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W. F. FAIRBANKS, M. D., is
one of the rising physicians of the State of Ohio and promises to take a
front rank in the medical fraternity. He was born in Portage
county, Ohio, Oct. 18, 1860, a son of George Fairbanks of Geauga
county, Ohio. The grandfather, James Fairbanks, emigrated
to Ohio at an early day, and followed agriculture all his life.
George Fairbanks was reared to the life of a farmer, but turned his
attention to the ministry, and for more than twenty years has been
prominently identified with the work of the Congregational Church.
He married Elizabeth Moore, and they had two children, Ernest,
a resident of Chicago, and Dr. W. F. Fairbanks. The Doctor
passed his boyhood on the farm, but at the early age of eleven years he
entered Hiram College, beginning the four year course; be began
teaching at the age of sixteen years, and in 1881 was graduated in the
Latin and scientific course. The year following he spent in New
Mexico and Arizona, returning at the end of twelve months to commence
his professional studies. His first reading was done under the
advice of Dr. Fenton, of Troy; he then entered the Western
Reserve University, from which he was graduated with the degree of M.
D., in March, 1886.
In the May following he located at Montville, Geauga
county, and his since built up a profitable practice. He is well
equipped from both a mental and material standpoint, and has met with
gratifying success in his professional labors. He is a member of
the Geauga County Medical Society, and is highly esteemed by his medical
brothers.
In politics Dr. Fairbanks is identified with the
Republican Party, stanchly supporting the principles of that body.
He is an honored member of the Masonic fraternity.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis
Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 935 |
HON. GEORGE H. FORD, whose career
has been a source of pride to the citizens of Geauga county, an
honor to his ancestry and a credit to himself, is a son of
ex-Governor Seabury Ford. A native of the State
of Ohio, he was born at Burton, Mar. 10, 1842. He received his
literary education in the public schools of Columbus and at the
Western Reserve College, Hudson, O...hio, graduating from the latter
institution with the class of 1862. During his school days he
was a member of a military company which was thoroughly drilled.
Offering themselves for service when file clouds of the Civil war
hung like a pall over the land, the members of the company were
called out by Governor Tod in May, 1862, and were sent
with the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry into the
held; they did duty until the following October, when they were
mustered out.
Having determined to pursue the law as a profession,
Mr. Ford entered the law office of Hitchcock &
Estep, Cleveland, Ohio, and studied under their direction; later
he was in the office of Judge D. W. Canfield, of Chardon, and
was admitted to the bar in 1868. He then opened an office at
Burton, where he was engaged in practice until he was elected a
member of the Legislature in 1871. He was re-elected, serving
two terms in succession. During his first term he was
appointed Chairman of the Committee on Universities and Colleges; he
drafted and introduced “a bill to establish the Ohio University,”
the object of the bill being to merge the Ohio Agricultural and
Mechanical College, the Ohio University at Athens, and the Miami
University into one. At the same time another bill was
introduced into the Senate by Alphonso Hart, setting
aside swamp lands of the State as an endowment for the State
University. Had this bill passed an annual income of $75,000
or $100,000 would have been secured to the university, and it could
then have proudly taken the lead among public educational
institutions. The bill, however, roused much opposition, and
failed of passing; hence the vote on the university bill in the
House was merely complimentary. Mr. Ford was a
member of the standing committee on finance, and during his second
term was a member of the noted Wood county Investigating Committee,
the disclosures of which brought the Sixty- first General Assembly
to an abrupt and undignified termination. He was elected to
the House again in 1883, and at the end of his term was elected a
member of the Senate; he was re-elected in 1888. During his
service in the upper House he introduced a number of bills, notably
the "Anti-oleomargarine" the bill which established the office of
Food and Dairy Commissioner, he was one of the leaders on the
Republican side in the hotly contested organization of the Senate in
1886, in which the Republicans were finally victorious. He
served as Clerk pro tem. with marked efficiency. He was
a ready debater, active in all important measures and questions
before the House, and discharged his duties with a fidelity that won
the entire confidence of a large constituency. He was a
delegate to the Cincinnati National convention when General
Hayes was nominated for President on the Republican ticket.
Mr. Ford is largely interested in the
private banking house of Houghton, Ford & Co., using
about $100,000 capital and transacting a profitable business.
He was appointed Hank Examiner for this district in April, 1890, and
still holds the position. Until September, 1892, he did the
work of the entire district; but, the territory being wide and each
bank requiring from three to four days, it was necessary to appoint
another examiner for a part of the district.
In 1866 he was united in marriage to Miss Corinne E.
Williams, a native of Burton; her grandfather emigrated from
Massachusetts to Ohio in 1808. Mr. and Mrs. Ford are
the parents of three children: Helen R., Louis J., and
Carl B. They occupy a handsome frame residence facing the
public park, and are surrounded by the many comforts of modern
civilization. Mr. Ford and wife are members of
the Congregational Church and are liberal contributors to its
support. He belongs to the Masonic order and is a member of
the blue lodge, chapter and commandry.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The
Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 433 |
WILLIAM
W. FORSHEY, one of Geauga county's respected citizens, is a
native of Indiana, born Oct. 3, 1840, a son of John and Susan
(Abby) Forshey, natives of Ohio and New York respectively.
The paternal grandfather of our subject emigrated from France to
America. John Forshey was a pioneer of Indiana, but
removed in 1846 to Kalamazoo county, Michigan, where he has since
resided. He and his wife have reared a family of eleven
children, eight of whom survive. William W. is the
sixth born. At the age of twenty years he left the protection
of the parental roof, and went out in the world to seek his fortune.
He was employed in Bureau county, Illinois, when the great Civil war
broke out between the North and South. He was not slow to
respond to the call for men in the nation’s peril, and in October,
1861, enlisted at Princeton, in Company K, Ninth Illinois Cavalry,
under Colonel A. G. Bracket, in Wilson’s Cavalry Corps.
He served three years and two months, and during that period
witnessed all the horrors of warfare. He was through
Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and
participated in some of the most noted engagements of the war:
among them, Pea Ridge, two battles at Guntown, Helena, those at
Aberdeen, Corinth, Holly Springs, Grand Junction, La Grange, and
Franklin, Tennessee (the last being the hardest-fought battle for
the number engaged that occurred during the war), and last,
Nashville, Tennessee. He was never captured, or wounded except
by accident when preparing for battle; he had five bullet holes
through his hat in one day, and several times had holes shot through
his clothing. In 1862, while at Helena, Arkansas, he was taken
sick and was sent to the hospital at Keokuk, Iowa, where he remained
about two months. He received an orderly’s commission and
while carrying dispatches had two horses shot from under him.
He carried a large amount of mail through a hostile country and had
hounds set upon him, but always escaped injury. He was
mustered out at Nashville, Dec. 15, 1864.
After the war was ended he engaged in the more peaceful
pursuit of farming, and tilled the soil in Michigan for a year.
In the fall of 1865, he came to Geauga county, and settled in
Newbury township, where he lived five years; he then removed to
Montville township where lie purchased a partly improved farm and
where he has since made his home.
Mr. Forshey was united in marriage Dec.
21, 1865, to Urilla, daughter of George and Mary (St.
John) Morton, a native of Indiana. They are the parents of
two children: Mary and Belle, both are well educated
and accomplished young ladies and have been successful teachers.
Mary was married to William H. Badcliffe and is the
mother of one child, Neva. Mr. Forshey is a
Republican in politics, has represented the people of the township
as Trustee, and has been an efficient member of the Board of
Education for twelve years. He is a member of the I. N.
Leggett Post, No. 836 G. A. R., is a pensioner, and belongs to
the Grange. He has 117 acres of land in a high state of
cultivation, has established a good dairy, and takes rank with the
leading agriculturists of the county. He has an attractive,
comfortable home, enjoying the society of his interesting family,
and the esteem of the community.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The
Lewis Publishing Co., 1893 - Page 981 |
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