OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 133 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 133 Today's Topics: #1 [OH-FOOT] Bio: Cahill, D.C. - Craw [Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020527211637.007342e4@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Cahill, D.C. - Crawford co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Bonnie Walsh. --------------- CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.720 CHICAGO BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS 186 DEARBORN STREET 1881 BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO D. C. CAHILL, lawyer. Bucyrus: was born Nov. 2, 1832 in Vernon Township. and is a son of R. W. and Eliza (Cuinining) Cahill. His youth was spent on a farm. and at the age of 20 he, in the fall of 1852, entered the preparatory department of Wittenberg College at Springfield, Ohio where he remained until 1856, after which he spent one term at the Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1857, he went back to Wittenberg where he completed the entire course, except the formality of graduating. Owing to the failing health of his father, he then took charge of the homestead. In the fall of 1868, he came to Bucyrus and entered the law office of S. R. Harris, Esq., for the purpose of studying law. He was admitted to the bar, Dec. 20, 1860, and practiced law here until April, 1865, when he made a trip to San Francisco, Cal., overland, being nearly six months on the way, arriving there in September, having visited many points of interest during the journey. He went to Oregon and held an office in Linn Co., from September, 1866, until April 1867. He then returned via Panama to New York, and was called home by the illness of his brother, who was practicing law at Dayton, Ohio. At the close of the 1867, he reopened a law office in Bucyrus: closed his office in September 1868 and traveled with his brother until his death, at San Antonio, Texas, in December following. In June, 1869, he returned home and resumed his law practice, in his present office, as the partner of Judge Thomas Beer. He was out hunting in December of this year when, by an accidental discharge of his gun, he received a painful wound, which disabled him fro about eighteen months. In the later part of 1871, he was employed by the Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan Railroad, to obtain the right of way through the county. In the spring of 1872, he again opened a law office and practiced until his election as Clerk of the Court in October, taking charge of the office in February, 1874, and retired in February, 1880 when he resumed his law practice with his brother Isaac Cahill, under the firm name of Cahill Brothers, in No. 7 Quinby Block. He was married in October, 1875, to Miss A. E. J. Juillard, of Bucyrus, who was born in Stark County, Ohio, and is a daughter of John N. Juilliard. She came to Bucyrus in 1867, where she learned the millinery business with Miss Jennie L. Anderson, and was partner for one season. Since 1868, she has done a large business in the millinery department. She keeps a large stock of millinery and notions. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:17:15 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020527211715.0073c3dc@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Caldwell, A.J. - Crawford Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Bonnie Walsh. --------------- CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.719 [C surnames] CHICAGO BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS 186 DEARBORN STREET 1881 BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO ALEXANDER J. CALDWELL farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Bucyrus. One of the prominent and influential families of the country is that of Caldwell. There is scarcely a State in the Union in which the name is not found. and always among the very best class of citizens. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is no exception and fully maintains the honor, dignity and boundless hospitality of this old and distinguished family. He is a son of Hon. Samuel S. and Margaret E. (Mickle) Caldwell and was born May 27, 1828, in Adams Co.. Penn. he was 7 years old when his father emigrated to this county and settled in Bucyrus. He lived with his father until he was 23 years old, going to school during the winter in an old log hut that like Solomon's Temple, had been built without the "sound of ax, hammer or any iron tool." at least there was no iron in the material of which it was composed not even nails. In this crude hut he gained a fair knowledge of the common branches of education. He was married. May 25, 1853, to Miss Harriet C. Chambers, daughter of Andrew and Isabella (Marshall) Chambers, who was born in Richland Co., July 14, 1830. Seven children were the fruit of this union all or whom are now living, - Thomas J., married to Miss Mary and farms with his father; Smith C., Edgar C., Mina B., Hattie L., Mary A. and Frances Marion. After marriage Mr. Caldwell settled on his present farm on the Marion road, where he owned 100 acres. It was then but partially improved and cleared and was somewhat swampy. He has cleared it up, drained and improved it in the highest degree and erected not only substantial but even elegant buildings. Both he and his wife are exemplary members of the Presbyterian Church. and have been for a number of years. He is a Democrat and has always acted in concert with that party. His father, Hon. Samuel S. Caldwell, was born in May 1804, in Adams Co., Penn., where he lived until 1835, in the fall of which year he removed to Crawford Co., having married in 1827, Miss Margaret E. Mickle. He settled on the Plains south of Bucyrus, where he bought 200 acres of land, and farmed until 1856 when he removed to town. He lived here until 1877, and on Nov. 18, of that year died at the house of his son, Alexander in the 74th year of his age. His aged wife survives him and lives with her son (our subject). and is now in her 87th year. Hon. Samuel S. Caldwell was a public spirited and enterprising man. He was Justice of the Peace and Notary Public many years; was elected to the Legislature in 1844, and served his constituency faithfully in the Forty-third General Assembly and used his influence to have the county seat retained at Bucyrus. His family was as follows: Alexander J., Samuel, a farmer in Wyandot Co., and Florence McL... wife of, F. M. Welsh. of South Bend. Ind. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:17:39 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020527211739.0071ac70@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Caldwell, H. - Crawford Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Bonnie Walsh. --------------- CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.862 [C surnames] CHICAGO BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS 186 DEARBORN STREET 1881 AUBURN TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO HUGH CALDWELL. farmer; P. O. Plymouth: was born in Richland Co., Ohio. January, 1835. He is a son of Thomas and Mary (Miller) Caldwell, who were parents of nine children-George, Elizabeth, James, Hugh, Susanna, Hannah, Catharine, William, and one that died in infancy. Our subject was reared on a farm, and farming has always been his chosen occupation. He was married Nov. 5, 1857, to Elizabeth Bevier, and by her had five children- Florence. William, Franklin, John and one that died without namie. Florence is dead: the balance of the children are living at home with their parents. Mr. Caldwell was in Company B, 60th O. V. I., in the late war, where he served his country with distinction. He was in quite a number of noted engagements. and among them might be mentioned Petersburg, the battle of the Wilderness, and others. It was in the army that Mr Caldwell was taken with the measles. Not having proper care, they settled on his lungs and to-day he is a mere wreck of the robust soldier he was when he enlisted in February 1863. Mr. Caldwell is a member of the Church of God, and a Republican in politics. He owns 29 3/4; acres of land, is well known, and a good and useful citizen in the township. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:18:08 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020527211808.00725ee4@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Campbell, A. - Crawford Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Bonnie Walsh. --------------- CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.724 CHICAGO BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS 186 DEARBORN STREET 1881 BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO HON. ALLEN CAMPBELL, lawyer and Mayor, Bucyrus. The Mayor of Bucyrus is the son of William H. and Esther (Gallup) Campbell and was born in Voluntown, Conn.. Oct. 13, 1839. He received a good education attending school at Plainfield and Ellington; also at normal seminaries in Norwich and Providence, R. I. He afterward entered a wholesale dry goods house in Providence as clerk, occupying the position some fifteen months. Next he was book-keeper in the Remington Rifle Works at Ilin, N. Y. having previous to that time made a trip to the West Indies on the man-of-war San Jacinto, in search of the Alabama. In the fill of 1868, he came to Mansfield, Ohio and from there to Bucyrus, where he soon became book keeper for the Bucyrus Machine Works, holding this position some two tears. He was next a member of the firm of D. W. Twitchell &, Co. in the boot and shoe trade and continued until 1877. In 1878 he was elected Justice of the Peace, filling that office and carrying on at the same time a General insurance business. He was elected Mayor of the city in April, 1880, receiving the support of both parties. He was married in January, 1871, to Eva Rowse, daughter of Horace Rowse, of Bucyrus. Three children are the fruits of this union: Lillian, Horace and Allen. Since his election. Mr. Campbell has proven himself a competent official, and during his residence in this city he has always been held in high esteem by the citizens of the place. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:18:37 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020527211837.007308d4@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Carson, J. - Crawford Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Bonnie Walsh. --------------- CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.724-725 CHICAGO BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS 186 DEARBORN STREET 1881 BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO JOHN CARSON, photographer, Bucyrus is a son of Robert and Bessie (Katon) Carson, and was born in November 1828 in County Cavan. Ireland. He received but little Schooling and at the age of 7, left home to work at whatever his hands found to do. At the age of 18 he came to America and the voyage which occupied ten weeks, ended at New York May 2, 1848. He went to New Jersey and spent two years laboring there on a farm. He next went to New York and shipped to New Orleans, where he remained over winter; in the spring he came up the river and made his home in Pennsylvania, near Greensburg, where he found employment on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad. There also he received his religious Convictions and became a member of the M. E. Church: he then devoted three years to the trade of carriage-making and then commenced daguerreotyping at Mt. Pleasant, Penn: in about 1859, he came to Ohio and settled in Upper Sandusky where he worked at his first trade of carriage-making until 1864, when he came to Bucyrus and followed the same business for some five years. He was for some time owner of a photograph gallery in Galion, Ohio, but soon returned to Bucyrus and established a gallery in the west end of the Quinby Block, where he is now located with every facility for the production of good pictures, possessing good taste and artistic skill. He was married in December. 1854, while in Greensburg, Penn., to Miss Zeruiah Steelsmith of that place and of this union, there are living six children: Mary E., Anna F., Charles R., Rorbert R., Frank W. and George W. Three are dead: William E. and John R., who are buried in Wyandot Co., and Lucy B. in Bucyrus. The parent of Mr. Carson were both natives of Ireland, where the father was a shoemaker and also a farmer. He raised seven children and with his wife he removed to this country and settled in Albany, N. Y., where he followed his trade. Both of Mr. Carson's parents remained in this county during their lives. On Oct. 25, 1880, Charles R. Carson, oldest son of John Carson, took charge of the photograph gallery and is doing excellent business. He has enjoyed six years active experience in the work, and his work gives evidence of true artistic taste and skill. Careful attention to detail is necessary to success in taking pictures and realizing this, Mr. Carson has studied posing and lighting subjects, retouching of negatives and the toning of pictures until the beauty and grace of his work are subjects of just pride. He has all the modern facilities for taking a large variety of styles having just added the "Winter" and "Apple Blossom" scenes which are among the latest and most attractive. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:19:00 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020527211900.0073a754@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Castle, D.O. - Crawford Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Bonnie Walsh. --------------- CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.719-720 CHICAGO BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS 186 DEARBORN STREET 1881 BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO DANIEL O. CASTLE. County Recorder, Bucyrus. is the second son of Elisha and Phebe A. (Marshall) Castle. He was born near Leesville, Ohio, Jan. 13, 1846. His early advantages for education were somewhat meager leaving school at 12 years or age; he learned the trade of shoemaker, which he followed until the breaking-out of the late rebellion. In August 1862, he enlisted in the 101st 0. V. I., Company E, under Capt William Parson, or Galion. He was under the command of Gen. Rosecrans in the army of the Cumberland. Mr. Castle participated in the battles of Perryville, Knob Gap, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and many other engagements. He was wounded by a musket ball at the battle of Chickamauga, but remained until the close of the struggle being mustered out at Plattsburg, N. Y., July 20, 1865. He returned to this county and at once resumed his trade of shoemaker, dealing in boots and shoes at Crestline and Leesville until 1874, when he formed a partnership with Frederick Beech and they did a successful business in dry goods at Leesville for two years. During this period, our subject was Postmaster and also served in the capacity of Justice of the Peace and Mayor of the incorporated village of Leesville. He subsequently formed a business partnership with his brother, which lasted about one year. In October 1878, Mr. Castle was elected to the office of County Recorder and entered upon its duties Jan. 6, 1879 which he has since performed in a manner at once faithful and creditable. July 4, 1866, he was married to Miss Eliza A. Smith of Leesville. By this union four children were born, whose names are Laura, Jacob, Lelah and Clayton A. Elisha the father of Mr. Castle, was born about 1796, near Brownsville, Md. At 16 he enlisted in the army serving 10 months in the War of 1812 and went to Fayette Co., Penn. when a young man, and there married Phebe A. Marshall. He followed the trade of shoemaker and dealt in horses for some years. Coming to Crawford County in 1849, he settled on a farm in Sandusky. In 1848 he removed to Leesville. where he kept a boot and shoe store and a shop therewith. He died May 8, 1864 leaving two sons, Henry, a farmer of Wyandot County, and Daniel O., the subject of this sketch. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:19:25 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020527211925.0071aca4@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Chesney, John - Crawford Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Bonnie Walsh. --------------- CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.724 CHICAGO BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS 186 DEARBORN STREET 1881 BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO JOHN M. CHESNEY. physician and druggist, Bucyrus; was born May 31, 1825 in Mercer Co., Penn. and is the son of John and Elizabeth (Mahon) Chesney. His early youth was passed on a farm and the earlier part of his education was received at a district school. At the age of 16 years he entered an academy at Jamestown, Penn. after some time spent there in diligent study, he taught some two terms of school, and then commenced the study of medicine in the office of his brother Robert, in Shelocta, at the age of 19. He was thus engaged for three years, and practiced in company with his brother. He removed to Ohio in the spring of 1847, and remained with his brother at Marseilles for some six months, when he located at Huntsville, Hardin Co. and there visited his patients on foot when the roads were well nigh impassable by other means. On one of these pedestrian trips, he was lost near the Hog Creek Marsh and remained there all night, being unable to regain his way. In the spring of 1851 he located in Kenton, Ohio, and remained there some two years. He then went to Marseilles and remained until 1876, excepting, three years spent in Upper Sandusky. In January of 1876 he removed to Bucyrus and engaged in business at 5 Quinby Block, where he is now engaged dealing in drugs and books, in which trade he receives a large share of the public patronage. He was married at Kenton in May, l851 to Junelia Thompson. Of this marriage there were born five children, three of whom survive: John A., Vill Roy and Floy. Dr. Chesney is a physician of considerable merit, and as a merchant he has met with deserved success, and stands high among the leading business men of Bucyrus. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:19:50 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020527211950.007276c8@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Clements - Crawford Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Bonnie Walsh. --------------- CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.723 CHICAGO BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS 186 DEARBORN STREET 1881 SHANNON CLEMENTS. Probate Judge, Bucyrus: was born Aug. 17. 1841 and is a native of this county: he is a son of James and Eliza Stone Clements. His parents removed to Bucyrus when he was aged 6 years and educated their son in the public schools. His father was a native of Washington Co., Penn. and removed to Ohio when quite young, his parents being among the first settlers. He taught school in his youth and was one of the pioneer teachers. In 1846, he was elected Sheriff of the county serving two terms. He was then elected Probate Judge taking charge in 1864 and has since practiced law in Bucyrus. The subject of this sketch entered the post office at Crestline when 16 years of age and was soon after appointed mail agent which post he held until 1860. At the outbreak of the war, he enlisted in Co. K. 120th 0. V. I. under command of Col. French, his corps being under Gen. Grant. He participated in the battles of Chickasaw Bluff, Arkansas Post, Grand Gulf, Raymond, Champion Hill, Black River, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson. Miss., Blakely, Ala., and other minor engagements; only three of his company returned at the close of the war. He was mustered out at Houston, Texas in October 1865 and never, during the whole time of his service for the old flag, was he sick, wounded, or off duty. He was clerk for his father, serving five years, and six years for Judge Lee. He was elected in October 1875, and re-elected in 1878, running ahead of his ticket both times. He was married Nov. 16, 1870 to Miss Anna Mullons, of Bucyrus, who is a native of England. As a public official, Judge Clements is noted as upright and honest, and he is a man universally respected by the citizens of Crawford Co. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #9 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:22:21 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020527212221.0072a2ac@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Clymer, J.R. - crawford Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Bonnie Walsh. --------------- CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.722-723 CHICAGO BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS 186 DEARBORN STREET 1881 BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO J. R. CLYMER, attorney at law. Bucyrus ; was born in Franklin Co., Ohio, Jan. 23, 1834, of English, Irish and German parentage. The paternal ancestors of Mr. Clymer were among the early settlers of Pennsylvania. He is lineally descended from the Hon. George Clymer, of that State, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and inventor of the "Colombian" printing press, which was the first constructed of iron. His father is a clergyman, held in high esteem, and his mother an accomplished woman. In the year 1837. the family moved to Westfield, Morrow Co.. Ohio, where our subject received the rudimentary elements of his education in a log schoolhouse. In 1849, he entered the Otterbein University where he laid the foundation of his after usefulness. He removed to Galion, Ohio, in 1851, and became the chosen teacher of the high school and acting Superintendent of the Union schools of that place for several years. He was appointed Deputy Clerk of Court, under A. P. Widman, June 18, 1859. Mr. Widman died Nov. 30, 1860, and our subject was appointed to fill the unexpired term. In 1861, he was elected Clerk of the Courts of Crawford Co., for a fall term of three years, and reelected in 1864. After an official career of six years, during which time he won the approval of political friends and opponents alike, he retired from public office and purchased the Crawford County Forum, becoming editor and proprietor April 15, 1868; he held that position until April, 1877. By his talents and industry, he made the Forum a welcome visitor in every household and has done much to elevate the moral and literary tone of journalism in this county. As an editor Mr. Clymer was distinguished for his clear comprehension of questions and events. He is both logical and forcible in expressing his ideas, and their influence is often recognized in party platforms. The productions of his pen, in both prose and poetry evince great terseness and practicability. His journalistic paragraphs are frequently copied into leading newspapers of the country. He is also spoken of as an able literary critic, and the selections which appeared in the Forum under his direction indicate the excellence of his judgment and taste. In appreciation of these qualities, in 1874, he was appointed to edit all the Democratic papers (over a hundred in number) published by the Aikens Newspaper Companies of Cincinnati and Milwaukee. Mr. Clymer has occupied several positions of importance, an unsought by him. In this connection may he mentioned that he was a delegate from the Ninth Congressional District of Ohio, at the Conservative National Convention, which met at Philadelphia in 1866, and was also a Centennial Commissioner for the Fourteenth District, appointed ly Gov. William Allen of Ohio. During his occupancy of the Clerk's office, Mr. Clymer began the study of law under the direction of Judge Plants, and on retiring from the editorial chair of the Forum, he entered the field of legal research, and was admitted to the bar at Tiffin, April 9, 1878, and entered upon the practice of his profession in Bucyrus. As an advocate and counselor he has had signal success, rising at once into prominence by his versatile talents and impressive oratory. He is an earnest and faithful Christian gentlemen, being a communicant of the fresh; Presbyterian Church and a zealous worker in the Sabbath school. He was married to Miss Mary M. Shaw of Westfield Township, Morrow Co., Ohio, in August 1856. Of this marriage three children were born, but one of whom is living, Rusella C. Clymer a successful teacher in the Bucyrus Union Schools. His wife; Mary M., departed this life May 4, 1866. He was re-married, to Miss Kate E. Franz. in September, 1867. She is the oldest daughter of the late Col. John Franz of Bucyrus. The fruit of this happy union is three children: Franklin M., Blanche S. and Thomas W. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #10 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 16:22:47 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020527212247.007391dc@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Conley, H.W. - crawford Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Bonnie Walsh. --------------- CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.723-724 CHICAGO BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS 186 DEARBORN STREET 1881 BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO REV. HENRY W. CONLEY, dentist, Bucyrus ; is a son of Levers Conley, and was born Oct. 12, 1835, in Liberty Township, this county. He was reared on a farm, and followed farming until his 19th year, having taught two terms, also, in the district school, in the meantime. He entered Mt. Union College in the fall of 1859, and also attended Otterbein University. Altogether, he taught some eleven terms of the district school. Uniting with the M. E. Church in 1859, he was soon afterward licensed to exhort. He removed to Decatur, Ill., in 1863, and commenced the study of dentistry. After spending some two years there, he came to Plymouth, Ohio, and entered upon the practice of that profession, continuing eighteen months. He was licensed to preach, and admitted to the Northern Ohio Conference in 1867, and commenced his ministerial labors at Woodbury, Ohio, and Newcomerstown. In 1870, he was transferred to the Kansas Conference, and was stationed at Oswego for two years. Here he did valuable service in the vineyard, building up a church worth $4,000 and increasing the membership from 35 to 300, having made 250 conversions during the period of his ministrations. Lawrence, Kan., became his home for the year following, and. by the advice of his physician he went South, and was stationed at Coffeeville, the southern terminus of the Galveston Railroad. This town had then been in existence some six months, and had a population of l,200. Mr. Conley preached the first Methodist sermon ever delivered in the place. He remained there two years, and built up a strong healthy church organization, his labors being blessed abundantly. He was transferred to the Northern Ohio Conference in 1874, and had charge of the church at Belleville, Ohio. During his two years pastorate here, he had 140 conversions to the church. He next went to his old home, at Sulphur Springs, remaining two years, where he was appointed to his first charge (that of Woodbury). His wife's health failing, he sustained a supernumerary relation to the church, and removed to Bucyrus in April, 1880. Here he opened an office of dentistry at No. 14 Quinby Block, where he is prepared to do all kinds of mechanical and operative dentistry. Mr. Conley was married to Annie E. White, of Liberty Township, Nov. 6, 1866. They had three children: Donzellie, Minturn and Harrison, which last named died at Sulphur Springs, aged 4 years and 4 months. The subject of this sketch has been a devoted worker in the cause of redemption, and his labors have been blessed with eminent success. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V02 Issue #133 *******************************************