Gstown and the Mahoning Valley

346 YOU.'\GSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY Struthers upon the recommendation of Dr. E. Harry in 1875. Having determined to make the practice J ones, present coroner of ~lahoniIlg County, - and of law his life work, he spent a year in the l.aw located here on August .t. 19I.f, as a general prac office of Hon. Rufus P. Ranney, whose reputatlOn titioner. From the beginning Doctor Rinehart's as a judge is nation wide. He studied in Columbia ability receind recognition, and he is today carrying College, New York City, during a two-year course on a practice three times as large as he had hoped in the law school of that institution. In 1878 he to acquire when he came here. This popularity is was admitted to the bars of N ew York and Ohio not in the least spectacular, but the result of the and immediately came to Youngstown and entered creation of confidence and the patience with which upon the practice of his professionwit~ an .uncle, he has ministered to the people, really directing more Hon. David M. Wilson. He has rema1l1ed 111 the attention to prevention of disease than to anything practice here continuously since that time and has else. He is educating the people to conserve their had as partners a number of the prominent lawyers health by inculcating ideas with reference to right of the Youngstown bar, but he ha~ individually liying, and using his influence to have proper sani achieved a prominence in his professlOn second to tary regulations inaugurated and maintained. Like none. The present firm name is Wilson. H;;thn & all modern physicians, Doctor Rinehart maintains Wilson. He stands as a worthy and consp~cuous membership in the county, district and state medical member of a group of men whose influence I~ the societies. In his fraternal affiliations he has become civic and social life as well as in professional cIrcles an Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias. The Pres of the community has been of a most beneficent byterian Church holds his membership. order. He is the present legal representative of the In 1913 Doctor Rinehart was united in marriage New York Central system of railroads in north at Columbus, Ohio, with Mary Ethel Dickson, of eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, including that city. Doctor and Mrs. Rinehart have one the Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad Company and daughter, Jean Elizabeth. Both are very popular the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company, socially, having gathered. about them a congenial which he has represented for the past forty years. circle of friends. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, having served as JAMES P \VILSON. In no profesison is a career a delegate to the latter. more open to talent than in that of the law, and A wide and discriminating reading of literature none demands a more careful preparation, a more of the better sort, aside from his profession, en thorough appreciation of the absolute ethics of life gaged the attention of Mr. Wilson. As a writer he or of the underlying principles which form the basis has gained considerable repute. He is the. author of of all human rights and privileges. Unflagging ap many essays. briefs and monographs and has col plication, breadth of mental vision, and a certain laborated on a number of successful plays. With heritage of common sense are the concomitants an easy and graceful style, the products of his pen which go far to insure personal success and prestige always attract attention. in this great pro-fession, which stands as the stern In 1887 Mr. Wilson was married to Frances Eliza conservator of justice. Possessing all the requisite Patton, daughter of Dr. Thomas Patton of Newark. qualities of the trial lawyer and counsel, James P. Ohio, a former editor and proprietor of the Y oungs Wilson stands today in the front rank of the mem town Vindicator. To them have been born three bers of the legal profession in Ohio. He has been children: Richard Bartley, named for his maternal indeed eminently successful in his legal career, as great-grandfather; Mordecai Bartley, who was gov is indicated by his long and praiseworthy record at ernor, United States senator, and supreme judge of the bar. A master of his profession he ranks high Ohio, is a gradtfate of Brown University and Colum among men distinguished for the high order of their bia Law College and is a partner in the law firn'l legal ability, and his sound attainments and ripe with his father. James Taylor, who resides in Phila judgment have made him an authority on matters delphia, Pennsylvania, where he is general manacyer involving a profound knowledge of jurisprudence of the Cheri Corporation, served as United States and vexed and intricate questions which do not come coal controller of Rhode Island. He too is a grad into the practice of the ordinary lawyer. uate of Brown University, as is Harold Leslie the James P. Wilson was born in Lyons, Iowa. on youngest son, who is now manager of the ~ales February 6, 1857, and is the son of James T. and department of the Republic Rubber Company of Harriet (Hawes) Wilson. His father was a lawyer Youngstown, being in charge of the output of the of ability, having been admitted to the bar at Cleve Canton factory of that company. land in 1850. He successfully practiced his profes Politically James P Wilson is an earnest supporter sion in that city for five years and then moved to of the democratic party, though personally without Lyons. Iowa, where eventually he engaged in manu pol!tical aspirations. He. is a member of St. John's facturing and commercial pursuits. He afterwards EpIscopal churcht. of whIch he is a vestryman. He returneo tn Cleveland, where his death occurred in takes a deep interest in local public affairs, is director 1887, at the age of fifty-eIght years. Harriet of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and has (Hawes) \\'ilsnn was a woamn of superior mental served as a trustee of the Youngstown Public Li attainments. Broadminded and liberal, an-d pos hrary for twenty years. In 19I6 Brown University sessed of deep religious convictions, she became conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master closely identified with some of the more important of Arts. ~lthough . his life has been a busy one, charitable movements of Cleveland. h~s p:ofesslOnal affaIrs making heavy demands upon James P Wilson attended the public schools of h.ls. tlme, he ~as n~ve~ shrunk from his duties as a Cleveland, graduating from the Central High School cltlzen and hIS obbgatlOns to the community. Calm .

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