Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-01-27

Hill and Company engaged i'm the
dry goods business. This partner
ship continued several years, but
eventually Mr.. Brand purchased the
entire business and continued il with
the assistance of his sons until 1853.
| In lS5J he was elected to represent
the district composed of Champaign,
Clark and Madison counties in the
state Senate. In this body he was Il
recognized leader, becoming espec-
tally prominent in opposing the en-
croachments of the slave power upon
the liberties of the people of Ohio.
and i'll the encouragement of railroad
building. He was a close friend of
/ Salmon i. Chase, then Governor, and
an alliance then formed was not
broken until the death of the great
secretary. AS "A special committee, to
whom it had been referred, he man.
aged to its passage "a bill i'm aid of
what was known as the Habeas Cor
pus act, which i'm effect required an
officer having in charge prisoner,
whether state or national. to bring
such prisoner before the probate
judge of a county upon writ being is
sued i'm due form. This was to prevent
| United States Marshals or others
from passing runaway negroes on
and restoring them to slavery, under
the operation of the congressional
fugitive slave law, without an oppor-
tunity for defense in a local court.
lie was the author of another
amendatory law which forbade the
use of county jails of the state for the
Incarceration of captured runaway
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on the efforts of the slave-holding
power to make negro-catchers of the
free sons of Ohio. In the enforcement
of the law he became an active par
ticipant in il celebrated case known
in history as "The Adj White Rescue
Case" from which he suffered heavy
pecuniary loss and great vexation.
His interest in public Improvement
led him to take an active part in build |
ing what is now the New York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio railroad, of which
he was for years director and at
one time paymaster. He, with Mar
tin Kent, of Portage county, with the |
personal endorsement of Governor
Chase, secured the loan of several
millions of dollars from English cap
italistS, by which were made possible |
the completion of the road.
In 1861 his voice was among the |
first to he heard i'm defence of "The |
Union at any cost" and i'm the fall of |
that year he obtained from Governor |
DennisOn the charter for the enlist
ment of II regiment of men, which |
when organized was known as the |
66th o. V. /. He accompanied the |
regiment to the front as Quartermas-
ter and for three years shared with
its members exposure, tolls, dangers
and victories. In 1864 he was ap-
pointed Captain and Commissary of |
Subsistence and assigned to duty IN
the Army of the James, with which
he remained until the close of the
war, witnessing the surrender of Lee !,
to t Grant an "a AZ sAPpomattoxm MAJOR. In Aa .for
meritorious services during the war;"
In 1869 he was appointed United
States Consul at Nuremberg, Bava-
ria, and served i'm that position dur
ing President Grants first term.
In 1772 he was elected Mayor of
Urbana and was twice reelected.
His administration of this office was
somewhat heroic and he became n
terror to evil-doers, especially viO-
lators of the liquor laws. 1t was dur
ing his incumbency of this office that
the "Women's Crusade" on saloons
occurred, and he distinguished him
self by police protection tn the women
as they prayed on the streets.
This is but brief review of his life
before the public, indicating the en-
ergetic activity by which it was char
acterized. That he had an inner and
more perfect life was known to those
with whom he was most closely as
sociated. He was man whose con-
duet was uniformly actuated by prin-
ciple. His espOusal of Il cause was
from conviction, his personal interest
being always secondary.
Born and reared in the midst of
slavery, his father slave owner, he
early saw the iniquity of the traffic
in human flesh and arrayed himself
on the side of liberty. In private
and official life he gave his best ef-
forts for many years toward the over
throw of the power that upheld slav-
cry.
In his young manhood he united
with the NJ. f.. church and was there
after always identified with the pro-
gressive work of the church, holding
official positions for sixty years. At
the last Quarterly Conference of
Grace NJ. F.. Church he was named
and confirmed Trustee Emeritus. His
religious experience was positive, but
he was never effusive in expressing
it. During his last illness he fire.
quently referred to his bright hope of
hereafter and expressed his readi-
ness to try the realities of an invis-
ible world. He was SO attached to
the hymns of his church that he mad
learned and could repeat almost the
entire collection, being especially
partial to the verses of Charles Wes-
ley. His faith was broad and char
liable, but in religion as in secular
life, he was a man of works rather
than of words.
In his family life he was a model.
Tender, loving and watchful-study-
ing the capacity and wants of each
of his children and permitting them
to see his pride i'm their every success,
he was to them not only cOnfidante
and companion, but IA hero. With
what generous courtesy did he treat
the companion of so many years of
who was to him the
fairest of earth's treasures, and
who has been spared to serve
and care for him through years of
suffering and to shield him from the
effects of mental decline attending
his approach to the separating line.
1t is hard to think of the temporary
separation of these two aged servants
of the Master, who have for SO many
years battled together for home and
family, church, state and country,
and whose united sacrifices have
contributed so much toward the de-
velOpment of the heritage enjoyed by
the people of this generation.
The rich mans whisky is HAIR
PER because it is supremely de-
licious. The poor mans whisky is
HARPER, because such good
whisky helps him. The family
whisky is HARPER, because it's
pure. Dleasant and strengthening.