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In 1868, Dr. Stone sold the property to Rev. Daniel Shep- ardson, D. D., who has maintained a high educational stand- ard up to the present time. Prominent among his helpers were Misses M. O. Brooks and Mary E. Anderson, who re- mained with him several years. [See " Additional Record."]
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CHAPTER XLIII.
MINISTERS, MISSIONARIES, LAWYERS, PHYSICIANS.
I. MINISTERS.
There have gone from our families, Orlin P. Hayes, son of Deacon Levi Hayes, Congregationalist. Studied at Williams College, theology with Dr. Timothy Cooley, Granville, Mass., licensed in 1816, went South, and died at Tallahassee, Fla.
Augustine Alexander preached first on the Granville cir- cuit in 1864. He began traveling in 1835. His work was mostly in the southern part of Ohio. He became a Presiding Elder. His labor ceased in 1880. He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Montague, and the second, Miss Armstrong. He now resides in Westerville, O.
Samuel Cooper, beginning in 1818, and William Metcalf were Methodist preachers at an early day ; but little can be gathered concerning them.
Norval Howe, son of Deacon Amasa Howe, Presbyterian, Hampden Sidney College; preached in Eastern Virginia, later in South Carolina, living to a great age.
Timothy W. Howe, son of Deacon Amasa Howe, Presby- terian, Ohio University, Union Theological Seminary, Va .; married Miss Chloe Harris, of Granville; settled in Lima Township, Licking County, O., where he has done a noble life work.
Hiram Howe, son of Deacon Amasa Howe, Presbyterian, Ohio University ; preached in Gallia County, O.
George Ezekiel Gavit, son of William Gavit, Methodist ; now resides in Ashley, Delaware County, O., superannuated.
E. Corrington Gavit, son of William Gavit, Methodist, Toledo, O.
Thomas Parker, son of the Mr. Parker who settled at the mouth of Clear Run in 1803, Methodist ; was a local preacher in 1828, and ordained in 1832; lives at Pataskala, O., super- annuated; married the daughter of Eliphas Thrall, Sen.
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John B. Thomas, Baptist ; preached in Knox County, O.
Samuel W. Rose, son of Judge T. Rose, Presbyterian, Ohio University ; licensed 1826; died at New Lexington, O.
Joseph H. Weeks, son of Joseph Weeks, Sen., Presbyte- rian; preached near Natches, Miss., where he still lives, incapacitated for service by paralysis.
There were three brothers by the name of Woods, all Bap- tist ministers, in early times, of whom little can be gathered.
Constant Jones, Methodist, lived some time with his brother-in-law, Cotton M. Thrall.
Hoover, Methodist, lived at the furnace, where he held meetings of considerable power.
Owen Owens, Baptist, was licensed in 1823; organized the churches of Homer, Liberty and Genoa.
William Sprague, who worked at coopering with Mr. Langdon, became a Methodist preacher.
Daniel Thomas, Evan Thomas, Benjamin Thomas, three brothers, Baptists, came about 1835, began to preach, re- moved to Morrow county, Ohio. Daniel is dead; Evan preaches in Illinois; Benjamin is President of Judson Uni- versity, Judsonia, Arkansas.
Griffith W. Griffith, son of Nicodemus Griffith, Presby- terian ; Ohio University; Lane Seminary ; died in course of study, February 3d, 1844.
Henry L. Richards, son of Dr. Wmn. S. Richards, Episco- palian ; Kenyon College; preached in Columbus, Ohio; be- came a Roman Catholic; now in hardware business in city of Boston.
Milton B. Starr, son of John Starr, Congregational ; Lane Seminary ; preached in Central Ohio, Northern Indiana, and city missionary San Francisco, where he now resides ; married Miss Elizabeth G. Knowlton, a teacher in the Female Academy.
John White, convert of revival of 1831-2, Methodist; Pre- siding Elder.
Richard Doughty, raised on the Welsh Hills, Methodist ;
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served on the Granville Circuit 1844-5, two years. He also married here.
. Ebenezer Bushnell, D. D., son of T. H. Bushnell, Pres- byterian ; Western Reserve College ; Theological Department of the same institution, being tutor of mathematics in Col- lege while studying theology ; preached at Burton, Ohio, and at Fremont, Ohio, where he now resides.
Henry Bushnell, son of Deacon Leonard Bushnell, Pres- byterian ; Marietta College; Lane and Andover Seminaries; preached at Lexington and Marysville, Ohio, until health failed ; taught at Central College ; resides in Granville, Ohio; married Miss Harriet M. Thompson, of Granville, Ohio.
Albert A. Sturges, son of Isaac Sturges, Congregational ; Wabash College; New Haven Theological Seminary ; mis- sionary of A. B. C. F. M., on the Island Ponape, Micronesia ; married Miss Susan M. Thompson, of Granville, Ohio.
Lewis Granger, son of Ralph Granger, Baptist; Granville College ; preached for a time ; resides in California.
William Hoge, D. D., Presbyterian; colleague of Dr. Gardiner Spring, New York; at the breaking out of the civil war, he went to Virginia, and died soon after.
Joseph Little, son of Rev. Jacob Little, D. D., Presby- terian ; Western Reserve College; Lane Seminary ; chaplain in the army, where he had an eventful history ; was publish- ing a series of charts for aid in his work in West Virginia, when his health failed ; now at the Health Retreat, Dansville, New York ; married Miss Emma K. Little, of Granville.
Luman P. Rose, son of H. Prosper Rose, Congregational ; licensed in middle life; Home Mission Superintendent, Indianapolis, Indiana; married Miss Emeline Starr, of Gran- ville, Ohio.
George F. Richards, son of Dr. William S. Richards, Epis- copalian ; Kenyon College; Nashotalı Mission, Wisconsin ; ordained as deacon at Ashtabula, Ohio, where he died in · early life.
George Little, son of Rev. Jacob Little, D. D., Presbyte-
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rian ; Marietta College ; Lane Seminary ; preached at Oconto, Wisconsin, and now at Plymouth, Indiana.
Edward Payson Linnel, son of Reuben Linnel, Presbyte- rian ; Denison University and Hamilton College; Union The- ological Seminary, New York; preaches at German Valley, New Jersey ; married Miss Louise Johnson, of Granville, Ohio.
William D. Woodbury, Universalist ; preaches at New Way, Jersey, and McConnelsville; has preached at two of these places for twenty-two years.
George Thrall, son of Walter Thrall, Esq., Episcopalian ; Granville College; Kenyon College; ordained in 1852; col- league of Dr. Dudley A. Tyng ; Philadelphia; pastor at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Brooklyn, New York; labored for Christian Union; now lives in Boston, Massachusetts ; writing a volume entitled " Need and Way of Union."
William A. Smith, son of A. J. Smith, Presbyterian ; Mar- ietta College; Union Theological Seminary ; died in Michi- gan, 1879.
Frances M. Hall, son of Dr. Jeremiah Hall, of Denison University ; Episcopalian ; Denison University ; taught four- teen years ; rector in Grace Church, Toledo, Ohio ; St. Mary's Church, Cleveland, Ohio; Trinity Church, Newark, Ohio; preaching occasionally in Granville, Ohio.
Rev. John Payne, Baptist; Denison University ; Rochester Theological Seminary ; pastor, Morenci, Michigan.
Charles Little, D. D., son of Rev. Jacob Little, D. D., Presbyterian ; Marietta College; Lane Seminary ; preaches at Wabash, Indiana.
Henry Fulton, son of Robert Fulton, Presbyterian ; Den- ison University ; Western Theological Seminary ; preached at Duncan's Falls, Ohio; West Union, Pennsylvania; teach- ing at Holton, Pennsylvania.
Evan Thomas, son of James Thomas, Congregational ; Denison University; taught and studied at New Haven, Connecticut ; preaches in Vermont.
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William J. Williams, Baptist; Denison University ; some- times preaches ; living in Illinois.
There would be quite a number added to this list if all were included who came here to study or teach. Among them, Prescott B. Smith, who studied with Mr. Harris; B. W. Chidlaw, D. D., who studied with Mr. Little, Edmund Garland, James Rank, Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D., Lewis God- den, Joseph V. Barks, J. M. Stearns, Ezekiel Scudder, Rollin A. Sawyer, D. D., James H. Taylor, D. D., Hugh B. Scott, Charles Wallace, and all who have entered the ministry and been connected with the University. As catalogues of the different institutions are published, the reader is referred to them for information which would unduly burden our pages.
II. MISSIONARIES.
Samnel Wisner, in 1818, went to labor among the Cher- okees as a master mechanic, helping them in their removal from Georgia to their new territory, and in building houses in their new home. He was under the A. B. C. F. M .; died in Geauga County, Ohio.
William H. Manwaring, in 1823, had a similar commission to one of the tribes in Georgia ; died at Franklin, Ind.
Miss Mary Ann Howe, in 1833, was married to Rev. Mr. Jolinston, of Charleston, S. C., and went to Asia Minor under the same Board. After nineteen years of labor they returned to this country, her health not being equal to the demands of missionary toil.
Henry K. Copeland and wife, in October, 1835, offered themselves to the American Board, and were sent to the Choctaws as teachers. Mr. Copeland soon became a general superintendent of agricultural and mechanical interests, and Postmaster General for the Nation. They continued in their work twenty years, when, from failing health, they were obliged to leave.
Miss Charlotte M. Hopkins, in 1848, was married to Rev. John E. Chandler, and under the A. B. C. F. M., went to India and joined the Madura mission, where they still live,
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pursuing their work, having a son and two daughters now missionaries in the same field.
Rev. Albert A. Sturges and Miss Susan M. Thompson, both natives of Granville, were married in 1851, and under the A. B. C. F. M., went to Ponape, Micronesia, where they met with good success in their work of twenty-eight years. They are now at Woodburn, Ill., in broken health.
Joseph G. Thrall, in 1851, was sent as others to the Choc- taws to instruct in agriculture, remaining only one year.
Miss Julia Bushnell, in 1853, was married to Rev. Hubert P. Herrick, and went with him to the Gaboon mission, West Africa, under the American Board. From broken health she was obliged to return at the end of two years. Her husband, after two years' residence in New York State, returned to the mission, hoping his wife would soon be able to follow him. But he soon died. She afterward married Dr. H. V. V. Johnson, of McMinnville, Oregon, where she now resides.
Dr. John G. Kerr, in 1853, went as a medical missionary to Canton, China, under the Presbyterian Board. He suc- ceeded Hon. Peter Parker, in the charge of a hospital founded and sustained by the Board, and he is still filling that position.
Miss Anna Baker, in 1856, joined the Dacotah mission under the American Board, where she labored five years. Subsequently for three years she taught the freedmen. She then became the wife of Dr. Riggs and returned to inission work in Minnesota.
Miss Lydia J. Goodrich, in 1859, was married to Rev. David D. Green, and went immediately to Ningpo, China, where seven years of labor were spent under the Presby- terian Board. They were then transferred to Hangchow, where three years more were spent. Returning to this country on account of the health of one of the children, Mr. Green died, and Mrs. Green now resides in Granville.
Miss Minnie Beach, in 1869, went as teacher to the Bulga- rian mission. By the sickness of others, the whole care of
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the school fell upon her before she had mastered the lan- guage, and her health failed, after four years of service. She now resides in Chicago, Il1.
Miss Martha Baker, in 1872, joined Dr. and Mrs. Riggs, and engaged for two years in the same work her sister had previously done for the Dacotahs.
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Miss Harriet B. Clemons became the wife of Rev. Steele, and went to New Mexico under the Methodist Board of Missions, where they labored with success for seven years. They were in the midst of a Romish population and were environed with dangers. Mr. Steele was shot at several times. They now reside in Wisconsin.
Four of these harvest gatherers have gone to their reward. The rest, having obtained help of God, continue to this day. But, strange to say, only two of them are this day actively engaged in the foreign field : Dr. John G. Kerr, and Mrs. Charlotte M. H. Chandler. Three were only temporarily em- ployed as teachers or laborers. The rest have been obliged to retire from the field, on account of the sickness of them- selves or families, or some kindred approved cause.
Dr. Little gives the names of thirty-two daughters of his church who had become the wives of ministers previous to 1863 ; and of forty-nine sons of the church who had become elders or deacons in this or some other church.
III. LAWYERS.
Hon. Jeremiah R. Munson, prominent in the early history of the colony, representing them in the Legislature; obtain- ing their library charter ; at one time prominently active and successful in a movement, for political reasons, for a change of State officers.
Walter Thrall, Esq., long a resident here, excelled rather as a counsellor than pleader; now lives in Columbus, O.
Seth Mead, a pettifogger in minor cases in early times.
Thomas M. Thompson, Esq .; Kenyon College; now re- sides on his farm near Monticello, Indiana.
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George W. Ells, Esq .; of active mind and habits, a suc- cessful pleader ; became a bookseller in Dayton, Ohio; now resides in Davenport, Iowa.
Alexander Morrison, Esq., whose history cannot be traced.
Hon. George B. Wright; Ohio University ; Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs for the State of Ohio; now re- sides in Indianapolis, Indiana. [See Soldiers' Roster.] 0
Hon. Samuel White.
He was the son of Samuel White who came to the Welsh Hills in 1810. His mother was a daughter of Theophilus Reese. It is related of Samuel Jr., as of one of the Philipps boys, that he used to go to school through the snow barefoot, carrying a hot board to stand on when his feet grew cold, and that his teacher, one Abraham Hall, used to favor him by letting him sit near the fire. It is a story, however, so marked that it will not answer to be told of too many. It is certainly true that he showed a thirst for knowledge, and that he strove hard and patiently for an education. He was in the first class formed for Granville College. He early espoused the abolition cause, and mention has been made of him several times in the annals. In those stirring times he once went to Hartford, Licking county, to lecture upon a set day on anti-slavery. Three or four hundred mobocrats gathered to prevent the lecture. They were armed with butcher knives, clubs, pistols, muskets; some not over fifteen years of age, swaggering, swearing, and carrying guns. He gave up his lecture, and went down to Anson Clark's sugar camp. There fifty men surrounded him and took him back to town. They first proposed to him that he should fight their champion. White at once threw off his coat, but their man suddenly thought himself sick, and declined. White was locked up with two other men while the mob parlied what to do. Some threatened to kill him. Twelve men were constituted a jury to decide, but they could not agree. Others went out and they decided that he should be blacked and ridden on a rail. He overheard it all, but "flinched no more than a stump." He said to them, "If there were only twelve of you I would take care of myself. But you can overpower me, and I can suffer." They made a wooden horse of a rail, the sharp edge turned up, standing on legs as high as a man's shoulders, decorated with the horns and tail of a cow. They also got in readiness a pot of blacking. As they took him out of the door he managed to
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kick over the blacking. Half a dozen men then stepped up and swore they should not black him, and that part was omitted. Sam then sprang upon the horse, and was carried on the shoulders of four men about twenty-five rods and brought back again. This was enough of "playing horse." They then wanted him to . promise never to come back again to lecture, but he utterly refused to do it. He then started leisurely away and they did not hinder him. He reached home in safety. The other two prisoners also watched their opportunity, slipped out the back door, and got away, one of them with nothing of his coat left but part of a cuff. (They were C. W. Gunn and Knowles Linnel, Jr.)
When he began to practice law, more abundant means came to hand, and he not only lived in comfort but helped his rela- tives. He was an orator, and his fellow citizens soon claimed him for public political life. He died while in the midst of a canvass as candidate for State Senator.
Hon. Daniel Humphrey ; removed to Newark ; first Probate Judge under the new constitution. Died in middle life.
Hon. A. E. Rogers, a student of G. W. Ells, Esq .; mem- ber of Legislature; long the Mayor of the village.
George W. Andrews, George W. Grow, Noah Case, John W. Montague, students of Mr. Ells ; history not accessible.
Lewis Spelman, Esq., once a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney ; studied with Mr. Ells; now resides four miles west of Granville.
Hon. John G. Weeks, studied both medicine and law; practiced medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana; removed to Des Moines, Iowa, became Probate Judge; kept an abstract office in Des Moines; now dead.
Hon. Marvin M. Munson, studied at Delaware, Ohio; prac- ticed at Troy, Ohio ; edited a paper there ; member of State Board of Equalization ; Captain of Company D, 113th Reg- iment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which company he raised here and led into the field, but from ill health did not long remain with it; resides in Granville on the old home farm. .
Thomas Walker, Esq., a colored man, long a professor of the tonsorial art ; studied law and was admitted to the bar ; went to California.
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William Richards, Esq., practiced in Newark; edited Newark Gazette (1847) ; also Daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, (1852); now a clerk in the Treasury Department at Wash- ington, D. C.
James W. Sinnet, Granville College; now at Carthage, Mo .; married the daughter of Grove Case.
Hon. Jacob W. Stewart, Granville College ; resides in Dav- enport, Iowa; teacher, prosecuting attorney, collector of internal revenue, mayor of Davenport, Iowa.
John L. Bryan, Esq., Kenyon College; practiced in Co- lumbus, O .; now deceased; married Miss Mary T. Collins, of Granville.
Henry C. Sinnet, Granville College; studied and practiced with Buckingham, in Newark; resides in Sedalia, Mo. .
William H. Ingraham, Denison University, (1861); prac- ticed at Toledo, O., where he died August 31st, 1875.
Hon. Henry Howe; city judge, Toledo, O., where he now resides.
Edward Wright, Esq., Northampton and Dartmouth Col- leges ; resides in Kansas City, Mo.
William Bryan, Esq. ; resides in Granville.
Benjamin Woodbury, Esq., Denison University, (1872) ; practices in Columbus, O.
John D. Jones, Esq., practices in Newark, O.
J. B. Jones, Esq., practices in Newark, O.
Jacob R. Davies, Esq., Denison University, (1869) ; Michi- gan University ; practices in Newark, O.
David E. Williams, Esq., Denison University, (1874) ; practices in Columbus, O.
David Jones, Esq., practiced in Columbus, O .; recently died.
Hon. H. Judson Booth, Harvard College; studied with Hon. George L. Converse, Columbus, O .; member of House of Representatives from Franklin County.
Erasmus Philipps, Esq.
Casper F. Bryan, Esq., resides in Granville. 27
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Hon. Sylvester Spelman Downer; county judge, Boulder, Colorado.
E. M. P. Brister, Esq., Denison University ; practices in Newark, O.
Thomas W. Philipps, Esq., Wooster University ; practices in Newark, O.
A. L. Ralston, Esq., Kenyon College; practices in Colum- bus, O. *
John M. Swartz, Esq., Denison University; practices in Newark, O.
IV. PHYSICIANS.
Previous to the coming of any resident physicians the sick availed themselves of the services chiefly of Dr. Top- ping, of Worthington, twenty-seven miles distant.
Dr. Samuel Lee came from Vermont in 1809, and removed to Coshocton in 1811.
Dr. William S. Richards, from New London, Conn., came in 1811, and was thereafter identified with Granville and its interests.
Dr. Paul Eager, a graduate of Dartmouth College, came . from Vermont about the same time, but did not long give himself to his profession after coming to this place.
Dr. Southard practiced in the place about 1815.
Drs. Moulton and Rood practiced in company about 1816, having their office in the little brick building, put up by David Messenger, Jr., just east of "the tin shop."
About the same time Dr. John Phelps indulged in the "steam cure " system for a few years.
Dr. J. B. Cooley, from Granville, Mass., came in the spring of 1820. . A few years later he married the widow of Rev. T. Harris, and had his office on the lot at the corner of Broad and Liberty Streets, where Mr. Harris had lived. He removed to Homer in 1832.
Dr. Sylvester Spelman came in the fall of 1820. He con- tinued to practice for some years, eventually turning his attention, first to merchandising and then to banking.
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DR. HOMER L. THRALL, "born in Rutland, Vt., October 18, 1802, moved to Granville in 1818, studied medicine in Lexing- ton (Ky.) Medical College and elsewhere. Was married in 1827, in 1830 moved from Granville to Homer, and afterward to Utica, and from thence, in 1838, he went to Gambier, where, as Professor of Chemistry in Kenyon College till 1852, he con- cluded from his experiments, and taught, that the known causes of external phenomena, such as light, heat, electricity, etc., could be explained by one law-the law of the correlation of forces, and, also, from his observation that the molecules of a body attract each other, deduced the law of molecular attraction, teaching these laws to his classes several years before they were published by Faraday, Grove and others. He was a man of remarkable intellect, an acute and profound thinker, an original, fearless and safe investigator, and long before his lamented death at Ottumwa, Iowa, July 26, 1870, he had logic- ally worked himself out of the darkness of infidelity into the clear light of orthodox Christianity."
Dr. W. W. Bancroft was the son of Azariah Bancroft, who came to the place in 1814. After practicing for several years he took a second course of lectures in Philadelphia. He was of an active temperament, searching mind, and a successful practitioner. He started the Granville Water Cure in 1852. After Dr. Bancroft left the Water Cure, Drs. Jones, Owens, Strong, Ralston and Hudson successively carried it on.
Dr. E. F. Bryan came to the place from Akron in 1838. He is now eighty years of age, having maintained a success- ful practice for more than forty years, and is still going at the call of many of his life-long friends.
Dr. Thomas Bancroft studied with his uncle, Dr. W. W. Bancroft, attended lectures in Philadelphia, practiced for a time in Granville with his uncle, giving his attention pri- marily to dentistry, and then removed to New Madrid, Mo.
Dr. C. J. Gifford came to Granville from Etna, O., in 1840. For a time he was associated in practice with Dr. Bancroft but the partnership was soon dissolved. Of late years he has limited his practice to the village.
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Dr. Guthrie was associated with Dr. Bancroft for two years preceding 1845.
Dr. Elisha D. Barrett, a graduate of Williams College, came to Granville in 1844 or 1845. He had studied both medicine and theology. He gave himself to preaching until a bronchial affection obliged him to desist. He practiced in Granville four years. He lived to the age of ninety, dying in Sedalia, Mo., November 6tlı, 1880.
Dr. George Spencer was a physician of the botanic school, and practiced extensively for twelve or fifteen years, succeed- ing Dr. Beeman of the same school, who had his office in the small building afterward occupied by the store of Mr. R. Parsons.
Dr. Austin was of the same school and followed Dr. Spencer.
Dr. Edwin Sinnet studied with Dr. Bancroft, and was with lıim in the Water Cure for eight years. He has since been one of the leading practitioners of the place.
Dr. Alfred Follett came to this place from Johnstown, O., in 1863. In early life he lost a foot by an accident with a threshing machine. As soon as recovered from the accident he prepared himself for the practice of medicine, and an unusual degree of physical energy has more than over- balanced the loss of his limb in the race of competition for patronage. He took his degree from Starling Medical Col- lege, Columbus, O.
Two brothers by the name of Bean, active young men, were practicing here about 1864 for a short time.
Dr. Cyrus B. Evans, little can be learned.
Dr. J. Watkins, from England, has been a prominent mein- ber of the medical faculty here for fourteen years, a graduate of Edinburgh University, and member of Royal College of Surgery, London.
The youngest of the fraternity is Dr. William Davies, a native of Granville ; a graduate of Denison University ; prin- cipal of the public schools for several years ; attended lectures
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