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BIOGRAPHIES
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of Miami Co., Ohio
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
1900
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON,
one of the most prominent of the early American statesmen and
financiers, was born in Nevis, an island of the West Indies, Jan.
11, 1757, his father being a Scotchman and his mother of Huguenot
descent. Owing to the death of his mother and business
reverses which came to his father, young Hamilton was sent to
his mother's relatives in Santa Cruz; a few years later was sent to
a grammar school at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and in 1773 entered
what is now known as Columbia College. Even at that time he
began taking an active part in public affairs and his speeches,
pamphlets, and newspaper articles on political affairs of the day
attracted considerable attention. In 1776 he received a
captain's commission and served in Washington's army with credit,
becoming aide-de-camp to Washington with rank of lieutenant-colonel.
In 1781 he resigned his commission because of a rebuke from
General Washington. He next received command of a New York
battalion and participated in the battle of Yorktown. After
this Hamilton studied law, served several terms in congress
and was a member of the convention at which the Federal Constitution
was drawn up. His work connected with "The Federalist" at
about this time attracted much attention. Mr.
Hamilton was chosen as the first secretary of the United States
treasury and as such was the author of the funding system and
founder of the United States Bank. In 1798 he was made
inspector-general of the army with the rank of major-general and was
also for a short time commander-in-chief. In 1804 Aaron
Burr, then candidate for governor of New York, challenged
Alexander Hamilton to fight a duel, Burr
attributing his defeat to Hamilton's opposition, and
Hamilton, though declaring the code as a relic of barbarism,
accepted the challenge. They met at Weehawken, New Jersey,
July 11, 1804. Hamilton declined to fire at his
adversary, but at Burr's first fire was fatally wounded and
died July 12, 1804.
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HANNIBAL
HAMLIN, a noted American statesman, whose name is
indissolubly connected with the history of this country, was born in
Paris, Maine, Aug. 27, 1809. He learned the printer's trade
and followed that calling for several years. He then studied
law, and was admitted to practice in 1833. He was elected to
the legislature of the state of Maine, where he was several times
chosen speaker of the lower house. He was elected to congress
by the Democrats in 1843, and re-elected in 1845. In 1848 he
was chosen to the United States senate and served in that body until
1861. He was elected governor of Maine in 1857 on the Republican
ticket, but resigned when re-elected to the United States senate the
same year. He was elected vice-president of the United States
on the ticket with Lincoln in 1860, and inaugurated in March, 1861.
In 1865 he was appointed collector of the port of Boston.
Beginning with 1869 he served two six-year terms in the United
States senate, and was then appointed by President
Garfield as minister to Spain in 1881. His death occurred
July 4, 1891.
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WINFIELD S. HANCOCK
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CHARLES O. HARDESTY.
Charles O. Hardesty, proprietor of the coal and wood
yard of Piqua, was born in the city which is still his home
Nov. 21, 1858. He is a son of James W., whose
sketch appears above. His boyhood days were spent
under the parental roof, amid the refining influences of a
good home and in the public schools of his native city
acquired his literary education. He has, however,
added to his knowledge by experience and observation and is
now a well informed man. As soon as he was old enough
to work he began learning the carpenter's trade under the
direction of his father, and was employed in connection with
the building interests of the city until about 1890, when he
accepted a position as salesman for a lumber company, with
which he remained for four years. On the expiration of
that period, with a capital which he had acquired through
his own well directed efforts, he embarked in business for
himself, establishing a coal and wood yard in Piqua.
He has since secured an excellent trade, which is constantly
increasing, and his sales are now very large and bring to
him a good financial return.
Mr. Hardesty was married to Miss Ida M.
Licklader, and they have two sons. James D.
and Charles K. Socially Mr. Hardesty is
connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with
the Knights of Pythias fraternity. In politics he is a
Republican on national questions, but at local elections,
where no issue is involved, he votes for the man whom he
believes to be best fitted for the office. He belongs
to the Baptist church and is deeply and actively interested
in everything pertaining to the welfare and prosperity of
the community.
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R. B. Hayes |
RUTHERFORD
BIRCHARD HAYES was the nineteenth president of the United
States and served from 1877 to 1881. He was born Oct. 4, 1822,
at Delaware, Ohio, and his ancestry can be traced back as far as
1280, when Hayes and Rutherford were two Scottish chieftans
fighting side by side with Baliol, William Wallace and
Robert Bruce. The Hayes family had for a coat of
arms, a shield, barred and surmounted by a flying eagle. There
was a circle of stars about the eagle, while on a scroll underneath
was their motto, "Recte." Misfortune overtook the family and
in 1680 George Hayes, the progenitor of the American
family, came to Connecticut and settled at Windsor.
Rutherford B. Hayes was a very delicate child at his birth and
was not expected to live, but he lived in spite of all and remained
at home until he was seven years old, when he was placed in school.
He was a very tractable pupil, being always very studious, and in
1838 entered Kenyon College, graduating from the same in 1842.
He then took up the study of law in the office of Thomas
Sparrow at Columbus, but in a short time he decided to enter a
law school at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where for two years he was
immersed in the study of law. Mr. Hayes was
admitted to the bar in 1845 in Marietta, Ohio, and very soon entered
upon the active practice of his profession with Ralph P. Buckland,
of Fremont, Ohio. He remained there three years, and in 1849
removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his ambition found a new
stimulus. Two events occurred at this period that had a
powerful influence on his after life. One was his marriage to
Miss Lucy Ware Webb, and the other was his introduction to a
Cincinnati literary club, a body embracing such men as Salmon P.
Chase, John Pope, and Edward F. Noyes. In
1856 he was nominated for judge of the court of common pleas, but
declined, and two years later he was appointed city solicitor.
At the outbreak of the Rebellion Mr. Hayes was appointed
major of the Twenty-third Ohio Infantry, June 7, 1861, and in July
the regiment was ordered to Virginia, and Oct. 15, 1861,saw him
promoted to the lieutenant-Colonelcy of his regiment. He was
made colonel of the Seventy-ninth Ohio Infantry, but refused to
leave his old comrades; and in the battle of South Mountain he was
wounded very severely and was unable to rejoin his regiment until
Nov. 30, 1862. He had been promoted to the colonelcy of the
regiment on Oct. 15, 1862. In the following December he was
appointed to command the Kanawa division and was given the rank of
brigadier-general for meritorious services in several battles, and
in 1864 he was brevetted major-general for distinguished services in
1864, during which campaign he was wounded several times and five
horses had been shot under him. Mr. Hayes' first
venture in politics was as a Whig, and later he was one of the first
to unite with the Republican party. In 1864 he was elected
from the Second Ohio district to congress, re-elected in 1866, and
in 1867 was elected governor of Ohio over Allen G. Thurman,
and was re-elected in 1869. Mr. Hayes was
elected to the presidency in 1876, for the term of four years, and
at its close retired to private life, and went to his home in
Fremont, Ohio, where he died on Jan. 17, 1893.
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SAMUEL
R. HAYES, M. D. A medical practitioner at Alcony,
Dr. Hayes bas demonstrated his ability to successfully cope with
many of the intricate problems which meet those who become
identified with the science and practice of medicine. His
recognized skill has gained him a liberal patronage and won him a
place among the leading representatives of the medical fraternity in
this section of the state.
The Doctor is a native of Pennsylvania, his birth
having occurred in Lancaster county, on the 30th of May, 1862, his
parents being Joseph and Leah (Stamm) Hayes. The father
was a farmer, and when his son Samuel was eight years of age
he came with his family to Miami county, Ohio, locating in Bethel
township. He is now living a retired life, and after
twenty-six years' residence upon the old homestead, he removed to
Medway, where he is now spending his last years unincumbered by
business cares.
Dr. Hayes spent the first eighteen years
of his life upon his father's farm, and through the summer months
assisted in the work of the fields, while in the winter season he
pursued his literary education in the schools of the neighborhood.
About 1880 be began reading medicine with Dr. C. M. Dixon, of
Brandt, who directed his studies for a year. He afterward
spent two years in the medical department of the State University of
Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and then devoted two years to study in the
Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, being graduated in the
latter institution in the class of 1886, with the degree of M. D.
Having thus thoroughly prepared himself for his chosen calling,
he began putting to a practical test the knowledge he had acquired
by responding to professional calls at Ludlow Falls, where be first
opened an office, there remaining for a year. On the
expiration of that period he went to Westville, Ohio, and in
October, 1893, came to Alcony, where he has since constantly been
engaged in practice, his business steadily increasing both in volume
and importance. He is a close student of his profession, and
keeps in touch with the onward march of progress made by the medical
fraternity.
In September, 1886, Dr. Hayes was united
in marriage, in Brandt, Miami county, to Mahala Belleman.
a daughter of Henry and Eliza Belleman. Her father was
one of the veterans of the civil war. Mrs. Hayes
was born in Brandt, and by her marriage has become the mother of two
children, Ruth Beatrice and Thomas Corwin. The
Doctor holds membership in Christiansburg Lodge, I. O. O. F., and in
New Carlisle Lodge. A. F. & A. M., while his wife belongs to
the Methodist Episcopal church. He possesses energy and
laudable ambition — qualities which are essential to a successful
career, and in a profession where advancement depends alone upon
individual merit he is rapidly pushing his way to the front.
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WILLIAM
S. HAYS. William S. Hays was born in Lost
Creek township, Miami county, Ohio, on the 11th day of December,
1869. His parents, Dr. M. W. Hays and Sarah (Stafford) Hays,
were married in this county Feb. 14, 1869, but his father.
Dr. Hays, was a native of Brown county, Ohio, to which point his
grandfather Hays emigrated at an early day from Virginia.
Dr. Hays, after his marriage, removed from Lost Creek
township to Troy, and in 1878 was elected mayor of Troy and in 1879
was elected a member of the legislature, where he served creditably.
He was a gallant soldier in the Union army during the war of
1861-65.
The mother of William S. Hays was the daughter
of Joseph H. and Jane (Black) Stafford. His maternal
grandmother was the daughter of Colonel Samuel Black, of
Virginia, who was a captain in the Revolutionary war in the First
Regiment of Virginia militia, and in the war of 1812, in which he
was promoted until he was the colonel of the First Regiment in
General Tupper's brigade of Virginia militia.
Our subject is proud of the soldiery record of his
ancestors. W. S. Hays was educated in the Troy schools and
also graduated at Boston in the Massachusetts School of Technology,
in the department of civil engineering, in 1890. He was
employed as an electrical engineer by the Thomson-Houston
Electric Company, and the General Electric Company, of Lynn,
Massachusetts, until 1896. He did work for these companies in
forty of the states and several of the territories of the republic,
also worked for them in Canada, during which time he was employed as
assistant engineer under W. P. Gray, the chief engineer for
the water plant of Austin, Texas, which cost one million, five
hundred thousand dollars. He was employed in this work for two
years. In 1897 he formed a partnership in Troy, Ohio, known as
the Hays Construction Company, and is now engaged in
engineering work, also in the design of electric lighting and
railway systems, also bridge building and other architectural work.
He is general manager for the company.
Mr. Hays is an enthusiastic Mason, a
Knight Templar and a thirty-second-degree Mason; is an earnest,
devoted Republican, because he loves the principles of that great
party, but is not a politician, though a zealous worker in the
party. He has never married and has one sister living in Troy.
Mr. Hays is a picture of good health and vigorous
manhood, and has before him the prospect of a long and useful life.
E. S. W.
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JOHN C. HENDERSON.
Devoting his energies to farming and the manufacture of lumber,
Mr. Henderson is recognized as a leading and influential
business man of Union township, Miami county. He was born in
Brown county, Ohio, July 22, 1837. His father, Jonathan
Henderson, was born July 22, 1797, in Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, and w-as reared upon a farm, remaining with his
parents until about twenty-eight years of age, when he began farming
on his own account, locating on a tract of land in the midst of the
forest. This was about 1825, and his home was located near
Winchester, Ohio, where he built a log cabin and improved a good
property. There he successfully carried on agricultural
pursuits until his death, which occurred when he was sixty-eight
years of age. He became the owner of one hundred and sixty
acres and his farm yielded to him a good return for the care and
labor he bestowed upon it. His support was given the
Democracy, and his fellow townsmen, recognizing his worth and
ability, frequently called him to public office. He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his well spent and
upright life commended him to the confidence and regard of all with
whom he was associated. His wife bore the maiden name of
Nancy Carl, and was born in Adams county, Ohio, in 1823,
but died in Brown county, Feb. 20, 1894, at the age of seventy-one
years. She held membership with the Christian church. In
the family of this worthy couple were ten children, namely:
Andrew, Ellen, Mary, Elizabeth, John C.,
Joseph, William, Michael, and two who died in
infancy.
During the days of his boyhood and youth John C.
Henderson, of this review, worked on the home farm, following
the plow almost from the time he was large enough to reach the
handles. He continued with his parents until he was twenty-two
years of age. In 1862 he organized a wagon train of
twenty-five men for government work and spent the succeeding
twenty-three months as a wagon-master. In that capacity he
traveled through Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, but
spent most of the time at Lexington, Kentucky. He was at
Knoxville, Tennessee, however, when that city was besieged.
When about two years had passed, he returned to Hamilton county,
Ohio, where he was married and engaged in the drug business and also
following teaming. Three years later he went to Cincinnati,
and in 1865 he came to Miami county, operating a rented farm in
Union township for two years". In 1867 he erected his saw-mill on
section 24, Union township, and in 1869 he purchased a mill on the
Dayton & Western Railroad in Darke county. In 1871 he
purchased another mill near Castine, Darke county, operating the
three mills at the same time. They were located about six
miles apart, but he gave to each his personal supervision and the
enterprises proved profitable. After seven months, however, he
disposed of one mill and removed the Darke county mill to Pittsburg,
same county. He has since operated that mill and the one in
Union township, and the careful prosecution of his business
interests has brought to him a good financial return.
In 1875 he purchased his home farm, comprising
fifty-seven acres, and in 1878 he purchased one hundred and sixty
acres of land in Paulding county, Ohio. The quarter-section
was then a tract of timber land but is now highly improved. In
1877 he purchased forty acres of timber land in Darke county, which
he also cleared and improved, and in 1889 he bought forty acres in
Monroe township, Darke county. In 1897 he became the owner of
one hundred and forty-seven acres in Union township, Miami county,
and here he has a splendidly improved property, on which are found
all modern accessories and conveniences. For the past twenty
years he has been engaged in raising tobacco and he carries on this
work along very progressive lines. On his farm he has sheds in
which to cure the tobacco, and warehouses in West Milton in which to
store it. He does an extensive business in the manufacture of
lumber, his sales annually increasing.
Mar. 17, 1864, Mr. Henderson was married
in Hamilton county, Ohio, to Miss Elizabeth Markley,
and to them were born two children: Emma, now the wife of
Charles Coppock, a resident of Laura, this county;
and John W., who is in partnership with Mr. Coppock
in the mercantile and grain business at Laura. The
mother died Nov. 5, 1885, and Mr. Henderson afterward
married Miss Mary Herman, of Union township, a
daughter of Christian and Mary (Kojel) Herman, who were both
natives of Germany.
His political support is given to the Democracy and he
takes quite an active part in the work of the party, doing all in
his power to promote its growth and to insure its success. He
has served as a trustee for ten or twelve years, and after serving
one term as county commissioner was appointed to fill a vacancy on
the board of county commissioners at a time when all of the county
officers were Republicans. He is so loyal and true to his duty
that he commands the respect and confidence of even his political
opponents and is recognized as a representative citizen. Both
he and his wife hold membership in the United Brethren church and to
its support he has been a liberal contributor. He was one of
the building committee and has been one of the trustees since the
edifice was completed.
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WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS,
one of the leading novelists of the present century and
author of a number of works that gained for him a place in
the hearts of the people, was born Mar. 1 1837, at
Martinsville, Belmont county, Ohio. At the age of
three years he accompanied his father, who was a printer, to
Hamilton, Ohio, where he learned the printer's trade.
Later he was engaged on the editorial staff of the
"Cincinnati Gazette" and the "Ohio State Journal."
During 1861-65 he was the United States consul at Venice,
and from 1871 to 1878 he was the editor-in-chief of the
"Atlantic Monthly." As a writer he became one of the
most fertile and readable of authors and a pleasing poet.
In 1885 he became connected with "Harper's Magazine."
Mr. Howells was author of the list of books
that we give below: "Venetian Life," " Italian Journeys,"
"No Love Lost," " Suburban Sketches," "Their Wedding
Journey," "A Chance Acquaintance," "A Foregone Conclusion,"
"Dr. Breen's Practice," "A Modern Instance,"
"The Rise of Silas Lapham," "Tuscan Cities,"
"Indian Summer," besides many others. He also wrote
the ''Poem of Two Friends," with J. J. Piatt in 1860,
and some minor dramas: "The Drawing Room Car," "The Sleeping
Car," etc., that are full of exquisite humor and elegant
dialogue.
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