History of Mansfield, (Richland County) Ohio United States of America

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Frank George Carpenter, journalist, was born at Mansfield, Ohio, in 1865; son of George Frank and Jeannette (Reid) Carpenter. He was graduated at the University of Wooster (Ohio) in 1877, and in 1878 became the legislative correspondent of the Cleveland Leader at Columbus. In 1881 he travelled extensively in Europe and Egypt, and in 1882 went to Washington, D. C., as correspondent of the Cleveland Leader. Shortly after this he became connected with the American press association and the New York World. In 1888 he organized a combination of twelve leading journals for which he was to furnish one letter per week during a trip around the globe. He spent the years of 1888 and 1889 in Asia; returning to Washington, he next made a tour of Mexico for his combination of newspapers, and following this went to Russia to write up the great famine there. In 1894 he again visited Asia, sailing from America with the avowed object of travelling twenty-five thousand miles for twenty-five letters, and having what is perhaps one of the biggest newspaper assignments ever made. He spent 1898 in South America, and 1900 in the Philippines, China, Australia, New Zealand and Java. He became especially noted as an interviewer, having published interviews with the most famous of Americans, and such foreigners as the King of Corea, the King of Greece, the Khedive of Egypt, Prince Otto Van Bismarck, and others. He is the author of South America: Social, Industrial and Political (1900), and of other books of travel.

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

William Logan Harris, M.E. bishop, was born in Richland county, near Mansfield, Ohio, Nov. 4, 1817. He was educated at Norwalk seminary, and joined the Michigan conference of the M.E. church in 1837, which at this time included northern Ohio. By the subdivision of the conference in 1840, he was a member of the North Ohio conference, and in 1856 of the Central Ohio conference. In 1845 he was instructor in the preparatory department, Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio, where he remained one year and then took up the itineracy, being stationed at Toledo, 1846-47, and Norwalk, 1848. He was principal of Baldwin institute, Berea, 1848-51; professor of chemistry and natural history, Ohio Wesleyan university, 1851-60; corresponding assistant secretary of the missionary society of the church, 1860-72, and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, 1872-87. He was a delegate to the general conferences, 1856, 1860, 1864, 1868 and 1872, and at the several conferences served as secretary. He received the honorary degrees of D.D. from Allegheny college in 1856, and LL.D. from Baldwin university in 1870. He visited the mission stations of the church in Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, India, China and Japan in 1872-73. He published Powers of the General Conference, (1859); and with Judge Henry of Illinois Ecclesiastical Law (1870). He died in New York city, Sept. 7, 1887.

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

was born in London, England, November 5th, 1817. His parents were Edward W. and Jane (Armstrong) Bowesmith, his father being engaged as a banker and broker in London. After a preparatory course in the public schools of his native town, he entered in 1833 Edinburgh University, and in 1838 graduated from that celebrated institution in the literary as well as medical departments. He immediately entered the British army as Surgeon in the Light Brigade, and was subsequently transferred to the 93d Highlanders. His term of service in the army extended over a period of eight years and a half, during which time he served with ability and distinction in Russia, India and the Crimean war. In 1861 he came to Quebec, and in 1868 he located in Mansfield, Ohio, where he has since resided and been successfully engaged in his profession. His long service in India peculiarly fitted him for the successful treatment of cancers, and, though engaged in a general practice of medicine, most of his time is occupied in the treatment of cancers in their numerous and various forms. In this specialty he has acquired much skill, and his labors therein extend over a large tract of country. He has established offices in Crestline, New Haven, Ohio, Mount Vernon and Loudonville, in connection with that at Mansfield for the treatment of this disease, all of which places he attends in person at regular intervals. He was married, in January, 1867, to Isabella Sharp Eadie, of Scotch descent.

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