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ORRIS, R. D., Merchant, was born, June 4th, 1829, | very successful, having been able to withstand the panics in Turkstown, county of Kilkenny, Ireland, and and weather the financial storms which have swept over the country. And not only this, but he has never been obliged to ask for an extension of time on a note, nor allowed bis paper to go to protest. A straightforward business on true business principles has ever been his motto. He has achieved the success which has attended him by his strict attention to business and undeviating honor and honesty in all his mercantile transactions. And the handsome compe- tence he has gained during his twenty-five years' residence in Cincinnati is an ample proof of his unwearying industry. Outside of his extensive business he has made large invest- ments in valuable real estate in various parts of the city. Ile has never held nor aspired to any office, political or otherwise. is a son of James and Johanna Norris, Ilis primary education was obtained in the village school, where he remained until he was twelve years old, when he entered the National School at Pilltown, in the same county, where he completed his education during the three years of his sojourn there. After leaving this latter institution he entered as an apprentice a dry-goods and woollen establishment in Wexford, where he served three years, at the expiration of which time he went to Dublin, where he was engaged by the well-known firm of McBurney & Collis, dry-goods and woollen merchants, in the capacity of buyer for the woollen department of the house. This is one of the largest establishments of the kind in Dublin, giving employment to between five and six hundred clerks and salesmen. He remained in this con- nection until 1851, when he decided to emigrate to the NDERWOOD, ALPHEUS HARRISON, Physi- cian and Pharmaceutist, was born, April 21st, 1836, in Brimfield, Portage county, Ohio, of New England parentage. Ilis father was a native of Massachusetts, a farmer by occupation, and orig- inally a cabinet-maker by trade, had removed to Ohio in 1820. Ilis mother was a native of Connecticut, who died when he was one year old. He was reared by a kind step-mother. Ile first attended the district school, and subsequently an academy at Shallersville. When seventeen years old he left school, and taught for the ensu- ing seven years in various localities, including Ravenna, Portage county ; Mechanicsburg, Champaign county; and South Charleston, Clarke county. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a private in the 4th Ohio Cavalry, and was advanced to the rain of Sergeant. He served with that regiment until discharged for disability, in 1863. Ile then proceeded to Cardenton, where. he commenced the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. A. S. Weatherly, meanwhile teaching school for one term. After remaining at that place for a year, he went to Cincinnati and passed two years in attendance upon the lectures deliv- cred in the College of Medicine and Surgery, and in W. J. M. Gordon's drug store as prescription clerk. He gradu- ated from the college in February, 1866, having in the meantime been appointed Assistant Physician in the Com- mercial Hospital, Cincinnati. Ile considers this appoint- ment as a great achievement, owing to the opposition of the other schools. He was, however, obliged to relinquish the position on account of ill health. Hle next returned to Clarke county, and commenced the practice of his profes- sion in South Charleston, where he remained a year, meeting with good success. A favorable opening present- ing itself at London, he removed thither in 1867, and con- tinued his professional duties in that place until July, 1874, when he purchased a drug store, and has since assumed the entire control of the same, having a very good patronage, and he also continued his medical practice. His political United States. On landing in the city of New York, he obtained a situation in the dry-goods house of Lord & Taylor, where he passed a year, and then removed with his family to Cincinnati, he having been married prior to his departure from Europe. After his arrival in Cincinnati, he accepted a position in the dry-goods house of George White, one of the most extensive establishments at that time in the city. During the period he was connected with that house he became Superintendent of the cloak and shawl department, and also buyer for the woollen depart- ment. Ile relinquished these positions in 1855, and com- menced on his own account, on Fifth street, in the dry- goods, cloak, and shawl trade, doing a thriving and satisfactory business for about eight years, when he disposed of his interests in the concern, and then opened a whole- sale clothing warehouse on Pearl street, under the firm- name of Martin, Norris & Co., which so continued for two years, after which the style was changed to R. D. Norris & Co. In 1870 he closed up his business on Pearl street and returned to Fifth street, where he opened a wholesale and retail clothing house, to which was added a customs de- partment, and also the importing of fine woollen goods from England and France. In the latter department he probably does a larger business than is transacted by any similar establishment in the West. While travelling in Europe, some years since, he visited the principal woollen manufactories, both in England and France, and opened accounts with such of them as seemed best suited to his trade; since which time he has largely imported both French and English goods, and still continues to do so. The experience he has gained in the large woollen houses of Europe, and also in this country, led him to the con- clusion that it was more profitable to his interests to deal in the manufactured goods than in piece goods, hence the change which he has made in his business, so different from the mode in which he had been educated. During the quarter of a century of his business career he has been
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views are those held by the Republican party. He has had | school until he attained the age of fourteen years, when lic positions offered him on the ticket of that party, but has invariably declined the nomination. He was appointed Pension Examining Surgeon for Madison county in 1873, which position he yet retains; and is also Examining Sur- geon for six or eight life insurance companies. Ile has been through life a hard worker and a close student, rely- ing exclusively upon his own efforts for advancement, and receiving no assistance or possessing any outside influence whatever. Ile enjoys the confidence and esteem of the community among whom he resides, and is regarded by all as a useful and valuable citizen. He was married on Sep- tember 21st, 1865, to Hannah D., eldest daughter of David Rutan, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and is the father of two sons, both living.
IGELOW, JABEZ GARDNER, Lawyer, was born, March 7th, 1822, in New Lebanon, Colum- bia county, New York, where he received a com- mon school education. In 1844 he went to Oberlin, Ohio, where he subsequently entered the college at that town, and graduated in the class of 1850. After leaving that institution he taught school for the next six months, and then removed to San- dusky, and in the same year commenced the study of law in the office of Beecher & Leonard-the former of whom is still in active business for himself-and was admitted to the bar in August, 1852. Ile commenced immediately to practise his profession in Sandusky, and is acknowledged to be one of the ablest and most prominent barristers in that city. In 1852 he was appointed United States Assessor of Internal Revenue, and hekl that position for three years, and was one of the first persons who acted in that capacity in northern Ohio. He has also served as a member of City Councils. His political belief was formerly that of the
- Liberty party; but since the abolition of slavery he has been a prominent Republican. Ile is a persevering, ener- getic citizen, and is endowed with talents of a high order; and his present standing as a member of the legal fraternity is entirely due to his industry and the care with which his clients' causes are presented to the court and jury. Ile is a stockholder in the Sandusky Tool Company, and also in the Second National Bank. Ile was married in 1855 to Sarah Ilull, of Perkins township, Erie county, Ohio.
ALL, LUTHIER A., Lawyer, was born, August 13th, 1813, in the township of Spafford, in Onon- daga county, New York, and is a son of Luther HIall, a native of Berkshire county, Massachu- setts, and a farmer by occupation. He died in 1849, at Freeport, Illinois, whither he had pre- viously removed. Luther A. Ilall was reared on a farm, working during the summer and attending the district
became a pupil of Thomas W. Allis in a select school at Skaneateles, where he remained two years. He then effected an engagement as a clerk in a store, where he was ocenpied some three years. In the spring of 1833 he started on a trip to Ohio, with a small stock of goods, in a one-horse wagon, to pay his travelling expenses on the way. Ile arrived at Tiffin on May 5th of that year, and was first employed in the Recorder's office at fifty cents per day, boarding himself. He soon after entered the store of John Park as a clerk, and received ten dollars per month wages and his board. Ile remained there for about eighteen months, at the same time filling the office of Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Supreme Court for Seneca county, at Tiffin, to which position he was appointed, as Deputy, in 1833, and as Principal on May 5th, 1834. In IS35 lie engaged in the mercantile business with Josiah Hledges, an old merchant and the founder of Tiffin. This was carried on for about two years, when the great financial storm of 1837 occurred, and they decided to discontinue business. The stock was closed out, their good debts col- lected, and all liabilities paid. There were many losses from bad debts, but still something remained when the firm dissolved. He still continued to hold the office of Clerk of said courts in Tiffin, and at the same time studied law under the supervision of Ilon. Abel Ransom, until the autumn of 1840, when he entered the Cincinnati Law College, and graduated therefrom in the spring of 1841. lle resigned the office of Clerk of the Court the same year, and commenced the practice of his profession in Tiffin, and so continued until 1856, when he was elected to the office of Prosecuting Attorney of Seneca county. Ile filled that position for two years, and in 1858, at the expiration of his term of service, formed a legal partnership with John II. Fittinger, of Tiffin, under the firm-name of Ilall & Pittin- ger, opening an office in that town, and have continued together ever since, engaged in a general law business. In 1862 Mr. Ilall was appointed by President Lincoln Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Ninth District of Ohio, which he held until removed by President Johnson in 1865. In ISOS he was Presidential Elector for the Ninth Congres- sional District of Ohio, casting the vote in the Electoral College of Ohio for Grant and Colfax. In 1867 he was one of the corporators of the Toledo, Tiffin & Eastern Rail- road, and was elected President of the company, serving in that capacity until the line was completed. While filling that office he devoted his entire time towards forwarding the enterprise, and to his energetic efforts were largely due its final completion from Toledo to Tiffin, connecting with the Mansfield Road, in advance of other and rival lines. lle was married, April 7th, 1835, to Cynthia A., daughter of the late Josiah Iledges, of Tiffin, and is the father of four sons, all of whom are living. The eldest, Josiah II., is now residing in Chicago, but was for seven years in Japan, and was the first Commissioner of Agriculture in
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that country prior to General Capron's appointment. The [ and two-thirds of the upper and lower lips by sloughing of second son, James 11., is married and living in Tiffin ; his occupation that of a commercial traveller. The third son, John A., was Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue for some years in Tiffin, and until that office was abolished, but is now in the Tiffin Shoe Factory. The youngest son, Albon E., is a surgeon on one of the Japanese steamers plying between Yokohama and Shanghai.
ARLICK, THEODATUS, M. D., Surgeon and Scientist, was born, March 30th, 1805, in Middle- bury, Addison county, Vermont, and now resides in Bedford, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. He was the son of Daniel Garlick, a farmer, who married 9 Sabra Starkweather Kirby, daughter of Abraham Kirby, of Litchfield, Connecticut, and sister, of Hon. Ephraim Kirby, who in 1So4 was appointed United States Judge for the Territorial District of Louisiana by President Jefferson. In 1816 the subject of this sketch left his native State for the western country, travelling on foot, carrying a knapsack, and arrived at Elk Creek (now Girard), in Erie county, Pennsylvania, where he resided two years. Hle then removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he had a brother who was a stone-cutter by trade. With this brother he remained several years, and learned the art of carving and lettering on stone. Ile then returned to his home in Ver- mont to complete his education, which had been irregularly received in the common schools and under private tutors ; and in 1823 moved again to Ohio, accompanied by his father and family. In 1829 he entered the office of Dr. Ezra W. Glezen as a student of medicine. These studies were continued with Dr. Elijah Flower, a prominent phy- sician and surgeon of Brookfield, Ohio. After four years of close application and attending full courses of lectures, he graduated at the University of Maryland, in the city of Baltimore, in 1834. During many months after his gradu- ation he enjoyed close social and professional relations with Professor N. R. Smith, who occupied the Chair of Surgery in the Maryland University. He declined all indneements, although many were flattering, to remain in Baltimore, and returned to Ohio and settled in what became Youngstown, where he immediately engaged in the practice of his pro- fession, in which he made surgery a specialty. Eighteen years later he removed to Cleveland and formed a partner- ship in surgery with Professor Horace A. Ackley, and at once took high rank among the profession of that city. He was elected a member of the Board of Censors of the Cleveland Medical College, and Vice-President of the Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences. As a surgeon he excelled, and had probably no superior in plastic surgery. In the medical college and elsewhere his operations in this class were numerous and important. In the case of a young lady who had lost nearly all of one side of her face
the parts, he performed one of the most remarkable and successful operations. The whole side of the face was re- stored and the deformity removed by the perfect fitting of the flaps, which were cut up to supply the lost parts. Pro- fessor John Delamater decided that there was not a more difficult or successful case of plastic surgery on record, and estimated its value at $10,000. The operation of lithotomy he performed with great skill and success; in one case fracturing and then extracting a stone which measured three and one-half by four and one-half inches, in shape like a cocoanut. Ile removed the half of the under jaw twice, disarticulating in each case, and twice tied success- fully the common carotid artery. lle made some valuable improvements in methods of operation for harelip and for fistula in ano; introduced new splints and dressings for fractures, and applied the principle of anatomical models to animals and parts of animals, and especially fishes. In 1853, with Professor Ackley, he began the artificial propa- gation of brook trout and other fish, and in 1857 published his work entitled " Fish Culture," which was the standard authority on that subject. While at the Maryland Medical College he produced a bas relief in wax of five of the pro- fessors of the college, which were pronounced excellent likenesses. The statuettes in basso relievo of General Jackson and Henry Clay, both of whom gave him sittings, were soon after completed, and were followed by a full- length miniature in the same style of Chief-Justice Mar- shall, from a portrait by Waugh. This work was pro- nounced by Mr. Bullock, the English virtuoso, equal to the productions of Thorwalsden. A life-size bust of Judge George Tod, of Ohio, was another of his productions much admired for its merit and accuracy. Ile made more than sixty anatomical models, which represent all of the im. portant surgical regions of the human body; also many pathological models, which represent rare forms of disease. Duplicates of these models may be seen in the medical colleges of Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Toronto, Charles- ton, and many other colleges. They are considered superior to those of the celebrated Auzoux, of Paris. In 1874 he completed a life-size bust of Professor J. P. Kirtland, at the age of sixty years. This is his masterpiece. It was exc- cuted under the most trying circumstances. A disease of the spinal nerves of more than ten years' standing, so that he could not stand without the aid of crutches, kept him closely confined to a lounge, and thus, while suffering acute pain, he modelled this most admirable bust. It was a labor of love, as no money would have induced him to undertake it. Ile made the first daguerreotype picture (a landscape) taken in the United States, and constructed the instrument and apparatus to take it in December, 1839, besides making in 1840 the first daguerreotype likeness ever taken anywhere, without requiring the rays of the sun to fall directly upon the sitter's face-in the shade. Pro- fessor J. P. Kirtland was his first and only preceptor in
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natural history, and was his intimate friend and associate for more than forty years. His remarkable constitution and genial, even temperament enabled him to perform an unusual amount of labor which required great endurance and patience. Ile was married to Mary M. Chittenden, his third wife, in 1846. Ilis first and second wives were sisters, and daughters of Dr. Elijah Flower, his medical pre- ceptor. Ile had two children-one son, Dr. Wilmot 11. Garlick, and one daughter.
OUNG, WILLIAM, Insurance Agent, was born, April 22d, 1822, in Franklin, Warren county, Ohio. Ile assisted his father on the latter's farm until he was seventeen years old, attending the common school during the winter season. He then went to Cincinnati, where he became an apprentice to learn the saddlery business, and was thor- oughly instructed in all its branches during the five years he stayed there. After the expiration of his term of service he went to St. Louis, where he obtained employment as a journeyman saddler and harness maker, and where he re- mained until 1848, when he next proceeded to Memphis, Tennessee, stopping there a year, and then returned to Cincinnati. After a brief sojourn in his old home he went to Philadelphia, staying two months in that city, and again returned to Cincinnati, where he again worked at his trade. In the autumn of 1848 he went South, and visited Vicks- burg, Mississippi, New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana, and thence to Clarksville, Texas, working in these different' cities, and once more returned to Cincinnati. He there commenced the manufacture of saddles and harness on his own account, on Main street between Fourth and Fifth streets, and continued there until 1858, when his establish- ment was consumed by fire, and he lost in one day the earnings of ten years. After this catastrophe he proceeded to engage in the patent right business in St. Louis, where he remained until the following year, when he again re- tinned to Ohio and commenced farming on a small farm near Cincinnati, and which is now included within the city limits, and on which he still resides. At the outbreak of the civil war he effected an engagement as a cutter in the employ of Moore & Sons, who had heavy contracts with the government to furnish saddles and harness for the army. Ile continued in this business until 1864, when he turned his attention to fire insurance, and was associated with A. S. Reaves, with whom he remained a year, and next with the Eureka Company, in whose service he continued two years. Ile was then tendered the Superintendency of the Tobacco Insurance Company of Cincinnati, which he ac- cepted, and had charge of the same for one year, relin- quishing it to become the Agent of the Great Western In- surance Company of Chicago. Ile held this latter position until the ever memorable great fire occurred, in October,
1871, which proved too much for this corporanon to with- stand, and it speedily went into liquidation. He then be- came connected with the American Fire Insurance Com- pany, from which he resigned at the expiration of six months to accept the General Agency of the Watertown Insurance Company, and he also is connected with other first-class companies, which business he carries on in his office, No. 6 West Third street, Cincinnati. Ile is an en- ergetic business man, fully acquainted with all the details of insurance, and has succeeded in building up a lucrative and extensive line of patronage. By his industry, energy and perseverance, and above all by a prompt settlement of claims, he has made his office second to none in the city in the extent of its business operations. Ile was married in Cincinnati, May 30th, 1849, to Ann M., daughter of Robert W. Orr, of that city.
STEP, JOSIAHI M., Lawyer, was born, February 19th, 1829, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and is the eldest son of James S. and Sarah (Gaston) Estep, both natives of the same county and State. Ilis father was a doctor of medicine, and was engaged in professional duties until his death, which occurred in September, 1875. Josiah worked on a farm until he was seventeen years of age, attending school in winter. In 1846 he commenced teaching school in his native county, and was so occupied during two winters, and during his leisure hours devoted himself to the study of general literature. In 1848 he entered Washing- ton College, Pennsylvania, where he remained nearly two years, principally engaged in the study of mathematics and the sciences. In 1851 he commenced the study of law under the preceptorship of John P'. Penney, a prominent attorney-at-law, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was so occupied for about two years, when he removed to Ohio, in 1853, and settled at Cadiz, where he continued his legal studies for a year under the supervision of Samuel G. Pep- pard, of that place. He passed a satisfactory examination at Columbus, Ohio, in 1854, and was admitted to the bar. Ile immediately commenced the practice of his profession in Cadiz, where he has since resided, and where he has established an extensive and lucrative line of patronage. lle was the Democratie candidate for Congress in 1868, but his opponent, llon. John 11. Bingham, succeeded, al- though the contest was a very close one. In 1871 he was the nominee of the same party for Judge of the Common Pleas, where the contest was again very close, as he ran some four hundred votes ahead of the State ticket, but the county was largely Republican. Ile is a man of great energy, of unimpeachable character and of fidelity in busi- ness, and ranks as one of the most prominent lawyers of Ilarrison county.
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ENDLETON, HON. GEORGE HI., Lawyer and | Democracy, Mr. Pendleton being the only candidate on the Statesman, was born in Cincinnati in 1825. His grandfather, Nathaniel Pendleton, was a native of New York, and was the intimate personal and political friend of Alexander Hamilton, and was his second in the duel with Aaron Burr, in which he lost his life, in 1S04. Ile was an officer in the revolutionary army, and served as Aide-de-Camp to Gen- eral Greenc in his glorious campaign in the South. Ile was the first Federal District Judge in Georgia, and was appointed by President Washington. His father was Nathaniel Greene Pendleton, a leading and eminent Whig, who defeated Dr. Duncan for Congress in Cincinnati, in the celebrated contest of 1840. Descended from such an- cestry, politically, it would not have been surprising had Mr. Pendleton imbibed the same views and party tenets. But he was one who thought for himself, was governed by no extraneous influences, and from mature conviction em- braced the Democratic creed and cast his first vote with that party. Ile received his education mainly in Wood- ward College and in the old Cincinnati College, but he afterwards took courses of study at Heidelberg and Berlin, in Germany. lle then began the study of law in the office of Stephen Fales, of Cincinnati, and was admitted to the bar in 1847, immediately after which he formed a partner- ship with George E. Pugh, since United States Senator from Ohio. In 1853 Mr. Pendleton began his political career by accepting the Democratic nomination for the State Senate from Hamilton county. The whole ticket on which he was placed was elected by many thousand majority. Although the youngest member of that body, and entirely new to its service, he at once took a prominent position in its deliberations, and well sustained the high anticipation of those instrumental in his election. So favorable was the impression produced that, while yet in the Senate, he was nominated for the House of Representatives in Congress from the First District, in Hamilton county. This was a great honor, in view of the high character of the men who, for a series of years, had been its representatives. The
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