USA > Ohio > The Biographical encyclopedia of Ohio of the nineteenth century. Pt. 2 > Part 28
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76
6 e RANE, CHARLES A., was born, January 11th, IS17, in Boardman township, Mahoning county, Ohio. Ile worked on his father's farm and at- tended the district school until he was thirteen years of age, when the family removed to Port Laurence, then a new town on the Maumee, and now grown into the city of Toledo. When Charles was fifteen years of age he fancied a sailor's life, and accord- ingly went on the lakes for two years. In 1834 he entered a store in Toledo, remaining in that situation two years, at the end of which time he entered the warehouse of a transportation company and stayed there until 1839. In this year he joined the late Lyman Wheeler, and formed the firm of Whecler & Crane, rectifiers and grocers, on Monroe street, Toledo. At the end of two years he sold his interest to Mr. Wheeler, and did business on his own account on the pier. Ile was again in the transportation business for two years, until 1845, when he accepted a position in the banking house of Prentice, Due & Co. for two years. Ile was in the office of Thomas Watkins & Co., on the dock, from 1847 to 1853, when he moved on a farm on the East Side. For the next ten years he cultivated his farm and dealt in real estate. He now resides in East Toledo, and still operates in real estate. For fifteen years Mr. Crane has been a Managing Director of the Lucas County Infirmary. Ile was originally a Democrat, but
452
BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOP. EDLA,
since the outbreak of the war has been a Republican. In | June of aSqjo he was married to Lorain Fassett, daughter of Dr. Bassett, of Toledo. His first wife dying in 18.12, he contracted a second mariage, in 1847, with May A. Hill, daughter of Ellis Hill, of Jefferson county, New York. No children have been born to him.
IFFIN, EDWARD, first Governor of Ohio, was boru in Carlisle, England, June 19th, 1766. His parents were in moderate circumstances, and his unele, Edward Parker, assumed the responsibility and expense of his education. Under the direc- tion of this uncle Edward Tiffin was fitted for the study of medicine, upon which he entered at an early age. Before he had finished his medical course, however, and when he was only eighteen years of age, he came to Amer- ica with his parents, landing in New York. Ile at once proceeded to Philadelphia, where he finished his course of medical lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, Having graduated, he rejoined his father's family, who had settled in Charlestown, Berkeley county, Virginia, and there he commenced the practice of his profession when he was only twenty years old. Ile had been thoroughly trained for his calling, and he speedily became a very successful practi- tioner, with a fine reputation and a large and Inerative practice. Ilis social graces appear to have been equal to his professional attainments, and he became the favorite in the gay and fashionable cireles of Berkeley. Ile married, in 1789, Mary, daughter of Robert Worthington and sister of Governor Worthington, a woman of high intelligence and fine culture, with whom he lived happily for nearly twenty years. In 1796 he removed to Ohio with his family, and in company with Messrs. Lucas, Worthington, and others, settled at Chillicothe, then but recently laid out by General Massie. The whole surrounding country was a vast forest, but the settlements, though few and far between, were rapidly increasing. The doctor selected a four-acre lot at the upper end of the settlement, and thereon built the first house in that region that was covered by a shingle roof. Ile continued his professional practice and rapidly found abundant patronage. As a physician and surgeon he stood in the front rank of the men of his time. Absorbed as he was in his professional duties, however, he still found time to give keen and broad attention to affairs at large. The people recognized his abilities and elected him to the Territorial Legislature, and so his political life began. The Legislature met in Cincinnati on September 18th, 1799, when Cincinnati was but a straggling collection of frame houses and log cabins, lying under the protection of Fort Washington. Dr. Tiffin was unanimously elected Speaker of the llouse, a position which he retained to the end of the Territorial goverment. He frequently took part in the debates, and is described as an eloquent and impassioned his office at Chillicothe. This position he continued to
debater. In the autumn of 1802 he was elected one of the Delegates from Ross county to a Convention to form a State Constitution. The Convention met in Chillicothe in the November tol owing, and he was chosen its President. Ili, eminent qualities in this position so impressed the members of the Convention that at the conclusion of its labors they brought him forward as candidate for Governor of the new State. Ile was elected to that office in January, 18o3, without opposition, receiving 4565 votes. In October, ISo5, he was unanimously re-elected Governor, receiving 4783 votes. At the expiration of his second term he was urgently called upon to accept the office for a third term, but he persistently declined. The most notable event of his career as Governor was the arrest of the Burr- Blennerhassett expedition, in 1806. In the latter part of that year Burr collected numerous boats and quantities of stores in the neighborhood of Blennerhassett's Island, below Marietta. Governor Tiffin learning that the expedition was ready to sail, despatched a courier to the commandant at Marietta, directing him to occupy a position below the island, where, with a field battery, he could command the channel. Buir, seeing that his plans were discovered and that he could not run the blockade, abandoned the expedition and Red. For his prompt and effective action on this occasion Governor Tiffin was warmly praised by the press of the Eastern States, and President Jefferson, in his letter to the Ohio Legislature, February 2d, 1807, highly commends the Governor for his promptness and energy in destroying the expedition. When his term of office as Governor expired, in 1807, he was elected United States Senator, and took his seat in December, John Adams presenting his creden- tials. While in the Senate he procured the passage of many acts of great importance to Ohio. His wife died in 1808, and he was so overwhelmed by his bereavement he determined to abandon public life, and therefore, at the close of the session, in March, 1809, he resigned. his posi- tion. Returning home he settled on his farm and devoted himself to agriculture, resuming, also, his medical practice. Ile was not allowed to remain long out of public life, and at the fall election he was chosen to the Legislature, and was unanimously elected Speaker of the House, a position which he continued to hold for several successive sessions. In the meantime he married again, nniting himself to Mary Porter, from Delaware, a woman of exceeding personal beauty, pleasing manners, and the most exemplary piety. During the first term of President Madison's administration Congress passed the act creating the office of Commissioner of the General Land Office, and to this newly created posi- tion Mr. Madison appointed Governor Tiffin. Ile accepted the position and administered its duties with the highest ability. Ilis desire to be at his home in Ohio induced President Madison eventually to consent to his transfer from the office of General Land Commissioner to that of Sur- veyor-General of the West, with the privilege of locating
-
453
BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA.
hold through successive administrations for nearly fifteen | is a gentleman of stately appearance, a fine practitioner, a years, and until within a few weeks of his death. Indeed, man of large heart and liberal views, and is greatly es- leemed by the community in which he resides. he was on his death bed when he made over his office to ' his successor. He was reared in the Church of Englund, but in 1790 he and his wife united with the Methodist Church. He was consecrated a lay preacher in that church, and he continued, on occasion, to perform the functions of that office. Ile retired from the practice of his profession as physician in 1812, but subsequently gave fre- quent gratuitous advice to the poor and to many of his old patients who insisted on consulting him. Ilis own health began to fail in 1820, and from that time he suffered from a most painful disease until the time of his death, which occurred on Sunday evening, August 9th, 1829. His wife followed him in 1832. They left four daughters and one son. Three of the daughters still live.
ATTIER, JOHN LORING, M. D., was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 31st, 1808, of French and English ancestry, his parents being amongst the earliest pioneers of the Miami valley. Ile received his early education in Cincinnati in the best schools of that day, and was also instructed by the most competent private preceptors to be had at that early period. After leaving school he entered the service of an apothecary, with the view of eventually becoming a physician; commencing the study of medicine in 1827, under the tutorship of Professors Whitman and Cobb, of the Medical College of Ohio. Ile graduated at that institution in 1830, and in April of that year commenced practising medicine in Indiana; but within twelve months returned to Cincinnati and embarked in the drug business, in which he continued until 1836, when he resumed the practice of his profession, which he has faithfully prosecuted to the present time, except during seven years in which he held a position under the government. Ile was elected to the State Senate in 1851, serving in that body until 1853, when he was ap. pointed by President Pierce Postmaster at Cincinnati, which position he held under Pierce and his successor until May, 1858, when he was superseded, but was reappointed in October, 1859, by President Buchanan ; hohling the position until Mr. Lincoln became President, when he was removed. lle was elected to the State Board of Equaliza- tion in 1859, but resigned the position to accept that of Postmaster tendered him by President Buchanan. He was the first to move in the enterprise of establishing street railroads in Cincinnati, having organized a company as early as 1853; but they failed to receive the needful fran- chises from the city. In 1858 he again organized a com- pany, and after spending much time and money, finally secured a grant which was loaded with such damaging restrictions as to make the enterprise a failure. Dr. Vattier : Dr. Langdon was appointed Superintendent and Physician
ANGDON, OLIVER MONROE, M. D., was born, February 20, 1817, near Columbia, one of the suburbs of Cincinnati. Oliver Langdon, his father, was a physician and a clergyman in the Methodist Church. About 1800 he emigrated to Ilamilton county and bought a section of land embracing Mount Lookout, and extending beyond the city limits. Oliver Langdon was one of the most esteemed and valued of the early settlers of the county. Dr. Langdon's mother was a daughter of Colonel William Brown, a soldier of the Revolution, and with her parents settled near Cincin- nati as early as 1789. The first twelve years of Dr. Lang- don's life were passed in school and at home with his parents. At that age, his parents both being dead, he came to Cincinnati and made his home with his cousin. Ilere, from choice, he worked to support himself, at the same time attending one of the best schools of the city, there being then no public schools or educational institutions in Cincin- nati. In 1831 he entered the now famous Woodward Iligh School, and remained until in 1832, when, the cholera making its appearance, he went to the old homestead and remained until the scourge had subsided. Ile then re- turned to Cincinnati and entered the Athenaum, now St. Xavier's College, at the same time working as before to pay his way. After finishing a course of two years' study in the Athenaum, he commenced the study of medicine in the office of Professor Cobb, of the Medical College of Ohio. In due time he entered that college and graduated in 1838, at the age of twenty-one. Immediately after graduating, in the spring of 1838, he went to Madison, Indiana, then thought to be the prospective great city, it having the first railroad in the West. Ile remained in association with one of the first physicians of the place until 1842, when he re- turned to Cincinnati and opened his office. Soon after- wards he was appointed Physician for one of the four dis- tricts or townships into which the city was then divided. This position he held until the commencement of the war with Mexico. Ile was then appointed Surgeon in the 4th Ohio Regiment, under Colonel Brough. Ile followed the fortunes of his regiment, and returned home with it at the close of the war, in 1848. IIe was present at the memor- able trial of General Scott in the City of Mexico. After returning home he formed a partnership with Dr. Jesse Judkins and renewed his private practice. This connection continued unbroken until 1859. Soon after his return from Mexico he was appointed Physician to the House of Refuge, and afterwards Physician to the lunatic asylum at Lick Run. Both of these positions he held until 1856. In 1859
-- 1
454
BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOP.EDLA.
of Longview Asylum, the new institution for the insane just completed. Ile then, of course, removed to the asylum, letving off all private practice. This important trust he held uatil 1370, when he resigned on account of long con- finement and failing health. About this time, during a trip made to California, he was made honorary member of the California State Medical Society. Ile has since almost retired from business, being one of the most wealthy physi- cians of Cincinnati. Dr. Langdon was one of the origin- ators of the Miami Medical College, and one of the instiga- tors of the humane movement which took the lunatics from the Old Commercial Hospital to Lick Run, and finally re- sulted in the building of Longview. Ile was the first Superintendent of Longview, and to him is due the credit of organizing and putting that institution in the condition it How occupies as one of the first asylums for the insane in America. He organized and put in operation the first American asylum for the colored insane. This was estab- lished in 1866, and made a separate department at Long- view. All the colored insane of Ohio are now sent into this institution. Before this they were accommodated in the prisons over the State. As the trustees of Longview could not buy and own this negro institution, it was purchased in the name of Dr. Langdon, and is still held in trust for the county by him. The Legislature passed an act enabling the trustees of the asylum to relieve Dr. Langdon of his trust ; but for some cause this has not been done. Ile has been one of the movers and active workers in nearly all the medical reforms of his time. Ilis conduct of Longview was eminently successful and of invaluable service to the State and country. This position threw him more into rela- tions with the philanthropie and best men of the age, and their testimonials from Europe and our own country show the value they put on the work he himself was doing. This institution was originally styled " The Southwestern Lunatic Asylum ; " but in 1861, in a bill passed by the Legislature for the goverment of the asylum, drawn up by Dr. Langdon, this mune was changed to Longview. Dr. Langdon has been one of the Trustees of the Miami Medi- cal College since its foundation. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Ohio State Medical Society, of the Cincinnati Medical Society, of the Cincin- nati Medical and Chirurgical Society, and of the American Medical and Psychological Associations.
'BRIEN, REV. PATRICK, was born in Pilltown, county Wexford, Ireland, February 14th, IS45. Ilis parents belonged to the peasant class. Ile emigrated with his family to this country at the age of thirteen. They landed in Quebec, June 2d, 1857, and immediately proceeded to Elyria, Lorain county, Ohio. He attemled school at the latter
place for three years, and on completing his sixteenth year was apprenticed to a tailor. At the age of twenty-one he entered the preparatory seminary at Louisville, Stark county, Ohio, where he remained for a period of four years. ' During his collegiate course he worked at the tailoring business part of the time for the purpose of raising funds to pay his expenses. In 1869 he was admitted into the Cath- olie Theological Seminary, at Cleveland, Ohio, and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood by Right Rev. Richard Gilmour, July 2151, 1872. Since his ordination he has offi- ciated in the Diocese of Cleveland, first at Youngstown, Mahoning county, where he remained one year, and then at Rockport, Cuyahoga county, where he spent two years .. Now (March, 1876) he is Pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Toledo, Ohio. Since his arrival in Toledo, which was in August, 1875, he has made many friends, and as a preacher and orator he is very popular among all classes of its citizens. Though a young man, he is placed by com- petent critics in the front ranks of pulpit orators and lyccum lecturers. Ile is fairly idolized in Toledo by the people belonging to his own denomination, and especially by the Irish Catholics. He has never taken an active part in pol- ities, but he was an abolitionist before the emancipation of the slaves. The first vote he ever cast, after declaring his allegiance to the United States government, was for an abolition candidate, nominated, of course, by the Repul,- lican party. Ile voted with the latter party during the war because he honestly believed its policy towards the South was the best and most practicable for the preservation of the Union. Born in a land that was subject to the grinding laws of England, and imbibing in his very childhood a hatred of oppression and oppressors, he naturally sympa- thized with the poor oppressed negro slaves of the United States, hence his union with the Republican party. Since his ordination he has not voted; but he possesses the right, as a naturalized citizen, to vote whenever and for whomso- ever he pleases, Though born in Ireland, and loving the land of his nativity, he is nevertheless proud of his Ameri- can citizenship, and is grateful to the noble land that gave him and his downtrodden countrymen an asylum, and not only that, but conferred on them the grand title of American citizenship, a title which he considers superior to that of lord or duke. Ile is ardently devoted to the duties of his profession, and looks upon his church as the grandest insti- tution in the world ; and in the course of a lecture delivered in Toledo, February 6th, 1876, on the "American Conten- nial," before a crowded house of Protestants and Catholics, including the mayor and a number of the most prominent men of the city, in referring to the Catholic Church in the United States, he rose to one of the grandest flights of elo- quence it was ever the pleasure of the writer to listen to, recalling to the minds of his hearers the historic orators of olden time. The foregoing sketch may not be as minute in its details as the admirers of the subject would desire; but as the gentleman would only give the bare facts of his his-
+
1.
Godzą Pal to thehed'
Patrick O' Brien
455
BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA.
tory, the work had to be completed by a friend, who, eloquent in his speeches, and seems to hold his audience though dufering with him in religious matters, admires , at his pleasure. By his eloquence he has given great aid him as a patriotic and eloquent clergyman. to his party, not only in Ohio, but especially in the cam- paign prior to the formation of West Virginia, when he traversed that section of the then old Virginia, working against the separation. He has the credit of being one of the best party organizers in the State of Ohio. Personally he is a pleasant, sociable gentleman, and one eminently calculated to make friends.
EET, DANIEL W., Lawyer and Politician, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on September 8th, 1835. Ilis parents were natives of that State, his father being a farmer and a man of prominence therein. lle is a cousin of Jona- than Leet and of llon. Isaac Leet, a member of the Twenty-fourth Congress, and is a descendant on his mother's side of Robert Fullerton, who fought in the war of 1812, as did also his grand-uncle, Daniel Leet, who served as a major in that war. Daniel W. first attended 6 the country school, in the summer season assisting on the farm, until he reached the age of sixteen, when he started to Buffalo Academy, at Buffalo, near Washington, Pennsyl- vania, Ile remained here for two years, and then attended Washington College, where, at the expiration of three years, he graduated in 1856. From colleg: he returned to the farm, and for the next four years was engaged in farming, raising and dealing in sheep and cattle. In 1860 he re- moved to Wellsburg, West Virginia, and commenced the study of law with O. W. Langfitt, and after three years' diligent application, was admitted to the bar in September, 1863. In the campaign of 1863 he took an active part, doing much service to the party by his eloquence. During the spring of 1864 he removed to Barnesville, Ohio, where he engaged in the practice of law with success until the fall of 1865, when he was taken sick and was unfitted for busi- ness for one year. In the spring of 1867 he moved to New Martinsville, West Virginia, and formed a partnership with Hon. 1 .. S. Hall, which lasted until the early portion of 1868, when he removed to Washington county, Pennsyl- vania, and remained until the latter portion of 1869, when. he came to Bellaire, where he has since resided. Shortly after his removal to Bellaire he commenced the publication of the Bellathe Standard, in connection with J. R. Nuzum, which he conducted very successfully, both from a mone- tary point of view and as to ability, until the spring of 1872, when he sold out. About that time he invented and patented a slutte washer, but as yet has not put it upon the market. After selling out his paper he was engaged in codifying and arranging the laws of the city, which occu- pied him till the spring of 1873, since which time he has been connected with the Wheeling Register. In 1862 he was elected to the Legislature of West Virginia, but was ineligible owing to not having resided in the State for a year. In 1874 he was appointed Gas Inspector of Belmont county. On August 6th, 1864, he was married to Jennie E., daughter of James Nuzum, a large tobacco dealer of Barnesville, Ohio. Mr. Leet is the most prominent Demo- cratic politician of Bellaire, is a fluent and able speaker, ployed at the present day. They also are engaged in the
APE, EDWARD W., Manufacturer, was born in 1829, in the Principality of Lippe-Detmold, Ger- many. Ile went to school until he was fourteen years of age, in accordance with the legal require- ments of the fatherland, and was afterwards apprenticed to a dry-goods merchant. lle was early imbued with the idea of making his home and fortune in the New World, and in 1850 emigrated to the United States, landing in New York city. Ile there entered one of the oldest established gilt-moulding factories in the country for the purpose of learning the trade. He remained in the establishment five years, during which time he gained a thorough knowledge of the business in all its de- tails. Being joined by his brother Theodore, they went to Cincinnati in 1855, and commenced what was truly the first establishment for the exclusive manufacture of gilt mouldings west of the Allegheny mountains. It should be observed that mouldings of every description then used were imported, and of course the new enterprise met with decided opposition from those who had hitherto controlled the trade. The growth of their business was necessarily slow, but nevertheless it gradually increased. They soon enlarged their line of products by manufacturing walnut, veneered, and all descriptions of domestic wood mouldings. . Being without machinery during the first years of their adventure, they were obliged to have their material cut in the rough-from patterns made in their own shop-by establishinents which were engaged in an entirely different line of business. This difficulty was obviated in 1863 by their having introduced into their own factory the necessary machinery, operated by steam power. As the demand for - their products increased they correspondingly augmented their business facilities, and they have recently erected and finished their extensive factory building on West Canal street, which is one of the largest of its kind in the Union. The material used in their works was formerly obtained in the city yards; but they now procure the rough lumber from the mills of Lake Superior and other northern points, and from this stock every variety of mouldings used in buildings is now manufactured by the brothers. These mouldings include the cornice, wall, window, and house ornamentations of gilt and fine woods so extensively em-
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.