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��unfortunate affair at Harper's Ferry cost him his dis- missal, though he and his personal friends always in- sist he was made a " scape goat " for a higher officer's blunders. President Lincoln re-instated him, though he did not again enter the service ; he went to Wash- ington City, where he built up a lucrative practice in the law, and where he held for a while, the office of Superintendent of Public Printing ; about the year 1866, he connected himself prominently with the temperance movement in the District, and was considered one of its ablest and most eloquent advocates ; he died Feb. 29, 1868, at the age of 54 years ; all the city papers referred to his loss, and all published commendatory notices of his life and death, that were widely copied ; the various temperance orders buried him with every show of respect, in one of the city vaults, from which his remains were subsequently removed to the cemetery, in Mansfield where they now repose.

FORD, E. C, merchant. He was born in Washing- ton Township, June 8, 1856, where he resided until his removal to Mansfield in the spring of 1872, where he commenced the tinner's trade, which completing, he entered into partnership with his father (the late John Ford), and a brother, under the firm name of Ford & Sons, doing a large business in stoves and tinware ; since his father's death, which occurred Feb. 25, 1876, the firm name has been Ford Brothers. He was mar- ried in Mansfield, June 19, 1878, to Miss Ella J. Hershi- ser, daughter of Cyrus Hershiser, a well known con- tractor and builder in this city.

FORD, P. P., merchant. He was born in Mansfield, Nov. 20, 1846; his father being the late Col. Thomas H. Ford ; he received his education principally at the Monroe Seminary and at Lexington, Ohio ; during the late war, he enlisted in the 32d 0. V. I., in which he remained until the close of the war, participating in all the battles in which that regiment engaged ; after- ward resided in Washington City for some time, then returned to Richland Co., Ohio, where he has since lived. In Aug. 13, 1868, he was married to Miss Mary C. Stone, of Washington Township, by whom he has had five children — Jessie Ada, Edwin Davis, Charles Thomas (deceased), Mary H. and Emma Virda; in the fall of 1869, Mr. Ford removed to Mansfield, where he now lives and engaged in mercantile business.

FORD, S. N., Secretary of the Mansfield Building and Lumber Company. He was born in Washington Township, Richland Co., Feb. 6, 1847 ; his elementary education he received principally at the Lexington Seminary, which he attended for several years ; at the age of 18, he commenced business for himself, and in February, 1870, was employed by the Mansfield Build- ing and Lumber Association, and was elected agent of the same in the fall of 1872, which position he held until October, 1876, when he was elected its Secretary. Mr. Ford was married in Lexington, Dec. 28, 1868, to Miss Lizzie Cook, of that place, with whom he has raised two children, one son and one daughter — Hoyt and Ada.

FORD, THOMAS W., merchant. He was born in Washington Township Jan. 12,1844; he is. a son of the late Mr. John Ford, who resided in that township over forty years ; in 1862, he enlisted in Co. E, 32d 0. V. I., and served until the close of the war, after

��which he returned to Richland Co., .and was engaged in farming and teaching school for seven years previ- ous to his removal to Mansfield. He was married in September, 1868, to Miss Leah Garber, of AVashington Township ; they have one son, G. G. Ford, who was born June 27, 1869 ; after his removal to Mansfield, he was employed in the wholesale house of E. P. Sturges & Co. four years, then a partner in the stove and tin store of Ford & Sons, now Ford Brothers ; one of the best-conducted houses in that branch of business in Mansfield.

FRANZ, J. B., proprietor St. James Hotel. The subject of this sketch, the w«ll-known landlord of the St. James Hotel in Mansfield, was born in Leesville, Crawford Co., Ohio, June 24, 1841; although compar- atively a young man, he has already acquired an envi- able reputation in his special line of business, and is classed among our enterprising citizens. He was mar- ried in Delaware, Ohio, June 3, 1874, to Miss Nellie Sampsell, daughter of one of the old citizens of that place.

FRENCH, D. H., Rev., D. D., Pastor U. P. Church, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. French, who for over twelve yeara was Pastor of the United Presbyterian Church in this city, is a son of Rev. David French, who was Pastor forty-four years of the Associate Congregations of North and South BuflFalo, in Washington Co., Penn. Dr. French was born in that county ; he received his collegiate education at the Jeiferson College, Cannons- burg, Penn., where he graduated in 1857; he attended the Theological Seminary at Xenia, Ohio, and, six months after graduating there, received calls from three congregations to become their Pastor ; he accepted the call from Cannonsburg, Penn., and entered upon the discharge of his duties in March, 1861 ; after a pastor- ate of five years, he was obliged to resign on account of a threatened attack of lung disease ; about a year after his release from this charge, he was called by the congregation in Mansfield, which call he accepted, and for twelve and one-half years labored faithfully among the people here ; late in 1879, he received a call from the U. P. Church, Dayton, Ohio, which he accepted, and early in January, 1880, went to that city, where he now resides ; he received the honorary title of Doc- tor of Divinity from the Muskingum College, in the summer of 1879.

GAILEY, RICHARD, attorney-at-law. Of the two sons of Rev. Richard Gailey, the subject of this sketch is the younger, the elder being Rev. John Gailey, of the United Presbyterian Church. Richard was born May 5, 1845, in Madison, Westmoreland Co., Penn. In 1849, his father removed to this county, and first settled in Monroe Township, and subsequently removed to Lexington ; he received his education chiefly from his father in the seminary of which he was the founder; during the years 1867, 1868 and 1869, he studied law with Judge McJunkin, of Butler, Penn., where he was admitted to the bar in 1869 ; after his admission to the bar he practiced his profession in Mansfield, Ohio, until 1872, when he returned to Pennsylvania and practiced in Parker City and Pittsburgh, until the death of his father, in 1875, when he returned to Lexington, where he practiced until May 1, 1880, when he came to Mansfield and entered into copartnership with H.

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