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daughters of this marriage, two of the sons died in infancy, the other, William C. Hedges, who died in 1876, was a grad- uate of the Harvard Law School, and a ripe scholar. He projected the first public library in Tiffin, and inaugurated a taste for literary and scientific lectures among its people, by laboring for and securing the most talented lecturers. Of the daughters, Eva died at the age of twenty-one. She was the wife of Dr. Russell, of Columbus. The five remaining daughters are Sarah, wife of W. W. Armstrong, ex-Secretary of State; Mary Jane, wife of A. C. Baldwin, a prominent manufacturer; Minerva, wife of H. Noble, lawyer, and present mayor of Tiffin; Elizabeth, relict of J. G. Gross, a leading manufacturer; and Cynthia, widow of Luther A. Hall, of the Tiffin bar. The mother of these children died in 1837. Seven years thereafter he again married, but without issue. His widow, Mrs. Harriet Hedges, is, in 1883, still living. Mr. Hedges was a fine-looking man. He was well built, erect, of robust physique and dignified mien. His forehead was high, eye black, nose slightly of the Roman cast, and a mouth that indicated firmness and decision. At the age of eighty years he continued to give daily attention to his busi- ness interests, and up to the time of his last illness was in full possession of his mental powers. He died at Tiffin, July 15th, 1858. When he departed there passed away a useful and honored life-a life full of activity, consecrated by good deeds, and enshrined in the affections of his children and friends.
EATON, MORTON MONROE, M. D., and ex- president of the Cincinnati Homoeopathic Medical Society, is a professional gentleman who has won his way to em- inence. He was born April 21st, 1839, on his parents' farm, near Amherst, Massachusetts. His father was Monroe Eaton, who bore an honorable name in the community in which he lived. Possessed of a good education and many. traits of character which rendered him popular, he was fre- quently chosen by his fellow-citizens to represent them in positions of trust, requiring intelligence, zeal, and integrity. The Doctor's mother, is an estimable lady, still living in affluence and refinement as the wife of Dr. J. K. Knowlton, of Tiskilwa, Illinois. Her second husband was the father of Governor Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois, recently elected United States Senator from that State. His brother, F. L. Eaton, M. D., is one of the leading druggists of Cincinnati. Dr. Eaton's collegiate education was completed at Amherst, and in 1855 he went to Illinois. He studied medicine with the late Professor Daniel Brainard, of Chicago, formerly president of Rush Medical College, and graduated at that institution in 1861, when he was appointed resident physi- cian of the City Hospital, of Chicago, where he remained two years. In 1863 he removed to Peoria, Illinois, and was appointed surgeon of that post during the war of the Rebellion. At that time he passed his examination as sur- geon in the United States Army, with the rank of major, but did not enter the service on account of the sickness and death of his father. He, however, made five trips to differ- ent parts of the South, for the Sanitary Commission, under orders from Governor Yates, distributing sanitary stores, and assisting in transporting the wounded and sick to suitable hospitals. Dr. Eaton's literary abilities became manifest at an early day in his professional career. Bringing to a pro- found and varied knowledge of medicine the resources of a liberal and classical education, his acquiring mind impelled
him to resort, as a relief, to the use of his pen in contribu- ting to medical journals, which attracted public attention. As a result he was made an honorary member of the Inter- national Medical Congress, of Paris, in 1867. After ten years of practice in the old, he adopted the new school of medicine. He was twice elected first vice-president of the State Society of Illinois. He is now an honorary member of this society as well as the Indiana Institute, and the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, of Michigan, and is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. These societies he enjoys, his ability and culture always according him a lead- ing part in the discussion of questions coming up before them. Dignity and urbanity are prominent features in Dr. Eaton's intercourse with others. He is not given to excess of sociability, because of studious habits and a preoccupied mind. In religious persuasion he is a Congregationalist, hav- ing joined that Church in his youth, and has ever maintained a consistent- relationship thereto. The Doctor has given thought to the improvements that could be made in surgical instruments, and is the inventor of many useful new ones that bear his name. His deportment as a professional gentleman is such that he intentionally offends no one, while he asserts that he has never been unkindly treated by his brethren. He is a self-made man. From working on a farm in his boyhood, earning money by teaching school and saving it by leading a correct and studious life, he has acquired a competence and an eminently good name. The success that has attended him is the reward of merit. His reputation as a practitioner and author extends over the United States. His writings have attracted attention in medical circles in Europe. The volume from his pen, "The Diseases of Women," has made his name a household word-a complete work, consisting of about eight hundred pages, finely illus- trated with original drawings. His second work, "Domes- tic Practice," has also added to his popularity and fame. The following are a few selections from many notices of the press which his work upon "The Diseases of Women " has elicited, both in Europe and the United States :
"There is an air about this work that commends it very much to our judgment for the use of the student, and of the general practitioner, and hence we believe it is destined to become the class-book in homoeopathic colleges for many years to come. There is a healthy absence of the scissors and paste business. The author holds the candle of his own experience, and thus affords a reliable aid to the gynæcolog- ical path-finder in all his freshness and inexperience." ( Ho-
mæopathic World, London, for January, 1881.)
"We prefer it decidedly to the books of Ludlam and Hale, for students' use." ( Homeopathic Journal of Obstetrics, New York.)
" It will be seen by the reader that this is the work of a man of energy and force. There is not a trace of bigotry or narrow-mindedness in his composition. The chapter on ovarian tumors, and the operations for their removal, is worth the price of the whole book. We should be most happy to know that every large city in the world has as skillful an operator as has Cincinnati. The more important operations on the uterus are well described, and the phy- sician can not complain of paucity of illustrations, either of the disease or the instruments required to be used, for no- where have we seen them so fully given." (Professor Hale, of Chicago, in Medical Counselor.)
"The really classical work of Dr. Eaton, which lies be- fore us, marks an era in our literature. It is most creditable to our transatlantic brethren that they should have antici- pated the old country in producing a presentable volume by a good pathologist as well as a sound practical physician. The surgery of the book is advanced surgery, and through-
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out the text we find evidence that Dr. Eaton, whilst giving due value to the work of others, is not weighted by authority for mere authority's sake." ( British Journal of Homeopathy, for July, 1881.)
"This work is by a Cincinnati gentleman holding a high position among Homeopathic physicians as a gentleman of culture and learning. It exhibits very extensive research in the literature of the department of medicine to which it is devoted, and, we have no doubt, will take position as a stan- dard among Homoeopathists. In etiology, pathology, etc., it sets forth briefly and to the point the results of the most recent investigation, and is consequently quite abreast of the times in its information. Our author seems to be quite conversant with not only the works of American writers, but familiar with the literature of the most eminent and approved English and continental gynæcologists, and has enriched his work with their researches. But having an extensive practice, and consequently a wide field of observation, he presents his own views freely throughout the work." ( Cin- cinnati Medical News, Old School journal.)
Of Dr. Eaton's "Domestic Practice" it is said :
"This big, handsome book pleases the eye at a glance, and is evidently written for the better classes; and one can not take it up for a moment's reading without learning some- thing useful." (St. Louis Clinical Review, May, 1882.)
"Eaton covers a broader field than his predecessors. Phy- sicians may safely speak a kind word for the 'Domestic Prac- tice' of our genial and accomplished Cincinnati colleague." (Medical Counselor, June, 1882.)
"Dr. Eaton is a pleasing and instructive writer, and has done well in getting out so useful a book. It will be a good Homeopathic missionary." (American Observer, Sept., 1882.)
"Dr. Eaton, of Cincinnati, is possibly one of the best known medical authorities in the West. He has now given us a large practical manual for parents and nurses. It is the most comprehensive work of the kind now in print." (Peoria, Ill., Transcript, June, 1882.)
Dr. Eaton married, at the age of twenty-one, Miss Eliza Payne, of Galesburgh, Illinois, a graduate of Knox College. She died in 1877, leaving three children-Lucy E., Alice E., and Morton M., Jr. In 1878 he was married to Miss M. E. Sutherland, of Peoria, Illinois, a talented and accomplished lady, whose assistance to the doctor in his specialty is in- valuable. She is his companion in visiting medical societies, both in the United States and in Europe. He is now located in Cincinnati, where he was for some time a partner of Professor S. R. Beckwith, then President of Pulte Medical College, and Professor of Surgery. This partnership continued pleasantly for two years, when Dr. Eaton took the office No. 120 West Seventh Street, then that of Professor Bartholow, who re- moved to Philadelphia in connection with Jefferson Medical College. The doctor's offices are beautiful and convenient apartments, with every adaptation and appointment that could be conceived of as necessary to their comfort and attractiveness. It is a medical home, where Doctor Eaton receives his patients-some of them coming to him from a long distance, owing to his extended reputation and the recommendations of other members of the profession. Having acquired large property interests which render him moderately independent, and having been broken in health somewhat by arduous labor in his profession, he mainly devotes his time to consultations. He is a large owner of stock in the Tennessee Valley Coal Company, and is a stock- holder in the Metropolitan National Bank and also the Cin- cinnati National Bank of that city. Dr. Eaton went to Europe in 1881 (accompanied by Mrs. Eaton) as a delegate to the World's Homeopathic Convention, at which time he was made an active member of the International Medical Congress in London.
DEWEY, CHAUNCEY, LL. D., was born near Norwich, Connecticut, March 27th, 1796, and died at his home in Cadiz, Ohio, February 15th, 1880. He was of New England parentage, being the son of Eliphalet and Rachel (Hyde) Dewey, natives of Connecticut, who removed from that State to Otsego County, New York, in 1798, and thence in 1836 to Cadiz, Ohio. The father of our subject was a farmer by occupation, and was a participant in the struggle for colonial independence. He died at Cadiz in 1837, his wife surviving him. This lady was a lineal descendant of Chancellor Hyde, of England, and was remarked for her many virtues and accomplishments. She died in 1847. Up to his eighteenth year the subject of this sketch divided his time between the claims of the home farm and the modest country school which the neighborhood afforded, working in summer and attending school in winter. At this period of Mr. Dewey's life the hardships of pioneer life in New York State had not by any means ended; the country was in a rude and uncultivated state, and attention was absorbed in subduing its rough features and preparing it for the plow. The country had not made sufficient progress to warrant much attention to polite learning, and hence it is not sur- prising that when Chauncey Dewey aspired to a classical course, he should meet the disapproval of his father-a disapproval, however, which could not successfully combat the earnest determination of the son. To recite the early experiences of Mr. Dewey would be to repeat a story familiar to American ears, and which forms a part of the history of every self-made man of our times. But from this point he was, perhaps, more literally the "carver of his own fortune," since the means with which he prosecuted his studies pre- liminary to entering college were acquired by a vigorous use of the ax, cutting and selling wood off the home place. By this means he completed his academic course at Hart- wich Academy, in Otsego County, New York, and at length matriculated at Union College, Schenectady, graduating in 1820. After quitting college he commenced his preparation for the bar, under the auspices of Samuel Starkweather, Esq., a prominent practitioner at the bar of Cooperstown, New York. Believing that the West afforded better opportunities to young men than could be obtained in the East, he accord- ingly made his way to the young State of Ohio, finally locat- ing in the village of Cadiz. There he completed his law studies under the supervision of General W. B. Beebe. He was at length admitted to the bar, where his legal acquire- ments and natural adaptation to the profession soon placed him at the head of the bar of his county. For a short time Mr. Dewey was professionally associated with Hon. Benjamin Tappan, who resided in Steubenville. In 1836 he formed relations with Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, the great war secretary under the Lincoln administration. The firm of Dewey & Stanton lasted until 1842, when the firm was dissolved, and Mr. Stuart B. Shotwell became his partner, and continued to bear that relation until 1849. When the partnership between Mr. Dewey and Mr. Stanton was formed, the latter was a very young man, and it was while under the direction of Mr. Dewey that he inculcated the habits of industry which formed so great an element in his subsequent success as a lawyer and public man. There is no question that Mr. Stanton placed a high value on the association with Mr. Dewey; and when Mr. Stanton became Secretary of War he used the high prerogative of his office to render a very important service to Mr. Dewey. Mr. Dewey was most
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active at the bar between the years 1830 and 1840. He had been gradually withdrawing from practice since 1840, and when elected President of the Harrison branch of the State Bank of Ohio, in 1849, he had practically withdrawn from the practice of law. Mr. Dewey and Hon. Daniel Kilgore were the pioneers of the banking business in Cadiz, and their success was so pronounced as to excite a spirit of emu- lation among the business men of that town. The conse- quence was the establishment, from time to time, of banks in Cadiz, so that at the period of Mr. Dewey's death there were no fewer than five banking institutions in the town. This circumstance conferred upon Cadiz the distinction of being the greatest banking town of its size in the United States. He was continued as the President of the Harrison branch of the State Bank until its business was wound up in 1865, when he superintended its conversion into the Har- rison National Bank of Cadiz, of which he was elected Pres- ident, and filled the position until his death. In the later years of his life Mr. Dewey was interested as a shareholder in the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad, and was particularly active in pushing the construction of that por- tion of the road known as the Steubenville and Indiana Road. The construction of the Cadiz branch was mainly due to his efforts. Mr. Dewey was a member of the Jefferson Fire Insurance Company, of Steubenville, of the Franklin Insurance Company, of Wheeling, and of the Amazon Insur- ance Company, of Cincinnati. He was also interested in iron works in Wheeling. Prior to the organization of the Republican party, Mr. Dewey acted with the Whig party, generally, but was never in any sense a partisan, and this liberal spirit distinguished his entire connection with the Republican party, up to the time of his death. While he cherished party principles, and consistently voted for them, he often exercised a judicious discrimination in favor of personal merit. Mr. Dewey was never a candidate for political preferment, except on one occasion, in 1841, when he was chosen to the State Senate by the Belmont-Harrison District. He resigned before the close of his term. His resignation was occasioned by a sensitive feeling over the result of the intervening gubernatorial contest between Wil- son Shannon, and "Tom" Corwin. Mr. Dewey was not in sympathy with the popular sentiment as expressed in that election, and found it consistent to resign. He took an active interest in the presidential campaign of 1840. The principal issue involved was the celebrated Van Buren sub-treasury project-a measure which Mr. Dewey decidedly opposed. His strong feelings on this question led him into an active participation in the canvass for William Henry Harrison. He made speeches throughout Southeastern Ohio, which, it is said, had much to do with influencing popular sentiment in that part of the State. For a period of forty years Mr. Dewey occupied a position in his community which was as remarkable as it was unique, and which could be sustained in the person of a single individual only by the most re- markable combination of qualities. As President of the Harrison branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and subse- quently of the Harrison National Bank, he established a State reputation as a financier, and made the bank one of the leading fiduciary institutions in the State. His standing in this particular rendered him the most competent adviser in financial transactions in that part of the State. There was, perhaps, not a single enterprise of any considerable magni- tude established in Harrison County that the advice and
counsel of Chauncey Dewey were not first sought. Mr. Dewey stood confessedly at the head of all philanthropic and charitable movements in Cadiz, and dispensed with an unstinted hand a large portion of the ample means which a long and successful business career had enabled him to amass. While Mr. Dewey was not one of the earliest settlers in Harrison County, he was pre-eminently the pioneer and promoter of its business interests. In this regard, however, it is impossible to separate him from his contemporary, the Hon. Daniel Kilgore. Mr. Dewey married in 1823 Miss Nancy Pritchard, daughter of John Pritchard, one of the pioneer settlers of Harrison County, and had issue of ten children, five of whom are living at this writing. They re- side variously in Texas; Wheeling, West Virginia ; Chicago, Illinois; and Cadiz, Ohio. Mrs. Dewey resides at the old Dewey homestead, in a beautiful suburb of Cadiz.
CAMPBELL, FRANCIS, merchant and capitalist, was born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, on the Ist of January, 1792. He is a descendant of Duncan Campbell, of the lineage of the noble branch of Breadalbane, born in Scotland, but removed to Ireland after his marriage in the year 1612. Their son, John, born in 1621, lived and died in Ireland, but his son, also named John, emigrated from that country to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, bringing with him his family, among whom was Mr. Francis Campbell's grandfather, born in 1692, and also called John. He was educated in England, and served in the ministry of his native country. He was married, and had four children, the youngest of whom (of the same Christian name) was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born in 1740, and was married to Ellen Parker. The elder brother of Mr. Francis was the Rev. John Campbell, so it will be seen that there are five generations all bearing the same Christian name. The early education of Francis was confined to such schools as in those early days were known in country places, but he left at an early age. Proudly desirous of winning unaided his way to position and fame, he left his native town and launched himself out into the world, having determined to be the architect of his own fortune, and confident of his ultimate success. Balti- more was the city where the young Francis resolved to try his first business venture, and for that purpose associated himself with a Mr. John T. Barr, a prominent merchant there, and remained with him for about two years, during which time he showed such attention to, and capacity for, business that Mr. Barr, in accordance with suggestions that had already been made by Mr. Campbell, resolved to estab- lish a general merchandise store at Chillicothe, under the style of Barr & Campbell, the latter having the sole man- agement and control of the establishment. Accordingly, about the year 1814, the store was opened, and then com- menced that active business life that made him one of the most prominent merchants in that section of the State. The business was continued under this style until the year 1832, when Mr. Barr, who resided in Baltimore and attended to the business there, became financially involved, and Mr. Campbell, who had indorsed for him to a large extent, was a heavy sufferer, and lost the whole of the money which by his industry and perseverance he had accumulated. Mr. Barr then retired from the firm, and two of the brothers of Mr. Campbell-James and Samuel-who had been connected with the business some time previous, were admitted into partnership, and the style was changed to James P. Camp-
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bell & Co. The business was continued with increased suc- cess for seven or eight years, when James retired, and the firm was again changed to F. & S. D. Campbell, and so con- tinued till the year 1852, when Mr. Francis Campbell retired from active business, although the firm remained in existence for several years later. Mr. Campbell always identified him- self with the business enterprise of Chillicothe, and was ever ready to promote the interests of his town. He was director of the Old Chillicothe Bank, and was also one of the directors of the Valley Bank, which was subsequently changed into the First National Bank, of which he was one of the project- ors and original directors. He was actively engaged in the organization and construction of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, and other enterprises of a similar nature. In pol- itics Mr. Campbell was a Republican, and, though not seek- ing political preferment or notoriety, he was a staunch adher- ent of his party. He united with the First Presbyterian Church, and though extensively engaged in business, de- voted much of his time, and-as long as health permitted- taking a deep and active interest in its welfare. He was known as a man of great integrity of character and purity of purpose, and noted for great kindness of heart and affection. He was fond of domestic life, but, though never married, he always found in the house of his brother Samuel D. Campbell (a sketch of whose life also appears in this volume) a home of love, comfort, and happiness, and there, in the loving care of his family, he died on the 17th of June, 1873.
COOK, MATTHEW SCOTT, was born April 9th, 1803, on his father's farm, eight miles north of Chillicothe. He was the sixth child and the second son of a family of twelve children. His father, Isaac Cook, was born and reared in Wallingford, Connecticut, and his mother, whose maiden name was Margaret Scott, was born in Shippensburg, Penn- sylvania. Both families were of Revolutionary fame, and of the old Puritan stock. Soon after their marriage the young couple started, with their household goods in wagons, to select some spot in the vast unclaimed West, which their industry and undaunted hope were to create into a home. Their progress was arrested at Pittsburg, for several years, and from this point Isaac Cook made a prospecting trip in 1795 as far as Greenville, and was present at Wayne's treaty with the Indians at that place. He returned, and removed his family in the following year, settling in the rich and beautiful valley of the Scioto. He had taken with him from Pittsburg a commission from General Neville to sell his land grant in the Virginia Military District. This he performed with such satisfaction that his employer presented him with four hundred acres of land, being the unsold residue. To this he added in after years by purchase, making it the nucleus of the fine estate in land of which he was possessed at his death, in 1842. In 1802 Ohio was admitted into the Union as a State, and in the years following Isaac Cook served frequently in the Legislature, and took an active part in bringing forward important measures in the formation of the government of the young State. He was also appointed Judge of the Common Pleas Court, to which office he was three times reappointed, serving through a period of twenty- eight years. The early education of the subject of this sketch was received at the winter schools in the neighborhood, but the most lasting impressions made on his heart and mind were by the teaching and fine example of his mother. From
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