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continued business uninterruptedly until November, I872,
when he went with his family to New York, where he
spent the winter in the medical colleges and hospitals, re ceivinlg a diploma from Bellevue Hospital Medical College,
and certificates of private instruction from several eminent
' physicians of that city. Leaving New York in March,
I873, the balance of the year was spent in travelling over
the Western States and Territories, including the Gulf
States, California, Oregon, Washington Territory, and a
part of British Columbia, with the view of studying the prev alent diseases, and the influence of climate on the same.
Returning to Ohio in December, I873, he located in Colum bus, where he still resides and is rapidly gaining public
esteem and favor, and building himself up a good practice.
He was married to Mary E. Brown, October 27th, I864.
~OD, HON. GEORGE, Lawyer and Jurist, was
~)I 1iborn, December i Ith, I773, at Suffield, Itartford
o-~j[county, Connecticut. He graduated at Yale Col lege in I795, and having selected the law as his
c C. DD profession, pursued his studies at the celebrated
law school at Fapping Reeve, Litchfield county,
and was admitted to the bar in October, I797. He commenced the practice of his profession in New Haven, where
he remained a few years. In I8oo he removed to Youngstown, Trumbull county, Ohio, and in August of the same
year was appointed the Prosecuting Attorney of that county.
In I8SIo he sent for his family to join him. He was elected
in I804 a Senator in the State Legislature from Trumbull
coutnty, and at the close of his term in that body was appointed, in I8o6, a Judge of the Supreme Court, to fill a
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Jonathan Meigs.
In I8Io he was again elected to the Senate from Truml)ull
county. When war was declared by Congress against
Great Britain, he accepted a commission of Major in the
regular army from President Madison, and, March I3th,
I814, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of
the I7th Regiment United States Infantry. In the winter
of I8I5 he was appointed President Judge of the Third Circuit of Ohio, which office he held until I830. In the
autumn of the same year he was elected Prosecuting Attorney, which was the last office he held. He was one of the
most eminent lawyers and advocates of his time. IHe was
married, prior to his removal to Ohio, to Sally Isaacs. He
died at Briar Hill, April I Ith, I841, leaving a widow and
five children,
RION, JOHN, Far mer and Mer c hant, was born,
Se ptember 6th, I7.98, in Ka nawha county, (no w
We st) Virgini a, a nd is the oldes t son of Robert
and Nancy (Balentine) Irion. His father was a
f na tive of-So uth Car ol ina, who was a farmer by oc cupation and a su rveyor by profession. He remove d to Ohio in I802, and first settled i n Brown county,
whe re he res ided about twelve years, and proceeded, in
I8 S 14, to Fayette county, where he sojourned until his death.
lie was an active participant in the early Indian wars of
Virginia, and m sarr ie d there Nancy, daughter of Thomas
Balentiiie, both of whom were natives of the north of Ireland, but emigrated to America, and were among the early
settlers of what is now the State of West Virginia. John is
the eldest of a family of thirteen children. He worked
on a farm when a boy, and attended the district school
during the winter season. When twenty-two years of age,
he began life on his own resources, as a farmer in Fayette
county, and has resided in that section ever since, with the
exception of some five years passed in Brown county. He
has been through his long life principally engaged in agricultural pursuits. He filled the office of Justice of the Peace
of Union township, Fayette county, for a considerable
period; and was also Land Appraiser of the same locality
for one year. He was a Captain under the old militia law
of the State. He was at one time interested in the stock of
the Panhandle Railroad, and also ill several turnpike companies. At present he is a stockholder in the Dayton &
Southeastern Railroad Company. He has recently embarked in the boot and shoe business, under the firm-name
of Irion & Co., himself owning the controlling interest.
His political views are those held by the Republican party,
having previously been a Whig of the Henry Clay school,
His religious belief is not circumscribed by the doctrines of
any particular church. Socially he is of pleasant and
courteous manners. He has always led a temperate life,
and, though he has nearly reached the age of fourscore
ON BONItORST, CHARLES G., Dentist, was
H born, March 3d, 1820, in the city of P i ttsburgh,
Pennsylvania, alnd is a son of Baron Charles F.
Von Bonhorst, a lawyer, and one of the oldest and
most prominent citizens, who was born in B erlin,
Prussia, fought ag ai n st the fistt Nap oleon, and
emigrated to America in I8o8, and inarried a lady, a native
of Washington county, Pennsylvania. Charles, the younger,
attended a private school in Pittsburgh, and had completed
an academic course, when fourteen years of age. He commenced to play the violin in the theatrical orchestra when
fifteen, continuing until he had attained his majority, in the
meantime studying dentistry, paying for his instruction in
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years, his mental and physical faculties are wonderfully preserved. He has always been noted for untiring energy and
industry, and has been the architect of his own fortunes,
having amassed an ample competence. He was married in
I820 to Catharine, daughter of John Hawkes, an early pioneer of Brown county, Ohio. She died in i875, having
had fifteen children.
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