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 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

��Note.— All the histories of families and persons in this part of the work have been obtained din'ctly from the families or individuals interested, or from persons possessing the necessary information. In no case whatever has secoml-hatid information been accepted. Being thus written, the families or persons themselves are responsible for all facts and dates contained in them.

CITY OF MANSFIELD.

��ACKERMAN, HENRY, barber: he was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, in the town of Neidermodau, Ger- many, July 11, 1845, and came to this country in 1865 ; he learned his trade in the Fatherland, and, after com- ing to this country, he worked for a short time in Crest- line, Ohio ; he removed to Mansfield in 18fJ6 and com- menced business in this city, at which he has continued to date. He was married in Mansfield, July 12, 1867, to Christina Hartman ; they have six children — four sons and two daughters.

ANDERSON, J. C, Surgeon ; he was born in Butler Co., Ohio ; removed to Richland Co. in 1850; he was educated at Ganges and Cleveland ; commenced the study of medicine at Ganges in 1863 ; graduated at the Cleveland Homoeopathic Hospital College in 1872 ; received a commission as Surgeon of the 12th 0. V. I. (1878); he is now engaged in the practice of medi- cine in Mansfield. He was married to Anna M. Wherry, of Shelby ; they have one child, 3 years old — Reed Wherry.

AUNGST, JOHN E., farmer; P. 0. Mansfield; he was born in Jefferson Township Sept. 3, 1854 ; he came , to Mansfield in 1863, where he has since resided. He was married in this city, in 1876, to Miss Lillie Bell ; one daughter, Allie, by this marriage, resides with her parents in this citv.

AUGUSTINE, CHARLES, leather merchant; he was born at Sugar Creek Falls, Ohio, Oct. 27, 1831, and came to Mansfield in 1850, where he was employed for a time as clerk in the dry-goods house of Amos Townsend, now Member of Congress from the Cleveland District. May 25, 1858, he was married to Miss Louisa Ritter, daughter of the late Joseph Ritter, to whom have been born six children. In the year 1865, Mr. Augustine joined the Masonic Order, since which time be has been an active Mason and has held a number of subordinate offices. He is a member of the leather firm of Ritter & Sons, in which business he is now engaged, and is considered one of the representative business men of Mansfield.

BAKER, GEORGE, stonemason, and grocery and provision merchant; he was born in Prussia June 9, 1816; learned the trade of stonemason; came to Mansfield Aug. 29, 1848. Married in the old country, Feb. 10, 1842, to Mary Nips, with whom he has raised six children — Peter, born in Germany Sept. 18, 1842;

��Lizzie, born in Germany Feb. 6, 1847 ; Bena, born in Mansfield Aug. 2, 1849; George, born in Mansfield Feb. 8, 1856; William, July 3, 1858; Emma Louisa, March 12, 1861. Mr. Baker has resided in Mansfield thirty-two years, and is one of the representative Ger- man citizens ; has been a member of the German Secret Relief Society since Nov. 16, 1850.

BARTLEY, MORDECAI, deceased, thirteenth Govern- or elected by the people of Ohio, was born in Fayette Co., Penn., Dec. 16, 1783. In 1804, he married Miss Welles, and five years afterward removed to Jefferson Co., Ohio, where, upon the bank of that river, near the mouth of Cross Creek, he purchased a farm and engaged in the business of agriculture. Here his peaceful labors were iaterrupted by the declaration of the war of 1812, when, in a few weeks, he enlisted a company of volunteers, who elected him their Captain, and took the field under Gen. Harrison. At the close of the war, he removed to the almost unbroken wilderness of Richland Co., when Mansfield was the principal settlement ; west of that place he secured a sufficiently large space to satisfy him, and there, with his ax, he opened a clearing in the forest, and erected his home. Upon this farm, he worked diligently and successfully several years, and then, removing to Mansfield with the savings of his long years of farm labor, he entered into mercantile business. He early developed a character that won the confidence of those that knew him best, for, in 1817, he was elected to the State Senate, and appointed by the State Legisla- ture to the then important position of Register of the Land Office. This gave him charge of the Virginia mili- itary district school lands. In 1823, he was elected to Congress, and served four terms, when he declined re-election. In Congress, he was the first to propose the conversion of the land grants of Ohio into a permanent fund for the support of the common school, and secured an appropriation for the harbors of Cleveland, San- dusky City, Huron and Vermillion. In 1844, having retired from Congress, and engaged in mercantile and agricultural business, he was elected Governor of Ohio on the Whig ticket. Both parties have testified to the ability of his administration. In 1846, the war with Mexico was strongly opposed by the antislavery people of Ohio, they regarding its proclamation in the interest of slavery extension, and, in response to the call for troops, they were not in favor of Ohio filling her quota,

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