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united strength of both political parties in the senate, he vig- orously resisted the passage of a measure, supported by both parties, for political effect, which reduced the pay of judges and all State officials to an utterly inadequate amount. The bill passed, but was repealed by the next legislature. Dur- ing his senatorial term the question of banking became an important one in the legislature. The whig party, to which he belonged, favored the establishment of a State bank and branches, and a bill to that effect was introduced. He strongly opposed it, and advocated a system of free banking, with currency based on State stocks. All efforts to quiet his opposition were ineffectual, and although the State bank was established, he secured the addition to the bill of sections permitting the establishment of independent banks with cir- culation based on State stocks deposited with the State gov- ernment, and he also procured the addition of checks and safeguards to the State bank system. His course met with the approval of his constituents, and a public meeting, called by the leading business men of Cleveland, and without re- gard to party lines, heartily approved his action. The Ohio independent bank system, advocated by him, and which was carried into successful operation, was the model on which the national bank system of the United States was afterward constructed. At the same session another important finan- cial question disposed of was the attempt to clothe the Ohio Life and Trust Company with authority to issue bills to the extent of $500,000, to be circulated as currency. This insti- tution was one of great strength, its leading members being men of wealth and influence. The legislature had not then adopted a banking system, most of the charters of the old banks had expired, and the State was without an adequate bank circulation of its own. The arguments in favor of giv- ing the proposed authority to the Ohio Life and Trust Com- pany were plausible, and the support promised the measure so great that its success was deemed certain. On its third reading he attacked it in a speech of great vigor and strength of argument, and although the entire support of the whigs and democrats had been given to it up to that time, the bill failed. At the close of the term which had been so im- portant in the history of the State, and in which he had borne so prominent a part, he returned to the practice of his profession. In 1849 the legislature appointed him one of the commissioners of the city of Cleveland to subscribe on its behalf to the capital stock of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad Company. He accepted the trust, and represented the city's interest on the board of directors for several years, until the stock held by the city was disposed of. In 1856 his law partner, Mr. Bolton, was elected judge of the court of common pleas, and the firm name was changed to Kelly & Griswold, Mr. S. O. Griswold having been admitted to the firm in 1851. In the summer of 1866 he was a member of the Philadelphia convention for the healing of the differences between the North and South, resulting in the war, and in September of that year he was appointed by President John- son United States marshal for the northern district of Ohio. The ill-feeling between President Johnson and the senate prevented his confirmation, and in March of the following year he withdrew from the position. In addition to the pub- lic stations filled, as already noted, he was stockholder, direc- tor and attorney of the City Bank of Cleveland, which was organized under the law of 1845, from its organization to its reorganization as the National City bank, and until his death. He was one of the organizers of St. Paul's Episcopal church,
and continued one of its most active and liberal supporters. His mind and tastes led him to make commercial law and equity jurisprudence his special study, in both of which he stood at the head of the profession. His home and family were all that could be desired. In 1839 he married Miss Mary Jane Have, daughter of General Hezekiah Have, of New Haven, Connecticut, and left five children, of whom the oldest, Frank H. Kelly, was born in Cleveland, in 1840. After a preparatory education in the Cleveland schools, he was sent to Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, upon leaving which he returned to Cleveland and studied law in his father's office, graduated at the Ohio State and Union Law College in Cleveland, and was admitted to practice in 1861. He took an active interest in politics from that time, and in 1873 was elected to the council as trustee from the newly- organized sixteenth ward, and in the following year was elected president of the council. During his term of office as member and president of the council, he has made a good record by his close attention to business and by uniform fair- ness of decision.
JENNEY, WILLIAM H., M. D., physician and sur- geon, Norwalk, Huron County, was born in Norwalk, April 30th, 1840. He is a son of Obadiah and Hester (Paul) Jenney. His father, who was of Quaker stock, came from New Bedford in 1820, and settled in Norwalk, Ohio, in 1821, where he died, May 13th, 1883, at the ripe old age of eighty- nine years. In Norwalk he became a prominent merchant, was noted for his charities and as a leader of all enterprises in the town -- a man without an enemy. As a citizen and private gentleman, he was honored and respected by all for his many virtues and qualities of head and heart. Public notice or public office he never sought, and the only official position he ever held was that of postmaster, being appointed by President Jackson, serving from 1836 to 1844. At his death, so great was the respect paid him that all the stores of the town were closed during his funeral. He was a warden in the Episcopal Church for over thirty years. The Doctor's mother was a daughter of John Paul a Revolutionary sol- dier, who fell in service in the war of 1812, leaving his little daughter, then seven years of age. She became a zealous member of the. Episcopal Church, and was untiring in her devotion to Christian duties. William H. Jenney, after going through the full courses of the public and high schools of Norwalk, pursued his classical education under the instruc- tion of Professors Hutchinson and Newman, of Norwalk. After finishing these studies, and having decided upon adopt- ing the medical profession, he, in April, 1857, entered the office of Dr. John Tifft, of Norwalk. Here he remained two years. He then studied for two years in the office of Dr. Chas. Morrill, then of Norwalk, later of Cleveland. During his latter medical studies, the war breaking out, he enlisted in the 8th Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, in June, 1860, the regiment operating in West- ern Virginia. He was speedily promoted to hospital steward. After serving six months, physical disability necessitated his discharge. He returned to his studies, finished his course at the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, and was grad- uated therefrom in February, 1862. He settled in Norwalk, and entered upon the practice of his profession with success. Here he remained eighteen months, when he went to Lan- singburg, New York, to practice for six months, then to the hospitals of New York City and Boston; after which he located in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where he remained in
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practice until 1868. He then returned to Norwalk, and mar- ried Miss Laura, the estimable daughter of Dr. William Fred- erick Kittridge, the most famous practitioner of his time in Norwalk. He was the descendant of a prominent Massa- chusetts family of that name, many of whom were noted surgeons. This lady is an accomplished scholar and artist. She is a graduate of Elmira College, New York, and spent three years in the School of Art and Design in Philadel- phia. She is a most proficient French scholar, speaking the language as the native born. The young couple im- mediately set out for a bridal tour of Europe, lasting some seven months, the Doctor pursuing his studies in the hos- pitals of Paris, Vienna, and Berlin. In Paris he took a special course under the famous French professor, Mons. Fauvel, a specialist in diseases of the throat and lungs, and under Professor Galeyowski, a noted specialist in diseases of the eye. They then made a tour of the famous art gal- leries of Europe, and returned to New York by way of Vienna, Berlin, and Hamburg. On returning to this country, the Doctor settled in Toledo. Here he remained but six months, owing to the failure of his wife's health, and he determined on locating in Kansas City, which he did, and where he re- mained twelve years. On locating at Kansas City he met with the most decided opposition from physicians already there; but his studies, education, and ability speedily won for him the desired recognition. His services soon became in constant demand, and before long he was the acknowl- edged leading physician of that city, his skill in practice winning for him what his professional opponents would fain have denied him. He was elected first President of the City Medical Society, Secretary of the Kansas State Medical So- ciety, President of the Missouri State Medical Society, Sec- retary of the City Medical Society, and was Chief of Bureau on Pædopathy in the American Institute of Homoeopathy for three years. He was also a contributor to several medical journals. After twelve years of this arduous labor, during which time he had built up an immense, successful, and lucrative practice, he was compelled to retire for a time from the field of labor, broken in health, with an exhaustion of the nerve centers through overwork. He sold his practice for a period of five years, and is now resting and recuper- ating at his old home in Norwalk. Both the Doctor and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church. They have four bright and happy children-two boys and two girls. The Doctor is an ardent and devoted student, a lover of his profession. Endowed by nature with a keen perception, a clear insight, a fine intellect, his diagnosis of a case is uni- formly correct, and his studies enable him to apply intelli- gently the desired remedy. He is a leader in his profession.
HARTZLER, J. C., superintendent of the public schools of Newark, Ohio, was born near Lewistown, Pennsylvania, November 27th, 1832. His father and mother, David and Frances (Lantz) Hartzler, removed to the State of Ohio and, with their six children, located near Lancaster, Fairfield county, in the spring of 1839. There being none but the most. rudimentary schools outside the towns of Ohio in those days, the advantages of education were generally denied those fam- ilies who settled in the State at a distance from those towns. When first sent to school the subject of this sketch was a little lad of eight years, and for some time he made but little pro- gress until sent to a teacher who attracted his pupils and drew them toward him. He continued to master all this teacher
could offer him until his seventeenth year, when he engaged with a carpenter and readily learned the use and application of tools, and in a few months engaged in planning and laying off work, such as might engage the attention of the most mature mechanic. While thus engaged, however, he did not neglect his books. His thirst for knowledge seemed to grow with his growth and strengthen with his strength, and, taking no especial inclination, he delighted in the acquire- ment of all kinds of useful knowledge. After teaching two years in a rural district he began the study of the classics, and at the same time prosecuted his studies in the higher mathe- mathics at Lafayette academy, where for two years he applied himself both as assistant teacher and student. After this, and whilst engaged in the work of the graded school in Lancaster, Ohio, his studies were prosecuted privately under the tuition of Dr. John Williams and the Rev. H. D. Lathrop, of Lancaster, Ohio. He continued as a teacher in the graded school work at Lancaster until 1866, and then engaged as superintendent at a higher salary at Galion, Ohio, where he remained until 1872, when he resigned for the purpose of spending the fol- lowing year on the continent of Europe and the islands of Great Britain, there to acquaint himself more thoroughly with the school systems of those countries, particularly that . of Germany. Being familiar with the German language, bis facilities for acquainting himself with the German methods of instruction were unexcelled. On his return, he was elected superintendent of the public schools at Newark, Ohio, where he has ever since remained. As a disciplinarian, Mr. Hartz- ler has few equals. All the schools under his supervision have been more than usually prosperous. Winning in manners, and correct in habits, he has made many warm friends where- ever he has lived and worked. On the 4th of January, 1874, he married Miss Helen C., only daughter of Nelson and Emily Bushnell, of Galion, Ohio, formerly of North Ridgeville, Lorain county, Ohio. From this union there was born Be- atrice, February 20th, 1875. Resolutions, formed in youth, to visit Europe, and thoroughly prepare himself for the position of a public educator have all been consummated. During va- cations, for the last fifteen years, Mr. Hartzler has engaged in lecturing in teachers' institutes throughout the State, and in this field of labor he has succeeded so well and given such universal satisfaction as to make him one of the most popular lecturers at present in Ohio. In the schools under his care, containing two thousand scholars, the rod is never used; if a scholar errs the moral faculty is appealed to-for well- doing they are commended, for wrong-doing they are led to see the evil of their actions. He possesses that happy com- bination of being strict, firm, yet kind, seeking the good of the pupil, and in such a manner as the pupil sees and ap- preciates. The effect produced is all that could be desired. The general efficiency and high standing of these pupils, both for their attainments, general deportment, and behavior is of a marked character. The teachers, also, under his supervision are most thoroughly drilled and instructed in their duties. Mr. Hartzler is a man of the highest intelli- gence and most thorough education; a man of commanding presence, with a clear insight and keen perception of human nature. He commands the respect and wins the love of scholars and teachers. His influence is benign, fatherly, scholarly. Superintendent, teachers, and pupils work together in happy unison. No gloom, dullness, or sadness depresses any under his care-his own happy disposition seems to per- meate all. The writer of this article has seen many schools
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and many superintendents, yet has not seen any wherein more happy results are produced than in the Newark schools.
PRICE, JOHN ALBERT, common pleas judge, Belle- fontaine, Ohio, was born in Callaway County, Missouri, No- vember 9th, 1840. His parents, Charles F. M. and Martha (Kelly) Price, were both natives of Virginia. They both came to Ohio when young, and were in due time married in Logan County, where the Kelly family were then residing. Shortly after their marriage they removed to Callaway County, Missouri, where three sons, two of whom are now living, were born to them. The eldest, Samuel H., is still living in the place of his nativity. The father died when John A. was but three years old, and the boy was then taken into the family of his maternal grandparents, who are yet living in West Liberty, Logan County, Ohio. Here he was reared, and here he found a good home until he had arrived to young manhood. He was given the advantages of the public schools of the place, and strove to make the best of such opportunities, and by his eighteenth year had completed the curriculum of studies taught in the high-school. The two following years were spent upon his grandfather's farm. But farming not being congenial to his tastes, nor in accord with his ambition, he decided upon the law as a cliosen vo- cation. Accordingly, in 1860 he entered the office of Stan- ton & Alliston, of Bellefontaine, as student of law. Upon the first call by President Lincoln for three months' troops, in April, 1861, young Price was among the first to enlist, but was, on account of sickness, unable to go out with his regi- ment. In April, 1862, he was admitted to the bar by the District Court of Logan County, and at once began practic- ing his profession. Feeling that his country needed his services in the field, he again enlisted, in January, 1864, at Delaware, Ohio, and was made first-lieutenant in one of the companies of the 5th Regiment of colored troops, then organiz- ing at that point. This regiment, although not full, was sent at once to Yorktown, Virginia, at a time when the destiny of the Union cause hung trembling in the balance, and the darkest gloom enshrouded the hopes of the loyal people of the North. From Yorktown the regiment moved to the front before Pe- tersburg, and Lieutenant Price was here, in more or less active service, from June until December, 1864, at which time he was discharged on account of continued illness. Before returning home, however, the Republican party of Logan County had honored him with the nomination for Prosecuting Attorney. He was elected by a handsome ma- jority ; and so ably and satisfactorily did he perform the duties of this office that he was re-elected in 1866, and again in 1868. Being elected to the State Legislature in the fall of 1869, he resigned the office of Prosecuting Attorney, and took his seat in the session of 1870. At the close of his term in the Legislature he returned to his law practice, which he successfully conducted until the fall of 1881, when he was elected Judge of the Common Pleas Court, which position he still occupies. As a lawyer, Judge Price stands high. He is well grounded in the law, and is a strong advocate before juries, and no less able in the argument of questions of law and facts. As a judge, he has distinguished himself for his learned opinions, and has given universal satisfaction to the bar of his district by his fairness in rulings and decisions. As a man, Judge Price is in the strictest sense upright and honorable; as a citizen, public spirited and useful. During his residence in Bellefontaine he has served several terms in
the City Council and on the Board of Education, and has for years been an honored member of Bellefontaine Masonic Lodge. He was married, February 7th, 1865, to Miss Carrie A. McClure, of Bellefontaine, though a native of Wooster, Ohio. Of this union five children have been born, four of whom are still living.
POWELL, THOMAS W., of Delaware, Ohio, lawyer and author, born in Glamorganshire, Wales September 7th, 1797, son of Watkin Powell, a Welsh farmer, who, with his family, emigrated to the United States in the year 1800, and settled at Utica, New York. Here he remained about seven- teen years, and then removed to Western Pennsylvania, where he died in 1853, at the age af seventy-seven years. Of a family of six, the subject of this sketch was the eldest, and until eighteen years of age, earned his living by working on a farm, having few or no opportunities of cultivating his mind. During the war of 1812, he rendered some service to the government, for which he received a small payment in money, and this sum he determined to devote to the accom- plishment of a wish long formed. He entered the Utica Academy, a school, at that time, of some note, and thus laid the foundation of his future useful career. He became a close student and attained a very creditable proficiency in the classics and mathematics. Subsequently, by the advice of counsellor Charles M. Lee, he, in 1818, commenced the study of the law under that noted jurist, but, at the end of a year, concluded to "go West and grow up with the country." In fulfillment of this desire, he first moved to Canton, Ohio, where he completed his law studies, and was admitted to the bar. He afterward removed to Perrysburgh, Wood county, Ohio, and commenced practice. Here he conducted a highly successful law practice until 1830, when he finally took up his residence in Delaware, Ohio. As a special pleader he was eminently successful, and having devoted much time and attention to the study of chancery law, his services were in great request for proceedings in equity. He was appointed probate judge by Governor Brough, and elected for the two succeeding terms. Though in possession of a large practice, leaving him but little leisure, Judge Powell has been enabled to cultivate a native taste for literature, more especially his- tory, and in particular ancient history. Descended himself from a most interesting race, the Ancient Britons, he has, in a work about to be published, traced the history of this race from its origin to its present condition among the nations of the world. He is the author of "An Analysis of Ameri- can Law," of which the first edition, issued in 1870, has been exhausted and a second published. This valuable work has received the earnest endorsement of some of the ablest lawyers and jurists of America, such as Judge Lawrence, Benjamin Stanton, Isaac Edwards, Theophilus Parsons, of Harvard Law School, and Thomas Ewing; who, before his death, wrote to Judge Powell: "I am greatly satisfied with the 'Analysis;' it is indeed a worthy contribution to our noble profession. Your work encourages high aspira- tion, resting on intellectual culture and elevated moral- ity, and I thank you for it." He is also the author of "The Law of Appellate Proceedings in relation to Re- view, Error, Appeal, and other reliefs upon final judgment." In politics, Judge Powell claims to be a Jeffersonian democrat, but he is not a strict partizan. He voted for James Monroe, General Taylor, Lincoln, Grant and Hayes. He served in the Ohio house of representatives in 1841-2, and in the
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senate, in 1844-5. In 1873, he was nominated for the con- stitutional convention, and elected. He also presided over the organization of the convention at Columbus. He married in 1823, Miss Lucy Cleaver, of Utica, New York, who died in 1827; and in 1829, he married Miss Elizabeth Gordon, of Franklinton, Ohio, who died in 1878. Judge Powell has three sons and two daughters living, namely : Eugene Powell, of Delaware, manufacturer ; L. A. Powell, of Plymouth, Wisconsin, and Thomas E. Powell, attorney at law, also of Delaware. The eldest daughter, Cornelia, is the wife of Dr. S. S. Stainbaugh, of Redwood City, California, and Miss Helena Powell resides with her father.
MCCLINTICK, JAMES, Senior, was born in Shippens- burgh, Pennsylvania, on the 25th day of October, 1785. His parents were both descended from that class of godly Scotch- Irish people, who, fretted by the incapacities and burdens imposed upon them by the government of Great Britain, emigrated in thousands to America in the early part of the eighteenth century, taking up their abode chiefly in Bucks, Lancaster, York, and Chester counties, Pennsylvania, and who, through their descendants, have left their impress on all parts of the United States. Of his father, also named James, little is now known, except that the family name is found on the record of the first court held at Chambersburgh, Pennsylvania, with those of Chambers, Finley, McDowell, Fullerton, and others, well known in Pennsylvania history, and that he himself was granted a tract of land in that State in consideration of services in the war of the Revolution, the benefit of which was wholly lost to his descendants by neglect and lapse of time. His mother, Mary Davidson, was a daughter of John Williamson and Mary Davidson, of Shippensburgh, Pennsylvania, and a sister of Hugh William- son, M. D., F. R. S., LL.D., an eminent philosopher, patriot, and statesman of our Revolutionary period, to whom all who share his blood, look back with pride. Dr. Williamson was a member of the first graduating class of the University of Pennsylvania, and for a short time professor of mathematics in that institution. He devoted much of his life to philosoph- ical studies and literary pursuits. He took a prominent part in public affairs, both prior to and during the war for Ameri- can independence, and filled many important positions both civil and military. He was a member of the Continental Congress at the time of Washington's surrender to that body of his military commission, and in Colonel Trumbull's paint- ing of that remarkable scene, now in the rotunda of the cap- itol at Washington City, Dr. Williamson's commanding figure and expressive countenance occupy a prominent place. He was a member of the convention which formed the pres- ent Constitution of the United States, and of the first and second Congresses after the adoption of that instrument. He published many literary, philosophical, and historical works, continuing his labors and researches up to the period of his death, on May 22d, 1819, in the City of New York, where he then resided, at the age of eighty-five years. His biographer, Dr. Hosack, describes him as a man of the highest literary and scientific attainments, of the greatest patriotism, of the most exalted virtue, and of such "integrity that none could approach him with flattery or falsehood." Such was the model which the admiring nephew had constantly before him ; and although the want of fortune and the death of his father, which threw upon him, while yet a mere boy, the care and support of his mother and some portion of her family, pre-
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