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opportunities, maintaining through life a strict integrity.
He is an active and influential member of the Odd Fellows.
In December, i857, he married Rexabel E. Braffett, of New
Paris, Ohio.
turn home in I862, in consequence of sickness. In I864
he enlisted in Company E, I83d Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
H~e accomnpanied his regiment to the field, and in two
weeks was promoted to a Second Lieutenancy. After the
battle of Nashville he was made a First Lieutenant, and
was finally given a Captain's commission. He was in the
heavy fighting in Tennessee, and accompanied his regiment
through the North Carolina campaign. July 29th, I865,
he was honorably discharged by reason of expiration of his
term-of service. In I865 he was appointed Deputy Sheriff
of Hamilton County, holding this office until he was elected
Magistrate, in the fall of the following year. In this position he remained until May, I87I, when he was appointed
Lieutenant of Police, and served in that capacity until May
of I873. Since that time Captain Erkel has been practising
law with satisfactory success and discharging the duties of
Notary Public. He is a man of good habits, thrifty and
industrious. In politics he is a Republican; in religion a
Protestant. March ioth, I85o, he married Margaret Ochs.
c, UNLAVY, HON. FRANCIS, was born in Virgra ginia iln 76I. When he had reached the age
ai of tel n years his parents removed to western
Pennsylvani a, wlhere be grew to manhood. At
te thae ag e of fourteen he eng aged in the Indian
wars, continuing therein until the close of the
Revolution. He assisted in th e b uil din g of Fort Mc intosh,
in I777, and was p res ent at the defeat of Crawford. By
great perseverancbehe acquired a good educat ion, w ithout
t h e aid of instructors, and for many years followed schoolteaching and land-surveying. In I797 he removed to what
afterwards became Warren county, Ohio. H e w as a member of the convention which framed the constitut ion of the
new State, and also of the first Legislature. On the organization of the State judiciary he was made Judge of the First
Circuit, in which position he continued for fourteen years.
He never missed a sitting of the court during his whole
term of service, and he frequently swam the Miamis on
horseback when other ferriage failed him. After leaving
the bench he practised law for fifteen years, and then retired from active life, dying a few years later, in I839.
His public career was pure and honorable, his private character without a stain, and his whole life one of usefulness.
(UNKINS, MILTON W., Physician, was born in
the M!i Cadiz, Harrisonl county, Ohio, February 25th,
I834. His parents were natives of Ohio. ~his
85 father was a cabinet aker. The subject of this
82sketch attended the common and high schools of
o his native place unti l he was se venteen years of
age, when he took a clerkshi p in a drug store at Bridgeport, Ohio. While t hus employed he r ead medicine with
Dr. McConnaughty and attended a course of le ctures a t
the Miami Medical College, Cismcinnati. In February of
I855 he received his diploma, and in the following August
began to practise in Bellaire. He has rem ained t her e ever
s ince, and is now the oldes t phys ician in th e c ity. In I86I
Dr. Junkins was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 6Ist
Regiment Ohi o Volunteer Infantry, an d served in that
capacity for about one yea r, at the end of which time a
severe attack of asthma obliged him to resign. Having recovered somewhat from his malady he again entered the
army as Major o f the I7oth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infant r y. At the expiration o f his ter m of s ervice he r eturned
to Bellaire and resumed practice. Dr. Junkins is widely
known and is the most prominent politician in Bellaire.
HIe began to take an active interes t in politics during Mr.
Lincoln's first campaign. He is an a r de nt R epublican, and
was the first to vote for a colored manl in his city. He was
President of the Hayes Club of Bellaire during the last
State contest. While the water-works of Bellaire were in
process of construction Dr. Junkins acted as Treasurer of
the city. He has been President of the Medico-Chirurgical
Society of Eastern Ohio since its organization. He has
been associated with the press of Bellaire from the earliest
publication of a newspaper in that locality. He has extensive real estate and manufacturing interests in Bellaire, is
e RKEL, HENRY, La wyer, w as b orn, October Igth,
1 I825, in Wiesbaden, Germany. He is the oldest
of three children of Rheinihart Erkel and Maria
E. Hoehn. His father, a farmer through life,
died, December I6th, I834, in Germany. His
mother subsequently was married to Conrad
Mentz, with whom she came to America, and settled in
Cincinnati, July 5th, I854. Henry received a liberal education in his native country, and was taught to labor for
his living. Having served his apprenticeship as a painter,
he sailed for. America in I846, in company with some
relatives, landing at New York. This was nine years
before his mother and her family came to this country.
Remaining in New York city a few days only, Henry went
to Buffalo, worked at his trade for a few months, left there
and reached Cincinnati September I7th, I846. Since then
he has made Cincinnati his home. He worked as a journeyman painter until I850, when he started in business on
his own account as a master painiter-, carrying on a large
business until I86I. The rebellion having begun, he accompanied General Sigel, in a responsible position, in
Fremont's campaign in Missouri. He was obliged to re
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