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founded the chapter of that fraternity there. At Delaware he met Miss Julia Bundy, a daughter of Hon. H. S. Bundy, of Jackson, Ohio, and they were married October 4th, 1870. They have four children, and reside on Walnut Hills. He studied law while in college, but finished under Judge Sloan, at Cincinnati, and was admitted to the bar three months after his graduation. He advanced rapidly in his profession, and, becoming active in local politics, attracted considerable at- tention. In 1878 he was appointed supervisor of the con- gressional elections at Cincinnati, which duties he discharged fearlessly and with fairness and impartiality. He was nom- inated for Common Pleas Judge in 1876. General disaster overtook the ticket that year, but Foraker made such a re- markable run, and came so near an election, that the party instinctively turned to him as an available leader, and in 1879 he was nominated and elected Judge of the Superior Court, at Cincinnati, in which position he gained distinction as a Judge of ability, clearness, and impartiality. In May, 1882, he resigned on account of impaired health. Having recovered his health he resumed the practice of his profession, at Cincinnati. When the Republican Convention met in Co- lumbus, in 1883, he was nominated as candidate for Governor without opposition. Judge Foraker is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. In personal appearance he is tall and straight, with rather dark complexion, keen black eyes, and dark hair slightly streaked with gray. He is a fine speaker, and has a wonderful amount of personal magnetism. Without the airs of a demagogue or any sacrifice of dignity, he yet makes a friend of every man he meets. His speeches before the convention which nominated him, and before pop- ular assemblages during the political campaign, are marked with calmness, self-poise, and deliberation. No hasty utter- ances, no striving after tumultuous applause, no appeals to personal prejudices and passions, spoil his style; and what he says reads well in print, besides furnishing food for thoughtful minds. Having so far maintained a high po- sition, it will be no strange thing if the people shall say to him: "Come up higher."
PENDLETON, GEORGE F., lawyer and jurist, Find- lay, Ohio, was born in Knox County, Maine, September 27th, 1840. He is the son of Colonel Darius Pendleton, a soldier of the war of the Rebellion, and Rachel (Philbrook) Pendle- ton, who was of a prominent New England family of Scotch- Irish descent. His paternal ancestors were English. In the early days of the colonies his great-grandsire emigrated from England, and landing on South Fox Island, adopted it as a permanent home. On that island of the Atlantic the subject of this sketch was born. There, too, was the birthplace of his parents, and also of his grandfather, James Gilkey Pendleton, he who was among the pioneers of Licking County, Ohio. George's father was a boat-builder, and for a number of years " went down to the sea," as ship carpenter. He quitted the ocean about the time his boy was a year old, and moving the family to Ohio, settled on a farm in Hancock County, and died there in 1876. Young Pendleton grew up, assisting at his home in the cultivation of the land, and was in a fair way of becoming-what his father intended he should be-a farmer. But the lad had a fondness for books. He possessed a retentive memory, progressed rapidly in the studies of the school-room, and when fifteen years old had received the diploma or certificate of a teacher. At that early age he was intrusted with the entire care of a school. He was success-
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ful. Henceforth he continued to teach, at the same time extending his own knowledge in the languages and higher mathematics. In 1862, upon the call for troops, he promptly responded, by joining, as a private, Company G, of the 118th Ohio Volunteers. John Pendleton, a younger brother, to whom he was much attached, a member of the same com- pany, was killed in battle, at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia. Throughout the war George Pendleton was at no time absent from active duty, either by sickness or on furlough. During the encounters, the long marches, the exposures, and the hard- ships of the Tennessee and Kentucky campaigns, he was always at his post, with knapsack and rifle-a citizen-soldier, sustained alone as a private by loyalty to the old flag and an unswerving devotion to the Union. He served his captain as company clerk; assisted, for a while, the post commissary, at Kingston ; was ordered by Burnside to special commissary duties in East Tennessee ; and, near the close of the war, was detailed as chief commissary clerk at the head-quarters of General Tilson. Returning to civil life, he applied him- self to the obtaining of more thorough education, and oc- casionally accepting a situation as teacher. Dr. Hiram Mc- Dowell, a prosperous physician, of Indiana, was among the pupils of Mr. Pendleton's youthful teachings, as was also J. H. Johnston, a successful lawyer, of Findlay. In 1867 Mr. Pendleton was appointed Deputy United States Collector of the Seventh Congressional District, with head-quarters at Findlay. He was a popular and efficient officer, and dis- charged the duties of that trust for two years. About this time he entered upon the study of law. He began with Henry Brown, but before getting through went into the office of W. H. Anderson, with whom he completed the course, and after passing a critical examination, was admitted to the bar, by the Supreme Court, at the December term, 1870. The same year he was chosen Mayor of Findlay. In 1871 Mr. Pendleton was elected Prosecuting Attorney, and after serving one term in that office his countrymen showed their appreciation of his services by re-electing him for the same office in 1873. During the four years he was State's Attorney his procedure throughout was characterized by justness, impartiality, and marked ability. He prosecuted many peculiar and difficult cases, and it was seldom an evil- doer escaped; and he convicted the first prisoner tried for murder in the first degree in Hancock County. In 1876 he was admitted to practice in the United States Court, since when he has been of counsel in numerous cases of great importance. For a number of years he was associated as law partner with W. H. Anderson, and he was the junior member of the legal firm of Brown & Pendleton. He has the reputation of being a careful attorney and reliable counselor. Politically he is a Democrat. The members of the bar respect him, and his party, which is in the majority, seek to do him honor. He has recently (July, 1883) been nominated for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, to fill a vacancy in the Tenth Judicial District, occasioned by the resignation of Judge McCauley, now of the Supreme Court Commission. In religious matters he adheres to the faith of his forefathers. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He has always taken a lively interest in the educa- tional affairs of Hancock, and was for a time its School Ex- aminer, and he still holds a position of that nature in the union schools of Findlay. Mr. Pendleton was twice married. His first wife, Emma F. Galloway, to whom he was united in 1871, died three years afterward. The second marriage was
in 1877, with M. Belle Sutphin, daughter of Joseph Sutphin, an extensive paper manufacturer, of Middletown, Ohio. He has two children -- a son and daughter-Charles S. and Emma. Mr. Pendleton is gentlemanly in his address, court- eous and free in his manners, temperate in his habits, liberal in his opinions, and is considerate, kind, and just.
MILLER, JACOB, manufacturer, Canton, Stark County, was born in Lake Township, Stark County, Ohio, September 26th, 1827. His parents were John and Mary (York) Miller. His father, who was a native of Maryland, was a farmer, cabinet maker, house builder, and builder of fanning mills. He subsequently settled in Pennsylvania, from which State he removed to the West, and was one of the pioneers of Stark County, in 1812, where he became a prominent man in the community, and died in March, 1875, greatly esteemed for his sterling qualities as a man and citizen. Mr. Jacob Miller was the second in a family of three sons, and a brother of Lewis Miller, Esq., of Akron and Canton. His early life was spent at the parental home, assisting his father on the farm and in the shops. His education was re- ceived at the common schools. He early in life evinced great aptitude for mechanics, and being possessed of fine mechanical and executive talent, in the fall of 1851 he became a partner in the manufacturing firm of Ball, Ault- man & Co., of Canton, who were formerly located at Greentown, Ohio. In the fall of 1858 the establishment was reorganized as the firm of C. Aultman & Co., which, in 1865, was merged into a stock company, with a capital of $450,000, and incorporated as C. Aultman & Co. The capital was subsequently increased to $1,000,000, and later on still further increased to $1,500,000. From 1856 to 1864 Mr. Miller was engaged as superintendent of the wood department of the works, and since that time, with the excep- tion of one year, he has been general manager and superin- tendent of the entire establishment. It is one of the most extensive of its kind in the country, and has shops also at Akron, Ohio, in which Mr. Miller is a director. The firm are manufacturers of the world-renowned Buckeye Reaper and Mower, of the improved Sweepstakes Steam Thresher, Binders, etc., as also several other very valuable labor-saving machines. Their goods go throughout the entire country; their machines may be found in use all over the land, North, South, East, and West. The volume of their business is simply immense. The general excellence of the work turned out by this firm has contributed to the almost unprecedented success with which they have met. Quite a number of pat- ents have been taken out by Mr. Miller on reapers, mowers, threshers, horse-powers, and other valuable farm machinery. He is also a director in the Akron Iron Company at Akron, a director in the First National Bank of Canton, and is in- terested in other enterprises of minor importance. Mr. Miller was first married April 23d, 1873, to Maggie, daughter of Hugh Hayes, of Starke County. Mr. Hayes, a native of Ireland, came to America at an early day, was for a num- ber of years a merchant in Philadelphia, and removed to Ohio in 1848. Mrs. Miller died October 11th, 1878. August 5th, 1880, Mr. Miller was married to Alice N. Newton, of Canton. In political sentiment he is a Republican, having come over from the old Whig party. He has been a mem- ber of the Canton City Council; for many years a member of the Board of Trustees of Mount Union College, Mount Union, Ohio; a trustee and on the executive committee of
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the Chautauqua Sunday-school Assembly. His religious con- nection is with the Methodist Church, of which he has been a long time member, one of the trustees, a teacher in the Sabbath-school, and toward which Church he has given most bountifully of his means. An earnest and devout Christian, possessed of excellent business capacity, the higher and no- bler attributes of head and heart, the record of his life, and business career is a living monument of what industry, in- telligence, honesty, and uprightness can accomplish. Kind and benevolent, he is known and honored among his em- ployés and in his community by that highest of all titles, " a Christian gentleman."
WALDEN, WILLIAM ALLEN, a prominent lawyer, at Steubenville, Ohio, is a native of Jackson County, Ohio, and was born March Ist, 1834. His parents were Jonathan and Sarah (Milliken) Walden. The former, though a native of Virginia, where he lived until he reached his majority, in the midst of the slaveholding element, early allowed his sym- pathies to be influenced in favor of abolition ; and on his re- moval to Ohio, in 1828, became known as one of the earliest and most uncompromising advocates of abolition in his sec- tion of the State. His life was marked by the circumstance of his acquiring the rudiments of an education after he had reached manhood. Our subject was educated in the common schools of Jackson County, and in select schools in the town of Jackson. In March, 1856, he commenced to read for the bar, under the direction of R. C. Hoffman, of Jackson (now of Columbus), and was duly admitted to practice by the District Court sitting in Scioto County, April 27th, 1858. He shortly afterward became associated in practice with Messrs. Hoffman & Mackley, the partnership lasting until October, 1860, when Mr. Hoffman moved to Steubenville, Ohio. Mr. Walden practiced alone until July, 1861, when he entered the volunteer service, in Company D, 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as first lieutenant. He served in West Virginia for a short time, and was afterward attached to the Army of the Potomac, under General Pope; and still later participated in the Maryland campaign, under General Mc- Clellan. He was a participant in a number of severe engage- ments, including South Mountain and Antietam. He re- signed the service October 3d, 1862, and in March, 1863, moved to Steubenville, where he engaged in practice with R. C. Hoffman, the partnership lasting until April, 1865. In 1864 he re-enlisted in the hundred day service, going out with the 157th Ohio National Guard, commanded by the late George W. McCook. The service of this regiment was principally the guarding of prisoners at Fort Delaware. October, 1865, he formed partnership with Isaac Wright, lasting three years; January Ist, 1869, he formed a part- nership with Joseph Gill, of Steubenville, which lasted two years ; and January 9th, 1871, formed partnership relations with Asa H. Battin, Esq., which continued three years. His last partnership was with James Elliott, which continued from April, 1877, to June Ist, 1883. He has brought to the prac- tice of his profession unusual diligence, and his success at the bar extends to all parts of practice. He practices in all the courts of his section, and the State courts of West Virginia. He was one of the attorneys for the defense in the great Winchell murder trial, in Jackson County, in 1860, and was also retained for the defense in the McDonald-McCoy mur- der case, at Steubenville, in 1867. In politics he is Repub- lican. He served as Prosecuting Attorney of his county two
terms, but has held no office outside of the line of his pro- fession. He is named among the leading civil lawyers of his section. He married April 11th, 1861, Mary Trago, of Jack- son, Ohio.
GOSHORN, ALFRED TRABER, LL. D., late Di- rector-general of the United States Centennial Exhibition ; originator, and for three years President, of the Cincinnati Industrial Expositions; Director of the Cincinnati Museum Association ; President of the Union Board of High Schools, of that city ; Vice-president of the Cincinnati College of Music; President of the Anchor White Lead Company, etc. was born in Cincinnati, July 15th, 1833. His father, Nicholas Goshorn, Esq., still living, at an advanced age, came origi- nally from Pennsylvania, and was one of the leading business men of Cincinnati in his earlier years, and even now exercises a wise and constant oversight of the business transacted by the company of which his son is president. He is an hon- orable citizen, and is possessed of an ample fortune-a pio- neer that has observed with pride the city of his adoption extend her borders until he fails to see hardly an original landmark save the humble, historic homestead which he built years ago upon what was then known as the Cutter farm, lying on the outskirts of the city. That farm now consists of a series of streets and endless rows of resi- dences. He married Miss Lorenia, a daughter of the late Seth Cutter, well remembered as one of the wealthy land- owners of early Cincinnati. At one time Mr. Cutter was the owner of all the ground, as farm land, extending from Mound to Freeman and from Eighth to Clark Streets. Upon the south-east corner of that farm-now Cutter and Eighth Streets-was built what is known as the Goshorn homestead, which has never been out of the possession of that widely- respected family. Mrs. Goshorn, his mother, died in 1874. She was a woman of great force and excellence of character. Her life was one continued act of goodness and usefulness, and in her death the community felt the loss of an earnest, Christian worker. She was an active member of the Pres- byterian Church, and upon her funeral occasion her pastor said: "She was a woman born to command," basing the remark upon certain well known characteristics, such as her great determination, executive ability, and natural aptitude for originating and directing in Church and charitable enter- prises. From such a mother Alfred T. derived, in the main, those leading traits in the exercise of which, in another field, he won that praise and distinction which in part belong to the mother who closed her eyes in death shortly after he entered upon the great work whose accomplishment carried his honored name to all parts of the civilized world. In that old homestead he was born. There he has always lived, excepting four memorable years. These were spent in Phila- delphia, achieving that just and lasting fame for which he was thus endowed by nature, and to which he was called by the voice of his countrymen. During that period he reached an eminence upon which no other American citizen ever stood-that of being Director-general of the first National Exhibition observed by the people of the United States in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence. His name is likewise found upon the brightest pages of the history of his native city. Indeed, the proud pre-eminence which that city maintains to-day as an art, musical, and industrial center, may be attributed no less to the genius for organizing, the
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capacity for command, the taste for adornment, which find embodiment in such citizens as General Goshorn, Hon. Julius Dexter and Colonel George Ward Nichols, than to the munificence of such gentlemen as Reuben R. Springer, Charles W. West, Joseph Longworth, Henry Probasco, David Sinton, and W. S. Groesbeck. Mr. Goshorn was a student · at Woodward College in 1848 and 1849. He graduated from Marietta College in 1854. He attended two sessions of the Cincinnati Law School, graduating therefrom in 1857. When the war for the Union broke out he was associated with Edward and Lewis E. Mills in the practice of the law, under the firm name of Mills & Goshorn. His literary tastes led him to join the famous Cincinnati Literary Club. The joining of this society was the beginning of Mr. Goshorn's military career. These are some of the names upon the roster of that society, which it gave to fame : Oliver P. Morton, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Pope, Salmon P. Chase, Thomas Corwin, Stanley Matthews, Manning F. Force, Ed- ward F. Noyes, Alphonso Taft, Thomas Ewing, T. C. H. Smith, R. M. Corwine, Joseph Longworth, George Hoadly, Thomas Buchanan Read, and other distinguished persons which might be named. By a resolution adopted by that society April 17th, 1861, a military company was organized out of its members, and one of the first to enlist was Mr. Goshorn. It was called the " Burnet Rifles," in honor of R. W. Burnet, Esq., a prominent and wealthy citizen of Cin- cinnati, and a graduate of West Point. Mr. Burnet was their first drill-master, and Mr. Goshorn remembers him as a good one. Afterward a second company was organized out of the members of the society, of which private Goshorn was elected captain, and M. F. Force-that name so honored to-day, as a citizen, jurist, and general-was promoted to the position of corporal from the ranks of the Burnet Rifles. Some time after, Captain Goshorn was commissioned major of the 1 37th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, went with his command to the field, and served with characteristic zeal, intelligence, and intrepid- ity to the close of the war. He thereupon resumed the prac- tice of his profession as a member of the well known law firm of Mills & Goshorn. The death of Mr. Edward Mills and the retirement of Mr. Lewis E. Mills brought about his pro- fessional association with Mr. Drausin Wulsin, a comrade in the war, whose soldierly bearing won his admiration. Major Goshorn retired from the active practice of the law, as a member of the firm of Goshorn & Wulsin, in 1867, to become the proprietor of the Anchor White Lead Works. Upon its organization as a stock company he became its president. He was President of the City Council of Cincinnati during 1869 and 1870, and originated the scheme for annual exhibi- tions in Cincinnati, and was president of these exhibitions up to the time of his departure for Philadelphia, to assume the duties of Director-general of the International Exhibition, in 1876, to which he had been chosen by the United States Centennial Commission. Marietta College conferred the de- gree of LL. D. upon him in 1877. The great executive abilities of General Goshorn were fully displayed in the inception, progress, and management of the exhibitions held in Cincinnati, and which, prior to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, were unequaled in this country. The appointment, then, of this gentleman, in 1872, as a United States Centen- nial Commissioner from Ohio, was a most fitting one-the results of that appointment were most satisfactory. By his own countrymen the recognition of his eminent services was full and complete; from other countries the acknowl-
edgments were no less satisfactory to him and his friends. Said the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, on behalf of the British Government :
"No one has more appreciated that success than myself ; and I have good opportunities of knowing the feeling of satisfaction is widespread in this country among all classes."
The German Imperial Commission said of the Exhibition :
"It was, at the same time, a real source of instruction and an impulse to a new creation, to new ideas-especially, too, to the German nation; and while it furnished the most con- vincing proof of the greatness and wealth of your country, of the creative power, of the energy and love of country of your people, it was the most fortunate and worthiest thought celebration of the centennial existence of the American nation."
The following extract, from a letter of the Hon. N. M. Beckwith, United States Centennial Commissioner from New York, is equally emphatic :
"The best evidence, however, of good work and good ad- ministration was in the result, which was manifested to all who visited the Exhibition, and saw for themselves the method of its formation, its arrangement and organization, and its conduct from beginning to end. The large measure of success attained I consider due, greatly, to the well-poised mind, good judgment, constancy, and zeal of Mr. Goshorn, in his comprehensive department."
And at this day, we can say, that no praise bestowed on General Goshorn and his associates, by foreign nations and our own people, for the successful management of our great industrial effort need be abated. The successful termination of a great civil war and the Exhibition of 1876 are two events which especially mark this generation of American history. The International Exhibtion having been brought to a successful close, there was a general feeling among the citizens of Philadelphia in favor of bestowing some public recognition of General Goshorn's services, and accordingly the following letter was addressed to him:
"PHILADELPHIA, April 10th, 1877.
"TO THE HON. ALFRED T. GOSHORN.
" DEAR SIR :- A very general desire of the citizens of Philadelphia publicly to testify, before you cease to reside among them, their appreciation of the manner in which you have discharged the duties of the office of Director-general, has led to the appointment of the undersigned as a com- mittee to give some form to the popular wish. During the three years and a half of official residence in this city, they have had ample opportunity of observing the large ability, untiring fidelity, and uniform courtesy which you have brought to bear in the discharge of the arduous and delicate duties of your office. These qualities have caused those among whom you came a stranger, to regard you, on de- parture, as a dear and valued friend. They wish you, there- fore, to take away to your home some tangible evidence of this feeling, and hope it will suit your convenience to meet them at Independence Hall, on Friday, May 11th, 1877, at 12 o'clock noon, when, in the place filled with centennial memories, they may make their recognition of the services of one whose efforts contributed so largely to the complete success of the Exhibition. With distinguished consideration,
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