WILLIAM SAMPLE was twice elected Judge of the Common Pleas Court, serving from 1857 to 1866, resigning before the expiration of his second term, Joseph H. Downing being appointed as his successor.  Upon his retirement from the bench he formed a partnership with the late Hon. John P. Jeffries, of Wooster, and remained in the practice of his profession in this city for two years when he went to Newark, Licking county, Ohio, and thence to Coshocton, Ohio, where he died in 1877.
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 295

M. L. SPOONER.   Is a native of Queen City, Ohio, where he was born Oct. 22, 1852, and is a son of Hon. Thomas Spooner, who, as a member of Ohio, of the Republican National Convention of 1860, assisted in the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency, and who, in the fifties, was president of the national organization of the American Party.  His elementary education was obtained in the country schools, in Hamilton county.   At the age of sixteen he entered the Freshman class of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, and was the youngest member of it.
     In 1869 he was engaged upon the survey and construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway, and in the winter of 1869—70 he became a member of Troop E., 7th U. S. Cavalry, then stationed at Ft. Wallace, Kansas, in which he served for a year, guarding the line of the road against the attacks of hostile Indians, with whom they had frequent collisions, when, because of his minority, he was honorably discharged.
     He then located at Humboldt, Kansas, where helearned the trade of printer, in the office of the Humboldt Union.  In 1872-73 he was engaged in the Government Survey of what is now Oklahoma Territory, lying North of the Red River, during which time the surveying party were frequently attacked by the Indians, many of whom fell victims of the scalping-knife.  In 1875 he returned to Cincinnati, where he resumed the craft of printer, having been foreman in a number of the large printing establishments of the Queen City.  In 1881 he came to Wooster, taking charge of the Wayne County Herald as editor and manager, continuing in this relationship to the paper, until August, 1882, when he severed his connection with the same, for the reason, as he says, that he could not conduct it as a partisan prohibition journal, with out sacrificing his views as a Republican.
     Since 1884 he has been largely engaged in examining and abstracting titles, having made an abstract record of Wayne county, covering the most uncertain, difficult, and complicated period of our land records.  During this time he diligently spent his unoccupied hours in the study of law, and having passed the ordeal of the examining board, at Columbus, became a member of the Ohio bar, in March, 1897.
     He immediately opened an office in Wooster, and with his habits of industry, strict application to business, natural aptitude to the legal practice, and care in the investigation and preparation of cases, he has the right to further, and confidently expect, a larger and wider boundary for the exercise of his abilities.  He is prompt, vigilant, and in earnest, and throws himself bodily into the case of his client, making it his own.  He is not an orator of any of the schools of rhetoric or declamation, but he speaks plainly, clearly, to the point, and well, aiming to confine himself to the question under discussion.
     For the short time he has been in practice, he can congratulate himself upon his success.  Lawyers have not risen in a day to distinction, it matters not how masterly and brilliant their future achievements.  The busy, toiling years only build high the lawyer's name.  His earlier employments and experiences were an education to him, equal to an academic career, and in his sphere as journalist, editor, and soldier, he acquired the quick intelligence and traits of courage and self-reliance which equip a man for the battle of life.
     In politics he is a man of very decided political views, and is a firm and ardent republican.  He is a man of strong convictions, fearless, blunt, if necessary and outspoken, and yet is possessed of warm sympathies, a kind friend and patriot, loving his home, his family, and his country.
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 134

LUCIAN H. UPHAM was born in Vermont in 1808.  He was a man of good education, a successful school teacher, and came to Wayne county in 1839.  He read law with Judge Levi Cox of Wooster, and was admitted to the bar, in 1843.  He taught school in Jefferson, Plain township, and for a while lived in that village.  He was elected and served one term as Auditor of Wayne county, from 1846 to 1848.  He removed to Delta, Fulton county, about 1850, where he died in 1897.
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 295