The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . ublican, one of the Representatives from Hamilton coun-ty, was born in Cincinnati, May 18, 1861. Was educated in the public schools ofthat city, and then attended Urbana University, at Urbana, 0., where he graduatedin 1881. He studied law in Ramsey, Matthews and Matthews office, and at the sametime attended the Cincinnati Law School, graduating with the class of 1883, andbeing admitted to the bar in June of that year. He was married to Adelaide , of Urbana, 0., December 1884. Mr. Wayne


The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . ublican, one of the Representatives from Hamilton coun-ty, was born in Cincinnati, May 18, 1861. Was educated in the public schools ofthat city, and then attended Urbana University, at Urbana, 0., where he graduatedin 1881. He studied law in Ramsey, Matthews and Matthews office, and at the sametime attended the Cincinnati Law School, graduating with the class of 1883, andbeing admitted to the bar in June of that year. He was married to Adelaide , of Urbana, 0., December 1884. Mr. Wayne was a pioneer in the settlementof South Dakota, where he helped to found the town of Ipswich, which became thecounty seat of Edmunds county, in 1884, and where he continued the practice ofhis profession until March, 1894, when, owing to climatic conditions, affecting hishealth, he returned to Cincinnati, where he now has a large and growing practice. Mr. Wayne resides in Harrison, in the western part of the county and main-tains his law office in Cincinnati. He has always been a Republican. (480). MR. WJELLS, OF Wayne County. Urias F. Wells, Democrat, who is serving his second term as Representativefrom IVayne county, was born in Ripley township. Holmes county, Ohio, July 28,1843. Was educated in the common school of that township. He commencedteaching school at the age of 18 years, farming and buying stock in summer timeand teaching school in the winter for ten years. He married Miss Louisa , January 14, 1864, to which union one son was born. Mr. Wells movedto S^hreve, Wayne county, in the spring of 1880, where he has lived ever since,purchasing the farm well known as the Oldroyd Homestead, in the spring of 1885,in which he lived ten years; he continued to farm and bought stock, wool and hayfrom his farmer friends. In the spring of 1896 he was elected as member ofShreve School Board and by the Board was elected its President, which office hestill holds. He was elect


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