The biographical encyclopœdia of Ohio of the nineteenth century:

BIOGRAPI-IICAL ENCYCLOPZEDIA.
ening her enfeebled health. In the following year he was
a g a i n married to his deceased wife's sister, Nellie B. Douglas,
by whom he has had one child, Roswell Douglas.
interests have won for him the esteem of the general community. He was married, March ioth, I84I, to Sarah
Langlands, of Cumminisville, who died without issue, February 4th, I843; and again, October I5th, I846, to Mary
Goodnow, also of Cumminsville, by whom he has had ten
children, six of whom are now living, three sons and three
daughters.
AKEMAN, JOSEPH F., now Merchant, was born
ill Ipswich, Massachusetts, September I9th, 1812,
and was the second son of Captain Daniel Lake man and Susannah Lakeman. His father was a
prominent sea captain. From his thirteenth to
his fifteenth year he was placed out to live, and
subsequently was apprenticed to learn the trade of wagonmaking at Hamilton, Massachusetts. He finished his term
of apprenticeship in Salem, in the same State, in his twentyfirst year, and afterward-worked as a journeyman ill Boston
and Lynn, Massachusetts. Having imbibed in early life a
strong desire to make the West his home, he started in May,
I837, from Boston with Cincinnati as an objective point,
then possessing neither friend nor relative west of his native
State. Hie arrived at Cincinnati, June I ith, I837, with a
chest of tools, various articles of - clothing, and a threedollar broken bank bill of Michigan. Upon coming to
Cutnminsville he formed the acquaintance of E. Knowlton,
who assisted him greatly in his business relations, and was
instrumental in aiding him to erect a wagon shop, the only
one then in existence at this place, on what is now the northeast corner of Spring Grove avenue and Ludlow street. At
the opening in I85I of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Railroad he was appointed Agent of Cumminsville station,
and albout the same time officiated as Postmaster, which
positions he held for thirteen years, when he resigned both.
During that time he held the office also of Trustee of Cumminsville Special Road District for a period of two years,
and later was for six years Clerk in the same body. He
was also elected Trustee of Mill Creek township, serving
two years; and later was elected Clerk of the same township, and served in this capacity for ten years. The latter
office made him also Clerk of the Mill Creek Township
School Board, and for two years he was Supervisor of its
schools. In those days great energy and activity were
needed to insure the successful establishment there of
schools, and he was a prime mover in having established in
I852 a special school district, serving successively as Director, President, Clerk and Treasurer, with but two intervals of one year each, for a period of eighteen years. In
I863 he was elected a Director of the Hamilton County Infirmary, and served six years; he was also Clerlk of the Board.
In 1872 he was again elected to the samne office, and served
for a further period of three years. In I869 he was elected
Mayor of the incorporated village of Cumminsville, a position
which he occupied during the ensuing three years. At the
present time he is engaged in the paint and wall-paper
business in Ctmminsville, where his integrity of character i iou ed ut on a
and generous interest in the local religious and educational. xiaino hc ieh eundt ohco,adi
a aLAMES, ELIAS WILLIAM, Attorney-at-Law, was
born in East Union, Coshocton county, Ohio,
h February iyth, 1837. His parents, who are still
living, are natives also of Ohio. His father has
D'7 followed through life agricultural pursuits. His
preliminary education "-as obtained in a common
school located in the vicinity of his home. He then pursued a higher course of study in the following educational
institutions: the academy, at West Bedford, one year; the
college, at Oberlin, Ohio, one year; after which he attended
the Spring Mountain Academy (for a time); and then went
to Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, which
institution he left in I859. Until he had attained his seventeenth year he was engaged in farm labor. At the termin a -
tion of his sojourn in the last-name d place he returned t o
his horne, and found employment in teaching in the High
School, West Carlisle, Coshocton county, for a term of n ine
mont hs, after which lie a pplied himself to the study of law
under the guidance o f Nichola s & Wi lliams, well-known
practitioners of his native county. In August, I86I, he entered the Union service as a private in Company K of the
32d Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for the term of
three years. He was then appointed Orderly Sergeant; in
January, I862, was appointed by the Governor to a Second
Lieutenancy, and in the course of the same year was promoted to the rank of Captain. During the fall and winter
of I863 he acted as Judge Advocate of the 3d Division,
I7th Army Corps, at Vicksburg, and held this office until
his regiment returned to the North and was reorganized,
acting with General Leggett's division. He served three
months longer than the term of his enlistment, and then re signed only on account of the sickness of two sisters, who
died shortly after he reached home in the fall of I864. He
participated in the following battles and engagements: those
of western Virginia, under Fremont, including Cross Keys;
of the Vicksburg campaign, licheni be was engaged for'a
time on staff duty; and of Sherman's campaign, in the ad vance on Atlanta and at the actions before that place. After
the capture of Atlanta he resigned his position in the army
and returned to Coshocton, Ohio, where he resumed the
study of law under his former preceptor s. He was admitted
to the bar in Carrollton, Ohio, in I867, after having taken a
law course at the Michigan University, graduating in the
class of I867. He first located in his profession at Kansas
City, Missouri, where he resided about fohr months, at the
expiration of which time he returned to Coshocton, and in
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