History of Athens, (Athens County) Ohio United States of America

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Earl Cranston, M.E. bishop, was born at Athens, Ohio, June 27, 1840. He descended paternally from Gov. John Cranston (1626-1680), and maternally from James Montgomery, an early immigrant to Ohio from Ireland. He received his preparatory education from his stepfather, J. W. Longborn of Jackson, Ohio, and in 1861 was graduated from Ohio university. In the same year he enlisted in the Union army and was appointed 1st sergeant and then1st lieutenant of Company C, 3d Ohio volunteer infantry. He was subsequently commissioned adjutant of the 1st battalion, 2d West Virginia cavalry, and finally captain of the 60th Ohio volunteers. He served until June, 1863, leaving the service on account of broken health. He began the study of the law but in 1867 entered the ministry, uniting with the Ohio conference of the M.E. church. He served charges in Marietta, Portsmouth, Columbus, and Cincinnati, Ohio; Jacksonville, Ill.; Evansville, Ind.; and Denver Col.; and was for four years presiding elder in the Rocky Mountain country. He was one of the founders and promoters of the Denver university; was elected a manager of the Western Methodist .book concern in 1884, 1888 and 1892; became treasurer and member of the managing board of the Freedmen's aid and southern education society, and treasurer of the M.E. church (at large). He was a trustee of the Ohio university from 1888, received the degree of A.M. from that institution in 1866, and that of D.D. from Allegheny college, Pa., and Cornell college, Iowa, in 1381. In 1896 he was elected and consecrated as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church and was stationed at Portland, Ore.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Harlan Hoge Ballard, educator, was born at Athens, Ohio, May 25, 1853. He was educated at the Detroit, Mich., high school, and at Williams college, Mass., from which institution he was graduated as A.B. in 1874, and later received the degree of A.M. In 1875 he became principal of the Lenox (Mass.) high school, holding the position five years, and resigning to accept that of principal of the Lenox academy, where he remained from 1880 to 1886, when he was made librarian of the Berkshire athen?um. In 1875 he founded and became president of the Agassiz association, an organization which spread from a school in Lenox to every part of the world. Professor Ballard was elected secretary of the Berkshire historical society and a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He edited the Swiss Cross and the Observer, and is author of "Three Kingdoms"; a "Handbook of the Agassiz Association "; "Open Sesame "; "Handbook of Blunders designed to Prevent 1,000 Common Blunders in Writing and Speaking" (1885); "The World of Matter. A Guide to the Study of Chemistry and Mineralogy" (1892); and with S. Proctor Thayer, "The American Plant Book ," (1879).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Charles Cardwell McCabe, M.E. bishop, was born in Athens, Ohio, Oct. 11, 1836; son of Robert and Sarah Cardwell (Robinson) McCabe and grandson of Robert McCabe, who emigrated from Ireland and settled in Tyrone county, Pa., and of Richard and A. (Cardwell) Robinson of England. He attended the public schools of Athens, and the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio, but left before completing the course on account of ill health. He was married, July 5, 1860, to Rebecca Peters of Ironton, Ohio. He was a teacher of the High school at Ironton, 1860-61; pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Putnam, Ohio, 1861-62; chaplain of the 122d Ohio volunteers, 1862-63; pastor at Portsmouth, Ohio, 1865-68; secretary of the Church Extension society of the M.E. church, 1868-84; secretary of the missionary society of the M.E. church, 1884-96, and was chosen a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal church in 1896.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

David Hastings Moore, M. E. bishop, was born in Athens, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1838; son of Eliakim Hastings, and Amy (Barker) Moore; grandson of David and Dolly (Hastings) Moore, and of Michael and Isabella (Harper) Barker, and a descendant of Thomas Hastings, who came from Suffolk, England, to Watertown, Mass., 1634. He attended the public schools of Athens, and was graduated from the Ohio university, A.B., 1860, A.M., 1863. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1860. In 1862, he volunteered in the Federal army; was promoted captain in the 87th Ohio volunteers, and major and lieutenant-colonel of the 125th Ohio volunteers. At the close of the war he reentered the ministry. He was president of Cincinnati Wesleyan college, 1875-80; president of the Colorado seminary, and chancellor of the University of Denver, 1880-89, and was elected professor of political economy in the University of Colorado in 1889. He edited the Western Christian Advocate, 1889-90. He was elected a bishop in May, 1900, and was assigned to Eastern Asia, with his residence in Shanghai, China. He married, June 21, 1860, Julia Sophia, daughter of Cephas and Maria Theresa (Hawkes) Carpenter. Of his children, Eliakim Hastings Moore , became professor at the University of Chicago; William Augustus Moore, M.A., LL.B., professor of law at the Denver University law school; and Alfred Truman Moore, A.M., LL.B., city editor of the Cincinnati Post. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the Ohio Wesleyan university in 1875, that of LL.D., by Mount Union college in 1896, and by the University of Denver in 1899.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor