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dria, Virginia, and was ordained an Episcopal minister, by Bishop Moore, in 1826. After a ministry of three years at Martinsburg, Virginia, he accepted a call to Georgetown, District of Columbia, where he preached for six years-leav- ing that place, in 1835, to take charge of Christ church, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Here he preached with much success for twelve years, building up the wealthiest Episcopal parish in the West-at the same time always taking a prominent part in the councils of the church, and especially in the general conventions, where he was recognized as a strong Western champion of conservative churchmanship. Having become a trustee of Kenyon College, he retired, because of broken health, to Gambier, in 1847, accepting the professorship of belles-lettres in the college, and that of pastoral divinity in the theological seminary. After recruiting his health and resting for about eighteen months, he returned to his church in Cincinnati, remaining in charge for two years longer, when, believing that a stronger and more physically active minister was required, he left it finally and again retired to Gambier, where, resuming the professorships he had previ- ously held, and preaching at intervals in the college chapel, he hoped to pass the rest of his life. In 1853; however, he was induced to take charge of the Church of the Ascension, at Baltimore, Maryland, where, in twelve months, his health failed so completely that he resigned, never expecting to oc- cupy the pulpit again. But, feeling stronger in the following spring, he consented to go to Springfield, Ohio, where he had a small property, with the understanding that he should preach, only when he was able, in Christ Church, of that place. There, with the assistance of other ministers, he continued his ministry for about six years, when he was compelled to retire finally from the pulpit. Dr. Brooke was distinguished for the logical power shown in his sermons, and their rhetorical fin- ish, rather than for the eloquence or force of their delivery. His method of preparing his sermons was always peculiar and laborious. He carefully arranged each sentence in his mind and fixed it in his memory without committing it to writing-thus composing the two sermons required for each Sabbath day, on different topics, at the same time, and then preaching them from very meager notes. He never preached a written sermon, it is said, originally, although many of his sermons were reduced to writing by amanuenses after their delivery. He left fewer written sermons, perhaps, than any minister of the Episcopal church who had ever occupied the pulpit during so long a period of time. Dr. Brooke was a man of large social as well as religious influence in the State, and, although never a partisan in politics, he did not refuse to ex- ercise the rights and duties of a citizen. He was originally an old-line whig, but in later years, being of Southern birth, his sympathies were rather with the democratic party. As a minister, he was widely revered, and, as a man, he was be- loved by all who knew him. His long term of service in the State of Ohio, and the prominent part he took in the affairs of the church, gave him more than a local reputation. He married, during his ministry at Martinsburg, Virginia, Miss Louisa R. Hunter, daughter of Colonel David Hunter, of that place, and his wife survived him. He had seven chil- dren-Richard, Hunter, Leighton, Eleanor P., Rev. Pendle- ton (a pastor at Bartol, Tennessee), William Mead, and Rev. Frank Key Brooke, (rector at College Hill.) Hunter Brooke, the second son, was born in the District of Colum- bia, May 20th, 1831. Having graduated at Kenyon College, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, in Maryland, in
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1853. He subsequently practiced law in Cincinnati, where he became prominent in local politics, and was a representa- tive in the Ohio legislature of 1857-58. Having enlisted as a private in the Second Minnesota volunteers, at the begin- ning of the war of Secession, he served until its close, at- taining the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1867 he resumed the practice of his profession in Cincinnati, and was afterward employed in the United States internal revenue service. He married Miss F. H. Barker, of Cincinnati, in 1857, who bore him one daughter.
HARRISON, GENERAL BENJAMIN, lawyer, Indi- anapolis, Indiana, was born August 20th, 1833, at the house of his grandfather, President Harrison, at North Bend, Ohio. His early education was received at home, from a tutor em- ployed in the family, and at the age of fourteen he was sent to Cary's Academy, near Cincinnati, where he remained about two years. In the summer of 1850 he suffered the loss of his mother, and in the fall of the same year went to Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, then under the presidency of Rev. W. C. Anderson. Here he entered as a junior, and in June, 1852, graduated fourth in a class of sixteen. After a few months' vacation he commenced the study of law in the office of Storer & Gwynne, of Cincinnati, where he re- mained two years. In October, 1853, he married Miss Carrie L. Scott, daughter of Rev. J. W. Scott, D. D., of Oxford, Ohio. Two children of this marriage survive-Russell B., and Mamie S. Harrison. In March, 1854, Mr. Harrison set- tled in Indianapolis, with a fortune of eight hundred dollars, inherited from the estate of a deceased aunt, Mrs. General Findlay, of Cincinnati. Here he first entered the office of John H. Rea, Clerk of the District Court of the United States, and while there, was invited by Major Jonathan W. Gordon to assist in the prosecution of the "Point Lookout" burglary case. This was his first jury trial. Governor David Wallace represented the defense. When Mr. Harrison sat down, after making his argument, and the Governor pre- pared to reply, he paid the young lawyer a graceful and well-merited compliment. Soon afterward he was invited to form a partnership with William Wallace, and accepted. This connection proved very pleasant, and the firm did a prosperous and successful business. Shortly after entering this partnership, Mr. Harrison was appointed by Judge Major to prosecute a case against a negro who was accused of putting poison in some coffee at the Ray House. He had but one night for preparation, and no previous knowledge on the subject of poisons, but he sat up the greater part of the night, and, with the assistance of Dr. Parvin, acquired considerable information on toxicology, from several experi- ments for the detection of arsenic in the coffee, exhibited by Dr. Parvin. The result was the conviction of the criminal. In 1860 his partner, Mr. Wallace, was elected Clerk of Ma- rion County, and Mr. Harrison formed a law partnership with Mr. W. P. Fishback, which continued until he entered the army. In the fall of 1860 Mr. Harrison was elected re- porter of the Supreme Court of Indiana. During his term of office he published two volumes of Reports (XV and XVI) and had nearly completed a third (XVII), when he entered the military service. A notable event in connection with the political canvass was his joint meeting with Gov- ernor Hendricks, at Rockville, Parke County, which was quite accidental, but in which the youthful orator acquitted himself in the most creditable manner. The joint debate is still re-
membered by all who heard it, and showed General Harri- son to be an orator second in debate to none in the coun- try. In July, 1862, Mr. Harrison felt it his duty to take the field, although a young man, holding a comfortable civil office, just starting in life, and with a young wife and two little children. Governor Morton asked him to raise a regi- ment, and some one else could be found to lead it to the field; but Mr. Harrison refused, saying that if he persuaded a man to go to the field he would be found there with him. The Governor immediately offered him the command of a regiment. He obtained a second lieutenant's recruiting com- mission, and raised and took the first company (A) of the Seventieth Indiana Regiment into camp, and in less than thirty days from the date of the first recruiting commission, was in Kentucky with one thousand and ten men. This was the first regiment in the field under that call. General Harri- son continued in the army until the close of the war, when he was mustered out as a brevet brigadier-general. His regiment served in Kentucky and Tennessee in the Army of the Cum- berland, and was connected with a brigade commanded for a long time by General W. T. Ward, of Kentucky. On the Atlanta campaign the brigade was attached, as the First Brigade, to the Third Division of the Twentieth Army Corps, commanded by General Joe Hooker. After General Butter- field left the division, Colonel Harrison was assigned to the command of the brigade, and continued in command until after the surrender of Atlanta. Being then temporarily de- tached for other duty, he was, after Sherman's army marched from Atlanta, assigned to command a provisional brigade, and with that took part in the battle of Nashville, and the subsequent pursuit of Hood to Tuscumbia, Alabama. Being relieved at his own request, and ordered to join his brigade at Savannah, he would have joined them there, but on the way was prostrated by a severe fever, which confined him to his bed for several weeks. Before he was fully recovered he started for Savannah, and, the army having moved, was assigned to command.a camp in which the recruits and con- valescents were gathered. When Sherman reached Raleigh, Colonel Harrison joined his brigade and accompanied them to Washington. Meanwhile, in the fall of 1864, he was re- elected reporter of the Supreme Court, and was offered a place in the law firm of Porter & Fishback, which then be- came Porter, Harrison & Fishback. After Mr. Fishback as- sumed the editorship of the Journal, General Harrison remained with Mr. Porter in company with Judge Hines, the firm being Porter, Harrison & Hines. This firm was dis- solved, and W. H. H. Miller became a member of the new partnership, under the firm name of Harrison, Hines & Mil- ler, in which the General still continues. In 1876 General Harrison was the unanimous choice of the Republicans of Indiana for Governor, on the withdrawal of Godlove S. Orth. After a most exciting canvass, he was defeated. Prior to the nominating convention he had declined, but, on the withdrawal of Mr. Orth, felt it to be his duty to respond to the imperious call of the people from all parts of the State. General Harrison united with the Presbyterian Church at Oxford, in 1850, and since 1860 has been a mem- ber of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis. Gen- eral Harrison's military and civil record are of the very best. His practice as a lawyer has been brilliant and successful. As a speaker, he is convincing and effective, taking a place in the front rank of oratory; while his reputation as a citi- zen and a gentleman is without a blemish.
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MCKINLEY, WILLIAM, JR., lawyer and member of Congress, Canton, Ohio, was born in Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, February 26th, 1844. His parents were William McKin- ley and Nancy Allison, who came from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled in New Lisbon, where the former was for several years engaged as a foundryman. He subsequently removed to Mahoning county, Ohio, where our subject, the third son in a family of nine children, was educated in the Poland Academy. In May, 1861, at the age of seventeen he entered the United States army as a private in company E, 23d Ohio volunteer infantry. He was soon employed as clerk in the quartermaster's department, and in September, 1862, he was made second lieutenant, and placed on the staff of Gen- eral Hayes, where he served until the summer of 1864, when he was transferred to the staff of General Crook, and there remained to the close of the war. He was mustered out of service as captain, and brevetted major for efficient and meritorious services during the war. In September, 1865, he began reading law with Judge Charles E. Glidden, of War- ren, Ohio, attended lectures at the Albany Law School, Albany, New York, and was admitted to the bar in Warren, Ohio, in the spring of 1867. In the following autumn he located in Canton, Ohio, his present residence, and began the practice of his profession. In 1869 he was elected pros- ecuting attorney for Stark county, and served two years. In the fall of 1876 he was elected to the lower house of Con- gress, on the republican ticket, from the seventeenth Ohio district, comprising the counties of Stark, Mahoning, Colum- biana and Carroll. ln: the forty-fifth Congress he distin- guished himself as the champion of the protective tariff principle, in his bold and able speech against what was known as the Wood's tariff bill. In the fall of 1878 he was again nominated by the republicans for the same position, the district at this time being composed of the counties of Ashland, Portage, Stark and Wayne, these counties having previously given a democratic majority of over two thousand. Mr. McKinley was elected by twelve hundred and thirty-four majority. He took an active part in the gubernatorial cam- paign of 1879, and vigorously supported Charles Foster for governor of Ohio. He is an excellent lawyer, a clear, logical and forcible speaker. He is especially noted for his affable, gentlemanly manners and upright character, and is widely popular as a citizen. On January 25th, 1871, he married Ida, daughter of James A. Saxton, Esq., of Canton. Mr. Mckinley served through the 45th, 46th, and 47th Con- gresses, and was re-elected to the 48th Congress, receiving 16,906 votes against 16,898 votes cast for his Democratic opponent.
MURRAY, R. MAYNARD, member of Congress, Piqua, Ohio, was born in Concord, Lake County, Ohio, No- vember 28th, 1841, and is the son of Robert Murray, who for many years was engaged in purchasing cattle on a large scale, and sending them to the Eastern market for sale. His mother, Sophronia (Parmelee) Murray, came to Ohio from Otisco, Onondaga County, New York, and was con- nected with the Bronson family, who were of old Puritan stock. Her parents emigrated from Connecticut to the State of New York before finally removing to Ohio. The subject of this sketch had the usual elementary training which was obtained in the common schools, and when fourteen years of age he entered an academy at Kirtland, in Lake County, where he remained about a year. He then became a student C-30
at a Methodist institution at Willoughby, in Lake County, and in 1857 went to Oberlin College, where he spent two years. Here he did not take a regular course, but selected his studies. On leaving Oberlin, he attended the law college at Cleveland, conducted by Judge Hadyn, where he was graduated and admitted to the bar. On the outbreak of the Rebellion, he enlisted in the one hundred days' service, and prior to the expiration of that period the soldiers were asked to enlist for three years, but, owing to the condition of his private affairs at the time, he was unable to do so. Returning to Cleveland, he entered the law office of Ranney, Backus & Noble, where he remained for nearly two years. In 1864, he enlisted in the 150th Ohio Volunteers, in the one hundred days' service. The regiment garrisoned the forts that formed part of the chain of fortifications that surrounded Washington. The 150th remained in those forts during the whole term of service, and participated in the fight before Washington with a part of Early's rebel corps, July 10th and 11th, 1864. Having left the service, he entered into the cattle trade in the State of Iowa, remaining there, however, only one year. He returned to Ohio, and became collecting clerk in the First National Bank, at Painesville. In October, 1867, he was made book-keeper, and on the Ioth of January, 1871, was elected cashier. He served as a member of the School Board of Painesville for three years, and was treasurer of its funds four years. In the spring of 1878 he was elected Mayor of the city. He is regarded as a very able accountant, which was shown in the manner in which he discharged his duties as cashier of the Painesville National Bank. In 1879 he resigned his position in the First National Bank of Paines- ville, of which he had been cashier for nine years, and re- moved to Piqua, where he started the manufacture of agri- cultural implements, in which he has been very successful. He was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, receiving 16, 106 votes against 15,826 cast for his Republican opponent. He is a public-spirited citizen, and takes an interest in State and National politics. Those who have business transactions with him find that he is a model gentleman, courteous and affable to all; and being a fine speaker, his speeches are al- ways acceptable at public and political gatherings. He mar- ried, on the Ist of September, 1869, Miss Alice Gray, of Painesville, the daughter of H. C. Gray, Esq., formerly editor of the Painesville Telegraph and the Cleveland Leader. They have four children, Paul Gray, Jay Nellis, Helen Alice, and Kate Elizabeth.
HUNTINGTON, HENRY DWIGHT, late of Cincin- nati, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. He was descended from an old Puritan family whose history dates back sev- eral centuries, and has family connections in every branch of American social and public life. He was the son of Eras- tus Huntington, who was a graduate of Yale College, a promi- nent manufacturer of Norwich, and a man of education, re- finement, and sterling principle. The mother of our subject was a daughter of General Joseph Williams, an eminent pub- lic man in Connecticut at the close of the last century. The subject of this sketch having completed his education with such facilities as the time afforded, in the year 1836, com- menced his business career in the queen's-ware store of his elder brother, at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1838, his brother retir- ing, he assumed charge of the business, in association with Charles V. Wallach, who afterward became Mayor of Wash- ington City. Mr. Wallach retired from the business in the
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following year, and was succeeded by Mr. Oliver A. Brooks, and the firm thus became Huntington & Brooks. This firm still flourishes, and is one of the oldest in Ohio. It has never failed to meet its obligations or encountered any reverse since its origin. In 1843 they extended their business by es- tablishing a branch in Cincinnati, of which Mr. Huntington became manager. In 1845 the firm commenced the hazard- ous experiment of importing glassware from Europe, which, however, was attended with eminent suceess. In 1854 Mr. Huntington was elected president of the Young Men's Mer- cantile Library Association, having previously served as di- rector, corresponding secretary, and vice-president, with credit to himself and benefit to the institution. In 1868 he was elected director of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company; and with several schemes for advancing the interests of the city of his adoption, he was more or less prominently and usefully connected. Mr. Huntington found opportunity of visiting the older civilizations of Europe on several occasions. His social and business reputations were in the highest degree praiseworthy, and he was a sincere member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was twice married, first in 1846, to the daughter of the late Rev. Sam- uel Johnston, first rector of St. Paul's Church, Cincinnati, by whom he had four children, two of whom survive, viz .: Ed- ward Hallam and Frank; and July 22d, 1873, he married Mrs. Augusta M. Shumway, of Chicago, daughter of William S. Johnston, of Cincinnati, a cousin of his first wife, and a lady of great social worth. Mr. Huntington was an active, energetic man, possessed of extraordinary intelligence, and was a good example of a successful Western merchant. He died April 28th, 1884.
MILLER, CHARLES A., Treasurer of Hamilton County, Ohio, was born August 19th, 1842, at Portageville, Wyoming County, New York. He is the son of George A. and Esther S. (Fuller) Miller. His father was born in Lyn- donville, Vermont, and removed to Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1847, locating first at Mt. Pleasant, and subsequently at Cheviot. His mother was born in Portageville, New York. His paternal grandfather was an extensive carriage manu- facturer. His maternal grandfather served as a captain in the Revolutionary War. The parents of our subject were in poor circumstances, his father being an invalid. The son, at the age of fifteen, began his business life by engaging to learn the trade of house-painting, to which he diligently applied himself until the Fall of 1862, when he enlisted in the 5th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. He remained with this regiment for two years, when he was discharged on account of physical disability. In 1864, having recovered his health somewhat, he re-enlisted in the 33d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving with this organization during the remainder of the War of the Rebellion, and being promoted to the position of orderly sergeant. At the close of the war he returned to Hamilton County, locating at Cumminsville, then a suburb of Cincinnati and now incorporated in the city proper. Here he engaged in the business of house-painting for two years. In 1870 he established the livery and undertaking business, in which he is still interested. He is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and has held all the offices in the gift of that order up to Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Ohio. He is also a Knight Templar, and was a member of the Board of Education of Cincinnati from 1879 to 1884. He was elected Treasurer of Hamilton County in the
fall of 1881, on the Democratic ticket, assuming the duties of his office in the fall of 1882. He is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. Mr. Miller was married in August 1864, to Miss Melissa R. Campbell, daughter of James and Phobe Campbell, who were old residents of Hamilton County. By this union six children were born, four of whom are liv- ing. Owing to the adverse circumstances of his youth, Mr. Miller had but limited educational avantages, which con- sisted of only two weeks' instruction in the common schools of the day. What information he has since acquired was gained by his daily intercourse with the world. That he has acquitted himself well in the battle of life is attested by the confidence and esteem in which he is held by his fellow-citi- zens, who have intrusted him with many positions of respon- sibility and honor. He is courteous and considerate to all, a warm-hearted and trustworthy friend, generous and char- itable in thought and action, and utterly devoid of narrow- ness or selfishness. He is a gentleman of excellent business qualifications, decided opinions, and of unquestionable integ- rity. Mr. Miller presents a good example of the manner in which a well disposed youth can attain a position and influ- ence in any chosen field of labor by the exercise of perse- verance and energy, combined with that probity of charac- ter which is so characteristic of our subject.
MCCORMICK, JOHN WATTS, of Gallipolis, a mem- ber of the Forty-eighth Congress from the Eleventh District of Ohio, comprising the counties of Gallia, Hocking, Jack- son, Lawrence, Scioto, and Vinton, is a son of John R. and Sarah R. McCormick, and was born near Gallipolis, Decem- ber 20th, 1831. He was brought up on a farm, and attended district school until he reached the age of eighteen. In 1850 he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, of Delaware, Ohio, where he remained for two years, at the same time teaching school. Later on he entered the Ohio University, at Athens, Ohio. Here he remained one year, and, owing to ill health, did not graduate. On finally leaving school, he engaged in farming. Mr. McCormick has been twice married ; first, April 17th, 1855, to Miss Caroline R. Mills, who died August 5th, 1870, leaving four sons and one daughter. September 18th, 1872, he was married to Miss Sarah Ann Miles, of Columbus, Ohio, this lady at the time being matron of the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. The result of this marriage has been one daughter. In 1860 he was licensed to preach by the Methodist Conference, and elected an elder a few years later. He has never been in the regular itinerancy, but frequently officiates without pecu- niary compensation, although he has at times acted as a regular supply, for which he has accepted a nominal compensation. For some four or five years he was su- perintendent of a woolen mill at Gallipolis, but farming is his natural taste. He has served in several official positions in his county at various times. In 1873 he was elected dele- gate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention, and while there took an active part in affairs, showing himself to be a true man of the people. In that body he made brief though practical and pointed speeches "On Education," " The Elec- tive Franchise," and "Against the License of the Liquor Traffic." In politics he is a Republican, and as such he was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress by a large ma- jority, receiving 15,288 votes against 13,037 cast for his Democratic opponent, Hon. John P. Leedom. In the vari- ous public positions and public offices he has been called
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