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 CITY OF MANSFIELD.

��not in the winter of life, but in the golden autumn time, is one of the living witnesses of the childhood of our city. Seventy-five years, when we look forward, seems a long time, but looking backward it is not so long, and I have no doubt the incidents recalled by ^'"° Patterson, when Elizabeth Cunningham was a

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��girl, seem to Mrs. Baughman but recent memories. In fact, with us all, it is our early recollections that last the longest. In our sleep we do not locate our dreams amid recent surroundings ; but we go back to the homes of our childhood. Mrs. Baughman's father, Capt. James Cunningham, was among the first settlers of Mansfield, and, in the year 1809, when Mansfield first had a habitation and a name, he lived in its first cabin on the Sturges corner. Mrs. Baughman at that time was with her grandfather in Licking Co., but ten years later she removed to Richland Co. where she has since been a resident. Since then, Mansfield has be- come a populous city, and a massive block of brick and stone occupies the site of the little log cabin on Sturges' corner; and instead of the drum of the pheasant and the hoot of the owl in the leafy wood- lands, we have for music the whistle of the locomotive and the clangor of machinery in the huge and smoky factories. We have churches and schools, busy mills, and all the pride, pomp and panoply of wealth and position and fame ; and yet, I doubt very much if we have the wisdom, or patriotism, or sincerity, or happi- ness of those among whom Mrs. Baughman passed the early years of life. Thirty years ago, when I came to Mansfield, very many of the early pioneers were still living, and they seemed to me men of larger mold and broader sympathies than those of this later gener- ation. It was this fact that led me to seek to preserve some record of their lives, and I very soon commenced to gather some of their history, and, after twenty-five years of waiting, a man who has a genius for writing history has come to complete the work, and we hope very soon to put into print an enduring record of the giants of those early days, who founded the civilization of Richland Co. Mr. Graham is with us to-night and I doubt not he will bear out my estimate of the worth of our early pioneers. Mrs. Baughman's father was one of them, and Mrs. Patterson's father was another. I do not remember to have met Capt. Cunningham, but I knew Solomon Gladden very well, and he was a typi- cal pioneer, massive in body and massive in mind. Reuben Evarts, who is here to-night and whom I pre- sent to you as a sample of the early pioneers, knew all of these men in their prime, and I hope he will tell us something about them. However, years have come and years have gone, and as the great globe swung in its mighty orbit around the sun, these mighty men of valor passed out into the infinite, and of those who knew them and were among them, of them about the only one who remains in Mansfield now is Mrs. Baugh- man, whose birthday we celebrate to-night. She is happy in having lived to see the result of their labors, and we are happy in seeking to contribute to the enjoy- ment of this hour."

After supper, the presents on the occasion were form- ally presented by Hon. M. May in a brief, but appro- priated speech. Among the numerous presents we mention specially a beautiful China lea-set from Elder

��G. M. Kemp, Gen. R. Brinkerhoff, Hon. M. May, S. E. Jenner, H. W. Albach, Capt. A. C. Cummins and J. Fraise Richard ; Elder Kemp, Mrs Baughman's Pastor, fol- lowed, responding to Mr. May, accepting the presents in her behalf, in a speech brief, appropriate and touching in its pathos ; Reuben Evarts, a real and well- preserved representative pioneer, being called on, made some pleasing allusions to pioneer life and character, and presented an appropriate preamble and resolutions, which were adopted.

BAUGHMAN FAMILY, THE. The ancestor of the Baughman family came from Germany, and located in Pennsylvania. The only knowledge the writer has of his family is of two sons — George and Abraham ; and one daughter, married to Joseph Charles. George emigrated to Ohio in 1805, and settled in Mifflin Town- ship, Franklin Co., where he spent the remainder of his life ; he died at a ripe old age, and is buried at Gahanna ; he was the father of the late Hon. Jesse Baughman, the founder of Gahanna, and one of the originators of the Franklin County Pioneer Association. Abraham was born on the Atlantic Ocean when his parents were en route for America. He married Mary Catharine Deeds, and removed from Cumberland to AVashington Co., Penn., and afterward to Richland Co., Ohio, settling in Monroe Township in 1811 : they had five sons and three daughters — Adam, John, Abraham, Jacob and George, and Catharine, Elizabeth and Lovace ; Catharine married a Mr. Black, of Tusca- rawas Co. ; Elizabeth married a Mr. Stewart, and re- moved to Tennessee, and Lovace married a Mr. Gay- man, of Pittsburgh ; Adam married a Miss Huffman, and removed to Plain Township, Franklin Co., Ohio, and he and his wife are both interred on the Baugh- man farm there, where they lived and where they died; John married Elizabeth Wyandt, and settled in Wayne Co., Ohio, and the township in which he lived was named for him ; Abraham married Susan Wyandt, and settled in Monroe Township, Richland Co., Ohio, where he died in 1848 ; his children were Margaret, wife of John Wolfe ; David, married to Rebecca Wolfe ; John, married to Catharine Castator ; Aaron, married to Catherine Schrack ; Peter, married to Eliza Wyandt ; George, married to Minerva Merrell ; Elizabeth, wife of Simon McDanel ; AVilliam, married to Rachel Slater ; Abraham, married to Eliza Wrigton : Su- sanna ; Simon, married to Susan Mercer. Jacob Baughman married Elizabeth Cunningham; his life was principally passed in Monroe Township, Richland Co., where he died March 20, 1855, aged 63 years. They had five children — Mary C, married to Abraham Lash ; Hannah L., married to David Herring; Margaret A., married to Freeman Carlile; Abraham J. and Sarah E.; the two latter remain single and live with their mother; they are printers, and publish the Mansfield Call ; they have also published the Cleveland Temple Visitor, Mans- field (Ohio) Liberal, Canal Fulton Herald and Medina Democrat. George Baughman never married, and died in 1850.

BERNO, PETER, merchant, Mansfield, Ohio ; he was born in Rhein Pfaltz, a province of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, and came to this country, with his parents, June 10, 1851, and to Mansfield, Ohio, June 16, 1851 ; his father's name was Jacob

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