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upon society and the public. Before becoming engrossed with the pressing business of his profession he gave license to his pen, and contributed somewhat to the papers of the day. Touching his character for integrity and trustworthi- ness, nothing more needs be stated than the fact that no account has ever been kept between Mr. Boyd and his part- ner since they commenced business together, as to individual and office expenses. The funds of the firm are considered common property for each to draw from without accounting to the other for so doing. Thus Mr. Boyce manifests his confidence in the integrity and fair dealing of his partner ; and it may be added that this feeling of trust is fully recipro- cated on the part of Mr. Boyd. It may not be altogether out of place to state some of the points in common be- tween Mr. Boyd and Mr. Boyce as partners : Both were born in the same year ; both were farmer-boys; both deter- mined at the same age to acquire an education, at all haz- ards; both began by teaching school, and first met each other at spelling-matches between neighboring schools; both attended Coolville Academy; both attended Ohio Univer- sity, and both are graduates therefrom; both taught after graduating, one as tutor in his Alma Mater, and one as principal of an academy; both came to Cincinnati together to attend the Cincinnati Law School, by the advice of Judge Storer, and of which both are graduates; both in debt to about the same extent after leaving the university and the law school; both are members of St. Paul Methodist Episco- pal Church; both have the same name, except final letters ; both are of Protestant Irish extraction; both are members of the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity ; both are examiners of Boston University ; both are now out of debt, and entitled to share and share alike out of their mutual earnings; and both are bachelors de facto as well as Bachelors of Law. Add to his professional standing and his character as a Christian gentleman the qualities of a cultivated mind, a kind heart, a fine sense of honor, a just and equable tem- perament, and ability to speak and write gracefully and flu- ently, and you have in Mr. Boyd a lawyer capable of adorn- ing the bench as well as the bar; a citizen that is an honor both to the State and the Church of his adoption.
FULLERTON, WILLIAM, physician, was born near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in November, 1802, and died on the 19th July, 1875, at Chillicothe, Ohio. His grandfather was a lineal descendant, in the third generation, of Major Humphrey Fullerton who, under William, king of England, was conspicuous for gallant conduct at the battle of the Boyne, and was a man of wealth and position in this country, own- ing a large landed estate in the Cumberland valley, Mary- land. His son, the father of our subject, moved in 1804, with his family to Chillicothe, Ohio, and invested largely in real estate there, and in business also, all of which investments proving fortunate, greatly increased, but being a generous friend, and sympathizing with those of his friends less fortun- ate than himself, he was at the time of his death involved in financial difficulties occasioned by endorsing for those.friends. Having been offered by the Mexican government large areas of land in Texas, providing he would settle them with emi- grants, he went there and, in returning, the steamer upon which he had embarked for home at New Orleans exploded her boilers, and he barely escaped with his life. The shock he sustained, physically, was increased by the sight of so much suffering, and occasioned his death in 1830. His son,
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our subject, having received his primary education, entered Chillicothe Academy, and was there fitted for college. This academy was then an institution of much importanee, located in the capital of the State, and in which were educated in the classics and higher mathematics many who became states- men and lawyers of distinction. Subsequently he entered the University of Ohio, studied the full course, and but for sickness would have graduated in 1822. Recovering, he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Pinkerton, and having at- tended the lectures of the professors of Transylvania Univer- sity in Lexington, Kentucky. graduated in 1825. Transyl- vania Medical College was then the first institution of the kind in the Western States. In it Drs. Dudley and Drake, the elder Yandell and Caldwell were professors. Dr. Dudley was then regarded the most eminent surgeon in America, and Dr. Daniel Drake became eminent as a teacher and author. The elder Yandell and Dr. Caldwell, while of less fame, were no less masters of the espeeial branches they taught. Returning to Chillicothe, Dr. Fullerton began the praetiee of his profession, and at once rose in the esteem of those who engaged his services until in the course of a few years he stood among the first practitioners of his day, and being endowed with strong mental powers, unusually fine presenee and address, and scholarly attainments, he inspired confidence in all to whom he ministered, through a long series of years, and until his health succumbing he had to withdraw, some years before his death, and completely retire from practiee. Politically the Fullerton family were Federal- ists, and our subject imbibing the sentiment of resentment entertained by his father in consequence of the Federal lead- er, John Quincy Adams, accepting office under President Jefferson, and being of age, when Mr. Adams opposed Gen- eral Jackson for the Presidency in 1824, he voted for the gen- eral and acted with his party until the slavery question assumed prominence. An ardent lover of liberty and justice for the oppressed, Dr. Fullerton became a strong abolitionist, and assisted freely in those preparations for the freedom of the slave, which to his intense satisfaction culminated in the emancipation proclamation of the lamented President Lincoln on the Ist January, 1863, and from that time until its close he felt that at last the proper object of the war was squarely an- nounced to the whole world. In 1834 Dr. Fullerton married Miss Sophia Lyman, daughter of Giles Lyman, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, whose father was an officer in the Revolu- tionary war. This lady survives him. Of their children, Lyman, born in April, 1835, died at Kansas City in 1871; Sophia L., born in 1844, died in 1867; Margaret is the wife of Thomas N. Marfield, of Chillicothe; William D., a commis- sion merchant, resident in Baltimore, and Lucy H., a young lady living at the old home in Chillicothe. Dr. Fullerton was a man of very decided character, but never in haste in forming his opinions, and these characteristics in consequence added weight to their expression. A loyal friend and model husband and father, in the social circle he was genial and courteous, and left, as a sacred legacy to his family and the friends he loved, his virtues and honorable reeord.
BARTON, CHARLES A., soldier and civil engineer, Portsmouth, Ohio, was born in Sidney, Maine, September 3d, 1824. He is the third son of Rufus Barton and Susannah Wyman, and grandson of Flynt Barton, of Worcester, Mas- sachusetts. The years of his minority were passed under his father in the business of farming and lumbering, and his op-
portunities for education were exceedingly meager. At the age of twenty-one he started in the world for himself, and for several years was engaged in the lumber districts of Maine, New Brunswiek, Pennsylvania, and New York. He was sub- sequently employed for a couple of years at the trade of a millwright. In the spring of 1854 he made his way to Ohio, rafting lumber down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers to Iron- ton, and the next year located in Portsmouth, and engaged with Messrs. Riggs and Thompson in the lumber trade and manufacture, in which business he continued till the breaking out of our late civil war. He then entered the army, in Com- pany G, Ist Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the expiration of the three months' service re-enlisted and went out as first lieutenant of Company B, of the 13th Missouri, which was afterwards changed to the 22d Ohio, serving till after the bat- tle of Shiloh, when he resigned on account of failing health. In the fall of 1862 he raised an independent company of sharpshooters, and took them into the service. In November, 1863, he was attached to General Thomas's headquarters for general duty, and so remained until mustered out on July 25th, 1865. Returning home, he resumed the lumber trade for a short time, and then engaged in civil engineering and survey- ing, which for the most part he has continued to the present time. He was for a while employed on the turnpikes of Scioto county, in connection with Captain Gibbs, whose biography will be found in this work, and with that gentleman prepared a very excellent map of the county. In 1872-73 he had charge of the survey of the Ohio University lands, and, since they were ready for market, has been engaged in selling them, and also in various other matters pertaining to his profession. On February 25th, 1858, he married Miss Mary Jane, daughter of William Maddock, of Portsmouth, but originally from Wales. Captain Barton is a Master Mason, and has been connected with the Order for a quarter of a century. In pol- itics, he is a strong adherent to the principles of the republi- can party. Among local offices held by him may be men- tioned that of trustee of the Portsmouth water-works and member of the board of health, each of which positions he filled for five years. For three years past he has been a member of the Portsmouth city couneil. Captain Barton is emphatically a self-made man, and possessed of an unusual degree of sterling good sense. He is decidedly modest and retiring in manners, square and honorable in his business re- lations, trustworthy and efficient in his profession, and one of Portsmouth's substantial and much-respected citizens.
BUSHNELL, WILLIAM, physician and surgeon, Mans- field, Ohio, was born in Hartland, Hartford county, Connecti- cut, on the 20th September, 1800. His father, Sterling G. Bushnell, was a gentleman of scholarly attainments and great force of character, who removed with his family to Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1805. The school education of Dr. Bushnell was slight and irregular, as in the early days of the State of Ohio there were but few educational advantages available, the text-books being common place and inaecur- ate, and the teachers but slightly educated in advance of the scholars. With this condition in his childhood, it was by study at home he obtained that knowledge children now-a- · days obtain in the public schools; and it was by earnest study under the paternal roof he laid the foundation for those attainments which have gained for him position and eminence in his profession. An incident that occurred in his early life made a deep impression on him. After Hull's surrender,
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when in his twelfth year, the Ist regiment of the 3d brigade, and 4th division of the Ohio militia, on its way to the fron- tier, halted and took dinner at the residence of his father, who was adjutant of that regiment. William, believing he was old enough to go with the troops, pleaded his cause so earnestly to accompany the regiment, that he was allowed to do so, and marched with it to the vicinity of Cleveland, where the troops were encamped. A battle being imminent with the Indians, his father told him he must go back home, and very reluctantly he obeyed, as he desired ardently to take a hand in the fighting. All alone he retraced his steps through the dense wilderness, and guided only by the trail left by the regiment. Having decided on the practice of medicine as a profession, he began its study in the office of Dr. J. C. Wilcox, of Hartford, Trumbull county, Ohio, and defrayed the expenses of his college studies by teaching in the public schools. In 1825, he attended a course of medical lectures in the old Ohio medical college, at Cincinnati, to do so having walked from the extreme northeast to the south- west of the State, and graduated in 1827. Going to Point Coupee, Louisiana, he entered upon the practice of his pro- fession, and after remaining one year he returned to Ohio, located at Mansfield, where he has ever since resided, and there established an extensive and successful practice. In 1835, Dr. Bushnell married Miss Mary, only daughter of General Robert Bentley, a man of much ability, who resided in Richland county, Ohio. Of the children born from this union only one is living, Martin B., resident in Mansfield. During his long and successful career as a physician, Dr. Bushnell has also devoted himself to public business, and held several positions of trust and responsibility. Many of the internal improvements in the northern portion of the State were either projected by him, or owe their existence to his energy and influence. He was one of the directors of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, not only during its con- struction, but for some years after its completion. The con- · struction of this road involved great labor and expense, and it is acknowledged to be a road equally well if not better built than any other west of the Alleghanies. Its course lies through New York and Ohio; beginning at Salamanca, on the New York and Erie Railroad, and ending at Dayton, at the depot of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway, its entire length is about four hundred and fifty miles. In 1849, Dr. Bushnell was elected a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and subsequently reelected and served several terms in that legislative body. After the establish- ment of the Cleveland medical college, he was connected with it as a censor for about fifteen years. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and also of the Ohio Medical Association; and as a physician and surgeon he ranks with the most eminent in the State, his personal skill and judgment being sought in consultations and operations in distant parts of Ohio, and adjoining States. Possessed of a remarkably vigorous constitution, he has been enabled to perform an unusual amount of work requiring patience and endurance. In the early days of his practice, with almost impassable roads to travel long distances and put up at the rude wayside taverns, required the exercise in a high degree of those virtues. Of fine personal appearance and distin- guished, Dr. Bushnell commands the respect of the com- munity where he has lived so long, and with satisfaction to his constituents represented them. In June, 1878, he was by Governor Bishop appointed the delegate of Ohio to the Inter-
national congress on prison reform, called by and under the auspices of Sweden, to take place in Stockholm. Provided by the United States Secretary of State with a passport, Dr. Bushnell, on the 29th June, took passage on the Inman steamer "City of Chester" to attend to the duties of his dele- gation, and as well make the European tour.
RUSSELL, JOHN WADHAMS, physician, surgeon, and banker, Mount Vernon, Ohio, was born in Canaan, Litchfield county, Connecticut, on the 28th January, 1804. His father, the Hon. Stephen Russell was repeatedly a mem- ber of the Connecticut legislature, and his grandfather, Jona- than Russell, commanded a brig under General Lafayette's letters of marque in 1778. After rendering his country much service, he was captured and imprisoned on the prison-ship at New York, where the treatment of the prisoners was so severe that after vainly endeavoring to incite them to rise and capture the ship, Captain Russell jumped overboard and in that manner effected his escape. Dr. Russell's mother was Sarah Wadhams, of Goshen, Connecticut. His educa- tion until his thirteenth year was received at the common schools of Litchfield, whither his father removed in 1808. Then he was sent to Morris Academy, and under the Rev. Truman Marsh pursued his studies, and was prepared for and admitted to Hamilton College in 1821. He pursued his classical studies with the Rev. Mr. Langdon, of Bethlehem, Connecticut, one year, as his impaired health would permit, and in the fall of 1823 went South. He took charge of an academy at Red Bank, Colleton district, South Carolina, six months, and there commenced his professional studies with Dr. Sheridan, a scientific and noble-hearted Quaker. Re- turning to Connecticut, he attended the medical lectures at Yale College one course, and then going to Pittsfield, Massa- chusetts, there attended the lectures of Berkshire Medical College. Subsequently, going to Philadelphia he was a pri- vate pupil of one of that city's greatest physicians and sur- geons, George McClellan, the father of General George B McClellan, and graduated at Jefferson Medical College there in 1827. Returning to Litchfield he there began the practice of his profession, and continued so engaged there for one year, during which time he delivered a course of lectures on anatomy and physiology to a private class of young men. In 1828 he removed to Ohio, and began practice at Sandusky City, where he remained but a few months, when he moved to Mount Vernon in Knox county. Dr. Russell was led to locate himself in Mount Vernon on account of its proximity to Kenyon College, and his attachment to the teachings of the Protestant Episcopal church, of which he is a member; but his mind was fixed when told by the oldest practitioner of Mount Vernon, with considerable spirit, "You can't earn your salt." No sooner was this said to him than Dr. Russell resolved "I'll try," and the gentleman who thus spoke lived to see him do a more lucrative business than he did himself. Dr. Russell's specialty is surgery, and during the practice of his profession at Mount Vernon he has performed a large number of important operations in various parts of the State. He is a member of the Knox County and State of Ohio Med- ical Societies, also of the American Medical, the Rocky Mountain, and the State of California Medical Societies, also was a delegate and member of the International Medical Con- gress of 1876. During the administrations of Governors Tod and Brough, he, with Dr. Weber of Cleveland and Dr. Mur- phy of Cincinnati, performed the functions of State board of
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examining physicians and surgeons, of which Dr. Russell was chairman, and subsequently president of the State Medi- cal Society. On the organization of the First National bank, of Mount Vernon, he became a prominent stockholder and director, which connection he has maintained, having pre- viously been president of the Mount Vernon bank, of which the First National was the successor. In 1828, Dr. Russell married Miss Eliza, daughter of the Hon. William Beebe, of Litchfield, Connecticut. This lady died in 1871, having been the mother of five children, one died in infancy, two others, sons, both regular physicians and graduates, died at the ages of thirty-three and twenty-nine. Only one son, a druggist in Mount Vernon, and one daughter, wife of Colonel W. C. Cooper, a prominent attorney in Mount Vernon, survive. In 1872, Dr. Russell married in San Francisco, California, Miss Ellen M. Brown, daughter of Joseph Brown, Esq. Dr. Russell says that his success in business is the result of econ- omy, industry, and the constant study and practice of the profession of his choice. He still maintains the confidence of the community, and is actively engaged in professional practice.
REID, ALEXANDER M., PH. D., educator and di- vine, Steubenville, is a native of Beaver County, Pennsyl- vania, and was born April 20th, 1827. His parents were Henry Reid and Jane McCandless, the latter being a near relative of the eminent jurist of that name. Our subject came from Scotch and Irish ancestry, and acquired from his progenitors the characteristic Scotch-Irish qualities of energy and perseverance. His father was a Presbyterian elder, as was also his maternal grandfather, and the McCandless family as a whole subscribed to the tenets of the Presbyterian Church. Thus our subject was early influenced by precept and example properly to regard the observances of the Church. He pursued a partial academic course in Dr. Sloan's academy, at Frankfort Springs, Pennsylvania, which he completed at Hookstown Academy, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. By alternate teaching and attendance at academy he was enabled to enter Jefferson College, Can- nonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1848; and having while teaching diligently improved his leisure time with supplemental studies, he entered college with his course half completed, and was graduated from the institution the year following. He then commenced a course of theological study at the Western Theological Seminary, an institution of high repute, under the direction and patronage of the Presbyterian Church. He was there two years, when he resumed teaching, at Sewickley Academy, near Pittsburg. In 1855 he traveled extensively in Europe, and corresponded for American journals. In 1856, immediately after his return from Europe, he became asso- ciated with the Rev. Dr. Charles C. Beatty, as teacher of of Latin and natural science in the extensive Female Semi- nary at Steubenville, Ohio. He continued as professor of Latin and natural science until 1857, varying his labors, however, by teaching astronomy and rhetoric. In 1857 he became principal of the institution, and henceforth held the responsibility of administering its affairs, although Dr. Beatty was still proprietor of the seminary and continued a desultory connection as teacher until 1866. In that year Dr. Reid purchased the seminary from Dr. Beatty. This disposition of the institution by Dr. Beatty was governed by other and more important considerations than those usually involved in financial transactions. The seminary had acquired a high
standing among the institutions of learning in the United States. Its practical benefits extended not only to almost every accessible part of this country, but reached as well to foreign countries and the isles of the sea. Dr. Beatty and Dr. Reid had been co-laborers together, and each was in- strumental in his way in securing for the institution the great prestige which it commanded, and maintains at the present time. To remove any apprehension of its usefulness be- coming impaired, for at least many years to come, Dr. Beatty took this precaution to transfer it to competent hands while he was yet alive and able to have his desires consummated. Dr. Reid has given the labor of almost a lifetime to the Steubenville Seminary. His time has not been devoted ex- clusively to imparting technical instruction to the pupils under his care; his efforts have been directed largely to assisting his pupils to a proper appreciation of the duties and responsibilities which belong to woman's sphere. His interest in this feature of education is indicated in the follow- ing extract from a public lecture :
" Every woman may not do the work of a Browning or a Nightingale, of a Miss Dix,or Elizabeth Fry. But, 'what she can,' she can do; and it concerns us more to know what she can do in the family, the school, the Church, and society. In these spheres her influence is greatest for weal or for woe, because here it is infinitely multiplied. Silent and gentle as the dewdrop and the sunshine it may fall; or loud-toned and harsh as the echoing thunder; it may clothe hearts with verdure and lives with fragrance ; or it may fill the one with shuddering and shroud the other in darkness. The light of a beautiful life falls upon the heart like a heavenly benedic- tion, the influence of it reaching farther and wider than we know."
In this endeavor he has been ably seconded by Mrs. Reid. Through their joint efforts the seminary has been divested of much of the formality-and this, too, without destroying the discipline-which attaches to public institutions of learning. In its stead reigns an air of domesticity. A prominent citizen of Eastern Ohio once remarked : "I do not doubt that Dr. Reid's seminary has educated and sent into the world more noble women than any similar institution in the West." In 1857 Dr. Reid was licensed to preach in the Presbyterian Church, and he held for a number of years a pastorate at Holliday's Cove, West Virginia, the labors of which he per- formed in addition to his regular work at the seminary. In 1869 Washington and Jefferson College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In 1875 Dr. Reid was appointed to represent the Northern Presbyterian Church in the Pan-Presbyterian Assembly, at Edinburgh, Scotland, and at the close of the meeting traveled extensively on the continent. In 1880 he again visited Europe, when he extended his trav- els into Spain, Algeria, Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Greece, Turkey, and Austria. While in Spain he was a witness to the barbarous practice of bull-fighting, and during the progress of one such contest gave public expression to his horror and disgust at the proceeding. For this act of indiscretion he actually became in danger of bodily injury at the hands of those whose national custom he had thoughtlessly reflected upon. In 1880 Dr. Reid was made Moderator of the Synod of Cleveland-a position which confers upon the incumbent a very high distinction among ministers. He has acquired note as a lecturer on various subjects, notably astronomy and zoology. His lecture on "Success," together with his published sermons, have still further. brought to public notice his scholarly acquirements. He was married in October, 1855, to Sarah Lambert, and has had issue three children,
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