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menced the manufacture of boots and shoes, thus establishing the first factory of the kind in Columbus. The capital
invested at the outset was fifteen thousand dollars. Under
good management the concern has so prospered that the
sales during the past year, although a year of financial depression, reached the sum of six hundred thousand dollars,
and the profits of the firm for the past eight years amount to
over a quarter million dollars. At present there are from
one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five persons eamployed in the factory, of whom about one-third are women.
He was married in i869 to Grace Kimball, daughter of his
first employer and partner, and is the father of two children.
dence. During the last ten years he has been engaged
mainly in the iron interests of the Han ging R ock iron region as a v er y larg e a nd influential stockholder. He now
owEAs larWge interests in the Bue na Vista, Bellefonte, Pino e
Grove and Ohio Furnaces, and in t he Nort on I ron Works,
of Ashland, Kentucky. He is also the holder of extensive
properties and o f bank stock in Ashland, and is the President
of the Second National Bank of Ironton, Ohio. His poli tical
creed finds expression in the doctrines of th e Republi can
party,.and his initial vote at a Presidential election was cast
in favor of John Quincy Adams. In religion he is a Congregationalist. His present fortune is the result, not of lucky
turnings and accidents, or precarious investment of speculatioln, but of careful and far-seeing legitimate business operations, based upon economy, integrity and industry. Now ill
the calml sunset of a successful life, surrounded by hosts of
loving and revering friends and kindred, he may conjure up
fearlessly the records of his many years, and leave them to
his survivors as an honorable, as a valuable legacy. He was
married, December 4th, I828, to Sarah Ellison, a native of
Adams county, Ohio, daughter of John Ellison, an early
settler of Manchester, Adams county; she died in April,
I87I, having given issue of nine children.
tr prutEANS, THOMAS W., Ir o n Manufacturer, was born
in Spartansburg, South Carolina, November 23d,
Aa co803, being t he t hi rd ch ild in a family of six,
(.~"'~*/whose parents were John and Anna (Williamson)
Means. The father, a native of Union county,
South Carolina, was chiefly engaged in agricultural pursuits. In I8I9 he moved to Ohio, settling in
Adams county, near Manchester, where he resided until his
death. He won distinction, and in some cases great hostility, through his strong anti-slavery views, and upon removal to Ohio took with him his slaves and there set them
at liberty. He was a member of the Legislature in South
Carolina, and also in Ohio, and was Colonel of militia in
his native State. He was of Scotch-Irish extraction, of the
Presbyterian faith, and was brother to four patriots who were
active participants in the struggles of the revolutionary conflict. T he mother, a native of North Ca rolina, was of English extraction,s a nd of a f amily d is t antly connect e d with Sir
Isaac Newton. rhe subject of this sketch became in his
tehith year a student in a select educational establishment
located near his home, where he remained only six year-,n
lut through dili,pentlce in merhadiing at Unthis short time
not only a knowledge of the various ordinary branches
taught at that period, bult also a considerab~le acquaintance
witri the classics. I-le spent his frst tano leners in Ohio upon
his father's fa lm, and in e,2i entered a store in West Union,
Adams county, where he remained until II830, excepting
two years spent in merchandising at Unioi-i Furlnace. During this period Mr. M alns mtde numerous; trips to the East,
as was the custom with merchants of the time, in order to
procure and personally forward their merchandise, and his
narratives of those early travels are full of interest and instruction, forming no little part of his vast and entertaining
store of anecdotes. I-le returned to Lawrenlce county in
183o and became Assistant Manager of Union Furnace,
where he, resided until 1833, an(] then mov ed to Union
L-anding. Here he may be said to have spent the prime of
life, devoting, himself dliligently to his favorite pursuit, the
aAZEN, GENERAL WILLIAM BABCOCK, was
tborn at West Hartford, Windsor county, Vermont,
September 27th, I830. His parents were Still P a n tw man and Ferone (Fenno) Hazen. Their ances a pt n itors were from Connecticut, and members of the
Hazen family, serving with distinction in the war
of the Revolution. Stillman Hazen removed to Huron,
Portage county, Ohio, in I833. Of his family of three sons
and three daughters, William B. was next to the youngest.
After receiving a good common school education, he was
hlmade a cadet at West Point, entering there about the time
b he came of age. After he was graduated, in June, I855, he
was made a Brevet Second Lieutenant in the 4th Infantry,
and sailed in September to join his regiment, at Fort Reading, on the Pacific coast. lie served throughout the Iiidian
troul)les in Oregon, and in I856 built Fort Yamhill. Being
promoted to a Second Lieutenancy in the 8th Infantry, he
proceeded to Texas in the fall of 1856 to join his regiment
at Fort Davis. During the Indian troubles in western Texas
and New Mexico he served with great credit, and was several
times complimented in general orders. In the fall of I859,
while in a hand-to-hand encounter with a Camanche brave,
he received severe gunshot wounds. After this, and while
convalescent, citizens of Texas presented him with a sword
for services rendered on the frontier. Early in I86O he left
Texas, and the same year was brevetted a First Lieutenant
for gallant conduct in that department, and in the following
spring was promoted to a full Lieutenancy. When he had
sufficiently recovered from his wounds to go on duty, he was
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inaiiuf,,tcture of iroii. In iS66 he purchased.a f,-trm near
Haniii, kock, Lawrence county, since his place of resi