The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-10-29
Record OF a Man Who Rose BY
Hard Work.

ladder through their own ability ard
determination. Such a man is John
W Goldsberry, Ross county's Repub-
lican candidate for Common Pleas
Judge, in this, the second subdivision
of the Fifth Judicial district. With
out any aid other than his own untir.
ing industry and ambition he has made
his way in his chosen profession until
now he has been selected to act as
the candidate of his party for the
judicial honor.
Born In 1852, in the little village OF
New Petersburg, Highland county,
the son of Delay F. Goldsberry, a
blacksmith, John Goldsberry has
known all his life what work, and hard
work, too, meant. When he was two
years old his father removed to Cen.
terfield, another little town of High
land county. There the boy attended
the village school until he was ten
years old, when his father moved to
Roxabel, and thence to Frankfort,
Ross county.
At the age of fifteen Mr.. Gold berry
began earning his own living. He
made his start, as so many other men
I have done, on farm, attending school
for a few months each winter, and
working hard the rest of the year
He knew all the hardships of the farm
life, rising before the dawn of cold
winter mornings to feed the stock,
when the frost was on not only the
pumpkin, but on the fodder, hard on
the hands; cutting wood carrying
water doing all the thousand and
one things which fall to the lot of a
boy on farm. After breakfast he
tramped off to school, to work hard at
his books until school closed, when he
tramped back to perform the evening
chores about the farm.
He worked hard and studied hard,
and to such good effect that when
only seventeen he was made teacher
of the school at Austin, Concord town.
ship, Ross county, where he had worked
and studied. All the time he taught
school he studied also, and saved
money, for he was determined to get
an education. In the intervals of
teaching, during two years, he attend
ed the Normal School at Lebanon,
Ohio, paying all of his own expenses.
Then he went to the Ohio Wesleyan
University, at Delaware. At the end
of the first year at college his little
supply of money ran out, but the boy
was made of the stuff that gets what 1t
goes after and he meant to go through
college. He looked about for work,
for any honest work which would sup.
port him and let him attend his classes
He found 1t as a waiter in hotel. 1t
took moral courage to do this work,
for John Goldsberry was the first
white boy to take such place there
but he took 1t, and other students,
emboldened by his example, secured
similar positions.
He went on working and studying
until, in 1878, he graduated in the
classical course and got his degree of
B A., with the second honors of his
class. Then he settled In Chillicothe
and began to read law in the Offices of
William E. Stafford and ]. M. Van
Meter. He read law by day and at
night, to get money to support him.
self, he worked in the Office of the
Probate Judge, B. F. Stone. He
studied hard and worked hard, and
was admitted to the bar in the spring
of 1881.
He rented little Office and went on
working hard and living carefully.
He slept in his Office and did all hon.
est work that came to his hand. In
the first year he had saved five hun
dred dollars. That's the sort of man
John Goldsberry is man of the peo-
Pile, who knows and understands the
poor man because he has been poor
who knows the working man because
he has been one himself. He knows
the value of work and application,
that nothing can be done without
them; and when elected will give the
affairs which come before him the
same earnest, careful, intelligent
work and thought which he has given
to his own affairs all through the
twentY.seven years in which he has
practiced at the Ross county bar.
In 1885 he married Miss Annie Offut,
the daughter of the late Joseph Il.
Offut, of Chillicothe. His wife died in
1904, leaving four children, the Oldest
of whom is now student in the Uni