a early life taught school. He read law until 1875 His early political law under the preceptorship of Judge teachings were such that he became Evans, of Cambridge, and was ad- free-soiler" and cast his first vote mitted to the bar September 8, 1863 for the nominees of that party. On October 6, 1874, he was admitted to the formation of the Republican practice in the United States Circuit party he became an adherent to its Court. He removed to Caldwell in principles and still remains constant the fall of 1864, and practiced here to them. He has taken an active until his decease. He died of paralyHe died of paraly-part in politics for many years and is sis, March 22, 1880. He first praca sound and effective public speaker. ticed in partnership with Hon. W. In 1863 Mr. Gibbs was elected to the H. Frazier, and, after the latter was office of probate judge and for two elected judge, formed a partnership terms fulfilled the duties of that posi- with D. S. Spriggs, which continued tion. In 1870 he went to Kansas until his death. Mr. Foreman was where he embarked largely in the considered one of the best lawyers real estate business until 1873 when in the county. He served two terms the panic brought financial disaster as prosecuting attorney, but never to him. In 1875 he returned to held any other office of prominence. Noble County and in partnership He took an active part in politics, with William Chambers engaged in and was a good stump-speaker. He the practice of law. He has since married Anna M. Summers, of Noble | had a large practice and is a very County, in 1859, and was the father successful lawyer. Judge Gibbs has of six children, who are living. been twice married - first, in 1853 to Rhoda Chamberlain, of Beverly, O., who died in 1859; and, second, in 1864 to Ada M. Tuttle. By the first marriage there was one child who died young. Three children have been borne of the second union -Mattie L., Dennis C. and Ada M. In religious belief, Jugde Gibbs is a Universalist." JUDGE DENNIS S. GIBBS is a prominent lawyer and an old resident of Noble County. He is the son of Dennis Gibbs, one of the early New England settlers of Olive Township, and was born in that township, Dec. 25, 1825. He was reared on his father's farm and shared the rough experiences of pioneer life. He re ceived such schooling as the inferior subscription schools of the early days afforded. He was editorially connected with two of the early newspapers of Noble County. He began the study of law in the office of Hon. Isaac Parrish and finished in the of, fice of Hon. W. II. Frazier. He was admitted to the bar in 1868, but did not enter upon the practice of the HON JAMES M. DALZELL, now an attorney-at-law in Caldwell, was born in Allegheny City (opposite Pittsburgh), Penn., September 3, 1838. He attended school in Allegheny, and was quite proficient in the rudiments of a common English education before he was nine years old Then his father, Robert Dalzell, re moved to Brookfield Township, and there His youth was spent like that of other boys of that day in the country, working on the farm in summer, and attending school in winter three months in the year. At sixteen he had completed the limited curriculum of that period, and having obtained a certificate set out on foot for Vinton County in the winter of 1854, and there taught his first school at $22 per month. With the proceeds he maintained himself at the Ohio University at Athens for a term, and when his money was exhausted, again resorted to "the birch;" and so alternately teaching and attending college as he could; sometimes at Sharon college, again at Oberlin, at Athens, and Washington, Pa The years flew by, and with such difficulties to en counter and overcome, in making his own way at college. When the war broke out it found him a junior at Washington College, Pennsylvania. He had also graduated from Duff's College, Pittsburgh, but the dream of his life was to finish a full classical course in old Washington; but the cherished ambition of his youth was frustrated by his enlistment as a conimon soldier in Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Here he served three years without discredit, and was promoted "Sergeant Major, for gallant and distinguished service," as his commission reads. At the close of the war returning home to Noble County, he was chosen deputy clerk of the court of common pleas, and acted in that commenced farming. capacity until July, 1866, when he was appointed to a clerkship in the United States Treasury at Washington City, which he held for two years, until he had graduated in | Columbia College and was admitted to the bar as attorney at law in June, 1868. This he achieved by night study alone, for his days were devoted to the business of his office. Nov. 29, 1867, he married Miss Hettie M. Kelley, an estimable young lady residing then at her home in Muskingum County. Together they spent a pleasant and profitable year at the Capital. But in the fall of 1868 they removed to Caldwell, Ohio, and there have resided ever since. Their union has been one of the happiest and blessed with six children, all of whom survive except James Monroe, the eldest son, a very promising youth, whose sudden death at the age of fifteen has cast a deep gloom over the household that mourns his departure. Mr. Dalzell has always contributed to the daily newspaper press, and it is probably not going too far for us to say that no name is better known than his among newspaper writers. His business for eighteen years has been that of a lawyer, in which he has been fairly successful. In 1869 he was elected prosecuting attorney and served two years; and so vigorous was his prosecution of liquor sellers that at the end of his term there was not an open saloon in his county. In 1875 he was elected to the General Assembly of Ohio, and represented Noble County so wlle In The entire body of Ohio statutory law passed through the hands of this committee for the laws were then being codified and re-enacted. 1882 he was strongly supported in the Congressional convention at St. Clairsville for the nomination to Congress. and was balloted for unsuccessfully nearly three hundred times in the most exciting contest for Congress ever witnessed in Ohio The convention broke up in confusion, without nominating any one, and then and there Mr. Dalzell retired from politics and resumed the practice of law more assiduously than ever. For many years he was on the "stump" "in various States, and in 1879 was called to Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and in 1880 to Indiana. He was in demand everywhere and was regarded one of the best stumpers in the United States. He was always a Republican. He advocated the election of every Republican candidate, both with voice and pen, from Fremont to Garfield. The confidential friend of Sumner, Frederick Douglass, James A. Garfield, Ruther ford B. Hayes, Gen. W. T. Sherman, Henry Wilson, John Sherman, O. P. Morton, Thaddeus Stevens, Schuyler Colfax and a host of their great contemporaries. Mr. Dalzell confesses to not a little pride in their letters testifying their high regard for him. As is elsewhere fully detailed in this work, Mr. Dalzell was the originator and author of the popular soldiers' reunions now held annually in all parts of the country. It is doubtful if there is a soldier in the United States who does not know "Private Dalzell" (as he is familiarly called) at least by reputation, for at the first and other reunions since established he has addressed most of them in his patriotic speeches. Besides, he has always taken a pride in all matters relating to soldiers ever since. the war, and devoted a large portion of his time and means to the furtherance of their interests not only in this but in almost every other State. He But since he quit politics and resumed the practice of the law, he has passed his time very quietly. When not engaged in the courts or at professional business elsewhere, he devotes himself to his books. is regarded as one of the first forensic orators in Ohio, and on all public occasions he is in demand. To these calls, however, he seldom responds, for he finds more pleasure and profit in the plain, plodding practice of the law and the presence of his family to whom he is doubly devoted. ALLEN MILLER came from Zanesville about the close of the war and opened a law-office in Caldwell. ile was a young man and only a brief resident. He has since gained an enviable reputation as a lawyer in Zanesville, Columbus, and elsewhere. GEO. JENNINGS, now of Woodsfield, studied law with D. S. Spriggs, and practiced in Caldwell a year or more. COLONEL WILBERT B. TETERS Served as clerk of courts in Noble County. He was the only soldier that went from the county who attained to the rank of Colonel. He was in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was admitted to the bar about 1868, but never practiced. He is now a resident of Bowlder, Colorado, and is marshal of that city. WILLIAM CHAMBERS, a leading law yer, was born in Calvert County, Maryland, in 1842. His father, William Chambers, was a sea-faring man in his early life, but afterwards, became a farmer. The subject of this notice was reared on a farm. In 1853 he came to Ohio with his par ents. His father settled on a farm in Monroe County where he died in 1866 at the age of seventy years. William lived on the farm and followed school teaching a portion of the time until 1867, when he entered upon the study of the law. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar and in 1871 began the practice of his profession in Caldwell. In 1872, on the incorporation of the village, he became its first mayor, holding the office four years. In 1875 he was elected prosecuting attorney. served one term in that office. He Mr. chambers is a Republican and has been an active worker for his party. He is a man of extensive and varied information and is thoroughly versed in the law. He was married in 1870 to Martha A., daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Phillips, of the Pittsburgh M. E. Conference. They have four | children. JOHN M. AMOS, now editor of the Cambridge Jeffersonian, was reared and educated in Noble County. He taught school in early life, studied law under Spriggs & Foreman and was admitted to the bar. After practicing law for a time he engaged in the newspaper business, building up the Democratic organ of the county and making it, for almost the first time in its history, a paying newspaper property. per property. At the same time he practiced law and took a leading part in politics. He sold out his newspaper in 1884 and removed to Cambridge. Mr. Amos was a Republican until 1871 but has since acted with the Democrats. FRED W. MOORE was born in 1845, and died in April, 1874. Hle attended attended college at Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1865- 6, and afterward studied law in the office of Hon. F. W. Wood, in McConnelsville. He was admitted to the bar at Pomeroy, Ohic, in 1871, and soon after began practice in Caldwell, in partnership with J. F. Young, Esq. In July, 1873, he became associated with John M. Amos, Esq, in the publication of the Citizen's Press, but the state of his health soon compelled him to retire from active labor. JOHN F. YOUNG, from St. Clairsville a graduate of the college at Washington, Pennsylvania, located in Caldwell, in 1871, and practiced until 1874; a part of the time in partnership with Fred W. Moore. He went to Bellaire where he practiced law several years. JAMES W. BARNES was reared at Summerfield, in this county; studied law under Hon. J. M. Dalzell, and was admitted to the bar about 1872. After his admission he practiced in short time. He is now in the government printing office at Washington, D. C. NATHAN B. WHARTON, was born in what is now Marion Township, May 10, 1844. He received such advantages for education as were offered by the district schools of that day. At the age of eight-partnership with his preceptor for a teen he enlisted in Company D. Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was a member of that command until March, 1863, when he was discharged at Carthage. Tennessee, by reason of disability contracted in the service. May 2, 1864, he again entered the service, this time as a member of Company C., One Hundred and Sixty-first Ohio National Guards. He served in this He served in this company until it was discharged from the service, at Camp Chase, September 6, 1864. On his return to his home he began the study of the law in the office of Hon. J. M. Dalzell, and was admitted to practice by the district court of Columbia County, April 26, 1871, At the October election of 1881, he was elected prosecuting attorney of Noble County, which position he filled creditably for three years. In July 1885, he was appointed special agent for the General Land Office with headquarters at St. Cloud, Minnesota. He married Miss Amelia A., daughter of Kinsey and Louisa; John, April 27, 1865, and has a family of ten children. JOHN F. YOUNG, from St. Clairsville, a graduate of the college at Washington, Pa., located in Caldwell in 1871 and practiced until 1874, a part of the time in partnership with Fred W. Moore. He went to Bellaire where he practiced law several years. JAMES M. MCGINNIS is a well-informed and prominent lawyer. He was born in Tuscarawas County in 1847, and came to Summerfield when young. He secured an education through his own exertions, attending the common schools and Mount Union college. For several years he was a successful teacher, adopting this profession to obtain means with which to pursue his studies. In February, 1865, he became a member of Company D, One Hundred and Eighty fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until mustered out the following September. From 1873 to 1878 he was principal of the Summerfield schools. He read law in the office of Spriggs & Foreman in the meantime, and was admitted to the bar He was elected prosecuting attorney in 1877, removed to Caldwell in 1878 to assume the duties of his office, and has since been in successful practice here. In 1879 he was re-elected prosecuting attorney, and held the office during another term. He was in partnership with Hon. J. M. Dalzell for five years, and is now a member of the law firm of McGinnis & Weems. Mr. McGinnis is an earnest Republican. He was married in 1879 to Miss Emma, daughter of William Peregoy. |