The biographical encyclopœdia of Ohio of the nineteenth century:

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA.
firiends and fellow-citizens, with whom he always lived upon
most excellent terms. His habits were sedentary, and his
passion, books of every description, giving preference to
historical and works on general literature, rather than to
those on purely scientific subjects. He retained his love
for and mastery of the ancient languages to the last, and
felt the deepest interest in the education of his sons. His
wife was a lady of cultivated and literary tastes. She was
a member of the First Presbyterian Church, of which Rev.
Joshua I,. Wilson was pastor. The entire labor of managing
and caring at home for her family of eight children rested
upon her, and heavily taxed her strength. She was a
woman of sincere piety, inspired by an ardent and lasting
love for her husband and children. Mr. Corry, whose
health had been for some years declining, died in Cincinnati on the anniversary day of his birth, December I 6th,
I833, having reached the age of fifty-five. His widow survived him for nearly twenty years, dying in September,
I852, and both lie together in Spring Grove Cemetery.
The character of Mr. Corry, judged by his walk in life, was
that of an upright, intelligent man; courteous in his manners, generous in his impulses, retiring in public affairs, but
enjoyable in social intercourse with his friends; devoted
to his family and to the welfare and progress of the city of
Cincinnati and the country at large.
began life on his own resources as a bla cksmith, and during
the ensuing period of fourteen years he was constantly and
assiduously employed at his trade. In I847 he purchased.
a farm in USnion township, Butler county, Ohio, where be
was engaged in agricultural operations for about seven
years. This farm he disposed of by sale in I854, and later
bought a fresh farming tract in Sycamore township, HIamilton county, where he has since resided. In I86o he began
the practice of magnetic healing; and from this date down
to the present timle has been occupied in attending to the
duties embraced in pathetising or magnetic healing.
Through life he has been a close reader and a keen observer of men and events; is very liberal in his religious
and political views; has always evinced a zealous interest
in the advance of educational reform. Politically he is attached to the Republican party. He was married in I836
to Roda Ryan, a daughter of William Ryan, an early settler
and prominent farmer of Hamilton county, Ohio. She
died, May I6th, I844, leaving issue of five children. He
was again married, November ioth, I844, to Ann E. Elsworth, a native of Pennsylvania, daughter of William Elsworth, one of the pioneers of Hamilton county, and for
forty years a prominent educator of this section of the State.
(OLLOWAY, GENERAL EPHRAIM S., Repre sentative in the Sixty-first General Assembly of
Ohio, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio,
July 27th, I833, being the son of John and Lydia
(Drysonl) Holloway, the former of whom followed
the occupation of a farmer. His family were
among the earliest settlers of the State, his parents having
both been born in the same county as himself. His father's
family ca me from Loudon ca f ountty, Virginia, and his mother's
from Redstonwe, Pennsylvania. Bot h his p aternal an d maternal grandpa rents settled in Columbia na county in in I8OI,
when Ohi o was incorporated in wha t was t hen known as
the Northwes t Territory. John Dryson, his m aternal grandfather, was one of tlhe original surveyors of Ohio. General
Holloway was educated in the commaon schools of his
county, and fol lowed the occupation of a farmer until I857,
when he embarked as a builder, and remained thus engaged
unt il I86I. In October of that year he enlisted, raising a
company of volunteers, of which, upon its organization, he
was made First Lieutenant. He served four years and
three months in the army, in active s ervice, par ticipating in
all of the engagements with w hich his re gime nt participated, including all of those of the Army of the Cumberland, the Army of the Ohio, under General Buell, the army
under General'Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, and
under General Thomas in the Nashville campaign. On
September 8th, I862, he was promoted to Captain; November 6th, I864, to Major; March 6th, I865, to LieutenantColonel, and May Ist of the same year to Colonel. On the
(UNT, JAMES C., Physician and Agriculturist, was
(W born in Sycamore township, Hamilton county,
Ohio, December 25th, I814. He was the fourth
i child in a family of twenty-one children, whose
parents were Isaac Hunt and Hannah (Carpen ter) Hunt. His father, a native of Somerville,
New Jersey, followed through life the occupations of
farmer, speculator and trader. He moved to Ohio at an
early date, I790 or thereabout, and settled near Shakertown, Warren county, whence he afterward removed to
Sycamore township, Hamilton county, and there purchased
a farm, on which he resided until the date of his decease,
in the meantime alternating his labors as a farmer with
numerous trips to the Southern States as a trader and
speculator. He was widely known as a valuable and
public-spirited citizen, and during his residence in Hamilton county held various offices of trust and importance.
Ill all, he made thirty-two trips by land from his home to
New Orleans, Louisiana, and about thirty-fouir by flat-boat
down the rivers. His death occurred in I852. His mother
also was a native of New Jersey, and at an early day moved
with her father, James Carpenter, to Ohio, settling at
Columbia with a blockhouse for a home-where the
family constituted the earliest settlers of that portion of
Hamilton county. His early education was limited in
degree and kind, and was obtained at the ordinary schools
of frontier settlements. At the age of twenty-one years he
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