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OHIO GOVERNMENT (DEATHS)
Died on the same day, Judge Byrd, of Ohio, of the District Court of the United States. Submitted by Nancy Piper
OHIO - GOVERNMENT
Governor Trimble of Ohio has issued his proclamation, recommending that Friday, the fourteenth day of November next, be observed by the people of that state as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God, for the numerous and invaluable blessings which he has been pleased to bestow upon them and the whole country. - Balt. Amer. Submitted by Nancy Piper
OHIO - GOVERNMENT
William Creighton, Junior (at present a Representative in Congress from the State of Ohio, and just re-elected for another term) has been appointed by the President, Judge of the United States Court for the District of Ohio in the room of Judge Byrd, deceased, and has accepted the appointment. Nat. Intel. Submitted by Nancy Piper
OHIO DEATHS
Died on Wednesday evening the 29th ult., at the residence of mr. John Monfort in Straban township, Mrs. Monfort, wife of Mr. Francis Monfort of Ohio. Submitted by Nancy Piper
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) September 7, 1825 From the Cleveland, Ohio Herald, Aug. 19 The work on the Ohio Canal is now progressing with great spirit and success. Most of the line which was put under contract in June, between this place and the Portage Summit, is already grubbed and cleared. The excavation is going on briskly and some sections are nearly finished. Large quantities of stone have been quarried and several thousand feet are cut, ready for building the walls of the locks. Water limestone for about 30,000 bushels of water cement has been quarried and kilns are building for burning and a mill for grinding it. This quarry of water lime stone is directly on the canal line, about midway of the greatest flight of locks on the line between the Portage summit and valley of the Cuyahoga. A durable stream with sufficient water and fall to drive a mill for grinding the lime, passes immediately over the quarry; and it seems as if nature had prepared the whole for the express purpose to which it is now appropriated. All who have viewed the route from the Portage summit northwardly and who are experienced in canaling, concur in stating that they have never known a canal line so conveniently and abundantly supplied with all the materials necessary for the works required to be erected on the Canal. One or two of the locks and several of the sections will probably be finished this fall. Although the contracts were generally taken at prices below the estimates of the engineers, experience proves that the work can be performed at the contract prices at a reasonable profit to the contractors. Almost every kind of work has already been subjected to the test of experiment. Submitted by Nancy Piper Ohio Valley Medical Association A.L. Knight, of West Columbia , W.Va. President Committee on the admission of new members: Drs. C.M. Finch, P.H. Clarke, and D.C. Wilson. Committee on Publication: Drs. T. Curtis Smith, L.F. Roush, W.A. Frizzel, Dr. J.C. Bishop, Chrmn. Recommendations for membership: W.T. Atkinson, Ashland, Ohio; A.J. Beardsley, Huntington, W.Va.; John Shattuck, Marion, Ohio; R.A. Vance, Gallipolis, Ohio; J.W. Matthews, John Morris, N.K. Moxley, W.R. Earhart, Ironton, Ohio; F. Hudson, Lyra, Ohio; J.O. Well, Huntington , W.Va. ; John S. Henry, of Russel Place, Ohio; J.W. Winn, of Hanging rock, Ohio; all of whom were duly elected. Sanitary reports were made by R.D. Jacobs, of Gallia co.; A.W. Frizzel, of Sciota Co; J.W. Winn, of Lawrence co.; P.H. Clarke, of Mason Co. W.Va. Committee to report on Popular Essayists on Progress of the Arts and Sciences J.P. Binz, of Portmouth , Ohio ; John Morris, of Ironton , Ohio Committee to report on Hydienic and Sanitary T.Curtis Smith, R.A. Vance, J.R. Philson. Committee to report on Surgery A.B. Jones, J.O. Wall, A.B. Monahan. Committee to report on Practice of Medicine W.A. Frizzel, B.H. Hoyt, D.C. Wilson Committee to report on Obstetrics C.R. Reed, A.J. Beardsley, W.R. Earhart. Committee to report on Aphthalmic and Aural Practice and Surgery C.M. Finch, W.W. Fierce, J.W. Winn Committee to report on New Remedies: J.S. Henry, N.D. Tobey, P.H. Clarke Committee to report on Indigenous Medical Plants of the Ohio Valley, - R.D. Jacobs, G.A. Ewing, H.M. Leash. Committee to report on Necrology T.A. Harris, F.R. Eakins, F.W. Tierman Committee to report on Physiology R.A. Vance, James Moore, D.C. Wilson, A.J. Beardsley Committee of Arangements, all of Gallipolis , Ohio Drs. R.A. Vance, Sands, Newton , Needham , Guthrie. Submitted by Linda Rodriguez
OHIO Republican Compiler ( Ripley, O., Dec 20. We are told that in the night of the 15th
instant, while Mr. Fox, near
One Lock on the Republican Compiler ( We learn from Republican Compiler ( Cincinnati A Coroners inquest was held upon the bodies of John Philips and his son
on Wednesday last in this city and the verdict returned was Found dead suffocated by burning charcoal in a close
room without a chimney where they slept. Mrs. Philips was at the point of death when they were first discovered
by the neighbors who broke into the apartment. She lingered some time but has since died. It is astonishing that after so many accidents having happened by the
burning of charcoal in close apartments, that people in general are not more aware of the pernicious and deadly
effects of it. Advertiser.
Republican Compiler ( John Funston who shot the mail carrier last September in Republican Compiler ( Horrid Murder A most deliberate act of cold-blooded assassination occurred in Canfield,
Trumbell county on the night of the 6th of Jan. on the body of Jacob Mell, by a person whose name we understand to be Archibald
McFarlane. The murderer was secured in the act of making a second thrust with his bloody weapon by the brothers
of the deceased who slept in the same room and has been committed to the county jail for trial. Compiler ( Mr. Philip Miller of Perry county, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) Feb 8, 1826 The Ohio Canals The following encouraging account of the progress and prospects of the Ohio Canals is taken from a letter from a gentleman of the first respectability in the State of Ohio to his friend in Washington, dated Jan. 14, 1826 "Our Canal goes on successfully, and our future prospects are highly encouraging. We have hopes that our canals may be navigated throughout their whole extent, 375 miles in 1829 at a cost, little if anything exceeding three millions of dollars, exclusive of interest. We seem to be justified in this expectation by what has been done. The contractors make fair, nay handsome profits as may be inferred from the increasing competition and decreasing prices at every fresh disposal of contracts."
OHIO Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) March 8, 1826 Horrid Cruelty A man and his wife, named Hollinger, have been committed to the jail of this county, charged with the crime of murder committed on the body of their own new born infant. It si said that this is the third time they have been suspected of having committed a similar offence. As the subject must undergo a legal investigation, we forbear giving particulars. - Mansfield Ohio Gazette. submitted by Nancy Piper
June 11, 1859. In Ohio, Rev. P. H. Wither, aged 52, since 1842 Principal of the Wesleyan Female College. Source: American almanac and repository of useful knowledge - 1860 by Jared Sparks and Frances Bowen
April 18, 1857 The Ohio Legislature adjourns. A law has been enacted making it a penitentiary offence to claim or hold slaves in Ohio, or to attempt to carry away from the State, as a slave, any person of color. June 10, 1857 William H. Gibson, State Treasurer of Ohio, discloses that his predecessor, John G. Breslin, was a defaulter to the amount of $ 750,000. June 13, he resigns, and a successor is appointed and takes charge of the treasury same day. Aug. 24, 1857 The Ohio Life and Trust Company suspend payment. Dec. 29, 1854 In Columbus, O., Hon. John Hastings, from 1839 to 1843 member of Congress from Ohio. Source: American almanac and repository of useful knowledge
(Source: Annual Obituary Notices of Eminent Persons, 1858 by Hon. Nathan Crosby, Boston- John P. Jewett and Co., 1859.) Ashton, Mrs. Anna Maria, White Creek, N. Y., Sept. 11, re. 60. She was the youngest daughter of the late Rev. Thos. Beveridge, and sister of Rev. Dr. Thos. Beveridge, of Xenia, O. Berry, Rev. L. W,, Cincinnati, O., July 23, te. 43. Dr. B. was born in Alburgh, Vt., in 1815. He entered the travelling connection, in the Ohio Conference, at the age of 18. He succeeded Dr. Simpson in the presidency of the Indiana Asbury University in 1848. After remaining for about six years in charge of this institution, he accepted the presidency pf the Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant. He remained in connection with this institution for about three years. In the summer of 1857 he resigned his place at Mount Pleasant, and took charge of a new college enterprise in Missouri. He labored with all that zeal and energy for which he has always been noted to build up the Jefferson City University. Birdsong, Elijah Perry, M. D., Bellaire, Ohio, March 1, te. 39. Dr. B. was a native of Virginia. He received the degree of doctor in medicine in 1852, and commenced the practice of his profession in Bellaire the same year. He was an intelligent gentleman, a sincere friend, and an honor to his profession. In him the poor have lost a liberal benefactor. Bowman, Isaac, Jackson, O., April 20, Ie. 84, a member of the Society of Friends, and one of the first settlers of the township in which he resided. He became a resident of Stark Co. in 1811, before the township which he selected as a home was organized, and before much had been done in the way of a settlement west of the now city of Canton. The township of Perry, in which Massillon is situate, and containing a population of near 6000, was not organized until 18I3, and Jackson not until a still later period. He was, with Thomas and Charity Rotch, (the latter the founder of the Charity School of Kendal.) Mayhew and Mary Folger, Joseph and Rebecca Hobson, Micajah and Saruh Macy, Daniel and Elizabeth Richmond, Richard and Sarah Williams, Charles and Mary Coffin, Aaron Chapman, William Mott, and Zacheus Stanton, among the earliest settlers on the east side of the Tuscarawas River, and west of the then little village now so justly proud of its right to be ranked among the cities of Ohio. The persons we have named, with our deceased friend, comprising but seven or eight families, were active in establishing " Kendal Preparation Meeting of the Society of Friends," which existed for many years, the monthly meeting being held at Marlborough. By hirth an Englishman, he inherited the sturdy integrity of his English ancestry, and which strongly marked his life and character in all his intercourse with his fellow-men. Believing in and faithfully following the admonitions of " the inward voice uncreated by schools," and disowning allegiance to creeds, he found a sure pathway to immortal truth in the faith of the people called Quakers a faith which was not only, like his unyielding honesty, the inheritance of his English ancestry, but the result of his matured and ripened judgment, and which he never forsook nor even questioned in all the mutations which have marked the history of Friends for the past 30 years. With the Holy Scriptures as " the. rule and guide of" his taith," he found in George Fox, William Penn, and Robert Barclay, in his earlier years, and Joseph John Gumey, in later life, exponents of the Scriptures upon whom he could rely, superadded to what was the " inner light, the Son of God in the soul," and which was to him the highest revelation of truth. His Christian character was exhihited in all his conduct towards his fellow-man, and was that which endeared him particularly to the members of his own society, and secured him the esteem of all who knew him. Brennan, Dr. Thomas, Dayton. Ohio, June 10, ae. 35. Dr. B. was a native of Ireland ; emigrated to this country in 1848 ; received the degree of M.D. from the Cincinnati Medical College in 1855. He commenced the practice of his profession in Il., and discharged the duties of his office in a manner which not only elicited the warmest approval of his numerous friends and acquaintances, but alike honorable to himself and to the profession to which he belonged. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, without ostentation ; of noble and generous parts, courteous and gentlemanly in his deportment, with a due appreciation of his spiritual as well as temporal welfare. BRIGGS, Mrs. Cornelia C., Cleveland, Ohio, June 8, E. 23, wife of George P. Briggs, Esq.. of Lawrence, Mass., and daughter of I 1r. Krastus Gushing, of C. Brown, Major H. B., Cincinnati, O., Nov. 7, ae. 40. Major B. was born in Kentucky, of a respectable family, received a good education, studied law, and was admitted to the bar early, was afterwards for many years connected with the press, and went to Cincinnati some ten years ago, when he became connected with one of the journals, but subsequently practised his profession. In 18,33 he was sent to the Ohio legislature, was elected prosecuting attorney of the Police Court in 1855, and reelected in 18,37. He was a man of warm affections, and bore the sufferings of his long illness with patience. Brown, Samuel, Esq., Adrian, O., July 28, a;. 4G. Mr. B. was a native of Brownsville, Jeflerson Co., N. Y., a nephew of the late Gen. Jacob Brown, and a brother of the late Thompson Brown, who died abroad, a year or two since, when on his return from Russia, where he had been in the employ of Nicholas I., as chief engineer on a railroad from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Mr. S. Brown for a number of years was engaged on the New York and Erie Railroad, of which road, it will be remembered, Thompson Brown was one of the first engineers, and ultimately became the superintendent of the freight department, a position of great trust and responsihility, and in which office the deceased displayed remarkable business talent, energy, and decision, and where he undermined a constitution naturally rt>bust and strong. From the New York and Erie Road Mr. B. went to the superintendency of the Canandaigua and Niagara Falls Road, and afterwards to the position on the Michigan Southern Road, which he occupied until near the close of his life. Mr. B. wore himself out in the exhausting toils of that species of mental and physical labor so inseparable as it would seem from railroad management. His nervous system became prostrated, and the constant strain upon his faculties, and the unremitting excitement, broke him down. Mr. B. married the daughter of Gen. Joseph Brown, of Toledo, and the sister of Mrs. Samuel F. Lester, of Cleveland, O. A prominent trait in the deceased and a jewel in any man's character was his devotion to the interests and happiness o£ his friends; and a host who have been recipients of the kindness and assistance of the deceased will mourn him as a good friend gone Burton, Rev. Wm., Austenhurg, O., March 12, te. 69. Mr. B. was a native of Vermont, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1815, and studied theology with his eminent relative, the Rev. Asa Burton, D. D., of Thetford, Vt . In 1821 he became pastor of the Presbyterian church at Circleville, O., and in 1840 was settled at Piketon, O., whence in 1849 he removed his family to Northern Ohio, with the hope of finding a climate more favorable to his impaired constitution. Here he took charge of a farm for the benefit of his sons, and preached but occasionally. He was, however, an extensive reader, and, for his own amusement, was in the hahit of poetical composition. As a preacher and divine, Mr. B. will always be remembered with respect. His discourses were delivered with great deliberation and simplicity of manner, and he spoke usually without notes; and it may with truth be averred that no minister of Christ on the Western Reserve regarded with greater aversion, or combated with more firmness or ahility, the errors of doctrine and practice infecting many of its chmvhrs than did this venerable man. ' In his character humility and an unpretending simplicity were conspicuous traits. He has left a widow and seven children to mourn his loss and cherish his memory. Butler, Rev. Geo. 'W., Berlin Heights, Lake Co., O., Oct. 15, te. , pastor of the Baptist church in that place. Carney, Edward L., Esq., Tiffin, O., May 22, Ie. 39. Mr. C. was a printer, and graduated as such in the Citizen office, in the fall of 1838. He afterwards studied law, and edited a democratic ; newspaper at Canton and in Wooster. H§ was a young man of fine abilities as a writer and a lawyer. Cary, Alfred, Esq., Oakfield, O., Sept. 17, te. 78, founder of the Cury Collegiate Seminar)', and brother of Trumbull Carv, of Batavia, N. Y. Coe, Rev. Truman, Kirtland, O., May 22, te. 69. Mr. C. was a native of Derby, Conn., and removed to K. in 1632. He was, for many years, the useful and beloved pastor of the church in K., an active, earnest, and devoted friend of education, and deeply interested in every thing affecting the well-being of his fellow-men. Cranston, Mrs. Ruth, Harmonv, O., Feb. 12, a?. 90, widow of the late James Cranston. She was born at Scituate, Providence Plantation, in what is now Rhode Island, in 1767. She was the daughter of Gideon and Prudence Austin, formerly Prudence Angel. She was married to James Cranston in February 1786; moved to Athens Co., O., in 1812, and since the death of her husband, which occurred in June, 1833, has resided with her daughter, Mrs. Pruden. Downing, Capt. James, Waynesburg, O., Dec. 15, te. 72. He was born in Brook Co., Va., in 1786. He emigrated to Stark Co. in 1805, and erected the first house in Sandy township. He hewed ' the logs himself, and went to Gaddenhutten and near Pekin to get white men to commence, and then procured Indians to assist in raising the logs. He also put out a crop of corn the same year. The year following his father and brothers removed from Virginia to Sandy township, where he has made his permanent home until about one year ago, when he took up his abode with his sister, Mrs. Thompson. In the war of 1812 Mr. D. entered the army as a volunteer, was elected captain, and served on the northern frontier until he was honorably discharged. Eaton, Daniel, Youngstown, O., May 17, re. 84. He was among the pioneer settlers, having removed to Ohio from Pennsylvania m 1803 or 1804. Soon after settling he erected a blast furnace at the mouth of Yellow Creek, near Poland Village. This was the first attempt made to manufacture iron in that section of Ohio, and, we believe, in the state. A few years afterwards he disposed of this establishment, and, in company with his brother James, erected a furnace at the mouth of Mosquito Creek, (now Niles,) which remained in successful operation for a long period of years. He was elected to the Ohio Senate from Trumbull Co. in 1815. He was several times a member of the legislature from Trumbull Co. Eddy, Justin, Esq., Cuyahoga Falls, 0., March 5, te. 72. He and his brother Alanson were among the first, if not the first, settlers of Edinburgh, and for more than half a century, the deceased has been one of its most prominent and useful citizens. Long will he be held in affectionate remembrance by those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Emekson, Henrv, Esq., Cincinnati, O., Aug. 27, te. 62, a distinguished merchant of that city. He was born in Haverhill, Mass., in 1796, and removed to Cincinnati in 1818. Evans, Eleanor Tounson, Waverley, Ohio, March, 5, re. 71, wife of Daniel Evans, daughter of William Tounson, and niece of Gen. Nathan Tounson, of Baltimore Co., Maryland. Evans, Mrs. Mary, Hillsboro', O., Dec. 10, re. 84. She was born in New Jersey in 1774. When young, her parents emigrated to Fayette Co., Pa,, where, when only in her 15th year, she was married to Richard Evans, with whom she lived an eventful and happy life for the unusually long period of 63 years. Soon after their marriage, in 1789 or 1790, they emigrated to Kentucky. This was before the days of our palace steamboats; it was no pleasure trip. Conveyance down the Monongahela and Ohio was the slow and tedious flat boat, which, by keeping in the centre of the stream, they narrowly escaped the murderous rifle of the savages from either bank, so destructive of the life of the emigrant of those days. After living a few years, first in Bourbon Co., and afterwards on Cahin Creek, they determined to seek a new home. In 1799 Hugh Evans and his sons and sons-in-law explored this part of Ohio, and made purchase of a large part of the lower valley of Clear Creek, where, that fall, in the unbroken forest, they erected their cahin for the reception of their wives and children. The next spring they removed their families to their forest homes. The difficulty of that move may be judged from the fact that they had to cut the way through the forest for their wagons from the Ohio River. In this day of luxury and improvement we can little tell the trials of the wife and mother in the cahin of the pioneer. Often, in late years, has Mrs. E. been heard to recount the trials of that first year on Clear Creek, when, to use her own language, " more than fifty Indians to one white man came to her cahin." These often indulged in their savage orgies and mock fights to frighten her, when they found her alone with her helpless children. But no danger, no difficulty, impeded the onward progress of that hardy, determined band of pioneers. The forest gave way to the highly-cultivated farm, the cahin to the mansion ; and Mrs. E. lived to hear the shrill note of the locomotive instead of the war whoop of the savage. Of that band of the first settlers on Clear Creek she was the last; the mother of 15 children, 12 of whom she saw married and settled in life. Ewalt, John, Howland, O., Jan. 3, re. 82. He was one of the pioneers of the county. He came here about the year 1801, when the only road to his late residence was an Indian trail through the woods, and when Warren contained only three dwellings, and those were log cahins. He brought with him a large variety of choice fruits, from which original stock, much of the good fruit of this vicinity has descended, and by his efforts and example did as much, perhaps, as any one for the improvement of horticulture in Trumbull Co. He sat upon the first jury impanelled under the state government of Ohio, and was identified with all the early history of the Reserve. Of a most genial and social disposition, he delighted to recount interesting passages in the events of his pioneer times, and his vivid memory and happv faculty of narration made his reminiscences a rich treat to all who had the pleasure of hearing them. Fenner, Dr. L. H., Cleveland, O., May 5, Te. , of Norwalk, Ct . He had been in poor health about two months, and a short time previous to his death he took up his abode at the Cleveland water cure, hoping to be benefited by hydropathic treatment . Dr. F; came to Norwalk a little more than a year ago, and became associated with Dr. Titly in the practice of medicine. His correct and gentlemanly deportment, together with the strict attention which he paid to the practice of his profession, caused him to be highly esteemed by our citizens generally. In his death, we feel that our town has lost one of its best inhahitants. Folger, Mrs. Mary, Ravenna, 0.,' June 28, te. 80. Mrs. F., formerly Mary Joy, was born on the Island of Nantucket, Mass., Jan. 24, 1778, and was married to May hew Folger in 1798, who was also a native of N. He was at that time engaged in the merchant service upon the ocean, but in 1810 concluded to try his fortune on shore, and removed to Chester Co., Pa., and in i813 to Ohio, at that time the frontier state. The war of 1812 was conducted on the lakes and on land with frightful cruelty, and the trials of pioneer life were severe. In August, 1812, Capt. F., with his family, arrived at Kendall, expecting immediately to see the settlements overrun by the British and Indians; but a kind Providence ordered otherwise. By the victory of Com. Perry over the British fleet on Lake Erie, the aspect of things was entirely changed. Of the early settlers of Kendall, but three are believed to be living in the neighborhood. In 1828, Capt. F. removed to Massillon, where, on the 1st of Sept. of that year, he died. Mrs. F. was emphatically one of the excellent of this earth, even and cheerful, benevolent in heart, shedding around her a genial and pleasing influence. Five children survive her. Forrest, John Lawrence, Cincinnati, O., , re. 43. He was a native of Cork, Ireland, and was a contributor to the Irish press during the stirring times of 1848. During the year 1857 many of his pieces appeared in the Pilot, over the signature of " One of Ireland's Ballad Poets." The Pilot calls him one of Ireland's sweetest poets. French, Ira D., Esq., Cincinnati, O., Dec. , te. 35, a lawyer of whom the bar say, Whereas, Ira D. French, Esq., a member of this bar, has been taken, at the early age of 35, from our number by death; and whereas he commenced the study and the practice of the law in our midst, here formed his character as a lawyer, and rapidly attained to a position of distinction and usefulness, and before us presented an example of strict integrity, spotless morals, and social worth ; and also of the aspirations, tastes, and attainments of the general scholar, in connection with high acquirements and unremitting industry as a lawyer, unusual facility and correctness as a practitioner, and unyielding devotion to all the demands of professional duty.
"Resolved, that with profound respect for the memory of our departed brother, we deplore his death, as a great loss to the community and our body, and personally to all of us." Gaylord, Thomas G., New York, , te. . Mr. G. was a valuable citizen of Cincinnati. He was emphatically a self-made man. His fellowcitizens regarded him as a gentleman of marked prohity. As a business man, he was prompt, never allowing his paper to be protested; and he possessed a sagacious mind. He was a native of Utica, N.Y.; married at 22, and removed to Pittsburg, where he engaged in the queensware business with a small capital which he had accumulated. Thence he removed to Maysville, Ky., and subsequently to Portsmouth, 0., where he laid the foundations of a handsome fortune in the manufacture of iron. About 12 years ago he removed to Cincinnati, where he has since remained. He was always actively engaged in business, and, when he died, was in New York upon business connected with his firm, T. G. Gaylord & Son. He was a very successful business man, and accumulated property estimated to be now worth $200,000. He left a widow and several children to mourn their bereavement. Grimes, James J., Cambridge, O., Nov. 26, te. . At a meeting of the members of the bar and officers of court, it was resolved, " That we feel deeply sensible of the loss which the profession and society have sustained in the death of brother Grimes, that we will cherish the memory of the deceased as a member of the bar, as a man and citizen endowed with excellent qualities of mind and possessed of noble traits of character." Hanson, Benaiah, Medina, O., Nov. 1, te. 76. He was born at Windham, Me., Oct. 18, 1781. He was the youngest of 11 children. His mother's maiden name was Ahigail Hays. His father, in the Memoir' and Journals of Rev. Paul Coffin, D. D., is thus mentioned: "August 18, 1800. Rode to Windham, and lodged with Ichabod Hanson, who has 11 children, and never gave one of them a blow, and 20 grandchildren, and never lost one." Mr. Ichabod Hanson's father was a member of the Society of Friends; his wife was a Congregationalist. They resided at Dover, N. H., where they reared their large family. Friend Hanson, or his immediate ancestors, emigrated from England. When 90 years of ag_e he took a journey of 60 miles to visit his son Ichabod, at Windham, (';., somewhere between the years 1786 and 1788. Dr. B. Hanson, the subject of this sketch, after spending one term at Frveburg, Me., entered Exeter Academy, where he remained four years. He commenced the study of medicine under the tuition of his brother-in-law, Dr. John Converse, of Durham, and after the usual course of study, was admitted to practice. During the last war with England he received a commission in the army, as a lieutenant in the 33d regiment of infantry, under the command of Col. Isasc Lane, brother of Col. Daniel Lane, of Belfast, Me., and was ordered to Plattsburg, and engaged in active service. At a subsequent period he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the city of New York, and graduated in 1825. ' The faculty at that time comprised W. J. McNevin, Israel Post, Jonn W. Francis, Samuel L. Mitchell, David Hosack, and Valentine Mott. During his attendance at the medical college, he was a student in the office of David Hosack, with whom he studied two years. After graduating he removed to Western New York, and subsequently to Maumee City, O. Through the whole course of his practice, he was remarkably successful, and in the treatment of western fevers especially he waa particularly fortunate. He spent 40 years in practice. His last years were particularly devoted to the study of the Bible. In 1811 he married Ahigail Woodman, daughter of Cant . Joseph Woodman, of Buxton, Me. Capt. Woodman was the fifth Joseph of that name, and was descended from Joshua Woodman, the first man child born in Newbury, Mass., and the second interred in that place. He has left a widow and three children. Harkness, Anthony, Cincinnati, O., May 17, te. 65. He was a native of Ithode Island, and the pioneer manufacturer of locomotives in Cincinnati. He commenced business with a very slender capital, and has left a large estate, valued at over half a million of dollars.
Hedges, Josiah, Tiffin, 0., July 15, o;. 80. He was born in Berkeley Co., Va., April 9, 1778. He left his father's home at an early age, with the determination to carve out his own fortune. His first enterprise on his own account was a trading excursion to New Orleans, with fruit, which he flat-boated from Wheeling, Va., to that point, when the time occupied in making the voyage was six weeks, and when but few advcnturous spirits would make the experiment, which was then hazardous and dangerous. He finally, in 1801, one year before Ohio was admitted as a state of this Union, settled in Belmont Co., where he for a number of years was one of its most active and prominent citizens. He was the first sheriff of Belmont Co., and also for a term of years the clerk of the court. Bjeirig then of a speculative mind, and being convinced that Northwestern Ohio was one of the garden spots of the world, and that it would settle up with remarkable rapidity, Mr. H. made a journey to this region. He immediately determined upon entering the land upon which Tiffin is mostly built. At that time foot paths were worn around it, by persons who had looked at the land. Mr. H. then proceeded to the land office, and in 1820, at the land sales at Delaware, Ohio, he bought the land which was an unbroken forest. By a prudent and systematic course in disposing of his town lots, Mr. H. had the pleasure of seeing his town increase in population. For a number of years there was much rivalry between Fort Ball (now the second ward) as to which should be the county seat . By the persevering efforts of Mr. H., and by purchasing much of the property on the Fort Ball side, he succeeded in securing the location on the east side. This was in 1828. He then went to work, determined to effect the removal of the United States land office, then located at Delaware, to Tiffin. In this he was successful, and from that time onward Tiffin has progressed rapidly in wealth and population. In 1831 Mr. H. was chosen to represent the county, or the district of which the county was a portion, in the Ohio legislature. He served one session, but preferred paying more attention to his own private affairs, and declined any further political preferment. He was generous and just in his dealings with his fellowmen, and scrupulously honest, benevolent to all Christian denominations, having, with one or two exceptions, donated the lots upon which their churches are erected; and he was liberal towards all public improvements. In all the relations of life, public or private, he was a just and sincere man. He was a good citizen, and a true and steadfast friend. As a husband he was kind and obliging; as a father, affectionate, generous, and indulgent . Hewston, Mrs. Isabella, St. Clairsville, O., , re. 59, widow of Dr. Joseph Hewston. Holcomb, Mrs. Hannah, Mason, Warren Co., Ohio, Dec. 30, te. 86. She was born March 22, 1771, in Salisbury, Litchfteld Co., Ct., where her parents, David and Lois Everest, had resided from their hirth. Mrs. Holcomb, being one out of 13 sons and daughters, in that puritanic family, was married in September, 1786, to Dr. Jonathan Holcomb, of Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass. Dr. H. was born at Sheffield, Mass., June 19, 1762, and was a graduate of Yale College, Ct., in 1784-5, and aRer a thorough course in the study of medicine, removed early in life to New Jersey, practising his profession in that state and Pennsylvania for many years; emigrating with his family in the spring of 1814 to Warren Co., Ohio, where they resided until his decease, Oct. 1, 1847. Mrs. H. became a member of the Presbyterian church while yet under the care of her father and mother, and continued a practical Christian, under all the varied changes through which she was called to pass, for more than 70 years, until summoned to the enjoyment of a harvest of good works, far away, in that beautiful land of rest. Howard, Capt. Harrison, Conneaut, O., May 9, re. 46. From early boyhood he had followed the lake, and for many years been prominently identified with the lake commerce. No one was more highly prized for his business connections, his general intelligence, and his social qualities, sharing the respect, and esteem, and the confidence of all. He was a man of remarkably even temperament, retiring in his hahits, and even under the most trying pecuniary difficulties in past years his spirits never flagged. Howell, Rev. Seth, Oxford, Butler Co., O., Feb. 18, te. . He was a native of Wales, but for some years had been settled in the ministry at Mount Sterling, in the Columbus presbytery, and more recently at Stony Hill. Hoyt, Mrs. Sarah, Norwalk, O., Aug. 20, re. 87, the last survivor of the Wyoming massacre. Hudson, Prof. T. B., Olmstead, O., April 2, Ie. 39. Prof. H. was born in Chester, Geauga Co., O., in 1819. His father was a physician. At 18 he entered the Western Reserve College, where he studied and nearlv accomplished the course, but left before graduating, and returned home. His father's circumstances did not admit of much aid for him, so that he was indebted chiefly to his own self-sustaining energy. His thirst for knowledge and perseverance carried him through difficulties which would have disheartened a less resolute mind. When the Oberlin Institution was opened he formed in the principles of the school his own views of learning; and in 1837 or 1838 he was called to teach mathematics. For 20 years he had been connected with Oberlin College as a professor of mathematics and the languages. The intelligence of Prof, ll.'s death will carry sincere and poignant grief wherever this good man has visited, pleading for the enslaved. There will the tidi»gs of his painful death occasion great grief, that such a powerful champion of liberty has fallen in times of trial and peril. Hughes, Mrs. Elizabeth C., Montezuma, 0., re. 54. She was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1804 ; emigrated west upwards of 20 years ago, and had been a resident of Ohio most of this time ; in her 15th year experienced religion, and united with the church. Her piety was uniform and growing until she was taken to her final rest. In 1851 Mrs. H. removed to the village of Montezuma. The village had no Presbyterian church at this time. In a short time after her removal here a Presbyterian church was organized, consisting of five members ; but there was but one male member in the organization. They had no house of worship of their own. All the members were poor in the things of this world, except Mrs. H. Soon after the organization of the church a plan was entered upon to erect a Presbyterian church. On March 5, 1854, she had the privilege to witness the erection of a comfortable and a neat house consecrated to the service of the triune God. Mrs. H., in connection with her self-denying pastor, John Hawks, contributed largely of their substance towards this noble enterprise, which is an honor to the place.
Hull, P. P., Marysville, Cal., , te. 34, formerly a lawyer of Mansfield, O., but at the time of his death one of the proprietors and editors of the San Francisco Town Talk. He was a printer, and had been connected with the newspaper business in San Francisco almost all the time since his arrival in the state, in 1850. He served his time in Mansfield, O., where his widowed mother still resides, and afterwards read law with his uncle, James Purdy, of Mansfield. He was born in that city in 1824. In his native state he was respected and loved by a large circle of friends ; and in California, especially among his typographical and editorial brethren, he was eminently popular. Huest, Thomas P., Chillieothe, O., May , to. , an eminent lawyer. Jewett, James M., Aurora, Portage Co., O., Dec. 9, te. 70. He was the fifth generation from the original settlers of the name, consisting of two brothers and a nephew, who emigrated to this country in 1638, (from England,) and settled in Rowley, Mass. From this family aJl of the name in this country, acquainted with their origin, can trace their descent. A singular circumstance in connection with this family is the fact that the original homestead yet remains in the family, and has been occupied by those who have filled the office of deacon in the Congregational church for over 200 years. A clock brought from England 18 years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, still does duty in the old family mansion. Jones, Benjamin, Oakland, O., April 9, te. 52. He was the son of Catlit and Sarah Jones, who emigrated from Virginia to Columhiana Co., O., about the first of the present century. Catlit Jones accompanied Daniel Boone in his first adventure in Kentucky. On the occasion of the capture of Col. Boone's daughter and another distinguished lady by the Indians, Mr. Jones was one of the "twelve brave men" who volunteered and perilled their lives to rescue these young ladies from their savage captors. While with Col. Boone in guarding the " corn patch " against the Indians, he received a severe wound in the arm. He was also an officer in the revolutionary war. Afterwards he joined the Society of Friends, and resolved " to beat his sword into a ploughshare and his spear into a pruning hook," and was an acceptable minister in that society. Benjamin was also a member of the Society of Friends. He leaves two brothers, a bereaved wife, and eight children, to mourn his death. He was a general reader, and was familiar with the solid literature of the age ; was remarkable for the precision and extent of his knowledge of all subjects upon which he conversed. He took a lively interest in agricultural improvements, and by the judicious application 8f fertilizers and subsoiling had greatly increased the productiveness of his farm. He was the friend to popular education. He took a deep interest in the antislavery movement, and was a zealous advocate of the rights of man, and of the interests of free labor against the aggressions of American slavery. Ketchum, George H., Cincinnati, Ohio, May 17, te. , of the legal firm of Ketchum & Headington, of that city. He was formerly a citizen of Versailles, K y., and was an intelligent, agreeable gentleman one of the most prominent lawyers of the Cincinnati bar, and a man of spotless integrity. KlLGORE, John, Esq., Cincinnati, Ohio, April , Ie. 61. He was president of the Little Miami Railroad, and is said to have been worth a million of dollars, the earnings of his own industry. He was a native of England, but had lived in Cincinnati since 1818, actively engaged in mercantile and subsequently in banking business. Kilingling, John, Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, Dec. , re. 50. He was penurious in hahit, and although it was generally known that he was wealthy, there were but few who even guessed at a tithe of his riches. Upon opening the will, it was found that he had died leaving 8750,000 worth of property in this country and in Germany. His direction for the disposition of this sum is equallv novel and unsophisticated. By his will, it is provided that the money shall be deposited in a bank, the principal never to oe touched, but the interest to be devoted to the education of the Protestant Germans in this state. His acquaintances were few, and like most of those who exist only for the hoarding of wealth, he formed no friendships. Linton, Nathan, Wilmington, O., Feb. 11, re. 81. He was born on the banks of the Delaware River, Bucks Co., Penn., Jan. 17,1778, and with his father's family emigrated thence to Ohio, in 1802. The family stopped first at Waynesville, Warren Co., then a place of considerable note. In 1804, he raised his first crop in the limits of what is now Clinton Co., and has, from that time to this, steadily cultivated the same lands. In 1805, his father's family moved into the hewed log house, which is still standing in a dilapidated condition on the home farm. He commenced his career as a surveyor, in Ohio, in 1803. He married Rachel Smith, who then resided on Walnut Creek, in Highland Co., Jan. 31, 1806, and in 1807, moved his young bride into a log cabin, which stood upon the same ground since occupied by his residence. During the summer of that year, while absent on a surveying excursion, a fearful tornado passed over his residence, unroofing, and blowing large forest trees upon the cahin, his wife, all alone, taking shelter under the puncheon floor, and under the bed, seemingly the only place of safety she could have found. When the county was organized, in 1810, he was appointed surveyor, which office he held for a period of about 20 years, when he declined a reappointment. From that time to the day of his death, he held various positions of trust and confidence. Littell, Samuel, West township, Columhiana Co., Ohio, Feb. 7, te. 79. He was a native of Fayette Co., Penn., where he lived until 1838, when he removed to Wayne Co., Ohio, and resided there until about a year before his decease, when the infirmity of age induced him to sell his property, and remove to a point where he could enjoy the society, and almost daily intercourse, of eight of his ten children. Mr. L. was a man of strong mind, a great reader, a deep thinker, a close and profound reasoner, with a mind fully stored, and a memory tenacious enough to render available and pleasing the knowledge gained through so many years. He wrote and spoke with clearness and perspicuity, and in this exercise he delighted. He published much taking an active part m all the exciting subjects of his day, and especially in iavor of the temperance reformation. He was a firm believer in the Christian religion, an Old Side Baptist by profession ; and this profession he honored and adorned by a long life, so devoted to morality and religion, that nearly all his descendants, who have arrived at adult age, are children of the covenant. Marshall, Nicholas T., Cincinnati, O., , te. , a well-known physician and able professor in the Medical College of Ohio. McARTHUR, Hon. Duncan, Chillicothe, 0., April , m . The Chillicothe Gazette announces the death of Allen C. McArthur, the last immediate descendant of Gov. McArthur. It is stated that he was appointed a colonel in the regular service, and " afterwards, upon the resignation of Gen. Harrison, became commander-in-chief of the army of the North-west." McCLUNG, Susan, Maysville, O., Nov. 2, te. , relict of Hon. William McClung, and mother of Rev. John A. McClung and the celebrated Col. McClung, of Mississppi. She was the daughter of Col. Thomas Marshall, of revolutionary memory, and a sister of the distinguished John Marshall, chief justice of the United States. McDAMEL, Samuel, Butler Co., O., Oct. 9, te. 61. He was a native of New Jersey, but went to Ohio more than 40 years ago. He made the journey, like many others of the earlier settlers of the country, on foot, carrying all his effects on his" person. By a life of industry and economy, he attained to a competency. He was a good husband and father, a kind neighbor and friend, conscientiously living the faith he professed. Miner, John D. L., M. D., Chardon, O., May 19, te. 32. Montgomery, R., M. D., Xenia, O., Aug. 15, te. 60. He was a man of fine literary attainments, and was at one time a regular contributor to Blackwood and other magazines. Moopey, Rev. Pliny, Rutland, O., April 4, re. 33. Morgan, Mrs. Jane Oilman, Washington, O., 13, Ie. 49, wife of D. T. Morgan, Esq., and daughter of the late Dudley Woodbridge, Esq., of Marietta, O. The character of this estimable lady deserves a far more extended tribute than the columns of a newspaper will allow. She was descended, in a direct line, from the well-known Congregational clergyman, the Rev. John Woodbridge, whose grandfather was driven out of England, in the reign of Elizabeth, for Puritanism, and who himself immigrated to this country in 1634, settled as the first minister in Newbury, Mass., married a daughter of the Hon. Thomas Dudley, governor of the colony, and was first of a line of clergymen, (all named John, and all eldest sons,) extending through six or seven generations. Mrs. M. herself was a child of the grace of God, thus signalized in the generations of her pious ancestry. Mouse, Benjamin F., M. D., Fremont, O., April 26, te. 4.3. The larger part of his active life as a physician was spent in Peru, Huron Co., O., where his skill and fidelity in his profession, and his character as a man and a Christian, gave him an honorable standing among an extensive circle of friends and acquaintances. Platt, Joseph, Canfield, O., Jan. 15, te. 87. The deceased was one of the old pioneers of that section, having removed from Massachusetts to Canfield Township in 1818. Platt, Mrs. Martha A., Columbus O., Sept. 10, Ie. . She was a decided Christian meek, unobtrusive, yet earnest and self-denying. She ever evinced her hope in the humble endeavor, by the careful culture of her heart, to be more Christ-like. Solicitous for the welfare of Zion, she did what she could; and cheerfully suffered what was appointed to her in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ. Power, John Henry, M. D., Aberdeen, O., Sept. 4, Te. "33. Dr. P. was born and raised in Aberdeen. He completed his medical education in one of the medical colleges in Cincinnati, in the winter of 1854-55, and emigrated to Canton, Lewis Co., Mo., on the Upper Mississippi, where for one year he was earnestly and successfully engaged in his profession. Putnam, Schuyler, Elyria, O., te. 69. Mr. P. was a grandson of Gen. Putnam, of revolutionary memory, who immortalized himself in early times by killing the wolf, and afterwards on the battle field. He was for many years a faithful magistrate in this place, and at the time of his death was a member of the Lorain bar. Robe, Campbell, Esq., West Union, O., Nov. 14, a?. 27. At the time of his death he was occupying the position of clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, treasurer of the Agricultural Society, and superintendent of the union school. Community is thus bereft of one of its noblest sons, and society of one of its dearest and most highly esteemed members. Kindness, generosity, and cheerfulness were traits in his character which commanded the admiration of all. Saxton, Jehiel, Newburg, O., March 16, tc. 76. He was one of the pioneers of Cuyahoga Co., having moved into Xewburg, in September, 1819, from Bristol, Addison Co., Vt. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was at the battle of Plattsburg. In all the social and domestic relations of life he sustained an irreproachable character for integrity and kindness. He ever seemed more anxious to do justice to others than exact it from them. Though a firm adherent to whatever he believed correct principles, he was always courteous to those who differed from him in matters of opinion. Scranton, Joel, Cleveland, O., April 9, Ie. 65. He was the son of Stephen and Asenath Scranton, and was born in Belchertown, Mass., April 5, 1792. At an early age he removed, first, to Delaware Co., and afterwards to Cooperstown, Otsego Co., N. Y., where he engaged in business, and became associated with the Averell family, who resided there, and who were at that time largely engaged in those business operations which have since extended over much space and have resulted most successfully. Though young and inexperienced, he was commissioned by them to take charge of and manage a " trading venture," which they proposed to send out to what was then called the Ohio Country, with a view, if the skill and honesty of the agent, and the business prospects of the country, warranted it, to make a permanent location in the then small village of Cleveland. In the spring of 1823, with his stock of goods, Mr. Scranton made his way into this, to him, unknown region. He landed from a small schooner, and found only a few hundred inhabitants and a scattered village, where'is now the hurry and bustle of a city of 60,000 inhabitants. Before the evening of the first day, he had made up his mind to make Cleveland his future dwelling place, and had engaged a room for his goods, and the next day he was a citizen of a new country, and was diligently employed in carrying out the instructions and the wishes of the employers who had put so much trust in him. With prudence, economy, and diligence, he attended to the interests of his distant employers, and by the middle of the first winter he had disposed of all their goods, and had the proceeds carefully laid by in specie. There was, at that period, no regular winter communication between Cleveland and the east. The roads were nearly impassable, the country was sparsely settled, and it was a journey at that time which can hardly be imagined by those who roll in a day, in a well-cushioned rail-car, through the same region of country which lay between young Scranton and those who had placed in him the trusts of which he was now so anxious to render his account. With his specie in one end of a common meal bag, and a few clothes in the other, he started on foot, a journey of 500 miles, to render an account of his stewardship, and place the money in the hand of its owners. In these days of ease, fraud, and default, this mayseem strange and scarcely credible. At length, with surprise and pleasure, the travel-worn young man was welcomed by the Averells, when he walked in, unannounced, on a blustering evening in March, and dropping his bag upon the floor, exclaimed, " I have sold your goods, and there is the money." The judgment, prudence, honesty, economy, and perseverance, which Mr. S. had shown in this transaction, led the Averells at once to propose to him an equal partnership. The writings were immediately drawn, executed, and in a few days Mr. S. was on his way to N. Y., with the necessary means to procure goods for a permanent establishment at Cleveland.
From that time forth he retained the confidence of his partners, and continued to act as agent and partner until his death. The, gains of business he invested in land in and about the city of Cleveland, until he accumulated a l.irge estate, which always stood as the partnership property of Scranton & Averell. InJune, 1828, he married Miss Irene P. Hickox, of Durham, N. Y. She was educated at Litchfield, Conn., and at an early age removed to Ohio, where she spent some years teaching young ladies. She was a woman of great good sense, and of superior education and judgment. She was one of the twelve members of the first organized Presbyterian church in Cleveland, and by her daily walk through life, illustrated the beauty of holiness. She possessed great energy and decision of character, and never swerved from duty, or wearied in doing good. She died March 15, 1858. Only one of their five children survive Mrs. William Bradford, of Elyria, O. Sharp, John M., Comminsville, O., , o;. , general western agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. At a meeting of the friends of Mr. S., at the Tremont House, Chicago, the following resolutions were passed unanimously: " Resolved, that in the death of John M. Sharp, the active and most popular agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., we deplore the loss of a most accomplished officer, a noble, generous gentleman, a devoted friend, and an honorable and exemplary citizen. " Resolved, that during several years of a personal intercourse with him as an editor, as a publisher, and as a railroad officer and agent, we always found him to be honest, faithful, steadfast, and true, in all relations of life. '' Resolved, that in Mr. S., while living, we recognized a gentleman and officer whose association was worthy the ambition of all his fellow-men: so in death exemplary virtues will be cherished while time exists for us." Spalding, Mrs. Lucretia S., Cleveland, O., Feb. 21, a?. 56, wife of Hon. Rufus P. Spalding, and daughter of the late Chief Justice Swift, of Connecticut. SPENCER, Rev. Robert O., Athens, O., Sept. 6, te. 52. He entered upon his ministerial career at the age of 18, and officiated in the pulpit over 30 years 10 years beyond the average period allotted this arduous profession. He had the happy faculty of winning and attaching to him whomsoever he chose to be his friend; fand but few men have the good fortune to rejoice in the possession of so many devoted to him by strong social ties. He left a family and numerous other relatives two brothers, Judge 0. M. end Hon. Henry E. Spencer to mourn their loss. One son, Oliver M., who is a talented young man, is principal of the Female Institute at Xenia. Stirrat, Rev. James A., Kingston, O., Nov. 28, w. 40. Mr. S. graduated at the Ohio University in 1844, spent several years in teaching in Marysville, O., and in Mount Pleasant Academv, located in Kingston, O. During this time he was ordained by the presbytery of Marion as an evangelist. As a teacher he was always popular and successful, because he succeeded in infusing much of his own energy and enthusiasm into his pupils. As a friend he was warm-hearted, generous, and confiding. As a Christian his views were clear, scriptural, and discriminating; but he said little of his own feelings. As a preacher he was sound, instructive, and at times impressive. Stoder, James C, M. D., Shclbv, Richland Co., O., Dec. 27, re. 28. Stone, Dan, Westfield, N. J., Nov. , re. 49, formerly a member of the Cincinnati bar. Stuart, Hon. James, Mansfield, O., Feb. 18, To. , late president judge of the judicial subdivision composed of the counties of Ashland, Richland, and Morrow, which post he occupied for the term of five years. Summons, Capt. J. Blair, Cincinnati, O., Feb. 27, re. 05. The deceased was widely known as a pioneer boatman on the western waters. He was born near the banks of the Alleghany, in Western New York, 65 years since, and commenced his boating career on rafts, keel-boats, flat-boats, and barges, before the introduction of steam. In 1812 he assisted in conveying supplies in barges to Gen. Waynes troops, quartered in Leughery Creek, 30 miles below this city. He was one of the pioneers and oldest commanders in the Louisville mail line, in active service, having remained in the trade since 1826,32 years. In his career as a boatman he was very fortunate. He never met with a serious accident to any boat while in his charge. He commenced his career a poor, penniless lad, in the capacity of deck hand, and steadily progressed, filling the stations of mate and pilot, and was commander of the proudest steamer (the Jacob Strader) that floats on the western waters. Sutherland, Hon. Judge J. K., Steubenville, O., May 29, re. 47. Taylor, John E., Cleveland, O., Oct. 30, a?. 39. Mr. T. was well known to our business men as of the late firm of John E. Taylor & Co., lumber dealers, and occupied that position his integrity, his promptness, and his scrupulous sense of honor justly entitled him to. Mr. T. graduated with credit at Union College, He practised law in the city of Troy, and for a number of years so devoted himself to his profession, so faithfully served his clients, and so ably represented their interests before the court of New York, as to attain an eminence at the bar seldom accorded to a man of his years, and opened to human eyes a future not onlv of profit, but of marked distinction in his profession. Ill health forced Mr. T. to abandon the law; and he came west some eight years since, hoping an active business and change of climate would restore his health; they undoubtedly prolonged his life. Taylob, Rev. Reuben, Freedom, O., Dec. 6, Ie. 81. He was ordained a minister of the gospel in Connecticut in 1810, and for 48 years preached the gospel east and west. Since his residence in the west he had been a member of the Presbytery of Cleveland. He was remarkable for his clear, consecutive views of the doctrines and practices of Christianity as constituting, together, the great sys'tem and plan of man's redemption and salvation. Turner, John R., Portsmouth, O., Oct. 15, m. 71. He was born in Virginia, 1787 ; and from 1810 to 1855 he held the office of clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Scioto Co. Perhaps no other man in the state could exhibit so long an incumbency of that or any other station. In 1855 he was elected mayor of Portsmouth, and served two years. Wayland, Wm., M. D., Batavia, O, Oct. 6, a?. 74. He was born in Madison Co., Va., June 20, 1783, and by his unaided exertions acquired a liberal education, and was particularly distinguished for the proficiency he had made in mechanical philosophy. His medical education was of a high order, the best bis times could afford. In 1814 he commenced the practice of his profession at Circleville, and during that year served for a short time as a surgeon in the U. S. army, in the war with Great Britain. In 1815, after the death of the late Dr. Rogers, Dr. Wayland located at Bethel, where he soon acquired the confidence of the community, and obtained a large practice in his profession, which he continued to enjoy until 1826, when he removed to Batavia, where he continued the practice of his profession for about 20 years with great success. In 1829 Dr. W. was chosen to represent his county in the Senate of Ohio. In 1842 he united with the M. E. church at Batavia, of which he continued a worthy member till his death, leaving satisfactory evidence that bis end was peace. Webb, Cnpt. Henry, Austinburg, O., Jan. 21, te. 71. He was not one of the first pioneers to Austinburg, yet he emigrated from Stamford, Ct., at an early day, when Ashtabula Co. was comparatively a wilderness, the abode of savage beasts and savage men, and for more than 40 years enjoyed the blessings of a home and the fruits of his labor upon a farm, which his industrious hands had transformed from a wilderness into beautiful and highly-cultivated fields. He was connected with the war of 1812, and the vessel which he then commanded was the first captured in that struggle. Wentworth, Mrs. Thomas, Antwerp, O., June 5, a?. 66, wife of Hon. Thomas Wentworth, formerly of Buxton, Me. Williamson, George T., London, England, Dec. 25, re. 55, a citizen of Cincinnati, O. Mr. W. was born in Cincinnati, May 10, 1804. Since the organization of the Pioneer Association he had been its corresponding secretary, and probably did more than any other man to collect and preserve interesting facts and reminiscences connected with the early settlement of Ohio and Cincinnati. In him the association has lost one of its most useful and efficient members. He was a man of warm social qualities, of high and honorable impulses, an excellent member of society, and possessed more than ordinary abilities. Wintimop, Mrs. Elizabeth A., Maumee City, O., Aug. 30, re. , sister of the Rev. John A. Andras, principal of Blackheath college, London, and wife of the Rev. Edward Winthrop, rector of St. Paul's Church, Maumee City, and formerlv rector of St . Paul's, Norwalk, O. The deceased was a native of the city of Bath, Somersetshire, England, and came to America in 1832. She was married in 1889, at Lexington, Ky., at the residence of Capt. Henry Johnson, brother of Col. Richard M. Johnson, formerly vice president of the United States, to the Rev. Edward Winthrop, then professor of sacred literature in the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary of Kentucky. Modest and unobtrusive in her deportment, earnest and warm-hearted in her piety, indefatigable in her efforts for the good of others, it was the delight and glory of her strong and highly-cultivated intellect to lay all her trophies at the feet of Jesus; and she departed hence with a cordial and lovin'' trust in that dear Saviour whom she had so cheerfully and strenuously served from her early vouth. Much of her life had been spent in the work of Christian education. Sne was most loved by those who knew her best, and she left many friends to deplore their loss. Wor.F, John, M. D., Mohecanville, O., Feb. 17, re. 30. He was born in Shippensburg, Cumberland Co., Pa., prosecuted his classical studies for some time at Pennsylvania College, and graduated at Cannonsburg, Pa., after which he completed his medical studies at one of the medical institutions of Philadelphia. As a successful practitioner he had few equals, and perhaps none superior of his age Yeoman, Samuel F., Washington, O., July 7, te. 65. The deceased served a term in the war of 1812, after which he went to Fayette Co., where he was a citizen a greater part of the time. He was an editor two years, held the office of magistrate, postmaster, countv commissioner, judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and representative in the state legislature, the duties of all which he discharged to general satisfaction. Young, Rev. David, Zancsville, O., Nov. , te. . At his death he was a superannuated minister of the Ohio conference. He made a bequest for building a new house for the Second Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Zanesville, the seats or pews of which must be free forever, $12,000; to the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, $1,000; to the Bible Society, $1,000; to the Missionary Society of the Meth. Episcopal Church, $1,000; the residue of his estate, after providing a few small legacies, to go toward building a Methodist church in the third ward of Zanesville. It is estimated that this will amount to from $5,000 to $10,000. His library, which was valuable, was given for the benefit of the preacher in the Second Street charge. To the colored man raised in his family he gave a life estate in four acres of ground, the cottage house just east of his own residence for life, an annuity of $200, and a quantity of personal property necessary to establish him in life. The bequests in this quarter were nearly equivalent to a donation of $5,000. Young, Henry B., M. D., Zanesville, O., Oct. 12, te. 36. He possessed a happy comhination of intellectual and moral qualities which recommended him to the community in which he lived. A man of exemplary modesty and humility, free from self-importance and dogmatism, and deservedly admired for his uncommon self-control, sterling intelligence, and Christian decision. (Source: Annual obituary notices of eminent people of the United States in 1858)
Mansfield News Ex-State Senator William Lawrence, died at the Lakeside hospital in Cleveland, Thursday, after an illness lasting more than a year. Mr. Lawrence was the editor of the Mansfield Shield for a time, but was forced to quit work through ill health. Mr. Lawrence was born at Washington, O., in December 1849. He was the son of William Lawrence, an Ohio congressman. After gradusting from Kenyon college in 1871, he read law and was admitted to practice in 1873. he had a fondness for newspaper work, however, and after practicing law for a short time he entered the newspaper field. At different times he was the editor of the Cambridge Jeffersonian, the Zanesville Signal and his last work was done as editor of the Shield of this city. In 1889 Mr. Lawrence was elected to the state senate from the Zanesville district and served from 1900 to 1902. In 1898 he ran against J. D. Taylor for congress in the Guernsey district and was defeated by a small margin. Mr. Lawrence was a member of mansfield Lodge of Elks. He was of a quiet and rather retiring disposition, but was esteemed most highly by those who knew him best. The body of the deceased was taken to Cambridge Friday and thence to Washington, O., for funeral services at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon. M. D. Frazier, former business associate of Mr. Lawrence will attend the funeral.
Lorain County Reporter William McKinley was inaugurated at Columbus as governor of Ohio.
Idaho Statesman Urbana, Ohio, July 5 - Captain Thomas C. Cowgill, three times a member of the house of respresentatives and once a senator, died very suddenly at his home near Kenyard last night.
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