History of Holmes County Ohio United States of America

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James Irving Manatt, educator, was born in Oxford, Holmes county, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1845; son of Robert and Jemime (Gwin) Manatt; and grandson of Robert and Sarah (Pedlar) Manatt and of John and Elizabeth (Imbrie) Gwin. He was graduated at Iowa college, A.B., 1869, and at Yale, Ph.D., 1873, and filled the chair of Greek at Denison university, 1874-76. He then devoted a year to further study at Leipzig, returning in 1877 to become professor of Greek at Marietta college. This position he resigned in 1884 to accept the chancellorship of the University of Nebraska, where his five-years administration was signalized by unprecedented progress and prosperity. In 1889 he was appointed by President Harrison U.S. consul at Athens, and after four years of efficient public service and fruitful study there he succeeded the veteran Professor Harkness in the chair of Greek literature and history at Brown university. He was married in June, 1870, to Arletta Winifred Clark. He became a member of the American Philological society in 1874, of the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations in 1887, and of the American Social Science association in 1890. Iowa college conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1886. Dr. Manatt is the author of: Xenophon's Hellenica with Commentary (1888); The Mycen?an Age (1897), and frequent contributions to reviews and magazines.

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

Julius C. Pomerene, Attorney-at-Law, was born in Salt Creek township, Holmes county, Ohio, June 27th, 1835. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and his father was a farmer in comfortable circumstances. His is the only family of the name that has emigrated from France to America, his paternal grandfather having come to this country with General Lafayette, and at the close of the war settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He attended a district school in his native place until he was seventeen years of age, in the meantime working on a farm during the summer months. He then pursued a course of higher studies for two terms in Mount Union College, employing himself in the intermediate terms by teaching school. After passing a subsequent term in the academy at Hayesville he taught for two years in a select school in Middletown, Holmes county. In the summer of 1857 he commenced the study of law in the office of Hoagland & Reed, in Millersburg, under whose preceptorship he remained for one year. He then attended the Ohio State and Union Law College, at Cleveland, where, at the expiration of one year, he graduated in June, 1859. In the following November he entered on the active practice of his profession in Coshocton, with Colonel Josiah Given, with whom he was connected until May, 1861. He then practised alone until September, 1862, at which date he associated himself with B. S. Lee, and with him continued his professional labors until May, 1868, when the present law firm, consisting of him and E. T. Spangler, was formed. He has a leading practice in the courts of Coshocton county, and practises his profession in the Supreme Court at Columbus and in the United States Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He was married, April 8th, 1862, to Irene Perky, daughter of Dr. John F. Perky, of Findlay, Hancock county.

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

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