History of Piqua, (Miami County) Ohio United States of America

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Joseph Claybaugh Gordon, educator, was born in Piqua, Ohio, March 9, 1842; son of the Rev. John M. and Elizabeth Ann (Fisher) Gordon; grandson of George Gordon, a soldier in the war of 1812; and a great grandson of George Gordon, a soldier in the war of the American Revolution. He removed to Illinois in 1850 and was graduated froth the Monmouth college, Ill., in 1866. He was a pioneer in America of the oral education of the deaf, and organized the oral department in the Indiana institution for the deaf in 1869. He was professor of mathematics and chemistry at Gallaudet college for the deaf in Washington. D.C., 1873-97, and was made superintendent of the Illinois institution for the education of the deaf in 1897. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Monmouth college. He was elected a member of the Philosophical and other learned societies; president of the oral section of the Association of American educators of the deaf; and first president of the XVI section (department for the deaf) of the National educational association. He is the author of Education of Deaf Children; Notes and Observations on the Education, of the Deaf and numerous articles in periodicals on the progress made in the education of the deaf.

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

Mahlon D. Manson, representative, was born at Piqua, Ohio, Feb. 20, 1820. He received a limited education and was employed as a farm laborer and afterward settled in Crawfordsville, Ind., as a druggist. He was captain in the 5th Indiana infantry in the Mexican war, 1846-47, and a Democratic representative in the Indiana legislature, 1851-52. He was captain in the 10th Indiana volunteers and became major and colonel of the regiment which he commanded in the advance of Rosecrans's brigade at the battle of Rich Mountain, Va., July 11, 1861. He commanded the 2d brigade of the army of Gen. George H. Thomas, at Mills Springs, Ky., Jan. 19, 1862, and was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in March, 1862. He was engaged in the skirmishes in front of Corinth, Miss., April and May, 1862; commanded the U.S. forces at the disastrous battle of Richmond, Ky., before the arrival of General Nelson, and opened the battle. He was wounded, taken prisoner and was exchanged in December, 1862. He commanded the Federal forces in a skirmish with Pegram in March, 1863, and during Morgan's raid in Indiana and Ohio in July, 1863. He served with Burnside in East Tennessee; was assigned to the command of the 23d army corps in September, 1863, and took part in the siege of Knoxville. He was severely wounded at the battle of Resaca, was forced to resign, and returned to Crawfordsville, where he was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor of Indiana in 1864; and subsequently for secretary of state. He was the representative from the seventh Indiana district in the 42d congress, 1871-73, and was elected auditor of the state of Indiana in 1872. He died in Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1895.

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