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CAMPBELL, THOMAS, Lawyer, was born, May . 21st, 1816, in Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio, of American parentage. Ilis father followed mechanical pursuits, and subsequently became a farmer. Thomas received his preliminary educa- tion in the common schools until he was sixteen years old, when he entered Franklin College, in Harrison county, where he remained until he attained the age of twenty years. lle then went to his father's faim in Co- shocton county, and taught school for a year or more. Ile was engaged subsequently as a clerk in a store, which he relinquished in 1838 to commence the study of law, under the supervision of James Matthews, of Coshocton. He was
admitted to the bar in the spring of 1841 at Steubenville; but his health having become impaired, he returned to his father's farm to recuperate. Hle commenced the practice of law in 18.12 in Coshocton, and was elected the following year Prosecuting Attorney of the county, holding that posi- tion for six years, being re-elected in 1845 and 1847. Ile was elected in 1851 the first Probate Judge under the new State Constitution, and served the full term of three years. In 1865 he associated with R. M. Voorhes, of Ilarrison county, under the firm-name of Campbell & Voorhes, attor- neys and counsellors at law. He is at present the solicitor of the Building Association. Ile has ever been a firm and consistent member of the Democratie party, and takes a great interest in the politieal movements in the county, State and Union. Ile was married, August 5th, 1842, to Martha Wallace, of Pennsylvania, and is the father of six children. Ilis eldest son, Patrick Steele Campbell, dicd while in the army.
UNDY, IION. WILLIAM, Member of the Sixty- second General Assembly of Ohio, was born in Belmont county of that State, October 10th, 1819. Ilis parents, William and Sarah (Over- man) Bundy, were of German descent. Ilis boy- hood and youth were spent in assisting his father on the farm and in attending school. He was married in November, 1843, to Prudence Wood. She died in 1845, and some years later he was again married to Asenath Doudna, of the same county. Mr. Bundy was formerly a Whig, and has passed through all the anti-slavery parties and emerged a staunch Republican. He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1875. He is a member of the Wilberite branch of the Society of Friends, and has always taken an active interest in educational and public affairs. Possessed of a competency, with wife and children, he enjoys a comfortable homc.
UNCAN, COMMANDER JAMES N., an Officer of the United States Navy, was born, 1820, in the town of Madisonville, Ohio. IIe entered the navy as a midshipman in 1837, and subsequently passed through a course of study in the Naval School at Philadelphia. He took an active part in the Mexican war, and especially distinguished himself in the contest which preceded the annexation of California. At the commencement of the late civil war he was serving as a Lieutenant on the United States steamer " Crusader," then just completing a two-years' cruise after slavers on the . coast of Cuba. In 1862 he was appointed Commander, and assigned to the store.ship " Relief." Subsequently he was transferred to the monitor " Wechawken," of which he was
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commander, when she went down in Charleston harbor; ] estate, which was rapidly increasing in value. In his clos- but he was providentially on board of the flag-ship at the time of the disaster. He was next appointed to the com- mand of the " Norwich " steam gun-boat, and assisted in the bombardment of Fort Pulaski, and of Jacksonville, Florida. During his service on the Gulf blockade, he contracted a disease of the heart which terminated his life. He died at Brooklyn, New York, August 21-t, 1864.
EDDELL, PETER MARTEN, Merchant, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 17SS. It was not until after his father's death that he was born, and two years later his mother remarried and removed to Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, which was at that time inhabited chiefly by the Indians, who were struggling to hold the land in all its wildness from the invading white men. At fourteen he resolved to earn his own living, and with his entire worldly fortune in a little bundle, was employed in a store, in which he promised to perform any kind of work. Ile was so faithful and successful in everything that, at nineteen years of age, he was made partner. This copart- nership lasted until the death of the senior member, when Peter closed up the business, and with some money and much good judgment, removed to Newark, Ohio, where he opened a store in which he was very successful. In IS20 he removed from Newaik to Cleveland, and commenced business on Superior street, where he was at once known among the leading business men for his energy, promptness, and integrity. In 1825 a partnership was formed with Edmund Clade from Buffalo, and Mr. Weddell retired from active participation in the business. This partnership lasted until 1828, when it was dissolved, and three years after- wards another firm was organized under the name of P. M. Weddell & Co., the new partners being his two clerks, Greenup C. Woods, his half-brother, and Dudley Baldwin. Four years later Mr. Woods removed to Newark, and in IS.15 the firm of P. M. Weddell & Son was announced, with 11. P. Weddell as junior partner. In 1823 he built a brick house and store, on the corner of Superior and Bank streets, then the finest building in Cleveland. In 1845 this was torn down to make room for the Weddell House, which was erected on its site. In 1847, when on his journey home from New York, where he had been to purchase furniture for his new hotel, he contracted typhoid fever and died three weeks afterwards, leaving a large property in real estate in which his surplus funds had been invested. Several years prior to his death he refrained from taking an active part in the business of his store, having resigned the management to his former clerks, who were his partners therein. In 1832 he built a stone cottage on Euclid street for a country residence for his son, HI. P. Weddell, while his own time was chiefly employed in improving his real
ing years he was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Cleveland. He was noted for his untiring in- dustry, uniform courtesy, the generosity of his purse for all worthy objects, and his ever ready assistance to young men, who were struggling in their business enterprises. When he died he made valuable bequests to religious and benevo- lent institutions. He was married twice ; first in November, IS15, to Sophia Perry, of Cleveland, who died in IS23, and in 1824 to Eliza A. Bell, of Newark, Ohio. By his first marriage he had three children, of whom only one survived, Horace P. Weddell, a prominent banker and capitalist, who resides in -his native city, Cleveland. This son was edu- cated in Cleveland and trained to habits of business in his father's affairs, and, at the age of twenty-two, was the junior partner of P. M. Weddell & Son. On the formation of this partnership in 1845, the building of the well-known Weddell House was commenced and finished in 1847, the furnishing being done under his sole management after his. father's death in that year. It was then rented, and has since been successfully conducted as a first-class hotel. The management of this, and other valuable property inherited from his father, has occupied a large share of his time. Ile formed a copartnership with Dr. A. Everett and Sylvester Everett in the banking business, which is still continued. Although never having taken a prominent part in public affairs, he has always assisted, in an unostentatious way, every public enterprise which he deemed was for the good of all. During the war of the rebellion he contributed liberally to the cause of the United States. Hundreds of poor people know of his benevolence, and other hundreds have received of his bounty, without knowing to whom they were indebted for the comforts and necessaries of life.
NNIS, GUSTAVUS S., was born in Franklin town- ship, Franklin county, Ohio, February 4th, 1819. In the spring of 1821 he removed with his father, the Rev. Henry Innis, who settled in the eastern part of Clinton township. The Innis family was of Scotch origin. Some of them removed into the north of Ireland and from there into England, where William Innis united with the Friends, or, as they are more commonly called, Quakers. During the early settlement of Pennsylvania he removed his family near to Philadel- phia. He was the captain of a merchant ship, and made several voyages, on one of which commander, crew, and ship were lost at sea, as no tidings were ever heard of them. Captain Innis left a wife and two or three sons, and a daughter or two. Robert, one of the sons, settled in West- . moreland county, J'ennsylvania, and was a leading elder in the Quaker Church. His second son, Henry, the father of the subject of this sketch, having enlisted at the age of nineteen in the Northwestern army, under W. H. Harri-
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son, during the campaign, first saw the plains and valleys of the then West. Ile determined to make his home on these rich and level lands, and accordingly, after the war, settled in Franklin township, from whence he removed to Clinton, where he lived till his death, which occurred on the 20th day of May, 1865. Young Innis helped his father on the farm summers and attended district schools winters till he was seventeen years old, when his father sent him to Worthington to a seminary in Masonic Hall, Seth Wash- burn, Principal. Here he studied language and mathe- matics, and made rapid progress. The next seminary or high school he attended was in Blendon township, Ebene- zer and Seth Washburn, teachers. Here he continued at school till Central College was organized. Ile was one of the first students of this istitution, where he continued some four or five years, except that he generally left winters to teach, returning to the college again each spring. He made good progress, taking a thorough course in mathematics and astronomy, calculating most of the principal eclipses of the sun and moon up to the year 1900. After leaving school he engaged in teaching for a few years. In March, 1845, he married Sarah G. Morrill, and settled down to the life of a farmer, in Montgomery, now Marion township, south of and near the city of Columbus. Upon the busi- ness of agriculture and horticulture he entered with all the energy of his nature. Still he found time to let his views and practice be known through the local and agricultural press. Ile became a regular correspondent for several agricultural papers, for which he has written as much, or perhaps more, than any other practical farmer in the State, and all without any other reward except having the papers sent to him by the publishers. Ilis articles were exten- sively copied all over the United States. Hle contributed liberally also to the agricultural and scientific literature of the day. Many of his articles will be found in agricultural books and reports. During the holding of the first State fair in Columbus, Mr. Innis met the late Samuel Medary on the street, and said, " Why cannot we have a county agricultural society in Franklin?" Colonel Medary an- swered : " We can. I will advertise to-morrow for a meet- ing." Soon after the friends of agriculture met and organ- ized the Franklin County Agricultural Society. Mr. Innis was one of the live working members of this society, serv- ing it in almost all capacities, until he finally became its President. He has also been an ardent friend of the pub- lic schools, and given much of his time in their manage- ment on Boards of Education and visiting committees. In this he has been enthusiastic, doing whatever was necessary to be done cheerfully. Ile also served for years on the County Board of School Examiners. Upon the breaking out of the war of the rebellion, he became an active sup- porter of the national cause, and contributed liberally to fill up its armies and for the support of the families of those in the service of their country. In 1864, when the National Guard was called into service, he took the field as Colonel
of the 133d Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. He served with his regiment in West Virginia, Bermuda Hundreds, on the James river, and in the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond. In politics he was originally a Democrat, casting his first vote in 1840 for Martin Van Buren. During and a little before the war of the rebellion he somethnes acted with the Republicans. At the close of the war, in 1865, he returned in full allegiance to and accord with the Democratic party, believing its principles to be for the best interests of the country generally. In April, 1874, he was appointed War- den of the Ohio Penitentiary, which position he still (December, 1875) holds. In 1852 he was initiated into the mysteries of Odd Fellowship, and became a member of Central Lodge, No. 23, and of Capital Encampment, No. 6. In 1858 he was admitted a member of Magnolia Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. To each of these organiza- tions he has ever since had the honor of belonging, and is now in good standing.
ODGE, JOHN ORLANDO, was born, November 25th, 1828, in Ilamburg, Erie county, New York. Ile is the son of Alfred lodge, an early settler of Buffalo, and a descendant of John Ilodge, of Windsor, Connecticut, who, on the 12th of August, 1666, married Susanna Denslow, daughter of Henry Denslow, the first settler of Windsor Locks, Connectient. The family is possessed of a complete genealogical record, running from 1646 to date. At the age of fourteen years the subject of this sketch was left an orphan. Hle determined to settle in the West, then so full of promise to young energy aint industry. In June of 1842 the young fortune-seeker arrived at Cleveland, Ohio, where he took up his residence, spending the first few years in a printing office. In April, 1847, Mr. Ilodge, then in his nineteenth year, enlisted for the Mexican war, embarking for the scene of conflict at New York, on the 8th of the following month. Ile was destined to pass through hard- ship and peril before he reached the seat of war. On the first evening ont, before the transport had got fairly to sea, she collided with a Spanish man-of-war, and had to put back to New York in a damaged condition. On the 15th of the same month, Mr. Ilodge sailed again for Mexico. All went well until the 23d of April, when the vessel was wrecked sixty miles from the island of Abaco. Fortunately the volunteers and crew were saved by a ship bound for llavana and safely landed at that port. After spending a few days in Ilavana to recruit their health, the troops crossed the Gulf and entered Mexico. Mr. Ilodge remained in the enemy's country until the close of the war, doing creditable service under Generals Zachary Taylor and John . E. Wool. Hostilities having ceased, Mr. Ilodge returned to New York, and shortly after entered the Geauga Semi- nary, in Geauga county, Ohio. Ilere he applied himself
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industriously and made rapid progress. Upon leaving school he taught for some time to the satisfaction of his patrons. In 1351 he again made his home in Cleveland. In the following spring there was a general election for municipal officer,, Mr. Hodge was a candidate for Clerk of the Police Court, to which position he was elected by the largest vote polled for any candidate. At the expiration of a three years' terin Mr. Hodge declined a renomination, and removed to Chicago, where he opened a printing es- tablishment on his own account. Ile remained in Chicago until 1860, when he disposed of his printing establishment, went to Connecticut, and there engaged in mercantile busi- ness. In a short time after his arrival he was made Post- master of the village in which he resided, filling the office for six years. Ile took an active interest in public affairs, and by his intelligence and upright conduct won the con- fidence of all who knew him. In 1862 Mr. Hodge was elected to the House of Representatives of the General As- sembly of Connecticut. In 1864 Mr. Hodge was elected to the State Senate. Ile served his constituents so faithfully that he was returned to the Senate, of which he was unani- mously chosen the presiding officer. By this time he had become prominent in State politics and was generally respected and trusted. During the war the governor ap- pointed Mr. Hodge on a commission to care for Connecti- cut's sick and wounded soldiers. He was also personally authorized by the governor to receive the vote of the Con- necticut soldiers in the field, cast for President in 1864. Mr. Hodge discharged the duties of both of these positions with intelligence and fidelity. In 1867 he disposed of his interests in Connecticut and returned to Cleveland, where he engaged in real estate operations. In 1871 he was elected to the City Council, being successively re-elected in 1873 and 1575. In the latter year he was the choice of the Republicans for President, but was defeated by one vote, owing to the action of two or three members of his own party. Mr. Hodge has born au active part in the promo- tion of every public enterprise which promised to further the growth and prosperity of Cleveland. He was one of the eiliest advocates of the viaduct project, and to him is given the credit of securing the Land along the lake for park purposes. He has represented his district in the State Legislature, being elected by a greater majority than any other candidate received. Mr. Hodge is a skilful debater, a foreible speaker, and one of the best parliamentarians in Ohio. Throughout his private and public life he has main- tained a character of strict integrity. Ile has been success- ful in business as a result of hard work and natural fitness for the conduct of affairs. Several years since, failing health obliged him to retire from business. Since then he has lived on the accumulated fruits of his industry. Mr. Hodge was a Democrat until the outbreak of the rebellion, when he joined the Republican party, with which he has since acted. In October, 1855, he married Lydia R. Doane, by whom he lias one son, grown almost to manhood,
ILL, W. D., ex-Superintendent of Insurance, was born in Virginia, about 1836. In 18448 he moved to Ohio, where he attended the public schools and made use of the remainder of his time on the fann. Having laid a good foundation, he entered Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, of which Horace Mann, of Massachusetts, was at that time President. In 1857 Mr. Ilill went to Springfield, Ohio, and began a course of law reading with James M. HIunt. Mr. Ilill was admitted to the bar in 1860. Ile entered upon the practice of his profession in Springfield, of which city he was elected Mayor in 1863. He discharged the duties of the mayoralty for one year, and then became a resident of Defiance county. In 1865 he was elected to the lower House of the Legislature, from Defiance, Williams, and Paulding counties. Hle was re-elected three succes- sive times, by increased majorities. In 1870 Mr. Ilill was defeated for Congress in the Toledo District. For fifteen years he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. Ile has served several years as President of the Defiance County Agricultural Society. In February, 1875, Mr. Ilill was appointed by Governor Allen to be Superin- tendent of Insurance. Ile is at present counsel for the Chicago Division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In polities Mr. Ilill is a Democrat, and has taken a prominent place in his party. He is a member of the Democratic State Central Committee from the Fifth District. June 3d, 1863, he married Augusta B. March, at Springfield. The family residence is at Hickville, Defiance county.
ALZELL, JAMES M., Lawyer, was born, Sep- tember 3d, 1838, in the city of Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania, and is a son of Robert and Anna Dal- zell, now of Fayette Springs, Pennsylvania. They are both living ( 1876), the former aged seventy- four, and the latter seventy-six years; and are both devont members of the United Presbyterian Church ; they were married, December 25th, 1836, in Pittsburgh. In 1847 the family left that city and took up their residence in Noble county, Ohio, where their son James has ever since remained. He graduated at Duff's College, in 1856. During the late civil war he served in the ranks of the 116th Regiment Ohio Volunteers, for three years ; and after his return home, received the appointment of a clerkship in the Treasury Department at Washington, District of Colum- bia, which he filled for two years. In 1868 he graduated from the Columbian Law College, and also from the Co- lumbian College, and commenced the practice of the law at his home, at Caldwell, Ohio, in the same year, and has so continued to the present time. He held the office of Dis- trict Attorney of his county for two years; and in the autumn of 1875 was elected a member of the Ohio Legis- lature on the Republican ticket, as a Representative from
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Noble county. Like his father, he was, prior to the organi- [ Missouri. Ilis eldest son, William, was appointed general zation of the Republican party, an Abolitionist of the ultra school. For twenty years he has been an occasional con- tributor to all the leading newspapers in the country, and since the war has generally written over the signature of " Private Dalzell," by which name he is probably better known than by his proper signature. IIe is a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church, and a Ruling Elder in that communion. IIe was married, November 29th, IS67, to HIattie M. Kelley, and is the father of four chil- dren-three daughters, Nellie Grant, Lena May and Anna, and one son, James Monroe. Mrs. Dalzell has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for over twenty years. She is one year younger than her husband, and is a beautiful and noble woman.
IIISIIOLM, IIENRY, Iron Master, was born in I.ochgelly, Fifeshire, Scotland, April 221, 1822. At ten years of age he lost his father, Stewart Chisholm, a mining contractor. Ile attended school until he was twelve years of age, when he was apprenticed to a carpenter and joiner for five years. At the expiration of his apprenticeship he re- moved to Glasgow and worked at his trade until he was twenty, and then emigrated to Canada, and worked at his trade in Montreal seven years, first as a journeyman and then on his own account. Ilis success was remarkable, as his business became one of the most extensive of the kind in that city. In 1850 he removed to Cleveland and con- tracted to build the breal:water for the Cleveland & Pitts- burgh Railroad Company, where their road terminates at the lake. This work required three years, was from the first under his immediate supervision, and gave such entire satisfaction that for a long time thereafter he was con- stantly employed in constructing piers and docks along Lake Erie, in front of Cleveland. In 1857, under the firm- name of Chisholm, Jones & Co., a rolling mill was erected for the purpose of making railroad iron. Soon the firm was changed, so that it was Stone, Chisholm & Jones. The capacity of the mill was about fifty tons per day, and about one hundred and fifty men were employed. The new rails were made of iron from the ores of Lake Superior, which was brought to Cleveland on the lakes; but a part of the work was re-rolling old rails. In 1859 his company built a blast furnace in Newburg, which proved an important addition to their works; it was the first of the kind in that part of Ohio. In 1860 another furnace was built and ad- ditions made to the rolling mill for the purpose of manufac- turing all kinds of merchant iron as well as rails. Ile next built a rolling mill in Chicago, and two blast furnaces in Indiana to partially supply Chicago with pig iron such as was made in Cleveland from the ores of Lake Superior and
manager of the Chicago mill. In 1864 the firm of Stone, Chisholm & Jones established the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, into which the partnership merged, and the Lake Shore Rolling Mill was added by purchase. In 1865 the company constructed the Bessemer Steel Works, it being the second in the United States and one of the most perfect establishments of its kind in the world. It commenced with twenty thousand tons annually, and enlarged until its capacity was thirty thousand tous of steel yearly, gave em- ployment to about fifteen hundred men and turned out from two to three million dollars worth of steel each year. Although the steel rails manufactured by the Bessemer works were shipped to all parts of the country, and the de. mand was constant in addition, at least ten thousand tons of othier steel, such as tire, merchant and spring steel, were manufactured. A wire mill was added, which made an- nually from four to five thousand tons of steel wire, from the coarsest size to the finest hair. All shapes of steel forging were also produced at the Bessemer works. The company owned their own mines on Lake Superior, and kept about two hundred and fifty men employed in produc- ing ore. The annual products of this company amounted to between six and seven million dollars. In 1871 Mr. Chisholm organized, independent of the. Cleveland Roll- ing Mill Company, the Union Rolling Mill Company of Chicago, which did a business of about two and a half million dollars. With his Chicago partners he erected another rolling mill at Decatur, Illinois. All of these establishments gave employment to twenty-five hundred men, and the aggregate of the business was about ten mil- lion dollars per annum. No iron business of this country has ever achieved such enormous growth from such small beginnings in so short a time. Mr. Chisholm, when he landed in Montreal, in 1842, had not a dollar. In 1857, with twenty-five thousand dollars saved in eighteen years from his earnings and contracts, he began the iron business, and in less than eighteen years from that time he had an investment of about ten million dollars. The panics never materially injured his business, but his companies have been able to aid many railroads in times of trouble. Ile has never taken a prominent part in politics. All benevo- lent institutions and those of a charitable and philanthropic character have received large donations from his liberal hands. Ile was a trustee of four of the charitable institu- tions of Cleveland, and for more than twenty years has been an active member of the Second Baptist Church of the city, and also one of its Deacons and Trustces. Ile is a heavy stockholder in several banking and manufacturing institutions. Before leaving Scotland he married Jean Allen, of Dunfermline, Fifeshire, and now has five chil- dren. The eldest son, William, who exhibits the qualities of his father in a marked degree, is manager of the Chicago works; Stewart, the second son, is in charge of the rolling mills in Cleveland; and Wilson B., the youngest, is in
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