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May he was made Captain of Company G of the 85th Regi- ment Ohio Infantry, and on August 28th was transferred to the with Ohio, and promoted to the rank of Major, and went to the field in command of that regiment. He partici- pated in the battles of Frankfort and Perryville, Kentucky, and in January, 1863, advanced to the grade of Lieutenant- Colonel. Ile was in the battles of Rochester and Lenoir, Tennessee, in the autumn of 1863, and was brevetted a Colonel in the regular army and Brigadier-General of Vol- unteers for gallantry on the field, and for services rendered. Ile was shortly afterwards attacked with hemorrhage of the lungs, and discharged from the army on account of the same during the winter of 1863-64. On his return to Ohio he was appointed by Governor Brough, in February, 1864, Pay Agent, and served in that capacity until the close of the war. Ile was elected in 1865 Comptroller of the State Treasury of Ohio, re-elected in 1868, and served until 1871, meanwhile being elected a member of the Board of Soldiers' Claims for Ohio. Ile is at present engaged in farming and also in the practice of his profession in Swanton, Fulton county, having the largest and best clientelage of any lawyer in that county. During his life he has been a consistent Whig, and since the dissolution of that party, an unwavering Republican. Ile was married, April 21st, 1837, to Sarah Jane Maxom, of Buffalo, New York.
GROSVENOR, GENERAL, CHARLES II., Law- yer, Representative in the General Assembly from Athens county, Ohio, was born in Pomfret, Wyud- hain county, Connecticut, September 20th, 1833. Ilis parents were Peter Grosvenor and Ana 0 (Chase) Grosvenor, whe removed to Athens county, Ohio, in 1838, and settled on a farm. The Gros- venors are the descendants of an old English family, the founder of the line in America having been John Grosvenor, who died in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1690, having a family of six sons, from whom, it is believed, are descended all who now bear the name of Grosvenor in this country. The tombstone of John Grosvenor bears the coat of arms of his family. Thomas Grosvenor, grandfather of General Grosvenor, served as a colonel during the revolutionary con- flict, and was attached to the staff of General Washington. Hle afterward became Judge of the Circuit Court of Con- nectient, and for several years was a member of the Gov- ernor's Council. His father served during the war of 1812, and rose to the rank of major in the militia service. Ile attended the public schools of the day in Athens county, Ohio, but for the greater portion of his education is indebted to the care and efforts of his mother, a woman of rare attain- ments and remarkable intelligence. Starting in life on his own resources, he taught in the county public schools for about three years, and in the meantime, by the advice and
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under the direction of Lot 1. Smith, pursued the study of tion to obstetrics, in which branch of the profession he has law. He was admitted to the bar in 1857, and at once eu- been very successful. Up to the present time ( February, 1876) he has attended no less than 4650 obstetrical cases. Ile is a member of the Highland County Medical Society. Notwithstanding the onerous duties of his profession, he has found the time to contribute literary articles on medical topics to the periodical literature of the day. In politics he is a Republican. Ile polled his maiden vote for John Quincy Adams, the anti. Democratie candidate for the Presi- dency; but, although taking a deep interest in political matters, has never sought nor held any public office of a partisan nature. He has been for forty-eight years a mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church, and was for ten years an elder in that denomination. He is a valuable citizen and respected by all who know him. He was married in 1838 to Frances L. Kinkaid, of Ross county, Ohio, and is the father of thirteen children. tered on the practice of his profession in Athens county. In July, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the United States army, but was immediately promoted to the rank of Major, and in June, 1863, was again promoted to a Lieutenant- Coloneley. At the battle of Nashville he commanded a brigade, and for gallant service on the field was recom- mended for promotion by General Thomas. Hle was then brevetted Colonel and Brigadier-General. In April, 1865, he was raised to the full rank of Colonel, with the brevet title of Brigadier-General. At the close of the rebellion, he resumed the practice of his profession, and was nominated for the State Senate, but failed to secure an election. In 1873 he was elected on the Republican ticket to represent his county in the House. While acting with this body he has served on the Committees on Judiciary, on Insurance, and on Revision. Ile is also a member of the select Com- mittees on Express Companies and Telegraphs, and on the Investigation of Public Works. At the election in 1875 he was re-elected to the House of Representatives, and at its organization, January 3d, 1876, was chosen Speaker of the Ilouse. In his profession he has attained a high standing, and his reputation as a criminal advocate is very extended. Ile was married, December Ist, 1858, to Samantha Stewart, of Athens county, who died April 20, 1866, leaving issue of one child, a daughter. Ile was again married, May 21st, 1867, to Louise II. Currier, also a native of Athens county, Ohio.
UNLAP, MILTON, M. D., Physician, was born, August 9th, 1807, in Brown county, Ohio, and is the third child of William and Mary (Shepherd) Dunlap. His father was a native of Augusta county, Virginia, who removed with his father's family to Kentucky when a boy. He settled in Brown county, Ohio, in 1796, where he resided until his death in 1848. Hle was a captain in the war of 1812, and a man who passed through life as a public-spirited citizen. Ilis consort was a daughter of Abraham Shepherd, an early settler in Brown county, and formerly of Shepherdstown, Virginia. She died in 1846. Milton Dunlap was occupied on the farm until he was seventeen years of age, attending the district school during the winter. In 1824 he went to Ripley, Ohio, and studied medicine and general literature under the supervision of Dr. T. S. Williamson for about eighteen months. In 1826 he went to Cincinnati, where he became a clerk in a drug store, and also at the same time studied medicine, and attended upon the lectures delivered at the Ohio Medical College in the winter season, and graduated from that institution in 1829. The following year he located at Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, where he has ever since resided, engaged in the active control of a large medical practice, and has given a great deal of atten- [ firm of A. E. Burkhardt & Co. has built up an extensive
URKHARDT, A. E., Merchant, was born, April 20th, 1845, in Herschburg, near Guibrucken, Rhenish Provinces, Bavaria. When he was ten years of age his father died, leaving his widow and two children to contend with the world. One of these children was a girl, the other the subject of this sketch. The broad field offered by America invited the bereft family, and hither they came, settling in Cincinnati. His efforts to secure an education, begun at the age of six years in his native land, were continued in the public schools of Cincinnati until the death of his mother in 1859. Left at the age of fourteen, with neither father nor mother, in a foreign land with manners and customs and language all different from his own, the boy had to solve a practical problem of no little difficulty. He made his en- trance into the driving world of business through the furni- ture house of Mitchell & Ramelsberg, Cincinnati, at a salary of one dollar per week. But fortune had better things in store for young Burkhardt. At the end of three months Jacob Theis, retail hatter, offered him one dollar and a half per week. An increase of fifty per cent. on his salary was not to be refused, and he accepted the offer. This proved a judicious step and worked out his future career. From this humble beginning, by hard work and strict integrity, he filled one position after another until his employer had no higher to give him. Mr. Burkhardt remained with Mr. Theis until January, 1867, when he associated himself with his brother-in-law, F. B. Burkhardt, and bought out the business. Under the immediate direction of Mr. A. E. Burkhardt business grew, the firm prospered and soon had to seck larger quarters. These they found in their present spacious salesrooms at No. 113 West Fourth street, in Mit- chell's Block, still occupying as well the old stand on Main street. By the energy and tact of the senior member, the
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trade, shipping raw skins in large quantities to Leipsic, | Republican Association of the District of Columbia, Ile is Fondo s, and other foreign markets. In this branch of their at man of wide political influence, and an active member of the Republican pinty. His mature judgment is often de- lened to in the conduct of campaigns in his State. He is generally esteemed for his fidelity and skill as an official, and for his liberal views and high social qualities as a private citizen. business they have over three thousand conexpondents, The success of Mr. A. E. Burkhardt from so humble a begin. ning is to be attributed to his untiring industry, perseverance and determination. March ist, 1871, he married Emma Amanda, only daughter of Mr. Andrew Erkenbrecker, a prominent merchant of Cincinnati.
CGREW, J. MILTON, Sixth Auditor of the United States Treasury, was born in Cincinnati, October 30th, 1830. His father, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, removed with his parents to Cincinnati in 1305, while his mother, who was a native of Cape May, New Jersey, came to that city in 1809. Ilis ancestry on the paternal side were Scotch, and on the maternal side English. Both of his grandfathers were sol- chers in the Federal army during the Revolution, while his father served in the war of 1812. Hle was educated in the Cincinnati High Schools, and entered a prominent institu- tion for a thorough collegiate training, which, however, he was obliged to leave, when fifteen years old, by the death of his father. ' Ile commenced to teach, and for ten years fol- lowed with success this profession. In October, 1954, he was nominated by the American and Republican parties for Clerk of the Common Pleas and District Courts of Cler- mont County, Ohio, and was elected to that office by a ma- jority of 1700 over his Democratic competitor. After serving one term he was admitted to the bar and practised the profession of the law for four years. In 1862 he was appointed by Secretary Chase to a clerkship in the office of the Sixth Auditor of the United States Treasury, which bureau settles the accounts of the Post Office Department. Subsequently he served in various other positions of impor- tance, and was .honored by promotion through various grades. On November 16th,. 1864, he was appointed by Secretary Fessenden to the Chief Clerkship of the Sixth Auditor's office. On the first day of July, 1875, he was ap- pointed by President Grant to the Sixth Auditorship, and on the first day of February, 1876, was confirmed by the Senate. Ilis is the only case on record in the Treasury Department in which a person has passed through all the grades from a subordinate clerkship to the position of Chief of Bureau. ITe has rire executive ability, is perfectly familiar with the varied duties of his responsible office, and in every way competent to discharge them. He was a member of the first Republican Convention which assembled at Columbus, Ohio, on July 13th, 1854, and was a delegate to every suc- ceeding State Convention of the party until called to Wash- ington. In 1860 he was a delegate to the National Repub- lican Convention at Chicago, which nominated Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency. Since his residence in Wash- ington he has been twice chosen P'resident of the Ohio State
GARDNER, CAPTAIN GEORGE B., Lawyer, was born in Russellville, Brown county, Ohio, May 20, 1828. Ilis father, a native of Ohio, followed through life the trade of a cabinet-maker, and was also at different periods a merchant, a trader, and a hotel keeper. Ile was an active partici- pant in the war of 1812, and died August 5th, 1873. Ilis mother, Elma S. ( Barrere) Gardner, a native of High- lund county, Ohio, was a daughter of George W. Barrere, a prominent pioneer of the last-mentioned county. Itis pa- ternal grandfather, Benjamin Gardner, took an active part in the events of revolutionary days. Ile moved at an early day from New York to Ohio, and settled in Brown county, where he resided until his decease in 1840. Ilis early boy- hood days were passed alternately in working on a fum during the summer season, and in attending school in the winter months. He was subsequently placed as an appren- tice in the printing office of The Political Examiner, at Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, where he remained for four and a half years. Hle then attended a select school at Ripley, Ohio, for two years, while his leisure hours and every Saturday were spent in working at the printing office, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of his sustenance and tuition. His life as a printer and student in Ripley, Ohio, continued until 1849, when he spent a few months in the law office of his uncle, N. Barrere, at Hillsborough, Ohio, and then removed to Washington, Fayette county, Ohio, where he purchased the Fayette New Era. In the editorship of this paper he was engaged until June, 1856. During those inter- vening years of his experience as editor and publisher, he had, when temporarily at leisure, continued the study of law, and after passing the required examination, was in 1855 admitted to the bar. In 1857, upon renouncing the further pursuit of the newspaper business, he entered on the practice of his profession at Washington, Fayette county, where he was engaged in professional labors until the fall of 1861. lle then accompanied the 60th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as Captain of Company C, to the seat of war in Virginia, and served with his company and as Acting As- sistant Adjutant-General of Brigade until the surrender of Harper's Ferry, where his regiment was one of the bodies captured. It was then immediately paroled and sent to the Parole Camp, at Chicago, Illinois, and there remained until the expiration of its term of service. In November, 1862, he returned to Washington, Fayette county, Ohio, and in the winter of 1862-63 served as Deputy Assessor of the
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United States for Internal Revenue. In April of the latter | ing the Bible by the light of the fire in the log cabin, and ycar he was appointed Commissioner of Eurolment for the Sixth Congressional Ohio District, head-quarters at Ilills. borough, and was engaged in the discharge of the duties of that office until the close of the war. In 1865, still re. maining in Hillsborough, he opened an office for the prac- tice of law, where he yet remains, engaged in the active practice of his profession. Ile has been Justice of the Peace since his residence in Hillsborough, has served as a member of the Town Council, and for two years officiated as Mayor of the city. He was chiefly influential in securing the construction of the new city buildings, and also in the purchase of the steam fire-engines. In 1867 he was a can- didate for the position of Prosecuting Attorney. Ile has always taken a warm interest in public improvements, and is always thoroughly awake to the importance of all measures projected for the profitable development of the true interests of his city and county. Politically, he was a Whig, and afterwards an ardent supporter of Stephen A. Douglas. Upon the breaking out of the war, in 1861, he joined his fortunes with the Union party, and is now a Republican. Ile was married, May 3d, 1853, to Amanda Robinson, a native of Fayette county, Ohio.
ADE, BENJAMIN F., cx-United States Senator, was born on the 27th of October, 1800, in Feed- ing Ilills parish, Massachusetts. Ile was next to the youngest of ten children, and his father was a soldier of the Revolution, who fought in every battle from Bunker Ilill to Yorktown. Ilis mother, the daughter of a Presbyterian clergyman, was a woman of fine intellect and remarkable force of mind and character. Benjamin's school advantages were condensed into seven days' attendance upon a district school in his early boyhood, for the family enjoyed the distinction of being one of the poorest in New England. But his mother became his teacher, and under her patient and competent tuition he soon learned to read and write. There were a few books in the house, and these he got hold of and read and re-read, becoming thereby, notwithstanding his meagre school opportunities, better informed than the great major- ity of boys of his age. Most of his boyhood was passed working on a farm, for which he received only the most meagre wages; and when he was eighteen years of age he concluded that he could do better in the West than he was doing at home. So, with seven dollars in his pocket and a bundle of clothing on his back, he started on foot for Ohio. Ile walked as far as Ashtabula county, Ohio, when he was stopped by a very heavy fall of snow, and coneluded to wait until spring before he finished his pedestrian tour. He obtained a job of cutting wood, at fifty cents a cord, in the Ohio forest, and for the rest of the winter his days were occupied with this work. Ilis evenings were spent in read-
before spring he had read through the Old and New Testa- ments. Spring came, and still he did not resume his jour- ney to Illinois, having been persuaded to remain where he was and spend the spring and summer in chopping, logging and grubbing. The next winter he, who had only attended school as a learner during one single week of his life, en- gaged as a school teacher, and passed successfully through the season in that employment. For two years he remained here, engaged in this manner, and then he undertook the driving of herds of cattle from Ohio to New York. Ile made six trips of this kind, finding himself, at the end of the last one, in Albany, New York, as winter was coming on. lle decided to remain there for a time, and did so, teaching- school there that winter. In the spring he hired out to shovel on the Eric canal, and spent the summer in that manner, being, as Governor Seward said in a speech in the United States Senate, " the only American I know who worked with a spade and wheelbarrow on the great improvement." At the end of the summer he returned to Ohio, and taught school there the next winter. The next spring he commenced the study of law with Hon. Elisha Whittlesby, and was soon afterwards elected a Justice of the Peace. After two years of hard study he was admitted to the bar, and then waited two years longer for his first suit. It came at last, and was won, and from that time for- ward his success was assured and steady. Not long after- wards he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Ashtabula county, and so took another very important step forward. But it was not as a lawyer that his future was to be worked ont. He became active in politics, acting with the Whig party, and in a short time he was elected to the Ohio State Senate. There he took the lead of the Whig minority, aided in abolishing the law permitting imprisonment for debt, inaugurated a war against the Ohio " Black Laws," and took a bold stand against the admission of Texas into the Union, declaring: "So help me God! I will never assist in adding another rod of slave territory to this conn- try." Ilis earnest vigor led him to a position far in ad- vance of that occupied by his party, and as a result of it, he was left at home when the next election took place. After a while, however, people came forward to the point where he stood, and he was again sent to the State Senate. There he procured the passage of the bill which founded the Oberlin College, where "persons, without regard to race or color," could be educated. Ile led the resistance of the State to the resolution of Congress, denying the right of the people to petition concerning the abolition of slavery, and thoroughly identified himself with those farthest in the advance in State and national reform. In 1847 he was elected President Judge of the Third Judicial District, and occupied the bench for four years, earning the reputation, among the members of the bar and the. people at large, of being a wise and a just judge. In March, 1851, while he was hearing a case in court, the firing of a cannon in the
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streets of Akron announced that he had been elected by | dent of the nation; but the narrow escape of the one, and the Legislature to a seat in the Senate of the United States. the near approach of the other, constitute a remarkable and memorable incident in the history of the country. lle retired from the Senate on the 4th of March, 1869, when his successor, Allen G. Thurman, elected by a Democratic Legislature, took his seat. Senator Wade has great force, directness and effect as an orator, although he exhibits but little oratorical polish. He is an original and powerful thinker, and, notwithstanding the disadvantages of his youth, he is possessed of a large fund of learning. Ilis manners are plain and unaffected, and his tastes are as simple as in times long gone by. He was married, in 1840, to Caroline Rosecrantz, of Middletown, Connecticut. His residence is in Jefferson, the seat of Ashtal ula county, Ohio. IIe has two sons, one of whom is Major James II. Wade, of the 9th Regular Cavalry United States army. Ile had not sought for the position, and his friends had not labored to secure it for him. The people had determined that a man should be chosen who would fitly and ade- quately represent them, and he was selected as that man. Ile entered the Senate, one of a very few who were opposed to the aggressions of slavery, and he almost, more than any other, caused his opposition to be felt and acknowledged. Ile showed himself brave against every influence and against all odds, and distinctly announced that he came there especially as the advocate of liberty against slavery. Ilis long career in the Senate was marked by indomitable energy, unfailing courage, and a swiftness of thought and purpose that enabled him to meet every emergency and every form of opposition with wonderfully prompt effective- ness. It was in the conflict with the slave power that his most memorable acts were performed. He reported from the Committee on Territories the first provision prohibiting slavery in all the Territories of the United States to be ONES, JOIIN PAUL, Editor and Proprietor of the Toledo Blade, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, June 23d, 1839, descending from Scotch-Irish ancestry. There he passed his childhood and his school days, leaving the high school there in 1856. Ile was a bright scholar, fond of books, but quite as fond of fun. Ile studied well and attentively in that school, the world, and as a boy was alert, observant and inquiring, gaining a vast deal of practical information where the ordinary boy would have seen no opportunity, and exemplifying in a marked manner the sound sense of the philosopher's advice, to "go through life with your eyes and ears open." At the age of seventeen he set ont to seek his fortune, and landed in Chicago in 1856, with even a less foundation on which to build it than the tradi- tional half-dollar of Robert Collyer, or the oft-heralded impecuniosity of Horace Greeley. IIe began his business career as messenger-boy and index-clerk in the office of the old G. & C. U. Railroad, remaining with that company, but constantly earning and receiving promotion, until 1860. Having by this time attracted the attention of the officials of other lines, who were not slow to recognize his unusual business qualities, and were shrewd enough to argue the possibilities of the man from the marked characteristics of the boy, he found himself at liberty to make choice among several desirable positions. Ile became at this time Cashier for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, and the subsequent history of the several lines that then sought his services abundantly confirmed the sagacity that guided his choice. After three years in this position he was made Chief Clerk of the General Freight Department at Toledo. A year later he was elected Local Treasurer of the company, and continued in that office until the company removed its head quarters to Chicago, and Mr. Jones elected to engage in a different line of busi- ness. When it became a matter of certainty that the general henceforth acquired, and he proposed in the Senate the bill for negro suffrage in the District of Columbia. Ilis brave and outspoken opposition to their claims won for him the respect of the Southern lenders against whom he arrayed himself, a respect which Toombs, of Georgia, ac- knowledged, in plain terms, on the floor of the Senate. A notable instance of his nerve and courage was afforded in his dealing with one of the old time " fire-eaters." A short time after he entered the Senate, a Southern member grossly insulted a Senator from the North. After the Senate adjourned Senator Wade took occasion to say, openly, that if ever a Southern Senator made such an attack upon him or Ohio, he would brand him as a liar. This came to the cars of Southern men, and not long afterwards one of them took occasion to speak very pointedly of the people of Ohio as negro thieves. Senator Wade instantly sprang to his feet and pronounced the Southern Senator a liar. There was intense excitement, of course, and the bold Ohioan was called upon for a retraction or apology. In return, he de- manded an apology for the insult that had been offered to himself and his State. The next day he was called upon by a representative of the Sontherner, to ascertain whether an apology or a fight were more to the mind of the Ohio Senator. The latter expressed his conviction that the Southern Senator was "a foul-mouthed old blackguard," and requested that the sentiment might be conveyed, in his name, to the Senator aforesaid. This ended the whole affiir, and he was ever afterwards treated with politeness and respect. It was near the close of the Thirty-pinth Con- gress that he was elected President pro tempore of the Sen- ate, at a time when it seemed possible and even probable that his selection to that position would result in his eleva- tion to the Presidential chair, by reason of Mr. Johnson's impeachment and removal. Mr. Johnson was not removed, and the President of the Senate did not become the Presi-
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