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stituency than any other member of the House of Repre- sentatives. Among the numerous bills which he carried through might be mentioned as of greatest importance the fol- lowing : A bill "Providing for the Collection of Delinquent Taxes in Toledo;" a bill "Providing for a Limitation of Tax- ation " and "Providing for a more efficient Board of Police Commissioners for Toledo." He was also the author of a bill called "The Railroad Heater Bill," which repealed a section of the statutes, requiring railroad companies in Ohio to use a certain patent heater or stove in their cars, which seemed to have been enacted in the interest of an individual. The Howard Bill provided for the use of the " best and safest," without regard to whose manufacture or patent it might be. The bill was triumphant after a contest of several weeks against a wealthy and influential lobby. Being a member of the Sixty-fourth General Assembly Mr. Howard had the pleasure of helping to select General James A. Gar- field United States Senator, which position he resigned, being - the same year elected President of the United States. The same Legislature, in 1880, chose Hon. John Sherman to fill the vacancy. Though Mr. Howard is a staunch republican in politics he is in no sense a politician, taking no part in political matters other than becomes the duty of a citizen loyal to the party which represents the principles he espouses. His life has been one of activity and industry, devoting the chief portion of his time to business and the commercial in- terest of the city, serving the public in an official capacity only when convinced that his services were sought in sincer- ity, and feeling that he might in some measure justify the honor done him in the performance of the trusts imposed. Mr. Howard has been a member of the First Congregational Church of Toledo for twenty-eight years, and for the last fifteen one of its trustees. He was married March 18th, 1851, to Miss Jane L. Redfield, of Adrian, Michigan, formerly of Derry, New Hampshire. Her father was a merchant of that place, but subsequently removed to Adrian, where he re-engaged in the mercantile business. Three children, a son and two daughters, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard. The son, Chas. R., is in the commission business in Toledo. Ida A., the oldest daughter, went to Berlin, Germany, and thence to Paris, France, where she is now prosecuting studies in the arts of painting and drawing, of which she had gained a valuable knowledge before going abroad. Mary W., the youngest, spent the last Winter with her sister in the South and in the West Indies, and is now with her parents in Toledo.
BRADDOCK, JOHN SELLERS, is a descendant of an old English and American family. The name of Braddock (Saxon, Broad-oak) at once suggests a chapter in colonial history inseparably connected with that of the country. Major- general Edward Braddock was born in England, in 1650, served with distinction under George II, and won for himself the name of an "honest, brave old gentleman." He died in Bath, June 15th, 1725, and left one son, then about thirty years of age, Edward Braddock, Jr., who was born in En- gland, about 1695. On the eleventh day of October, 1710, he entered the army, with the rank of ensign in the grenadier company of the Coldstream Guards, the flower of the British army. Promotion followed rapidly, until on the 29th of March, 1754, he was made major-general, and in the Sep- tember following was appointed to the command of all the troops to be sent against the French in America. On the
2Ist of December he sailed for Hampton Roads, Virginia, where he arrived February 20th, 1755. His milltary career in America, and especially his unfortunate defeat at Brad- dock's Field, on the 9th of July, 1755, and his tragic death four days later, are well known to the readers of English history. His cousins, John and Raphael Braddock, came to America about the same time, and located in Baltimore County, Maryland. They served in the Revolution, and after the close of the war, or in 1789, they moved to Wash- ington County, Pennsylvania. Raphael Braddock had four sons, Frank, David, Cyrus, and Harvey. David was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, and moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1814. Joshua Brad- dock, son of David, and grandson of Raphael, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, March 19th, 1781. He married Susanna Sellers (born October 15th, 1783) in 1807, by whom he had three sons and seven daughters. He moved to Knox County, Ohio, in 1814, where he entered government land in Morris Township. He was one of the early settlers in that section of country. Possessed of Christian character and high moral worth, he was greatly beloved by his neigh- bors and friends. He died January 9th, 1837. David, the oldest son ·of Joshua and Susanna (Sellers) Braddock, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, November 8th, 1813, and married Catharine Headington (born March 6th, 1817) on the twenty-fourth day of March, 1836. They had a family of six sons and six daughters. Two sons and two daughters died in infancy, and eight are still living. Joshua C. and David W. reside in California ; J. Thomas, in Missouri; John S., in Ohio; and Rebecca H., Fliza A., Ruth A., and Arena E., near Charleston, Illinois. David and Catharine Braddock lived on the old home farm until the fall of 1873, when they removed to Coles County, Illinois, where Mr. Braddock died July 16th, 1882, at the age of sixty-eight years. He was a plain, out-spoken man, but had a kind, generous, and sympathetic heart. He was a friend of tem- perance, education, and true religion. John Sellers Braddock was born at the old family homestead, near Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, on the 13th of December, 1844. He had the advantages of a common school education, and as a boy evinced the intelligence, steadiness, and decision of character which are his characteristics as a man. At the early age of nineteen he was sent by his father to take charge of a farm in Illinois, of which he had the sole management for two years, his industry and economy securing for his father hand- some returns. It is not remarkable that among the success- ful business and public men of the country we find so many who commenced their career as school-teachers. When young Braddock attained his majority he returned to Knox County, Ohio, and turned to good account the learning he had acquired at the "old field school-house." During the winters of 1866-7-8-9 and 1870 he taught school, and as a teacher was both thorough and popular, winning the confi- dence and respect of all his patrons. Intending to operate in real estate, Mr. Braddock occupied the summer months in travel, that he might familiarize himself with the various qualities of the soil of the West, and the best location for farmers emigrating to that region, and while thus engaged he dealt largely in land-warrants. In 1870 he located thirty- five hundred acres of land in Nebraska. So extended did his business become, we have the authority of the Commis- sioner of the General Land Office for saying, that for several years he transacted more business with the United States
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Land Office than any other person or firm in the United States. In the fall of 1870 he became a citizen of Mount Vernon, and at once commenced large operations in real estate, within and beyond the limits of Ohio. By his industry, integrity, and punctuality he has built up a business second to none. He has made extensive additions to the city, erected dwelling houses, opened streets, and largely contributed to the beauty and business of his adopted home. In full sym- pathy with every practical enterprise, he took an active part in organizing the Mount Vernon Bridge Company, which de- servedly ranks with the first establishment of the kind in the country. He was a charter stockholder, and is now president of the company. In politics he is a Democrat, of the Jeffer- son and Jackson stamp, and strictly adheres to the teachings of those great statesmen. He is a good financier, and is well informed upon the financial and commercial interests of the world. Mr. Braddock and his wife are members of the Congregational Church. They have always been earnest and effective workers in the cause of temperance. On the 4th of March, 1869, he married Miss Maggie, the estimable daughter of Edward Burson, of Fredericktown, Ohio (born January 16th, 1851). They have six children-Orrinda Kate, born September 19th, 1870; Edward Burson, born December 3d, 1872; Walter David, born March 6th, 1875; Maggie May, born May 8th, 1877; John Sellers, born June 17th, 1879; Alice Anna, born February 23d, 1881.
CALHOUN, REV. HENRY, was born in 1818, in Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Dr. Horace Bushnell, of Hartford, who was a fellow-townsman, though not born in the same parish, thus describes the place of his own nativity : "An obscure nook among the hills and mount- ains, noted as the birthplace of two presidents of colleges, professors, lawyers, physicians, preachers, and teachers more than I am now able to enumerate." Dr. Theodore L. Cuy- ler, writing of the vicinity, says: "This whole region is fa- mous in its religious history. Dr. Bellamy preached at Beth- lehem, on the east; Finney was born at Warren, on the west; Dr. N. W. Taylor was born at New Milford, on the south ; and Dr. Lyman Beecher's brood of celebrities in yon- der village of Litchfield. That tiny village of New Preston, on the north, was the birthplace of Dr. Charles Wadsworth, of Philadelphia, and of Dr. Horace Bushnell-verily does genius love to hatch its offspring in out-of-the-way nests and nooks." Of late years Washington has been noted for a fine school called the "Gunnery," made famous as the "Bird's Nest" in Dr. Holland's story of "Arthur Bonnycastle." Fred- erick W. Gunn, after whom the school was named, and who was principal, was a fellow-townsman, and about the same age as the subject of this biography. Calhoun, Calhoon, Cahoon, and Cohoon are all doubtless corruptions or improvements upon the old historic name Colquhoun, and all the numer- ous families, North and South, known by these various names probably have a common origin, and so are remotely related. Dr. Simeon Calhoun, missionary to Syria, says he once vis- ited the original homestead whence the Calhouns sprang, in the town of Rye, Cunningham Manor, Donegal County, North of Ireland, and not far from Derry. A very infirm old lady, bearing the name, lived there at the time of his visit. The parents of Henry Calhoun were Justus Truman Calhoun and Lucy Hitchcock, a sister of Judge Hitchcock, at one time professor of law in Yale College. There were five children. The eldest son died at nine years of age.
Two sons and two daughters still live, of whom Henry is the eldest. Their parents were plain, devout Puritans, poor and hard-working people, owning a small farm, on which their son lived till he was fourteen, when, with the ministry in view, he went to Cornwall, Connecticut, and began to pre- pare for college in an academy in the "Old Mission School- house," of which the father of I. W. Andrews, president of Marietta College, was·principal, and his sons assistant teach- ers. President I. W. Andrews was his tutor, and Professor E. B. Andrews, one of the State geologists of Ohio was a classmate. While at Cornwall his father sold his farm and removed to Berkshire, Delaware County, Ohio, in 1833, tak- ing his son Henry with him. His preparation for college was completed under Rev. E. Washburn, a pioneer Presbyterian minister, who had a flourishing school for young people of both sexes at East Blendon, ten miles northeast of Columbus, now known as Central College. Senator Latham and Nelson J. Turney, of Pickaway County, were among his associates at this school. He entered Kenyon College in 1837 and was graduated in 1841, taking the degree of M. A. in 1844. Bishop McIlvaine was his instructor during the senior year. Presi- dent R. B. Hayes and Justice Stanley Matthews were in college at the time, though not in the same class. In his preparation and in his college course, he was obliged to de- pend upon his own exertions for support. In addition to what could be earned out of study hours and during vacation, sev- eral terms of public-school were taught, beginning in a rude pioneer log school-house in Delaware County, when fif- teen years old. In this way he not only maintained a fair class standing, but paid all bills when they became due, and finally graduated out of debt, and with more money than he had when he entered college. Facilities for earning money were very kindly placed in his way by the students, professors, and faculty-among these was the responsible po- sition of bell-ringer, keeping time for the entire college rou- tine, early morning and evening prayers, Sabbath services, lessons and study hours-no small testimonial to his steady and reliable habits. Offers of pecuniary assistance were kindly made from private sources and education societies, but in all cases declined. Among the incidents of his college life may be cited his rescue of tutor Ufford, during the freshman year, from a violent if not deadly attack with pistols and raw- hides by two enraged students, and a Christmas vacation walk home to his father's, about thirty miles, with a number of his fellow-students, among whom was R. B. Hayes, after- wards President. Taking a very early start, the entire com- pany reached their homes the same day, some of them walking forty miles. When they parted at his father's house on the way, all agreed to return and stay there over night on the way back to college, and so shorten that much the long walk. None of the number returned but R. B. Hayes. Resting over night they awoke early the next morning to find the ground covered with a fresh, deep snow. Nothing daunted, the future President and minister made their thirty miles' tramp in the snow-a march which the President has since said exceeded in hardship any thing he saw during all his army life. It was a plucky thing to do, but the word was out, and must not be dishonored, cost what it might. When about twelve years old the subject of this sketch united with the Congregational Church in his native place. Upon their removal to Ohio, not finding a Congregational Church, the family joined the Presbyterians. Thus was formed a con- nection to which he adhered through all his course of study,
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and which ultimately brought him into the ministry in the Presbyterian Church. Upon leaving college, from 1841 to 1845, he taught in Putnam, Ohio, now a part of Zanesville, at the first as private tutor in the Buckingham and Sturges families, afterwards in a classical school of his own. Mean- while he was reading theology under the Rev. Addison Kings- bury, D. D., with whom he boarded part of the time, and to whom he is greatly indebted as to a spiritual father. In Sep- tember, 1844, he was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Tuscarawas, which he occasionally did, until November, 1845, when, as a Home Missionary, he took charge of the Presby- terian Church of Canal Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, with which he labored but eighteen months. In the spring of 1846, while at Canal Dover, he was ordained as an evangel- ist by the presbytery of Tuscarawas. His subsequent min- istry was spent from April, 1847, to December, 1857, in Coshocton, Ohio; from December, 1857, to March, 1866, in Circleville, Ohio; from November, 1866, to the summer of 1870, in Troy, Miami County, Ohio; and from January, 1871, to the present writing (1882), in Ironton, Ohio. In conse- quence of these changes he was first a member of the synod of Ohio, New School; then of Cincinnati, New School; and of the reunited synod of Cincinnati. In each of these synods he was chosen Moderator, and in many other ways enjoyed the confidence of his brethren as chairman of standing com- mittees, and in appointments to preach missionary and doc- trinal sermons. Such is, in brief, the outline of thirty-seven years in the ministry, always uniformly acceptable as pastor and preacher, and occupying pleasant and important fields of labor. In 1847, the first year of his ministry in Coshoc- ton, Mr. Calhoun was happily married in Putnam, Ohio, to Jane Metcalf, eldest daughter of John and Almira L. Metcalf. The family were New England people, from Lenox, Massa- chusetts. In what was known as Calhoun Street, in Wash- ington, Connecticut, were two mountain trout streams, known as Bee and Chapel Brooks, the latter a branch of the former, and so called after a family of that name, who had lived upon its headwaters, and moved to parts unknown about the time of or before the birth of Justus T. Calhoun in that vi- cinity. Meanwhile he grew up to manhood and came to Ohio, where his son Henry graduated at college, and at last settled as a teacher in Putnam, Ohio. There he found a nu- merous and prominent family of Guthries, who were descend- ants of an uncle of his father of that name, who came to Ohio in an early day from Washington, Connecticut. Mar- rying afterwards into the Metcalf family, it was a pleasant surprise to find that they were related by marriage to the Guthries, and that the grandmother of his wife, on her fath- er's side was a Chapel, and in regular descent from the family once living on Chapel Brook, in Calhoun Street. Thus were the three genealogical streams (Guthrie, Chapel, and Calhoun), which had originated in the same neighbor- hood in the East, after long wanderings, happily united on the banks of the Muskingum. There was no little surprise with pleasant congratulations when these relationships were thus traced and verified. Mrs. Jane M. Calhoun, now for thirty-five years the wife of Rev. H. Calhoun, has been a diligent co-worker with him. Domestic in her ways, mind- ing her own affairs, intelligent, independent, yet prudent, she has filled the trying position of a minister's wife so wisely and unblamably as wholly to escape the gainsaying of churches or congregations, and to command universal confidence and respect.
WOLCOTT, SIMON P., Senator in the Sixty-fifth Gen- eral Assembly of Ohio, and a lawyer, at Kent, Ohio, was born at Northfield, Summit County, in this State, January 30th, 1837. His parents, who were reared in Ohio, were Alfred and Mary Ann Wolcott. He belongs to the ancient Wolcott family, whose history has been compiled and published in a fine quarto volume, entitled "The Wolcott Memorial," a copy of which may be seen in the State Library at Columbus. This work, which is a masterpiece of its kind, contains por- traits of many members of the family, a cut of the Wolcott coat-of-arms, and photographic copies of many relics of the old homestead in England, among which is a copy of the license of alienation of Galdon Manor, at Tolland, Somerset- shire, England, made to one of the Wolcotts, in the early part of the sixteenth century, in the reign of James the First, and the Chancellorship of Lord Bacon, whose signature it bears. This was the ancestral seat of the family, as far back as is definitely known, although it has been traced on doubt- ful authority to the eleventh century, in Wales, and was the home of John Wolcott, the father of Henry, who emigrated to America in 1630, and settled at Windsor, Connecticut. The family is conspicuous for its honorable and influential career, belonging to the class of freeholders in England, and well known in the history of the New England States as holders of many important positions of public trust during the Colonial and Revolutionary periods in America. Besides many officers of rank, both civil and military, it includes three Governors of Connecticut-Roger Wolcott, and the two Oliver Wolcotts, the second Oliver Wolcott also holding the position of Secretary of the Treasury under Washington. The family history runs on down through several generations, as they resided in Connecticut, a branch of it finally remov- ing to New York, and from there another branch to Ohio. Our subject belongs to the sixth generation of the family in America. He was born and reared on a farm, having the meager advantages of an early education which winter school- ing in the country could afford, but finally went to Hiram College, where he was a fellow-student with James A. Garfield, preparatory to a collegiate course in the Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio. He was graduated at the latter institution in 1862, receiving the degree of A. B., and that of A. M. three years after. His early inclination to the legal profession led him to adopt that as a life pursuit, and soon after graduation he entered the law office of H. B. Foster, of Hudson, Ohio, as a student, finishing his course with Judge N. D. Tibbals, of Akron, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in Summit County, in 1864, but removed at once to Portage County, and began the practice of law in Kent, where he has remained continuously to the present time. He has been identified with public enterprises, and has been a public character in his own community most of his life, holding the office of village Mayor four years, and has been a member of the Kent School Board ten years. As a mem- ber of the State Senate, to which he was elected in the fall of 1881, from Portage, Summit, Lake, Geauga, and Ashtabula Counties, he has made himself prominent as an active par- ticipant in the discussion of many leading questions of the day. Notable among his efforts there may be mentioned his argument before the Senate, while sitting as a Committee of the Whole, against the measure then under discussion, known as "The Brigham Bill for the Regulation of Transportation Rates by Railways." What influence this speech bore toward the defeat of the bill, can not, of course, be conjectured, but
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It is sufficient to say that although thoroughly and warmly discussed on both sides, as a question of great moment, the bill was lost, and that Mr. Wolcott's speech was loudly praised by the railroad party, who have since had it pub- lished in pamphlet form, and six thousand copies issued for general distribution. As a lawyer he is successful, bears an honorable reputation, and displays a brilliant native talent. His speeches, both professional and political, are logical, and show a wide learning, not infrequently sparkling with genuine wit. He has always been an earnest supporter of the Re- publican party, taking the stump in its behalf in almost every campaign. He enjoys a high social and business standing in his own community, and the full confidence of his constituents as a legislator. He married July 17th, 1866, Mary Helen Brewster, a lineal descendant of Elder Brewster, of Puritan note. The children of this marriage are : Nellie B., Jennie B., and Duncan B. Wolcott, all of whom are now living.
CATLIN, MILTON M., M. D., homeopathic physi- cian and surgeon, Canton, Stark County, Ohio, and leading homœopath of the county, was born in Winfield, Herkimer County, New York, August 15th, 1846. His parents, Roger and Elizabeth (Noble) Catlin, were both natives of New York State. He was the third son in a family of seven children, and at nine years of age was left fatherless. From that time until the age of sixteen he found a home in farmers' families, working during the summer seasons, and attending the common schools during portions of the winters. For the last two of these years he enjoyed the advantages of the academy in his native town. The opportunities afforded him were duly appreciated; he devoted himself assiduously to his studies, with a determination to acquire that education so necessary to secure success in life. Upon leaving the academy he took the first prize for superiority in declamation. In the spring of 1863, at the age of sixteen, he entered the army as a private, in Company D, 46th Veteran New York Volunteers. The regiment was known as "Fremont's regi- ment," and formed a part of the 2d brigade, Ist division, 9th army corps, General Burnside commander. The doctor's service covered a period of two years, until the close of the war, and he took part in many of the important battles. He was at the siege of Vicksburg, after which he was transferred to duty in East Tennessee, and took part in the battles of Blue Springs, Campbell's Station, Knoxville, and Fort San- ders. In 1864 he was transferred to Virginia; was at the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Petersburgh, siege of Petersburgh, Fort Steadman, the fall of Petersburgh, Appomattox, and the surrender of Lee, as well as numerous skirmishes and minor battles. He took part in the grand review at Washington, May 23d, 1865, and remained on guard duty at Washington until July 28th, 1865, when he was mustered out, and returned home. His health being impaired by army service, he entered the office of Doctor Nathan Spencer, a homoeopathic physician of Winfield, as a patient and student. Here he prosecuted his studies with the same degree of energy as at his early schools and the academy. He attended courses of lectures in the Homeopathic Hospital College, of Cleveland, Ohio, and was graduated therefrom in February, 1868. In the following spring he opened an office, and began practice in Brookfield, Madison County, New York, where he remained some three years, when he removed to Massillon, Stark County, Ohio,
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