A. H. Tidball
A. H. Tidball, physician and surgeon, Garrettsville, Ohio, whose portrait appears in this volume, was born October 2, 1831, in Millersburg, Holmes Co., Ohio. His father, Joseph Tidball, who was born June 24, 1787, in Allegheny County, Penn., a hatter by trade, died in Shelby, Ohio, January 16, 1884, and his mother, Eliza K. (Linn) Tidball, born in Easton. N. J., August 13, 1801, died February 26, 1885, in Shelby, Ohio. They were parents of ten children. Our subject was educated in the common schools, studied medicine with Dr. J. Y. Cantwell, of Mansfield. Ohio, and graduated with high honors at the Cleveland Medical College. He began practicing his profession for which he had so well prepared himself, at Freedom, Portage County, in 1853. He practiced successfully for two years in northern Indiana and for the same length of time in Santa Cruz, Cal., and from 1859 to 1871 in Mesopotamia, Ohio. In 1871 he located in Garrettsville, this county, where he has merited a lucrative patronage. He is an A. F. & A. M., a member of the lodge and chapter at Garrettsville, St. John's Commandery, K. T., of Youngstown, and Ohio Consistory of Cincinnati, A. A. S. R., 32°. During the summer of 1880 he traveled extensively through Europe. Dr. Tidball was married. May 17, 1854, in Freedom, Ohio, to Lizzie J. Webb, born in Holley, Orleans Co., N. Y., March 23, 1833, daughter of James Webb, whose biography and portrait appear elsewhere in this work. To this union were born the following children: Frank Warren, Fred Luther, Linn Alonzo, and Stella Gertrude (latter deceased when three years old). Our subject, in politics, is a Democrat. He and his wife are earnest Christians, she being a member of the Congregational Church. Dr. Tidball is an eminent physican, a skillful surgeon, and although his home is in a small and comparatively quiet town, yet his opinions have been asked for, and in consultations his influence has been felt, in places of the highest rank. No trouble is too irksome, and no undertaking too severe for him, where human suffering is to be alleviated in any way. The Doctor always has time for such duties. In his intercourse with his fellow-men he is dignified and courteous, and his sociability gains him many friends. To all enterprises tending to the prosperity of Garrettsville, Dr. Tidball has given of his means freely, and the financial interests of any organization to which he may belong, either at home or abroad, are generously benefitted by his unstinting hand.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885