History of Cadiz, (Harrison County) Ohio United States of America

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John A. Bingham, representative, was born at Mercer, Pa., in 1815. He was educated at Franklin college, stndied law, and in 1840 began tO practise. In 1846 he was district attorney for Tuscarawas county, Ohio, holding the office for three years. In 1854 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the 34th Congress and was reelected to the 35th, 36th and 37th congresses. In the impeachment trial of Judge Humphreys for high treason on May 22, 1862, Mr. Bingham acted as chairman of the managers of the house. He failed of election to the 38th Congress, declined an appointment by President Lincoln as United States district judge for the southern district of Florida, and, in 1864, accepted the appointment as judge-advocate in the Federal army, and later in the same year that of solicitor in the court of claims. When the conspirators against the lives of President Lincoln and the members of his cabinet were tried, he was special judge-advocate. In 1864 he was elected a representative to the 39th Congress, and was re-elected to the 40th, 41st and 42d congresses, serving until March 3, 1873. He was one of the managers in the impeachment' trial of President Johnson. He was appointed minister to Japan by President Grant, serving 1873-85. He died at Cadiz, Ohio, March 19, 1900.

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

David Ramsey Kerr, educator, was born at Cadiz, Ohio, March 2, 1850; son of James and Julia (Carrick) Kerr; grandson of Samuel and Jane (Smith) Kerr; great grandson of James and Agnes (Carrick) Kerr and a descendant of John and Martha Kerr, who settled near Gettysburg, Pa., about 1740. He was graduated from Franklin college, New Athens, Ohio, in 1874, studied for the ministry at Western Theological seminary, Allegheny, Pa., 1876, and was pastor at Mercer, Pa., and at Omaha, Neb., 1876-90. He was president and professor at Bellevue college, University of Omaha, 1890-91, and in 1891 was elected chancellor of the university, continuing to occupy the chair of philosophy. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Omaha in 1889 and that of D.D. from Franklin college and the University of Omaha in 1891.

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

William Henry Holmes, anthropologist, was born near Cadiz, Harrison county, Olde, Dec. 1, 1846; son of Joseph and Mary (Heberling) Holmes; grandson of Joseph and Sara (McNab) Holmes and of Mary and John Heberling. He was educated at the McNeely normal school in his native county, where upon his graduation in 1870 he was made instructor in zo?logy, physical geography and drawing. In 1870 he became associated with the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., as draughtsman in he department of paleontology. In the spring of 1872 he was appointed artist to the Hayden exploring expedition and passed the summer in the Yellowstone country, devoting much the to the study and illustration of geologic phenomena and acquiring proficiency in the departments of structural and stratigraphic geology. In 1872, 1873 and 1874, he assisted Dr. Hayden in the geological survey of Colorado. In 1875 he was placed in charge of the San Juan division of the survey and made a report upon the geology of southwest Colorado and parts of the adjacent territories. While conducting this work he explored and reported upon the ancient cliff and pueblo ruins of that region. The field season of 1876 he occupied in making a geologic reconnaissance of western Colorado, and he devoted the following year to a study of the geology of Yellowstone national park. Pending the reorganization of the various government surveys in 1879, he visited Europe and in the following year joined Capt. C. E. Dutton in the survey of the Kaibab section of the Grand Ca?on of the Colorado. Having been placed at the head of the illustrations division of the geologic survey, he then spent several years in Washington engaging in archaeologic work and filling the position of curator of the department of aboriginal pottery in the National museum, 1882-93. In 1883 he visited Mexico for the purpose of making archaeologic investigations, and in 1889 he resigned from the geologic survey and had charge of the archaeological field work of the bureau of ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-93. His most important work in this connection was the investigatian of the quarrying and mining industries of the aborigines and of the associated manufacture of stone implements. He was appointed non-resident professor of archaeologic geology in the University of Chicago in 1893 and curator of anthropology in the Field Columbian museum, Chicago, in 1894. In 1897 he resigned the latter position to accept the head curatorship of anthropology in the National museum, Washington. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1882 and a member of the Anthropological society of Washington, D.C. His publications consist of numerous geological reports and papers upon archaeologic subjects.

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