The biographical encyclopœdia of Ohio of the nineteenth century:

BIOGRAPIICAL ENCYCLOPA~DIA.
On the 29th of May eight companies were moved to Greenland Gap, and on June 4th a detachment, including Neil's
battalion, had a severe skirmish near Moorefield, in which
the rebels were defeated. The regiment was mustered out,
September Ist, I864. He was married, May I2th, I864, to
Sarah E. Chrisman, of London, Ohio, and has three children. Always a Republican, he was elected a delegate to
the National Convention of i872, but on private grounds
declined to serve. He has always been identified with the
material interests of his county, and is one of its leading
citizens, respected by all for his strict integrity, personal
honor and genial manners. He is about to close out his
entire stock of fine horses, consisting of forty-two head and
comprising some of the best blood in the State, and his retiremelnt from stock-raising will be keenly felt by all interested in the improvement of the horse. At all the State
fairs held in central Ohio of late years he has been a prominenit exhibitor.
of Directors. When the Chroozicle was consolida ted w ith
the Cincinnati 7ines he became President of the new company. During the last year of his seven years' connection
with the Tinoes he wa s its bus iness ma nager. While thus
empl oyed, in I873, w ithout his solicitation, President Grant
appointed him Assistant Treasurer of the United States, at
Cincinnati. This position he reluctantly accepted and now
holds, discharging h i s duties with the industry and fidelity
which have through life been amlonlg his most marked characteristics. He is largely interested in public enterprises,
givin g much o f his time not otherwise employed to narrow
gauge railroading about the city of Cincinnati. He is
President of the Cincinlnati & W~estwood Railroad Comlpanly,
whi ch is constructing one of these suburban routes. He
resid es at We stwood, one of the beautiful suburbs of Cinc innati, and has long been a menmber of t he Westwood Board
of Public Education, having been Chairman u of the committee which constructed the fine school building in that
place. The success of this project was largely owing to his
personal efforts. lie has-for twenty-five years been a member of the Baptist Church, and is prominently connected
with several secret and social organizations; notably among
them the Order of Scotch Rite Masons, he having taken the
thirty-two degrees of that order. August gth, I855, he
married Mary P. Stoughton, of Cincinnati, and has three
sons and one daughter.
cu OLFN, ANDREl, M. D., Physician, wa s born, July
I9th, I8IO, in Athens county, Ohio, and is the
t hird of ten children whose parents were ChrisRbr Ni topher and Rhora (Dol-r) Wolf. His father clas
cm P i a native of West more land co unty, Pennsylvania,
of German lineage, and principally engaged in
farming, a lth ough he was interested in mb i lling and in the
manufacture of salt; he settled at an early day in Athens
county, where he emarr ied Rhoda, daughter of Madtthew
Dorr; she died ill 1856. Andrew worked on a farm until
he was twent y years o ld, and attended s choo l in winter.
In I83o he entered the Athen s Academy, o here he pursued
a literary course for some three years; towards the close
of his studies ther e h e co mmennced to read medicin e under
the supervision of Dr. Columbus Bierce, of that place. He
then went to Washingto n county, New Yohlk, where he con-,
tinued his medical s tudies under the guidance of Dr. Jonathan Dorr, of Camol)ridge, in tha t co unty, and during his
three years, s o journ from ho me also attended medical lectures at the Vermolnt Acade m y of Medicine, graduati ng
there with honoyr. Returning to Athens, Ohio, he passed
the winter there, and t henc e removed to McArthur, Vin to n
county, where he has since resided, and has established an
extensive and remunerative practice; his surgical skill i s
extraordinary. Tie has labored incessantly and energetically in his profession for upwards of forty years, and
having eve r be en a man of most temperate habits possesses
at his advanced age a powerful body and temperament.
Politically he is a Republican, having originally been a
Henry Clay Whig. His religious belief is that of the
Episcopal Church. He was married in I836 to Eliza,
daughter of Captaini Robert Lotridge, of Rensselaer county,
New York; she died in I859, having had two children.
He was a second time married, in I86o, to Pauline Bryan,
also a native of Rensselaer county, New York.
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od EIL, WILLIAM ALLEN, was born in Columbus,
Ohio, on January 28th, I836, and is a son of
Robert Neil, for some years a farmer, and, for
many, President of the Little Miami Railroad, but
now living in retirement in Columbus, at the ad vanced age of eighty years. William attended
the public schools, and after studying under Dr. Lord, a
very eminen t teacher, e nt ered th e German University of
Columbus, where he remained until the age of nineteen.
His health being then feeble, his father purchased him a
farm of one thousand acres near London, Madison county,
to which he removed, and lived on it until a few years
since. He began raising stock, aiming to breed and sell
young horses without records. This policy has not gained
him the notoriety a different one might have brought, but
his animals are none the less valuable, and his reputation
for integrity is second to none in the State. During the
war he entered the army as Second Lieutenant of the 23d
Battalion Ohio National Guards, on May 9th, I864, and
was mustered in at Camp Dennison, where he was immediately elected Captain, and on the formation of the battalion,
Major. The regiment, having been organized by joining
the 23d Battalion Ohio National Guards with the 6oth
Regiment Ohio National Guards, proceeded to New Creek,
West Virginia, on May I2th, and arrived there on the I4th.
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