The biographical encyclopœdia of Ohio of the nineteenth century:

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.
his return his plans were adopted in the reform schools of
the Stat2, and at the reform farm, at Lancaster, Ohio. In
i867 Governor Hayes appointed him one of the Commissioners of Mines. His last public service was as member
and President of the Board of Control. His numerous
literary productions are distributed over various periodicals,
both German and English. Hie has published three books:
"The Wine Trespass Manual;" "The Wine-Makers' Manual," and "Politics as a Science." lie is decidedly scholarly, and is still an earnest student. His zeal for knowledge
induced him in I874 to go to Europe to attend lectures on
law, history and political economy, at Strasburg and W-urtemnl)erg. In I837 Mr. Reemelin was married to his present
wife, Louise Mark, of Cincinnati. They have seven children, all, excepting one, having been educated in both
Europe and America.
E e A cOUSE, REV. ERWIN, Clergyman, Editor and
(g: Author, was born at Worthington, nine miles
north of Columbus, Ohio, February 17th, 1824.
? EAD, CHis parents, Lyman B. and Sarah House, were
U e t natives of New Haven, Connecticut. At the age
of thirteen, during a religious awakening in Lockland, near Cincinnati, where his parents then resided, he
joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the fall of
I841 he entered Woodward College, Cincinnati, where he
g raduated in I846. Then Samuel Lewis and Salmon P.
Chase were trustees, and old Dr. Ray was Professor of
MIathematics at Woodward. In 1849 he was granted license
to preach as a local minister in the Methodist. Church by
the Quarterly Conference of Ninth Street, now Trinity,
Church, Cincinnati. In 1865 he was admitted into the
Cincinnati Conference. As early as I837 he wrote for the
papers, and in I847 was appointed Assistant Editor of the
Ladies' Pepository, an old, popular monthly magazine of the
church. This position he filled many years, and was one
year in entire charge of its editorial work. He afterwards
became Assistant Editor of the Westert Christian A4dvocate,
one of the oldest and most ably conducted weekly papers
published by the Methodist Episcopal Church. These editori al positions he filled for the period of twenty-five years.
He was the author of a number of works, many of which
have had a large circulation in the church. Among these
the most important are: "Sketches for the Young;" "The
Missionary in Many Lands; " "The Homilist;" "The
Scripture Cabinet, and" The Sunday-School Hand-Book."
At least two of these works have been republished in England. In his editorial work he was associated with some of
the finest men of his church. He was an efficient worker
and an able advocate for the temperance cause. He was
most famous, probably, as a Sunday-school author, speaker
and worker. As a speaker to children he had few equals;
as a writer he was ready and agreeable; in the church he
filled awide place well, and in his home and everywhere he
lived the life of an educated Christian gentleman. To the
last hour or moment of his life he was at his post in the office
of the Advocate, where he died of heart disease, May 20th,
6'(EAD, COMMNANDERt ABNER, an Officer of the
United States Navy, was born, 182I, in Ohio, and
received his education at the Ohio University, at
Athens, which institution he left in his senior
year, in i839, having received a midshipman's
warrant. His first voyage was on the schooner
"Enterprise" to the South American coast, having been
detached from a ship of war destined to the Mediterraneain,
on account of some little difficulty with the captain previous
to the sailing of the vessel. Prior to his examination he
passed a year in reviewing his studies at the Naval School in
Philadelphia, and stood fifth in a class of forty-eight. He
was at once detailed to the duty of Acting Sailing Master,
in which capacity he made several voyages, and soon acquired the reputation of being one of the most skilful navigators in the service. At the breaking out of the Mexican
war he was on the coast of Africa, but returned in time to
make a cruise in the Gu.lf and participate in some naval
operations near the close of the war. The progress of naval
promotion being slow, he did not reach the rank of Lieutenant until i853, and in I855 the Naval Retiring Board
consigned him to the list of retired officers, but he was not
long after reinstated by the Examining Board. Soon after
the commencement of the late civil war he was ordered for
service to the "Wyandotte," the command of which soon
devolved upon him, a'nd it was this vessel which performed
such important service in saving Fort Pickens from falling
into the hands of the enemy. In May, I862, his health was
so much impaired that he was relieved from his command
for a time, in order to place himself under medical treatment. A severe fit of sickness prostrated him for some
weeks, and before he fully recovered his strength he asked
for sailing orders, and was assigned to the command of the
steam gunboat " New London." Proceeding at once to Ship
Island, he commenced cruising in the Mississippi Sound,
and in eight days captured four valuable prizes. The ex ploits of this vessel -von for it from the enemy the appellation
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of the 11 Black Devil,",ind it soon succeeded in breaking up
the trade between New Orleans and Mobile. The 11 New
London " captured nearly thirty prizes, took a battery at
Biloxi, and bad several engagements with Confederate
steamers on the sound. A short time previous to his death,
lie lost his left eye in an engagement at Sabine Pass. In
June, i863, be was placed in command of the steam sloopof-war 11 iqonongahela," and soon after participated in an
attack upon the enemy's batteries above Donaldsonville. In
this engagement he was fatally'Wounded, and died July 12tb,
i 863. He was a skilful officer, and a universal favorite
throughout the navy.
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