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Democrat
1,499
Samuel F. Vinton
Whig
1,144
Samuel Lewis
28
1853
William Medill.
Democrat
1,314
Nelson Barrere
Whig
861
Samuel Lewis
304
1855
William Medill
Democrat
1,422
Salmon P. Chase.
"Knownothing "
1,130
Allen Trimble
Old line Whig
207
1857 ...
Henry B. Payne
Democrat
1,608
Salmon P. Chase
Whig-Republican.
1,269
Philip Van Trump.
48
1859
Rufus P. Ranney William Dennison
Democrat
1,753
Republican
1,405
1861.
....
Democrat
1,658
Republican
1,604
1863
John Brough.
Republican
2,329
Clement L. Vallandigham
Democrat
1,798
...
Joseph Vance.
Whig ...
689
1840
Democrat
1,553
...
Hugh J. Jewett David Tod
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HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY VOTE FOR GOVERNOR-Continued.
Year.
Candidate.
Political Party.
Votes.
1865
Jacob D. Cox
1
1865 ..
George W. Morgan
Army
1
1,770
1867
Allen G. Thurman.
Democrat
2,300
Republican
1,982
1869
George H. Pendleton
Democrat
2,223
R. B. Hayes
Republican 1,662
1871
George W. McCook Edward F. Noyes ..
Republican
1,895
1873
William Allen
Democrat
1,961
Gideon T. Stewart
Jacob Collins
1875. William Allen
Democrat
2,239
R. B. Hayes
Republican
1,853
Jay Odell ...
33
1877.
Richard M. Bishop.
Democrat
2,221
W. H. West
Republican
1,862
Henry A. Thompson.
24
1879.
Thomas Ewing.
Democrat
2,600
Charles Foster
Republican
2,391
Gideon T. Stewart.
11
1881
John W. Bookwalter
2,610
Charles Foster
2,457 63
Abraham R. Ludlow John Seitz.
2
1883
George Hoadley
Democrat
2,910
J. B. Foraker
Republican
2,614
F. Schumaker
Prohibition
34
1885
J. B. Foraker
Republican
2,936
George Hoadley.
Democrat
2,657
1887
Thomas E. Powell.
Democrat
2,930
Republican
2,807
Prohibition
152
1889.
J. B. Foraker
Republican
2,950
James E. Campbell
Democrat
2,948
John B. Helwig ..
Prohibition
151
1891
William Mckinley
Republican
2,663
James E. Campbell.
Democrat
2,486
J. J. Ashenhurst John Seitz ..
Labor
441
1893.
William Mckinley
Republican
3,096
Lawrence T. Neal.
Democrat
2,959
G. P. Maclin
Prohibition
123
E. J. Bracken
Labor
38
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Republican 1,966
19/1
1,982
Army .
Democrat .1,769
Alexander Long.
Democrat
17
R. B. Hayes
Democrat
2,202
Edward F. Noyes.
Republican
1,558
Democrat Republican
J. B. Foraker Morris Sharp.
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VOTE FOR GOVERNOR-Concluded.
Year.
Candidate.
Political Party.
Votes.
1895
Asa S. Bushnell
Republican
3,062
James E. Campbell.
Democrat
3,051
Jacob Coxey
Labor
84
Seth Ellis.
Populist
169
1897
A. S. Bushnell
Republican
3,046
H. L. Chapman
Democrat
2,987
J. C. Holliday
Prohibition
54
Jacob S. Coxey.
Labor
14
Julius Dexter.
Gold Democrat
2
John Richardson
28
Samuel J. Lewis
Socialist
1
1899 ..
George K. Nash
Republican
3,381
John R. McLean.
Democrat
3,197
Seth Ellis
Union Reform
45
Samuel M. Jones
No party.
35
Robert Bandlow
Socialist.
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Adams County in the Legislature.
By N. W. EVANS.
By the provisions of the Constitution of 1802, Adams County had one senator and three representatives. This instrument provided that one year after the first meeting of the General Assembly and every four years thereafter, there should be an enumeration of the white male in- habitants above 21 years of age, and the Legislature should not have over twenty-four senators and thirty-six representatives until the white male inhabitants were more than 22,000; after that, there should not be over thirty-six senators and seventy-two representatives. The repre- sentatives were chosen annually on the second Tuesday of October, and the senators were chosen biennially, and were divided into two classes, one-half going out each year. Under this apportionment, Gen- eral Joseph Darlinton was the senator for the first legislative session, which met at Chillicothe, March 1, 1803, and adjourned April 16, 1803. Thomas Kirker, Joseph Lucas and William Russell were the repre- sentatives from Adams County.
The second legislative session was from December 5, 1803, to Feb- ruary 17, 1804. The general assembly was the constitutional term for the legislature, and met on the first Monday of December in each year. At this session, Thomas Kirker represented Adams and Scioto in the senate, and Daniel Collier, of Tiffin Township, John Wright, of Sprigg, and Abraham Shepherd, of Byrd Township, represented Adams in the lower house.
February 1I, 1804, was the first apportionment. In that, Adams and Scioto had one senator and three representatives. The enumera- tion of Adams County was 906, and of Scioto was 249, and a total of the entire state of 14,762.
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The third legislative session was the first under this apportion- ment, and Thomas Kirker was senator, and Philip Lewis, Abraham Shepherd, and Thomas Waller, of Scioto, were the representatives.
Philip Lewis resided in Jefferson Township, Shepherd in Byrd, and Waller at Alexandria, in Scioto County. This legislature remained in session from December 3, 1804, until February 22, 1805.
The fourth legislative session under the second apportionment, December 2, 1805, to January 27, 1806, Thomas Kirker was senator; Philip Lewis, Daniel Collier. and Abraham Shepherd were representa- tives.
At the fifth legislative session, Thomas Kirker was senator, Philip Lewis, James Scott and Abraham Shepherd were representatives. This legislature was in session from December 1, 1806, to February 4, 1807.
At the sixth legislative session, December 7, 1807, to February 22, 1808, Thomas Kirker was senator, Alexander Campbell, of Hunting- ton Township, Andrew Ellison, of Tiffin Township, and Philip Lewis, of Jefferson Township, were representatives.
On February 11, 1807, the third apportionment was made. The enumeration of the entire state was 31,308. Adams and Scioto coun- ties were given two representatives and one senator. Under this, Thomas Kirker was senator, Alexander Campbell and Andrew Ellison were representatives. The seventh legislature was in session from De- cember 5, 1808, to February 21, 1809.
At the eighth legislative session, December 4, 1809, to February 22, 1810, Thomas Kirker was senator, and Alexander Campbell and William Russell were representatives.
At the ninth legislative session, December 3, 1810, to January 30, 1811, Thomas Kirker was senator, and John W. Campbell and Abra- ham Shepherd were representatives.
February 27, 1812, the fourth apportionment was made. Adams County was given one senator and two representatives.
At the tenth legislative session, December 10, 1811, to February 21, 1812, Thomas Kirker represented Adams County in the senate, and John Ellison, Jr., and William Russell in the house.
At the eleventh legislative session, December 7, 1812, to February 9, 1813, which was under the fourth apportionment, Thomas Kirker was senator and John Ellison and William Russell were representa- tives.
At the twelfth legislative session, December 6, 1813, to February II, 1814, Thomas Kirker was senator, John Ellison, Jr., and John W. Campbell were representatives.
At the thirteenth legislative session, December 5, 1814, to Feb- ruary 16, 1815, Thomas Kirker was senator and John Ellision Jr., and Nathaniel Beasley were representatives.
At the fourteenth legislative session, December 4, 1815, to Feb- ruary 4, 1816, Abraham Shepherd was senator and John W. Campbell and Josiah Lockhart were representatives.
At the fifteenth legislative session, December 2, 1816, to January 28, 1817, Abraham Shepherd was senator, John Ellison, Jr., and Thomas Kirker were representatives. At this session, Shepherd was speaker of the senate and Kirker speaker of the house.
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At the fifth legislative session, 1806 and 1807, Thomas Kirker had been speaker of the senate and Abraham Shepherd speaker of the house. At the sixteenth legislative session, December 1, 1817, to January 30, 1818, Abraham Shepherd was speaker of the senate and represented Adams County, while Robert Morrison, better known as "Judge Morri- son" and William Middleton were representatives from Adams County. At the seventeenth legislative session, December 7, 1818, to Feb- ruary 9, 1819, Nathaniel Beasley represented Adams County in the senate and George R. Fitzgerald and Robert Morrison in the house.
At the eighteenth legislative session, December 6, 1819, to Feb- ruary 26, 1820, the sixth legislative apportionment was made, and Adams County was given one senator and one representative. The enumeration of the state at that time was 98,780. At this session, Wil- liam Russell was senator and Nathaniel Beasley and Robert Morrison were representatives.
At the nineteenth legislative session, December 4, 1820, to Feb- ruary 3, 1821, under this apportionment, William Russell was senator and Robert Morrison representative.
At the twentieth legislative session, December 3, 1821, to Feb- ruary 4, 1822, Thomas Kirker was senator and George R. Fitzgerald was representative.
At the twenty-first legislative session, December 2, 1822, to Jan- uary 28, 1823, Thomas Kirker was senator and John Fisher, representa- tive.
At the twenty-second legislative session, December 1, 1823, to February 26, 1824, Thomas Kirker was senator, and Henry Steece, representative. At this session, the seventh apportionment was made. Brown County was given two representatives and Adams one, and the two counties were given one senator, but it was provided that one sen- ator and one representative should be chosen from each county, and the two representatives from the other, and this was to be done alter- nately. Brown County was to have the senator first.
At the twenty-third legislative session, December 6, 1824. to February 8, 1825, Thomas Kirker appeared as senator again and John Means was representative. This was the last appearance of Thomas Kirker in public life.
At the twenty-fourth legislative session, December 5, 1825, to February 5, 1826, Abraham Shepherd was senator from Adams and Brown, and John Means and James Rogers were representatives from Adams.
At the twenty-fifth legislative session, Abraham Shepherd, of Brown, was senator and John Patterson and William Robbins of Adams County were representatives.
At the twenty-sixth legislative session, December 3, 1827, to Feb- ruary 12, 1828, John Fisher was senator from Adams and Brown coun- ties and William Robbins was representative. At this session, the eighth apportionment was made. Adams and Brown were together given one senator and the two counties, one representative, and one additional representative. Brown, having the office in 1828 and Adams in 1829 and alternately thereafter during the period the apportionment continued.
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At the twenty-seventh legislative session, December 1, 1828, to February 12, 1829, John Fisher was senator and John Patterson repre- sentative.
At the twenty-eighth legislative session, December 7, 1829, to Feh- ruary 23, 1830, John Cochran of Brown County, was senator and Abra- ham Moore and John Patterson were representatives.
At the twenty-ninth legislative session, December 1, 1830, to March 14, 1831, John Cochran, of Brown County, was senator and John Patterson, representative. George Edwards and Nathan Ellis repre- sented Brown, the latter being the floater.
At the thirtieth legislative session, December 5, 1831, to February 13, 1832, Joseph Riggs represented Adams County and Brown County in the senate and William Robbins and George Collins represented Adams County in the house.
On the thirteenth of June, 1832, at an adjourned session, the ninth apportionment was made, but heretofore, the enumeration had always been made in August preceding the meeting of the legislature, but it seems it was not completed before legislature met and that necessitated an extra session. The enumeration was not completed until after the regular legislature had adjourned. Adams and Brown were given one senator and Adams one representative.
At the thirty-first legislative session, December 3, 1832, to Jan- uary 25, 1833, under this apportionment, Joseph Riggs was senator from Adams and Brown, and William Robbins was representative.
At the thirty-second legislative session, December 2, 1833, to March 3, 1834, James Pilson, of Brown, was senator and John Patter- son, representative from Adams. These same persons were senator and representatives respectively at the thirty-third legislative session, December 31, 1834, to March 9, 1835.
At the thirty-fourth legislative session, December 5, 1835, to March 14, 1836, John Patterson represented Adams and Brown coun- ties in the senate and William Robbins represented Adams County in the house. At this session, the tenth apportionment was made, and Adams, Brown and Scioto were given one senator and two representa- tives.
At the thirty-fifth legislative session, December 5, 1836, to April 3, 1837, under this apportionment, John Patterson was senator, John Glover, of Scioto, and James Loudon, of Brown, were representatives.
At the thirty-sixth legislative session, December 4, 1837, to March 19, 1838, Charles White, of Brown, was senator and Nelson Barerre, of Adams, and William Kendall, of Scioto, were representatives.
At the thirty-seventh legislative session, December 3, 1838, to March 18, 1839, Charles White, of Brown, was senator, and John H. Blair, of Brown, and John Leedom, of Adams, were representatives.
At the thirty-eighth legislative session, December 2, 1839, to March 23, 1840, John Glover, of Scioto, was senator and John H. Blair of Brown, and Joseph Leedom, of Adams, were representatives.
On March 23, 1840, the eleventh apportionment was made. Adams, Highland and Fayette were made one legislative district with one senator and two representatives and an additional repesentative in 1840.
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At the thirty-ninth legislative session, December 7, 1840, to March 29, 1841, John Glover was held over and was senator from Adams, Brown and Scioto, but the representatives were elected under the eleventh apportionment. James Carothers, of Fayette, David Reese and James Smith, of Highland, were representatives.
At the fortieth legislative session, December 6, 1841, to March 7, 1842, William Robbins, of Adams County, was senator and Abraham Lowman, of Fayette, and John A. Smith, of Highland, were represen- tatives.
At the forty-first legislative session, December 5, 1842, to March 13, 1843, William Robbins, of Adams, was senator, and Robert Robin- son, of Fayette, and John A. Smith, of Highland, were the representa- tives.
At the forty-second legislative session, December 4, 1843, to March 13, 1844, John M. Barrere, of Highland County, was senator, and, Burnham Martin, of Fayette, and Hugh Means, of Adams County, were the representatives.
At this session on March 12, 1844, the twelfth apportionment was made. Highland, Adams and Pike were given one senator, and Adams and Pike one representative.
At the forty-third legislative session, December 2, 1844, to March 13, 1845, John M. Barerre, of Highland, was senator, and Joshua M. Britton of Pike, was representative.
At the forty-fourth legislative session, December 1, 1845, to March 2, 1846, Tilbery Reid, of Pike County, was senator and Daniel Cockerill was representative.
At the forty-fifth legislative session, December 7, 1846, to Feb- ruary 8, 1847, Tilbery Reid was senator and John P. Bloomhuff, of Adams, was representative.
At the forty-sixth legislative session, December 6, 1847, to Feb- ruary 25, 1848, Jonas R. Emrie, of Highland County, was senator, and Amos Corwine, of Pike, was representative. At this session, the thir- teenth apportionment was made and Adams and Pike had one repre- sentative and those two counties and Scioto and Lawrence, one senator, elected in 1849 and 1851.
At the forty-seventh legislative session, December 4, 1848, to March 26, 1849, Jonas R. Emrie, of Highland, held over as senator, and Daniel Cockerill, of Adams, was the representative.
At the forty-eighth legislative session, December 3, 1849, to March 25, 1850, William Salter, of Scioto, was the senator and Jacob Taylor, of Pike, the representative.
At the forty-ninth legislative session, December 2, 1850, to March 25, 1851, William Salter was senator and John M. Smith, of Adams, the representative.
The fiftieth general assembly was elected under the apportionment in the new constitution. Under this, Adams, Jackson, Pike and Scioto constitute the seventh senatorial district, and have one senator, which has been the case from 1852 until now; Adams had one representa- tive until 1891 and since, Adams and Pike has had one representative, and the table of senators and representatives is as follows :-
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Senators.
Year.
Name.
County.
Party.
1852-1853 ..
OscarF. Moore
Scioto ..
Whig. Democrat.
1854-1855.
Thomas McCauslin
Adams
1856-1858
Hezekiah S. Bundy ....
Jackson
Republican.
1858-1860
George Corwine.
Pike
Republican.
1860-1862
William Newman.
Scioto
Democrat.
1862-1864.
Benjamin F. Coates.
Adams
Democrat.
1864-1868
John T. Wilson.
Adams
Republican.
1868-1872.
James Emmitt.
Pike
Democrat.
1872-1876
James W. Newman
Scioto.
Democrat.
1876-1878
I. T. Monham
Jackson
Democrat.
1878-1880
Irvine Dungan
Jackson
Democrat.
1880-1884
John K. Pollard.
Adams
Republican.
1884-1888
John W. Gregg
Adams
Republican.
1888-1892 ..
Amos B. Cole ..
Scioto.
Republican.
1892-1896
Dudley B. Phillips
Adams
Republican.
1896-1900.
Elias Crandall
Jackson
Republican.
1900-1902 ..
Samuel L. Patterson.
Pike
Republican.
The Representatives in the same period have been :
Year.
Name.
Party.
1852-1853 ..
Joseph R. Cockerill.
1854-1856
Jessie Ellis.
1856-1858.
Moses J. Patterson.
1858-1860.
John W. McFerran
1860-1862.
Moses J. Patterson
1862-1864
David C. Vance ....
Democrat.
1864-1866
William W. West
1866-1868
Henty L. Philips (part)
William D. Burbage (part)
1868-1872
Joseph R. Cockerill.
Democrat. Democrat.
1874-1876
Richard Ramsey
Republican. Democrat. Democrat.
1880-1884
James L. Coryell.
1884-1886.
John B. Young
1886-1888.
William A Blair
1888-1890.
John W. Shinn
1890-1892.
William A. Blair (contested)
R. H. Peterson (seated)
1892-1894.
John W. Hayes, Pike
1894-1896
A. Bayhan, Pike .
1896-1900. ...
A. C. Smith, Adams.
1900-1902.
Joseph D. Wilson, Pike
Democrat. Democrat. Democrat. Democrat. Democrat.
Democrat. Republican. Republican.
1872-1874
Jesse Ellis ..
1876-1880.
Joseph W. Eylar.
Democrat. Republican. Democrat. Republican. Democrat.
Republican. Democrat. Republican. Republican.
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GEN. JOSEPH DARLINTON MEMBER OF THE FIRST TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE
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General Joseph Darlinton.
In this age of pessimism, agnosticism, materialism, skepticism and other isms, it is refreshing to go in the past for two generations and find a character whose faith in our Christian religion, was as pure, sin- cere, true and genuine as the sunlight. We know of no such character now and it elevates the soul to find one of a former generation and to contemplate his life. Such was Joseph Darlinton. He was born July 19, 1765, within four miles of Winchester, Va., on a plantation of over four hundred acres, owned by his father, Meredith Darlinton. It was a pleasant home with delightful surroundings, as the writer, who has visited it, can testify. He was the fourth of seven children, six sons and a daughter. He grew up on his father's plantation, receiving such education as Winchester then afforded, and he went through all the experiences of the average boy. He was too young to have been a soldier in the Revolution, but old enough to imbibe the spirit of the times. When he was twelve years old, in 1777, six hundred of the prisoners, British and Hessians, taken at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, were kept on his father's plantation from that time until the close of the war. A part of them were lodged in his father's barn, and for the remainder, barracks were built which they occupied. As might be expected, young Darlinton spent much of his time with them, trading knives and trinkets, and listening to their wonderful stories of travel and adventure. He was, by their influence, filled with a consuming desire to see the world, so much so that, when of age, he begged his father to advance him his patrimony, which he did. Young Darlinton went to Philadelphia, and from thence took a sea voyage to New Orleans, and returned to his home by land. While seeing the world, he spent his money freely, and lived extravagantly. Had he lived in our day, he would have been called a dude or a dandy, but those names were not then invented, and so he was a young gentleman of fashion. He wore a queue, and as the young men of that day vied with each other which could have the thickest and longest queue, he had one as thick as an ordinary arm and very long. In his travels, he found Miss Sarah Wilson, at Romney, W. Va. She was an heiress, possessed of lands and slaves, and was the belle of the two counties of Frederick and Hampshire. She had many suitors, among whom was young Darlinton, and the future statesman, Albert Gallatin. Darl- inton was the best looking and won the lady. He was married to her at Romney, March 18, 1790. He was, at the ceremony, dressed in a ruffled shirt, coat, waistcoat, knee breeches, silk stockings, great shoe buckles, and with his abundant hair pomaded and powdered and with his wonderful queue. He lived in Romney till about the close of 1790, when he moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, on a farm which his wife owned there. His oldest son, John Meredith, was born there De- cember 14, 1791, and his second son, George Wilson, was also born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1793. The same year he and his wife united with the Presbyterian Church. While in Fayette County, he began his long career of office holding, having been chosen a county commissioner. It is told in the family that while living in Pennsylvania, young Darlinton and his wife were much discour- aged. They often talked and wept together and thought there was
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nothing in the world for them. However, they concluded to try a new country, and they, with their two children, in October, 1794, left .Penn- sylvania. They descended the Ohio, on a "broadhorn" and landed at Limestone, Kentucky, November 14, 1794. He went from there to the mouth of Cabin Creek, where he kept a ferry. Tiring of this he bought land just across the river in Ohio, and removed there. In the spring . of 1797, believing that the county seat would be at Washington, below the mouth of Brush Creek, he moved there. When the county was organized on July 10, 1797, he was, by Governor St. Clair, appointed its judge of probate, and thus became Judge Darlinton. How long he held this office has not been ascertained.
In March, 1798, at Adamsville, he was, by the Court of Quarter Ses- sions, appointed one of the three first county commissioners of Adams County and clerk of the board. James Scott and Henry Massie were the other two. In this same year, he was made an elder in the Presby- terian Church, which office he held for the remainder of his life. In 1803, he located lands east of the site of West Union and built a double hewed log house on the same, on the hill opposite Cole's spring. The house and spring have long since disappeared. He was elected a representative from Adams to the first Territorial Legislature. It sat from November 24, 1799, until January 29, 1801. He also repre- sented Adams in the second Territorial Legislature, which sat from No- vember 23, 1801, till January 23, 1802. He was one of the three mem- bers from Adams in the first Constitutional Convention, which sat irom November 1, 1802, until the twenty-ninth of the same year. As this body transacted most of its business in the committee of the whole, its record is meagre. He was on the committee on privileges and elec- tions. On November 3, he voted against listening to a speech from Gov. St. Clair. He was on the committee to report a preamble to the first article of the constitution. On November 6, he was appointed on the committee to prepare the second article of the constitution, and on the eighth of November, he presided over the committee of the whole. He was also on the committee to prepare the third article on the judiciary. He was also on the committee to print the journal of the convention. He and his colleagues voted to retain the word "white" to the qualifica- tions of electors. It is sufficient to say that he was present at every session and voted on every question before the body. In the first Legis- lature, of the state he was a member of the Senate and served from March 1, 1803, until April 16, following.
On the sixteenth of April, 1803, he was elected one of the first three associate judges of Adams County, but resigned February 16, 1804, and Needham Perry was appointed in his place. On September 10, 1804, he was commissioned by the Governor lieutenant colonel of the Ist Brigade, Ist Regiment, 2nd Division, Ohio Militia, and thus he be- came Colonel Darlinton. He was commissioned a brigadier general of the militia March 17, 1806, and thus became General Darlinton, by which title he was ever afterwards known. He was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas of Adams County, August 3, 1802, and continued to hold that position by successive appointments until Au- gust, 1847, when he resigned, as he wrote to Judge Cutler, of Marietta,
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