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family residence. Here, after a life of usefulness and
honor, Dr. Isaac Swift passed away on the evening of
Tuesday, July I4th, 1874, having reached his eighty-fifth
year with unimpaired faculties. He was a pioneer of whomot
Portage county is justly proud(l. Dr. Swift is survived by
his aged wife and three children, viz.: Dr. Charles E.
Swift, of Ashtabula, Ohio; Mrs. E. R. Wait, of Ravenna;
and Mrs. Emily Morrison, of New York city. The late
Governor Henry A. Swift, of Minnesota, was a son of the
subject of this memoir. A native of Ravenna, where he
was born, March 23d, I823, Henry A. graduated at the
Western Reserve College, read law, became clerk of the
Ohio Hlouse of Representatives, was a member of the Minnesota Legislature, one of the defenders of St. Peter,
Minnesota, in the Indlian massacre of 1862, and filled the
chair of the Chief Executive of the commronwl-ealth of MilEnesota. He died February 26th, 1869.
, ~ ONES, WILLIAML FRANCIS, Boot and Shoe maker, was born, August I2th, I824, inl Nash
M county, North Carolina, of American parentage.
W'hen but five years of age hle was indentured to
learn the trade of a shoemaker, and worked until
he attained his majority. lie then commenced
business for himself, his cash caplital being fifty cents, and
his to ol s consisting only of a hammier, a pair of pincers, a
peg awl, a sewing awl, and a knife. From this small beginning he has prospered and gained a comfortable livelihood, beside having laid by a store for the "rainy day."
In I858 he removed to Cleveland, where he has ever since
resided. During the war of the rebellion he served one
year and was honorably discharged. He has always been
Republican in political feeling, but has never held a public
office of any kind. In religious belief he is a Methodist.
He was converted at the age of twelnty-four, and up to that
time had never heard a sermon preached. Soon after his
arrival in Cleveland he engaged earnestly in the cause of
religion, and ",as a zealous laborer in the field before him,
insomuch that the church asked for his promotion. Ile was
accordingly ordained a Deacon by the Annual Conference,
at Columbus, April 3oth, i868. He was married, May 22d,
I847, to Malindia Mayo, of North Caroilina.
e~ OODWARD, CHARI,ES, M. D., Physician, was
born, i8o4, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsyl vania. After receiving a thorough classical and
caca(lemical education, he entered the College of
New Jersey, at Princeton, and graduated from
that institution il the class of I823, receiving the
degree of A. B. Ilavi ng selected the medical profession
for his future career, he became a student in the Philadelphia Medical Institute, and in I826 received the degree of
M. D. from that institution. Almost immediately after
graduation he removed to Cincinnati, and commenced the
practice of medicine in that city, which he only relinquished
early in I874, owing to impaired health. It is a very
remarkable fact that he never lost a day of active service in
his profession, by reason of ill health, until attacked by the
disease of which he died. Wonderful buoyance of feeling,
great energy, constant endurance in a very large practice,
were doulbtless the results of such extraordinary health.
HIe was in rather straitened circumstances when he first
entered his profession. A speculative venture resulting
successfuLlly gave him means to equip his office, get marr-ied,
and abide the time of his success. Prosperity soon followed
skilful efforts in his work, and he acquired enviable dclistin ction for family practice. He was especially noted for a
keenly sympathetic, gentle nature, that made him a most
acceptalble visitor to the sick-chamber. His patrois became
attached to him with something akin to filial or fraternal
love. They had comfort in his soothing manner, faith in
his skill, and confidence il his ever gentlemanly bearing.
A singular fact in his professional career was his steadfastly
declining to take a professorship in colleges. He also
avoided successfully the quarrels, jealousies, and strange
diiffer-ences into which members of the profession are so
prone to fall. While habitually courteous and friendly, he
was unvaryingly dignified and polite. His near a half
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century of work in his profession brought him a f,-'ir competeiicy; not so directly from his earnings-wbich alone will
male a conscientious and faithful physician i-ich-])ut much
of what he gathered together resulted from a habit be steadily adhered to of buying real estate whenever his accumulations warranted an investment. Flis NN,,-,rmly sympathetic
disposition made him generous not only in iviiig, but also
in a charity practice, a large amount of attention having
been given the poor without charge. I-le was niai-ried,
1828, to Amelia Roe, sister of the late Charles Roe and
of Mrs. Josiah Lawrence, and there were born to him six
sons all'd two daughters, all of whom survive him. 1-le
died iii Ciiiciiinati, August i6th, IS-74.
G<
ILT,ER, SAMUEL A., Lawver, Geologist, and
Scientist, was born, August 2Stli, IS37, ii-I Co.01 ville, Athens county, Ohio. After a due course
of preparatory education, and the requisite study
of the law, he A,,,is admitted to the bar, at Citiciii nati, in April,-iS6o. He at once commenced the
practice of his profession in that city, which has since become both extensive and lucrative. Fe", advocates stand
so high in the estimation of their professional brethren and
the community as to business inte rty and private cbaracter as himself and his brother, 1. J. Miller, I)ein, often
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