John Beatty was an American banker and statesman from Sandusky, Ohio. He served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Henry Stanbery was an American lawyer and United States Attorney General.
Edgar Frisby was an American astronomer, born at Great Easton, Leicestershire, England. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1863, then taught in Canada in 1863-67, and for a short time was professor of mathematics at Northwestern University. He was assistant astronomer in the United States Naval Observatory, Washington from 1868 to 1878, and professor of mathematics in the United States Navy from 1878 until he retired in 1899. Professor Frisby observed several eclipses for the government, computed the orbit of the comet of 1882, and had charge of the 12-inch equatorial telescope until his retirement.
Moses Bledso Corwin was a United States Representative from Ohio.
Peter Marshall Hitchcock was an attorney, teacher, farmer, soldier, legislator, and jurist. His judicial career included 28 years service on the Ohio Supreme Court, 21 years of them as Chief Justice.
Eleutheros Cooke was a lawyer and U.S. representative from Ohio (1831–1833).
Edward Francis Baxter Orton Sr. was a United States geologist, and the first president of The Ohio State University.
Jeremiah McLene was a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1833 to 1837, major general of militia in the American Revolutionary War, the 2nd Ohio Secretary of State from 1808 to 1831, and a state representative from 1807 to 1808. He served as a Democrat.
Lorenzo Brentano was a German American revolutionary, journalist, and later a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
John Crafts Wright was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and a journalist. He was the brother-in-law of Benjamin Tappan, U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1839 to 1845.
Samuel Galloway was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Samuel Beatty was an American soldier, sheriff, and farmer from Ohio. He was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In 1866, he was awarded the brevet grade of major general of volunteers.
Anson Stager was the co-founder of Western Union, the first president of Western Electric Manufacturing Company and a Union Army officer, where he was head of the Military Telegraph Department during the American Civil War.
Edward Franklin Bingham was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Edward Donaldson naval officer, was a rear admiral in the United States Navy.
Godwin Volney Dorsey was a Democrat and later Republican politician in the state of Ohio and was Ohio State Treasurer from 1862-1865.
Samuel Crothers was a Presbyterian minister, writer, and outspoken antislavery advocate.
Charles Frederick Schaeffer was a Lutheran clergyman of the United States.
Juan de Dios Cañedo was a Mexican statesman.
Charles Cist was an American editor.
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Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography is a six-volume collection of biographies of notable people involved in the history of the New World. Published between 1887 and 1889, its unsigned articles were widely accepted as authoritative for several decades. Later the encyclopedia became notorious for including dozens of biographies of people who had never existed. The apostrophe in the title is correctly placed and indicates that more than one person, i.e. a company, authored the work.
