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monument of industry, and a model for every other State work of the kind. That which impresses the careful reader of it, is the superior influence Ohio is shown as exerting upon the war through the eminence attained by her soldiers. And yet this is simply a matter of fact. Nearly all of the most conspicuous northern generals and civil leaders, such as Mc- Dowell, McClellan, Rosecrans, Grant, Sherman and Sheri- dan, McPherson, Buell, Gillmore, Garfield, Hayes, Lytle, Stanton, and Chase, with many others, were Ohio men by birth or adoption. But it is in the estimates of these famous men then, and in this work recorded, Mr. Reid has been most happy. McClellan he finds and pronounces an organ- izer, but not a fighter. Rosecrans's skill and bravery are sometimes weakened by his infirm temper and ignorance of human nature, due in great part to his early cloistered educa- tion. Sherman, in contradistinction with McClellan, is too warlike to be military. Grant is conceded talent, bull-dog tenacity, and that conquer-or-die spirit that disregards the lavish expenditure of means where ends are to be accom- plished; while Sheridan is really the author's ideal of caution when necessary, and brilliant bravery when most required. The lives of those men, as then and since known, fully sup- port those opinions expressed twelve years ago. After the publication of this work, Mr. Reid, in 1868, resumed the du- ties of a "leader " writer on the Gazette. On the impeach- ment of President Johnson, he went to Washington, and re- ported carefully that transaction. That summer, Mr. Gree- ley, having renewed a proposition two or three times made before, to connect him with the political staff of the Tribune, Mr. Reid finally accepted, and took the post of leading editor- ial writer, with a salary next in amount to that of Mr. Greeley, and responsible directly to him. He wrote many of the "leaders" throughout the campaign that ended in the first election of Grant. Shortly afterward, a difficulty between the managing editor and the publishers resulted in the with- drawal of the former, and Mr. Reid was installed in the man- aging editor's chair. In this advancement he retained the affection and unbounded confidence of his venerated chief, who, since the withdrawal of Mr. Dana to make his unsuc- cessful venture in Chicago, and then to get the Sun, had not failed to observe the uncertainties and dangers attending this most arduous of journalistic positions. By a bold expendi- ture in 1870, Mr. Reid surpassed all rivals at home and abroad in reports of the Franco-Prussian war, and from that time, with full power to do so, gradually reorganized and strengthened the staff of the Tribune. The campaign of 1872, so impetuous and sweeping in its results, hastened the progress of his career as a leading journalist. After the nom- ination of Mr. Greeley, he was made editor-in-chief of the Tribune-an office accepted by him with genuine reluctance, but with courage and determination. From that moment oc- curred the marked change, from its former character of an extreme journal, that has since distinguished the Tribune as an independent newspaper. Though he supported honora- bly his former chieftain's claims to the presidency, he gave impartial and full reports of the movements and opinions of his opponents. Untrammeled by tradition, he made the Trib- une the exponent of a broad and catholic Americanism. In this he failed not to rally to his support scholarly and saga- cious veterans of the Tribune establishment. After the dis- astrous close of the campaign of 1872, that which astonished friend and foe alike was the enormous amount of resources Mr. Reid's conduct had gained for him, in the shape of cap-
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ital freely and confidently placed at his disposal. He was thus enabled to obtain entire control of the Tribune, and as- sociate its increased power and prosperity indissolubly with his own name. He has since continued its untrammelled ed- itor-in-chief. By entering thus upon the details of Mr. Reid's career, we have shown how his character, training and va- ried experience have combined to make him the right man for the right place-a place which he has fairly earned by years of unfaltering labor. "I never had anything but what I worked for," he has said, and this fact is made apparent by this sketch. He is a fine example of western grit and mus- cle, grown on a Scotch covenanter stock. His tall, sinewy form, and firm-set, clearly-cut features indicate decision and strength of character, joined with delicacy of feeling. A resolute friend, he is just as resolute a foe; while he keeps his own counsel and goes steadily on his way. A man of convictions, and fearless in his advocacy of them, he has made the Tribune as brilliant an exponent of the later style of journalism as, under his predecessor, it was of the style now happily passing away.
SMITH, REUBEN F., of Cleveland, assistant man- ager of the Pennsylvania Company for the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad, was born in Windham, Connecticut, June 20th, 1830. His father, Edwin Smith, became one of the earliest merchants in Cleveland, and was well known as a produce operator, doing a large and honorable business. When ten years old our subject removed with his father to Cleveland, and was sent to the public schools when quite young, where he remained until such education as could be obtained there was completed, and afterward finished at academies, studying classics and higher mathematics. On leaving school he entered as clerk in a hardware store, at Newark, Ohio, where he remained one year, and then re- turned to Cleveland, taking a position in his father's office. There he stayed until he became of age, and then went into a dry goods house, where he continued four years. In 1855 he entered the service of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Rail- road Company, taking the position, at first, of paymaster. After holding that office some time, and discharging its duties in a nianner wholly satisfactory to the management, he was promoted to the post of auditor. Subsequently he was chosen vice-president of the company, having in that position the executive management of the line. When the road was leased to the Pennsylvania Company, he became one of the company's assistant managers, still retaining his former po- sition and powers on the line. For fifteen years, under one title or another, he has virtually had control and manage- ment of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad, and all its branches. During that time the property of the road has been greatly increased, and its interests materially benefited by extensive additions and important improvements at Cleve- land, and at various points along the road. The resources of the country traversed by the line have been developed to an extent severely taxing the carrying ability of the road, and requiring watchful, energetic, and liberal management to meet the constantly increasing demand. This has been the character of his management, and the reputation of the road for prompt attention to the wants of its customers has, for several years past, stood deservedly high. No road has been run with more prudent economy, its working expenses being kept down to a comparatively low proportion, whilst the road-bed, track, and equipments are always at the high-
est point of efficiency. As a consequence, the road is re- markably safe, no accidents having occurred since he has been manager. This, probably, is also partly due to the high degree of discipline among the servants of the company, and the cordial understanding and good feeling that exists among all the officials and employés, from manager down to the low- est rank. Besides having the management of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad, he is also a director in the Alliance, Niles and Ashtabula, Northwestern Ohio, and Ohio Valley Railroads. He served several years as a director of the Ashtabula, Youngstown and Pittsburg Railroad, previous to its reorganization. He is also a director and member of the Executive Committee of the Brush Electric Light and Power Company, of Cleveland. Although the duties of his position require close and unremitting attention, he has found time to render good service in patriotic and benevolent causes. During the war for the Union he was very earnest in sup- porting the cause of the government, in every way within his power, and gave valuable assistance in forwarding sani- tary supplies. He has always avoided political notoriety, but faithfully attends to all the duties of a citizen. He is an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, of Cleveland, and served six years as superintendent of the Sunday-school; and in religious or charitable undertakings he has never been backward in the performance of every duty. In 1865 he married Miss Rebecca W. Peters, of Colchester, Connecticut, by whom he has had three sons and one daughter, all of whom still survive, with the exception of the eldest son, who died in infancy.
STONE, WALTER F., a distinguished lawyer and judge, was born on the 18th November, 1822, at Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio, and died in California, December 13th, 1874. When quite young his parents, who had emigrated from Vermont, removed with him to Strongsville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where his father continued to reside until his death, and where the younger days of the subject of this sketch were spent. His education was such as he was able to acquire from the common schools and academies of the day, and this to such an extent as to make him so excellent a scholar, that no lack of education ever impeded his pro- gress. He was early attracted to the law, and in choosing it for his profession he made no mistake. It was the occupation for which nature designed him. He first began the study of law in Pittsburgh, and afterward with Bolton & Kelley in Cleveland. He was admitted to the bar in 1845, and in 1846 he removed to Sandusky, where he continued to reside dur- ing the remainder of his life. To an intellect of the highest order and sound judgment, he added one of those naturally legal minds, which have the faculty of grasping a question in all its relations; and when he came to his conclusions he was almost invariably right. Deliberate in his judgment, yet his quickness of perception was one of his most remarkable characteristics. It enabled him to meet those numerous un- looked for emergencies which every lawyer of large prac- tice must encounter, and turn them to good account as they arose. He had an almost superabundant amount of caution, one of the most useful qualities that a lawyer can possess, as it causes him to look at all sides of the question he has to consider, and guard the weak points. He had studied the law thoroughly and was well prepared to practice. Nature had endowed him with a tall, finely proportioned body, large head well set on his shoulders, handsome countenance and
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commanding and dignified presence. He seemed well fitted for the work of his life. With such faculties and person it is not wonderful that he rose rapidly in his profession, and soon stepped into the front rank of lawyers of Ohio. Politically Mr. Stone was in his younger days a democrat, and thor- oughly imbued with the doctrines at that time taught by that party. But, in 1848, when General Cass was nominated by the democratic party, and had written his "Nicholson letter," repudiating the Wilmot proviso and giving up the territories to the extension of slavery, Mr. Stone, with a large num- ber of the younger and more conscientious of the democrats, was intensely interested, and feeling that he could no longer remain with the party, left it and joined the free-soilers. At a. meeting called by the democrats to induce, if possible, these men to remain in the party, the expression of indignant scorn with which the effort was met by Mr. Stone and those who felt as he did, was very evident; and, after the meeting was over, with some anxiety Mr. Stone being asked what they were going do: "Do!" said he; "we are going for 'free soil.'" And they did. At the formation of the republican party, Mr. Stone joined heartily in the objects and purposes of that organization. He hated oppression in every form, and American slavery he regarded as the vilest product of sin that ever cursed the earth, and this caused him to join in that great anti-slavery warfare which ended in its destruction. After the war began, and during its darkest hours, he labored with all the intensity of his nature to promote its successful issue. Nor did he ever for a moment suffer his faith to waver as to its final victorious result. During the war he was one of the military committee of his county, and he never limited the time and money he gave to its earnest prosecution. In those dark days his determined purpose, his wise counsel, and energetic action became a tower of strength. In the fall of 1865, after the close of the war, he was elected common pleas judge and reelected in 1870. As a nisi prius judge he commanded the confidence of all. His legal attainments, his sterling integrity, and his sound judgment were never ques- tioned; and the result was that they led him to such correct conclusions, that his judgments were never reversed. In the fall of 1872, he was, by Governor Noyes appointed one of the supreme judges of the State, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge W. H. West. Subsequently he was elected for the remainder of the term, and continued to serve on the supreme bench up to August, 1874, when on account of ill health he was compelled to resign. This position which he resigned was one he was well fitted to adorn, and his re- signation was accompanied by the sincere regret of his friends. The judicial decisions of Judge Stone are to be found in vols. xxiii and xxiv of Ohio State Reports. When closely read these are a fair index of the characteristics of his mind. The subject is cautiously and carefully considered, without super- fluity of words, but the best in the language are found to be used to express his meaning. A full and exhaustive compre- hension of the question, makes his meaning so apparent that none but the right conclusion can be drawn from what he has said. In June, 1851, he married Miss Cordelia, a daughter of Deacon S. E. Hitchcock, of Sandusky, who made for him a devoted wife and a delightful home, and who is still living with her three children born of this union. Of the latter, the eldest, Mary S., is now the wife of John L. Moore, of Sandusky; the second, Nellie Cordelia, and the youngest, Walter, who was eight years of age at the time of his father's death. Few men have been more blest in their family rela-
tions than Judge Stone. After his resignation from the supreme bench he, in company with his wife, went to Cali- fornia in hope of regaining his health, but the trip was made in vain, for, on the 23d of December, 1874, he died there, in the 53d year of his age. His remains were brought to San- dusky and interred in Oakland cemetery. He died regretted and beloved by all who knew him, and has left, as a sacred legacy to his family and friends, as well as to the State he loved so well, his virtuous life and honorable record.
COOK, GEORGE, manufacturer and capitalist, was born near Clinton, Summit county, Ohio, February 2d, 1827, and died at his home in Canton, Stark county, Ohio, May 3d, 1879. In his youth he enjoyed the limited facilities offered by the common schools of his native place, and gained thereby a good, practical education. At an early age he was thrown upon his own resources, and made his start in life by learning the wagonmakers' trade. This trade, chosen inci- dentally, determined to a great extent the course of his whole after life. He worked at his trade in Greentown, Ohio, till 1849, and early displayed that mechanical skill and execu- tive ability which betokened his future advancement. About the year 1851, in company with Cornelius Aultman, Jacob Miller, Lewis Miller, Colonel Ephraim Ball and others, he came to Canton, and established on a small scale a mower and reaper manufactory, under the style of E. Ball & Co. This firm continued for many years, beginning with small capital and working with characteristic perseverance and industry to place the business upon a firm and lasting foun- dation. In 1865 the establishment was reorganized a's a stock company, forming the firm of C. Aultman & Co., with a capital stock which has gradually increased till it amounts to $1,500,000. This manufactory has a national reputation as one of the most extensive and substantial of its kind in the United States. They manufacture the Buckeye mower and reaper of the latest pattern, the improved Sweepstakes and the Monitor thrasher engines. In this manufactory Mr. Cook was one of the heaviest stockholders, as well as a member of the board of directors. For many years he served as assistant superintendent of the works, and was universally esteemed and respected by the employés. The history of this institution is but the-counterpart of the life of George Cook. Beginning with nothing but the sterling qual- ities of an honest and industrious man, he gradually amassed means which, at the time of his death, was a handsome com- petency. Mr. Cook was also director of the establishments of Aultman, Miller & Co. and the Akron Iron Company, of Akron, Ohio. For many years he was director of the First National Bank of Canton, and a member of the board of directors of the Valley Railroad, and in all positions he served faithfully and efficiently. Indeed, it may be said that Mr. Cook was closely identified with the material interests of the whole city. All commendable public enterprises received his sanction and the impetus of his benevolence. He was a pronounced temperance man, and in politics a republican ; but although a man of positive convictions, his efforts were mainly concentrated upon his business interests. For over a score of years he was interested in the welfare of the society connected with the First Baptist Church of Canton, and for many years served as a member of the board of trustees of the same. About two years before his death, he was bap- tized into this church, and from that time became deeply interested in its spiritual welfare. He officiated as deacon
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and honored that relation to the church as he had done all others in life. For his high spirit of benevolence, Mr. Cook was indeed well known. Beside his smaller ben- efactions, he contributed $30,000 to the erection of the beau- tiful church edifice, thus leaving a memorial whose benefits can be enjoyed by the whole community. But not this church alone, but every denominational interest of the State has been the object of his benevolence. Dennison Univer- sity, at Granville, the Baptist college of Ohio, of which he was trustee, has been benefited to the amount of $12,000 from his purse, and all mission societies, home and foreign, have received his liberal contributions. His private liberality, however, to objects of need, and his losses by way of endorse- ment for his friends, would figure up over one hundred thousand dollars. His desire to benefit humanity, and his great sympathy with the unfortunate, were marked traits in his character, and his greatest delight seemed to be in the con- stant exercise of these sentiments. Mr. Cook married De- cember 5th, 1857, Mary Weary, daughter of Samuel Weary, of Marlborough, a noble, devoted, generous, Christian woman, who still resides in Canton. The fruit of this union was six children, three sons and three daughters, five living. George Cook was preeminently a self-made man. Systematic in business, useful as a citizen, kind and gentlemanly in his intercourse with men, he leaves behind the highest of all records-that of a truely Christian man.
GARLICK, THEODATUS, physician, surgeon and scientist, born March 30th, 1805, in Middlebury, Addison county, Vermont, was the son of Daniel Garlick, a farmer, who married Sabra Starkweather Kirby, daughter of Abraham Kirby, of Litchfield, Connecticut, and sister of the Hon. Ephraim Kirby, who in 1804 was appointed United States judge for the territorial district of Louisiana, by President Jefferson. In 1816 he left his native State for the Western country, traveling on foot, carrying a knapsack, and arrived at Elk Creek (now Girard), in Erie county, Pennsylvania, where he remained two years. He then removed to Cleve- land, Ohio, where he had a brother who was by trade a stone cutter. With this brother he spent some years, and became proficient in the art of carving and lettering on stone. After returning to his home in Vermont to finish his education, which had been irregularly received at the common schools and under private tutors, in 1823 he again returned to Ohio, accompanied by his father and family. His medical studies were commenced in 1829, when he entered the office of Dr. Ezra W. Glezen as a student of medicine, and were continued with Dr. Elijah Flower, a prominent physician and surgeon of Brookfield, Ohio. After some four years of assiduous study, and after attending full courses of medical and clinical lectures, he graduated at the University of Maryland, in the city of Baltimore, in 1834. For many months thereafter he had the benefit of close social and professional relations with Professor N. R. Smith, who occupied the chair of surgery in the Maryland University at that date. Declining flattering inducements to remain in Baltimore, he returned to Ohio and settled in what became the city of Youngstown, where he im- mediately engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, making the latter science a specialty. After a successful practice of about eighteen years he removed to Cleveland, formed a partnership in surgery with Professor Horace A. Ackley, and soon took high rank among the profession in that city. He was elected a member of the Board of Censors
of the Cleveland Medical College, and vice president of the Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences. As a surgeon he excelled, and had probably no superior in that most difficult branch of the art known as plastic surgery. His operations of this class in the Cleveland Medical College and elsewhere were numerous and important. In the case of a young lady who had lost nearly all of one side of her face and two-thirds of the upper and lower lips by sloughing of the parts, he per- formed one of the most remarkable and successful operations. The whole side of the face was restored, and the deformity removed by the perfect fitting of the flaps, which were cut up to supply the lost parts. Professor John Delamater declared that there was not a more difficult or a more successful case of plastic surgery on record, and placed its value in money at $10,000. He performed the operation of lithotomy with unusual skill and success, in one case fracturing first and then extracting a stone which measured three and a half by four and a half inches; in shape like a cocoanut. He suc- cessfully removed the half of the under jaw twice, disarticu- lating in each case, and twice tied successfully the carotid artery. He made some valuable improvements in the methods of operation for harelip and for fistula in ano; in- troduced new splints and dressings for fractures, and applied the principle of anatomical models to animals and parts of animals, and especially to fishes. In 1853, in connection with Professor Ackley, he entered with great zeal upon the artificial propagation of brook trout and other fish, and in 1857 published his work entitled "Fish Culture," which was the standard authority on the subject. Early in his college career he displayed decided talent as a sculptor, and subse- quently made most creditable additions to this branch of American art. While at the Maryland Medical University he produced bas-reliefs in wax of five of the professors of the college, which were pronounced excellent likenesses. The statuettes in basso-relievo of General Jackson and Henry Clay, both of whom gave him sittings, were soon after completed, and were followed by a full length miniature in the same style of Chief Justice Marshall, from a portrait by Waugh. This work was pronounced by Mr. Bullock, the English vir- tuoso, as equal to the productions of Thorwaldsen. A life size bust of Judge George Tod, of Ohio, was another of his productions, admired for accuracy and artistic merit. He also applied his talent as an artist to the making of over sixty anatomical models which represent all the important surgi- cal parts of the human body; also numerous pathological models representing rare forms of disease. Duplicates of these models are to be found in the medical colleges of Cleve- land, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Toronto, Charleston, and many others. These models are considered superior to those of the celebrated Auzoux of Paris. His last work of art, completed in 1874, was a life-size bust of Professor J. P. Kirtland, at the age of sixty years. It is probably his masterpiece, and was modeled partly from an alto-relievo, which he produced in 1850, and partly from sittings by the professor given in 1874. The excellence of this work is remarkable from the fact that it was attained under the most trying circumstances. A dis- ease of the spinal nerves of more than ten years' duration, and which incapacitated him from standing without the aid of crutches, kept him closely confined to a lounge, and in a recumbent position, and while suffering acute pain he mod- eled this admirable bust. This work was a labor of love. No pecuniary consideration would have induced him to un- dertake it. His deep affection for the subject of it enabled
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