The biographical encyclopœdia of Ohio of the nineteenth century:

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCVCLOPAEDIA.
and was professionally engaged in this connection until
September Ist, I87I. In the following October he was
elected Auditor, on the Republican ticket, and was reelected in I873. Ile has acted also as a member of the
City Council. He is widely known as a political speaker,
and in various campaigns has canvassed his county and
district. He has also frequently been a delegate to Republican State conventions and to Congressional conventions,
in which he has uniformly taken a prominent position.
He was married, June 23d, I869, to Jennie M. Eagleson,
formerly a resident of Harrison county, Ohio.
OGERS, ISAIAH, Architect, was born in the
town of Marshfield, Massachusetts, August I7th,
c~U | xl I8oo. He was a son of Isaac Rogers, a promi Ji nent shipbuilder of that town, who succeeded
his father in the business, also a leading ship builder of his day. The family is descended in
a direct line from John Rogers, the martyr of Smithfield,
who perished February 4th, I555, and John Rogers, one
of the Pilgrim Puritans of the "Mayflower." His early
and elementary education was received in the country
schools located near his home. On account of the limited
facilities then offered for a thorough training, the course of
studies he was able to pursue was neither varied in kind
nor satisfactory in degree. But by close and careful study
in after life he acquired a valuable fund of information on
a vast variety of subjects and an acutely intelligent appreciation of the utilities and beauties of science. He comoaeenced life upon a farm, but his natural mechanical tastes
unfitted him for that occupation, as then practised, and led
him to enter into an apprenticeship under Captain Shaw,
then successfully carrying on the business of carpentry in
Boston. This step met with the opposition of several of
his friends and relatives, who offered him extraordinary inducements to remain on the farm with them. But, animated by an inflexible spirit of independence, he started on
foot for Boston, carrying with him his personal effects.
His connection with Captain Shaw was sustained until he
had attained his twenty-first year, when he moved to
Mobile, Alabama, where, for a brief period, he worked as
a journeyman at his trade. He early displayed an admirable taste and sound judgment in all matters relating to the
architectural profession, and devoted the whole of his
leisure time to the acquisition of an extended knowledge
of its rules and principles. All plans that, falling under
his observation, possessed any notable excellence, he copied
with zealous and scrupulous care, and carefully studied all
the works on architecture that he could procure. At Mobile
he entered into competition in making plans for one of the
city public buildings, and, gaining the premium offered,
was thus brought into favorable prominence. In 1822 he
returned to Boston and entered the office of Solomon Willard, then a prominent architect of the city, and on his
retirement succeeded to the business. Thenceforth his
professional career was a steady progression, his whole aim
and desire being to attain perfection, rather than pecuniary
reward. He had assisted Solomon Willard in the constructioni of the Bunker Hill monument; his first individual
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K. Polk. Reliiously, be is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. His chief personal characteristics are
unassailable integrity, tireless energy and well-directed industry. He at present is engaged in the practice of law at
Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, where,he resides.
,ARS.HALL, JAMES H., Lawyer, was born in
Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio, September
3d, i82o, and was the third child in a family
consisting of six children whose parents were
John Marshall and Margaret M. (Grant) Mar shall. His father, a native of Virginia, followed
through life the occupation of cabinetmaking -and housejoinering. He moved to Ohio at an - early date, and resided in Trumbull county until his decease, in I832. His
mother, a native of Pennsylvania, was a daughter of Solomon Grant, and a sister of Jesse R. Grant, an early pioneer
of Clermon.t county and the father of President Ulysses S.
Grant. Until his fifteenth year was reached he was en-
gaged in farm labor in the, counties of Brown and Trumbull, his mother having removed with her family to the
former county in 1833. During those years he also attended the neighboring country schools through the winter
month,;, obtaining by this means a limited elementary education. In. i835 be was placed to learn the trade of
saddlery and barness-making at Georgetown. He completed his apprentidesbip in about three -years, and for two
years attended school at Germantown, Kentucky, and at
the Augusta College, ii-i the same State. In I 843, after
having worked at his trade for a brief period, he established
,himself in the harness and saddlery business on his own'
account, at Georgetown, and was thus occupied assiduously
until i857. His attention during the closing years of his
experience as a merchant ",as devoted to the study of law,
and in 1858, passing the required examination, be was admitted. to the bar. He was subsequently appointed Probate
judge of Brown County, and performed the duties of this
office for about one year. That appointment -bad been
made to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Colonel D. W. C. Loudon. In November, I859, be connected himself in a law partnership with David G. Devore,
in GeorgetoAin, and in conjunction with his associate has
secured an extensive and remunerative clientage. In I859
he was a candidate for nomination for the Probate judgeship; in i86i for the position of Common Pleas judge;'
and in i867 for the Ohio Senate. He is a supporter of the
Republican party, and in 1844 cast his first vote for James.