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LEMM, OTIIO, Auditor of Toledo, was born in Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, Germany, July, 1836; was educated in the Gymnasium, and lived with his parents until nearly fourteen. He emigrated with his father to America in the spring of 1850. Itis father leaving for California, he was placed under the charge of Joseph S. Lake, a banker in Wall street, and remained with him until 1853, when he went to Cleveland, Ohio. Having strong recommendations to the President of the Canal Bank of that city, he obtained a situation as clerk in the bank until its failure in 1854, when he left for Toledo. In that city he engaged with E. Haskell'as clerk, in the Toledo Insurance Company. After Mr. Haskell's death he became bookkeeper to W. J. Finlay unti! 1859, when he joined the United States Express Company. In that employ he remained until the war broke out, in 1861, when he enlisted as a private in Battery B, Ist Illinois Regiment Light Artillery. Ile served three years, and was engaged in seventeen battles, among them Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Chickasaw, Bayou, | cles manufactured by the company, and his many improve.
Arkansas Post, siege of Vicksburg, and Mission Ridge. Ile was in all the fights through Georgia, and was sent home from Atlanta, Georgia, to be mustered out. Returning to Toledo, he became a partner in a retail dry goods business. In the spring of 1870 he was elected Auditor of the city of Toledo, and has held the position to the present time (Jan- uary, 1876). Ile was married, December 18th, 1873, to Bertha Schaumbach.
ALL, JOSEPH LLOYD, Bank-Lock and Safe Manufacturer, was born, May 9th, 1823, at Salem, New Jersey, and is the second son of Edward and Anna (Lloyd) Ilall. Ile removed with his parents to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Ilis educational advantages were very limited, as he began to earn his own living at eight years of age; and although his early tastes inclined him to mechanical pur- suits, yet circumstances combined to prevent their gratifica- tion. In 1840 he engaged in a steamhoat enterprise, and continued in that business upon the Mississippi river and its tributaries until 1846, when he returned to Pittsburgh and formed a copartnership with his father, under the firm-name of E. & J. Ilall, and embarked in the manufacture of fire- proof safes. This industry was undeveloped, and they also found such strong competition from the wealthy and long- established Eastern houses in the same line, that they deter- mined to remove to Cincinnati, which they carried out in 1848. In that city they established the nucleus of the present immense manufactory, and both father and son toiled in their little workshop from day to day with inde- fatigable patience and energy. They labored assiduously to educate the publie mind to's fuller appreciation of the great security obtained by the use of fire and burglar-proof safes, and stemming the current of opposition with a rare and admirable pertinacity for years, they finally triumphed over adverse circumstances and stood on a firm foundation. In 1851 his father disposed of his interest in the business to William B. Dodd,, and the firm of Hall, Dodds & Co. succeeded; they employed, at that time, a force of fifteen hands, and produced about two safes per week. This firm was dissolved in 1857, and was thereafter followed by others in succession, in all of which Joseph L. Hall was the senior partner and chief executive. The Hall Safe and Lock Company was organized in May, 1867, of which he was chosen President and Treasurer, and, as formerly, still exercises a rigid surveillance over all the practical operations of the works. This is said to be the largest safe manufac- turing establishment in the world, and is probably more than four times as large as any similar concern in the United States. It employs some six hundred mechanics of consummate skill and experience, and has a capacity for turning out about lifty safes each working day. Ile has devoted his mechanical genius to the perfection of the arti-
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ments attest his aptness and fitness for the task. Ile is the patentee of some thirty well-known and valuable inventions in bank locks and safe. He has buik some of the largest safes ever constructed, and, without exception, they have preserved their contents intact during the severest tests. The manner in which his five hundred safes passed the terrible ordeal at the great fire in Chicago, October, 1871, is a sufficient proof of their reliability. The company have branch houses in every important city .in the Union, and the reputation of the safes and locks is limited only by the confines of civilization. At the outbreak of the late civil war, in 1861, he undertook the execution of a contract to alter, for the United States government, within thirty days, five thousand Austrian muskets, and performed the work so satisfactorily and efficiently, that he was awarded many other contracts during the war. Ile never aspired to nor accepted a public office, although often solicited to become a candidate. He has been for many years an active, zeal- ous, and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is at present one of the most liberal supporters of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church of Cincinnati. Such is the record of a man who, by dint of indomitable energy and native genius, won his way to a proud and en- viable position in the business and social world-a position which his generous and hospitable nature well fits him to grace. Ile was married, in early manhood, to Sarah Jane Jewell, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and this union has been blessed with twelve children, three sons being now associated with him, all of whom are active and efficient business men, the oldest, Edward C. Ilall, having filled the position of Vice- President of the company.
ILSON, JAMES LEIGHTON, M. D., Physician, was born near Greenfield, Ilighland county, Ohio, January 5th, 1821, and is the third of twelve children whose parents were Adam B. and Mar- gery ( Dean) Wilson. His father was born, 1790, in Lincoln conuty, North Carolina, and was a fumer by occupation. Ile removed to Ohio in 1814, first locating at Chillicothe, and finally settled, in 1816, in Madi- son township, Highland county, where he resided until his death, in November, 1857. Ile was a soldier during the war of 1812, and was for a number of years Magistrate of Highland county. Ile married Margery, daughter of Abra- ham Dean, an early settler in Pike county, Ohio, where sbe was born in 1799. James attended school during the win- ter and assisted his father in farm-work until he was nine- ' teen years old, when he entered the Ohio University at Athens, where he diligently studied for two years. In 1842 he returned home, and commenced reading medicine under Drs. Milton and Alexander Dunlap, of Greenfickl. In the fall of 1813 he went to Cincinnati to attend the lectures at the Ohio Medical College, returning home at the close of
the course. After remaining in the office there one year, he commenced practising medicine in Champaign county for fifteen months, and then took a second course in the Ohio Medical College, from which he graduated with honor in the spring of 1848. In the same year he returned te Greenfield, where he has since resided, and where he has established an extensive and remunerative practice. He is a frequent contributor to the medical literature of the day; and the essay on " Scarlatina," published among the trans. actions of the State Medical Society in 1852, evoked con. siderable attention. Ile is a member of the State Medical Society, and also of the Highland County Medical Society. Ile has never sought nor held any public office whatever. lle was originally a Whig, but is now affiliated with the Republican party. For the past thirty five years he has been a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was mar- ried, in 1846, to Elizabeth II., daughter of Hon. Hugh Smart, one of the early associate judges and legislative representatives of Ilighland county, Ohio; she died in 1866, having had four children. Ile was married, in 1868, to Margaret J. McClure (whose maiden-name was Margaret J. Brown), a native of Ross county, who is the mother of one child.
ARLAN, ROBERT B., Lawyer and Soldier, was born, July 31st, 1808, in Warren county, Ohio, and is the seventh of ten children, whose parents were George and Esther (Eulan) Harlan. Ilis father was a native of Chatham, North Carolina, of remote German ancestry, and a Quaker in religious belief, a farmer by occupation. Ile removed to Ohio in 1796, locating first at Columbia, and thence pro- cceded to Deerfield, Warren county, but finally settled, in 1797, north of Lebanon, Warren county, where he resided until his death, December 21st, 1846. IIc filled at various times the offices of Sheriff, County Commissioner, Justice of the Peace, and Associate Judge of Common Pleas; he was also a representative in the Legislature for one term. Ilis wife was a native of Rockbridge county, Virginia, daughter of Jacob Eulan, an early pioneer of what is now Scott county, Kentucky, settling there in 1787, of lIol- lander descent. She died December 29th, 1858, in her eighty-first year. Robert worked on a farm until he was sixteen years old, attending the winter district school. In 1828 he settled at Wilmington, Clinton county, where he obtained employment in the County Clerk's office as deputy, and where he continued eight years, reading law during his leisure hours. In 1837, having passed the requisite ex- amination, he was admitted to practise at Chillicothe, and immediately entered upon his professional duties at Wil- mington, where he has ever since resided, and where he has established a lucrative and extensive practice. In 1840 ft be represented Clinton county in the Legislature, and again in 1850 51. In 1852 he was elected Judge of
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the Court of Common Pleas of the Second Judicial District, [ cause and effect. It was this peculiar, intellectual superior- and held that office for one term. He was Captain, Colonel ity which rendered his efforts in business so uniformly sne- cessful, and which enabled him, before reaching the meridian of life, to amass one of the largest fortunes which have been accumulated in the West. and Major-General successively of the Ohio Militia under the old laws. During the civil war he was Captain of Com- pmmy B, 12th Ohi , Volunteer Infantry, and saw service m Ohio and Virginia. He is a Republican in political faith. Although he has nearly reached the limit of threescore years and ten, his mental and physical powers are wonderfully preserved. He was married in 1838 to Maria D., daughter of Isaiah Morris, a native of Clinton county, New York, but a pioneer-settler of Clinton county, Ohio ; she died in 1843, having had three children. He was subsequently united to Caroline E., daughter of George L., Hayworth, of Clinton county, Ohio,
TARLING, LYNE, son of William and Susanna (Lyne) Starling, was born in the vicinity of Boyd. town, Virginia, December 27th, 1784. When quite young he emigrated with his father's family to Kentucky, and in the year 1806 to Franklinton, Ohio. While a youth he was appointed Deputy Clerk of court at Frankfort, Kentucky, and he was trained to business and industrious habits by a precise and method- ical master. Soon after his arrival in this State he was appointed Clerk of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, and also of the Supreme and Common Pleas Courts of Franklin county. After holding this position for some years, Mr. Sullivant furnished him means and entered into partnership with him in the mercantile business. He became a very successful merchant and enterprising trader, being the first one who ventured eargoes of produce down the Scioto and thence to New Orleans in decked flatboats. He was a commissary and large contractor for supplies to the northwestern army under General Harrison. Falling into bad health he travelled extensively both in this country and abroad. Being a man of quick perceptions and a good observer both of men and things, he gained much practical knowledge and was greatly improved by his travels. He finally made Columbus his permanent place of residence, when he returned to take charge of the valuable estate of Mr. Lucas Sullivant. Ile was one of the original proprie- tors of Columbus, the central portion of the city having been laid out on land owned by him. The old State House was built by a company of gentlemen of whom Mr. Starling was one, as one of the conditions upon which the seat of govern- ment was located at the " high banks opposite Franklinton " -now Columbus. Not long before his death he endowed a medical college, which bears his name-Starling Medical College. He died November 21st, 18448. He was exten- sively known among the first men of this country, and his opinions were held in high estimation by the great men of his age. Ile had a quick, clear perception, a retentive memory, a sound, nnerring judgment. He possessed the rare faculty of annilulating in an instant the space between
TOUGH, WILLIAM, Insurance Agent, Justice and Soldier, was born, January 220, 1821, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, of American parentage of German descent. He was educated in the com. mon schools, and when quite young was appren- ticed to learn the cabinetmaker's trade, in Mans- field, Ohio. Having perfected himself in this calling he entered into business for himself, and removed to Williams county, Ohio, where he also followed the lumber business in connection with cabinetmaking. After a period of twelve years, he engaged in general merchandise in Pulaski and Bryan, where he continued for five years. In 1861 he en. tered the army as Captain of Company 11, 38th Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and served with that command for one year, resigning in consequence of ill health. He returned home, where he remained for a year, and then re-entered the service as a Captain in the 9th Ohio Cavalry. In Sep- tember, 1864, he was promoted to the rank of Major, and fifteen days thereafter again promoted, receiving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel for efficient services, and held that rank at the close of the war. He holds a brevet Colonel and Brigadier- General's commission for meritorions conduct, March 10th, 1865; these are for services rendered at the surprise of Kilpatrick's command by Wade Ilampton and Wheeler at Monroe Cross Roads, near Fayette, North Car- olina; and in the " History of the Ninety-Second Illinois Infantry " he is highly complimented for the efficient ser- vices he then rendered. He was honorably discharged from the service in August, 1865, and returning home was elected Justice of the Peace for three terms in succession, and still holds that office, and has served in that capacity altogether for six terms in Williams county. In 1870 he was chosen Mayor of Bryan. Ile is also engaged in the insurance business, He has been connected with the Re- publican party since its foundation. He was married in 1840 to Sarah A. Redding, of Richland county, Ohio, who died in September, 1864.
e OWESMITH, JOHN G., M. D., was born in Lon- don, England, November 5th, 1817. His parents were Edward W. and Jane ( Armstrong) Bowe- smith, his father being engaged as a banker and broker in London. After a preparatory course in the public schools of his native town, he en- tered in 1833 Edinburgh University, and in 1838 graduated from that celebrated institution in the literary as well as
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medical departments. Ile immediately entered the British | old firm having built but six threshers the previous year). army as Surgeon in the Light Brigade, and was subsequently transferred to the 931 Highlanders. His team of service in the .amy extended over a period of eight year, and a half, during which time he served with abihty and distinction in Russia, India and the Crimean war. In iSot he came to Quebec, and in 1868 he located in Mansfield, Ohio, where he has since resided and been successfully engaged in his profession. Ilis long service in India peculiarly fitted him for the successful treatment of cancers, and, though engaged in a general practice of medicine, most of his time is occu- pied in the treatment of cancers in their numerous and various forms. In this specialty he has acquired much skill, and his labors therein extend over a large tract of country. lle has established offices in Crestline, New Haven, Ohio, Mount Vernon and Loudonville, in connection with that at Mansfield for the treatment of this disease, all of which places he attends in person at regular intervals. He was married, in January, 1867, to Labella Sharp Eadie, of Scotch descent.
. ULTMAN, CORNELIUS, was born two miles enst of Canton, Ohio, on March 10th, 1827. Ilis parents were Jacob and Elizabeth (Tawney) Ault- man, formerly of Pennsylvania. Soon after the birth of Cornelius they settled in Uniontown, Stark county, and in the course of a year there- after the father died. The education he received was indeed a meagre one, consisting in all of about eight months spent at the village school. When about fourteen years of age he went to work with his uncle at the millwright trade, and after a few months spent in this avocation he returned to his mother, who had married John Miller, a farmer living at Greentown. Soon after he engaged in learning to mann- facture spinning wheels and grain-cradles in Greentown. After mastering this business he entered the machine-shop of Wise & Ball in the spring of 1845, and served there for about two years. During the winter of 1848-49 he built on his own account five Ilussey reapers, and in the spring of 1849 took these reapers and emigrated to Will county, Illi- nois, where, in connection with Michael Dillman, he started a machine-shop. Here he remained until the fall of 1850, when he returned to Greentown, Ohio, and purchased the interest of Michael Wise, in the business of Wise & Ball, who had a machine shop at that place. The firm at this time consisted of Michael Wise, Ephraim Ball and Lewis Acker. In a short time Mr. Aultman also secured Acker's interest in the business, and subsequently disposed of it to Lewis Miller and George Cook. Ile also soll one half of the interest he had bought of Wise to David Fouser. The firm now became Ball, Auhman & Co., and immediately thereafter enlarged their business, and in the winter of 1850-51 manufactured twelve reapers and six threshers (the | -Mr. Aultman having a sixth interest in the establishment
Seeing the necessity and great advantage of being on the line of a railroad, they moved their works in the fall of 1851 to Canton, Ohio, and there erected buildings, in which du - ing that winter they turned out twenty five reapers. At this time the entire capital of the firm was but four thousand dollars; but the citizens of Canton feeling much interest in the success of their establishment, and having great confi- dence in the ability and integrity of the fum, advanced, at low rates of interest, in order to allow them to enlarge their business, eight thousand dollars, securing themselves by accepting a mortgage on the buildings. In the fall of 1852 Mr. Auhman purchased Mr. Fouser's interest in the busi- ness, and subsequently sold the same to Thomas R. Tonner. In the spring of 1855, just as the company were in a fair way to establish a flourishing business, their works, with the finished and unfinished work therein, were destroyed by fire; and this disaster not only robbed the firm of their all, but left them about eleven thousand dollars in debt. But the Cantonians had learnt to regard this concern as an insti- tution of their own, and having no doubt of their ability to recover from their misfortunes, immediately furnished them with several thousand dollars in money with which to re- sumie operations. They now engaged in the manufacture of Ball's Ohio mower, an invention of Mr. Ball, and a threshing machine known as the "sweepstakes." In the fall of 1858 Mr. Ball withdrew, and the firm became C. Aultman & Co. After Mr. Ball's retirement the new firm engaged in the manufacture of the " Enckeye mower," an invention of their own, which now has a world-wide repu- tation. The business prospered largely, and during the war the sales of machines were exceedingly extensive. In 1863 the company, desiring to stid further enlarge their business, started a branch at Akron, Ohio, which concern is still in operation and known as Aultman, Miller & Co. In 1863 the First National Bank of Canton was organized by Mr. Anhman and others ; and he has acted as President since its organization. This monetary institution, like all others with which he is connected, enjoys the utmost confidence of the community, and has nobly weathered all the financial panics that have visited the country since the time of its opening. In 1865 a stock company was organized out of the concern, having a capital stock of one million of dol- lars, which is all taken, and they have the power to increase the same. The corporation is known as C. Aultman & Co. For several years Mr. Aultman acted as general manager and Superintendent, but his time is now occupied solely in looking after the various and valuable patents owned by the company; and it is but justice to say that no one is better authority on patents in the mower and reaper line. In 1867 he started in Mansfield, Ohio, in connection with 11. 11. Taylor, of Chicago (now deceased), an establishment for the purpose of manufacturing the vibrator threshing machine, which is also made at Battle Creek, Michigan
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at the list-named place. Ile was married in 1846 to Eliza Wise, of Greentown, Ohio, who died in February, 1866. In the fall of 1866 he was married to his present wife, nde Kate Banion, but at that time Mrs. Reybold, of Phila- delphia.
ALL, HION. JAMES, Soklier, Author, Lawyer and Jurist, was born, August 19th, 1793, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was a son of John Hall, whose father was a wealthy Maryland planter. His mother was a daughter of Rev. Dr. John Ewing, Provost of the University of Penn- sylvania and a celebrated Presbyterian divine; she was a woman of rare intellectual powers, the authoress of " Con- versations on the Bible," which was widely published in this country and reprinted in London. She it was who in- structed her son James, whose health was feeble in youth, and was not sent to school except at brief intervals. Ile became thoroughly versed in English literature, and ob- tained a good knowledge of Latin and French. While a youth he was placed in a merchant's counting-house, where he remained two years. The war of 1812 breaking out, he was active in assisting to organize the Washington Guards, his name heading the muster-roll. The captain was Condy Raguet, and went into service at Wilmington, Delaware, where they encamped for several months. In the fall of the same year he was commissioned a Lieutenant of the 2d Regiment United States Artillery, commanded by Colonel Winfield Scott, and garrisoning Fort Mifflin, below Phila- delphia. In the following spring he marched with that command to the Niagara frontier, and joined the gallant army of Scott, Brown and Ripley, which invaded Canada and fought the brilliant battles of Chippewa, Niagara and Fort Ene. He participated in all these engagements, com- manding a separate piece at Chippewa, and was compli- mented for good conduct in the fight. At the battle of Lundy's Lane he received a musket ball in his left arm, which he carried to his grave. After peace was declared, in 1815, he was retained in the service, and was selected subsequently as one of five artillery officers to accompany the expedition against Algiers, commanded by Commodore Decatur, and after a five months' cruise in the Mediter- ranean he returned home. Ile was stationed afterwards at Newport, Rhode Island, for over a year, and was ordered, in 1817, to Pittsburgh, on ordnance duty. Here, while still in the service, he completed his law studies-which had been interrupted by the war-under the supervision of Hon. Walter Forward, and on being admitted to the bar, in 1818, resigned his commission of Captain in the army, having been promoted to that rank. He had already been a contributor to several journals, especially to the Port feet, but there runs through the whole of his poems an en- Folio, a monthly magazine edited by his brother, John E. thusiastic glow and a tenderness of sentiment rarely mited. He was twice married : first to Miss Hosea, and afterwards Hall, and published by another brother, Harrison Hall, in Philadelphia. Early in 1820 he descended the Ohio in alto Mary I .. , sister . of Ganz Anderson, General Robert
keel-boat, and wrote a series of " Letters from the West," which were published originally in the Port Folio, and sub- sequently collated into a volume and republished by Col- bon, of london, in 1828. He reached Shawneetown, Gallatin county, Illinois, in the summer of the same year, where he took up his residence and commenced the prac- tice of his profession, at the same time editing the Illinois Gazette, published there. He was'soon after appointed Prosecuting Attorney for the circuit composed of nine counties, and for four years filled that position. In those early days it was the custom for the judge and other court officers, as well as the lawyers, to journey together from county to county on horseback, their numbers insuring them protection; in the course of their journeys they en- countered the usual privations of a sparsely settled frontier country. A new judicial system being established, he was elected Judge by the Legislature, and was on the bench two years when the law was repealed, upon a change of political party power, and he was legislated out of office. Ile was, however, elected State Treasurer, which position he held four years, removing to Vandalia, the then capital, and where for a time he edited the Illinois Intelligencer. During all this period he was actively employed in en- couraging the settlement of the State and in organizing social institutions. For the purpose of inviting immigration he corresponded largely with distant journals, writing de- scriptions of the country, etc. He also established the Illinois Magazine, a monthly periodical, of which he was at once editor, publisher, and almost the only contributor. It was dropped, however, in two years, when he removed to Cincinnati, Ile was also one of the commissioners, in 1825, to revise the "Statutes of Illinois," and performed a large share of the work. Soon after his arrival in Cincin- nati he established the Western Monthly Magazine, and contributed largely to its pages, In 1835 he was appointed Cashier of the Commercial Bank, a large moncyed institu- tion, whose charter expired in 1843, and which he wound up as agent of the stockholders, paying them a large sur- plus. He was also elected Cashier of the new bank of the same name, with a smaller capital, owned by a few persons, himself being one, and almost entirely managed by him. Ile afterwards became its President, and so continued until his death. He was a voluminous writer, and his works number many volumes; prominent among these is his " History and Biography of the North American Indians," 3 volumes, folio, with 120 colored lithographie portraits of noted Indians, taken from life under the direction of the War Department at Washington. The work was published at $120 a copy. Not only was he an elegant writer of prose, but he is the author of some of the most beautiful lyrics in the English language. Not only is his verse per-
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