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��of pioneer limes ; no one has a better and more accu- rate memory than he, and no one enjoys telling of old times more than Robert Cairns.

CAKE, HiRAM, employe of A. & G. W. R. R.; he was born in Canton, Stark Co., Ohio, Aug. 23, 1823 ; he came to Richland Co. May 2, 1840, and immediately engaged as a clerk in the dry-goods house of the late William McNulty, which was then situated on the northwest corner of Main and Fourth streets : he re- mained with him until 1840, when he enlLsted in the United States Army and joined the company from this county as private, under Capt. William McLaughlin, in the war wil h Mexico ; after the expiration of his term of service, he returned to Mansfield and soon after engaged in the employ of Isaac Smith, a dry-goods merchant of Monroeville, Ohio ; after several months' residence there, he went to New York City, where he was em- ployed in the wholesale dry-goods house of Marsh & Trear, with whom he remained four years, when he returned to Mansfield and again engaged in the employ of William McNulty for one year, taking charge of the business during McNulty' s absence in California. He then was employed by W. L. Strong in the same busi- ness for some time, when he went to Caliibrnia, in 1852; after an absence of fourteen months, he came back to Mansfield and was employed by the Penn. R. R. Co., as book-keeper, for several years, since which time he has been constantly engaged in the railroad business, in different capacities, until the present time. At the age of 21, he joined the Masonic Order and be- came a member of the Mansfield Lodge, No. 35, in which he is yet a member ; during his long membership in this order, he was repeatedly elected as its Secre- tary, and has been, and now is (1880), Secretary of Mansfield Chapter of Royal Arch iNIasons and the Mans- field Council of Royal and Select Masters ; he now holds the position of Recorder of the Mansfield Com- mandery. No. 21. Knights Templar. He was married in Mansfield, in June, 1850, to Miss Maria L. McCul- lough, oldest daughter of Judge David McCullough ; they were the parents of eight children, six of whom are living. Mrs. Maria Cake died in this city in 1869.

CANTWELL, AVILLIAM (deceased), was born in August, 1786, in Brooke Co., Va. He married Ann Williams, and afterward removed to Jefferson Co., Ohio, where they remained until 1820, when they removed to Richland Co. and settled on a farm two miles from Mansfield, on the Spring Mill road, where they resided almost contiuviously up to the time of the death of the wife of Mr. Cantwell, which occurred in January, 1850 ; he survived his companion, with whom he had lived over fifty years, but died in 1857. William and Anne Cantwell will be remembered by the pioneers, who still survive, very favorably and kindly, and Mrs. Cantwell will be remembered as one of extraordinary intellect- ual acquirements for one in the period of pioneer life in which she lived ; they raised a family of twelve children, eleven of whom grew up to be men and women. Thomas, the oldest, located on a farm near Olivesburg, in Richland Co., about 1820, and remained there till his death in 1868; AVilliam was accidentally killed by the fall of a tree ; Martha married Jacob George; Margaret married David Jacques; Rachel married William Williams ; Elizabeth married John

��Cary ; Jane married John Scott; Col. James married Sarah S. Ferguson; Nancy married Samuel H. Davis; John F. married Matilda Casebeer, and J. Y. married Mrs. J. C. Curtis ; they were all at one time residents of Richland Co. Only three of the family survive — Margaret Jacques, Jane Scott and J. Y. Cantwell. .James Cantwell was born in December, 1810, and hence was 10 years old when he came with his father to Richland Co.; in 1845, he responded to the call of the Government and volunteered in the military serv- ice for one year during the Mexican war; he was elected and served as First Lieutenant of the company of which McLaughlin was Captain; after the war, he represented Richland Co. two terms in the Ohio Legis- lature, and the district of which Richland forms a part, one term in the Ohio Senate. In 1859, he removed to Kenton, Hardin Co., and, at the breaking-out of the rebellion, he raised a company the second day after Fort Sumter was fired upon, and went to Columbus April 16, 1861, when his company was assigned to the 4th 0. V. I., and he was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, Louis Andrews being Colonel. In October following, he was tendered a commission as Colonel of the 82d 0. V. I., which he accepted, and recruited and organized in less time than any other three-years regiment was organized. In January, 1862, the regiment was ordered to West Virginia, and from the first was one of the most active regiments in the field ; it took part with Schenck and Milroy at the battle of Bull Pasture Mountain in May, 1862; then marched with Fremont and Seigel across the Shenan- doah Mountains and took part in the memorable cam- paign of Jackson and Banks in Shenandoah Valley ; was at the battle of Cross Keys ; then marched over the Blue Ridge and joined the Army of the Potomac ; was at the battle of Cedar Mountain. It was one of four regiments connected with Milroy's brigade, the advance guard of Pope's army in its march toward the enemy, and the rear guard on its retreat, and hence for ten successive days prior to the second battle of Bull Run the regiment was continually under fire ; it was engaged actively and in the foremost of the second Bull Run battle on the 30th 9f August, 1862, and while gallantly leading his regiment on a charge, (]ol. Cant- well was instantly killed, the ball passing in just below the left eye and out at the back part of the head. Thus fell one of the bravest of men, beloved by all the soldiers, and leaving many friends behind him ; but he died as a true soldier would choose to die, upon the field of battle, and his widow and family, who reside still in Kenton, Ohio, appreciate the sentiment inscribed by an officer upon the board that marked his tempor- ary grave upon the battle-field :

" How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest."

His family and friends revere his memory as a true and faithful husband and father, noble man and sol- dier, and a firm friend. J. Y. Cantwell was born in December, 1824, within two miles of Mansfield ; he grew up to manhood in this locality ; read medi- cine with J. W. Chandler, in Mansfield ; graduated in the spring of 1847, and practiced medicine in his native town successfully until the breaking-out of the rebellion, and entered the service of the Medical

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