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ten other men. The financial crash of 1837 almost ruined him, making the later years of his life laborious in the effort to remedy the losses of that destructive year-an effort in which he was, in some degree, successful. Although disap- pointed in the slow progress of Toledo to the eminence which he early foresaw for her, his faith was never dimmed in her final attainment of this position among the cities of the West. He had identified his interests with hers, and had staked all his own pecuniary hopes thereon, and he never wavered in his faith that these hopes would be realized, if not by himself by the generation succeeding him. Though Mr. Bissell, among his extensive business acquaintances, commanded re- spect and regard, he was, owing to a natural reserve and dignity of character, known intimately only in the domestic circle. Honorable, just and kind among men, he was affec- tionate and unselfish at home, where his interests all cen- tered; a man of untiring energy, great hopefulness, and indomitable perseverance, as shown in the fact that he studied law and was admitted to the bar after he was forty years of age, having at that time a young family dependent upon him. Far-seeing and thoughtful, his views of life were eminently practical and sensible, and he early advocated many of the doctrines which are now daily growing into popularity, espe- cially those pertaining to the rights of women. At a time when their defenders stood singly and alone, he advocated their equality in law-their equal need of and right to a collegiate, and even to a business education, as a dependence for the future. In these views he was in advance of his times. He married, in 1823, Maria Reed, of East Windsor, New York ; issue living in 1879-Edward, Jr., a leading real estate law- yer of Toledo; Arthur F., M. D., a prominent practitioner; Elizabeth R., married to William A. Collins, of Toledo; Mary, wife of A. W. Gleason, and Julia, wife of Asa Backus. Died in 1863, H. T., an officer in the army.
MCCLINTICK, WILLIAM T., lawyer, of Chillicothe, Ross county, Ohio, was born in that city, then the capital of the State, February 20th, 1819. His father was James Mc- Clintick, Sen., whose portrait and memoir appear, elsewhere in this volume. His mother's maiden name was Charity Trimble. She was a sister of Major David Trimble, in 1812 an aide on the staff of General William Henry Harrison, and afterward a distinguished iron manufacturer, lawyer, and member of Congress from eastern Kentucky. Two other brothers, John and William, were also iron manufacturers in Kentucky, the latter being also a lawyer, and at one time a territorial judge by appointment of the President of the United States. Her youngest and only surviving brother is Gen- eral Isaac R. Trimble, of Baltimore, Maryland, of the late Confederate States army. Educated at the Chillicothe Acad- emy until his fourteenth year, the subject of this sketch was then sent to the Ohio University, the then president being Dr. Samuel Wilson, and who in 1811, while in charge of the First Presbyterian church of Chillicothe, was the officiating clergy- man at the marriage of his pupil's parents. From the Ohio University he was transferred to Augusta College, Kentucky, where he graduated in the summer of 1837. Owing to his fath- er's notions as to the value of mathematical studies, he gave special attention to them, and his proficiency in such studies while at college, was such as induced his professor to suggest a continuance of like studies, with a view to become his suc- cessor in that position. This, however, he declined, and in November, 1837, entered the law office of Messrs. Creighton
& Bond, an old and distinguished law firm of his native town. In 1840, at the February term of the old Supreme court of Ohio, held at Portsmouth, Scioto county, he was admitted to the bar; the late Theodore Sherer, formerly law partner of the Hon. Allen G. Thurman, being admitted at the same time. Hon. William V. Peck and Hon. John Welch, both afterward chief justices of the Ohio Supreme court, were members of the committee that examined these students. On the day of their return to Chillicothe, they went to the court house where a case had just been called, in which Gen- eral William S. Murphy and Judge Thurman were opposing counsel. The two newly made lawyers were invited to take part in the trial, one on either side, and thus without a mo- ment's time for any special preparation, they were introduced to actual practice, and were glad to come out of the trial without absolute failure. From that time Mr. McClintick has been steadily employed in the practice of his profession. In May, 1843, he was invited to join the law firm of Messrs. Creighton & Green, on terms of full equality in the division of earnings,-that and the firm of Allen & Thurman then occu- pying leading positions as lawyers in southern Ohio. This invitation he accepted, but at the close of the next year he withdrew from the connection, and practiced alone until 1849, when he was elected prosecuting attorney of Ross county, an office he retained during the two following years. In May, 1852, he took into partnership Mr. Amos Smith, a nephew and former pupil of Hocking H. Hunter, Esq., of Lancaster, Ohio, and the firm of McClintick & Smith has since continued to hold a prominent position in the profession. In politics, Mr. McClintick was a whig, but on the disruption of that party, following the defeat for the Presidency of Gen- eral Winfield Scott, in 1852, he found himself more nearly allied to the republican party than its opponent, the demo- cratic party, and hence he naturally at the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, in 1861, became an earnest supporter of the Union, and as chairman of the county military com- mittee rendered efficient aid in organizing and filling up reg- iments of volunteers for active service during the war. He participated, as lieutenant-colonel of a regiment raised for the purpose, in the pursuit of the Rebel General John Morgan, on the occasion of the latter's famous raid through southern Indiana and Ohio, in July, 1863. Since that period he has voted with the Republican party, except when personal or non-political reasons warranted, in his judgment, a different course of action. In religion, he has ever remained a sup- porter of the Methodist Church, in which he was born, and a firm believer in the truths of Christianity, On the death of the late Judge Emmons, of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of the United States Court, Mr. McClintick's name was submitted to President Hayes for appointment to that high office, the application being made by leading men in Southern Ohio and supported by prominent members of the bench and bar of that section, without distinction of party. At the formation of the American Bar Association, at Saratoga, in August, 1878, he was elected as the Ohio representative in the general council of that body. He has, though almost incessantly em- ployed in the active duties of his profession, given much attention to literature, and repeatedly accepted invitations to deliver addresses before colleges and literary societies, and at many public celebrations ; while to his familiar friends his cultivation of the "accomplishment of verse," and his gen- eral fondness for classical and polite literature are well known. Mr. McClintick was one of the original counsel who in 1858
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instituted the suit of creditors against the original Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad Company (chartered in 1845) under which its road and other property`was sold in 1860, and took a leading part, along with Messrs. Thomas Ewing, the elder of that name, Henry Stanberry, H. H. Hunter, Samuel F. Vinton, Allen G. Thurman, and other Ohio lawyers, in the litigation and compromise which ended in the reorganization of that Company in 1860 under the name of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad Company as reorganized, the fran- chise of the old company to be a corporation being subse- quently (in 1865) acquired by the new company under the general act of the Legislature passed April 4th, 1863. He continued to act as the general counsel of the reorganized company until, in June, 1877, its financial embarrassments compelled the foreclosure of the various mortgages upon its property, when, with the consent of the company, he, as counsel for the trustees of the fourth mortgage, instituted the proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas of Ross County, Ohio, under which the road and other property was sold in December, 1882, under a decree made in accordance with an agreement between the creditors and stockholders for the readjustment and capitalization of the debts and stock. As provided in this agreement, the company was subsequently (March, 1883) reorganized under the name of the Cincin- nati, Washington and Baltimore Railroad Company. Mr. McClintick was elected a director of the new company, and his legal firm, McClintick & Smith, appointed its general counsel. He became president of the Cincinnati and Balti- more Railway Company at its organization in 1868, and re- mained in that office until the Cincinnati and Baltimore Rail- way was sold to the Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore Railroad Company in 1883. He succeeded Mr. John Waddle as president of the Baltimore Short Line Railway Company in December, 1882, and remained in that office until that road was also absorbed in the Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore Railroad system. He was elected a director of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company in January, 1874; was associated as one of the counsel in the litigation relating to that company and its property, beginning in November, 1876; and was elected president of the company in October, 1879, which office he has held until the present time. On the Ist of October, 1845, he was married to Miss Elizabeth M. Atwood, at Harrodsburg, Kentucky. She is still living. Of this marriage six children were born ; three are dead. One, Mary Petrea, resides with her parents at Chillicothe, Ohio; another, Elizabeth, is the wife of Charles L. Pruyn, Esq., of Albany, New York ; the third and youngest, Annie Porter, is the wife of Edward W. Strong, Esq., a lawyer of New Bruns- wick, N. J. As a lawyer Mr. McClintick is sagacious, labo- rious, faithful, and persistent, and is a clear, direct, and per- suasive advocate. Without, in his court practice, attempting the tricks or graces of oratory, he brings to the argument of a case on behalf of his client his very great weight of character, and which is the result of honest, single-minded, and just conduct. This enables him to win cases which the sky-rocket style of argument would lose. When he speaks where he is best known he is believed and trusted; and, in fine, he is both in his private and public life, in the language of Horace, "Justum et tenacem, et propositi virum."
DOYLE, JOHN HARDY, of Toledo, Judge of the Su- preme Court of Ohio, was born April 23d, 1843, at Monday Creek, Perry County, Ohio. His parents, Michael F. and Jo-
anna Doyle, were among the first settlers in the Maumee Val- ley, and their marriage, which took place in Providence, Lucas County (then Wood County), in 1834, was about the first in that region. The family moved to Perry County in 1841, but returned to Lucas in 1846. Judge Doyle had the advantages of the public schools of Toledo, where he completed the high school course. After engaging in business he took a supplementary course of study for several terms under a private tutor, and at the University at Granville, Ohio. His life vocation was determined upon at the age of twelve, when, as a witness in a law suit, he resolved to become a lawyer, which ambition was never changed. In 1859 he entered the office of his uncle, Recorder of Lucas County, as his deputy for two years. When the civil war began he was commis- sioned first lieutenant by Governor Tod, but on account of severe sickness did not enter the service. He first read law with General H. S. Commager, of Toledo, then with Edward Bissell, Esq., of Toledo, and was admitted to the bar and to partnership with Mr. Bissell in 1864, on his twenty-first birth- day. He early evinced an adaptability for the legal profes- sion, and soon won a reputation as a young man of unusual knowledge of the law, and possessing extraordinary powers as an advocate. He exhibited great skill and energy in the conduct of various important cases that came under his charge. On one occasion he successfully conducted a suit for the occupation of one hundred and sixty acres of land in the center of Toledo, valued at over one million of dol- lars, the title to which was involved in the suit; the claim- ants were the heirs of one Ford, a private in the war of 1812, who was then living at Fell's Point, Baltimore, Md. The case hinged on the legitimacy of a daughter who the claim- ants alleged was born while the aforesaid Ford was a prisoner of war at Plymouth, England, and was illegitimate. Judge Doyle spent a large portion of the Spring and Winter of 1874 in Maryland and the District of Columbia in taking tes- timony in this important case. The final result established the legitimacy of the child, and hence the title of his clients. Judge Doyle continued in active practice in company with Mr. Bissell until 1879, when he was elected Judge on the Re- publican ticket, after the unanimous recommendation to the nominating convention by the bar of Toledo. He at once distinguished himself on the bench, and was soon recognized as the ablest judge in the district, and indeed the ablest that had sat upon the bench for years. He was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court of the State by the Republican Convention in 1882, but the party was defeated, though Judge Doyle led the head of the State ticket by several thousand, and ran 1,600 ahead of his ticket in his own county. Upon the resignation of the Hon. Nicholas Longworth, of the Su- preme Court, in March, 1883, Judge Doyle was appointed by Governor Foster as his successor. At the Republican State Convention, in June, 1883, he was nominated by acclamation as his own successor, both for the remainder of the short term and the long term. He was one of the organizers of the Toledo Library Association, now the free library of Toledo, and chairman of lecture committee for many years. He also aided in organizing, in company with Hon. De Witt Davis, of Milwaukee, the Western Lecture Bureau in 1865, head-quarters at Chicago. He has been a member of the First Congregational Church of Toledo since 1867. He has always been a Republican. His first vote was cast for Abra- ham Lincoln in 1864. He was married October 6th, 1868, to Miss Alice Fuller Skinner, daughter of Dr. S. W. Skinner,
Moms Respectfully Irm monout Reach, M.D.
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of Windsor, Conn., now of Toledo, who is a descendant of the Wolcott and Ellsworth families of Connecticut, of which Chief Justice Ellsworth and Governor Wolcott were members. Two daughters, Elizabeth Wolcott and Grace Alice, have been born of this marriage.
BEACH, WILLIAM MORROW, M. D., was born in Amity, Madison County, Ohio, on the Ioth day of May, 1831. He traces his descent from New England stock, as follows :
In 1638-39 Richard Beach signed the New Haven (Con- necticut) Covenant. In 1642-43 John Beach is known to have been a citizen of New Haven; and Thomas Beach is first mentioned in the New Haven colonial records in 1646. These three were brothers, and probably all came from Eng- land unmarried. Of these brothers, John early became a citizen of Stratford, Connecticut, and Thomas of Milford, Connecticut.
FIRST GENERATION .- Thomas Beach, of New Haven and Milford, was married, September 25th, 1652, to Sarah Plat, daughter of Deacon Richard Plat, of Milford, Connecticut, and died at Milford, Connecticut, in 1662. His children were five: Sarah, John, Mary, Samuel, and Zophar. This Zophar became the ancestor of most of the New Jersey Beaches.
SECOND GENERATION .- John Beach, born October 19th, 1655, at Milford, Connecticut. He became a citizen of Wal- lingford, Connecticut, where the records speak of him as John Beach, Jr., to distinguish him from his uncle, John Beach, Sen., who was a man of prominence at that time in Wallingford. He was married in December, 1678, to Mary , and died at Wallingford in 1709. The name of his wife is now illegible on the records, excepting her Christian name. Their children were six in number: Lettice, Mary, Hannah, Thomas, John, and Samuel. This Samuel became the ancestor of a large family at Litchfield, Connecticut.
THIRD GENERATION .- John Beach, Jr., "Deacon," born in Wallingford, Connecticut, October 15th, 1690. He mar- ried (first), August 18th, 1715, Sarah Tyler, by whom he had one son, Barnabas, who became the father of eight children, the oldest of whom, Zerah, was at the capitulation of Wyo- ming, and upon his table the agreement was signed. He married (second), February 22d, 1717, Mary Rays-or, as the name is spelled in later days, Rice-daughter of Samuel and Sarah Rays, born February 17th, 1695. There were ten children by this marriage: Adna, Edmund, Livius, Amos, Mary, Jacob, John, Rays, Baldwin, and Mary. "Deacon' John Beach was a man of mark in Wallingford, and in 1738-39 he purchased "rights " of Governor Dudley, and migrated to Goshen, Connecticut, of which he was one of the original proprietors. His house, and one other at least, Thompson's, were pallisaded against Indians. He died at Goshen, " honored and lamented," as the records say, May 9th, 1773, in his eighty-third year.
FOURTH GENERATION .- Amos Beach, born at Walling- ford, Connecticut, January 28th, 1724, and went with his father's family to Goshen in 1738-9. He married, December 24th, 1746, Sarah Rays. He died about the time of the commencement of the Revolutionary war; and she died at the home of her son Brewer, in Goshen, Connecticut, about 1820, aged about ninety years. Their children were : Chloe, Chauncey, Ambrose, Amos, Brewer, Abraham, Esther, Obil, Sarah, Isaac, Roswell, and Sarah or Sonih. The record of this last name is obscure.
FIFTH GENERATION .- Obil Beach was born in Goshen, Connecticut, December 25th, 1758. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War for three years, enlisting under Captain Chapman and Colonel Swift. He witnessed the surrender of Burgoyne, October 12, 1777, being hurried forward with the troops to take part in that enterprise, and was mustered out in New Jersey in 1780. He married, June 27th, 1782. Elizabeth Kilbourne, of Litchfield, Connecticut, and moved, late in the same year, to Poultney, Rutland County, Ver- mont; in 1788 to New Haven, Addison County, Vermont ; and in 1817 to Darby Township, Madison County, Ohio, whither his sons, Uri, Lorenzo, Ambrose, and Amos, had
preceded him. His wife, Elizabeth, who was born June 4th, 1765, died in Canaan Township, Madison County, Ohio, September Ist, 1826; and he died at the home of his son, Dr. Lorenzo Beach, near Pleasant Valley, Madison County, Ohio, in September, 1846. His six brothers were all, also, in the Revolutionary army. His brother Ambrose died in hospital at Crown Point, Vermont, July 8th, 1776; and Abra- ham died at Milford, Connecticut, June 15th, 1777, while on his way home from the prison ships in Long Island Sound.
SIXTH GENERATION .- Uri Beach was the fourth child and the third son born to Obil Beach and Elizabeth, his wife. He was born, December 7th, 1789, at New Haven, Addison County, Vermont, and came to Worthington, Ohio, in 1812, and to Darby Township, Madison County, Ohio, in 1814. He was at first a nurseryman, bringing his apple-seeds from Ma- rietta, Ohio. In 1820 he erected a saw-mill in Canaan Town- ship, and about 1825 erected a woolen manufactory near the same site. They were important enterprises for that time, and did much toward the development of the country. He died of pneumonia, at Amity-of which village he was one of the proprietors-on the 11th day of January, 1832, aged forty-three years.
On the mother's side, William Morrow Beach is de- scended as follows :
FIRST GENERATION .- Thomas Noble was "admitted an inhabitant" of Boston, Massachusetts, on the 5th day of Jan- uary, 1653-thirty-three years after the landing of the pil- grims on Plymouth Rock. He was probably a native of England. In the year 1653 he moved to Springfield, Mas- sachusetts, and about 1669 to Westfield, Massachusetts. He married, November Ist, 1660, Hannah Warriner, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, August 17th, 1643, only daughter of William and Joanna (Scant) Warriner. To them were born eleven children, the third one of whom was Thomas.
SECOND GENERATION .- Thomas Noble, "Deacon," born in Springfield, Massachusetts, January 14th, 1666, and died in Westfield, Massachusetts, July 29th, 1750, aged eighty-four years. He married, December 19th, 1695, Elizabeth Dewey, born in Westfield, Massachusetts, January 10th, 1677, daugh- ter of Thomas and Constant (Hawes) Dewey; and was or- dained deacon in the Congregational Church, May 25th, 1712. They had eleven children, the first of whom was Thomas.
THIRD GENERATION .- Thomas Noble, son of " Deacon" Thomas and Constant (Hawes) Noble, born in Westfield, Massachusetts, September 10th, 1696, and there died, Febru- ary 18th, 1775, aged seventy-eight years. He married (first) Sarah Root, born in Westfield, Massachusetts, March 9th, 1702, daughter of John and Sarah (Stebbins) Root. To them were born ten children, the youngest of whom was Seth Noble.
FOURTH GENERATION .- Rev. Seth Noble, born in West- field, Massachusetts, April 15th, 1743. He married (first), November 30th, 1775, Hannah Barker, who was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, February 19th, 1759, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Palmer) Barker, of Rowley, Massachu- setts, and Maugerville, Nova Scotia. She died in Kendus- keag Meadow, or Plantation, Province of Maine, June 16th, 1790, where her husband was then the first settled relig- ious teacher and preacher. He was probably ordained at Newburyport, Massachusetts, and his first settlement in the ministry was over the Congregational Church at Maugerville, Nova Scotia, on the 15th day of June, 1774. In the Revolu- tionary struggle he sided ardently with the Colonists, and was, for a time at least, a soldier in the army. While a res- ident of Kenduskeag he was deputized to procure an act of incorporation for the town under the name of Sunfield ; but, appearing before the General Court of Massachusetts, he requested them to erase the name of Sunfield and insert Bangor, the name of one of his favorite old minor tunes, which was acceded to. In 1806 he came to Ohio, settling in Franklinton (now Columbus), where he became the first settled preacher to the Presbyterians of that place, and where he died, while in the ministry, September 15th, 1807. By his marriage to Hannah Barker were born five children : Seth, lost at sea, October 20th, 1798, aged twenty-one years ; Rev. Joseph, born in Newmarket, New Hampshire, June 13th, 1783, and died in Brighton, New Brunswick, about 1869; Sarah, died in Montgomery, Massachusetts, 1826;
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Benjamin, who died in Brighton, New Brunswick, April 11th, 1860; and Hannah.
FIFTH GENERATION .- Hannah Noble was born in Ken- duskeag (Bangor), Province of Maine, September 11th, 1789, and died in Amity, Madison County, Ohio, November 17th, 1854. She was of the fifth generation from Thomas Noble, of Boston, Springfield, and Westfield, Massachusetts, and she married for her second husband (the first, Nathan Gorham, having died) Uri Beach, September 1st, 1816, of Darby Town- ship, Madison County, Ohio, who was of the sixth generation from Thomas Beach, of New Haven (1646) and Milford, Con- necticut (1652). There were born by this marriage seven children, of whom William Morrow, the subject of this sketch, was the youngest.
By the death of his father, which occurred when he was eight months old, leaving his mother with the charge of a large family and an estate that was but slightly productive, without an interested business man to manage it, his history in boyhood was not very unlike that of many other boys who " have their own way to make." He was kept at dis- trict schools until he was old enough to work a few days at a time, in emergencies, among the farmers; and then, later, clerked in Dublin, Ohio, for Holcomb Fuller, in his dry- goods store, and also for Orange Davis, and for George A. Hill & Co., of Plain City, and also, at times, for Luther Lane, of Amity, Ohio, and was finally a student for a while at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. He afterwards taught two terms of a district school in Brown Township, . Franklin County, Ohio. In 1851 he entered the office of Professor Samuel Mitchell Smith, of Columbus, Ohio, as a student of medicine, after having previously spent about one year of desultory study in that direction, and attended a course of lectures that winter at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio-the first course delivered in the new build- ing on State Street. He was graduated M. D. at that college in February, 1853, and entered at once upon the practice of his profession at Unionville Center, Union County, Ohio, where he remained two years, when he changed his location to Lafayette, Madison County, Ohio, locating at the latter place in September, 1855. The winter of 1857-58 he spent in New York City, an attendant at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, but giving the most of his time to the differ- ent hospitals and dispensaries. Returning to Lafayette in the spring of 1858, he remained there until he was commissioned by Governor David Tod as an assistant surgeon in the vol- unteer forces of Ohio in the service of the United States, April 3d, 1862, when he joined the army at Shiloh, Ten- nessee, April 12th, 1862. He was assigned to duty with the 20th Regiment Ohio Infantry, and on the 3d day of May, 1862, was further commissioned by the Governor of Ohio, David Tod, as assistant surgeon of the 78th Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to rank as such from April 20th, 1862. This position he held until commissioned by Governor John Brough, of Ohio, as surgeon of the 118th Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers, May 19th, 1864, which commission reached him at Ackworth, Georgia, on the Atlanta campaign, June 9th, 1864, when he was mustered in, and entered at once upon duty with his new command. This position he held until the close of the war, and until his muster-out at Salisbury, North Carolina, in June, 1865. One of the things that he recalls with pleasure and pride, in connection with his military history, is the fact that upon joining the 78th Regiment for duty, in May, 1862, he was invited for his first meal to the table of the colonel, Mortimer D. Leggett ; and that he retained this distinguished officer's respect and re-
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