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 CITY OF MANSFIELD.

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��and engaged in teaching, in all three years ; came to Mansfield in March, 1863 ; read law with Henry Hedges; was in Provost Marshal's ofiSce fourteen months, also Deputy Clerk in office of Probate Judge; he was admitted to the bar in 1865, by District Court held at Bucyrus, and in United States Court in 1867, at Cleve- land ; continued in pi-actice till October, 1873, when he was appointed Cashier of the Farmers' National Bank, and continues to hold that position ; held the office of City Clerk of city of Mansfield in 1872-73. He was married, Jan. 1, 1867, to Sarah M. Larimer, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, where she has always lived.

COOK,.JABEZ (deceased). Mr. Cook was a resi- dent of Mansfield and Madison Townships for sixty years, an honest, upright citizen, well informed and possessed of social qualities of a high order ; he was born in Washington Co., Penn., July 11, 1792; came to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Madison Township in 1815, and on what has since been known as the Cook homestead, on which he remained about forty years. He was married in March, 1815, to Miss Hannah Pier- son, of Washington Co., Penn.; nine children were born to them, seven of whom are living ; James Hervey and Thomas McCurdy, the one a resident of Mansfield and the other of Sandusky City, are twins and the first children of Jabez Cook ; they were born in September, 1816 ; Alice, the third child, is a resident of Mansfield ; Emily, of Morrow Co., Ohio; Elizabeth, of Iowa City ; Mortimer and Lydia Jane, in Santa Barbara, Cal.; Abbie Ellen and Willis M., are dead. Mr. Cook removed to Mansfiell in 1854, where ,he continued to reside until his death, which occurred Feb. 6, 1875.

COOK, JAMES HERVEY, was born in Madison Township, two and a half miles south of Mansfield, in September, 1816; he received his elementary educa- tion at what is now known as the Sandy Hill School- house, and afterward at Granville, Ohio, when he returned home and worked on the farm and taught school several winters ; he came to Man?field in the winter of 1840-41, and taught a school on the corner of Fourth and Mulberry streets in the little red school- house, which the older residents will remember. He was married, March 27, 1842, to Miss Mary Ann Wiler, of this city, with whom he has raised four children ; until the year 1849, Mr. Cook was alternately engaged in teaching school, farming and buying produce; in the spring of that year, he took possession of the Wiler House, in which business he was engaged without inter- ruption ten years, and again in 1864 until 1869 ; he has always been considered one of Mansfield's best citizens, and interested in all public improvements ; he is now connected with the Richland Mutual Insurance Company as one of its officers.

COLWELL, SAMUEL B. (deceased). He was born in Southampton Township, Cumberland Co., Penn., June 12, 1810. where he worked at his trade of black- smithing, until his removal West in 1836 ; he came to Richland Co. in May, 1837, and settled in Troy Town- ship, where he took charge of a grist-mill with a brother ; he continued at this business for some time before removing to his farm west of Lexington, on which he lived until 1862, when he returned to Lexing- ton and thence removed to Iowa and entered land ; returning to Ohio, he bought a farm south of Lexing-

��ton, which he soon after exchanged for the mill prop- erty ; for five years previous to his death, he was a resident of Missouri; he died in Mansfield June 23, 1879, respected for his many good qualities of head and heart. Mr. Colwell was married in Troy Town- ship to Miss Mary Mclntire, by whom he had nine children, six of whom are living, three sons and three daughters ; James is in the employ of the Aultman & Taylor Co., and Samuel in the wholesale house of Joseph Miller.

CRAIG, J. W., M. D., physician. Dr. Craig's father, Samuel Carson Craig, was born in Beaver Co., Penn., in 1783. He was married to .lane Woods, and came to Belmont Co., Ohio, where Dr. Craig was born ; not long after, his parents came to this county, where they resided during the remainder of their lives ; his father dying Feb. 7, 1862; his mother, Sept. 18, 1875. When J. W. Craig was about 9 years of age, he went back to Belmont Co., where he lived with an uncle, a law- yer, and attended school and read Blackstone, his uncle desiring he should prepare for the profession of law ; J. W. did not fancy Blackstone to any great degree, and often reoxl medical works, evincing a desire in that direction ; when near 17 years of age, he went to Har- rison, near Cincinnati, where he continued to read medicine, and also taught school two years ; he after- ward went to this county, and, with Dr. Bricker, read medicine in the office of Dr. John Mack, of Shel- by; from there, he went to the Cleveland Medical College, where he graduated in 1851 ; April 7 of that year, he located in Ontario, where he remained in practice nineteen years ; at the end of that time, 1870. he removed to Mansfield, where he still resides. Dr. Craig was married, Jan 24, 1854, to Eliza McConnell, whose father, Hugh McConnell, was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., July 11, 1802 ; one of his sisters, born July 14, 1800, is now living, in good health, in Mansfield. He was married to Mary J. McCommon May 24, 1827 ; she was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Aug. 26, 1803 ; five years after their marriage, they came to Mansfield, and soon after bought a farm in Richland Co., where they now reside ; Dr. and Mrs. Craig are the parents of four children — Wilda, James H., Maggie and ^lay.

COPE, FRANKLIN E., was born in Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., April 4, 1807 ; immigrated to Colum- biana Co., Ohio, June 10, 1810, remained there till 1832. He was married, Nov. 12, 1833, to Jane Sweney, she was born in Washington Co., Penn., July, 1808; Mr. Cope was engaged in the hatter business in Mansfield for fifteen years, also farming ; he was among the early settlers who bore a part of the heat and burden of the severe trials of a pioneer life.

CRAIGHEAD, JAMES, Mayor of the city of Mans- field ; he was born in 1833, in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn.; came to Mansfield in 1837. Was married in 1859 to Susan White, daughter of Jonathan S. White, of Franklin Township ; they have the following children : Septimus, born in 1860, engaged in reading law with Manuel May, in Mansfield, and Charlie, born in 1864 (deceased) ; Mr. Craighead was elected Mayor of Mansfield in the spring of 1879.

CREIGH, DAVID'M. (deceased). The man whose name stands at the head of this biography died and was laid to rest in the Mansfield Cemetery, Sept. 26,

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