The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Ohio

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century.

Columbus, OH: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876

Ross County, Biographies

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AYLOR, James, M.D., D.D.S.

was born in 1809, at Cedar Grove farm, on Paint creek, near Bainbridge, Ross county, Ohio. The town of Bainbridge was named for Commodore Bainbridge, of the United States navy, by the grandfather of our subject, who was a near relative of the commodore. The old farm and homestead is still owned by Price Taylor, a brother of James, these brothers being two of the nine children that clustered around the family hearthstone. Joseph Taylor, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, where the Taylor family, of English extraction, was settled more than two hundred years ago. His mother, whose maiden name was Jane Irwin, was born in Virginia, of Scotch-Irish stock, and was married to Joseph Taylor in 1797. In 1801 the young pair, with the husband's father, William Taylor, removed to Ross county, being among the first settlers of the county. Here James Taylor was reared, contending with great obstacles in securing an education, by reason of the limited resources of the county; for at this time wheat sold for thirty cents and corn for ten cents per bushel, if they could be sold at all. But the father, being magistrate and school commissioner, employed New England teachers, often graduates of colleges, who made his house their home. Thus a good English education was secured to the children, while the presence for so long a time of educated men in the family fostered a taste for reading and study. At the age of seventeen James had chosen medicine as his future profession, and advised by an old family physician he began the study of Latin and anatomy at the same time. In 1826 Dr. John Harris settled in Bainbridge, having an excellent reputation as a physician, and among the students that sought his instruction the subject of this sketch was soon numbered. After a year of close application to study on the part of his scholar, Dr. Harris turned his own special attention towards the study and practice of dentistry. The works of Koeker, Bell, Fitch and Hunter were procured and eagerly read by both the doctor and his student. After a time the latter was sent to Cincinnati, to purchase the requisite instruments and materials for work. The trip was made on horseback, and it required several days to find files, scalors, forceps (at that time very rare), elevators, turnkeys, hippopotamus' tusks, gold and tin foil, etc., etc. A set of instruments worth fifty dollars was not then to be obtained in the city. On his return he found his horse lamed at Batavia, and to occupy the time of his delay the young dentist began to practise with such success that he soon made enough money to pay for his new instruments and the whole expenses of the trip. Some of these first patients in after years gave him their practice when he had settled in the Queen City. The teacher and pupil, being now in partnership, visited various neighboring towns, among others Greenfield, twelve miles distant, where Dr. C. A. Harris, a brother of the former, was then practising medicine. This Dr. Harris, afterward of Baltimore, was soon induced to devote himself also to dental science, and with his industry, integrity and professional pride, proved a great acquisition to the profession. After two years Dr. John Harris removed permanently to Chillicothe, and Mr. Taylor went to Hillsboro', placing himself under the tuition of Dr. Kirby, a noted and eminent physician of that town. His dental practice, however, by which he supported himself meanwhile, so interfered with his medical studies that he did not enter the medical school of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, until the autumn of 1830. After having passed through the difficult course of study in this school, from which he subsequently received the degree of M. D., he returned to Ohio, and was examined and licensed to practise by a board of physicians appointed as censors by the Legislature to examine those who desired to practise medicine. His first office was opened in Bainbridge. His brother Joseph having studied dentistry with him previously, had spent the winter of 1830 profitably in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and induced James to return to that place with him the subsequent winter. The latter settled at Port Gibson and in Natchez. Thus for several years he spent his winters in the South and his summers in the North. In 1834 Dr. Taylor decided to give up the practice of medicine, although he was very successful therein, and devote himself wholly to dentistry. And he has ever deemed his medical career invaluable to his success in his present profession. At that time there were not more than a dozen dentists in the West, and few of these had made any reputation worth naming. Both cities and towns were small, and could not afford a permanent location to any professional man. Indeed, ten years later, though the number of dentists had increased fourfold, yet very few had attained to eminence. After assuming the practice of dentistry alone, Dr. Taylor continued his winter visits South until, in 1838, he had accumulated about $6000, which he invested in the dry-goods business in Bainbridge, placing his youngest brother, Irwin, in charge of the store. His eyes threatening to fail him, shortly after, he feared that he would be compelled to relinquish his profession; and, selling out his store, he removed with his brother Irwin to Crawfordsville, Indiana, taking with him a stock of goods. But here he soon found himself again in full practice, visiting Lafayette, Covington and neighboring towns. In 1841, his merchandise not proving successful, Dr. Taylor closed up his business and visited his old field of labor in the South, while his brother went to Maysville, Kentucky, to study dentistry with another brother, Joseph, who had several years before settled there. Still longing for a permanent settlement, however, in 1842 Dr. James Taylor bought of Dr. Rostaing, in Cincinnati, his house, office, instruments, fixtures, etc., and enlisted in his chosen profession in this young city, then numbering about 60,000 inhabitants. Meanwhile a fourth brother, Edward, who had also studied medicine and then dentistry, and who had pursued the same career of vibration between the North and South, and was settled in a successful practice in Louisville, Kentucky, was now induced to join his brother in Cincinnati, and in a few years they had built up a most flourishing and lucrative practice, with a widespread reputation. The health of Edward, however, failing after some years, Dr. Joseph Taylor, of Maysville, took his place, while the former retired to Cleveland and engaged in horticultural pursuits there until his death, in 1867. The two remaining brothers extended their practice among the best families of the community, and became well known in the profession. Thus these three brothers (the younger, a fourth practitioner, having died early) laid a broad foundation for the rising profession of dentistry, and by their enthusiasm and labors in it helped to give it that high professional character and standing which it has attained not only in the West, but throughout the whole country. While thus engaged in Cincinnati, Dr. James Taylor was invited to a chair in the Dental College in Baltimore, which had been organized by his quondam friend, Professor C. H. Harris; but, feeling that a college of dental surgery should be established in the West, he declined the flattering offer. At this time it was a serious sacrifice to science to become a professor in a dental college. In 1844 Dr. Taylor first advocated the necessity of a dental school for Cincinnati. After discussion of the subject with Drs. J. W. Cook and M. Rogers, they concluded to apply to the Legislature for a charter. After some opposition the charter was obtained, and in 1845 the college was organized, Dr. Taylor being assigned to the chair of Practical Dentistry and Pharmacy. This Ohio College of Dental Surgery was the second of the kind in this country. After three years a new assignment of chairs was made, and that of the Institutes of Dental Science was allotted to Dr. Taylor, which he occupied for sixteen or eighteen years, when he voluntarily retired with the honor of Emeritus Professor. He has continued every session since to deliver a few lectures to the classes. The college is owned by an association of dental surgeons, Dr. Taylor being a large stockholder, and as President of the Board he confers the degrees at the annual commencements upon the members of the graduating class. He was chosen President of the National Convention of Dentists, which met in Boston in 1856. Dr. Taylor with his brothers were also among the originators of the Mississippi Valley Association of Dental Surgeons, which is the oldest and one of the most efficient societies in the United States, and which was organized in Cincinnati in 1845. The publication of the Dental Register was begun in 1847, and Dr. Taylor being the only resident editor in Cincinnati, where it was published, the editorial duties were largely devolved upon him, so that after three years the magazine was placed entirely in his hands, he assuming all its expenses. For nine years he continued to edit and publish this journal, which still exists, when it became self-supporting and took high rank among the leading organs of the profession. During this time his literary contributions were very numerous, embracing well nigh every topic relating to dental practice, and in many cases being original and thorough discussions of subjects which had been but little discussed previously. The value of these articles has been widely acknowledged, many of them having been republished elsewhere. Were these, with his contributions to the American Journal of Dental Science, his numerous addresses to the graduating classes and his carefully prepared lectures, to be published together, they would make several large volumes of great interest and practical value. In 1838 Dr. Taylor married R. Maria Applegate, of Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, a most estimable lady, which happy union was severed by her death, in 1858. He was subsequently married to Belle P. McMaster, of Cincinnati, a talented and accomplished lady, beloved by all who knew her, but who died in 1873. Dr. Taylor remains in practice in Cincinnati, having as his partner his nephew, Dr. James I. Taylor. He resides on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river, on his beautiful suburban farm, his spacious residence overlooking the city, and from whose conservatory lovely floral offerings are brought to adorn his city office. His health is nearly perfect, and he does not seem to be more than forty-five or fifty years of age. And for more than twenty years he has been a ruling elder of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. T. H. Skinner is pastor, and where he is highly esteemed and honored by the congregation, as well as by the entire community.

COLLINS, Charles H.

Lawyer, was born in Maysville, Mason county, Kentucky, April 15th, 1834. He was the sixth child in a family of eight children whose parents were Richard Collins and Mary A. (Armstrong) Collins. His father, a native of New Jersey, followed through life the profession of law, and also for a time was engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1801 Richard Collins moved to Clermont county, Ohio, with his father's family, whence, in after life, he removed to Hillsborough, Highland county, in the same State; subsequently he settled in Maysville, Kentucky, where, and also in the former place, he became well known as a successful and brilliant legal practitioner; he became also a general of militia, served in the Ohio Legislatre through three terms, was a member of the Kentucky Legislature also through three terms, and was the first President of the Maysville & Lexington Railroad; his decease occurred at his old homestead, in Clermont county, Ohio, in 1855. C. H. Collins' mother, a native of Maysville, Kentucky, was a daughter of John Armstrong, a prominent merchant and one of the pioneer settlers of that county; she died in 1838. His paternal grandfather, John Collins, was an early and widely esteemed settler of Clermont county, Ohio; his maternal grandfather died in 1851. His preliminary education was liberal, and received at the Maysville Academy, where he graduated in 1850, at the youthful age of sixteen. After his graduation he became bookkeeper in the house of John W. Ellis & Co., dry-goods merchants, of Cincinnati, Ohio. At the expiration of one year, spent in this establishment, he began the reading of law, under the supervision of Thomas J. Gallagher, a prominent attorney of the Queen City. During the following four years he devoted himself sedulously to the study of his text-books, and in 1855, after passing the required examination, was admitted to the bar at Batavia, Ohio. In the course of the ensuing year he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Clermont County, and served in that office for a period of two years. In 1858 he moved to Missouri, settling in Lexington, where he was engaged in professional labors until 1864. In January of this year he returned to Ohio and established his office at Hillsborough, Highland county, where he has since resided, the fortunate possessor of a highly remunerative legal business and the respect and esteem of the bar and the general community. In 1866 he was the Democratic candidate for the position of Common Pleas Judge for Highland, Ross and Fayette counties. Politically, he is a supporter of Democratic principles and measures, while his religious convictions are embodied in the formula of the Methodist Church. His integrity of character is unassailable; his social demeanor is pleasant and affable, and his literary and professional attainments are of a high order of merit. He was married in 1857 to Mary E. Tice, of Bethel, Clermont county, Ohio, a daughter of C. C. Tice, an early pioneer of that section of the State. C. H. Collins, in addition to his high standing at the bar, has acquired considerable reputation as a writer for the press. His contributions both in prose and poetry have been varied and numerous, and he is a standard among his fellow-citizens in matters of literary criticism.

Delano, Lincoln Goodale

was born at Columbus, Ohio, November 10th, 1828. His father, Harry Delano, was born in Ohio, and was engaged in the mercantile business at Columbus, Ohio, from 1814 until 1841, the time of his death. His mother was Sarah Denny, daughter of General James Denny, of Pickaway county, Ohio. Lincoln Goodale Delano attended schools at Columbus, Ohio, until 1840; he was at that time placed under the instruction of the Rev. E. Washburn, of the Blendon Institute, in Franklin county, Ohio. During the year 1843 he entered the mercantile business and remained in it until 1846, when he adopted the profession of Civil Engineer. He was at Kenyon College during the year 1851, but continued in the business of Civil Engineer until 1855, when he engaged in driving cattle from Texas to the Chicago and New York markets. He has followed the cattle business and agricultural pursuits up to the present time. From 1870 to 1876 he was a member of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, and President of the Board for the years 1873 and 1874. Governor Allen appointed him one of the Board of Commissioners for the construction of the Central Ohio Hospital for Insane in 1874, and to the same position in 1875; he resigned the commission in 1876 to accept the office of Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, tendered him by Governor Allen. He was married, January 15th, 1861, to Martha Crouse, daughter of Hon. John Crouse, of Ross county, Ohio.

DICKEY, Alfred S.

Lawyer and Judge, was born in Giles county, Tennessee, January 6th, 1812. When he was about four years old, his parents removed to South Salem, Ross county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood. He descended from a family who removed from the north of Ireland to the colony of Virginia, many years before the revolutionary war. His ancestry, so far back as any knowledge extends, were always noted for their devotion to Presbyterian religious faith. On the 19th of January, 1832, he was married to Emily Ann Mackerly, and shortly afterward removed to Washington Court House, where, in 1838, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney. Here he rose rapidly in his profession, and soon occupied an enviable reputation, both as counsellor and advocate. In March, 1847, he removed to Greenfield, as much to educate his children at the Greenfield Academy, as to be more in the centre of his practice, which now extended to the several surrounding counties. He succeeded Hon. James Sloan to the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the counties of Ross, Highland and Fayette, by appointment from Governor S. P. Chase in 1858, and was successively re-elected to that office until the fall of 1871, when he was succeeded by Judge S. F. Steele. He now returned to the practice of his profession, and while on a visit to his sister, near Ripley, Ohio, suddenly became ill, and after a few hours departed this life on the 22d day of August, 1873. His last distinguished professional effort was made in the Supreme Court of Ohio, December term, A. D. 1872, in the case of James Taylor and others vs. The Board of County Commissioners of Ross County et al. In this case the famous Boesel Railroad Law was declared unconstitutional, and with that case terminated the professional career of Judge Dickey. The case was characteristic of the man. Being of the people and the founder of his own fortune in every respect, he was opposed in every interest of his nature to extravagance in private or public life; and therefore he most earnestly opposed the illimited and illimitable power of taxation as claimed by the State; and throughout the able argument of himself and his compeers, that zeal, that earnestness, and that conviction of right can be perceived controlling the line of the argument which always characterized him when once he espoused a cause. He was a Democrat until the Kansas territorial trouble sprang up as to the area of slave territory, and on the nomination of Mr. Buchanan, believing that the result of his election would tend to perpetuate slavery and the increase of the slave power, and being conscientiously faithful to all the interests of his uation and his education and the religion of his family, he began gradually to withdraw his allegiance from the Democratic party to identify himself with the new party then forming, and which resulted in the organization of the present Republican party. With this latter party he most earnestly supported the administration of Mr. Lincoln throughout the whole war of the rebellion. He had a just conception of the position and functions--the rights and duties--of the bar; and he looked upon the profession as something above a mere occupation in which to make money. He not only believed that underhand practices will fail in the end, but he detested such practices as in themselves wrong and dishonorable, and bringing the profession itself into disrepute. He had an excellent mind for the law. His power of analysis was strong. In the investigation of a subject his mind rejected the irrelevant and weak. He was fond of investigating and applying general principles. His mind pondered upon whatever subjects he under-took to examine, until he saw them in all their aspects and bearings. He endeavored in his investigations to keep clear of the ruts of commonplace, and to tread on the higher planes of thought. He did not decide until his judgment was thoroughly convinced. If he could not, on the first effort, find data on which to base a satisfactory conclusion, he suspended his judgment for the time being, and renewed his process of pondering. He was an instance of the truth of a striking observation of a distinguished philosopher: "There is," says he, "much in this process of pondering and its result which it is impossible to analyze. It is by a kind of inspiration that we rise from the wise and sedulous contemplation of facts to the principles on which they depend. The mind is, as it were, a photographic plate, which is gradually cleansed by the effort to think rightly, and which, when so cleansed, and not before, receives impressions from the light of truth." Whilst he was at the bar, Judge Dickey was a successful lawyer. He did not degrade his profession by making merchandise of his legal knowledge and skill. He did not "run down" business, but let it seek him. He would not litigate a case, if he could well avoid it, when he thought his client would surely fail. He never encouraged a client who had not justice on his side. He preferred compromising controversies to bitterly litigating them. He seldom prepared any other brief than a reference to a few authorities, and he hardly ever prepared a written argument. He could think and reason orally with greater accuracy, clearness and force, than he could with a pen in his hand. On the trial of a case he was master of the facts, understood the exact points in contest, and was prepared to discuss them intelligently and ably. He had an eminently judicial cast of mind. He loved justice, and desired that every case should, if practicable, be decided upon its substantial merits. Some practitioners in his courts thought he was too much inclined to allow equitable views and considerations to enter into his decision of every question and every cause. A sound point, clearly stated by the weakest member of the bar, had the same effect upon his judgment as it would have had if urged in argument by the strongest lawyer in his court. He was not often misled by a fallacious proposition, however artfully and strongly put. His instructions to the jury were plain and simple. Whilst he had a discriminating mind--a mind for which clear, nice distinctions were nutriment--still, as a magistrate, he seemed to think that too much refining destroys pure reason and interrupts the course of justice. Very few of his rulings or judgments were reversed. Nearly all of them that were carried to the Supreme Court were unanimously affirmed. Judge Dickey was a good judge. He seemed to have been fitted up by his mental and moral training, and his habits of industry and patient investigation, peculiarly for that position. Not a quick, off-hand, rapid despatcher of the business before him, ready, as some, before they have half heard a case, to decide, and become impatient, but a patient, painstaking magistrate, willing to hear all and to weigh all the matters involved in the case, and only ready to decide upon the fullest investigation and a thorough understanding of the whole case. Such a man could but make a safe judge. He was an honest man, and desired to administer the law so that right and justice should be done "though the heavens fell." Slow in coming to conclusions, it is true, sometimes, but when he did conclude he was firm, fixed and steadfast; not opinionated, however, but always ready to yield an opinion when convinced of his error, and always open to conviction by force of reason and truth. If we have, or have had any men among us who have or had the qualifications that Jethro recommended to Moses to select for judges in Israel, he was one of them. He was an "able man, such as feared God, a man of truth, hating covetousness." On the bench, at the bar, and in every other position, he was of sterling integrity. "The best court of equity is a good conscience." But above all, he was a true man. He was kind, genial, tolerant and intelligent. He could interest, edify, and divert any person, whether learned or illiterate, refined or rude, young or old. His conversation and discourse were characterized by solid sense and useful information, and oftentimes sparkled with seasonable wit and humor. If any man who came into his company had any genuine wit or humor in his nature, it would be brought out--it would catch of the judge's, as fire of fire. He was a sensitive man; his emotional nature was of fine fibre. Hence he was easily affected by sharp or unkind words, or malicious criticism. But he was not revengeful; his resentments were fleeting. He doubtless thought the most speedy and effectual, as well as the noblest, remedy for injuries is oblivion. He cherished his friends; "grappled them to his soul with hooks of steel." And he seemed to regard them as a shield to his sensitive nature against harsh criticism and unjust censure. He was more charitable in his judgment of his fellow-men than they were in their judgments of him. In speaking of others he acted on the principle that detraction is a sin against justice. He did not try to discover and hold up for ridicule and execration the foibles of any man, whether friend or foe. He was above the meanness of envy. He never sneered at that which he could not rival. He praised meritorious deeds, by whomsoever done. He was pleased when a young man came to the bar who gave promise of maintaining its proper standard of learning, honor and ability. No man ever trusted him and was deceived or betrayed. He had a spark of divinity within him that made him every inch a man. He loved virtue and hated vice. His heart was always touched by the misfortunes of his friends or fellow-men, and his hand always outstretched and his pocket open to alleviate distress, come from what quarter it might. He was frank and firm in what he believed to be right, and would not "have flattered Neptune for his trident, or Jove for his power to thunder." He was a modest and unassuming man, cool and reflecting. His physical powers seemed hardly robust enough without excitement to a full development of his intellectual. His analytical and logical powers were of a superior type, and when duly exercised on any subject, his conclusions were seldom incorrect. He loved his family; he was bound to them by strong cords of affection, and perhaps in no sphere of life were the beauties of his true character and real inner life displayed to better or even as good advantage as in his family life--his home circle. His home was home indeed; there love and affection reigned, and virtue and intelligence displayed themselves in their true loveliness and beauty. His was a character requiring no concealments--no charitable coverings, which the grave is too frequently called on to conceal. "De mortuis, nil nisi bonum" is not to be applied to him.

DUNLAP, Milton M.D.

Physician, was born, August 9th, 1807, in Brown county, Ohio, and is the third child of William and Mary (Shepherd) Dunlap. His father was a native of Augusta county, Virginia, who removed with his father's family to Kentucky when a boy. He settled in Brown county, Ohio, in 1796, where he resided until his death in 1848. He was a captain in the war of 1812, and a man who passed through life as a public-spirited citizen. His consort was a daughter of Abraham Shepherd, an early settler in Brown county, and formerly of Shepherdstown, Virginia. She died in 1846. Milton Dunlap was occupied on the farm until he was seventeen years of age, attending the district school during the winter. In 1824 he went to Ripley, Ohio, and studied medicine and general literature under the supervision of Dr. T. S. Williamson for about eighteen months. In 1826 he went to Cincinnati, where he became a clerk in a drug store, and also at the same time studied medicine, and attended upon the lectures delivered at the Ohio Medical College in the winter season, and graduated from that institution in 1829. The following year he located at Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, where he has ever since resided, engaged in the active control of a large medical practice, and has given a great deal of attention to obstetrics, in which branch of the profession he has been very successful. Up to the present time (February, 1876) he has attended no less than 4650 obstetrical cases. He is a member of the Highland County Medical Society. Notwithstanding the onerous duties of his profession, he has found the time to contribute literary articles on medical topics to the periodical literature of the day. In politics he is a Republican. He polled his maiden vote for John Quincy Adams, the anti Democratic candidate for the Presidency; but, although taking a deep interest in political matters, has never sought nor held any public office of a partisan nature. He has been for forty-eight years a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was for ten years an elder in that denomination. He is a valuable citizen and respected by all who know him. He was married in 1838 to Frances L. Kinkaid, of Ross county, Ohio, and is the father of thirteen children.

GORDON, Thomas Winslow M.D.

was born at Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, September 23d, 1819. He was the oldest child in a family of thirteen children, whose parents were Robert Gordon and Susanna Bacon (Winslow) Gordon. Robert Gordon was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and came with his father's family, when in his fourth year, to the "Northwestern Territory." He was partially educated as a physician, but followed mechanical pursuits through life, and became prominent as a master mechanic. His demise occurred February 12th, 1872. Thomas Gordon, the grandfather of Dr. Gordon, was a native of Scotland, was an early pioneer in the West, and settled in the "Northwestern Territory," in November, 1799, in the township of Poland, Trumbull (now Mahoning) county, Ohio. The mother of the subject of our sketch, Susanna Bacon Winslow, was a native of the town of Naples, New York, her father, Seth Winslow, having removed from Massachusetts just before her birth. She was descended in a direct line from Edward Winslow, one of the immortal Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic in the famous ship "Mayflower." The various members of her family were intimately identified with the revolutionary struggle, and active and useful participants therein. She died in 1849 in Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio. His early education was received in the common schools and at the Warren Academy. His more advanced literary and scientific education was obtained by his own untiring individual efforts and from private tutors noted for their scholastic attainments. During vacations he assisted his father in the manufacture of bricks and in building. In his fourteenth year he began the study of anatomy and physiology under the guidance of Dr. Sylvanus Seely, of Warren, Ohio. Subsequently, for a period of almost ten years, he pursued the study of the various departments of medicine conjointly with science and languages. In this time he travelled through the West, investigating the nature and peculiarities of diseases prevalent in the regions visited. He frequently found difficulty (being quite young) in obtaining the permission of physicians to visit their patients. He therefore commenced operating for "club foot," "strabismus," removal of tumors, etc., etc., and from that time forward had all the opportunities he desired to carry on his self-imposed investigations. The last two years of his student life was spent in the office of D. B. Woods, M. D., of Warren, Ohio. When almost exhausted with the more severe or abstruse studies of his profession, he used to take his botany and proceed to the forests, and there investigate the laws of that science as a recreation. In the summer and autumn of 1844 he attended a preliminary course of lectures at the Willoughby University, and during the regular sessions of 1844, 1845 and 1846, attended lectures at the Cleveland Medical College, where he graduated with honors in 1846 (having passed an examination by the faculty the year previous), and received from it a certificate of qualification to practise his profession. He began the active practice of medicine in Bazetta, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he remained until 1850, when he removed to Georgetown, Brown county, where he has since resided, continuously engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, when not absent fulfilling the various duties devolving on him as a professor in a medical college and as surgeon in the army. He took an irregular course of law reading under the supervision of Hon. John J. Crowell, of Warren--now of Cleveland, Ohio--before leaving the North. After his removal to Georgetown he read law regularly for more than two years, devoting all his spare time to its study, under instructions from John G. Marshall, Esq., of Georgetown, and holds a certificate of qualification, dated January 7th, 1854. Not intending to practise law as a profession, he never applied for "admission to the bar." In 1853 he became a member of the American Medical Association, and in 1856 was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Etiology and Pathology of Epidemic Cholera by that association. In the autumn of 1854 and the following winter and spring, he edited the Independent American, a weekly literary and political newspaper, published at Georgetown. In 1857-58 he was Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and in 1858-59-60 Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy, in the "Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery." In the war of the rebellion he was Surgeon of the 97th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in that capacity and as Brigade Surgeon from August, 1862, until June, 1864, when he was obliged to resign his commission on account of disability arising from a wound received in the memorable battle of Missionary Ridge, fought November 25th, 1863. He was appointed United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions in November, 1862, which position he continues to hold. He has delivered several popular lectures, which have been highly extolled; especially his lecture on the "Miracles of Man." He has written many articles on literary and scientific subjects, which have been published in various papers and magazines. Over various nom de plumes (chiefly that of Orion), he has published many poems. He was for several years the President of a literary club formed by writers of Brown and Clermont counties, bearing the name "Poetical Union." He was a member of the first meterorological society formed in the West--if not the first in the United States--and was made its temporary chairman. He was the first President of the Brown County Academy of Medicine. He has contributed many articles of acknowledged ability to prominent medical journals. His essays, read before the Ohio State Medical Society, on "Cholera," "Scarlatina," etc., deserve special mention as reports of very careful investigation and value. In 1874 he was a candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket in the district composed of the counties of Ross, Pike, Highland, Adams and Brown, one of the strongest Democratic districts in the State, making a gain on the Republican State ticket, when all other districts lost ground. He has always evinced an earnest interest in the political questions and movements of the day, and cast his first vote in favor of General Harrison. Religiously, his views are liberal, and not hedged about by the doctrines of any particular creed, though a firm believer in an All-wise Supreme Being. He was married, November 14th, 1836, to Minerva Elvira Scoville, a native of Trumbull county, whose decease occurred December 20th, 1869. By her he had eight children, six of whom are living. His eldest son, S. C. Gordon, M. D., was an assistant surgeon and surgeon during the war. He was again married, November 14th, 1872, to Elizabeth Norman Dugan, a native of Brown county, Ohio.

HOGHLAND, Brice V. M. D.

was born in Steubenville, Ohio, May 14th, 1819. He was the second child in a family of eight children whose parents were Jacob C. Hoghland and Sallie (Veirs) Hoghland. His father, a native of New York city, followed through life the occupation of fur-trading. He moved to Ohio in 1815, settling in Steubenville, whence, in 1836, he removed to Highland county, in the same State. In 1851 he made his home in Youngsville, Adams county, and there resided until his demise, in 1856. His mother, a native of Brooke county, Virginia, died in the same place in 1857. From the age of seventeen until his twenty-fourth year was reached he was constantly engaged in arduous farm labor. His early education was liberal, and was received partly in New York city. In 1843 he went into the grocery business, and was engaged in it at Hillsborough, Highland county, Ohio, for about two years. On relinquishing the grocery business, having been occupied during five preceding years in pursuing sedulously a course of medical study, he entered upon the practice of medicine at Youngsville, where he remained an active and successful practitioner until 1857. During the season of 1848-49 he had attended a course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College, and graduated with honor from that institution in the class of 1849. In 1853 he had attended a course of lectures also at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York city. In the winter of 1857-58 he attended still another course of lectures and study at this famous institution, giving prominence in his investigations to affections and diseases of the heart and lungs. In the spring of 1858 he moved to North Liberty, Adams county, and there continued the practice of medicine until 1865. In that year he returned to Hillsborough, where he was successfully occupied in professional labors until 1870, the date of his arrival in West Union. Adams county, where he has since resided, the possessor of a large and constantly increasing medical business. In 1863 he was a candidate, on the Democratic ticket, for the Legislature. He uniformly adheres to Democratic principles and measures, and religiously is attached to the doctrines and service of the Episcopal Church. He was married in 1859 to Leah H. Johnston, a native of Ross county, who died in 1863. He was again married in 1874 to Mary J. McKeown, a native of Adams county, Ohio.

JONES, Aquila

Physician, was born, April 12th, 1807, at Bean Station, Granger county. Tennessee. He is the eighth of ten children, the issue of William Jones and Deborah McVey. His father was a native of North Carolina, and by trade a housebuilder. William Jones moved to Ohio, March 4th, 1810, locating near Wilmington, Clinton county, where he resided until his death, August 7th, 1841. The mother of our subject was a Virginian. She died in 1849. Aquila received careful training at home, and attended the best schools until he was sixteen years of age, in the meantime teaching one year at Wilmington, Clinton county. In 1825 he was appointed by the Commissioners of Clinton county to fill the office of County Auditor, which he held for two years. While teaching school he had read "Blackstone," with a view to adopt the law as his profession. He afterwards abandoned this design, and in the fall of 1824 began reading medicine under Dr. Loami Rigdon, of Wilmington. For the next four years he was a close student under good instruction. In 1829 he entered the Ohio Medical College, and attended lectures faithfully. In 1830 he began practice at Washington Court House, Fayette county, Ohio, remaining there about one year. In 1831 he moved to Bainbridge, Ross county, where he pursued his profession until the winter of 1834-35, when he took up his residence at Wilmington, Clinton county. Dr. Jones has since lived in Wilmington, where he has built up a large practice. He has been a frequent contributor to medical journals, his articles attracting considerable attention from the profession. For many years he has been an active member of the Ohio Medical Association. In politics Dr. Jones is a Democrat. He cast his first vote for Henry Clay. His temperate, upright life and courteous address, have merited the regard of the community in which he lives. November 2d, 1830, he married Caroline A. Dawson, of Frederick county, Virginia, by whom he is the father of six children.

JONES, Wells S.

was born, August 3d, 1830, in Ross county, Ohio, the third of a family of eight children. His parents, R. P. Jones and Nancy Smith, are both natives of Berkeley county, Virginia, from which they emigrated to Ohio in her early history, his father settling on a farm in Paxton township, Ross county, where they still live. He had the benefit of pious practical training and education, till he reached his majority, his boyhood being spent on his father's farm. In the year 1851 he went to McLean county, Illinois, there following his old avocation, connecting teaching therewith for about two years, when he returned to his old home. He chose the medical profession and at once entered upon his studies with that energy and assiduity which characterize all his undertakings. He attended the Starling Medical College in 1855, and began the practice of medicine in Jasper, Pike county, in 1856, where he remained only a few months, removing to Waverly, where he industriously and successfully practised his profession for one year and a half. Returning to Jasper, he secured a large and lucrative practice by industry and application. In the fall of 1861 he entered the service of his country. Recruiting a full company, he was commissioned Captain, Company A, 53d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being the first full company taken to camp from Pike county. His regiment joined General Sherman's army at Paducah, Kentucky, in February, 1862. He was in every engagement in which his regiment participated, and several battles in which his regiment was not engaged. He was in the heavy fighting at Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, Jackson, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and Jonesboro', and was in General Sherman's famous march to the sea. General Jones, with his brigade, the 2d, of the 2d Division, 15th Army Corps, made the memorable assault on Fort McAllister near Savannah. In this engagement he was wounded by a Minie ball; disabling him for active service about one month. His gallant bearing before Shiloh won for him a Colonel's commission. On the 13th of March, 1865, he was made a Brigadier General for brave and meritorious conduct on the field, having been strongly recommended by both General Sherman and General Logan. His services earned for him a still higher rank, but owing to a personal difficulty with Governor Brough, his promotion was prevented. After the grand review in Washington city, he served with his brigade in Arkansas, and was mustered out in September, 1865, having given four years to the service of his country. He returned to civil life carrying with him the respect and confidence of all who knew him. Resuming his professional studies he graduated at Starling Medical College in 1866, and took up the practice of medicine in Waverly, where he now resides. General Jones is strongly identified with the Republican party, and is a leading politician in his district. In the fall of 1866 he was the candidate for Congress in the Twelfth District. The following year he was the candidate for State Senator. He was appointed Internal Revenue Assessor of the Twelfth Congressional District in 1869, which position he held four years, when the office was abolished. While he is actively engaged in his profession he is also largely interested in mercantile and agricultural business. General Jones is active in all public affairs that promote the general good, political, social, or religious. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Socially he is a man of pleasing address and of unquestioned integrity. By untiring industry he is making life a success. His wife was E. H. Kincaid, the daughter of William M. Kincaid and Harriet Prather, who came of early pioneer families from Virginia and Maryland.

LARIMORE, Frank C.

Physician, was born in Columbus, Ohio, on the 12th of April, 1846, of parents who had come to Ohio from Virginia. When he was four years of age his parents removed from Columbus to Rapid Forge, Ross county, Ohio, and there the next four years of his life were passed. He commenced attending school at Rapid Forge, and subsequently, when he was eight years old, he went to Chillicothe, and there attended the Union School. After two years spent at Chillicothe, he went to Knox county to live with an uncle. There he went to work upon a farm, and continued to do farm work in the summer and to go to school in the winter until 1861. When the war of the rebellion broke out he lost but little time in entering the army. He went into service as a private soldier in the 20th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the battle of Shiloh, on the 7th of April, 1862, he was wounded by a cannon ball, which struck him on the left knee and hands, inflicting such injuries that in the fall of 1862 he was discharged from the service on account of disability. Returning to Ohio, he commenced attending the High School at Utica. He continued his attendance there during two sessions, and then, after leaving there, he taught a country school for a number of terms. When the call was made for troops for the "hundred day service," he again entered the army, going as Sergeant in the 142d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Having finished his military service, he prepared to enter the medical profession. His predisposition to this profession came to him by hereditary right, his maternal grandfather, Dr. Joseph Doddrige, having been a celebrated physician in West Virginia. On the 19th of March, 1865, he commenced the study of medicine in the office of Drs. Thompson & Smith, at Mount Vernon. He read with these gentlemen until the winter of 1866 and 1867, when he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan for a session of lectures. In April, 1867, he resumed office-study, and in September of the same year began reading with Dr. John Russell. He remained there until 1868, and then he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and there attended a course of lectures. He graduated and received his diploma in March, 1869, and in the following June he commenced the practice of medicine at Mount Vernon. He continued steadily in practice there until May, 1872, when he departed on a trip to Europe. He remained abroad for thirteen months, and during that period he visited the principal medical schools of Europe. He spent six months in Vienna, receiving private instruction in medicine at the Vienna University. In June, 1873, he returned to Mount Vernon, and there resumed his practice as physician and surgeon. He has been remarkably successful in his practice, and has secured a patronage extensive and lucrative. He is recognized as a leading man in his profession, and a number of important cases, successfully treated, are identified with his name. The only successful operation in a case of cleft palate, performed in the county, was performed by him, the patient being a lady of that vicinity.

MACE, John S.

farmer and Stock Drover, was born, May 17th, 1827, four miles north of Chillicothe, in Ross county, Ohio. He is the youngest of four children, whose parents were the late John and Nancy (Dunlap) Mace. The former was a native of Virginia and a farmer by occupation. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Ohio, having as far back as 1798 located at a spot in Ross county where he resided until his death, October 3d, 1857. During the war of 1812 he was a soldier in the regiment commanded by Colonel James Dunlap, and finally married his daughter; she was a native of Kentucky. She died, July 27th, 1827, leaving her youngest child, John S., an infant of ten weeks old. He was reared on the farm, and has followed his father's calling. His education was only that obtained in the common schools of the district. In addition to his avocation as a farmer he has devoted considerable attention to stock raising. Politically, he is a Democrat, and in 1868 was elected High Sheriff of Ross county, holding that office until 1872, when he was succeeded by his half brother, Felix B. Mace. Isaac Mace, an uncle of John S. Mace, and a successful farmer, who died on July 3d, 1875, was born in what is now Ross county (then a Territory), on October 12th, 1798. He is said to have been the first white male child born in Ross county.

MILLIKAN, William

Journalist, was born, September 22d, 1806, in Colerain township, Ross county, Ohio. He is the eldest son of John and Mary Millikan, who moved to Delaware county in 1809. When the war of 1812 was declared, his father was commissioned first lieutenant of a company raised in Delaware county. During the severe winter of 1814 many of the soldiers died from what was known as the cold plague. Among those who succumbed was Lieutenant Millikan, then stationed at Chillicothe. The subject of this sketch received his elementary education in the indifferent country schools of pioneer times. When he entered the printing office of Ezra Griswold, his education began in earnest. In the fall of 1830 Mr. Millikan joined Mr. Griswold in the publication of the Ohio State Gazette. In the spring of 1832 he dissolved his connection with the Gazette and started the Western Galaxy, a Whig paper, at Marion, Ohio. In May of 1832 he went to South Bend, Indiana, where he established the Free Press, also a Whig paper, with which he supported General William Henry Harrison for the Presidency. For a part of the time Mr. Millikan was associated with his brother in the publication of the Free Press. In 1845 he sold his paper to Schuyler Colfax and A. W. West, and purchased an interest in the Kalamazoo Telegraph. He remained in the Telegraph establishment for two years, when he disposed of his interest and joined his brother John as an equal partner, in the conduct of the La Porte County (Indiana) Whig. After a connection of seven years with the Whit, he engaged in other business. In October, 1858, Mr. Millikan yielded to the solicitation of friends and returned to Ohio, establishing the Fayette County Herald, a Republican paper, published at Washington Court House. He has made the Herald strong and influential, and successful as a business venture. He has taken his youngest son, William, into partnership in the business and editorial management of the paper. Besides pursuing his vocation as a journalist, Mr. Millikan has been active as an individual member of his party. In 1849 he was elected to the Indiana Legislature from Laporte county, and re-elected in 1850. In 1865 he was elected Mayor of the city of Laporte. In 1875 he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives. In November, 1829, in the village of Delaware, Ohio, Mr. Millikan married Rachel Abbott. January 28th, 1834, at Newark, Ohio, he married Amanda Holines, third daughter of Judge Alexander Holines. January 28th, 1841, he married Emma Cleveland, third daughter of the late Hardin Cleveland, of Elkhart county, Indiana. In April, 1865, Mr. Millikan married Mary B. Bostnick, of Waterloo, daughter of John Robinson, of Chillicothe. Mr. Millikan has five adult children living.

PURSEL, Smith

retired Farmer, was born, May 30th, 1804, in Union township, Ross county, Ohio. His father was a Virginia farmer, who removed to Ross county about the year 1800, and was among the pioneers of that section. He settled in Union township, where he resided, engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death. He was one of three of the original Democrats of the township. His wife was a native of Delaware, who, with her father and five brothers, came to Ohio at a very early day with General Massie and located at Station Prairie, near Chillicothe. Her brother, Samuel Smith, was the first justice of the peace that held the office in Ross county. Smith Pursel obtained his education in the ordinary log cabin school of those primitive times, and from an early age was trained to labor on his father's farm. When he arrived at man's estate he continued the same avocation, which he followed until 1874, when, having attained the age of threescore years and ten, he retired to take his ease and enjoy the fruit of his labors in Chillicothe. Faithful to the traditions of the family he has ever been a consistent Democrat, but has steadily refused to accept office, content to do his duty as a citizen, who ever takes a deep interest in all that pertains to the honor, glory and welfare of the country. His religious views are not circumscribed by the doctrines of any particular church, but he is a sincere believer in the Christian principle of charity toward all. He has passed through life quietly, without making any display, but is esteemed by the community among whom he resides as a man of unimpeachable integrity and honest purpose. He was married, September 28th, 1828, to Phoebe Clark, of Ross county, and is the father of eight children.

WALKE, Anthony

late Statesman, was born September 13th, 1783, in Norfolk, Virginia, and was the eldest son of William and Mary (Calvert) Walke of that city. He is the fourth in descent from the founder of the American branch of the family, who, emigrating from the island of Barbadoes, landed in Virginia, and in 1692 married Mary Lawson, of Princess Anne county in that colony. From their son Anthony--who was married April 4th, 1725, to Anna, daughter of Captain William Armistead, of Eastmost river, Gloucester county, Virginia--was descended Colonel Anthony Walke. He was a man of wealth and unbounded liberality, who by his large contributions to the church is most favorably noticed by Bishop Meade in his "History of the Church in Virginia." He not only donated lands, but erected a church edifice about twelve miles from Norfolk, and which is yet standing. Colonel Walke was twice married. His first wife was Jane, daughter of William Randolph, of Turkey Island, James River, and the issue were two sons, Anthony and Thomas, the former the celebrated "Parson Walke," and both were members of the Convention of 1788, which met to adopt the Federal Constitution, and both voted in its favor, as also of the Bill of Rights. His second wife was Mary Isham, a daughter of Colonel Edward Moseley, whose family was one of the oldest and most respected in eastern Virginia. By this union were born to him three sons, William, John, and Edward H.; the two latter died young. The eldest of these three, William, was the father of the Anthony Walke whose sketch is now about to be given, and who also died in the prime of life. He was a young man of great worth and promise. After receiving a liberal education he retired to his farm, called the "Ferry Plantation," and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He was a member of the Legislature at the time of his death. He married Mary, daughter of Cornelius and Elizabeth (Thoroughgood) Calvert. This latter was the daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Mason) Thoroughgood, and the last mentioned was sister of the patriot and statesman George Mason, whose statue is in Richmond. Colonel Thoroughgood, brother of Adam, was an officer under General Washington, and was wounded shortly before Cornwallis' surrender. Thomas Calvert, United States navy--Mrs. William Walke's brother--was First Lieutenant of the United States frigate "Constellation," thirty-eight guns, when, under Commodore Truxton, and after a desperate action, the French frigate "L'Insurgente," of forty guns, was captured. William Walke left two sons and three daughters, none of whom survive save William, who is at present one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Norfolk. All the daughters were married, and among their descendants are some of the most worthy and respectable citizens of Norfolk and of eastern Virginia. In few families of this country has wealth continued so long. A considerable portion of the estate owned by Colonel Anthony Walke is still in the possession of his descendants. Anthony Walke, late of Ohio, was educated at Yale College, and was a fellow-student of the late distinguished John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina. Soon after arriving at manhood he was elected a member of the Virginia Legislature from his native county, where he was highly esteemed. During Jefferson's administration he was selected as the Agent of the United States government to deliver to the Dey of Algiers the tribute which the Barbary powers exacted from Christian nations for the privilege of trading in Mediterranean ports, and this was the last tribute from the American government, except that which was finally and effectually paid by Decatur in powder and ball. On his return to the United States the vessel in which he had embarked was driven by stress of weather on the coast of France, and as he had no passport, was arrested on suspicion of being a British emissary. After a month's imprisonment he was released through the intervention of Livingston, the United States minister to the French Republic. Having obtained permission to travel through France on his return home, he visited Boulogne while Bonaparte was in the midst of his great preparations for the invasion of England, and where he witnessed a review of the French "Grande Arm?e." Early in the present century he removed from Virginia to Ohio, but owing to continued ill-health returned to his native State. During the war of 1812, when Norfolk was threatened by an English squadron, he was attached to the mounted patrol organized for the purpose of watching the movements of the enemy; and on one occasion he participated in the capture of a considerable number of officers and sailors who had come ashore on a foraging expedition from the British fleet, then lying in Hampton Roads. A few years thereafter he returned to Ohio and became a permanent resident of the Scioto valley. He ever took a lively interest in questions of State and national policy, and he will be remembered by many as an able writer and speaker. He often represented Ross county in the lower branch of the Legislature, and also in the State Senate; and, as was said of him by the editor of the Ohio State Journal, he was in truth a "gentleman of the old school," polite and respectful to all, maintaining through life a high character for integrity, truthfulness, and the faithful discharge of all his duties, whether regarded as a public man, as a private citizen, or as a Christian. For fifty years he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and during a long period was a ruling elder in that denomination. He was married in 1805 to Susan H. Carmichael, of Princess Anne county, Virginia, and who died November 10th, 1874, in the eighty-ninth year of her age, one of the oldest and most esteemed residents of Chillicothe, distinguished for piety, Christian charity, and kindness to all. Five sons and one daughter survived her departure; the latter is the wife of James Dun, of Madison county, Ohio. Of the sons, Rear-Admiral Henry Walke, United States navy, of Brooklyn, New York, is an able and distinguished officer. Dr. Cornelius Walke, another son, resides in New York city during the winter and at Cornwell's Landing (North river) in summer. John Walke is Judge of the Probate Court of Pickaway county, Ohio; Anthony and Thomas Walke are residents of Chillicothe, Ohio, the latter being Judge of the Probate Court of Ross county. Another son, William, died some years before his father. The latter died March 19th, 1865, in the eighty-second year of his age.

WHITE, Alexander

Pioneer and Farmer, was born in Ross county, Ohio, January 10th, 1803. His father, a native of Virginia, and a farmer, settled in Ohio in 1802. His mother was a member of a family which found a home in Kentucky at a very early day. His early education, of a very limited kind, was obtained in a country school, and during winter evenings. While quite young he assisted in the labor of the farm, and for many years was thus constantly employed. Through the winters of 1837-38-39-40 he was engaged in a flour mill, and in the latter year moved to Logan, Ohio. Here he was elected Justice of the Peace, and served for three years. In 1843 he was elected County Auditor, and performed the duties of that office for five consecutive terms, of two years each. Through these years he retained also his position as Justice of the Peace. In 1851 he was elected to the State Board of Equalization, and was re-elected to the same office in 1858 and in 1869. In 1852 he purchased a farm near Logan, and has since continued to reside on it, and to superintend its management. In 1873 he was elected to serve on the Constitutional Convention. One of the oldest inhabitants of this section of the State, his memory is a perfect storehouse of interesting and valuable data concerning its history and development, and throughout his town and the environing region he is revered and esteemed for his many sterling characteristics. Politically he is a Democrat, and in 1824 cast his vote for Clay. Although he is known as a Democrat, he nevertheless enjoys the confidence of the leading Republicans of Hocking county--in fact, of the entire Congressional District at large, as a reliable and well-meaning public gentleman. He was married in March, 1823, to Sarah Friend, who died October 4th, 1864. He was again married, December 27th, 1864, to Mrs. Sarah Payne.

Wilson, James Leighton M.D.

Physician, was born near Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, January 5th, 1821, and is the third of twelve children whose parents were Adam B. and Margery (Dean) Wilson. His father was born, 1790, in Lincoln county, North Carolina, and was a farmer by occupation. He removed to Ohio in 1814, first locating at Chillicothe, and finally settled, in 1816, in Madison township, Highland county, where he resided until his death, in November, 1857. He was a soldier during the war of 1812, and was for a number of years Magistrate of Highland county. He married Margery, daughter of Abraham Dean, an early settler in Pike county, Ohio, where she was born in 1799. James attended school during the winter and assisted his father in farm-work until he was nineteen years old, when he entered the Ohio University at Athens, where he diligently studied for two years. In 1842 he returned home, and commenced reading medicine under Drs. Milton and Alexander Dunlap, of Greenfield. In the fall of 1843 he went to Cincinnati to attend the lectures at the Ohio Medical College, returning home at the close of the course. After remaining in the office there one year, he commenced practising medicine in Champaign county for fifteen months, and then took a second course in the Ohio Medical College, from which he graduated with honor in the spring of 1848. In the same year he returned to Greenfield, where he has since resided, and where he has established an extensive and remunerative practice. He is a frequent contributor to the medical literature of the day; and the essay on "Scarlatina," published among the transactions of the State Medical Society in 1852, evoked considerable attention. He is a member of the State Medical Society, and also of the Highland County Medical Society. He has never sought nor held any public office whatever. He was originally a Whig, but is now affiliated with the Republican party. For the past thirty-five years he has been a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was married, in 1846, to Elizabeth H., daughter of Hon. Hugh Smart, one of the early associate judges and legislative representatives of Highland county, Ohio; she died in 1866, having had four children. He was married, in 1868, to Margaret J. McClure (whose maiden-name was Margaret J. Brown), a native of Ross county, who is the mother of one child.

WILSON, John G. M.D.

Physician and Surgeon, was born, March 19th, 1811, in Ross county, Ohio, and is the fifth of eleven children, whose parents were John and Lucy (Taylor) Wilson. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, born February 18th, 1779, and died September 29th, 1856; he was a farmer by occupation, who removed to Ohio at an early date, settling originally in Pickaway county, and thence went to Highland county, where he sojourned for some time, and finally located in Ross county, where he resided until his death. He was an active participant in the war of 1812. His widow died in 1868; she was also a native of Pennsylvania, born on May 12th, 1782, a daughter of William Taylor, an early pioneer of Ross county. Dr. Wilson received his preliminary education in the district school, which he attended during the winter months, being occupied the balance of the year in working upon the farm. He so continued until he attained his majority, when he commenced the study of medicine under the supervision of Dr. James Robbins, at Greenfield, in Highland county. He continued with his preceptor for three years, and in the autumn of 1835 went to Dayton, where he engaged in the practice of his profession for about a year with Dr. Henry Varretuye. In 1836 he removed to Lockport, Carroll county, Indiana, where he remained until July, 1841, when he returned to Ohio, and settled in Washington, Fayette county, where he has resided ever since, engaged in the control of an extensive and lucrative medical practice. He has been Infirmary Physician of the county for twenty years, and for some three years United States Examining Surgeon. His political views are those of the Republican party, having previously been a Whig, casting his first Presidential vote against Jackson, and his second in favor of the Harrison electoral ticket. He has never sought nor held any public office of a political responsibility, and has always devoted his whole attention to the practice of medicine and surgery. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian. Socially, he is a pleasant companion, and courteous in manner, and is highly respected by his fellow-townsmen. He was married, 1839, to Lucinda Mackerly, a native of New Jersey. She died in 1875, and was the mother of two children.