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ODGE, FREDERICK BLAKE, Lawyer and In- surance Agent, was born, March 19th, 1838, at Lyme, New Hampshire, and is of English deseent. Ile was prepared for college at Kimball's Union Academy, at Meriden, New Hampshire, and graduated at Dartmouth College, in the same State, in the class of 1860. HIe removed to Ohio shortly afterwards and settled in Toledo, where he taught school for two years, and then became a clerk in the office of the
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Adjutant-General of Ohio, at Columbus, where he was em- ployed about a year. Returning to Toledo, he commenced the study of law, which he pursued for three years in that city and also in Greenfield and Boston, Massachusetts, Ile was admitted to the bar, but has never practised his pro- fession. Ile has been engaged in the insurance business since 1868, being a member of the firm of Brown & Dodge, prominent insurance agents of Toledo. Ile is also Secre- tary of the Toledo Fire & Marine Insurance Company, one of the oldest corporations in the State, having done business uninterruptedly since 1848; and, although the risks taken have not been as heavy as those assumed by other similar companies, yet they have proved very advantageous and profitable. Ile is a Republican in political opinion, and has served as an Alderman of the city of Toledo. Ile was married, October 13th, 1864, to Caroline Elizabeth Perkins, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and has a family of four children.
EBER, GUSTAV C. E., Professor of Surgery, was born in Bonn, Prussia, May 26th, 1828. 1Ie came of a good family. Ilis father, M. I. Weber, has been Professor of Anatomy in the University . of Bonn, Prussia, since its foundation, in ISIS: author of "Anatomical Atlas," which has been translated into every printed language, "The Iland-book of Anatomy of the Iluman Body," " The Pelves and Crania of the Different Races," "Atlas of the Bones of Domestic Animals" and many other valuable works and writings, and who was decorated by several of the crowned heads of Europe for his distinguished services in the cause of science. Gustav's education was chiefly obtained at Bonn University, but before matriculating, the revolutionary move- ment of 1848 caused him to emigrate to America, where he could enjoy those republican principles he so much loves. Ile came to the United States in 1849 and began to work at agriculture near St. Louis; he soon, however, abandoned that business and returned to Europe, and completed his studies at Vienna, Amsterdam and Paris. In 1853 he came again to this country and settled in New York, where his brother Edward was engaged in the practice of medicine. Ilis brother died that year, and he assumed his practice with success. The demands upon him were so great that his health failed, and in 1856 he was obliged to relinquish his practice. That year he accepted the chair of Surgery in the Cleveland Medical College, made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Horace A. Ackley, and retained that position seven years. In the autumn of 1861 one of the first acts of Governor Tod was to appoint him Surgeon- General of the Ohio.forces, with special mission to organize a system for better medical care of the troops in the field. After making arrangements for the better condition of the camps and hospitals in the State, he obtained from the Secretary of War permission to visit the Ohio soldiers in
the field, and the troops were greatly benefited by his labors. In the autumn of that year his wife's health and the pressure of his professional duties compelled him to resign. Governor Todd addressed to him the following reply :
STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, COLUMBUS, October 13, 1862. DR. GUSTAV C. E. WEBER, Surgeon-General, Present :
Your note of last evening, tendering your resignation, is before me. My knowledge of the extremely critical con- dition of Mrs. Weber's health has led me to expect the step you have taken, but notwithstanding this I felt greatly em- barrassed by it. Upon assuming the responsible duties of Commander-in-Chief of the Ohio forces, it became my first duty to look to it that the brave and gallant soldiers of Ohio should be well provided with an able, kind and efficient corps of surgeons and physicians. To superintend this great and good work, from a knowledge derived upon my own sick-bed and also that of my family as to your fitness for the position, I selected yourself. Great as my expecta- tion was of your various qualifications, you have, in the discharge of the duties of the position, far more than met my expectations. Hoping that this letter may meet the eyes of your parents, your children and their children, it is due to you to state that, in the skill, energy, system, economy, integrity, firmness and kindness of heart in the discharge of your official duties, you have won for yourself the gratitude and esteem of all good men. To part with such an officer is indeed a painful trial, but I am not in- sensible to the duties of a kind husband, of an affectionate wife and father of an infant child, and therefore I am con- strained, with great regret, to accept your resignation. The telegrams of this morning, however, inform us that upon the battle-field of Perryville, Kentucky, Ohio's gallant soldiers need your services, and, believing that you will cheerfully, at every hazard, repair to their relief, I have to request that you leave by the first train for the scene of action. This duty discharged, I will appoint your suc- cessor. With my kindest Regards to Mrs. Weber, and ardent wishes for her speedy restoration to health,
I am truly yours, DAVID TOD, Governor.
Ile obeyed these instructions, returned to Columbus, closed his official relations with the State and resumed his duties in the college. While holding the office of Surgeon-Gen- eral he reduced the cost of transporting wounded soldiers from four cents per man to half a cent, and this while in- creasing their comfort. In the spring of 1863 he closed his connection with the Cleveland Medical College, and in 1864 organized the Charity Hospital Medical College, of which he was made Professor of Clinical Surgery and also Dean of the Faculty. He was also appointed Consulting Surgeon of Charity Ilospital, a noble institution, which owed its existence mainly to his suggestions and efforts. From first to last his services to the hospital were gratu- itously rendered. It was finally merged into the medical department of the University of Wooster, he being chosen to fill the same positions occupied during its independent existence. IIe made one of the greatest discoveries in modern surgical science by the invention of a new method for closing arteries of large size in surgical operations with- out a ligature. This consists in reflecting the wall of the
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artery, or folding it back upon itself (like turning back the cuff of a coat), which doubles the thickness of the arterial wall at the end of the divided artery, and enables the artery to close itself by its own contraction. Lest the wall turn back again, a very delicate silver pin, one-eighth of an inch in length, is passed through the walls of the artery at the point of reflection. This important discovery has been frequently tested, never failed, and promises to eventually revolutionize the existing system of closing arteries with ligatures. It prevents the introduction of foreign substances into the wound, and thereby effectually precludes the pos- sibility of decomposition. To him the profession are in- debted for the method of removing stone from the bladder in females by the division of the urethra as far as the sphincter and then its extraction through the dilated sphinc- ter. Many of his other remarkable inventions in surgery might be mentioned. In 1859 he established the Cleveland Medical Gazette, which he conducted with ability during several years. As a lecturer he is logical; and as a surgeon lie ranks among the foremost of this country, his operations having acquired a national and European reputation. Ile was married in 1854 to Ruth Elizabeth Cheney, of New York city, and has two children, Carl and Ida. IIe has a fine presence, genial qualities, and his benevolent public spirit makes him niversally beloved.
OSES, IIALSEY II., Lawyer, was born in Ashta- bula county, July 16th, 1830. Ilis parents were Jonathan and Abigail (Plumley) Moses. They were among the early settlers of the Western Reserve, having arrived in Ashtabula county in the spring of 1814 from Litchfield county, Con- necticut. It illustrates the recent condition of a country, now among the finest and wealthiest in the whole civilized world, to reflect that this family moved thither to an almost unbroken wilderness only sixty years ago, their whole ef- fects drawn by a single team of oxen. The parents of Mr. Moses settled on a farm of two hundred acres, and he received the advantages of such schools as the country afforded till the age of fourteen, when, his father dying, his future maintenance devolved upon himself. IIe finished his education at the Austinburg Institute, Ashtabula county, but never completed a regular course, and after the age of eighteen never attended school. For a time he engaged in carpenter's work, but having a strong ambition for a profes- sional career, at the age of nineteen he began the study of law with A. L. Linker, of Painesville, Ohio. On reaching his majority he was admitted to the bar, and at once began practice in Ashtabula county, where he remained till Janu- ary, 1862, when he removed to Warren, Trumbull county, and associated himself professionally with General Rutliff. He has long held a position among the ablest lawyers at the bar, and enjoys an extensive practice. Ile has an office at
Youngstown, Mahoning county, where he also has a large professional patronage. Ile married Mary J. Murdock, of Trumbull county, with whom he has three children, two sons and a daughter.
CARBOROUGII, WILLIAM W., President of the Cincinnati Gas Light & Coke Company, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 20th, 1814. His father was a heavy shipping merchant who was financially ruined by the burning of his vessels by the British, in Long Island sound, in the war then pending, and died while his son was an infant. ITis mother was a sister of President Woolsey, of Yale College. She again married, becoming by the second marriage the mother of IIon. George E. Iloadley, for many years the law partner of Ilon. Salmon P. Chase. William received his business education in the famous shipping house of Goodhue & Co., New York, and when of age the firm sent him as supercargo of one of their East India trading vessels. From 1838 until 1843 he resided at Mazatlan, on the west coast of Mexico, heavily engaged in commerce, acting there as the agent of the great house of lowland & Aspinwall, New York. During these years he made six overland trips on horseback across the continent from Vera Cruz to the Pacific. From 1843 to 1846 he was a banker at Zanesville, Ohio, where he married Sarah Van Buren; of their children one is the wife of Rev. Hugh Smythe, D. D., of Cincinnati. From 1846 to the present time Mr. Scarborough has been in business in Cincinnati, first as a member of the house of Springer & Whiteman, then as President of the Ohio Valley Bank during the en- tire period of its existence, and now he is President of the Cincinnati Gas Light & Coke Company. In February, 1875, he was appointed one of the Trustees of the Cincin- nati Southern Railroad, a position of no emoluments, but of great responsibilities.
URNS, BARNABAS, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, June 29th, 1817. Ilis parents were Andrew and Sarah (Caldwell) Burns, both natives of Ireland. Ilis education was received in Ohio, where the family had removed in 1820; he was Clerk of the court from 1840 to 1846, and in the latter year entered the law office of T. W. Bart- ley and S. J. Kirkwood, prominent practitioners of Mans- field and both men of ability, S. J. Kirkwood now being Governor of Iowa, and recently elected to the United States Senate. In 1848 Mr. Burns was admitted to the bar. IIe had always taken a lively interest in politics, and became as it were a party leader in his section, acting with the Democratic organization. In 1847 he was chosen to repie-
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sent the counties of Richland and Crawford in the Senate of the State of Ohio, and in ISq9 he was re-elected to the same office for another term. During his membership in this body he served on the following committees : Finance, Privileges and Elections, and as Chairman of Committees on Benevolent Institutions. After the expiration of his senatorial carcer he became associated in the practice of law with his preceptor, S. J. Kirkwood, and continued his connection with him for four years, until, in fact, Mr. Kirk-
wood removed to Iowa. He was Senatorial Elector on the Democratic ticket in 1852, In the spring of 1862 he entered the army as Colonel of the 86th Ohio Infantry, and remained in active service during one campaign, when he was mustered out, at the expiration of his term of service, and returned to the practice of law at Mansfield, where he has since been actively employed. In the spring of 1873 he was chosen, without opposition, to represent Richland county in the Constitutional Convention of Ohio. Ile was the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio in 1873, and in a vote of about 430,000 was only defeated by about 500 votes. He served as one of the Trustees of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home from 1869 to 1874. Ile was appointed, by the Governor of Ohio, Centennial Commissioner from that State. As a lawyer he stands with the leaders of the profession in the State. Al- though of late years he has nearly eschewed politics, he is a person of large influence in the handling of political bodies, and as a political speaker is very effective. Ile was married on September 16th, 1841 to Urath Gore, of Mary- land.
'RAIG, JAMES W., M. D., was born, January 17th, 1824, in Belmont county, Ohio, and is a son of Samuel C. and Jane ( Woods) Craig. The paternal branch of the family came from the north of Scotland, and were among the pioneer settlers of Massachusetts, having emi- grated to America anterior to the revolutionary war. Ilis mother was a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Ilis preliminary education was obtained at the public schools in his native county, and he subsequently attended a private school, where he enjoyed the advantages of a classical course. Ilaving selected the medical profession as his future sphere of action, he matriculated at the West- ern Reserve College, located at Cleveland, in 1849, and, after the regular prescribed course of study therein, gradu- ated, and was licensed to practise in the spring of 1851. Ile settled originally at Ontario, Richland county, where he entered upon his professional career, and for a period of twenty years practised successfully and extensively in that town and in the surrounding country. Having devoted himself entirely to his professional duties, he soon acquired the reputation of a careful and skilful practitioner, and enjoyed the confidence of the community. In 1870, being
I desirous of still further extending his already large practice, he removed to Mansfield, where he at once took rank among the leaders of his profession in that city, During the late civil war he passed an examination before the United States Medical Board of Examiners, and was ap- pointed Surgeon for Camp Mansfield, which was a rendez- vous for troops that were being organized for field service. IIe performed the duties of this position with credit to him- self and also to the entire satisfaction of the government. Though he is engaged in a general medical practice, he is particularly favorable to surgery, and has performed many and various surgical operations, among which may be men- tioned an uncommon case, that for recto-vesico vaginal fistula. Ile was married, January 24th, 1854, to Eliza McConnell, of Pennsylvania.
YERS, IION. SAMUEL, Farmer, was born, June 11th, 1776, in Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, where he received a good education. IIe be- came subsequently a teacher in Virginia. In 1807 he removed to Fayette county, Ohio, which was then literally a wilderness and populated by Indians, who outnumbered the whites two to one. Ile be- gan farming, and in the course of time became the owner of about two thousand acres of land ; he also taught school for one term. In 1812 he was elected a member of the lower House in the General Assembly, and served during his term; the c: p'tal was then at Chillicothe. During the following year he was a captain in the militia, and while in service in the war with Great Britain was promoted to the rank of Major. After the close of hostilities he was ad- vanced to the grade of Colonel, Ile was again elected, in ISIS, a member of the House of Representatives in the State Legislature, which now met at Columbus, whither the capital had been removed. Ile was.a Justice of the Peace for thirty years. While a teacher in Virginia he was mar- ried to Elizabeth Smith. He died in 1840, leaving seven children, one of whom is Ilon. J. L. Myers, a representa- tive in the Sixty-first General Assembly of Ohio.
GOODWIN, HOMER, Lawyer, was born in Burton, Geauga county, Ohio, October 15th, 1819. He received his education at the Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, and graduated from that institution in the class of 1844, After leav- ing college he removed to Sandusky, where he became a teacher in the High School, and was so occupied for a year. In the autumn of 1845 he returned to Burton and commenced the study of law under the supervision of Judge Ilitchcock. After pursuing the required course
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of readings, he was admitted to the bar in January, 1847; | dist Church north of the Ohio river. He has four children, and in the following month of June removed to Sandusky, where he has ever since resided, and has established an ex- tensive and lucrative practice; in fact, having the largest line of patronage accorded to any member of the bar in Erie county, and is to-day the leaching lawyer in Sandusky. IIe was originally a Whig in political sentiments, and then acted with the Free-Soil party ; at present he is affiliated with the Republicans. He was married, October 29th, IS.49, to Maryett Cowles, of Cleveland, Ohio.
LOSS, GEORGE MANOR DAVIS, Editor and Politician, was born, May 20, 1827, in Derby, Orleans county, Vermont. His father was a custom house officer in that State, and was in the government employ during the war of IS12. His grandfather Bloss was born about the mid- dle of the eighteenth century, in New Hampshire, and was a soldier in the Revolution. Ilis mother was a Davis, and from her he has the name, Manor Davis, His family, on both sides, run back among the earliest New England settlers. In 1830 his father, with his family, removed to Watertown, Jefferson county, New York; remained there until 1838, and afterwards removed to Oswego City. George attended school at the academy at Belleville, Jefferson county, New York, where one of his instructors was ITiram II. Barney, father of R. D. Barney, of Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati. Mr. Barney was years afterwards Principal of Hughes' High School, of Cincinnati, and at one time Ohio State School Commissioner. In the winter of 1846, having completed a fair academical education, Mr. Bloss began the study of law in the office of Grant & Allen, in the city of New York. Allen is now one of the judges of New York Court of Appeals. In 1850 Mr. Bloss was ex. amined before the Supreme Court at Syracuse, and admitted to practise. At once he opened an office in the building occupied by the Palladium, Democratic daily paper. Always a strong Democrat, and taking a deep interest in polities, he wrote many articles for the Palladium, fre- quently editing it in the absence of its editor. In 1852 he removed to Cincinnati, with the intention of practising his profession, but in order to make friends and at once put himself on good terms with the people, he brought letters of introduction to Messrs. Faran & Robinson, then pro- prietors of the Cincinnati Enquirer. This at once brought about an engagement to write for that paper. And this en- gagement, designed to be temporary, so agreed with his natural inclinations, that it has ever since remained un- broken. He is now the oldest political editor connected with the Western press, being a few months the senior of Mr. Ilalstead. In 1854 he was married to Lizzie MeCor- mick, granddaughter of General McCormick, who was the first person that administered the ordinances of the Metho-
and resides at Branch Ilill, twenty miles from Cincinnati, on the Little Miami Railroad. In Columbus, January 8th, 1868, at the Democratie State Convention, the platform which nominated Mr. Pendleton for President of the United States was mainly written by Mr. Bloss, and afterwards, at the solicitation of the friends of Mr. Pendleton, he wrote that statesman's campaign biography. In 1872 he was a member of the Committee on Resolutions at the Democratic State Convention in Cleveland, which instructed the dele- gates to the Baltimore Convention to vote for Greeley and Brown, the Liberal Republican candidates. He was made chairman of the committee, and reported the platform to the convention. In 1874 his friends brought his name before the convention at Morrow, as Democratic candidate for Congress in the Third Congressional District. The nomination was not made until the fifty-seventh ballot. IIe was one of the highest candidates and came within a few votes of securing the nomination. Saving this instance, he has never been a candidate for public office. Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati, in 1875 issued a valuable collection of Mr. Bloss's literary productions, entitled " Historic and Literary Miscellany." This work is composed of what he deems his best and most unobjectionable articles, which have, from time to time, appeared in the Cincinnati En- quirer, since his connection with it began, twenty five years ago. IIe is a fine biographer, a fluent and forcible writer, and never has had an equal as a political writer in the editorial department of the Enquirer. In fact, he has long been the political ballast, so to speak, of that paper. No man connected with the press of the State has done more for his party or manufactured more of its shot and shell. Born in New England, and reared under Puritan influences, transplanted to the West, he has become one of the extreme types of Democratie latitudinarianism. IIe has a remark- able memory, and as a political historian of both Europe and America, he has few or no equals in the country. IIe is a man of deep social attachments, and has personally many earnest friends, and no enemies.
"LENDENIN, WILLIAM, M. D., was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, October Ist, 1829. His parents were of Scotch origin, and his father was a farmer. Ile was very early left in the care of his mother, by the death of his father. To her character and example he attrib- utes any success or usefulness of his life. At the age of fifteen he was put in the drug store of Dr. John Gammil, at New Castle, Pennsylvania. In the doctor's family he lived, and with him studied. After four years in the store he became a regular medical student under the doctor. In 1849 he attended his first course of lectures in the Ohio Medical College, and in the spring of 1851, at the end of
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his second course of lectures, he graduated. After receiv- ing his diploma, he spent two or three years in teaching in Indima. In 1853 he wetinned to Cincinnati, where he commenced the practice of his profession in connection with Dr. R. D. Mussey, and after his death, with his son, Dr. William Mussey. This connection lasted five years. In 1856 Dr. Clendenin was appointed Demonstrator of Anat- omy in the Miami Medical College. This position he held one year. When, in 1857, the Miami and. Ohio Colleges were consolidated, he still held his position, until in the spring of 1859 he resigned in order to make a trip to Europe, for the purpose of furthering his medical knowl- edge. This he did in a most thorough manner, by taking private lessons in anatomy and surgery, and by attending the lectures of Velpeau, Trousseau, Malgaigne, and other eminent men of the Royal Medical College of Paris, having previously studied the French language with this view. Ile also attended the lectures of Sir Thomas Watson, Erasmus Wilson, Sir William Furgeson, and others of the Royal College of Surgeons, of London. After spending eighteen months in this way, he returned to Cincinnati ; immediately went to Washington, was examined by the Medical Board, and appointed Surgeon in the army. At Camp Dennison, Ohio, under General Mitchell, he had his first army experience; afterwards he was sent to West Vir- ginia, under General Rosecrans, and there served in Gen- eral Fremont's and Sigel's commands. After the second battle of Bull Run, in which he participated, he took charge of Emery General Hospital, in Washington. Later he served under General Rosecrans at Murfreesboro', Tennes- sce. He became Medical Director of the 14th Army Corps under General Thomas, and after the battle of Chicka- inauga, Assistant Medical Director of the Department of the Cumberland, with charge of all the hospitals and trans- fer of sick. Subsequently he was appointed Medical In- spector of Hospitals, and held the position till July, 1865. At this time he was called to Washington, and received from Mr. Johnson the appointment of Consul to St. Peters- burg. But having just been chosen Professor of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy in the Ohio Medical College, and other private matters interfering, he was compelled to decline. Having finally returned to Cincinnati in 1865, he was appointed Health Officer, a new office created by the city government in anticipation of the advent of cholera. He was, consequently, Cincinnati's first health officer. After taking charge of the sanitary affairs of the city, as Officer to the Board of Ilealth, he communicated with Eastern cities in reference to their health regulations. Afterwards he drafted a sanitary bill and presented it to the Legislature, This bill, with features peculiarly adapted to Cincinnati, was finally passed in March, 1867. The winter before the Legislature refused to pass the bill ; but one year of cholera materially changed their views, and it was ulti- mately made a law without opposition. This did away with the Council Ordinance, and made a permanent health
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