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supervision of the farm on which they were born. His printed in foreign journals, and some have found a more younger brother having a taste for such pursuits, to a great permanent resting- place in abstracts and compendiums, where the more valuable articles are gathered. Arrange- ments have been made with him to edit a department of the Cincinnati Laneet and Observer, devoted to nervous dis- orders, insanity and medical jurisprudence, which duty he assumes with the May number, 1876. He has in prepara- tion a volume upon insanity, and also a work on medical jurisprudence. Aside from his regular Professorship in Starling Medical College, he will lecture upon the same subjects elsewhere. For one yet young in years, he has al- ready had advantages and a variety of experience not often given to the life of one man. Within the past few months he has been consulted by eminent counsel in important cases involving questions of insanity and medical jurisprudence in several States. Among these may be cited the celebrated case of the " boy murderer," Jesse Pomeroy, of Boston, Massachusetts, wherein the evidence was submitted to him, and he was requested to write up the case from a medico- legal standpoint. His opinion is, that the boy is irresponsi- ble, and is liable at any time to perpetrate a similar offence. Ile was also called upon by the State, as an expert, to ex- amine the " Blackburn case," where insanity was the turning point. The fact that these and other cases of a similar na- ture have been submitted to him at a period of life when the majority of men feel that they have but just entered upon their profession, is an earnest that the future should unfold for him an enviable reputation. He is a Republican in political creed, having polled his first vote in favor of its principles and nominees, and has so continued ever since. Ile connected himself, when twelve years old, with the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Ellsworth, and continued a member of that denomination until the winter of 1860, when he united with the Seventh Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, and has remained a Presbyterian to the present. Ile has been twice married. Ilis first wife was Maria C., daughter of Rev. E. Cooper, D. D., to whom he was united, June 17th, 1862. She died, July 10th, 1867, leaving one son, Edward A. Morse, now in his twelfth year. He was married, June Ist, 1868, to Amanda M. Withrow. extent took the lead, while he longed for the time when he should be able to enter the profession he had chosen. In September, 1857, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. G. W. Brooke, a careful, able and successful practi- tioner. To him Dr. Morse has always attributed much of his professional success, to the habits and advice his precep- tor inculcated, and only regrets he did not adopt all the former's counsels. Ile subsequently attended the lectures delivered in the Western Reserve Medical College, at Cleveland, and after passing a most excellent examination before the faculty, graduated from that institution in the class of 1862. IIe commenced the practice of his profes- sion at Edinburgh, Ohio, where he remained one year. In March, 1863, he entered the army as Assistant Surgeon of the 124th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with that command in the campaign under General Rosecrans. In September of the same year he was sent to Madison, United States Army General Ilospital, where he remained until May, 1864, when he was commissioned Surgeon of the 162d Ohio Regiment, then doing guard duty over prisoners of war at Camp Chase. Ile was, however, by order of the Secretary of War, immediately detached and sent to Georgia, with orders to report to General Sherman in person for assignment to duty. IIe served through this campaign with the operating staff and in field hospitals. During the following winter he served three months at Camp Chase, and in January, 1865, was sent to Louisville, Kentucky. While on duty at Camp Chase he presented himself before the United States Army Medical Examining Board, then in session at Cincinnati, and after an examina- tion of several days' duration, passed successfully; and in March, 1865, received a commission from the War Depart. ment, with orders to report for duty on the frontier, where he remained some months, but becoming tired of the monoto- nous life, resigned the service. During this same year leave of absence had been granted him by Major-General Reynolds, on order from the War Department, for faithful services rendered in all branches of his line of duty. In October, 1865, he resumed his private practice, and since that time has been occupied as a close student in fully pre- paring himself in those special branches of medicine more especially pertaining to his chair in the colleges wherein he ITCHIELL, GEORGE, M. D., Physician, was born, July 19th, 1838, in Olivesburg, Richland county, Ohio, and is a son of Dr. George F. and Nancy (Devatt) Mitchell. His father was a na- tive of Pennsylvania, but had practised for forty years in Richland county with great success. Dr. George Mitchell, the younger, received his elementary education in the neighboring schools, and in due course of time entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and pursued the full course of four years' study, graduating from that institution in 1858, with the degree of A. B. In 1860 he matriculated at the Western Reserve has lectured. Ile also has devoted his leisure hours to a full course of legal studies, for which he received certificates that he had been so engaged ; and he is thoroughly versed in medical jurisprudence. While preferring nervous dis- orders, insanity, and pathology, as special studies, he is well known to be thoroughly informed as to all that per- tains to his profession, as is evidenced by the numerous pub- lished essays, lectures, and society addresses, upon a great variety of topics. Ile has been an extensive contributor to journals, magazines and newspapers, and upon subjects out- side of his profession. Many of these articles have been re-
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Medical College, where he attended one course of lectures, [ neighborhood of the town. He had ever been a Jackson and during the following winter entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, whence he graduated as Doctor of Medicine in the spring of 1862. Immediately after receiving his degree he entered the United States servies as Assistant Surgeon of the 102d Regiment Ohio Volunteers. Ile con- tinued in active service in different campaigns until the close of the war, being twice promoted for valuable services ren- dered. In 1865 he retired from the army and located him- self at Mansfield, where he has since resided engaged in an extensive practice. Having had much surgical experience during his service in the army, he enjoys the reputation of being a skilful surgeon. lle is one of the Censors of the medical department of the Wooster University, and also a Trustee of his Alma Mater. In the winter of 1876 he was appointed by Governor Ilayes one of the Board of Trustees of the Central Ohio Insane Asyhim. Ile is a member of the American Medical Association, and also of the Ohio State Medical Society. He has at various times contributed to the literature of the profession. He was married, Sep- tember, 1867, to Mary, daughter of Colonel Barnabas Burns, an old and prominent legal practitioner of Mansfield.
Democrat, until the firing on Fort Sumter, when he became a firm supporter of the administration, and was ever after a staunch Republican. He was married in 1826 to Louisa, daughter of John Snyder, an old resident, and extensive land owner in Monroe county, Pennsylvania, and was the father of seven children, of whom but three are now living. One son, Peter Kessler, was for five years a postal elerk on the line between Fremont and Buffalo, and served for some time in the army during the civil war; one daughter, Louisa, is the wife of E. B. Baldwin; and another daughter, Myra, remains with her mother. The eldest son, Major John J. Kessler, of the 49th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, eame home sick, and died in August, 1865, having served through the entire war. Mrs. Kessler remains the proprie- tress of the Kessler Ilouse in Fremont, which is widely known as one of the pioneer houses of Ohio, and its fonnder will long be remembered as one of the oldest and most popular of hotel-keepers. For some years previous to his death he had been in declining health, and was much in- jured by an accident while driving. Ile died, August 13th, 1866. The family have in their possession the original passports given, February 15th, 1764, to Peter Kessler, in Saxony, when he was about emigrating to America ; he was the grandfather of William Kessler.
ESSLER, WILLIAM, Farmer, Miller, and Hotel Proprietor, was born in ISO1, near the city of Easton, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of George Peter Kessler, a native of ANDEMAN, JOIIN L., Merchant, was born, Sep- tember 30th, ISIo, in Ross county, Ohio, and is the eldest son of Matthias and Margaret (Legore) Vandeman. Ilis father was a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, a farmer by occupation, who removed to Ohio in 1801, loeating at first on Deer ereck, in Ross county, where he lived a few years, and subsequently moved to a site on the little north fork of Paint creek, and resided there until 1816, when he finally settled in Fayette county, which became his permanent home. IIe was an active participant in the war of 1812, his father, John Vandeman, having been a revolutionary soldier, and was of German lineage ; he died at a very advanced age on his farm at Washington, Fayette county, in October, 1870. IIe had married Margaret, daughter of John Legore, of Mary- land, for seven years a soldier in the revolutionary war. Ile was of both French and German ancestry. Ile removed to Ohio in 1808, and located at first in Ross county, but finally settled, 1813, in Fayette county. John I .. Vandeman, while a boy, attended the common school during the winter months, and labored on a farm the balance of the year, until he was eighteen years old, at which time his father moved to Washington, in 1828, he being a earpenter by trade. In 1830 he entered the Ohio University at Athens, where he pursued a course of literary study for about two years, and subsequently taught school in Highland and Fayette counties Saxony, who with his parents emigrated to America in 1764, and settled in Northampton county, where they became possessed of extensive tracts of land prior to the revolutionary war. During the latter struggle, his father was a participant on the side of his adopted country, and after the independence of the States was acknowledged, he owned flouring mills, and carried on farming near Easton, where he reared a large family. William remained at home until he had attained his majority, and then engaged in agricultural pursuits in his native county until 1836. The following year he disposed of his property and removed to Wooster, Ohio, where he embarked in the hotel business, which he carried on for a few years. In 1840 he engaged in distilling; and shortly after in the purchase and packing of pork for the Baltimore market, in which he invested a large amount of money, which was entirely lost in 1842, owing to the failure of his factor in that city. IIe then left for Defiance county, where he purchased an improved farm six miles from the town of Defianec, and remained there for three years, engaged in agricultural pursuits. Having decided to remove to Fremont, he disposed of the farm in 1845, and in his new residence again became engaged in keeping a hotel, leasing at first the property which he after- wards purchased (1858), and in which he continued until his death. During his residence in Fremont, he accumu- lated a fine property, including two farms in the immediate for a like period of two years. In 1834 he effected an en-
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gagement as a clerk, in a general country store in Wash- ington, where he remained about four years. In 1838 he went into business on his own account in the same town, and has ever since resided there, carrying on at first a very small business, but which soon grew to be a very large and profitable trade. He has also for some years associated agricultural pursuits with the management of his extensive mercantile establishment, owning a highly productive farm in Union township, adjacent to Washington. He has never sought nor held any public office of a political nature. Ile is a Republican in politics, and cast his first vote in favor of Andrew Jackson for President in 1832, but owing to Jackson's policy, he abandoned him in 1834. He has been an active and zealous supporter of the Presbyterian Church of which he is a member for the past forty years. Person- ally, he is pleasant, courteous and affable, and enjoys the respect and esteem of all his fellow-townsmen. Ile has labored long and faithfully towards the improvement of the town, which his extensive business block and where he resides will show, and has probably contributed as much time and influence in this respect as any other person. lle is also considerably interested, as a stockholder, in several flourishing railroad companies. He was married in March, 1839, to Rebecca P. Wilson, a native of Pennsylvania, and is the father of four children, three of whom are in active life in the same town, The eldest died when young.
ILSON, JOHN G., M. D., Physician and Surgeon, was born, March 19th, ISHI, in Ross county, Ohio, and is the fifth of eleven children, whose parents were John and Lucy (Taylor) Wilson. Ilis father was a native of Pennsylvania, born February ISth, 1779, and died September 29th, 1856; he was a farmer by occupation, who removed to Ohio at an early date, settling originally in Pickaway county, and thence went to Ilighland county, where he sojourned for some time, and finally located in Ross county, where he resided until his death. He was an active participant in the war of 1812. Ilis widow died in IS68; she was also a native of Pennsylvania, born on May 12th, 1782, a daughter of William Taylor, an carly pioneer of Ross county. Dr. Wilson received his preliminary education in the district school, which he attended during the winter months, being occupied the balance of the year in working upon the farm. Hle so continued until he attained his majority, when he commenced the study of medicine under the supervision of Dr. James Robbins, at Greenfield, in Highland county. Ile continued with his preceptor for three years, and in the autumn of 1835 went to Dayton, where he engaged in the practice of his profession for about a year with Dr. Henry Varretuye. In 1836 he removed to Lockport, Carroll county, Indiana, where he remained until July, IS41, when he returned to Ohio, and settled in Washington, Fayette
county, where he has resided ever since, engaged in the control of an extensive and lucrative medical practice. He has been Infirmary Physician of the county for twenty years, and for some three years United States Examining Surgeon. Ilis political views are those of the Republican party, hav- ing previously been a Whig, casting his first Presidential vote against Jackson, and his second in favor of the Ilar- rison electoral ticket. He has never sought nor held any public office of a political responsibility, and has always de- voted his whole attention to the practice of medicine and surgery. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian. Socially, he is a pleasant companion, and courteous in manner, and is highly respected by his fellow-townsmen. He was mar- ried, 1839, to Lucinda Mackerly, a native of New Jersey. She died in 1875, and was the mother of two children.
IMPSON, REV. THOMAS R., M. D., Clergy- man, Physician, and Poet, was born, December 12th, IS18, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, and is the youngest child of James and Jane ( Robertson) Simpson, late of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. llis father was a native of Wigtonshire, Scotland, who followed through life me- chanical pursuits, and emigrated to America at an early date, settling in Philadelphia, and where he married Jane Robertson, a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania. He afterwards removed to Laneaster county, where he resided until his death. Thomas received a very liberal education at Washington College, Pennsylvania. When twenty-two years of age, he commeneed the study of divinity, at the Theological School in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and con- tinued the same for four years. Ile settled at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he had been chosen pastor of the Asso- ciate Presbyterian Church in that borough, and where he resided for eight years. During this period he had been engaged more or less in reading medicine, and became so much interested that he resolved to study it as a profession. He accordingly resigned his parish, and proceeded to Phila- delphia, where he attended the lectures delivered at the Jefferson Medical College, and subsequently in the Philadel- phia College of Medicine. At this period the latter school was merged into the Pennsylvania College, from which last- named institution he graduated with honor. Hle removed to Ohio, and located in Jefferson county, where he practised his profession with success until 1871, when he changed his residence to Steubenville, where he has permanently settled, and continues his professional duties, having an ex- tensive and profitable line of patronage. While a resident of the interior of the county, he was also settled as pastor for a greater part of the time over the United Presbyterian Church of Yellow Creek, and since he has made Steuben- ville his residence, he has devoted more or less of his time to ministerial duties. He carly developed marked ability
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as a writer of poetry, and has given much attention toption, Mr. Corry rises far superior to the partisan. With poetic compositions, that have attracted the attention of all trne lovers of the poctie muse. He is a Republican in political feelings, but has never sought nor held any public office. He was married in 1840 to Martha, daughter of the late William Anderson, of Washington county, Pennsyl- vania, and is the father of eleven children, ten of whom are living.
RROWSMITHI, MILLER, Surveyor and Farmer, was born, March 14th, 1808, in Champaign county, Ohio. In June, 1833, he first visited the Maumee valley, and purchased lands near Defiance, to which he removed and settled in the following month of October. At that time Judge John Perkins was County Surveyor, but from age, and being en. gaged in other pursuits, he did not wish to perform the work of the office, and appointed Mr. Arrowsmith, Deputy County Surveyor, the duties of which office he discharged with accuracy and fidelity for fifteen years; he is to-day one of the oldest surveyors in northwestern Ohio. In the session of the Legislature which met in the winter of 1845-46, he was elected a member of the State Board of Equalization, and he proved one of the most efficient members of that body. From 1848 to 1852 he was Auditor of Defiance county, and Postmaster at Arrowsmith's for about fifteen years. Excepting minor offices, the above fill the measure of his public life. He might have continued in office, and filled a larger space in the public eye, but his tastes and inclinations led him to engage in agriculture, in 1852, and in this favorite pursuit, on his well-cultivated acres in Farmer township, among his books and friends, he is passing the evening of his days. Ile is now, though nearing the mark of threescore years and ten, in full possession of phys- ical and mental vigor. The pioneers of the valley are ever | known as a modern library. Those who know and appre- specially welcomed under his hospitable roof,
ORRY, WILLIAM M., Lawyer and Editor, was born in Cincinnati, January 16th, 1811, and is a descendant of one of the pioneer families of the () State. His father, William Corry, figured promi- 6 nently as a lawyer, in the local adiministration of Cincinnati, more than half a century ago. Mr. Corry has never held but one public position. In 1855 he was elected a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Hamilton county. Ile has a reputation for a talent which he does not owe to family distinction nor public posi- tion. From partisan associations and entanglements he has been singularly free. Although warmly attached to Demo- cratic principles, he has never been in the party organization a political slave of those who would professedly carry them out. In the elements which make up his mental composi-
him government is a science and politics a philosophy which should be studied by the lights of logic, Instory, experience and intrinsic justice. For the spoils of office or any other incidentals connected with party organization, he has always had supreme contempt. Perhaps one of his most noticeable characteristics is his willingness to take an unpopular side, if it accords with his individual opinions. With the un- thinking many he is not popular. With men of intelligence, whether agreeing with him or not, he is most highly es- tecmed and appreciated, as well as ranked among the ablest sons of the State. Few men are his equals in a knowledge of the science of government, and particularly of those prin- ciples which lie at the foundation of the American constitu- tional organism. In his general ideas as to the relations of the States to the Federal government, he is a disciple of John C. Calhoun, and in his ability to sustain those views he is not much inferior to the illustrious Sonth Carolinian. Ile is doubtlessly the most able exponent of what is known as the State Rights school of the construction of the Consti- tution now living. With great political knowledge, and with supreme disregard for political honor or advantage, he possesses the rare quality of physical and moral courage. lle never surrenders a conviction. To him proscription or the stake would be preferable. Ile did not approve of the late war. It was violently opposed to all his political prin- ciples, and antagonistic to all his individual instincts. lle did not hesitate so to write, print, and speak, despite the danger of military commissions, and Forts Lafayette and Warren. But politics is only one element in his character. Ile is a fine historian ; is well-read in every department of literature and science ; and in all that relates to modern im- provement, he marches abreast of his age. Ile is one of the best conversationalists in the State, and being a hard student, has read almost everything that makes up what is
ciate him most highly, keenly regret that what is called his political impracticability-which simply means his devotion to principle, and his personal honesty-should have prevented his advancement to the high positions in State and general government, which he was so well qualified to adorn. Hle is one of the ablest of Western editors. There is hardly a newspaper in Cincinnati that has not received many brilliant articles from his pen, some of them published as editorials, and others over his well known initials. He was the founder, and for several years editor, of a weekly political paper entitled the Cincinnati Commoner. In it there were many articles worthy of our best monthlies, and worthy of being published in book form. The Commoner, discontinued in 1872, was called originally West and South, and as it was first issued at the close of the war, its special object was to patronize those sections of the Union on both doctrine and measures. It called on Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, three great contact States, to set the whole Mississippi valley the example of solidarity upon what it called the " interior
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policy," viz., the State Rights construction of the Federal [ to his mercurial temperament, and radical tendency of mind. system created by the States, and always amenable to them, In politics he has been called a red Republican, and I do not know that he objects to a classification with Ledru Rollin, and those French revolutionists who preferred inde- pendent exile to servile eminence under the shadow of Napoleon the Little, though, by the way, I cannot appreciate the ground of his attachment to the Democracy of this country, particularly as I understand him to be a democrat in the correct sense of the term. Alternately he appears radi- cally in advance of modern progress, and behind even white- haired conservatism, often startling his friends, and surpris- ing his opponents. Like all geniuses he is brilliant, erratic, and eccentric, combining all kinds of extremes, with a strong tendency, in spite of all, to the practical. In debate he reasons with great earnestness of manner, and has the faculty of investing his subject with importance enough to make it worthy of the discussion, whatever it may be. Towards opponents he is apt to be severe, and liable to fall into the barrister's trick of crushing an adversary by a coup de main. As an orator he possesses rare gifts, is eloquent, forcible and clear, but his forte after all is his earnestness of manner, which commands the attention of his audience in spite of themselves. He is not apt to dabble in debates, but will often spring into them at times and from quarters not expected, and takes an especial delight in demolishing an assuming pretender. His feelings are with the people and their rights, personal and moral, when in competition with wealth and capital, preserving and defending the im- portant distinction between the man and the dollar, a quality in a legislator which will be more and more appreciated in the advance of the true science of law making, as laws come to be a truthful exhibit of just rules applied to particular cases. Personally, Mr. Corry is a man whom his friends value. Not very ready to make acquaintances, he is free from hauteur or affectation, and meets men as though he had seen others of the species before, regarding properly their individuality and their rights. Travel has educated him, moreover, into the truth that men are not worth a great deal more for being born in any particular country. As a legislator he looks more to the moral than the pecuniary interests of the State, and from his independent radicalisin is not likely to be the leader of a party or faction, since the trading politician will not often venture to follow so bold an example as he is apt to set. Still, his talent for speaking and his general accomplishments will make him a prominent man in any deliberative body, and his party Is often compelled to follow him at a risk, by doing which his present party associates would certainly gain much and lose nothing." Taken all in all, as a man of eccentric, curious, and admirable traits, he stands alone, and certainly as a man of genius and culture, he has had few equals among his cotemporaries, so rendering it the more to be deplored that no fitting opportunity should have been given him for using such uncommon qualities to the advantage of his fellow-men. but by no means leaving constitutional questions to Congress and the Supreme Court in the last resort, nor agreeing that the terms of the copartnership of Union made it perpetual. With this plain doctrine the Commoner advocated as meas- ures of interior policy the true science and justice of hard money, free trade, light taxes, and small appropriations. Generally the paper invited all sensible, men to use it as a medium for the expression and exchange of opinions on every important and interesting subject, and set an example of perfect frankness and independence. While it is true that his tastes lie largely in the field of political speculation, Mr. Corry has displayed fine literary and scholastic attain- ments. He was educated as a lawyer, and admitted to the bar at Columbus in the spring of 1832, but quit the practice in 1848, on going to Europe. Ilis fine analytical and logical mind would have given him a distinguished position at the bar, had he chosen to continue a practitioner. Ilis sympathies have ever been with what is known as radical progress in all departments of effort. The struggle in Europe between the masses and the privileged classes has always aronsed his deepest interest. The excesses of the lowly and oppressed in the days of their victories have not blinded him to the justice of their complaints. He left home for France on the news of the last revolution of 1848, and remained nearly three years in Paris, an eye-witness of the attempts to establish and to overthrow the republic. His friends there were all advanced republicans, and he gave that cause his cordial and unfaltering support, at con- siderable risk. He learned the language, and never has ceased to praise the French people, whom he considers the foremost nation of Europe, and the advance guard of the old world in science, art, war, society, politics, progress and liberty. One of his peculiarities, and in this age of utilitarian philosophy, when sentiment is so generally sacrificed to the practical, and the noble is so largely overshadowed by the sordid, it is a peculiarity, is his devotion to his personal friends. Misfortune with him does not obscure merit. Adversity in others only brings ont in stronger relief the pure gold that lies at the bottom of his own composition, Sometimes abrupt in manner, occasionally hasty in expression, and often using, perhaps stronger and more forcible language than the occa- sion warrants, he has a kind heart, and an appreciation of all that is noble and true in humanity, and infinite scorn for all that is mean and base in any private or public man. The historian of the Ohio Legislature of 1856-57, who un- derstood his subject well, graphically describes Mr. Corry as "a man of mark, both physically and intellectually, in any publie body. An inch or two over six feet high, and quite thin from chronic ill health, he appears very tall, and with a full beard and dark hair, is of decidedly foreign aspect. There is added to this a slight tinge of French manners, perhaps contracted during a residence in Paris, that is akin
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