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afterwards commenced to work in a bakery, where he con- tinued for a year. In 1837 he decided to change to Toledo, then a new town, and he resumed his vocation as a baker, being employed by John J. Fogelson for two years. In 1838 he began the same business on his own account, his bakery being located on Summit street, near Perry, where he pursued it for five years. Having become acquainted with Lyman Wheeler, he formed a copartnership with him in 1842, which continued for over twenty-two years. They first opened a ship chandlery and supply store on the dock, and shortly afterwards started a rectifying establishment on Monroe street. In 1847 they disposed of the store on the dock, and gave their entire attention to the rectifying busi- ness, which was prosperous and gradually increased. In 1865, owing to Wheeler's impaired health, the copartner- ship was dissolved; Wheeler died about two years thereafter. The business has since been continued by the remaining partner, and he has associated his eldest son, William 11. Boos, with him. Ile is still in the prime of life, and his character as a straightforward business man and kind neighbor is proverbial. Ile has never held any public office, nor has he taken any active part in political ques- tions. Ile was married, July 21st, 1840, in Toledo, to Margaret Kimball, and he is the father of seven children, of whom four are now living.
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UINN, HOMER SUMMERFIELD, M. D., was born in Highland county, near Fallsville, Ohio, February 28th, 1839. His father, Rev. Dr. Isaac Quinn, was both a clergyman and a medical prac- titioner. To Isaac and Cynthia Quinn were born nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the youngest. He received his early education in the country school of the neighborhood, but completed his scholastic labors at Greenfield Seminary. Upon leaving Greenfield, he for a time followed the avocation of a farmer, meanwhile in his leisure hours devoting his attention to the study of medicine. His medical course was finished under the direction of his brother, Dr. J. II. Quinn, and in 1862 he commenced the active practice of his chosen profession at Jefferson, Madison county, where he has continued to reside. As a physician Dr. Quinn has built up an exten- sive and remunerative practice, with a reputation for thorough medical erudition and sound practical reliability. A Democrat in politics, he has held quite a number of local offices, and has several times been prominently mentioned as the candidate of his party in the county for member of the State Legislature. Of fine personal appearance and ex- cellent conversational powers, the doctor is socially as well as professionally and politically one of Madison's most prominent citizens. Ile was married, April 27th, 1870, to Bettie Putnam, daughter of the late Horace Putnam, at one time Treasurer of Madison county.
OCKE, DAVID ROSS, popularly known as " Pe- troleum V. Nasby," was born in Union, Broome county, New York, in February, 1833. Ilis father followed the trade of shoemaker, and at that time was far from being in comfortable cfr- cumstances. Hle had few opportunities for attend- ing school, his assistance being required in providing for the support of the family, and the education he now possesses was secured by self-directed study and close application. Ile learned the printer's trade at Cortland, New York, and after remaining in that place a few years, travelled to Pittsburgh, thence to Cleveland, and subse- quently to interior towns of Ohio of less importance, until 1855. During this period he became familiar with all the phases of journalistic labor, and had acquired an experience which ably qualified him for the important career upon which he was about to enter. In 1855 he became editor and proprietor of the Mansfield Herald, with which he was connected until 1862, when he assumed charge of the Hancock Jeffersonian. About this time he first employed the nom de plume of " Petroleum V. Nasby," under which he has become famous. In 1866 he became connected with the Toledo Blade, and still contributes to its editorial col- umns, though he some time since retired from its editorship. He is now associated with the advertising agency firm of Bates & Locke, No. 34 Park Row, New York. Mr. Locke's political affiliations have been with the Whig and Republican parties. Of the latter he has become one of the most influential members, and has, perhaps, aided it more practically through his incisive caricatures of the opposition, in his illustrations of the " Cross-Roads," than any other journalist. " Nasby " was heard of during the war and jumped into popularity at his debut. The piquant humor of his descriptions was heightened by his amusingly defective orthography, a result which has not been as happily effected by imitators, of whom scores sprang at once into existence, and dropped almost as rapidly into evanescence. Mr. Locke possessed a native, not a labori- ously acquired art for presenting political situations in the clearest and most unmistakable manner, through the media of facetious narratives of the political events at the " Con- federate Cross-Roads." Ilis wit was mainly directed against the Democracy, and party measures and party fallacies were traced, in their consequences at the " Roads," under the administration of Nasby, Bascom, Pogram, McPhelter, et al. The most popular of his recent travestics was, perhaps, that which hit off the position of the party on the currency question .. Like all his former productions, it was copied into nearly all the papers of the country, and was also issued in pamphlet form, and had an immense sale. In all his political humorons writings, his effort was to show through the farce an actual drama, and there has been no man connected with modern American journalism who possessed a greater degree of talent in this direction than Mr. Locke. Nasby secured a world-wide reputation, and
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thousands made his acquaintance where only hundreds met | 1861 he received the appointment of Collector of the Port Locke. The modern country politician, poor to ragged- from President Lincoln, and held the position until 1864, when he resigned. He has always taken a deep interest in the development of Toledo, and in 1869 was elected Councilman from the First ward, representing that constit- ueney faithfully and ably for four years. In the same year he was elected Treasurer of Lucas county, and occupied that post most acceptably for four years. Since that time he has devoted himself exclusively to his own business. In politics he was a Whig, and is now a Republican, taking an active part in the movements of his party. Ile was mar- ried, in 1837, to Elizabeth Zahm. ness, in whose estimation a village postmastership was ely. sium, who aped distinction, however low, in the civil seale, and willing to tesoit to any scheme to obtain it, was his prototype, and the caricatures drawn by Mr. Locke rarely did him injustice in a single trait of morals or physique. Of recent years he has been recognized as one of our most popular lecturers. Ilis oral narratives, his spoken wit, and humorous delineations, generally in the discussion of politi- cal themes, are exceedingly enjoyable, and seem to catch the fancy of the lecture-attending public much more rapidly than the discourses of speakers divested of humor altogether. Ile has lectured in all the principal cities of the continent, and has everywhere been welcomed by very large audiences. In 1868 he was tendered the Postmastership of Toledo, but declined the offer, preferring to give his attention entirely to the duties of a journalist and private citizen. Within the past few months, Mr. Locke, with Mr. Bates, his previous partner, have associated themselves with Mr. Yost, the in- ventor of the great American Type Writer, in the proprie- torship of that new labor-saving machine, and should time and experience realize all that is hoped from it, possibly his connection with that may not prove a less foundation for his future remembrance than his " Nasby " letters, of which he is very sanguinc. He was married in 1854.
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TEPHAN, ANDREW, Brewer, was born in Bava- ria, Germany, November 9th, 1816, and received a common school education. He was apprenticed to the tanning trade, and served three years. Thereafter he went to Strasburg, Lyons, Bezan- con, Dijon, l'aris, and Havre-de-Gracc, working at his business in all. Emigrating to America, he arrived July 24th, 1836, and worked as a journeyman for John Smith, of Milan, Ohio, for the small remuneration of seven- teen dollars per month. At the end of six months he began business for himself in company with A. Zahm. This co- partnership existed for seven years, when he sokl out and moved, in 1842, to Maumec City, then the large city of the Maumee Valley, built a tannery, commenced business, and carried it on until 1850. Then he moved to Toledo, and started the same business in connection with John M. Col- lins, who was unfortunately killed in the machinery during the first year of the partnership. This accident compelled him to close up the business, and in the spring of 1853 he converted the tannery into a brewery, in the conduct of which he continued in association with P. Lenk until the fall of 1857, when he sold out his interest. In the fall of the same year he purchased of J. Kohler the site on which his brewery now stands. The building then on it was small, but he has enlarged it from year to year, until he has now one of the most complete breweries in the city. In
ISHIER, SAMUEL SPARKS, Lawyer, was born, April 11th, 1832, in St. Joseph county, Michigan. Ilis father was Dr. James C. Fisher, son of the Rev. Samuel Fisher, D. D., a prominent Presby- terian clergyman, and Alice Coggswell, who came of a well-known Connecticut family. Dr. James C. Fisher married Eliza Sparks, daughter of Samuel Sparks, a shipping merchant of Philadelphia, who did good service in the war of 1812, reaching the rank of major. Soon after graduating in New York city, Dr. Fisher married and went West, returning to the East shortly after the birth of the subject of this sketch. Samuel Sparks Fisher spent the carlier 'years of his childhood in New York city, where his father was for some time professor of chemistry in the University of New York. Ile very carly developed an unusual taste for chemistry, in theory and in practice, and gave frequent exhibitions of the mechanical genins which, in his professional life, was So eminently serviccable to him. lle spent many of his hours in his father's laboratory, eagerly laying hold of whatever knowledge came in his way, and often experimenting with a success wonderful for his years. Ile took readily to books. It is said that he could read the Bible fluently when he was four years okl. When Samuel was seven years old he went to Virginia with his father, who had accepted the superintendency of a gold mine in that State. Remaining there one year the family returned to New York, Dr. Fisher becoming connected with Professor Morse in his electro-magnetic experiments. Samuel took great delight in these experiments, and gained a practical insight into the workings of Morse's great inven- tion. The boy was stimulated, encouraged, and aided in his search for knowledge by his father, a man of unusual culture. In 1841, when Samuel had reached the age of nine years, he was placed in charge of his grandparents, at Bloomfield, New Jersey, where he attended school for one year. Ile was then sent to the preparatory school at West Point, for the benefit of the peculiar discipline of that in- stitution. At the end of a year he rejoined his father's family, which had located at Philadelphia. He entered a grammar school and was progressing rapidly, when he con-
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ceived the idea of entering mercantile life, and asked to be | reforms which he inaugurated, and the enthusiasm and placed in a store. Two years as a boy in various establish- efficiency with which he performed his duties, At the earnest request of the President he hell the Commissioner- ship of Patents for some time after Secretary Cox retired from the cabinet. Returning to Cincinnati he found his professional services more in request than ever. His prac- tice continued to grow until his sudden taking off. On the Ist of August, 1874, with his bright son Robbie, then in his eleventh year, he started from Elmira to make a canoe voyage to Philadelphia, whence they were to join Mrs. Fisher and her daughter Edith, at Pigeon Cove, Massachu- setts. All went well until the voyagers had passed Harris- burg by some fifteen miles and came upon the rapids known as Conewago Falls, the most dangerous point in the Susque- hanna. They were last seen alive on the afternoon of August 13th, just above the falls. Later in the day the bodies were recovered and cared for, until taken by the family to Cincinnati. Father and son were buried together in the Cemetery of Spring Grove. The news of Colonel Fisher's untimely death created a painful sensation wherever he was known. Touching tributes were paid to his memory by the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he was a useful member, by his former associates and his suc- cessor in the patent office, by the survivors of his regiment, and by the bars of Cleveland and Cincinnati. The meeting of the Cincinnati bar was attended by the leading men in the profession, who united in expressing their bigh regard for the deceased as a man, a lawyer, and a Christian gentle- man. Judge Alfonso Taft, since Secretary of War, spoke of him as a student in his office, and referred tenderly to his gentle heart and brilliant mind. Colonel Fisher was an active member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Cin- cinnati for many years. He was prominent in mission and Sunday-school work. He gave freely of his time and money to the cause of Christianity. In life he gave his services, in death he left.a rare example to his fellows. ments sufficed to prove to him and his family that his voca- tion did not lay in that line. He returned to the grammar school and applied his time and energy to his studies, At the age of fifteen years he entered the Philadelphia High School, taking rank at the head of his class. Ilere he made rapid progress, developing considerable talent for oratory and drawing, both of which natural gifts he im- proved and afterwards made of practical service. In addi- tion to his school work he produced some creditable prose and poetry, which was published in the newspapers. Feb- ruary 13th, 1851, at the age of nineteen years, he graduated from the high school, his position as head of his class en- titling him to deliver the honorary address. Shortly before graduating he was one of two scholars, chosen for profi- ciency in phonography, to report an important law case in which Francis Wharton, an eminent lawyer of Philadelphia, was interested. Mr. Wharton was so well pleased with their work that he offered the young men an opportunity to read law in his office, and both accepted. During the three years Mr. Fisher passed in Mr. Wharton's office he taught one year as an assistant professor in the high school and two years in charge of a private school. In 1854 he went to Cincinnati, where he continued his law studies in the law office of Taft, Keys & Perry, remaining with this firm until his admission to the bar. He turned his attention to patent law, a special practice for which he had rare qualifications. Business came to him plentifully, and it was not many years before his practice was so large in the East that he was obliged to associate with him General Samuel A. Duncan, who took charge of the New York office of the firm. Mr. Fisher achieved a national reputation as an acute lawyer, an honest counsellor, and an advocate with few equals. Mr. Justice Blatchford, of New York, once said in open court that he was " the best patent lawyer in the United States." October 20, 1856, he married Aurelia Crossette, in Morris county, New Jersey. The two were joined by the bride's father, Rev. Robert Crossette. When the Con- federate army invaded Ohio Mr. Fisher responded to the ALES, CHARLES THEODORE, Secretary of the Board of Trade of Toledo, was born in Fenner, Madison county, New York, December 2d, 1827. He was educated at Lockport, New York, and Toledo. Life commenced for him in a printing office, where he was apprenticed for five years. Ilis apprenticeship ended, he worked as a journeyman, until in the spring of 1849 he commenced the publication of a Free-Soil journal in Brooklyn, New York, with Hern S. M. Johnson as editor, and Walt Whitman associate edi- tor, putting forward the name of Thomas HI. Benton, of Missouri, for President in 1852. He resumed printing as a journeyman, in January, 1850, and followed it until the spring of 1861, when he took the position of City and Commercial Editor of the Toledo Blade. In this capacity he continued until August, 1873. During this period, in call for hundred days' men. He joined the service, May ed, 1864, as Colonel of the 138th Regiment Ohio National Guards. The regiment proceeded South in haste, arriving at Fort Spring Hill, opposite Point of Rocks, on Sunday, June 19th. After a month of active service with the Army of the James, it was ordered to Cherrystone Inlet, castern shore of Virginia, and he was directed to assume command of all the land forces. In this responsible place he dis- charged his duties with the zeal and fidelity which marked him through life. Having served four months, his regiment was mustered out at Camp Dennison. Shortly after his re- turn home he reluctantly yielded to the solicitation of Gen- eral J. D. Cox, President Grant's first Secretary of the In- terior, and accepted the Commissionership of Patents. Ilis associates in the bureau give abundant testimony of the
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1868, he was elected Secretary of the Toledo Board of | plow, rake, harrow, or build houses and barns. After his Trade, the duties of which office he still discharges with distinguished fidelity and ability. Politically, he has been a Republican since casting his first vote. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for many years, and is now Worshipful Master of Sanford L. Collins Lodge, No. 396, of Ohio.
TANTON, WILLIAM, M. D., Physician, was born, July 5th, 1809, in Cookstown, county of Tyrone, Ireland, and is the third of seven chil- dren, whose parents were James and Margaret (Harkness) Stanton. His parents were both na- tives of the north of Ireland, and members of the United Church of England and Ireland. Ilis father was a . farmer by occupation, and lived on his farm near Cooks- town until his death, November 11th, 1872; his wife having preceded him on August 23d, 1861. Neither of them ever came to America. Dr. Stanton received a liberal education at a famous academy in his native town. To- wards the elose of 1826 he went into a drug store in that place to learn the business, remaining there about a year, when he proceeded to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he matriculated at the celebrated Royal University of that city, and entered upon a course of medical study, with a view of practising that profession. In the autumn of 1831 he gradnated with honor from the university, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the spring of 1832 he sailed for the United States, and landed first in Philadel- phia, where he tarried on a visit of a few weeks, and thence proceeded to Ohio, and located first at New Carlisle, Clarke county, where he commenced the practice of medi- cine. Ile remained there until January, 1834, when he removed to Steubenville, where he has since resided, and has established an extensive and lucrative practice. Ile has been for a number of years an active and influential member of the Ohio State Medical Association. In politi- cal sentiment he is a Republican, but has never sought nor held any public office whatever. In religious belief he is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Ilis manners are pleasant, social, and courteous, and he enjoys the esteem and respect of his fellow townsmen.
LLEN, HORACE R., M. D., Founder and Pres- ident of the National Surgical Institute, was born in Athens county, Ohio, October 21st, 1834. Ilis father, Joseph Allen, was a farmer, and died when Horace was but seventeen years of age. Ile was at that early age remarkable for his mechanical ingenuity, having from his early boyhood manufactured and invented nearly all of the implements used on his father's farm. He could construet a wagon,
father's death he resolved to educate himself and his four sisters, and support his mother. The farm aided him in this most landable enterprise only to the extent of from two to three hundred dollars per year. The professors of the Ohio University gave him permission to sell books to the students, which, with hard labor, and profits on his specu- lations in government lands, furnished money for the expenses of himself and family. About this time he spent some time in studying law, expecting to adopt the legal profession. In the winter of 1855-56 he examined personally and purchased government lands in Iowa, While on that expedition the thermometer often indicated twenty to thirty degrees below zero. Ile then returned to Ohio and graduated from the Cleveland Medical Col- lege in 1857. This was a disappointment to many of his friends, who desired him to be a lawyer. Ile then removed to Des Moines, lowa, but soon after located in Charleston, Illinois, where he practised his profession, kept a drug store, and was President of the First National Bank, in which he had a controlling interest. At this time he concluded that counting money was not helping humanity, and therefore quit the bank and devoted himself entirely to practice. Subsequently, however, he speculated in Chicago real estate, and realized a profit of $50,000 on a single transaction. On July Ist, 1869, he removed to In- dianapolis, Indiana, and at once began to improve the city by making several additions, laying out streets, building houses, etc. The establishing of the National Surgical In- stitute has been the great event of his life. Like every other great philanthropic enterprise, it had its origin in sym- pathy for individual suffering. This can be illustrated by a little incident which occurred in 1856. While Dr. Allen was attending a course of medical lectures in one of the principal hospitals of the country, his attention was arrested by the case of a little sufferer from disease of the spine- a little girl some five years of age, who was presented for treatment to a surgeon of skill and celebrity then in charge of the hospital. Iler parents were informed that she must remain in the hospital under the immediate care of the sur- geon, and might be obliged for some months to lie on her back in bed. Although the separation from their child was very trying, they were reconciled in the hope of a cure for their darling child. It is only necessary to say that the lit- tle exile from home was grieved, terrified, and being alone with strangers, was tortured with the hery, blazing " moxa," and other modes of treatment known at that time as orthodox. Slowly the many weeks rolled on, and she beenme a mere skeleton. Her mother came and would never have recog- nized her little darling but for the cyes that grew brighter at her coming. Iler wasted arms were clasped tightly and pleadingly around her neck, and her feeble cry was, " Mother, dear mother, take me home." The little victim that had been offered a sacrifice upon the altar of ortho- doxy, was taken home, where, with plenty of fresh air
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and food, she partially recovered from her terrible wounds, over $75,000 per annum. On the second floor are parlors and the dining hall, a room fifty feet square; also bath rooms, nursery, where children are placed under charge of a matron and nurses. The gymnasium, or general treatment room, is large and fitted up for the requirements of the patients. Directly connected with this apartment the Swedish movement machines and appliances -- compli- cated, ingenious, and varied in character and number- are in full operation, driven by the engine of the shops. Ilere also are found electrical machines, batteries, ingenious inventions for training paralytics to walk, for straightening crooked backs, contracted or stiff joints, and for the correc- tion of deformity and paralysis in general. No description can do justice to this department, or convey full and accur- ate knowledge of its great advantages and worth. The remainder of the third floor is used for sleeping rooms. The statement of the Recording Secretary shows that there have been treated at the institute 32,821 cases, which in- clude all kinds of deformities and diseases. If to this large number all of the charity patients were added, the number would be astonishingly large. It is impossible to itemize the hundreds of thousands of dollars which have been expended in medicines and apparatus. Thirty physicians, surgeons, and assistants, whose medical education has been according to the strictest professional code, have performed this mighty work of relieving and restoring to health suffering humanity. Dr. Allen is now but little more than forty-one years of age, yet the wonderful work he has accomplished would seem to have required at least threescore and ten years. Ile is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis, and is a liberal contributor to all charitable enterprises. Notwithstanding the great amount of work he daily perforn.s at the institute, he finds time to interest himself in the welfare of the city, and is President of the street railroads and other institutions. In May, 1856, he married Ilarriet E. Shepard, by whom he has four children, and lived for many years, but dwarfed in stature and sadly deformed. This case, with its revolting history, suggested to Dr. Allen the necessity for a humane and rational treatment of deformity and disease. From this suggestion sprang a resolution to seek a better way, and if science and reason could possibly afford relief, a life's study should be devoted to the amelioration of such and other cases. Ifis life from that time has been almost wholly devoted to discovering and adopting every means of humane, pleasant, and effective treatment for all serious deformities and diseases which come within the range of his special practice. Some sixteen years have passed since Dr. Allen began to carry into effect plans to relieve the alllicted, and the most gratifying and assured success has rewarded the pioneer enterprise. The institute is to-day a proud monu- ment of liberality and skill, and is prominent among the most philanthropic enterprises of the age; is fulfilling its great mission of subserving to the relief of human misery every discovery, invention, and improvement within the scope of science and at the command of money. The National Surgical Institute was incorporated under the laws of the State of Indiana, with a capital of $500,000, with the avowed object of treating all cases of surgery and chronic diseases; also, engaging in the manufacture of sur- gical and mechanical appliances, splints, bandages, machin- ery, and other articles needed for the treatment of the afflicted; also, with authority to teach others the same art. The eminent success attained cannot be overestimated. The magnanimous treatment of the poor, the moderate fees demanded of the rich, and the explicit and candid manner in which all are treated, have gained for the institute the confidence and support of good people throughout the country. It has also been indorsed and sustained by all the intelligent physicians who have availed themselves of an opportunity to study its claims to merit by visiting the institute. The organization now consists of four large, complete institutions, each amply equipped with all neces- sary facilities. They are located' in Indianapolis, Indiana ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Atlanta, Georgia; and San EDGES, JOSIAH, the founder of Tiffin, Ohio, was born, April 9th, 1778, near West Liberty, Berke- ley county, Virginia. He left his father's home at an early age, with the determination to carve ont his own fortune. The first enterprise which he undertook on his own account was a trading excursion to New Orleans on a flat-boat laden with fruit, which he floated down the Ohio river from Wheeling to New Orleans, the voyage lasting six weeks. Ile finally settled in Ohio, in 1801, one year before it was admitted as a State, and located in Belmont county, where for a number of years he was one of its most active and prominent citi- zens. Ile was the first Sheriff of that county, and for a term of years Clerk of the Court. Ile next engaged in the mercantile business at St. Clairsville. His capital was lin- Francisco, California, At Indianapolis the Central Division owns and. occupies a block of buildings four stories high, covering one-quarter of a square, on the corner of Illinois and Georgia streets. These buildings are provided with sleep- ing rooms to accommodate three hundred patients. On the lower story of the east wing are thirteen offices, which are occupied for prescription, operating, consultation, apparatus, etc. Back of the main buildings and connected with them is a machine shop in which are manufactured all kinds of apparatus and machinery for the institute. In this shop, with its forty horsepower steam engine, and other machinery, are employed twenty to thirty skilled workmen, who are en- gaged constantly, from year to year, in manufacturing appli- ances for patients of the institution. The expense of this department in labor, material, and incidentals, amounts to , ited, but was slowly and surely increased by prudence and
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