had given three or four pages to that department, while Mr. Galloway gave to his first report twenty pages, to his second thirty-two, and to his third fiftysix, all of which were full of facts gathered with the greatest industry and patience. Illiterate teachers and slipshod methods were severely criticised, and within ten years from the time Mr. Galloway began his agitation the public-school system of Ohio was revolutionized and the schools compared favorably with those of any other state.

Personally the character of Mr. Galloway was of a most admirable kind. He was a genial and agreeable companion, a kind neighbor, possessing generous impulses and true compassion, a loyal and self-denying helper of the church, a stout champion of the freedom of the slave and of the unity of the nation, and a great friend of the free school. His death, which occurred April 5, 1872, was mourned not only by his family but by hosts of friends, and the state of Ohio suffered a loss that was irreparable.

CLIFTON BAILEY BEACH.--A

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Hspicuous representative of the Republican party

is Hon. C. B. Beach, who has won favor and fortune in the legal profession and in the field of business life.

His ancestry can be traced to the colonial days of the Republic and is of Irish and English origin. His father, Israel Bailey Beach, was a native of Vermont, where he was reared and educated. Subsequently adopting the profession of medicine he entered Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, and graduated at that institution with the degree of M. D. He was married to Emily C. Wiggin in New Hampshire, and they came to Medina county about 1840, locating in Sharon, where he practiced his profession about ten years. He then removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, and continued practice there for a period of five years and then became a resident of Cleveland, where he resided and practiced until his death in 1860. His wife is still living, in Cleveland, at the ripe old age of seventy-nine. Two children only survive, the subject of this sketch and Edward C., a prominent business man of this city and president of the K. D. Box Company.

C. B. Beach was educated in the public schools of Cleveland and subsequently entered the Western Reserve College at which he was graduated with the class of 1871. Deciding upon the profession of law he entered the office of Willey, Carey & Terrill, and in 1872 was admitted to the practice of that profession, which he actively pursued for a period of twelve years. His first practice was in connection with C. B.

Bernard, under the firm name of Bernard & Beach, which association continued four years. He next became a partner and member of the firm of Terrill, Beach & Cushing, which subsequently became Williamson, Beach & Cushing. While engaged in professional life his attention was called to the manufacturing of wire nails, and through his efforts the H. P. Nail Company was organized in 1878, which company has developed into one of the largest of its kind in America. He was elected president of this company upon its organization and continued as such for ten years, when he resigned active business life, and has been serving the company as an adviser and vice-president since. In 1888 Mr. Beach purchased a tract of land consisting of four hundred and twenty-seven acres, nine miles west of the court house, lying upon the lake with a lake frontage of one and one-quarter miles. Here he enjoys life in an ideal home and dispenses a generous hospitality to his legion of friends.

Politically Mr. Beach has always been a Republican and always been a stanch supporter of that party He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress in 1894 and is now the able representative of the twenty-first district at the national capital, and has been re-nominated for the fifty-fifth congress by acclamation.

Personally Mr. Beach is happily endowed. He is of athletic build and takes great delight in outdoor sports. He is of a genial and companionable disposition and one who wins friends easily. He is a popular member of society and belongs to the Union and Roadside Clubs.

Mr. Beach was united in marriage in 1872 to Miss Janet Chisholm, a daughter of the late Henry Chisholm, a prominent business man of Cleveland. Mrs. Beach died in 1890, leaving a son, Chisholm Beach.

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HARLES FRANCIS BRUSH. --A native citizen of Cuyahoga county who has attained eminence and renown, and whose name is known and honored in every enlightened country on the globe, e, is Charles F. Brush, M. E., Ph. D., the inventor of modern electric lighting and distribution of electric power, and originator of the Brush Electric Company, one of the largest corporations in the world.

Mr. Brush was born in Euclid township, Cuyahoga county, March 17, 1849, one of eight children of Colonel I. E. and Delia W. Brush, and is of purely English descent, his ancestors coming to this country from England in the middle of the seventeenth century. The early years of this distinguished man were passed upon his father's farm, where he gained what has since been of inestimable value to him,-strong physique and a robust constitution. His first educational ad