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Hannah A. Johnson was born January 12th, 1805, and is still living on the old place, as Mrs. Marsh, she having been a second time married. Mr. Hedges died in September, 1831. Upon this farm was born Eliza Ann, January 11th, 1826. Her formal education was received solely in the pub- lic schools, and she remained at home with her parents until her marriage to Mr. Sater, March 29th, 1849. Since that time she has shared the toils and struggles, the joys and sor- rows of her husband, with little personal history apart from his. They have had four children, of whom one survives. Mr. Sater is not only the most prominent man of his town- ship, but one of the leading and substantial citizens of the county. He enjoys the esteem and respect of all the better elements to be found in both political parties of the present day. His integrity, honesty, and wise counsels have secured for him a reputation which few men are permitted to enjoy.
WINSLOW, RUFUS KING, vessel owner, of Cleve- land, son of Richard and Mary Nash Winslow, was born in Ocracoke, North Carolina, and came to Cleveland with his father's family in 1831, where he attended school at the old Cleveland Academy. At the age of twenty-one he became associated with his brothers, N. C. and H. J. Winslow, in the merchant marine interests established by their father, to which he devoted his whole attention. On the retirement of their father from active life in 1854, the management of the family's interests devolved on the sons. The Winslow family, from their first arrival in Cleveland, were among the foremost, if not at the head of all, in the ownership of vessels. A large fleet constructed for and owned by them have always been on the lakes. R. K. Winslow remained in Cleveland whilst one brother settled in Buffalo and another in Chicago. In 1851 he was married to Miss Lucy B., the estimable daughter of Dr. W. A. Clark, one of Cleveland's prominent physicians. In 1859 and 1860, in conjunction with his broth- ers, he dispatched some vessels to the Black Sea, though his operations are mainly confined to the lakes, where he com- menced one of the largest carrying trades of any firm on fresh water. Following in the footsteps of his father, he is a patriotic citizen, attentive to his public duties, but averse to accepting any political office. During the rebellion he was an active and liberal supporter of the government. He is a man of scientific pursuits and æsthetic tastes, and a devoted student of ornithology. He was, in 1869, elected president of the Kirtland Academy of Natural Sciences, and for many years one of its most active and energetic members. He is a warm friend and liberal patron of art in all its various forms. He is a man of modest and unassuming worth, honored, respected, and esteemed, of gentlemanly bearing and fine presence. He commands the regard of all.
VOORHEES, DAN. W., of Terre Haute, Indiana, United States Senator from that State, was born in But- ler County, Ohio, September 26th, 1827. His father, Ste- phen Voorhees, was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, 1798, and emigrated, when quite young, to Butler County, and in December, 1827, moved to a farm in Fountain County, Indiana. His grandfather, Peter Voorhees, was born in New Jersey, and soon after the close of the Revolutionary War emigrated to Kentucky. Peter Voorhees's wife, whose maiden name was Van Arsdale, was born at Brant's Station, then a fort. Her father, Luke Van Arsdale, fought at the battle of Blue Licks, and distinguished himself there and elsewhere
against the Indians, under Daniel Boone. His other grand- father, Stephen Voorhees, was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and fought at Princeton, Monmouth, and other cele- brated historic fields. His paternal ancestors came from Hol- land, the original name being Van Voorliees. Mr. Voor- hees's mother, Rachel Elliott, born in Maryland, of Irish ancestry, was married in 1821. Daniel W., is the third child, and was brought up on a farm about ten miles from Coving- ton, Indiana, remaining there until 1845. In that year he entered Asbury University, whence he was graduated in 1849. Soon after graduating he entered the law office of Lane & Wilson, at Crawfordsville, and the following Spring settled to practice at Covington, the county-seat of Fountain County. Here E. A. Hannegan, formerly United States Senator, hav- ing heard him deliver a "Fourth of July" oration, made proposals for a law partnership, taking effect in April, 1852. In June, 1853, Mr. Voorhees was appointed by Governor Wright prosecuting attorney of the Circuit Court, in which position he soon established a fine reputation as a criminal lawyer, and broke up a nest of desperadoes whose head- quarters were at Lafayette. In 1856 he was nominated by acclamation Democratic candidate for Congress, but was de- feated by two hundred and thirty majority in a district pre- viously Republican by two thousand six hundred. In No- vember, 1857, he removed to Terre Haute, the county-seat of Vigo County, and the ensuing April, 1858, was appointed United States District Attorney for the State of Indiana, by President Buchanan, in which position he increased his repu- tation as an orator and lawyer. He was elected to Con- gress in 1860 and 1862, and in 1864 was again a successful candidate, but in this last election his majority was contested by his opponent, Henry D. Washburne, wlio obtained the seat. In 1866 Mr. Voorhees refused the nomination, but in 1868 he was elected, and again in 1870. In 1872 he was defeated by Morton C. Hunter. As a precursor of the late war the insurrection at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in which John Brown and others were concerned, and for which they were convicted and hung in 1859, will always stand prom- inent in the history of the country. At that time the gifted A. P. Willard was Governor of Indiana, and the champion of the Indiana Democracy, and it was with sorrow and dismay that his friends learned that Colonel J. E. Cook, arrested with "Ossawatomie Brown," was a brother of Governor Willard's wife. Governor Willard was not the man to turn his back upon a brother or a friend. His first thought was of "Dan Voorhees," who was then at Vincennes arguing a case before Judge Michael F. Burke. Governor Willard sent a message to Vincennes, and Judge Burke continued the case while Mr. Voorhees immediately started to consult with Governor Wil- lard. Several gentlemen advised him not to undertake the defense, but he emphatically declared liis resolution to de- fend his friend's brother regardless of consequences. He went and took part in that celebrated trial. The result is known. John Brown was convicted of murder and treason, but Mr. Voorhees succeeded in having a Virginia jury con- vict Cook of murder only, thus bringing him within the par- doning power of the governor. Governor Wise, however, refused to pardon, and Cook was executed with the others. This was, however, the beginning of Mr. Voorhees's national reputation. His speech was listened to by the vast audience with rapt attention, and met with unequaled approbation. He was the recipient of enthusiastic congratulations, and his speech was published all over the country and in Europe.
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From this time forward he has occupied a conspicuous place in the eyes of the public. At the bar, on the stump, and in the halls of Congress, he has been a man of mark. Mr. Voorhees's political career and principles, his powers as a parliamentary orator and a statesman, are now a portion of the history of the nation. From the sobriquet of "the tall Sycamore of the Wabash," so often and familiarly applied to Mr. Voorhees, it will be inferred that he is of tall stature. He stands six feet one inch in height, and weighs over two hundred pounds. In 1850 he married Miss Anna Hardesty, of Greencastle, Indiana, and they have four children. Mr. Voorhees was appointed November 6th, 1877, to succeed Governor Morton in the United States Senate. The issue in the election of 1878 in Indiana was whether he should be elected by the Legislature to succeed his appointment. On this issue the Legislature pledged to his support was elected by a majority of over thirty thousand over all opposition. During his term of service in the Senate he has been assidu- ous in his attentions to the public needs. He is always pres- ent, and allows no measure of his political opponents to pass without the severest scrutiny. With him vigilance is the price of liberty. He has shown his power of breaking old shackles by speaking for protection to American industry.
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WILSON, POLLOCK, merchant, and the head of the well known and long established firm of Pollock Wilson & Sons, Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Wayne Township, Butler County, Ohio, February 9th, 1804. He is thus a native of the Miami valley, and has seen it develop under the hand of civilization to its marvelous proportions in point of popu- lation and material wealth, and, to a great extent, been a participant in the great march of progress, contributing by giant industry and the investment of accumulating capital to its upbuilding. His parents emigrated from England about the year 1787. The subject of this sketch was the youngest of seven children-Thomas, Elizabeth, Ann, John, Joseph, Matthew, and Pollock. The father settled in Wayne Town- ship under rather peculiar circumstances. An Indian trader by the name of Banfield, who made pack-saddles and traded them with the Indians for furs, induced Mr. Wilson the elder to make lıim (Banfield) a visit. He did so; was pleased with his trip, and favorably impressed with the general as- pect and character of the country, and the result was he, to use a pioneer term, "squatted" there. In time, the father acquired title from the government for the tract thus appro- priated. The youthful days of Mr. Wilson were spent upon this farm. About the year 1818 his father left him at Ross- ville, Butler County, to learn the dry goods business. The father was obliged to proceed to Kingston, England, in 1820, for the purpose of settling an estate belonging to two de- ceased brothers. When he bade his son farewell, it was for the last time. He never returned. Young Wilson pro- gressed favorably with his business until 1822, when he re- solved to go to Cincinnati, to try to make his fortune in that then rising young city. Here he "bound" himself to a sad- dler for a term of four years, during which time he served faithfully, but in a hard, laborious way. At the termination of his apprenticeship, he commenced business for himself, and has continued in business in that city up to the present time, being one of the oldest, if not the oldest, business men, in point of duration, of that city. About 1835, Mr. Wilson entered into copartnership with Mr. P. Hayden, of Colum- bus, Ohio, in the saddlery hardware business. They con-
tinued until January Ist, 1874, when, chiefly owing to ad- vanced age, each, well pleased and satisfied with their busi- ness career, separated amicably, and without one unpleasant word to mar their former friendship and reciprocal respect. Mr. Wilson is still in active business, though well advanced in years. His name is honored and respected as one of the pioneers of the Miami valley, as one of the wealthiest of its citizens, and as one who has contributed largely to the up- building and commercial greatness of Cincinnati.
THORNE, SAMUEL S., surgeon, of Toledo, was born in Utica, New York, September 22d, 1831. His parents were Stephen and Mary Ann Thorne. His father was a native of England, born in the county of Kent, May 2d, 1802, the youngest of twelve children. The family came to America in 1818, and he was deprived of the advantages of a college education, which all his older brothers had received in Eng- land. However, he was able to obtain a good, liberal edu- cation by taking advantage of what privileges were within his reach. He afterwards settled in Utica, New York, where he became a very prominent merchant, and was also one of the earliest real estate holders in Toledo, Ohio. He died at Utica in 1878, at the age of seventy-six. Doctor Thorne's mother, whose maiden name was Bennett, was a native of New York City, born in 1807, and died at Utica in 1875. The doctor has four brothers, all of whom are engaged in mercantile business. He obtained a thorough academical education, and also a good knowledge of the classics and French in Utica and French Academy. In 1850 he began the study of medicine, and placed himself under the tutor- ship of Doctor Peleg B. Peckham, of Utica, and in the Fall of the same year entered the medical department of the Uni- versity of the city of New York, where, in 1854, he graduated with the first honors of his class. The summer succeeding his graduation was spent in the surgical department of the New York Hospital, New York City, having, during his course of study, spent his vacations in Bellevue Hospital. In the Fall of 1854 he located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he spent three years in successful practice. Though but twenty-three years of age when he went there, he at once acquired a prom- inence in his profession that others labor a life-time for. Dur- ing the three years he was surgeon of the city hospital and orphan asylum, and was also made president of Milwaukee Medical Society. In 1857 Doctor Thorne removed from Mil- waukee to Lockport, New York, and pursued the practice of medicine in that place for the three succeeding years, though nearly one year out of the three was spent in New York City. While in Lockport he was made President of Niagara County Medical Society. In 1860 he removed to Toledo, Ohio, where he has since remained engaged in an extensive and very successful practice. In May, 1864, he entered the army as surgeon of the One Hundred and Thirtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served as field surgeon till the close of the war. From 1865 to 1869 he was President of Toledo Medical Society, and in 1876 and '77 was Coroner of Lucas County. In 1878 he was made Professor of Sur- gery in Toledo School of Medicine, and in 1883 Professor of Surgery and Dean of the Faculty of the North-western Ohio Medical College, which position he still fills. Doctor Thorne's professional habits are of the most industrious character. No time nor labor is spared in the acquisition of knowledge that will enable him to treat more intelli- gently and successfully the various cases in his charge.
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Every case is carefully studied and weighed scientifically by him, not only from a sense of duty which, of course, is para- mount, but also to make himself stronger in his profession, and to secure that progress and development in the science which should be the ambition of every true student. His natural ability, industry, studious habits, and long experience have secured to Doctor Thorne a knowledge of the science of medicine and the human system, as well as skill in sur- gery that is well known, nor has it gone unrecognized by some of the best medical institutions in the country. In 1864 he was offered the chair of Anatomy with the promise of the chair of Surgery in one of the medical colleges in Cincin- nati, which he respectfully declined. In 1867 he was offered a chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the old Col- lege of Medicine at Cleveland, and in 1881 the chair of Sur- gery in the University of Wooster at Cleveland, both of which he also declined, and the latter after the most urgent requests to accept it. Although the positions tendered him were tempting, yet he preferred his regular and established practice, which is very extensive, both in the practice of medicine and surgery; and if any one physician in Toledo performs more surgical operations than another, it is Doctor Thorne. He has been for several years surgeon of Saint Vincent Hospital of Toledo, and has been United States Pen- sion Surgeon since 1862, and has been President of the Board of United States Pension Surgeons of Toledo since its regular organization in 1872. He has also been surgeon of Forsyth Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1869 and '70, in company with two other brothers, he invested in a large chair manufactory in Toledo, which gave employ- ment to over one hundred men, which was carried on for five years, when it resulted disastrously, costing him the loss of all his property, the accumulation of his life work; but lie has now recovered considerable, and all by his lucrative practice. The explanation of the disastrous results of his enterprise is simply the depressed state of business that pre- vailed from 1870 till 1875, which brought ruin to so many prominent men throughout the country. In 1877 Doctor Thorne became one of the proprietors and editors of the Toledo Medical and Surgical Journal, which is still pub- lished. He has also been a liberal contributor, especially on surgery, to other medical journals throughout the country. His surgical experience has brought him in contact with many very important cases. In his experience he has had occasion to perform operations in cases of imperforate anus, six of them successful, which probably has occurred in the history of but very few, if, indeed, any other physician in the country. Five of the cases were reported to medical journals. He has twice removed the entire upper jaw, and many other cases of interest might be mentioned. Doctor Thorne is a member of the American, Ohio, State, Northwestern Ohio, Southern Michigan, and Toledo Medical Societies. He is also an Odd Fellow and an affiliate member of the Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. In politics he was formerly a Whig, but ever since the organization of the Republican party has been its zealous supporter. He takes quite an active part in politics, exerting quite an influence by his work upon the politics of Toledo. In religion he is Episcopal, having been a member of Trinity Church since 1852. October 15th, 1856, he married Miss Fannie Peckham, daughter of his old preceptor in Utica, a very prominent physician, and one of a very noted family of New York. Seven children have been born to Doctor and
Mrs. Thorne, though but four are now living. The oldest, George L., seventeen years of age, is now preparing for col- lege at Trinity school, of which the Doctor was trustee for many years, as well as vestryman of Trinity Church.
MCDERMOTT, GEORGE CHRISTIE, M. D., Pro- fessor of Opthalmology and Otology in Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio; President of the Cincinnati Homeopathic Medical Society; and late President of the Milwaukee Acad- emy of Medicine, was born July 29th, 1840, in the township of Westminster, near London, Canada. There he was edu- cated in the grammar schools and at Victoria College, where he graduated in 1864. His father was a yeoman who, rightly appreciating the advantages of an education, deter- mined to place them within reach of his son. Having ac- quired an education he determined to teach school for a present livelihood, at the same time devoting his spare hours to the study of medicine, his then chosen profession. He came to Ohio soon after graduating, as stated, and entered the Cleveland Homeopathic College, where he graduated in 1868. After graduating he engaged in the general practice of his profession at Warren, Pennsylvania. While, however, thus occupied he began to give especial study to the eye and ear. In 1873 he went to New York, where he spent two years in attendance upon the New York Ophthalmic Hos -. pital, from which he graduated in 1875. Since which time he has been exclusively a specialist as to the treatment of the eye and ear. From New York he went to Milwaukee, where he soon became the President of Milwaukee Medical Academy. When Professor T. P. Wilson, of Pulte Medical College, went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, his departure created an unexpired term as Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology in that college. Dr. McDermott was elected to fill that chair, and in 1880 came to Cincinnati and entered upon a professional career which has been marked by singular success. Dr. McDermott, in so ably filling the chair, is con- tributing to the reputation of that college, while he is grow- ing in distinction as an oculist and aurist. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy ; also of the Home- opathic Medical Society of Ohio ; has been registrar of Pulte College the past three years; now medical director of the Mutual Reliance Insurance Company of Cincinnati. As may be inferred, his success is an index of his profes- sional standing. He has risen rapidly, because he deserved to do so. His cheerfulness, dignity, earnestness, energy, and diligence in his profession are characteristics, all may see who come in contact with him.
ROWLAND, HON. CHARLES WESLEY, health officer of Cincinnati, was born in Anderson County, Ken- tucky, November 17th, 1831. His parents, Allen Rowland and Nancy S. Bailey, were natives of Woodford County, Kentucky, but were of Virginia ancestry. Mr. Rowland was raised upon a farm, passed two years at the Kentucky Military Institute, and in 1849 moved to Cincinnati, and be- came a clerk in the grocery house of Messick, Taylor & Watts. In August, 1854, he began the grocery business in one of the firms succeeding them, and continued thus em- ployed until 1867, when the late firm of Rowland & Co. was formed, which at one time conducted the largest cotton busi- ness in that city. Its members were, C. W. Rowland, W. H. Hamton, and Charles Hemking. July 20th, 1854, he married Miss Virginia Greene. Mr. Rowland was president
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of the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association in 1859; was president of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com- merce from August, 1870, to August, 1872. In religious matters he has always been active and prominent. He be- came a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1849, and was at one time president of the Young Men's Bible So- ciety, of Cincinnati. He has always been a Democrat, and was a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1873-4. As a temperance advocate he took an active part in the cru- sade of 1874, visiting various parts of the State, and making many effective speeches in behalf of that cause. He was chairman of the Union Temperance League of Ohio. Mr. Rowland is now filling the important position of health of- ficer of Cincinnati, with intelligence, zeal, and to the general acceptance of the public. Though unfortunate in some of his business enterprises, Mr. Rowland still maintains his standing for integrity as a business man, and his character as a Christian gentleman. He has done his adopted city and State much service, and is classed among its most use- ful and influential citizens.
BROWNE, SAMUEL J., was born at Honiton, Eng- land, in 1786, and emigrated to this country in 1796 with his father, Rev. John W. Browne, who settled first at Chilli- cothe, Ohio, and afterward, in 1798, at Cincinnati, and a few years later was drowned in the Little Miami River, while re- turning from one of his appointments to preach in that neighborhood. His son, Samuel J. Browne, learned the printing business with Nathaniel Willis, and in 1804 started the Liberty Hall newspaper, afterwards the Cincinnati Ga- zette, and in 1824 the Cincinnati Emporium, afterwards the first daily paper of large size printed in Cincinnati. Through his instigation and pecuniary aid his son, J. W. S. Browne, and his son-in-law, L. G. Curtiss, originated and placed on a paying basis the Cincinnati Daily Commercial. He early perceived the growing tendencies of his adopted city, and was among the first to show his faith by frequent invest- ments in real estate in the city and its suburbs. In 1830 he purchased the late Browne homestead, consisting of twenty- five acres on the north side of the Miami canal, opposite Baymiller Street, and erected thereon a fine residence which he occupied until his death. Mr. Browne was twice married. His first wife, a most estimable and handsome English lady, was wooed and won while Mr. Browne was on a visit to his brother in England, and by whom he had seven children, three of whom still survive. His second wife was a daugh- ter of the late Dr. E. A. At Lee, a lady of sweet disposition and most amiable character, by whom he had five children. Mr. Browne pursued a most active life, retaining both men- tal and physical vigor to within a short period of his death, which occurred in September, 1872, at the ripe old age of eighty-five years.
HOWE, ANDREW JACKSON, M. D., Professor of Surgery in the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, author, lecturer on medicine, etc., was born in 1826, at Pax- ton, Worcester County, Massachusetts. His education was begun with a classical course at Lancaster Academy, and he graduated at Harvard College in 1853. During this and the following year he took a course of lectures at Jefferson Med- ical College, Philadelphia, and afterwards hospital instruc- tion in New York. After graduating at the Worcester Med- ical Institution he was appointed Professor of Anatomy in his
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