The biographical encyclopœdia of Ohio of the nineteenth century:

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA.
UINN, JOHN JAMES, M. D., was born, June
5th, I826, in Philadelphia, his parents being
natives of the north of Ireland. At an early age
he came with them to Cincinnati, and soon after
e n t e r e d St. Xavier's College, where he gradu a t ed with honor. After the completion of his
c o l l e g i a t e course he commenced the study of medicine
under the private preceptorship of the late Dr. I. P. Harrison, Professor of Materia Medica in the Medical College
of Ohio. He attended regular courses for four years, fulfilled all the requirements of the Ohio Medical College ill
Cincinnati, and took his degree of M. D. at the age of
twenty-two years. While studying in the office of Professor
-Iarrison and attending medical lectures, he filled for two
years and a half the chair of Chemistry and Natural Philosolphy in St. Xavier's College. IIe has occupied the
offices of City Physician, Jail Physician, Pest House Physician, Medical S uper intendent of the Hamilton County
Lunatic Asylum, and has been a member of the medical
staff of both St. Joln's and St. Mary's Hospitals. He has
enjoyed a very large and remunerative private practice,
during the l eisure moments of which he ha s written a
numb er of articles on medical and literary topics for
various journals th roughout th e country. ole has always
been promi nent in the deliberations of the local medical
socie ties. At a meeting of the regular medical profession,
held at MechanLics' Institute, in I853, he was appointed as
one of the comm itte e to look into the condit ion of the
lunatics then in the old Commercial Hospital. His report,
as chairma n of th is committee, led to the immediate establishment of a temporary county asylum at Lick Run, and
subs equently to the er ection of the p ermanent institution at
Long View. He was for eight year s on e of the trus tees of
the Cincinnati Hospital; was also one of the commissioners
selected to build the new hospital, and acted as; the Secretary of the latter Board and as a member of its Building
Committee. The records of this institution place him very
high in the estimation of his associates. Twice was he
commissioned by the county and city authorities to visit the
humanitarian institutions of the Eastern States, to examine
and report upon their sanitary advantages, with a view to
their incorporation in the plans of Long View and the Cincinnati Hospital. In i866, when the city was threatened
with cholera, and no sanitary board or health officer ",as in
existence to devise methods of protection, the trustees of
the hospital, one of whom was Dr. Quinn, together with a
Committee of the City Council, were constituted a Board
of Health for the time. No phy sician exerted himself with
greater zeal than he to prepare the city for the coming
scourge and to mitigate its ravage~s. In the following year,
by act of the Legislature, a permanent health department
was established ill that city, and the position of Health
Officer created. Dr. Qulinn became its second incumbent,
and has recently been elected to his third term of service.
He has perfected the department, and in all its essentials it
compares most favorably with that of any other large city.
In 1852 he was married to M. L. Slevin, of Cincinnati.
He is in the prime of life, possesses an active temperament,
and continues his researches in medical science.
ERRON, JOHN WILLIAMSON, Lawyer, was
(~) born of Scotch-Irish lineage, on May iotlh, I827,
Be][ in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. In I84I,
Q )'~ when fourteen years of age, he removed to
- Chillicothe, Ohio, and resided there in the family
of his uncle, Dr. David Wills. From this period
until eighteen years of age he was a student at the academy
in Chillicothe, under the charge of William D. Wesson.
In September, I843, he entered the junior class of Miami
University, and there graduated in I845. From this date
until May, I848, he studied law with Thurman & Sherer,
at Chillicothe, when he,was admitted to the bar by the
Supreme Court of Ohio, at Cincinnati. In the succeeding
July he settled in Cincinnati, where he now resides, and
has ever since continued there the practice of his profession. The first two years he was alone; from I850 to
Ja nua ry 1st, I854, was in partnership with Rufus King and
Charles Anderson, under the firm-name. of King, Anderson
& Ilerron. From I854 to the present time he has been a
partner with J. C. Collins. On the 7th of March, I854, he
was married to Harriet A. Collins, of Lowville, New York,
a sister of his partner. Mr. Herron has been a member
of the Board of Education of Cincinnati four yea-rs, and
was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Ohio of
I873-74, in which body hlie was a member of the Committees on the Judiciary Department, Private Corporations
and of Revisions.
m INSMAN, JUDGE JOHN, a Soldier of the War
o d for Independence, was born, May 7th, I753, in
New London county, Connecticut, and was a
u son of Jeremiah and Sarah (Thomas) I(insman.
The family is of English extraction, Robert
Kinsman, the founder of the American branch,
having emigrated from Wiltshire, in i634, and settled ill
Ipswich, Massachusetts. Mrs. Kinsman, the mother of
Judge Kinsman, was a sister of General Thomas, a commanding officer in the Revolutionary army. On the outbreak of that memorablle contest between America and
Great Britain, Judge Kinsman entered the colonial army
as Ensign. He was present and participated in the battle
of Long Island, where he was captured, and for a while
thereafter was confined in the notorious prison ships in
New York bay. Afterwards he succeeded in obtaining the
liberty of the city, on parole, where lie learned something
of the hatting business, and after being exchanged engaged
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