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THE BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS OF OHIO,
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A HANDBOOK OF THE GOVERNMENT AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE OF OHIO.
COMPILED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE ACT OF MAY 12, 1902,
BY
F. E. SCOBEY, CLERK OF THE SENATE, B. L. MCELROY, CLERK OF THE HOUSE, 75TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
THE "OHIO STATESMEN AND HUNDRED YEAR BOOK,"
OF WHICH THIS BOOK IS A REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION, WAS COPYRIGHTED A. D. 1892 BY COL. W. A. TAYLOR. THE COPYRIGHT WAS PURCHASED BY THE STATE OF OHIO, BY THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1898 (O. L. VOL. 93, PAGE 29) , WHICH CONTAINED THE FOLLOWING PROVISION: "WHEREBY THE STATE AFORESAID SHALL HAVE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO MAKE FUTURE PUBLICATION OF SAID WORK FOR ITS USE AND BENEFIT."
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PREFACE.
T HE "Biographical Annals of Ohio" is the outcome of efforts to preserve in ready reference form the names and history of the men who have served the State. In 1888-1892, Col. William A. Taylor, a well-known journalist, collected from official sources much of the matter which appears within these covers and published as a pri- vate enterprise "The Ohio Statesman and Hundred Year Book." The General Assembly purchased and distributed an edition of 7,500 copies. In 1896-98 a revised edition under the name of the "Ohio Statesman and Annals of Progress" was prepared by Col. Taylor. The State through an act of the General Assembly purchased the manuscript and copyright of the work and printed for gratuitous distribution an edition of 9,500 copies.
In 1900-1901 another revision, prepared under direction of the General Assembly by Mr. E. H. Gilkey was published under the name of the Hundred Year Book.
The Act of May 12, 1902, contemplates the publication of a work of this character biennially under the name of "The Biographical Annals of Ohio." In order that the series may be com- plete the matter heretofore published is reprinted in this volume cover- ing the biographical history of Ohio from the formation of the North- west Territory in 1787 to July 1, 1902. It is not presumed that this matter will be reprinted.
The present compilers make no claim to originality or authorship. They acknowledge their obligations to Col. Taylor, Mr. Gilkey and the others who have contributed hours of research and labor to the sum of this result.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
For greater convenience, the contents of this volume are arranged in eight divisions, or parts, each part being preceded with a table of contents which will be found a ready guide to the information contained therein. The several parts, with their indexes, will be found on the pages indicated below:
PART ONE.
PAGE The Fundamental Documents (1776 to 1851), and the Men who Framed Them. 7
PART TWO.
The Legislative Department of Territorial and State Government. 121 Members and Officers of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly 327
PART THREE.
The Executive Department of the Territorial and State Government-Its
Members and Officers
489
PART FOUR.
The Judiciary of the Territorial and State Government-Its Constitution and Membership .- 623
PART FIVE.
United States Officials from Ohio, Past and Present. ... 739
PART SIX.
The Counties of Ohio-Organization and Population.
791
PART SEVEN.
State Institutions, Homes, Schools, Hospitals and Universities, with Illus- trations 821
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GEORGE K. NASH, GOVERNOR OF OHIO, 1900-1904. (See Biography, Part III.)
PART ONE.
FUNDAMENTAL DOCUMENTS.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS - PART ONE.
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The Declaration of Independence, and Signers, Philadelphia, July 4, 1776 ... 9 The Act of Confederation of the American Colonies, and Signers, Philadelphia., July 9, 1778 13
The Ordinance of 1787, Philadelphia, July 13, 1787 23
The Constitution of the United States of America, and Signers, Philadelphia, September 17, 1787 . 30
The Act of Congress Dividing the North-West Territory into Two Territories, May 7, 1800 50
The Act of Congress Directing the Creation of the State of Ohio, 1802, with Supplementary Act of March 3, 1803 . 52
The Act of Congress Recognizing the State of Ohio as a Member of the Union, February 19, 1803 58
The Act of Congress Ordering a Survey of the Western and Northern Boundary Lines of Ohio, May 20, 1812
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The First Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio (1802) 62
The First Constitution of the State of Ohio, and the Men who Made It, Chilli- cothe, November 29, 1802 63
Notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1802 80
The Second Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio (1850-1851) 85
The Second (Present) Constitution of the State of Ohio. 88 The Third Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio (1872) 117
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THE DECLARATION OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
IN CONFEDERATE CONGRESS, JULY 4TH, 1776.
THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN STATES OF AMERICA.
W HEN in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind re- quires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the sepa- ration.
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experi- ence hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of usages and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Govern- ment. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the estab- lishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained ; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large
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The Declaration of Independence.
districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Rep- resentation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncom- fortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Anni- hilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the Consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation :
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them by a mock trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States :
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world :
For imposing taxes on us without our consent :
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury :
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses :
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies :
For taking away our Charters, abolish our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments :
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For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves in- vested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his pro- tection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of mercenaries to com- plete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely parallelled in the most bar- barous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection amongst us, and has endeav- oured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren .. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and our correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separa- tion, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the Good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; and that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, con- clude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for
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the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our For- tunes and our sacred Honor. JOHN HANCOCK.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Josiah Bartlett,
Wm. Whipple,
Matthew Thornton .
MASSACHUSETTS BAY.
Roger Sherman,
Samuel Adams,
Sam'el Huntington,
John Adams,
William Williams,
Robert Treat Paine,
Oliver Wolcott.
Elbridge Gerry. NEW YORK.
Samuel Chase,
Wm. Floyd,
Wm. Paca,
Phil. Livingston,
Thos. Stone,
Frans. Lewis,
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
Lewis Morris.
VIRGINIA.
NEW JERSEY.
Richd. Stockton,
Richard Henry Lee,
Jno. Witherspoon,
Fras. Hopkinson,
John Hart,
Abra. Clark.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Robt. Morris,
Benjamin Rush,
Benj. Franklin,
John Morton,
Joseph Hewes, John Penn.
Geo. Clymer,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Jas. Smith,
Edward Rutledge,
Geo. Taylor,
Thos. Heyward, Junr. ,
James Wilson,
Thos. Lynch, Junr.,
Geo. Ross.
Arthur Middleton.
DELAWARE.
Ceasar Rodney,
GEORGIA. Button Gwinett,
Geo. Read, Tho. M'Kean.
Lyman Hall, Geo. Walton.
NOTE-In the facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, as in the original, the whole instrument runs without a break, dashes being freely used to empha- size the several utterances, and to bind them together. In the above copy, the ar- rangement of paragraphs adopted in the old Congress, and inserted in its journal, and which is also found in the original draft of the Declaration in the hand- writing of the author now in the custody of the State Department at Washington, has been followed with care, that the reader may have a correct transcript. The spelling, capitalization, and punctuation is as in the authority referred to.
Th. Jefferson,
Benja. Harrison,
Thos. Nelson, Jr.,
Francis Lightfoot Lee,
Carter Braxton, NORTH CAROLINA.
Wm. Hooper,
George Wythe,
RHODE ISLAND. Step. Hopkins, William Ellery . CONNECTICUT.
MARYLAND.
ACT OF CONFEDERATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
JULY 9, 1778.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WE, THE UNDERSIGNED DELEGATES OF THE STATES AFFIXED TO OUR NAMES, SEND GREETING.
W HEREAS the Delegates of the United States of America in Con- gress assembled did on the 15th day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Seven, and in the Second Year of the Independance of America agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetuated Union between the States of Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Planta- tions, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia in the Words following viz :
"ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND PERPETUAL UNION BETWEEN THE STATES OF NEWHAMPSHIRE, MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, RHODEISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS, CONNECTICUT, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA."
ARTICLE I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America."
ARTICLE II. Each state retains its Sovereignty, freedom and inde- pendence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and Right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in, Congress as- sembled.
ARTICLE III. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon, them or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
ARTICLE IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different states in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from Justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same du- ties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively,
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provided that such restrictions shall not extend so far as to prevent the re- moval of property imported into the state, to any other state of which the Owner is an inhabitant ; provided also that no imposition, duties or restric- tion shall be laid by any state, on the property of the united states, or either of them. If any Person is guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any state, shall flee from Justice, and be found in any of the united states, he shall upon demand of the Governor or executive power, of the state from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the state having jurisdiction of his offence.
Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these states to the records, acts and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other state.
ARTICLE V. For the more convenient management of the general interest of the united states, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislatureof each state shall direct, to meetin Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each state, to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the year. No state shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years ; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the united states for which he, or another for his benefit receives any salary, fees or emoluments of any kind.
Each state shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the states, and while they act as members of the committee of the states.
In determining questions in the united states, in Congress assembled, cach state shall have one vote.
Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any Court, or place out of Congress, and the members of congress shall be protected in their persons from arrests and imprison- ments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on con- gress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace.
ARTICLE VI. No state without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state ; nor shall any person holding any office of prof- it or trust under the united states, or any of them, accept of any present' or trust under the united states, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king prince or foreign state; nor shall the united states in congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility.
No two or more states shall enter into any treaty, confederation or alliance whatever between them, without the consent of the united states
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in congress assembled, specifying accurately the purposes for which the same is to entered into, and how long it shall continue.
No state shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the united states in congress assembled with any king, prince, or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by congress to the courts of France and Spain.
No vessels of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any state, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the united states in congress assembled, for the defence of such state, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any state, in time of peace, except such number only, as in the judgment of the united states, in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts neces- sary for the defence of such state; but every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, am- munition and camp equipage.
No state shall engage in any war without the consent of the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such state, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the united states in congress assembled can be consulted nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the united states in congress assembled shall determine otherwise.
ARTICLE VII. When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel, shall be ap- pointed by the legislature of each state respectively by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct, and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment.
ARTICLE VIII. All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the united states in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a com- mon treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states, in proportion to the value of all lard within each state, granted to cr surveyed for any Person, as such land and the buildings and the improvements thereon
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shall be estimated according to such mode as the united states in congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint.
The taxes for paying that portion shall be laid and levied by the "uthority and direction of the legislatures of the several states within the time agreed upon by the united states in congress assembled.
ARTICLE IX. The united states in congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article-of sending and receiv- ing embassadors-entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners, as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever-of establishing rules for deciding in all cases, what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the united states shall be divided or ap- propriated --- of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace- appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing cou:ts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts. The united states in con- gress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any cause whatever; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following. Whenever the legislative or executive authority or lawful agent of any state in con- troversy with another shall present a petition to congress stating the matter in question and praying for a hearing, notice thereof shall be given by congress to the legislative or executive authority of the other state in con- troversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question : but if they cannot agree, congress shall name three persons out of each of the united states, and from the list of such persons each party shall alternately strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen; and from that number not less than seven, nor more than nine names as congress shall direct, shall in the presence of congress be drawn out by lot, and the persons whose names shall be so drawn, or any five of them, shall be commissioners or judges to hear and finally determine the controversy, so always as a major part of the judges who shall hear the cause shall agree in the determination : and if either party shall neglect to attend at the day appointed, without showing reasons, which congress shall judge sufficient, or being present
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