History of Napoleon, (Henry County) Ohio United States of America

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Lawyer and Mayor of Napoleon, Ohio, was born in Huron county, Ohio, January 28th, 1834. His parents, natives of America, were of English origin. His preliminary literary education was acquired at Oberlin College, where he was an attendant until the end of the junior year; he graduated subsequently, in 1861, at Lagrange College, Tennessee. After graduating, he accepted a superintendency of public schools at Napoleon, Ohio, and during the ensuing two years performed the duties of his trust with marked fidelity and ability. At the expiration of this time he began to apply his attention, in the same place, to the theory and practice of law. He pursued his legal studies under the supervision of Judge Morris, of Miami county, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1864. Since that time he has resided in Napoleon, Ohio, and is now the leading lawyer of the place, and the possessor of a very extensive clientage. In April, 1874, he was elected to the honorable office now filled by him, of Mayor of Napoleon. Originally well endowed by nature with sterling capacities, he has been a close reader and observer throughout his life, and valuing highly the beneficent influence of thorough culture on self and humanity, has constantly sought knowledge in all seasons and under all guises. He was married, June 11th, 1863, to Anna E. Dodd, of Napoleon, Ohio

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

Lawyer, Editor and Legislator, John Marion Haag was born, August 16th, 1836, in Union county, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Peter H. and Catharine (Conrad) Haag; his father was by profession a lawyer, and descended from a Holland family, who had been among the first settlers of New York. He was educated in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and when seventeen years old went to Ohio, and entered a printing office in Millersburg to learn the trade. He subsequently studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859, at New Philadelphia, and commenced the practice of his profession in Tuscarawas county. In July, 1862, he removed to Henry county and settled at Napoleon, where he still resides and commands an extensive line of patronage. In the spring of 1864 he became the editor of the Northwest, and conducted that journal with energy and ability for five or six years, making it the recognized organ of the Democracy of the Tenth Congressional District. In the autumn of the same year he was elected Probate Judge of Henry county to fill a vacancy, and re-elected in 1866. He has represented his district in the lower House of the General Assembly during the years 1872-75, where he was recognized as a ready and fair debater, and a formidable adversary. During the last two years of his service in that body he was Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. He has always been an active, consistent and energetic Democrat, serving his party both with his pen and voice in a manner to make warm friends, and commanding the respect of his adversaries. He is positive in everything he advances, and sometimes vehement in enforcing his views. At the bar he has a fair standing, and is recognized as among the best orators in northwestern Ohio. He enjoys at present the leading law practice in Henry county. He was married, August 17th, 1865, to Martha J. Meek, of Henry county, Ohio, and is the father of three children.

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