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of readings, he was admitted to the bar in January, I847;
and in the following month of June removed to Sand usky,
w h e r e he has ever since resided, and has established an ext ensive and lucrative practice; in fact, having th e largest
l ine of patronage accorded to any member of t he bar in
Eri e county, and is to-day the leading lawyer in Sandusky.
He was originally a Whig in political sentiments, and then
a c t e d with the Free-Soil party; at present he is aff iliated
w i t h the Republicans. He was married, October 2 9th,
1849, to Maryett Cowles, of Cleveland, Ohio.
dist Church north of the Ohio river. He has four children,
and resides at Branch Hill, twenty miles from Cincinnati,
on the Little Miami Railroad. In Columbus, January 8th,
I868, at the Democratic State Convention, the platform
which nominated Mr. Pendleton for President of the United
States was mainly written by Mr. Bloss, and afterwards, at
the solicitation of the friends of Mr. P endleton, be wrote
that statesmani's campaign biography. Ill I872 he was a
member of the Comnittee on Resolution s at the Dem ocratic
State Convent ion in Cleveland, whi ch instructed t he delegates to the Balti more Convention to vote f or Greeley and
Brown, the Liberal Republican candidates. He w as made
chairman of the committe e, and reported the platform t o
the convention. Ill I874 his friends brought his name
before the convention at Morrow, as Democratic candidate
for Congress in the Third Congressional District. The
nomination was not made until the fifty-seventh ballot. He
was one of the highest candidates and came within a few
votes of securing the nomination. Saving this instance, he
has never been a candidate for public office. Robert Clarke
& Co., of Cincinnati, in 1875 issued a valuable collection of
Mr. Bloss's literary productions, entitled " Historic and
Literary Miscellany." This work is composed of what he
deems his best and most unobjectionable articles, which
have, from time to time, appeared in the Cincinnati Enuuier, since his connection with it began, twenty-five years
ago. He is a fine biographer, a fluent and forcible writer,
and never has had an equal as a political writer in the
editorial department of the Enguirer. In fact, he has long
been the political ballast, so to speak, of that paper. No
man connected with the press of the State has done more
for his party or manufactured more of its shot and shell.
Born in New England, and reared under Puritan influences,
transplanted to the West, he has become one of the extreme
types of Democratic latitudinarianism. He has a remarkable memory, and as a political historian of both Europe
and America, he has few or no equals in the country. He
is a man of deep social attachments, and has personally
many earnest friends, and no enemies.
LOSS, GEORGE MANOR DAVIS, Editor and
Politic ian, w a s b orn, May 2d, I827, in Derby,
Orleans county, Vermont. His father was a
custom house officer in that State, and was in
the government employ during the war of I812.
His grandfather Bloss was born about the middle of the eighteenth century, in New Hampshire, and was
a soldi er in the R ev olution. His mother was a Davis, and
from h er h a s te has the name, Manor Davis. His family, on
both sides, run back among the earliest New England
s ettle rs. In I83o his father, with his family, removed to
Watertown, Jefferson county, New York; remained there
un~til I838, and afterwards removed to Oswego City. George
attended school at the academy at Belleville, Jefferson
county, Ne w Yo rk, where o n e of his instructors was a I-eiram
H. Barney, fath er fRne of R e. Barney, of Robet Clarke & Co.,
of Cincinnati. Mr. Barney was years afterwards Principal
ofken. He High School, o f Cincinnati, and at one time
Ohio State School Commissioner. In the winter of 1846,
having completed a fair academnical education, Mr. Bloss
bewai the study of law i n the offic e of Gr ant & Allen, in
the city of New York. Allen is now one of the judges of
New York Court of Appeals. In I85 0 Mr. Bloss was ex,mined before the Supreme Court at Syracuse, and admitted
to practise. At on ce he opened an office in the building
occupi ed by the Palladoiun, Democratic daily paper.
Always a strong Democrat, and taking a deep interest in
politics, he wrote many articles for the Palladiuiii, frequently editing it in the absence of its editor. In I852 he
removed to Cincinnati, with the intention of practising his
profession, but in order to make fi-ienids and at once put
himself on good terms with the people, he brought letters
of introduction to Messrs. Faran & Robinson, then proprietors of the Cincinnati Enquireir. This at once brought
about an engagement to write for that paper. And this engagement, designed to be temporary, so agreed with his
natural inclinations, that it has ever since remained unbroken. He is now the oldest political editor connected
with the Western press, being a few months the senior of
Mr. Halstead. In I854 he was married to Lizzie McCormick, granddaughter of General McCormick, who was the
first person that administered the ordinances of the Metho
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LENDENIN, WILLIAM, M. D., was born in
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, October Ist
1829. His parents were of Scotch origin, and
his father was a farmer. He was very early left
in the care of his mother, by the death of his
father. To her character and example be attributes any success or usefulness of his life. At the age of
fifteen he was put in the drug store of Dr. John Gammil, at
New Castle, Pennsylvania. In the doctor's family be lived,
and with him studied. After four years in the store be
became a regular medical student under the doctor. In
1849 be attended his i-st course of lectures in the Ohio
Medical Collee, and in the spring of 185i, at the end of.