fidelity and ability.
RIFFIN, GENERAL CHARLES, was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1827. A part of his education was received at Bardstown, Kentucky. He was sent to West Point, July Ist, 1843, and after his graduation was assigned to the artillery as a Brevet Second Lieutenant. The war with c. Mexico being then in progress, he was at once ordered to active duty. Ile had command of a company in the army commanded by General Patterson. From Mexico he was ordered to Florida, in January, 1848, and to Old Point Comfort in December. In the summer of IS49 he was made a First Lieutenant in the 2d Artillery, and sent to New Mexico in command of a cavalry company. For the next five years he was on the frontier; the next three on garrison duty at Fort Mellenry, near Baltimore, and from 1857 to 1860 engaged in various military duties. At the outbreak of the war he had been for a few months As- sistant Instructor of Artillery at West Point, when he was ordered to Waslington with the West Point Battery, after- wards known as Griffin's Battery. He commanded this battery until June, 1862, when he was made a Brigadier- General of volunteers. With his brigade he took part in the battle of Mechanicsville, and was conspicuous for his gallumtry. At Malvern Hill he had command of the artillery, supported by his own brigade, and was opposed by the rebel Magruder. The command of the latter was badly cut up in the engagement and thrown into confusion.
He participated in all the battles of the Army of the Poto- mac, beginning with the first Bull Run and ending with Five Forks. When the surrender of Lee was agreed upon, he was appointed one of the commissioners to arrange the details. flis command in the war was at first a battery, then a brigade, afterward a division; and on the battle field of the Five Forks, when Sheridan was placed in command of the entire force, he was assigned to the command of the 5th Corps, which he retained until the disbandment of the army. After this he was appointed to the command of the Military Division of the State of Maine. When mustered out of the volunteer service he was made Colonel of the 35th Infantry and Brevet Major-General. He was after- ward ordered to Texas, and some time after succeeded Sheridan in the command of the Fifth Military District. While holding this important military command he was at- tacked by yellow fever, which terminated fatally, September 15th, 1867. The record of this lamented officer is without blemish. From the time he entered the service in Mexico until death claimed him he was absent on leave but once- in 1859. Ile escaped unhuit in every engagement, al- though he had several horses shot under him at different times, and once had the visor of his cap torn away by a bullet. He also had two other narrow escapes, in one of which his sword was broken by a musket-ball. He was married, December 10th, 1861, to Sallie Carroll, daughter of Ilon. William T. Carroll, of the honored Maryland family of that name.
ATES, NAHUM BALL, ex- Mayor of Elyria, Lorain county, Ohio, was born in St. Albans, Franklin county, Vermont, September 28th, 1812. Ile is the son of John Gates and Abigail Gates, who were descendants of an English family, of Marlborough, Massachusetts. He was educated at the St. Albans Academy, in his native place, and also in the common schools of Vermont. While in his eighteenth year he assumed the role of educator, and was engaged in teaching a district school, during the winter months, until his removal to Ohio. April the 29th, 1834, he emigrated to Elyria, Lorain county, Ohio, settling there finally on the following May 11th. Ile then engaged in mercantile business, primarily as clerk, eventually as proprietor, meet- ing with varied successes in his several ventures. For a period of six years he was engaged in the forwarding and commission business, at Black River, Lorain county, Ohio, and while thus occupied secured a foremost position among his local co-workers in the commercial circle. Ile was also one of the first Directors in the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad. Until the dissolution of the Whig party he was one of its warmest supporters, and subsequently became a " Free-Soiler," or Republican. From 1838 to 1842 he served as Sheriff of Lorain County ; and by appointment, in 1857, became Treasurer of the same county. Ile was also
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for four years, from 1862 to 1866, Collector of Internal Revenne, and ultimately was deprived of that office by Andrew Johnson for alleged political opposition. For eight years he has officiated as Mayor of Elyria, and during this time performed the duties of his office with credit to himself and entire satisfaction to his constituents. He was married, May 12th, 1841, to Sarah S. Monteith, eldest daughter of Rev. John Monteith. He was President of the Lorain County Agricultural Society for ten years.
OYT, JAMES M., LL. D., Lawyer and Capitalist, was born in Utica, New York, January 16th, 1815. Hle received a good echication, and in 1834 gradu- ated at Hamilton College, New York. On leav- ing college he began the study of law in Utica, bnt soon removed to Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1836 read law in the office of Andrews & Foot. In the following year the law partnership of Andrews, Foot & Hoyt was formed and continued for twelve years, when the appointment of Andrews to the bench of the Superior Court of Cuyahoga necessitated his withdrawal. The firm of Foot & Hoyt continned until 1853, when Mr. Hoyt with- drew from the practice of law and gave his whole time to the purchase and sale of real estate in Cleveland and vicin- ity. llis operations were heavy, large tracts in and around the city were purchased, divided into lots and sold for homesteads. About one thousand acres of city and sub- urban property were owned wholly, or jointly with others, and by him subdivided into lots and sokl for settlement, and more than a hundred streets were opened and named by him. In all these transactions he was universally credited with the extreme of liberality and generosity to- wards those with whom he had transactions, and especially towards the poor and those whom misfortune or sickness had unexpectedly placed in straitened circumstances. His uniform uprightness, scrupulous regard for truth and justice and honorable dealing with his clients, secured for him, when practising law, the title of " the honest lawyer," and the same characteristics in his real estate dealings main- tained the reputation won at the bar. Ile united with the Baptist Church in Utica in 1835, and has since been a member of that denomination, and active in religious and moral canses. For twenty-six years he was the Superin- tendent of the Sabbath-school of the First Baptist Church of Cleveland, of which he is a member. Ile then resigned the superintendency of the school and became a teacher of a congregational Bible class. Although never ordained a minister, for twenty years he preached at intervals, having been licensed for that purpose by the church with which he was connected. In 1854 he was chosen President of the Ohio Baptist State Convention, and was annually for twenty years elected to that position, presiding over anivers.ny meetings in nearly every city in the State of Ohio. He was
chosen President of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the national organization for missions in North America, and was re-elected annually nutil 1870, when he retired. For about eight years he was President of the Cleveland Bible Society, an auxiliary to the American Bible Society. In 1870 he was elected a member of the State Board of Equalization, a body which, for high character, talent and practical business sense, has never been sur- passed in the history of the State. As the appraisement of all the property of the State went through the hands of the Board, the responsibility and labor were very great. But the Board gave general satisfaction. . In 1873 he was ap- pointed a member of the Cleveland Board of Public Im- provements. In 1870 the degree of 1.L. D. was conferred on him by Dennison University, of Granville, Ohio. In physical science, history and belles-lettres he was well read. Ilis contributions to periodical literature and his addresses attracted marked attention. The Christian Review for October, 1863, contained a finished, analytical and ex- haustive article on the subject of " Miracles " from his pen. He has ever been noted for his good works, whether re- ligious or patriotic. 'In 1836 he was married in New York to Mary Ella Beebee. Of the six children born of this union five are now living. The eldest, Rev. Waylan Hoyt, is pastor of Shawmut Avenue Baptist Church, of Boston, Massachusetts; the second son, Colgate Hoyt, is in business with his father.
ROSSE, ASAHAEL ALLEN, Physician and Sur- geon, was born at Cincinnatus, Cortland county, New York, on the 22d of August, 1824. llis parents were in moderate circumstances, and he early learned the lesson of self dependence and 6 self help. At the age of thisteen years he left home to make his own way in the workl, and henceforth relied entirely upon his own resources. He went to work on a farm, and such school education as he obtained was by going to a district school during the winter months, his summers being too much occupied in farm labor to give him any opportunity for summer study. Not long after leaving home he went to Ashtabula, Ohio, and there, in addition to the opportunities afforded by the district schools, he for a time enjoyed the advantage of attending the Ash- talmila Academy. From thence he removed to Mentor, Lake county, Ohio, where, at the age of sixteen, he com- menced the study of medicine. After having attended three full courses of medical lectures he graduated at the Willoughby University, in Lake county, Ohio, in the year 1842, and went at once to Amherst, Lorain county, Ohio, He had, when he arrived in Amherst, fifty dollars, and on the day after his anival he made the uncomfortable dis- covery that forty-six dollars of his little fortune consisted of bills of a bank known as the Ohio Railroad Bank, lo- cated at Cleveland, Ohio, which had failed the day before,
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and were perfectly worthless, so that his available assets amounted to just four dollars. Fortune was not stubbornt against him, however, for almost immediately he formed a putnership with Dr. Luman Tenny, an old physician of the place, and so was introduced to a practice that speedily be- came large and lucrative, His partner died at the end of three years, and then he took the entire charge of the prac- tice. Ilis diligence, ability and skill, added to the high reputation he had already earned, made him well known as one of the most successful physicians in the county. As a citizen, no less than as a physician, is he appreciated in the community, and from time to time that appreciation has been shown by placing him in several of the elective offices of the township of Amherst. He has successively held the offices of Township Assessor, Township Clerk, Justice of the Peace, and was the first Mayor of the incorporated vil- lage of North Amherst. Ile was Postmaster of Amherst during President Johnson's administration. Politically he is a Democrat, and, although the requirements of his pro- fession do not leave him much leisure to devote to politics, he is nevertheless one of the leading spirits of his party in the community where he lives. Although he has acquired a fair competence, his experience has not been one of un- mingled prosperity. On the Ist of March, 1858, he was thrown from his carriage, and his right leg was broken at the ankle. Being a heavy man, the ends of the broken bones were forced through the skin and boot-leg, and were driven three or four inches into the ground by the violence of his full. It was found impossible to save the limb, and it was amputated below the knee by Professor Horace A. Ackley, his former preceptor. He has been three times married. His first wife, Diantha Walker, he married in 1844, by whom he had four children, three daughters and one son, one of whom, Mrs. II. W. Barnard, is now living. His wife, Diantha, died in 1855. On the 16th of Septem- ber, 1859, he married Sarah E. Post, by whom he had one son, now living. His second wife died in 1866, and on the 18th of November, 1875, he married Ella G. Pelton, of Vermillion, Ohio, The doctor has a vigorous constitu- tion, and from present appearances he has from twenty to twenty-five years of good practice left in him yet ; that is, he is hale and hearty, and the youngest in the community always find him a pleasant social companion.
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