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Born 1832, Vernon township
From History of Crawford County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1912), History of Crawford County and Ohio : containing a history of the State of Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time ... a history of Crawford County ... (1881)
D. C. CAHILL, lawyer, Bucyrus; was born Nov. 2, 1832, in Vernon Township, and is a son of R. W. and Eliza (Cummins) Cahill. His youth wtis spent on a farm, and at the age of 20, he, in the fall of 1852, entered the preparatory department of Wittenberg College, at Springfield, Ohio, where he remained until 1 856, after which he spent one term at the Ohio Wesieyan University. In 1857, he went back to Wittenberg, where he completed the entire course, except the formality of graduating. Owing to the failing health of his father, he then took charge of the homestead. In the fall of 1868, he came to Bucyrus, and entered the law office of S. R. Harris, Esq., for the purpose of studying law. He was admitted to the bar; Dec. 20, 1860, and practiced here until April, 1865, when he made a trip to San Francisco, Cal., overland, being nearly six months on the way. arriving there in September, having visited many points of interest during the journey. He went to Oregon and held an office in Linn Co., from September, 1866, until April, 1867. He then returned via Panama to New York, and was called home by the illness of his brother, who was practicing law at Dayton, Ohio. At the close of 1867, he re-opened a law office in Bucyrus; closed his office in September, 1868, and traveled with his brother, until his death, at San Antonio, Texas, in December following, In June, 1869, he returned home and resumed his law practice, in his present office, as the partner of Judge Thomas Beer. He was out hunting in December of this year.
when, by an accidental discharge of his gun, he received a painful wound, which disabled him for about eighteen months. In the latter part of 1871, he was employed by the Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Blichigan Railroad, to obtain the right of way through the county. In the spring of 1 872, he again opened a law office and practiced until his election as Clerk of the Court in October, taking charge of the office in February," 1874, and retired in February, 1880, when he resumed his law practice with his brother Isaac Cahill, under the firm name of Cahill Brothers, in No. 7 Quinby Block. He was married in October, 1875, to Miss A. E. J. Juilliard, of Bucyrus, who was born in Stark County, Ohio, and is a daughter of John N. Juilliard. She came to Bucyrus in 1867, where she learned the millinery business with Miss Jennie L. Anderson, and was partner for one season. Since 1 868, she has done a large business alone; employing from six to fourteen ladies in the millinery department. She keeps a large stock of millinery and notions.
As printed in History of Crawford County and Ohio : containing a history of the State of Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time ... a history of Crawford County ... (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
D. C. CAHILL, a well known member of the Bucyrus bar, formerly clerk of the courts of Crawford county, has been engaged in the practice of law in this city, although not continuously, since 1860, when he was admitted to the bar. He was born in Vernon township, Crawford county, O., Nov. 2, 1832, and is a son of R. W. and Eliza (Cummins) Cahill.
Mr. Cahill spent his early years on the home farm, and later, to assist his father, passed more time there. He was educated in the Wittenberg College, and completed the entire term in that institution. In th? fall of 1857 he came to Bucyrus and completed his course in law, was admitted to the bar three years later and afterward engaged in the practice of his profession in this city until April, 1865, when he closed his office in order to make a visit to the Pacific coast. Traveling in a leisurely way and stopping at interesting places, he reached California and went from there to Oregon, and from April, 1866, until he started back east, he served as deputy clerk of the county courts of Linn county. In his return to New York Mr. Cahill traveled over what was then an interesting part of the Western hemisphere and which is doubly so at present, crossing the Isthmus of Panama in the irregular and unsafe manner of transportation of that time, without ever a thought of the great Gatun Dam that has eaten its way through miles of that wilderness, or of the mighty waterway that will invite the commerce of every nation.
For a few months Mr. Cahill again practiced law at Bucyrus, but once more closed his office in order to be free to accompany an ailing brother to the warmer clime of Texas, where the latter died three months later. In June, 1869, Mr. Cahill resumed his law practice at Bucyrus but shortly afterward was incapacitated by a painful accident, which prevented further professional effort until 1872. In 1874 he was elected county clerk of Crawford county and continued as such until 1880. After leaving public life, Mr. Cahill once more resumed his practice of law and has ever since maintained his office in the Quinby Block, being in partnership with a brother, the firm name being Cahill Brothers. General law has been his line and he has the reputation of being one of the safest and most conservative advisers among the older members of the Bucyrus bar.
As printed in History of Crawford County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: S. R. Harris (b. 1824) Thomas Beer
Their biographies name D. C. Cahill: Charles W. Timanus (b. 1845)
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