Charles Lysander Hemenway, A.M.
Charles Lysander Hemenway, A.M., son of Daniel Rand and Hannah (Beach) Hemenway, grandson of Uri and Hannah (Noble) Beach, and great-grandson of Obil Beach, was born in Jerome Township, Union Co., Ohio, May 16, 1840. He was left an orphan, by the death of his father, who died in West Jefferson, Madison Co., Ohio, March 1, 1844, when Charles, the oldest of three children, was only four years old. He was raised in Amity, Madison Co., Ohio, and was graduated at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in the class of 1862. He was, for one year, Superintendent of the Public Schools at Cardington, Morrow Co., Ohio, after which he commenced the study of law with the Hon. Samuel Sullivan Cox, of Columbus, Ohio, but died at West Jefferson, Ohio, April 27, 1863, of typhoid fever, aged twenty-two. In physical perfections, Christian gentleness, urbanity, suavity, and all the nameless graces and attractions that draw one to another, he excelled all gentlemen I have ever known. His sister, Harriet, had died at the age of fourteen; and a month after his death, the body of his brother, Edward, who had died in the army, was sent home for burial.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]