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��engaged as traveling salesman ; Ida Bell, Oct. 19, 18-57 ; Hatlie Emmer, Oct. 9, 1866. Residence, No. 90 East Market street.

WAGNER, C. W., druggist and practical apothecary ; at No. 32 South Main street, in the American Hotel Building, can be found the well-stocked drug and pre- scription establishment of Mr. C. AV. Wagner, who has had a practical experience in the drug business for over twenty-three years, six of which were passed in a first-class drug store in the city of New York ; Mr. Wagner is a practical apothecary, in every sense of the word, and, in the compounding of medicine, stands pre-eminent in Ohio, being the only druggist in Rich- land Co. who is thoroughly conversant with the Ger- man language; having been educated in Germany, he naturally receives the greater portion of the German trade ; he established his store six years ago, and has ever since been doing a successful business ; his scru- pulous honesty and extreme accuracy in compounding medicines secure for him a very large share of physi- cians' and private prescriptions ; he is also manufact- uring and selling extensively the following useful rem- edies : " Wagner's Compound Balaam of Wild Cherry, Horehound and Tolu," for the certain cure of coughs, colds, etc.; "The Children's Friend," the celebrated German worm-powder, very effectual and safe ;' " Wag- ner's Croup, Liver and Cathartic Pills," for liver-com- plaint, costiveness, sick headache, etc ; " Wagner's Cholera Cordial," an excellent remedy for dysentery, diarrhoea, cramp, cholera-morbus, etc. ; " Wagner's Celebrated Asthma Remedy," which gives relief in five minutes ; also, " The Farmer's Friend," without excep- tion the best horse, cattle and general stock powder now in use ; Mr. Wagner also has constantly on hand a full assortment of pure, unadulterated drugs, chem- icals, etc., and all the standard patent medicines in the market, besides a great variety of toilet and fancy arti- cles ; he is very attentive to his business, and can be found at his store at all times. C. AV. Wagner, practi- cal apothecary. No. 32 South Main street, American Hotel Building.

WALLACE & SNYDER, dentists ; they established an office in jMansfield, in November, 1879. Dr. Wal- lace located here a year or two before. They are both practical and skillful workmen ; they have built up a very extensive practice; are now taking the lead in this profession ; they have fitted up an office in very neat style, ou the west side of the park, where they can always be found to attend to all calls promptly.

WARING, GEORGE W., was born in Athens, N. Y., March 28, 1816 ; came to Ohio in 1838, and was engaged in the dry-goods trade six years in Plymouth previous to his removal to this city in 1844, when he actively engaged in the produce and commission business for a number of years ; the building now known as the Niman Foundry was erected and used by him in that trade in 1844 ; he was afterward engaged in the dry-goods trade for four years, when he pur- chased the grocery store of Stiles & Coman, the first wholesale store of that kind in the city ; for many years, he was the proprietor and landlord of the Amer- ican House, while there, he purchased and brought to this city, in 184.5, the first omnibus ever used here. He was married, March 28, 1844, in this city, to Miss

��Eliza Roop ; they are the parents of seven children, three of whom are dead.

WELDON, JAMES (deceased). The subject of this sketch, well known to all of the old residents of this county, was a direct descendant of an old and highly respectable family of Weldons living in Kent Co., Del. James Weldon was born in AVestmoreland Co., Penn., in the year 1804, and was the second son of Rolland Weldon, who removed to Ohio and located in Mansfield, on what has since been known as the McFall corner, in the year 1811. James Weldon was married, Jan. 10, 1887, to Isabella McEUroy, daughter of Alexander Mc- EUroy, near Mansfield, by the Rev. James Rolland. To them were born three children — the eldest, William H.. was born Jan. 8, 1839 ; Charles D., April 17, 1844, and the youngest, a daughter. William H. Weldon, a bus- iness man of great promise, died Dec. 11, 1868, having been engaged for a number of years in New York and Philadelphia, as well as Mansfield, in the banking business ; Charles D. is now and has been an artist of note in the East for a number of years — now a resident of New York. Isabella (McEllroy) Weldon was born in the year 1808, the third child of A. McEllroy, living two miles east of Mansfield. James Weldon was, doubtless, at the time of his death, Feb. 20, 1872, the oldest resident merchant in Mans- field ; during his long life in Mansfield, which extended over a period of sixty years, he was engaged in many enterprises and business transactions of note; a quiet, unassuming man, respected by all for his qualities of head and heart, his death was deplored. Mrs. Weldon died Wednesday, May 12, 1880, at the old homestead, which has been occupied by the family over thirty-four years.

WELDON, WILLIAM H. (deceased). In another part of this work, a brief mention is made of Mr. Wel- don, whose parents and grandparents were among the earliest settlers of this county. At the age of 14 years, he showed a more than ordinary aptitude for mercan- tile pursuits, and was placed in the Cleveland Commer- cial College, where he soon acquired that knowledge of book-keeping that was always of great benefit to him in his afier life. After his return from Cleveland, he entered the Farmers' Bank, where he was soon recog- nized as an expert accountant ; soon after, was engaged in a bank in Pittsburgh ; then in Chicago, in the bank of Purdy, Granger & Weldon ; while here, he received an appointment to a clerkship in Washington ; then to the Treasurer's office at the Mint in Philadelphia, where he was appointed a Government Paymaster. Wm. H. Weldon was married to Mary Hodge Purdy in Mans- field, Dec. 2, 1862, to whom have been born two c^iil- dren— May Churchill, born Oct. 28, 1865, and Will- iam McEllroy, born Dec. 28. 1868. After his marriage, Mr. Weldon returned to Philadelphia, where he was employed in the U. S. Mint about five years, which position he was compelled to relinquish on account of poor health, when he returned to his native town, and soon after departed this life.

WEST, SYLVESTER, was born Nov. 13, 1880, in Jeiferson Co., Ohio, near Steubenville ; came to Rich- land Co. Jan. 15, 1836, and settled near Newville; he came to Mansfield in 1842. Mr. West was married Oct. 10, 1822, in JeflFerson Co., Ohio, to Sarah Shiveley,

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