The Biographical encyclopedia of Ohio of the nineteenth century. Pt. 2, Part 23

Author: Robson, Charles, ed; Galaxy Publishing Company, pub
Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Cincinnati, Galaxy publishing company
Number of Pages: 760


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ELANO, LINCOLN GOODALE, was born at Columbus, Ohio, November 10th, 1828. Ilis father, Harry Delano, was born in Ohio, and was engaged in the mercantile business at Columbus, Ohio, from 1814 until 1841, the time of his death. Ilis mother was Sarah Denny, daughter of General James Denny, of Pickaway county, Ohio. Lincoln Goodale Delano attended schools at Columbus, Ohio, until 1840; he was at that time placed under the instruction of the Rev. E. Washburn, of the Blendon Institute, in Franklin county, Ohio. During the year 1843 he entered the mercantile business and remained in it until 1846, when he adopted the profession of Civil Engineer. He was at Kenyon Col- lege during the year 1851, but continued in the business of Civil Engineer until 1855, when he engaged in driving cattle from Texas to the Chicago and New York markets. Ile has followed the cattle business and agricultural pursuits up to the present time. From 1870 to 1876 he was a member of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, and Presi- dent of the Board for the years 1873 and 1874. Governor Allen appointed him one of the Board of Commissioners for the construction of the Central Ohio Hospital for Insane in 1874, and to the same position in 1875; he resigned the commission in 1876 to accept the office of Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, tendered him by Governor Allen. Ile was married, January 15th, 1861, to Martha Crouse, daughter of Ilon. John Crouse, of Ross county, Ohio.


ELLY, WILLIAM CLAY, Lawyer, was born on the 24th of March, 1840, in Liberty township, llancock county, Ohio, of Irish ancestry. Ile received his education at Findley High School, in his native county, and on leaving school in March, 1855, he commenced at once to teach. From that time until 1861 the greater part of his time was spent in teaching. In the month of December, 1859, he commenced reading law with llon. Ilenry Brown, of Findley, and continued reading with him until the 23d of July, 1862. Then he dropped his professional studies for the time, and in connection with Captain Pope and Lien- tenant Hursh, of Findley, he commenced recruiting Com- pany D of the 99th Ohio Infantry. With this company and


regiment he entered the service, and remained with them until November, 1862, when he resigned on account of sickness, and returned home. In January, 1863, he en. tered the Ohio Union Law College at Cleveland, from which institution he graduated in June of the same year. Imme- diately after his gradnation he was admitted as an attorney in the United States Court for the Northern District of Ohio. In the month of May of the following year he was admitted on the application of the Ilon. Morrison R. Waite, in the District Court of Toledo, to practise law in the State of Ohio. On the 16th of March, 1864, he com- menced the practice of his profession at Wauseon, Fulton county, Ohio, and from that time to the present he has continued to reside there, in active practice. His success from the first has been very great, and he speedily attained a large and growing practice. His natural abilities and his high professional attainments have won for him the confi- dence of all, and he now occupies a leading position in his profession, and his services are constantly in demand. In politics he is a Republican, but his constant professional occupation has precluded much active participation on his part in political affairs. Ile has held no publie office except that of Mayor of Wauseon, to which position he was elected in the spring of 1874 over the Prohibition candidate. In person he is of medium height, and has a pleasant and agreeable face. Ilis manner is eminently courteous and prepossessing, and he is as popular socially as he is profes- sionally. Ile was married on the 2d of November, 1867, to Minnie L. Ayers, of Burlington, Iowa.


CMILLAN, URIAII G., Physician and Druggist, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, January 29th, 1826, being the son of Enos McMillan, a farmer, who was a native of the same locality. Ilis mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Wright, was born in the same State. In 1837 he went with his parents to Columbiana county, Ohio, where his father afterwards cultivated a farm and ran a mill. The education of Dr. MeMillan was begun in this section. Ilis summers were employed in assisting his father, and his winters in study at school. In 1844 he entered the high school at New Lisbon, defraying the expenses of his support and tuition by working during his leisure hours. In 1846, having obtained a tolerably comprehensive knowledge of those branches of study mainly needed in business life, and of others, the usefulness of which by many at that time was regarded as visionary, he started on a novel undertaking. In company with James W. Marshall, he went about to teach the philosophy of electricity, having obtained an appa- ratus with which to illustrate his lectures. In this line he was very successful, and was able to meet all the obligations which he incurred while a student. In the fall of the same year he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. John P.


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Gruell, of Gilford, Ohio, and in 1849 graduated from the | dent to-day as when preparing himself for professional life. Hudson Medical College at Cleveland. While a student A part of his time he devotes to books of travel, still hoping to travel round the world, and part to the study of law, especially law pertaining to trade marks and patents, In the study of law he is carrying out his first thought of a profession in his boyhood. He is scholarly in his tastes, generous in his impulses, and public-spirited in all his rela- tions to the community which surrounds him. He was married in 1851 to Ann B. Gwathmey, daughter of Dr. W. B. Gwathmey, of Bowling Green, Indiana. She died in 1854, and in 1859 he was married to Mrs. Ross, daughter of General M. K. Alexander, of Paris, Illinois in that city he was a pupil of Dr. St. John, now of the New York School of Medicine and Surgery, and became his assistant in the chair of chemistry in the Hudson Medical College. Dr. MeMillan graduated as the second in his class, and in the same year commenced practice in Gilford, Ohio. He started on a tour for the purpose of finding some more suitable location, lecturing and practising dentistry while en route; but returned late in the fall of 1849 without having made any satisfactory discovery. During the ensu- ing winter he visited the Eastern States and lectured in some of the leading colleges. In the fall of 1850 he settled in Clinton, Vermillion county, Indiana, and joined Dr. Isaac B. Iledges in the practice of medicine, and so suc- cessfully as a physician and business manager did he conduct the duties of the partnership that he made a practice pay both himself and Dr. Iledges well. On January Ist, 1854, he moved to Bowling Green, Indiana, and in connection with Mr. Pinckley established a drug store and still con- linued his professional duties. The latter grew in impor- tance very rapidly in this place, and his skill and care made him ample returns. In the ensuing fall he took into part- nership Dr. R. 11. Culbertson, and in the following year established a fine dry-goods store, taking upon himself the financial management of the house, and placing it immedi- ately under the charge of his brother, J. W. McMillan. In 1857 he opened a bank and issued its paper himself. The public, which had then scarcely any reliable medium, accepted it in confidence, and this confidence was not betrayed, as every dollar was redeemed. Dr. McMillan proved himself a safe and skilful financier, and secured a reputation scarcely less distinguished than that he had achieved as a physician. In 1858 he speculated in lowa lunds, and in 1859 in Kansas and other State lands, and was in all these ventures uniformly successful. When, in 1860, he moved to Cincinnati to make that his future place of residence, he was the owner in fee simple of several thousand acres of rich land in western States. He cstab- lished himself in the drug business, and became in a short time a member of the firm of R. Macready & Co. He con- tinned his connection with this house until February, 1873, when he retired from active mercantile and professional life. Soon after he visited Europe with his family, and travelled through all of the important continental cities. Dr. McMillan has earned a fine reputation for business ability. While a member of the firm of Macready & Co., its sales aggregated over a million dollars annually. All his business undertakings, in a life that has been one of unusual activity and variety, have been prosperous, and not by adventitious aids, but by the exercise of judgment as to the immediate wants of communities, and of enterprise to .supply them, Dr. McMillan amassed a large fortune, which he enjoys in retirement with his family. IIe is a man of profound scientific learning, and almost as much of a stu-


"RAZER, ABNER L., Civil Engineer, was born in Columbus, Ohio, on January 21st, 1821. He was named after his grandfather, Colonel Abner Lord, one of the early settlers of Marietta, who emi- grated there with his family from Connecticut in 1794. While he was yet a child, Abner's father died, and his mother married Hon. Benjamin Tappan, then a Representative in the Ohio Legislature, and removed to her husband's home at Steubenville. There the boy grew up, receiving his education at the best schools in the town, and receiving instructions from a private tutor in French and Latin. On reaching his sixteenth year he entered the engineering service of the State of Ohio as rodman, receiv- ing as compensation twelve dollars a month, with an allow- ance of two dollars a week for board, and was assigned to the construction of the Miami canal, from Dayton to Troy. This work was completed in the fall of 1836, and the corps, under charge of Andrew Young as Principal Engineer, and Samuel Farrer as Engineer-in-Chief of the State, went to work on the location and construction of the Wabash & Eric canal, from Manhattan and Toledo westward to the State line. After the location had been accomplished, he was placed in charge of the division from Maumee to Provi- dence, along the rapids of the Maumee, Daniel B. Taylor acting as Principal Assistant Engineer. The malarial cha- racter of the climate told severely upon the constitution of Abner Frazer, and he was eventually compelled to abandon his work in that section of country, and return to Steuben- ville, his health shattered. A winter trip to New Orleans, as supercargo of a flat boat belonging to his brother, James A. Frazer, was of great benefit to him, and he returned to Steubenville, much improved in health. On his return to Steubenville he acted upon the suggestion of Judge Tappan, then a member of the United States Senate and a prominent politician, and purchased an interest in the Democratie newspaper of Jefferson county, and at once commenced editorial work upon it. His paper, the American Union, took a radical and uncompromising attitude regarding banks, the tariff, and other topics that were then prominent political issues. Political work and political study went


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together with him, and in his studies he began at the begin- ning, and gave more and deeper thought to the Declaration of Independence than he had hitherto done. This led him gradually, but irresistibly, to the conviction that slavery was wrong ; and under the force of this conviction he became a " Free-Soiler," and identified himself with the Republican party at its earliest organization. In the meantime he hought the only book store in the place, and infused his characteristic energy into the business, in addition to attend- ing to his editorial labors. When the question of latitudinal railroads across Ohio began to be considered, his public spirit became fully aroused. He believed Steubenville was on the direct route between Philadelphia and New York and the West, and in this belief assisted in the reconnois- sance between Pittsburgh and Columbus. He found the open-air exercise greatly beneficial to his health, and when the work of locating and constructing the Pittsburgh, Cin- cinnati & St. Louis Railroad-known as the Panhandle Route-came to be done, he assisted in the execution of it. Then he turned his attention to organizing the Steubenville & Indiana Railroad Company, and for a time he and one or two others in Steubenville bore almost the entire weight of the enterprise upon their own shoulders; and had they not done so, it is doubtful if that now popular road would ever have been built. In 1856 he abandoned the profession of engineering, on account of the necessity which it en- tailed of being so much away from home, and removed to Cincinnati and entered the wholesale grocery house of his brother James. During six years of his residence in Cin- cinnati he was a member of the Board of Education, and assisted in organizing the University of Cincinnati under its present laws, He was for a time one of the Board of Offi- cers in the Chamber of Commerce, and while there urged the annual repetition of the textile fabric exhibition, and so promoted what has since become the Cincinnati Indus- trial Exposition. Ile was brought up in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was confirmed, when twenty-four years old, by Bishop Mellwaine. He is, and has always been, a strict temperance man, and is also a member of several beneficial societies. He was married, when twenty- three years old, to Martha J. McDowell, daughter of Alex- ander J. McDowell, of Steubenville, and granddaughter of Colonel McDowell, who served on General Washington's medical staff in the Revolution.


1852, thence went to Zanesville, and afterwards to Colamer, in Cuyahoga county, where he died, in November, 1859. Ile was of Welsh extraction, and his ancestry active partici- pants in the revolutionary war; his wife was of English descent ; she died in June, 1832. James Little, their son, was engaged in farm labor until he was sixteen years old, attending school during the winter months. In 1833 he entered Marietta College, Ohio, and pursued a course of literary study, which he completed in 1837. In this year he began the reading of medicine at Deavertown, Morgan county, which he pursued with energy and assiduity for four years, meanwhile attending the lectures delivered at the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati. In 1842 he com- menced the practice of his profession at Roseville, Muskin- gum county, and in the autumn of 1843 located at Oakfield, in Perry county, where he sojourned about eight months. Ile then removed to Deavertown, where he had commenced his studies, and practised there about three years. In IS47 he settled at Beverly, in Washington county, where he re- sided for twenty-three years, and controlled an extensive practice. In 1870 he went to Logan, in llocking county, where he now resides, and likewise enjoys an extended and lucrative practice. He has been remarkable for his success- ful treatment of chronic diseases. Ile was formerly an old line Whig, and polled his maiden vote for General Harrison for President ; since that party ceased to exist, he has sym- pathized with the Republicans. He was County Commis- sioner of Washington county for four years. He has never been connected with any religious society, but entertains liberal views of Christianity. He has always been a tem- perate man ; temperance in language, action and social in- tercourse has always been with him a rule of conduct. lle has been remarkable for quick and generous sensibilities, entirely devoid of selfish motives. Ile was married, Janu- ary Ist, 1845, to Lurana S., daughter of Hon. Silas HI. Jennison, Governor of Vermont-a native of Addison county in that State. To them were born two children, Silas Jennison, on December 11th, 1849, and Mary, on August 31st, 1851. This biography would be incomplete without some notice of the distinguished son. He early showed evidences of no ordinary ability to learn, and his parents gave him every facility to gratify his great desire to improve his mind. The best of teachers were employed in the schools at home so that he might be well prepared for college. At the age of twenty he entered the sophomore class in Marietta College, and graduated with high honors in 1872, when he commenced the study of medicine with ' his father in Logan. In the same year he began attending lectures at Starling Medical College, and graduated with first honors in the spring of 1874, being the valedictorian of his class. Returning home, he commenced at once with his father the practice of his profession, and rapidly, through his kind, generous and faultless disposition and medical ability, gained friends and patronage, until he was


ITTLE, JAMES, M.D., Physician, was born No- vember 11th, ISIS, at Morristown, Lamoille county, Vermont, and is the second of five chil- dren, whose parents were James and Anna M. (Shaw) Little, both natives of the same place as their son. His father followed the profession of medicine, and removed to Ohio in 1818, locating at first at Roseville, in Muskingum county, where he resided until called far and near to relieve the afflicted. In February,


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1874, the small pox broke out in Logan in its most terrific form, and he was called by the Board of Health to minister to the sufferers and to stop the progress of the contagion. Having no fear of self and an overpowering desire to do good, he, on the fith day of that mouth, entered on this terrible mission, working night and day, and assisting at midnight to bury the dead, for so frightened were the citi zens that no help would they render. In eleven days the young hero was stricken down with the disease, in its most malignant form, and in four days, on February 26th, he passed away a martyr in the cause of humanity. No event, since the assassination of the martyred Lincoln, had so paralyzed the community as the death of this noble young man. The Board of Health was called at once, and passed suitable resolutions, and urged the Common Council of the village to erect at a suitable time a monument to his many virtues and heroism.


OLE, SAMUEL CHIASE, Attorney-at-Law in the city of Cincinnati, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 31st, ISIS. Ile was the eldest of six children, only three of whom are now living, and whose parents were Dr. Skip- with II. Coale and Eliza (Chase) Coale, daughter of Judge Samuel Chase, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from Maryland, and an Asso- ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, until June 19th, ISHI, when he died. Ilis father, Dr. Coale, died in Harford county, Maryland, which was the place of his nativity, January, 1832, where he was widely and favorably known as a skilful and leading physician. llis mother's decease occurred in the same county, March Ioth, 1853. The subject of this notice received a liberal college education, though principally reared on his father's fırın, and at the age of twenty-one years commenced the study of law in the office of the Hon. Charles F. Mayer, then a prominent lawyer of Baltimore, and an influential citizen of Maryland, he having filled many important public positions. In 1543 Mr. Coale was admitted to the bar of Baltimore, and commenced the practice of law, but in 1848 he removed to Cincinnati. Ile did not remain long, however, in the latter city, but after making several changes of domicile, finally established himself in Stark county, in the northern part of the State of Ohio. In 1875 he returned to Cincinnati, and has resumed the practice of his profession with a reasonable prospect of success. In politics Mr. Coale was formerly a Whig, having cast his first vote for General William II. Harrison, but he has since been attached to the Democratic party. Religiously, he is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church ; and socially he is a genial and intelligent gentleman, one of that class of positive men, who, while they occasionally may make 'enemies, yet have the faculty of securing and retaining many firm friendship-,


TANBERY, HON. HENRY, Lawyer and States- man, was born in the city of New York, February 20th, 1803. In 1814 he emigrated with his father's family to Zumnesville, Ohio. He had already passed through a preparatory course of education in New York, and accordingly, in 1815, at the age of twelve, entered Washington College, Pennsyl- vania, and in the fall of 1819 graduated. Hle immediately began the study of the law in the office of Ebenezer Gran- ger, at Lancaster. Three years afterwards Mr. Granger died. Ile then continued his studies two years under the direction of General Charles B. Goddard, another distin- guished lawyer of Zanesville. Ile was thus obliged to remain a student of law for five years, as he could not be admitted before the age of twenty-one. In the spring of 1824 he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio at Gallipolis, and at once commenced practice at Lan- caster, under the patronage of Ilon. Thomas Ewing. Mr. Ewing was practising in the Supreme Court at the time of Mr. Stanbery's examination, and afterwards cordially in- vited him to locate at Lancaster, proffering his aid and friendship. This offer the young lawyer was glad to accept. In 1846 the Legislature of Ohio created the office of Attor- ney-General, and elected Mr. Stanbery to the position. Ile then removed to Columbus, and devoted himself to the duties of his office. This term of office lasted five years. In the summer of 1853 he removed to Cincinnati, where he continued the practice with the unusual success and popu- larity which had marked his long residence of twenty-two years at Lancaster. In 1850 he was a member of the Con- stitutional Convention, and in 1866 was nominated for the Supreme Bench of the United States; but this nomination was not acted on in Congress, owing to the passage of a law limiting the number of judges to the status of the court at that time. In the same year he was appointed to the Attorney-Generalship of the United States, by President Johnson. This position he resigned in 1868, to become one of the counsel for the President in his impeachment trial. Ile was subsequently renominated to the same cabi- net position, but the Senate refused to confirm him. Hle then resumed the practice of the law in the United States courts of Southern Ohio and in the Supreme Court of the United States, and since 1857 has resided at Highlands, Campbell county, Kentucky. Mr. Stanbery has been twice married ; first to the daughter of General Beecher, of Lan- caster, Ohio, who died, leaving several children, three of whom are now living, and, in 1841, to the daughter of W. Key Bond, of Cincinnati. Nearly fifty-two years Mr. Stanbery has been practising law, and has taken a front rank in the profession. Ile has ever been a hard and far- discerning student of law, and his professional habits have been models of fine deportment. He never undervalues an adversary, or suffers from inattention to his own client; his briefs are rare specimens of logie, perspicacity and force, up to the professional standard of any tribunal, however learned


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or exalted. In the court he probably appears to the best advantage, where, at all times, he presents himself to the eye and car as the finished advocate. His appearance is admirable, bis person tall and straight, his voice mild and clear, his gesture and mauner courteous and dignified, and his constitutional vigor extraordinary, all giving a-surance of his being equal to any occasion. Ilis adroitness in the investigation of facts, and in bringing the points of law to his own aid and to the distress of his adversary, cannot be excelled. And his defence never fails to heighten the marked interest which he has excited. He has ever attrib- uted much of his power and resources to his long contact and strife with the late Mr. Ewing and the able bar of Lancaster. Great lawyers, as great men in other intellectual pursuits, appear in groups, because, like physical athletes, they develop one another. Mr. Stanbery's private life has the same thorough honesty and purity that distinguish his professional career; and consequently he enjoys justly an enviable position among his friends in and out of the pro- fession, and the high estimation of the public. He has never sought offices in the line of his profession nor in any other field. Where he has filled and enjoyed them, he has given them more lustre than he received, by his learning and personal character. Mr. Stanbery has acquired a con- siderable fortune, which would enable him to retire, but, at more than threescore and ten, he still pursues the practice of his profession; and with the example of many great. lawyers, who have kept the harness on to a great age, he will probably, as long as his fine constitution gives him strength, devote himself to his accustomed employment with his exceptional great skill, fidelity and success




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