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HISTORY
Source:
The Lawyers
of Wayne County, Ohio
from
1812 to 1900
by Ben Douglas, Author of "History of Wayne Co., Ohio"
Clapper Printer Company, Publishers,
Wooster, Ohio
1900
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EDWARD
MAAG. Was born in Mt. Eaton, Paint township,
Wayne County, about thirty years ago. He is a man of good
education, of varied and valuable attainments and was a highly
successful teacher for a number of years. He studied law in
the office of Critchtield &
Critchfield, Wooster, Ohio,
and was admitted to the bar several years ago. In reply to a
request for data, for a sketch he wrote, "I regret that my course
has not been marked by incidents of sufficient consequence to
justify another addition to the pages of biographic literature."
Source: The Lawyers
of Wayne County, Ohio
from
1812 to 1900
by Ben Douglas, Author of "History of
Wayne Co., Ohio" - Clapper Printer Company, Publishers, Wooster,
Ohio - 1900 - Page 138 |
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DANIEL C. MARTIN was born in
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1816 and died at his home in
Reedsburg, Plain township, Wayne county, in May 1889. He was
admitted to the Ohio bar by the district court at Wooster, Ohio, in
April, 1857. His practice was of a local character. He
was a good business man, a most successful collector, aiming to
conciliate misunderstandings between neighbors rather than foment
litigation. He was for a number of years Justice of the Peace
of Plain township.
Source: The Lawyers
of Wayne County, Ohio
from
1812 to 1900
by Ben Douglas, Author of "History of
Wayne Co., Ohio" - Clapper Printer Company, Publishers, Wooster,
Ohio - 1900 - Page 243 |
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JOHN F. MAXWELL was born in Holmes
county, Ohio, May 27, 1835 and was raised on a farm. He
enjoyed the advantages afforded by attendance upon the public
schools during his earlier years, and at a later period was enrolled
as a student at the Fredericksburg Academy, then under the
management of Prof. B. C. Smith
and Rev. Samuel Anderson,
where he made profitable and excellent use of his time, acquired
rapidly and was deemed a good academic scholar.
Source: The Lawyers
of Wayne County, Ohio
from
1812 to 1900
by Ben Douglas, Author of "History of Wayne Co., Ohio"
- Clapper Printer Company, Publishers, Wooster, Ohio - 1900 - Page
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George W. Miller |
GEORGE W. MILLER.
Was born in Wayne township, Wayne county, Nov. 22, 1857, but a few
months subsequent to the location of his parents there, who came
from Cumberland county, Pa. His father having sold his farm in
1855, removed to and located near Easton, in Chippewa township.
Here, with all the exactitude and rigor, that, to the eastern
Pennsylvania farmer, the term implies.
Mr. Miller
was disciplined along agricultural lines, sharing in the winter
season the meagre advantages and opportunities of the old fashioned
district school.
When nineteen years of age, in the autumn of 1870, in
pursuance of the inexorable rule announced by his father, that
"every boy must avail himself of the advantages of the district
school education and then learn some trade," Mr. Miller
determined to make a test of carriage-making, and accordingly was
apprenticed, at Doylestown, and later on, at Marshallville, Wayne
county, for a period of three years, consummating, with a short term
of instruction at Cleveland, the limit and term of his
apprenticeship, in December, 1873.
He now entered upon the career of a journeyman, and
notwithstanding the financial depression prevalent at that time, he
found constant employment, although not of the most profitable
character, working successively in Clinton, and Manchester, Summit
county, Canal Fulton, in Stark county, Orrville and Mansfield.
In the fall of 1880, after ten years experience at his
trade, and having accumulated sufficient means to justify a course
long contemplated, he entered the Norman School at Mansfield, for a
period, dividing time between recitation and work, using the night
and early morning hours for study. After thus engaged for two
years, he, for a short time taught night school, in Canaan township,
and in 1883, entered the National Normal University, at Lebanon,
Ohio, graduating from that institution with the class of 1885.
For a period of four years he served in the capacity of
Superintendent of Schools, at Paris, Champaign county, Ohio, where
he achieved a high reputation as manager and teacher.
In October, 1889, in accordance with an originally
cherished determination, he entered the law office of Samuel
B. Eason, now Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas, where he remained in the pursuit of his legal
investigations for one year. In October, 1890, he entered the
senior class of the law school of the Cincinnati Law College,
graduating therefrom in 1891. He was admitted to the bar, at
Columbus, Ohio, on May 28, 1891.
He now returned to Wooster, with the intention, at that
time, to open an office there, but then,
"The best laid schemes
o' mice an' men.
Gang aft a-gley."
Circumstances are our guides and frequently tyrannize us, and in
some instances, a single one becomes our master. His father
was suffering from the infirmities of age, and regarding as a filial
duty, what, to the Greek was imposed by law, he at once determined
to make the sacrifice of the immediate opportunities that seemed to
offer him in the profession, and devote, at least, a portion of his
time to this last and holiest of duties - the care of aged parents.
Until the time of their death in 1895, he addressed
himself faithfully to that end, working upon the farm as his chief
vocation, meantime serving the people of Chippewa township for two
consecutive terms as Justice of the Peace, devoting all propitious
intervals that might accrue from such varied employments and duties,
to the study of the law and the practice of his profession.
His residence is on the old homestead, near Easton, which he owns,
and of him it may be said in the language of Pope:
"Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own ground."
"Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire,
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter fire." |
He improved the "paternal acres" in adjustment to his own standards
and ideals, between the care of which and practice in the courts, he
continues to divide his attention. His practice has attained
proportions which gratify his ambitions, and he has the satisfaction
of knowing and realizing that, from the difficult and embarrassing
ordeals through which he passed in gaining his profession, he has
risen in it to a position of credit, profit, and honor.
Source: The Lawyers
of Wayne County, Ohio
from
1812 to 1900
by Ben Douglas, Author of "History of
Wayne Co., Ohio" - Clapper Printer Company, Publishers, Wooster,
Ohio - 1900 - Page 128 |
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WILLIAM G. MYERS
was a resident and land owner and
lawyer for many years in Chippewa township, Wayne county. In
1873, he removed to Canal Fulton, Stark county, Ohio, where he
continues in the practice of his profession, and where he lives.
He was Captain of Co. G, 120th O. V. I., enlisting in 1862, endured
the soldiers dangers, hardships and varied experiences until
February, 1863, when he resigned on account of impaired health.
Source: The Lawyers
of Wayne County, Ohio
from
1812 to 1900
by Ben Douglas, Author of "History of Wayne Co., Ohio"
- Clapper Printer Company, Publishers, Wooster, Ohio - 1900 - Page
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