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sagacity. In those days merchants in the West were wont | married, September 29th, 1803, to Rebecca Russell, in Bel- to purchase their goods in Philadelphia, journeying across mont county, Ohio, and had by this union six children, two only of whom are now living -- Mrs. Rebecca Walker, widow of Joseph Walker; and Mrs. Clarinda Hunter, widow of William Hunter, all of Tiffin. Ilis first wife died July 8th, 1816, aged thirty-one years. After a widow- erhood of one year he was married, July 10th, 1817, to Eliza Hammerly, of Martinsburg, Virginia, having by this marriage nine children, of whom six are still living-his son, William C. Hodges, a real estate dealer in Tiffin ; Cynthia A., wife of Luther A. Hall; Mary Jane, wife of A. C. Baldwin; Minerva, wife of Harrison Noble; Eliza- beth, wife of John G. Gross, all residents of Tiffin; and Sarah V., wife of W. W. Armstrong, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. ITis second wife died November 10th, 1837. Ile was last married, October 29th, 1844, to Harriet, daughter of Ilenry Snook, of Seneca county, who survives him. He died in Tiffin, July 15th, 1858. the Allegheny mountains on horseback, and carrying their specie in their saddle-bags. In 1819 he opened a branch store in Mansfield, having as a partner his brother, General James Hedges. Soon after this he removed from St. Clairsville to Mansfield, and in 1820 made a journey to Fort Ball-it now being a part of Tiffin. Ile immediately decided to enter the land opposite to Fort Ball, on the east side of the Sandusky river, on which the county seat was located and the city of Tiffin was afterwards built ; and proceeding to the Land Office at Delaware, Ohio, made the purchase of the same from the government. In 1822 the first stick was cut on that part of Tiffin now in the First ward, and during the same year the first frame house on the town plat was erected and used as a store-now known as the "Old Masonic Ilall." Ile also built, in that same year, a flouring mill on the Sandusky river, and a saw-mill on Rocky creek, both of which were largely patronized by the pioneers of that day. By a prudent and liberal course in disposing of his town lots he saw the place increase steadily in population, and in 1828 he secured the removal of the Land Office from Delaware to Tiffin, thus giving the town a renewed impetus. In 1831 he was chosen to represent the district in the Ohio Legislature, serving one session. In 1837 he disposed of his store to a son, and retired from trade, giving his attention from that time until his death to his real estate interests in Tiffin, which were necessarily very large. In his younger days he was an athletic and vigorous man, and in his old age retained in a remarkable degree his manly sense and vigor of mind, transacting and managing up to the last his own business affairs. Ile was generous and just in his dealings with his fellow-men, benevolent to all Christian denominations, in most cases donating the lots on which their churches were erected, and was liberal towards all public improvements. Ile was a friend to the poor, as many citizens can testify, well remem- bering his kindness and leniency to them. In all the relations of life he was a just and a sincere man. Ile was a good citizen and a true and steadfast friend. As a father, affectionate and indulgent; and by his kindred, both old and young, he will ever be gratefully remembered. To him they coukl always go, and his heart was ever open to them. Ilis sagacity and foresight were such that his advice was often sought ; and so excellent was his judgment that he rarely erred in giving it. Although not a member of any church, he was a good and true man, and upon his dying couch he expressed to his friends a willingness to die, and assured them of his unfaltering trust in that "Saviour who has promised to save all who may turn to- wards Him in faith and penitence." He dropped away quietly, as if but entering upon a sleep. Without a groan or struggle the good old man took his departure and passed away " like one that draws the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams." He was first
CLEAN, IION. DANIEL, Farmer and Banker, was born, October 3d, 1805, in Ross county, Ohio, and is the youngest child of Duncan and Elizabeth (McGaraugh) Mclean. Ilis father was a native of Scotland, who through life fol- lowed agricultural pursuits. He emigrated to America in 1760, and settled first in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, removing to Ohio in 1805, and located in Ross county, where he resided until his death, August 2d, 1806. Jfc had married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph McGaraugh, an carly settler of Westmoreland county, l'ennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish extraction. She died January Ist, 1850. Daniel obtained only a limited education, being that obtained in the common schools in the neighborhood of his father's farm. When fourteen years old he became a clerk in a store in Washington, Fayette county, where he labored very industriously until 1830, when he went into business on his own account, keeping a general store, and was thus employed for some ten years. In 1840 he re- moved to his farm in Union township, adjacent to Wash- ington, where he has since resided. In 1863 he was elected President of the First National Bank, and associated banking with agricultural pursuits; commencing with a capital of $75,000, which has since been increased to $300,000. llis political views are those of the Republican party. Ile cast his first Presidential vote for John Quincy Adams. In 1826 he was elected Coroner of Fayette county, and served in that office for four years. In 1842 he was appointed Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the same county, by the Governor of Ohio, and in 1843 was elected to the same office, being on the bench about eight years. In 1851 he was elected a Director of the Cincinnati, Wilmington & Zanesville Railroad Com- pany, and served in that capacity for thirteen years. He is
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a large stockholder in the Dayton & Southeastern Railroad, | the style of the Morrow Bank. This enterprise proved and in the Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy Railroad Com- quite successful, and he continued it until 1874. At this time, loving his profession better than banking, notwith- standing the more profitable character of the latter, he again turned his whole attention to the practice of law in Cincinnati. Ile now enjoys an extensive and lucrative practice, with the high regard of his clients and a large circle of friends. In the fullest sense of the term he is a self-made man. panies, lle is also largely interested in the capital stock of the Coal & Iron Company of Wellston, Jackson county. Religiously, his views are not circumscribed by the creed of any particular church. Socially, he is pleasant, frank, and affable. He has led a temperate life, and has been a hard worker, giving his whole soul to whatever matter engaged his attention. Ile started out in life with no capital but his industry, energy, and perseverance, and having been the architect of his own fortunes, can point to his present commanding position as the result of what untiring diligence can perform. Hle may with great pro- priety be termed a self-made man. Ile was married in 1830 to Ilelena, danghter of Dr. John Boyd, a prominent physician and early pioneer of Highland county, Ohio. She died in 1849, having been the mother of five children. Ile was again married in 1852 to Mary Sprague, a native of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, who died in 1854. Ile was united in marriage, in 1856, to Matilda, daughter of Isaac Hagler, an early pioneer of Fayette county, who is still living.
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OZADD, FRANK M., Attorney-at-Law, was born in Lewis county, Virginia, on March 19th, 1837. Ilis father moved to Ohio in 1845, and died dur- ing the same year. Ile is self-educated, having been left at his father's death entirely dependent on his own resources. A school he never at- tended after he was eleven years of age, but by close study he succeeded in securing a substantial knowledge of the ordinary branches of information. In 1852 he moved to Cincinnati, arriving in the city without money or friends. .Ilis first employment was obtained in a dry-goods store as errand boy. There he remained for four years, when he began the study of law in the office of Judge Baldwin, at Blanchester, Ohio. After completing his legal studies, in 1860, he removed to Iowa and commenced the practice of his profession. When the war broke out, in 1861, he re- turned to Virginia, having interests there, and assumed the editorship of The West Virginia Republican, published at Buchanan. There he continued until 1866, when, in con- ncetion with his brother, George Cozadd, he purchased The Daily Gazette, a paper published at Parkersburg, West Virginia, and edited it until 1867. Ile was, however, on the wrong side politically for that State, being an outspoken Democrat of the Jeffersonian school. This difference be- tween his views and those of a majority of his patrons caused the business to assume an unprofitable character, and he gave it up. Returning to Cincinnati to try his for- tune once more, he resumed the practice of his profession. During the same year ( 1867) he was married to the daughter of Colonel James S. Conden, of Warren county, Ohio. In 1870 he started a bank in Morrow, Ohio, under
ORRIS, JONATHAN, M. D., was born on De- cember Ist, 1824, in Morgan county, Ohio. Ile was the sixth of seven children, whose parents were Abraham and Sophia ( Kughn) Morris. Ilis father-of Scotch-Irish extraction-was a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and followed through life the trade of carpenter. He moved to Ohio about 1818, settling in Guernsey county, whence he removed in 1822 to Morgan county, where he lived till his death, in 1835. Hle was a soldier in the war of 1812. Jonathan's mother was of German family, but was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania. The lad was early taught moral and industrious habits. Ile worked on a farm when a boy, attending school in winter. Ilis edu- cation was liberal, and obtained by his own exertions. Left fatherless at the age of eleven, he worked for an uncle for eighteen months; and then for about a year on a farm, at five dollars a month. In 1838 he entered a store in Waslı- ington county, and clerked for about two years. Thereafter he pursued the same calling in Gallipolis for about five years, studying the while medicine, and for a year law, which he abandoned from conscientious scruples. In 1845 he gave his whole attention to medicine, under the direction of Dr. James M. Cromley, of Gallipolis, reading assiduously for about two years and attending lectures at Cleveland Medical College, where he graduated in 1847. He at once began practice in Burlington, Ohio. A year later he moved to Powellsville, Scioto county, but in five months started merchandising at Harrisonville, so continuing for about two years. In 1850 he sold out his store and resumed practice for three years in Ironton. In 1853 he passed five months speculating at Gallipolis, whence he moved to Ashland, Kentucky, and practised for three years, also editing a newspaper and carrying on a store. During 1856 he moved on to a farm near Burlington, Ohio, and stayed there one year. Then he returned to Ironton, where he has since re- sided and enjoyed an extensive medical practice, except during the war. In 1861 he entered the army as Surgeon of the 9th Virginia Regiment, and served with it till the spring of 1865, being mainly with the 8th Army Corps, in Virginia, part of the time as Brigade Surgeon and part as Division Surgeon. Captured at Guyandotte, Virginia, on November 10th, 1861, he was confined in Libby prison for four months, then paroled and afterwards exchanged.
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lle is a Republican, but has never sought political office. In 1873 he was elected to the Legislature, and served two years. Ile is a member of the Methodist Church, and is remarkable for high character, untiring energy and in- dustry. In 1848 he was married to Emily J. Wilson, a native of Cabell county, Virginia.
EATTY, HON. JOHN, son of James and Eliza- beth ( Williams) Beatty, was born near Sandusky, Ohio, December 16th, 1828. Ile received a good common school education, and located in busi- ness at Cardington, Ohio, where he engaged in banking. Ile was an active supporter of John P. Ilale for the Presidency in 1852, and of John C. Fre- mont in 1856, and was a Presidential elector on the Re- publican ticket in 1860. At the outbreak of the rebellion he raised a company for the Union army, was unanimously chosen Captain, and reported with his men to the Adjutant- General on the 19th of April, 1861. He was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the 3d Ohio Infantry, and re-elected to that position when the regiment, at the expiration of its three months' enlistment, reorganized for the three years' service. Colonel Beatty was with Generals McClellan and Rosecrans in their campaign in western Virginia, and in the winter of 1861-62 was transferred to Kentucky and as- signed to General O. M. Mitchel's division. In the spring of 1862 he was commissioned a Colonel, and accompanied Mitchel in his descent upon northern Alabama, taking part in the affair at Bridgeport, in that State, and was subse- quently appointed Provost Marshal at Huntsville. Ile re- turned with the army to the Ohio river, and fought at the head of his regiment in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, in October, 1862. Ile commanded a .brigade at Stone River, and, on the first day of the battle, as is stated in Van Ilorne's " Ilistory of the Army of the Cumberland," his command, in conjunction with Sheppard's, Scribner's and the pioneer brigades, " saved the centre, and the army." On the night of January 3d he attacked a portion of the enemy's works lying near the Murfreesboro' pike, and carried them at the point of the bayonet. Soon after this he was commissioned a Brigadier-General, to rank from November 29th, 1862, and participated in the Tullahoma campaign, during which he dislodged the enemy from his position on Elk river. Ile afterwards served, by appoint- ment of General George HI. Thomas, as President of a Board to examine applicants for commissions in colored regiments; was with the army in the Chattanooga cam- paign, led the advance into Georgia, struck the enemy at Johnson's Crook and Cooper's Gap, and was with Generals Baird and Negley in the affair at Dng Gap. In the battle of Chickamauga General Beatty commenced the fighting of the first day on the extreme right of the line, and of the second day on the extreme left, and continued on the field
until the battle ended. On the day following he repulsed a heavy reconnoitring column of the enemy at Rossville. lle was on the left with Sherman at Mission Ridge, but during the battle his command formed a part of the reserve. On the day following he led in pursuit of the enemy, and overtaking the rebel General Maury at Graysville, engaged and finally drove him from his position by a charge. Ile then accompanied General Sherman in the march to Knox- ville for the relief of Burnside. In 1864 he resigned, for personal reasons. General Beatty was elected to the Fortieth Congress, and served as a member of the Commit- tee on Invalid Pensions. Ile was re-elected by an in- creased majority to the Forty-first Congress, and served as Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. He was re-elected, again by an increased majority, to the Forty-second Congress, and served as Chairman of the House Joint Committee on Printing. At the close of his term he was strongly solicited to be again the candidate of his party for re-election, but declined. Ile now resides in Columbus, where he is engaged in the business of banking.
HOEMAKER, ROBERT M., Railroad Promoter, was born, October 21st, 1815, in the town of German Flats, now the village of Mohawk, ller- kimer county, New York. Ilis ancestors were among the early Dutch settlers of the Mohawk country. Ilis father was a man of prominence in that section. Ile was largely intrusted with the adminis- tration and settlement of estates, and to help him in his labors he had his son, Robert, study surveying. In 1834, at the age of nineteen, Robert was employed as " forward chainman " by N. S. Roberts, State Engineer, who was then engaged in improving the Erie canal. In the follow- ing year he obtained a mathematical education at Cazenovia Seminary. On the Utica & Schenectady Railroad he ac- quired a knowledge of civil engineering. Before the com- pletion of the road he became Assistant Resident Engineer. In 1836 he was one of a party who made a survey for a railroad in Canada, a task which English engineers had twice failed to accomplish. It was completed in less than three months, after much hard work and exposure. This work done, he was employed to go to Ohio to make surveys for what is now known as the Lake Shore road. In Oc- tober, 1837, at the age of twenty two, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad. An engine for this road, which was landed from a schooner at Sandusky City in July, 1838, was the first locomotive in Ohio. It was called the " Sandusky." In 1838 he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Little Miami Railroad, but at the same time retained his position on the Mad river en- terprise. The first locomotive, the "Governor Morrow," was put upon the Little Miami road, under his superin. tendence, in 1840. From 1843 to 18449, as funds could be
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obtained, he continued to prosecute the Mad river enter- | tice of law, and where he has since resided. By strict prise. At the latter date he accepted the appointment of attention to all matters intrusted to his care he has seenred a large and lucrative practice. Ile is a leading and promi- nent member of the United States Law Association. In political faith he is a Republican. Personally, he is of medium stature, prepossessing in appearance, of slender but compact form, denoting great endurance in mental and physical labor. lle was married, October 2d, 1860, to lIelen O'llagan, of Shanesville, Tuscarawas county, Ohio. Chief Engineer on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad. 'This road, one of the best built in Ohio, was completed in 1851. In 1852 he resigned this position and accepted that of Engineer-in Chief on the Covington & Lexington Railroad, in Kentucky, which he built as far as Cynthiana, in that State. Leaving this enterprise, he un- deitook the construction of the Dayton & Michigan Rail- road, between Dayton and Toledo. Its progress was impeded by the inability of the company to sell its bonds. Realizing the importance of the work, he indueed several capitalists to co-operate with him in the completion of the work as a speculation. After much hard work they were eventually successful. A perpetual lease of the road was soon after given to the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company, the owners realizing handsomely from their investment. In the summer of 1865 the now promi- nent and successful railroad promoter was induced to join in the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Ile built that portion of the road from Leavenworth to Fort Wallace, Kansas, a distance of four hundred and five miles. This was accomplished by October, 1868, at which date he severed his connection with the enterprise. Ile had many difficulties to contend with not in his contract. A cholera scourge swept off two hundred and thirty of his men in the short space of two weeks, and the hostility of the Indians led to the killing and wounding of many others. Ile re- turned to Ohio in 1868, and for a long time refused any professional employment. In the summer of 1870 he was induced to undertake the construction of the Cincinnati & Springfield Railroad, known as the " Dayton Short Line." Ile is now the President and moving spirit of the enter- prise. Ilis life has been one of great business activity and hard work, and has been prolific of good results to his fellow.men. Ile is one of the foremost pioneer railroad men of the West. lle has an office in Cincinnati, and a residence at Glendale.
AGUE, SINCLAIR MERRYMAN, Lawyer, was born, July 6th, 1834, in Leesville, Carroll county, Ohio, of American parentage and English de- scent. Ile was edueated in the common schools, leaving the latter in 1851, when he commenced teaching; and was so occupied until 1855 in the counties of Tuscarawas, Harrison and Carroll. Hle then commeneed the study of law with George W. McIlvaine, now Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Zanesville, September 12th, 1857. Ile commenced his legal practice at New Philadelphia, where he continued until 1859, when he removed to Florida, Henry county, where he taught school during that winter. On May 8th, 1860, he again changed his location, and finally settled at Napoleon, where he resumed the prac-
LOVER, ELIJAII, Printer, Editor and Lawyer, was born, May 11th, 1811, in Portsmouth, Ohio, and is the sixth child (of nine) of Elijah and Catherine (Jones) Glover, both natives of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and early settlers of Scioto county. Ilis father removed to Ohio in 1798, and first located at Alexandria, Scioto county, re- moving subsequently to Portsmouth, where he kept an inn for many years, and also a hat store. In this latter building the first court of Scioto county held its first session. Ile was Sheriff of the county for a number of years, was a soldier of the war of 1812, and took a very active part in all the carly organizations and public enterprises of that section. Elijah worked on a farm until he was sixteen, at- tending school in winter; and being a good student acquired a better education than generally fell to the lot of the youth of the frontier settlements in those days. In 1828 he be- eame an apprentice to the printer's trade in Portsmouth, in the office of the Western Times, and remained there until about 1830, when he established a newspaper himself, called the Portsmouth Courier, which he edited and pub- lished for about five years. lle also became a bookseller and publisher, and so continued until 1839, when he was elected County Auditor, and then disposed of his book and publication establishment. Ile was twiee thereafter re- elected Auditor, and held the office for six years. Mean- while he read law with great industry, and in 1847 was admitted to the bar. He entered at once upon the practice of that profession, in which he has continued to the present time. Ile was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1850, and held the position one term. In 1866 he was appointed Register in Bankruptey by Chief-Justice Chase, and re- signed that office in 1870. Ile was a member of the Ohio Legislature from January, 1864, to January, 1870, and was re-elected in 1870. Ile was originally a Henry Clay Whig, and latterly a Republican. Ilis religious faith is that as held by the Methodists. Ile is an carnest and active tem- perance man, and in 1854 published a temperance paper called the Life Boat, both daily and weekly issues, He first advocated temperance principles in 1840. Ile was married in 1833 to Sarah J., daughter of George Offuer, formerly of Winchester, Virginia, but an early settler of Scioto county, Ohio,
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AAG, HON. JOIIN MARION, Lawyer, Editor | the fall of 1834 he removed to Ohio. Ile settled in Spring- and Legislator, was born, August 16th, 1836, in field, and there began the practice of the law. Ile practised first in partnership with General Anthony, and afterwards was associated in his practice with Judge White. Subse- quently he was elected Judge of the Court of Common l'leas. On September 6th, 1837, he married Elizabeth Smith, daughter of George Smith, of College Ilill, Hamil- ton county, Ohio, and originally of Dorsetshire, England. Six children, three daughters and three sons, resulted from this union. One of the daughters died in childhood, but the other children survived to grow up. Judge Rodgers died on May 25th, 1855, leaving an honorable and unstained memory. Union county, Pennsylvania, and is a son of l'eter II. and Catharine (Conrad) Ilang; his father was by profession a lawyer, and descended from a Ilolland family, who had been among the first settlers of New York. Ile was educated in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and when seventeen years old went to Ohio, and entered a printing office in Millersburg to learn the trade. Ile subsequently studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859, at New Philadelphia, and commenced the practice of his profes ion in Tuscarawas county. In July, 1862, he removed to Henry county and settled at Napoleon, where he still resides and commands an exten- sive line of patronage. In the spring of 1864 he became the editor of the Northwest, and conducted that journal with energy and ability for five or six years, making it the recog- mized organ of the Democracy of the Tenth Congressional District. In the autumn of the same year he was elected Probate Judge of Ilenry county to till a vacancy, and re- 6 elected in 1866. Ile has represented his district in the lower House of the General Assembly during the years 1872-75, where he was recognized as a ready and fair de. bater, and a formidable adversary. During the last two years of his service in that body he was Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. lle has always been an active, consistent and energetic Democrat, serving his party both with his pen and voice in a manner to make warm friends, and commanding the respect of his adversaries. Ile is positive in everything he advances, and sometimes vehement in enforcing his views. At the bar he has a fair standing, and is recognized as among the best orators in northwestern Ohio. Ile enjoys at present the leading law practice in llenry county. lle was married, August 17th, 1865, to Martha J. Meek, of llenry county, Ohio, and is the father of three children.
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