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��the Censors of the Medical Department of the Wooster University, and is also a Trustee of his alma mater ; in the winter of 1876, he was appointed by Gov. Hayes one of the Board of Trustees of the Central Ohio In- sane Asylum ; he is a member of the American Medi- cal Association, and also of the Ohio State Medical Society, and has at various times contributed to the literature of his profession.

MITCHELL, WILLIAM, surgeon dentist ; was born in Weller Township May 1, 1841, and came with his parents to this city in 1846 ; he received his elementary education in the public schools he was a member of the first class that graduated in the Mansfield High School, he afterward completed his studies at the Dela- ware University ; in 1860, he began the study of den- tistry and graduated at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in Philadelphia in 1863 ; he practiced his profession for a number of years in this city and Gallon, Ohio ; he was employed by the publishers of this work as a biographical writer, and he collected many of the portraits of the early settlers that appear therein. He was married May 15, 1872, in Mansfield, to Miss Sallie Strickler ; they are the parents of four children — George Frank, Charles Wesley, M. Eugene and Sallie.

MOWRY, .JOHN N., physician and surgeon ; was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., March 2, 1824, the second son of Daniel and .Jane Wiley Mowry, of Western Penn- sylvania, of German-Scotch descent ; after receiving his elementary education in Pittsburgh, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. R. B. Mowry, of that city, and afterward attended lectures and graduated at the .Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, March 9, 1850; in the fall of 1852, he removed to Mansfield, having previously practiced in Allegheny City for two years; he was appointed surgeon of the 0. & P. and the P., Ft. W. & C. R. R., which positions he held for twenty-four years ; he entered the army as assistant surgeon of the 15th 0. V. I., and was at the first battle of the war, Philippi, W. Va.; then he was appointed surgeon of the 32d 0. V. I.; then discharged after eight months' service, for disability ; he then returned to Mansfield, then Gov. Tod telegraphed him to meet Surg. Gen. Webber, in Cincinnati, and proceed at once to Pittsburg Landing for the relief of the wounded ; after his return, he was appointed Surgeon of the 86tli 0. V. I., and remained until expiration of service; he then resumed the practice of his profession in Mans- field, where he resided until 1875, when he removed to Tiffin, Ohio ; not liking it, he returned to this city in 1877, Where he has since resided. Dr. Mowry was married, Sept. 7, 1854, to Miss Elisebeth Sherman Park- er, who died April 16, 1855 ; he was again married, Nov. 25, 1856, to Miss Mary L. Armentrout, by whom he raised five children; she died Jan. 10, 1872; he was married in Tiffin, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1874, to Mrs. Ellen J. Graham, of that city ; the Doctor has always taken an active interest in the prosperity of the city, and sub- scribed liberally to all the railroads, and was active in securing the location of the Aultman & Taylor Co.'s shops in Mansfield.

MURPHY, JOHN A., farmer ; was born in Madison Township July 7, 1850, and received his elementary education in District No. 3. He was married in the

��spring of 1877, since which time he has resided in this

city.

NEWLON, J., groceryman ; was born in this county in 1828. He was married in 1855, to Sarah Shoup, who was born in Wood Co., Ohio, in 1834; they have two children — Harmon D., born in 1856, and Williard B., in 1859. Mr. Newlon is engaged in the grocery business in this city in company with R. C. McFarland.

NEWMAN, ANDREW S. (deceased). He was born March 1, 1811, in Richland Co., in the Newman cabin, on the Rocky Fork, near the present site of Campbell's mill. A short time after his birth, his father, .Jaeob Newman, removed to Mansfield, and thenceforth An- drew continued to reside there ; in the fall of 1812, be and his mother were sent to the block-house, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and, while at this place of comparative safety, his brother, Joseph, was born ; when the army passed through Mansfield in 1813, under the command of Gen. Crooks, his father was requested, by the com- manding officer, to act as guide through the wilderness, and during this expedition he contracted the disease which terminated his life shortly after his return ; though thus early deprived of his father, in his sur^ viving parent he was abundantly compensated ; his mother was a woman of very extraordinary ability, and while she devoted herself to her children and their wel^ fare, she was universally beloved by her neighbors ; the native good sense and sound judgment which so characterized him as to make him a man of mark in the community, he inherited largely from his mother ; his early intellectual advantages were meager, but, possessed of good natural abilities, with only such assistance as a winter school in a log cabin afforded, and with a thirst for reading, he became one of the best-informed men in the country ; he was a man of strong convic^ tions, and singularly gifted with the power to express them, had little reverence for place and position, but warm charity for the lowly and oppressed ; he was possessed of a most excellent judgment of men and af- fairs, and always regarded a wise counselor. He was married, April 2, 1839, to Eliza A. Armentrout, who bore him two children, Mary S. and Harriet (who died in infancy). His wife died July 3, 1855, leaving an only child, the late Mary N. Cummins, so well and fa- vorably known in this community. In 1841, he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and ever afterward led a consistent Christian life. After a brief illness of typhoid pneumonia he died, Jan, 31, 1872.

NEWMAN, MICHAEL (deceased). He was born in New Holland, Lancaster Co., Penn., in 1785; he came to Ross Co., Ohio, about 1800, and in 1806, he was married to Elizabeth Copsey, who was a descendant of the family of the Longs, in England ; he came to this county, as is shown by the history, in April, 18r.8, and settled at Beam's (now Campbell's) Mill ; he lived a year or two in his brother Jacob's cabin, and then moved across the creek, near the mill, into a cabin that was built by Moses Fountain, who probably aided in building the mill on which Mr. Newman worked in the summer of 1808 ; he next moved to Section 16 in Madi- son Township, where he resided until after Hull sur- rendered Detroit, Aug. 16, 1812; it was about this time that troubles with the Indians arose, and as it was not

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