The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . ment—having expended upward of $450,000, all of which has been reimbursedsave $17,000 yet unsettled. The appointment of War Claim Agent ismade by the Governor. Since 1880 the appointment ais agent, hais beengiven to W. 0. Tolford, and his service has been continuous to the year1901. Prior thereto he was employed up^on similar duty in the officeof the Adjutant General of Ohio. His total services as Claim Agent haveextended over a quarter of a century. ? The following is a list of Claiim Agents


The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . ment—having expended upward of $450,000, all of which has been reimbursedsave $17,000 yet unsettled. The appointment of War Claim Agent ismade by the Governor. Since 1880 the appointment ais agent, hais beengiven to W. 0. Tolford, and his service has been continuous to the year1901. Prior thereto he was employed up^on similar duty in the officeof the Adjutant General of Ohio. His total services as Claim Agent haveextended over a quarter of a century. ? The following is a list of Claiim Agents for war expenditures on ac-count of the general goPi^ernment: B. Baker, 1862; A. B. Lyman, 1862; James E. Lewis, 1862; J. C. Wet-more, 1862; Hiram Beall, 1863; F. W. Bingham, 1863; R. E. Cox, 1863; JonathanCranor, 1863; Weston Flint, 1863; J. C. Todd, 1863; L. R. Brownell, 1864; D. , 1864; Vesalius Horr, 1864; John Karr, 1864; R. L. Stewart, 1864; D. , 1864; W. G. Taylor, 1864; Warren Clark, 1864; W. 0. Tolford, 1880—Incumbent. (596) STATE OF SOLDIERS WL. CUREY was born in Union ooiunty, Ohio, June 25, is tihe son of Sitephenison Cnrry, and his grandfather,• Colonel Jameis Curry, was aai offiicer of the ContinentalLine^ in the 4th and 8th Virginia during the War of the Revolution,and wia:s granted, as part payment foT hi-s seTvice, one thoaisand aeresof land in Union ciounty and the family settled in that county in theyear 1811. Mr. Curry, the subject of this sketch, woTked, on his fa thermsfarm during his boyhiood days until he arrived at the age of wafs given a good education in the country schools and he also at-tended a private select ischool for two or three terms at the old acaidemyin Marysville, the seat, taught school iui the county fourwinters. In the fall of 1860 he entered the Otterbein College at Wester-ville, Ohio, intending to complete a scientific course in three years, andin Janu


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