James Denny

     David Shelby

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     Valentine Keffer

     Augustus L. Perrill

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he was prominent and influential in the party councils, and was chairman of the county committee during the fierce political contests of the war period.
     Mr. Doane was a thorough common-sense man, frank and outspoken, devoid of sham and pretense; a man of inflexible integrity and the highest sense of honor; a courageous, just and generous man, who never shirked a public or private duty, or refused to assist a friend; social and genial, he won and kept a geat many friends.  Imbued with large public spirit, he was the zealous supporter of whatever would promote the prosperity of the city and county, and advance the interests and welfare of the people.  Circleville may well deplore his death, for not soon will we have in our midst another man of such practical usefulness to the community as William Doane.  He has spent an eventful and useful life, and goes to the grave esteemed by all.  Long will be his name borne in memory by this city and county.

     Gen. William Sooy Smith was born at Tarlton, Pickaway County, on the 22nd of July, 1830.  His father was a captain in teh War of 1812, and his grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier.  Both belonged to the Society of Friends, but they severed their connection with their sect to fight for their country.
     In September, 1844, the father, yielding to the desires of his son, gave him two shillings and his blessing, and permitted him to go to Athens, the seat of Ohio University.  The  young student attended a select school for one year and then entered the preparatory department of the college.  He rang the bell, swept the halls, carried coal, attended to the grounds, in short, was a veritable “professor of dust and ashes,” and received sufficient salary to pay his expenses.  He graduated in 1849, and through the influence of the faculty and other friends he obtained an appointment as cadet in the West Point Military Academy.  McPherson, Sill, Scofield, Terrill and other distinguished officers were classmates, and the two first mentioned were his roommates.  During two years out of the four which he spent at the academy, Cadet Smith was reported as one of the distinguished members of his class; and upon graduation he was assigned as brevet 2nd lieutenant to the Third Artillery.  When he became full 2nd lieutenant, he was transferred to the Second Artillery; but finding army life in time of peace rather monotonous, he soon resigned.
     Buffalo, New York, then became his residence, and for two years he taught a select school, and then commenced civil engineering.  In this he was very successful; he traveled through almost all the States, Canada and the West Indies.  When the war broke out. he was engaged in the construction of a bridge over the Savannah River, where it is crossed by the railroad leading from Savannah to Charleston; but, 10 days before the attack upon Sumter, he escaped to the North, and entered the volunteer service as assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.  He was very soon made colonel of the 13th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf., and he immediately moved with the regiment to West Virginia, where he participated in the campaigns of the summer and fall of 1861, under McClellan and Rosecrans.  In the reports of the battle of Carnifax Ferry, he was specially mentioned for gallantry, and in the pursuit of Floyd he led the advance, and three times engaged the enemy's rear-guard, for which he was again honorably mentioned in official reports.
     His regiment was transferred from West Virginia to Louisville, Kentucky, and was as signed to the Army of the Ohio under General Buell.  Colonel Smith participated in the advance on Bowling Green and Nashville, and in the battle of Pittsburg Landing commanded the 14th Brigade, on the 7th of April, being engaged from 8 o'clock in the morning until the close of the battle.  The same ground was fought over three times.  The brigade captured Stanford's Mississippi battery twice, and finally held it; many prisoners also were captured, among them Colonel (afterward General) Battle, of Tennessee.  Six hundred and ten dead Rebels were counted in front of the brigade, but some or these were killed the day before.   The brigade lost one-fifth of its number killed and wounded, but none was captured.  Colonel Smith was again mentioned in official reports for gallantry and meritorious conduct, and was promoted to Brigadier-General, to rank from the 7th of April, 1862.  General Smith was in active service the two years following; was at the battle of Perryville and the siege of Vicksburg.  Afterwards was assigned to duty on General Grant's staff, as chief of cavalry, and directed several successful raids.  He resigned in July, 1864, because disabled by inflammatory rheumatism.  General Smith for some years resided in Chicago.