History of Hamilton County Ohio United States of America

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John Smith, senator, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, in 1735. He was mainly self-educated, prepared for the ministry and was the first pastor of the First Baptist church in Columbia, Ohio, in 1790. He was a member of the 1st and 2d territorial legislatures, 1799?1803; and was elected as a Democrat one of the first U.S. senators from the state of Ohio, drawing the long term and serving from April 21, 1803, until his resignation, Feb. 23, 1808. In 1804 he was sent by President Jefferson on a special mission to Louisiana, and was afterward charged with having been connected with the conspiracy of Burr, his personal friend, and Blennerhasset. Although the motion made to expel him from the senate failed by one vote, He immediately resigned his seat in that body and Return Jonathan Meigs completed his term. See "Notes on Northwestern Territory," by Jacob Burner (1847), He died in Hamilton county, Ohio, June 10, 1816.

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

Judson Harmon, cabinet officer, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, Feb. 3, 1846: son of the Rev. B. F. and Julia (Bronson) Harmon; grandson of David and Delia (Overton) Harmon of Jefferson county, N.Y., and a descendant of John Harmon, one of the founders of Springfield, Mass. He was graduated from Denison university in 1866, and in law at the Cincinnati college in 1869. He was judge of the court of common pleas in 1876 and of the superior court of Cincinnati 1878-87, and U.S. attorney-general in the cabinet of President Cleveland from June 8, 1895 to March 4, 1897. He was a member of the law faculty of the University of Cincinnati, president of the Ohio bar association 1897-98, and received the degree of LL.D. from Denison in 1892. After the close of President Cleveland's administration Judge Harmon resumed the practice of law in Cincinnati.

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

Merchant, was born, October 11th, 1832, in Hamilton county, Ohio, of American parentage; his family were among the earliest settlers of Ohio, a great-grandfather being one of the pioneers of the State. He received a liberal education in Farmer's College, Hamilton county, where he remained until nineteen years of age, and then engaged in teaching. He subsequently returned to the farm, continuing there until he was appointed, in 1854, a clerk in the County Auditor's office, holding that position for five years. In 1859 he engaged in the manufacture of a patent match, which he continued until 1861, when, in consequence of the civil war, his principal trade being with the South, he relinquished it. He was subsequently employed in a clerical capacity with one of the leading mercantile houses of the city until 1867, when he established the firm of W. B. Kennedy & Co., and engaged in the merchandise commission business, in which he has since continued. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, also of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. In the order of Odd Fellows he was, from 1866 to 1869 inclusive, a representative to the Grand Lodge of Ohio; and a representative to the Grand Encampment from 1867 to 1870 and 1872 to 1875, in all eight years, over which latter body he now presides as Most Worthy Grand Patriarch. He was a charter member of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of Ohio, supreme representative from Ohio to the Supreme Lodge of the World, 1870 to 1872, both inclusive, and was elected an officer (S. G.) of the latter body, and served in 1873 and 1874.

From: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.

John M. Scudder, Physician, Lecturer on Medicine, Author and Editor, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, September 8th, 1829. Losing his father at an early age he was thrown upon his own resources for sustenance and education, so that the business of his life was not actively commenced until he had reached the age of twenty-six. He was educated at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and received his professional instruction at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, being appointed to a professorship in the latter in the year following his graduation, which occurred in 1856. Since then he has held a prominent place as a teacher, having filled the chairs of Anatomy, Obstetrics and Diseases of Women, of Pathology and Practice of Medicine. As an author he has been extremely successful, having published the following works: "A Practical Treatise on Diseases of Women" (1858); "Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (1860); "The Eclectic Practice of Medicine" (1864); "On the Use of Inhalation" (1865); "Domestic Medicine" (1866); "The Principles of Medicine" (1867); "Diseases of Children" (1869); "Specific Medication" (1871); "On the Reproductive Organs and the Venereal" (1874); "Specific Diagnosis" (1874). In addition to this large amount of literary work he has edited and published The Eclectic Medical Journal since 1862. He has by his unexampled industry accumulated quite a large fortune, and is through it enabled now to retire from the more arduous duties of his exacting profession. He owns the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, and is its manager as well as one of its lecturers. He has raised this institution to high position among the scientific schools of the country, and its large and steadily increasing alumni, scattered throughout the land, carry in the thoroughness of their practice the best commendation of its unexcelled excellence. Few writers have accomplished so much in the dissemination of medical lore as Dr. Scudder. His works are regarded as authorities, and have attained a very large sale. He is a member of most of the eclectic societies of the United States, and is still ceaselessly active in the study of the constantly developing science of medicine.

From: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.

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