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enjoyment of the public His well-known enterprise in open- ing, improving, and adorning streets and localities, and his liberal and unostentatious charities, endeared him to the people of Cleveland as one of its benefactors. He is a director of the Second National bank, of Cleveland; a di- rector of the Cleveland Rolling-mill Company, Cleveland Iron Mining Company, and Union Steel Screw Company, and the president of the American Sheet and Boiler Plate Company, and president of the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company. He is also a director in several railroad companies, and the president of the Kalamazoo, Allegan, and Grand Rapids, and tlie Cincinnati, Wabaslı, and Michigan Railroad Compa- nies. He is besides president of the Valley railway, run- ning from Cleveland towards the coal fields of Ohio. This is a valuable acquisition to the interests of Cleveland. In addition to his other manifold duties, Mr. Wade has been appointed commissioner of the city sinking fund, park com- missioner, and director of the Work-house and House of Refuge. He is one of the trustees of the Cleveland Protest- ant Orphan Asylum, and has built for that purpose, at his own expense, a magnificent fire-proof building sufficiently large to accommodate from one hundred to one hundred and fifty children. The building is located on St. Clair street, an enduring monument to the man. Few men have achieved as much as Mr. Wade. There has been in his case no servile adherence to old and fossilized views, but he has struck out new paths to fortune.
SABINE, HYLAS, Commissioner of Railroads and Tele- graphs, Columbus, Ohio, was born in Union county, Ohio, July 5th, 1829. He is a son of John F. and Euphemia (Clement) Sabine, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of New York. John F. Sabine came to Ohio with his father's family at an early day, stopping at Worthington, but later removed to Union county, settling in the southern por- tion of that county, where he remained for many years. In 1854 he removed to Marysville, Ohio, where he still resides. In 1853 he was elected auditor of Union county, holding the office for one term. The subject of this biography was brought up on his father's farm and participated in its labors, alter- nated with an attendance at the common-schools'of the county. At the age of eighteen he entered Delaware University, at Delaware, Ohio, where he took the regular course of study for two years. Subsequently he went to Kentucky, where he engaged in teaching for about two years. After the election of his father as auditor he returned to Union county, Ohio, where he served as his father's deputy. In 1855 he was elected as his father's successor to the office of county auditor. At the expiration of his term he began the publication of The Union Press at Marysville, of which he was the editor and man- ager-so continuing for five years. Toward the close of this period Mr. Sabine entered the law department of Harvard University, where he remained for two years. Upon his re- turn from Harvard he removed to Richwood, in the north part of Union county, staying there thereafter, devoting his time principally to agriculture. In 1877 he was elected to the State Senate from the counties of Union, Logan, Hardin, and Marion, serving in the Sixty-third General Assembly. His party (the republican) it will be remembered, was in the minority that term, so that his part in legislation could be little else than negative. Mr. Sabine, however, did good service in the counsels of his friends. He was recognized as a cool, prudent, and wise counselor on almost all questions,
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and of especial worth when political history and statistical record was to be employed in the discussion of questions arising in or coming to the senate. After the expiration of his senatorial term he went back to the farm. February 25th, 1881, he was appointed by Governor Foster to the posi- tion he now fills with so much credit to himself and to the State. October 8th, 1857, Mr. Sabine was married to Miss Annie Ware, daughter of J. R. Ware, Esq., of Mechanics- burg, Ohio. Their only children are Annie and C. W. Sabine. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a delegate to the Cin- cinnati Convention that nominated Mr. Hayes in 1876, and an alternate at the Chicago Convention which nominated General Garfield in 1880. Mr. Sabine is a quiet, affable gentleman, treating all alike with polite civility. He has a large fund of general information, and is especially qualified for the office he holds. He is making a careful, prudent, and zealous official; gives attention to detail, and it is believed by the community at large that his forthcoming report will be of greater value to the State than any similar document ever issued from the office. His private character is unassailable and his public life above reproach.
OGLEVEE, JOHN FINLEY, Auditor of State, Spring- field, Ohio, was born near Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio, May 17th, 1840. He is a son of John and Eliza (Hanna) Oglevee, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Penn- sylvania, and of Scotch-Irish descent. The early life of our subject was spent on the farm, where he was inured to the hardest labor. The educational advantages of young Oglevee were such only as were afforded by the common-schools of the country. His labor on the farm was alternated by attend- ance at the public-schools for about three months in the year. Here he made the very best use of his time, so that when he entered Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, at the age of twenty, he had acquired a fair education, and was well prepared for the higher branches included in the course of study in that institution, excelling especially in mathe- matics. He entered at once upon the regular course, and pursued it uninterruptedly till he reached the senior year, · when, August 6th, 1862, he left school to enter the service of the United States, enlisting in company "C," 98th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel Webster, of Steubenville, Ohio, who fell in the battle of Perryville. Soon after enlistment the 98th was ordered into Kentucky, and became a part of General Nelson's force, being with him on his retreat from Lexington to Louisville. At the reorganization of the army, following General Buell's retreat to Louisville, the 98th became a part of the thirty-fourth bri- gade, tenth division, of General McCook's command. Thus organized the army went in pursuit of General Bragg in his retreat from Kentucky, engaging him in a hot contest at Perryville, where the division and brigade commanders of the Union forces were killed. At this battle the 98th suf- fered a tremendous loss, having fully one-third of its sol- diery killed or wounded. After this, for several months, the regiment was principally employed on detached duty, and keeping an eye on that slippery rebel, General John Morgan. February, 1863, the regiment, with other forces, moved to Franklin, Tennessee, where they constituted the right wing of the Army of the Cumberland. During the remainder of this year the 98th was with that army and participated in all its battles, so that the history of the Army of the Cum-
berland is the history of the 98th Ohio. At the battle of Chickamauga the regiment formed a part of General Mitch- ell's brigade of General Steadman's division, and was in that memorable movement from the left to the right wing of the army, precipitating a desperate encounter with the Confederate forces, entailing a loss on the regiment as great as that at Perryville. At this battle Mr. Oglevee was color-bearer, and was severely wounded. As a reward for his valor in this terrible contest he was recommended for promotion, and, November 23d, 1863, he was commis- sioned second lieutenant. In the spring of 1864, having recovered from his wounds, he rejoined his regiment just before the beginning of the "Atlanta campaign." During a greater part of this campaign Mr. Oglevee was in com- mand of his company, and at its close was again promoted to the adjutancy of the regiment. He was with General Sherman in the celebrated march from Savannah through the Carolinas to Raleigh, and was present at the surrender of the Confederate army under command of General Joseph E. Johnston. After the surrender he marched via Richmond to Washington City, and participated in the grand review, May, 1865, and soon after was mustered out of the service. Returning to Cadiz, Ohio, he took a temporary position as teacher of mathematics in Franklin College, from which he had gone a few years before as a student. In the spring of 1866 he removed to Springfield and began reading law in the office of General J. Warren Keifer. In October, of that year, Mr. Oglevee entered the law department of the State Uni- versity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he remained till the spring of 1867. In December he was admitted to the bar, and entered regularly upon the practice of law. January Ist, 1868, he formed a partnership with General Keifer, and for three years subsequently practiced law under the firm name of Keifer & Oglevee. Soon after this Mr. Oglevee was elected to the city council of Springfield, thus beginning his career in public life. Then, as now, he advocated or opposed measures which to him seemed right or wrong with an energy and zeal higlily commendable. October, 1871, he was elected auditor of Clark county, and re-elected in 1873, holding the office four years. Subsequent nominations for . the same office were tendered him, which he declined. In 1875 he was unanimously nominated by his party as a can- didate for representative to the State Legislature, his elec- tion to the General Assembly following in October. A similar nomination and election occurred in 1877 .. While serving in the Sixty-third General Assembly, as a result of his second election, in May, 1879, the republican State con- vention was held at Cincinnati where, on the first ballot, he was nominated to the office of Auditor of State. The cam- paign which followed was the most closely contested and exciting of any ever seen in the State. The position of Mr. Oglevee in that campaign was a peculiar and critical one. He had just emerged from an active and aggressive career in the legislature, wherein he had made himself known on almost every question that came before that body without consulting the likes or dislikes of cliques or factions, and had, therefore, naturally antagonized many "pet schemes" of the lobby and hangers-on. Two of his opponents were recog- nized as the strongest on the opposition tickets. With these facts staring him in the face, it is natural that he should feel a "vague unrest" as to the result. However, his canvass was bold, dignified, and highly honorable. The result of the election surprised the whole country, for the republican ticket
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throughout was elected by majorities greater than the most sanguine had ever claimed even during the hottest of the canvass. Mr. Oglevee was elected by the surprising majority of seventeen thousand seven hundred and forty-two, and, as a consequence, is now discharging the duties of State Auditor with marked care, zeal, and judgment. June 23d, 1869, he was married to Miss Jennie M. Eagleson, daughter of Will- iam Eagleson, Esq., of Harrison county, Ohio. Socially Mr. Oglevee stands very high. He is hospitable, kind, and oblig- ing, and being well informed on current topics, is an inter- esting and entertaining conversationalist.
HITCHCOCK, PETER, a chief justice of Ohio for twenty-five years, was born October 19th, 1781, at Cheshire, New Haven county, Connecticut, and died on the 4th March, 1854, at Painesville, Lake county, Ohio. He was educated in the common schools until he was seventeen, when he entered Yale College. His father's means being limited he was compelled to defray the greater part of the expenses of his education by his own efforts. For this purpose he taught school during the vacations and part of the college terms, in this way supporting himself but seriously lessened his facili- ties for study. Leaving college, he studied law and in March, 1804, was admitted to practice. He had studied diligently and showed such aptitude for his chosen profession, that his examination was decidedly creditable. Having opened an office in Cheshire, for two years he practiced law with fair success, earning the reputation of being well qualified, dili- gent and attentive to business. In 1806 he decided on trying his fortune in the West, and moved to the Connecticut West- ern Reserve of Ohio, settling at Burton, Geauga county, where he took up a farm and retained his residence upon it until his death. His life at that period was laborious and his re- wards scanty. At times he taught school, practiced in the courts when clients could be had, and spent the remainder of his time in clearing and cultivating his farm. His distance from the county seat when travel was slow and tedious, was a drawback also, but he steadily won his way in the good opinion of the people. His law business increased until it spread over the entire Reserve, throughout which he soon ac- quired the reputation of a leading lawyer. The lawyers with whom he was brought into competition were many of them men of distinguished ability, possessed of intellectual and material advantages of which he had been deprived by his circumstances, yet he held his own with the best of them, and secured and maintained a leading place. The confidence reposed in his abilities and character by those who knew him best was shown by his election in 1810, to represent the county in the lower branch of the Ohio legislature. On the conclu- sion of his term he was in 1812 chosen to serve in the senate, and reelected in 1814 when he served a portion of the time as speaker. In house or senate he always took a prominent part in the business of the State, and in the fall of 1816, after a warmly contested election he was returned to Congress and took his seat in the House of Representatives in December, 1817. Before the close of his term he was in 1819 elected by the Ohio legislature a judge of the supreme court of the State for the Constitutional term of seven years. In February, 1826, he was reëlected for a similar term, but at its close in 1833, political differences preventing his continued reëlection, he was sent by his district to again represent it in the State senate for the term of 1833 to 1835, and for one session pre- sided in that body. In 1835 he was again elected to the
supreme bench, when at the close of this term partisan oppo- sition again successfully kept him from the bench until 1845, when he was again elected and retained his office of chief justice until 1852, when being seventy years old he retired from public service, after a life spent in law-making and law- expounding of more than forty years, and during the whole of which period he enjoyed alike the respect of political friends and opponents. A practical test of public opinion in re- gard to him was furnished in the election of delegates to the convention for the revision of the Constitution of Ohio, in the spring of 1850. The district in which he resided was entitled to three delegates, and preeminently the home of free soilism, as that party outnumbered each of the others by from 500 to 1,000 votes. The free soil men placed in nomination a full ticket of men of their own party. The whigs and democrats combined.to defeat this ticket. With a majority of votes the whigs had not sufficient to give them a full claim to a major- ity of the delegates, so it was proposed that the democrats should have the nomination of the whigs to be put on the ticket. The offer being accepted, the democrats, with great unanimity named Judge Hitchcock as their first choice, al- though he was the leader of their political opponents, and the man of most influence among them. At this time he held the office of chief justice of the State, and very reluctantly accepted the nomination. Having done so, however, and with the whole ticket elected in spite of the united free soil opposition, he took his seat at the opening of the convention, served faithfully on the most important committees, thoroughly ex- amined every subject discussed, and took a prominent part in the most important debates. He had a thorough knowl- edge of the old Constitution and its workings, and his ripe experience was especially valuable in pointing out the defects of the whole and suggesting remedies. Some of his sugges- tions were embodied in the new Constitution and others re- jected, as too far advanced for public opinion at the time. With the instrument as finally adopted he was not quite satis- fied but he voted for it, as it was a great improvement upon that of 1802, and used his influence to have it adopted by the people. His labors in the convention did not prevent the performance of his usual circuit duties on the bench, nor those of chief justice, but the two offices occupied his whole time, and made that year one of hard work. He had the satisfaction, however, of receiving the hearty approval of his constituents. As a judge he was laborious, systematic, punctual and attentive, despatching business with peculiar facility, although not without deliberation. Rarely if ever in a hurry, he was always full of business. He readily ascer- tained the bearings of a case which were decisive of the merits it presented, and his experienced mind seemed at once to reject everything immaterial. Having read all the papers in a case, his memory was so retentive that, having noticed it at once, he would almost uniformly state with accuracy the exact point upon which it hinged, and the evidence that bore upon it. This faculty enabled him to concentrate his mind upon the question in hand, to recur in debate, and without loss of time, to the proof that would correct or strengthen a first impression, and, united with his habit of persevering to the end of an investigation once begun, enabled him to dispose correctly and rapidly of a mass of business, that apparently quicker but less methodical minds would not be able to dis- pose of with equal readiness. Possessing a strong physical frame, and during the greater part of his life favored with robust health, he was capable of uncommonly severe mental
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endurance. His strong natural faculties had been improved · by constant habits of sobriety, personal self-denial and untir- ing industry. A sincere Christian, he was ever a helper and friend to the needy and the afflicted, a liberal supporter of benevolent ' enterprises, and a good neighbor, while his domestic affections were especially strong and tender. In 1805 he married Nabbie Cook in his native town, and reared to maturity three sons and four daughters. He died at the house of his son, Hon. Reuben Hitchcock, in Painesville, Ohio, on the 4th March, 1854, when on his way home from attendance in the supreme court at Columbus, where over- work had brought on severe illness. The event was mourned throughout the State as a severe public loss, and resolutions of respect adopted by the legislature and the bar generally.
LIPPELMANN, HERMAN HENRY, was born in Prussia, April 5th, 1831. He remained in his native country until he was twenty-one years of age, when he took ship for America. His savings in that time had been only enough to bring him to the New World, for when he landed at Cincin- nati, in 1852, he had not a dollar to his name. He worked his passage on a boat down the Ohio River from Pittsburg, and was favored by the captain of the boat with his first job of work in the Miami Valley, in assisting to unload the boat. This put one dollar and fifty cents in his otherwise empty pocket, and was the beginning of the ample fortune that he .now enjoys. Mr. Lippelmann is distinctively a representative of that class of intelligent, energetic, and thrifty citizens in our midst, of foreign birth, who, adopting this as their future home, love it none the less because it is not the land of their nativity; and the success that has attended him in his hon- orable, industrious, and energetic business career is a happy and proud commentary upon the character of our free insti- tutions. We may not know or conjecture what would have been the condition of Mr. Lippelmann, in a property sense, had he remained in his native country, but we do know that he never could have acquired there the fee simple to over a thousand acres of land such as he now owns, in one body, in Shelby County, of this State, a princely estate in freehold, with a school-house and a little church standing among native forest trees, and upon ground donated for their use, with their open doors, where children may learn to read in the one and all may worship God in the other. His first employment as a laborer was in the brick-yard of Mr. George George, in Mill Creek bottoms, in the western part of Cincinnati. In 1856 he bought the canal boat Nebraska, and began a career as canal boatman, which continued for twenty-five years, during which period he owned and commanded, at one time, eleven boats. He was extensively engaged in the transporta- tion of grain, flour, wood, etc. For fifteen years he was in partnership with the late James Beatty. They mostly built the town of Port Union, and were its proprietors until the death of Mr. Beatty. As partners they co-operated con- genially in the conduct of their vast and increasing business. All their transactions were in this fertile valley, and their in- vestments in real estate, out of their successful enterprises, became immense. In addition to his Shelby County pos- sessions, above referred to, Mr. Lippelmann owns a fine farm in Paulding County, also valuable property in Dayton and Hamilton. These facts are alluded to to show the possibilities that attend intelligent and intrepid endeavor. Mr. Lippelmann is still actively engaged in business. He has his residence in the center of a twenty-seven acre tract of ground imme-
diately east of Glendale, Hamilton County, Ohio, being half- way between the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton and the Dayton Short Line. From his porches the trains may bo distinctly seen for five miles on either road. The house is a substantial brick, standing back behind old forest trees, with luxuriant evergreen trees in abundance immediately around it. On the right may be seen beautiful Glendale, and on the left its elder sister, Sharon. The eminence upon which the house stands commands an entrancing view of the country in all directions. Mr Lippelmann has never sought political distinction, but always preferred quiet business channels for the exercise of his unusual abilities. He has been a director in the German National Bank since its organization ; is a Re- publican as to political connection ; takes a deep interest in the perpetuity of our form of government; is liberal in his donations in behalf of political enterprises having in view that end. His first wife was Mary, a daughter of the late Hon. John Gerke, at one time treasurer of Hamilton County. She died 1864. He afterward married (1866). Sophia Tucker, by whom he has nine children, now living : William H., Her- man H., John G., John H., Andrew E., Clara, Mary, Annie, and Alice. These now constitute his family, and as such occupy the homestead above described. Mr. Lippelmann's example is an encouragement to all who, like him, are com- pelled to begin life in the same humble way. The position which he holds to-day in business circles, and the commun- ity at large, is worthy of the emulation of every young man.
HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, soldier, statesman, and ninth President of the United States, was born February 9th, 1773, at Berkeley, Charles county, Virginia, now known as Berkeley Springs, the county seat of Morgan county, West Virginia. He was the third and youngest son of the Hon. Benjamin Harrison, a member of the Continental Congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and three times governor of Virginia. He died in 1791. He was a man of large stature, cheerful disposition, and very popular with all classes. His son William had all the advantages that moder- ate wealth and the intellectual companionship of his father could afford, and after graduating with honor at Hampden Sidney College, in his eighteenth year, had just entered upon the study of medicine when his father's death changed his plans. Being by that event made dependent upon his own efforts, he decided to enter the army, was commissioned an ensign by President Washington, and assigned for duty with the army of General St. Clair. Delayed in his journey west, he did not arrive until after the command had been trans- ferred to General Wayne, whom he joined, and was soon promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and, after Wayne's great battle, in which Lieutenant Harrison highly distinguished him- self, he was, in 1795, made a captain, and put in charge of Fort Washington, around which John Cleves Symmes, as owner of all the land in the vicinity not then the property of the government, had laid out the town of Cincinnati. Hav- ing in 1797 married a daughter of Mr. Symmes, Captain Har- rison resigned his commission, and shortly afterward was appointed secretary of the territory of which St. Clair was then governor. In 1801 this territory was divided, and Sec- retary Harrison appointed governor of the territory of Indiana, so-called, then embracing the present States of Indiana, Illi- nois, Michigan and Wisconsin, and which was at that time nearly all in the possession of the Indians. These, in 1811, having become much too hostile in their demonstrations.
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