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CALHOON - History of Ohio [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 20:21:00 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: B.F. BOWEN History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub by Williams Bros., 1880 B.F. BOWEN, county surveyor and civil engineer, is of Scotch ancestry. He was born in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, on the twelfth of February, 1827, and after receiving a common-school education, "finished up", as the phrase goes, at the old academy on the hill, in Springfield, Ohio. But, as an eminent English lawyer, who when asked the question, at what age he had completed his studies, replied that he had never finished them, and did not expect to do so until he died. Mr Bowen is still a student of some of the higher branches of mathematics, and particularly so of civil engineering. He has devoted all his spare time to them, and will remain a student while life lasts. After leaving the academy at Springfield, he taught school in Clark and Madison Counties for several years. Preferring a more active life, in 1852, he became a resident of Columbus, where he was a successful contractor and builder. Here he commenced business as land surveyor and civil engineer. Three years after, he became connected with the office of city civil engineer, and in 1867, was elected chief of that office, which position he held for five years. During his connection with this office, more improvements in main trunk sewers, wood block pavements, etc., were made, necessitating the attention of the city engineer, than for any like period either before or since. In May, 1874, Mr. Bowen was appointed county surveyor to fill a vacancy, and with it, that of county civil engineer. Since then he has been twice elected by the people as county surveyor, and is still retained by the commissioners as county civil engineer, in which latter office he has has charge of the bridges erected, and all other county matters requiring engineering skill. At the time of the Ashtabula bridge disaster, in December 1877, where many lives were lost, and much property destroyed, by the giving way of the bridge, while being crossed by a long train of passenger cars, a legislative examination was demanded. A joint committee of the senate and house of representatives was appointed, who visited the scene of the disaster, taking with them, as experts, three civil engineers of Columbus, at the head of whom was Mr. Bowen. The report of the committee with diagrams of the bridge by the engineers, was published. The report of the engineers was credited to Mr. Bowen as the author. A prominent civil engineer, residing in Michigan, sent to the author of this for a copy, and in acknowledging its receipt, pronounced it the clearest and plainest expose of the defects of railroad bridge building he had ever read. The report was widely commented upon in scientific papers, and always in terms of highest praise. -- ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 20:23:35 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: HARVEY CASHATT History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub by Williams Bros., 1880 HARVEY CASHATT, was born October 21, 1843, in Union township, Highland County, Ohio. He is of French origin, and the fourth child of a family of eleven children, ten of whom are living, being a son of Daniel F. and Amy C. Cashatt. His father was born in Ohio, and his mother in New York State. His father is still living, at the age of sixty-five years. His mother died December 4, 1874, at the age of fifty-eight years. His grandparents, upon the fathers side, migrated from North Carolina to Ohio, in 1805, and upon the mothers side, from New York State, at an early day. He (Harvey) resided upon a farm up to 1861, only attending school during the winter, most of the time at a distance of three or four miles. He enlisted in the late civil war as a private in company C, Forty-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, on the seventh day of November, 1861, and continued in the same company and regiment until April 4, 1866, long after the close of the war. He veteranized February 26, 1864, at Berwick City, Louisiana. He was engaged in the battles of Shiloh, sieges of Corinth, Vicksburg and Jackson, Yazzoo Bottoms, Port Gibson, Champion Hill, and numerous skirmishes, forced marches of great distances, etc. March 4, 1864, he was elected one of the sergeants of Company C, by the company vote, and March 6, 1864, was detailed, with three other enlisted men and one commissioned officer, to proceed to Ohio to receive recruits and drafted men for the ranks of his regiment, but instead, were organized into a company called the "Permanent Party," with enlisted men from the old Ohio regiments, who reported at Todd barracks under the same order. Their duties were to act as guards to detachments of recruits, substitutes, and drafted men ordered by the war department to be forwarded to Ohio regiments in the field. Soon after his arrival here he was detailed as clerk in the forwarding office of Todd barracks, under Lieut. James H. Orr. He soon became chief clerk, and remained as such until the barracks were discontinued, when he was transferred to the office of James A. Wilcox, provost-marshal general and commandment of the district of Ohio. He soon succeeded to the position of confidential clerk to General Wilcox, and soon thereafter, General Wilcox remarked to Cashatt that he thought he was doing too much work for the salary of a soldier, and he (Wilcox) immediately wrote to the war department, requesting his discharge from the service, which was granted; when he again wrote to General Fry, provost-marshal general of the United States, asking that he be appointed in the office of the provost-marshal general of Ohio (Wilcox's office) which was again granted, at a salary of ninety dollars per month, proving a very agreeable surprise, making a difference of seventy dollars per month in his salary, in his favor, for the same services. Words cannot express his feelings of gratefulness to Gen. James A. Wilcox, for his kindness, in thus aiding him so materially in his first start in life, after leaving the army. His early education being very limited, laboring under many disadvantages too numerous to detail, leaving school at the age of eighteen to enter the army, he was compelled, after leaving the service in 1866, to occupy all his leisure hours in study, and for months attended commercial college of evenings, in order to sustain himself in the position of trust he occupied at that time. He resigned his position on the tenth day of October, 1866, to accept the chief clerkship at the Zettler house, Columbus, Ohio, under Capt. L.A. Bowers, and remained there until August 10, 1870, when he accepted chief-clerkship of the American hotel, Columbus, Ohio, under Colonel E. J. Blount, proprietor, and occupied that position until the summer of 1877, when he was nominated by the Democratic party, for clerk of the court of common pleas of Franklin County, Ohio, and was elected October 10, 1877, which position he is now occupying. He was married December 26, 1870, to Miss Sallie E. Simonton, a teacher in the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, and a daughter of Colonel Hiram Simonton, of this county. She died suddenly, with congestion of the lungs, February 12, 1878, the morning after her husband took the oath of office. It is to her, more than all others, he husband acknowledges, in a manly spirit, couched in language expressed in the kindest, tenderest, and heartfelt feeling, that he owes the success attained thus far i life, she occupying the position of one of the gentlest, kindest, most loving and devoted little wives, and a teacher at the same time. He was married on July 12, 1879, to Miss Jennie Seltzer Van Dine, a niece of Dr. Van S. Seltzer, of Columbus, Ohio. He is now a democrat, from the fact as he believes, that democracy means the greatest good to the greatest number, and their legislation tends that way. He looks upon his war record as the brightest page of his life's history. He is a great reader, possesses a fine library and takes great pleasure in his books, and can be found almost every evening buried within their folds. Mr. Cashatt holds to no particular church; gives to all; is quite liberal in his views; has great faith in the golden rule, and is man of strong convictions. -- ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:59:43, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: WILLIAM C. BROWN - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 333-334 WILLIAM C. BROWN, of Steubenville, who served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County, has the respect and regard of his profession, and is not only a very able lawyer but a high minded citizen. He was born in Toronto, Canada, February 15, 1877, son of Benjamin J. and Margaret (BELL) Brown, while his grandparents were William and Elizabeth Brown, and Samuel McClure, and Isabell Craig. The paternal grandparents came from England and settled in Ontario, Canada, about 1834. The maternal grandfather, Samuel McClure, was born in Ireland, while his wife represented the old Craig family of Revolutionary stock. Benjamin J. Brown was a Presbyterian minister, and in 1883 moved to Bluffton, Ohio, and for nearly a quarter of a century held pastorates in Ohio. He died in 1908 and his wife in 1921. They had three children: Rev. S. T., who married Nell Herron, and two children, John and Margaret; William C.; and John C., who married Ethel Hinds. William C. Brown was about six years old when the family came to the United States. He acquired his first educational advantages in a private school, attended Wooster College, where he graduated in 1899, and subsequently entered the Ohio State University Law School. He was graduated and admitted to the bar in 1902, and since that year has been engaged in practice at Steubenville. In 1912 he was elected prosecuting attorney, serving two terms, until 1917. He handled many important cases while in office, and in all court work has attracted attention by the clear and lucid exposition of his side of the cause. Besides his law practice he gives much time to the affairs of the Ohio Valley Savings & Loan Company, of which he was one of the organizers and is a director and attorney of the company. He is heavily interested in the Schenly Park Land Company of Steubenville, Ohio, which has handled the financial side of real estate developments of several cities, including Steubenville and Youngstown. Mr. Brown has been active in the republican party, serving as a member of the County Central Committee. He belongs to the County Bar Association, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. Mr. Brown married, June 21, 1906, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Miss Catherine Silvey, daughter of George W. and Sarah (Hunter) Silvey. Her mother died in 1878 and her father in November, 1923. He was a Civil war veteran, a capitalist and financier. The only two children of Mr. and Mrs. Silvey were Mrs. Brown and George W. The latter died unmarried, and Mr. Brown passed away December 6, 1921. Her two children died in early childhood. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:59:30, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JOHN N. CALHOON - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 233 JOHN N. CALHOON, M.D. Graduating from medical college in the centennial year of American independence, Doctor Calhoon has been an honored and useful member of the medical profession nearly half a century, and for nearly forty years his home and practice have been at Lisbon, Columbiana, County. Doctor Calhoon was born in Georgetown, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1855. His father, Richard Calhoon, born in Pennsylvania in 1821, from early manhood lived at Georgetown, where he married and where he died in 1903, at the age of eighty-two. He was a captain and owner of steamboats on the Ohio River plying between Pittsburgh and New Orleans. During the Civil was he placed his boats and himself at the service of the Federal Government, and frequently ran down the river past the hostile forts. Captain Calhoon was a staunch republican, a valued member of the Presbyterian Church, and was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He married Elizabeth McCurdy, who was born in Pittsburgh in 1832 and died at Georgetown in 1904. They were the parents of four children: Dora M., who died at Beaver, Pennsylvania, in 1901, wife of Smith Curtis, editor and owner of the Beaver Argos and Radical, who died in 1921; Ella, who died at Springfield, Missouri, in 1923, widow of John Cagley, a wholesale feed merchant who died in that Missouri city in 1904; Susan, of Georgetown, Pennsylvania, widow of John R. Peters, who was a coal mine operator and owner. Doctor Calhoon, fourth and youngest child of his parents, was educated in the public schools of Georgetown, spent four years in Beaver College, where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree, and at the age of twenty-one, in 1876, received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Western Reserve University at Cleveland. Doctor Calhoon for one year practiced at Rochester, Pennsylvania, spent three years at Fairfield, Ohio, and then for several years was out of practice on account of ill health. He located at Lisbon in 1885, and since that year has rendered a most capable service in medicine and surgery. He is president of the Lisbon Medical Board, is a member of the Columbiana County Medical Society, the South Side Medical Society of Pennsylvania. He owns his residence and office building on North Market Street. Doctor Calhoon is a republican, a member of the Lisbon Methodist Episcopal Church, and has taken all the degrees, Lodge, Encampment and Canton, in Odd Fellowship. He is a past grand of Concordia Lodge No. 88 at Lisbon, and belongs to the Canton Buckeye at Lisbon. Doctor Calhoon's first wife died in 1904, leaving one daughter, Meta, who is the wife of Howell E. Williams, superintendent of a pattern shop at Salem, Ohio. On September 12, 1918, at Cleveland, Doctor Calhoon married Miss Sadie Dennis, a native of that city, a graduate of the Cleveland High School, and also a graduate nurse by profession. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #67 ******************************************