The biographical encyclopœdia of Ohio of the nineteenth century:

~ BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPALDIA.
Governor of Ohio, a Commissioner to the army in Texas.
He has been for many years attorney for the Cleveland &
Pittsburgh Railroad Company. In the course of his long
professional career Mr. Smith has had many important cases
intrusted to him, all of which he conducted to the satisfaction of his clients. October Ioth, I865, he married Eliza
R. Preston, of Columbia county, Ohio.
the State B ank. He held t his position until I864, when his
bank beca me the Piq ua National Bank. Of the old institution under a new name he was also elected President.
In addition to his regular business Mr. Scott has also been
engaged in large real estate ventures. He is one of the
leading men in his county. October 4th, I827, Mr. Scott
married Jane Morrow, of Piqua, by whom he has had four
children, two sons and two daughters. His sons are enterprising business men of Piqua.
thARCHET, MOSES, was born, April I7th, I803,
| on the island of Guernsey, British Channel. His
6)\ | parents came to this country in i8o6 and settled
6 prein Cambridge, Ohio. His father was a farmer.
&,>d Moses attended a country school kept by Thomas
Campbell, under whom be made good progress
and laid the foundation of a serviceable education. He
was obliged to leave school at the age of fourteen years, in
consequence of delicate health. He entered the office of
the County Clerk, and remained there until he l-eache~d his
majority. He then fanned for three years, at the end of
which time he was appointed Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, fillingg this position as well as that of Clerk of the Supreme Court for seven years. For this latter position be was
examined at Lancaster by Judge Sherman, father of the general of the army. Il 1834 heb was reappointed Clerkh,, holing that office until 1841. Since 1859 be has been Master
Commissioner of the Court of Common Pleas, being successively reappointed for terms of three years each. Mr. Tarchet has been a Justice of the Peace since i864, with the
excep~tionl of an interval from Aut,ust, 1870, to I873. He
and his family have been identified with the growth of
Guernsey county, w,hicb, upon its organization, ill isIo,
took, its name from the native place of several pioneer
families. Mr. Tarchet wras married, March, I825, to
Martha Bichard, also of Guernsey, wrho still lives.
p t ce HIDLAW, REV. BENJAMIN W., Clergyman,
3ad O Hs hm 1l was born, July 14th, iSi I, in the town of Bala,
sa d c tT s I county of Merioneth, North Wales, and is of
C pel ue h hFrench Huguenot lineage on his father's side,
and ahdo and on his mother's of Welsh descent. He re ceived his primary education in a log school
house in Delaware county, Ohio, where he was taught the
English language; he subsequently entered Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, from which institution he graduaited in I833. After leaving college he commenced studying for the ministry, in which he was engaged three years,
revisiting his native country in I835. Shortly after his
return to the United States he was ordained a pastor by the
Presbytery of Oxford, and was settled over a Welsh Congregational Church in Butler county, Ohio, where he
preached and taught in Welsh and English for five years;
beginning with the children in other outlying districts, and
organizing Sunday-schools, he succeeded in building up
congregations as time rolled on. The pecuniary support
he received, however, was inadequate to his wants, and he
was about to accept the kind offer of an aged farmer, who
offered him, rent free, several acres of his rich alluvial soil
for cultivation, when he providentially formed the acquaintance of B. J. Seward, agent of the American Sunday-school Union in Cincinnati, by whom he was introduced to the secretary of that society, and in the course of
a few months entered into its employment. During his
long continuance with that organization he was enabled,
directly and indirectly, to establish hundreds of Sundayschools and to preach the gospel in numerous localities,
where it had been seldom or never heard. In many instances these labors, in organizing the union Sundayschools, combined the feeble religious elements in the
village and settlement, followed by a meeting for prayer,
praise add Christian conference, then the gospel ministry
and the organization of a Christian congregation. Among
the first schools he established was the Pike Run Union
Sunday-school, in Allen county, then a new and sparsely
settled neighborhood, enjoying no religious privileges.
This school prospered, and during the following year a
prayer-meeting followed the Sunday-school held in the
morning; and before its close a church was constituted and
a log meeting house built. He paid a visit in I869 to this
m COTT, WILLIAM, Banker, was born, September
25th, I8OI, in Jgssamine county, Kentucky. He
is of Scotch-Irish extraction. His father was a
native of North Carolina and his mother a Vir ginian, who settled in Ohio in November of I8o8,
being among its earliest pioneers. William attended such schools as were within the reach of the youth
of that day. In I823 he engaged in merchandising in
Piqua, Ohio, with a capital of only a little more than one
hundred dollars. Without friends or credit, but with economy, application and industry, he was soon able to extend
his business, including within his scope all that pertains to
a complete frontier trading store. For twelve years lie
bought and sold all the pork raised in his county, making
large shipments to the best marlkets. In I847 he engaged
in banking, and:became Presi-dent of the Piqua branch of
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