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THE BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS
OF OHIO
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1904-1905.
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A HANDBOOK OF THE : GOVERNMENT AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE OF OHIO
COMPILED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE ACT OF APRIL 19, 1904.
BY
F. E. SCOBEY, CLERK OF THE SENATE E. W. DOTY, CLERK OF THE HOUSE 76TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
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Springfield. Ohlo : The Springfield Publishing Company, State Printers. 1905.
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"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- vali 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 the direction of the General Assembly by Mr. E. Howard Gilkey was published under the name of the Hundred Year Book.
The Act of May 12, 1902, as amended April 19, 1904, 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 complete the matter heretofore published is reprinted in this volue covering the biographical history of Ohio from the formation of the Northwest Territory in 1787 to September 1, 1904.
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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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, Philadel- phia, July 9, 1778 13
The Ordinance of 1787, Philadelphia, July 13, 1787 24
· The Constitution of the United States of America, and Signers, Philadelphia, September 17, 1787 34
The Act of Congress Dividing the North-West Territory into Two Terri- tories, May 7, 1800 54
The Act of Congress Directing the Creation of the State of Ohio, 1802, with Supplementary Act of March 3, 1803. 56
The Act of Congress Recognizing the State of Ohio as a Member of the Union, February 19, 1803 62
The Act of Congress Ordering a Survey of the Western and Northern Boun- dary Lines of Ohio, May 20, 1812. 64
The First Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio (1802) 68
The First Constitution of the State of Ohio, and the Men who Made it, Chillico he, November 29, 1802 69
Notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1802 . 88
The Second Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio (1850-1851) 96
The Second (Present) Constitution of the State of Ohio
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The Third Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio (1872) 128
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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 con- nected 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 requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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 neces- sary 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 Representation 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 of 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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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 con- nected 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 requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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 neces- sary 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. .
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.
RHODE ISLAND.
Josiah Bartlett, .
Step. Hopkins,
Wm. Whipple,
William Ellery. . CONNECTICUT.
Matthew Thornton.
MASSACHUSETTS BAY.
Samuel Adams,
Roger Sherman, Sam'el Huntington,
John Adams,
William Williams,
Robert Treat Paine,
Elbridge Gerry.
Oliver Wolcott. MARYLAND.
NEW YORK.
Samuel Chase,
Wm. Floyd,
Wm. Paca,
Phil. Livingston,
Thos. Stone,
Frans. Lewis,
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
NEW JERSEY.
VIRGINIA.
Richd. Stockton, 1
George Wythe,
. Jno. Witherspoon,
Richard Henry Lee,
Fras. Hopkinson,
Th. Jefferson,
John Hart,
Benja. Harrison,
Thos. Nelson, Jr.,
Francis Lightfoot Lee,
Robt. Morris, Benjamin Rush,
Carter Braxton. NORTH CAROLINA.
John Morton, Geo. Clymer,
. Joseph Hewes, John Penn.
Jas. . Smith,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Geo. Taylor,
Edward Rutledge,
Thos. Heyward, Junr.,
Thos. Lynch, Junr.,
James Wilson, . Geo. Ross. DELAWARE. Ceasar Rodney, Geo. Read. Tho. M'Kean.
Arthur Middleton. GEORGIA. Button Gwinett, 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 emphasize the several utterances, and to bind them together. In the above copy. the arrangement 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 handwriting 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.
Lewis Morris.
Abra. Clark. PENNSYLVANIA.
Benj. Franklin,
Wm. Hooper,
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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.
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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 Independence of America agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetuated Union between · the States of Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Provi- dence Plantations, 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. 1
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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 duties, 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 removal 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 Gov- ernor 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 legislature of each state shall direct, to meet in 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 emolu- ments 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, each 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 congress, 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 profit 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 assembied, 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 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 appointed by the legsilature of each state respectively by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct, and a. 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 land within each state, granted to or 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 authority 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 receiving 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 appropriated. 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 courts 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 controversy 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 controversy, 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 deter- mination : and if either party shall neglect to attend at the day appointed, without showing reasons, which congress shall judge sufficient, or being
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