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He attended school in Manchester and at the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity at Delaware, Ohio, in 1869, 1870 and 1871, when he gave up his course. He took up the study of law in the fall of 1872, with Colo- nel Oscar F. Moore, of Portsmouth, and was admitted in April, 1874. He began the practice of law in Manchester, where he has since con- tinued to reside. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Adams County, and served one term. In the fall of 1891, he was a candi- date for Common Pleas Judge in the First Sub-division of the Fifth Common Pleas district, composed of Adams, Brown and Clermont Counties, when there was a nominal Democratic majority of about 1500. He had 800 majority in Adams County and was elected. His county was taken from the First Sub-division of the Fifth District by the Legislature, and placed in the Second Suv-division of the Seventh District, and in the latter he was nominated and elected Common Pleas Judge in 1896, and was re-elected in 1901 without opposition Judge Collings has always been a Republican in his political faith and practice, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
He was married September 20th, 1882, to Alice Gibson, daugh- ter of Rev. T. R. Gibson. There are two children of this marriage, Henry Davis and Mary King. Judge Collings had a reputation as an able lawyer before he went on the bench, and has more than sustained it. He is well trained as a lawyer, has a clear judicial mind, and in his investigations groups all the essential points of a case and, when he has determined it, the opposing party is satisfied that he has deter- mined it impartially and according to his conception of the law. In addition to his excellent qualities as a judge he has a fine sense of hu- mor, which is continually asserting itself and makes Judge Collings' intercourse with the lawyers and his best friends have a spice which is most entertaining and delightful. But as he inherited this most en- tertaining quality from his distinguished father, we do not propose to hold him responsible for it. Judges, like poets, are born, not made. Our subject was born to be a judge, has found the vocation for which he is best suited, and is filling his destiny to the satisfaction of all who have business in his Court. It is a happy fate for the Judge and happy for his constituents that he struck the job for which he was best intended.
CHAPTER IV.
SCIOTO COUNTY IN THE LEGISLATURE.
Table of State Senators, with Sessions, Terms, Districts and Politics Biographies of Senators-Scioto County in the House of Representatives-Table of Representa- tives, with Sessions, Terms, Districts and Politics-Biographies of Representatives.
TABLE OF STATE SENATORS.
SESSION.
TERM.
NAME.
DISTRICT.
1st
1803
Joseph Darlington, F
Adamıs.
2d-7th.
1803-1809
Thomas Kirker, D
Adams and Scioto.
8th -10th
1809-1812
John P. R. Bureau, D
Gallia and Scioto.
11tl
1812-1813
Thomas Rogers, D
Gallia and Scioto.
12tl1 ..
1813-1814 ..
Lewis Summer, D
Gallia and Scioto.
13th-144th
1814-1816
Robert Lucas, D
Gallia and Scioto.
15th-16th
1816-1818
Robert Lucas, D
Gallia, Scioto, Pike and Jackson.
17th-18tl
1818-1820
Robert Lucas, D
Gallia, Lawrence, Scioto, Pike, Jackson.
19th-20th
1820-1822
Robert Lucas, D
Pike, Scioto and Lawrence.
21st-22d
1822-1824 ..
William Kendall, Nat'l R
Pike, Scioto and Lawrence.
23d-26th
1824-1828
Robert Lucas, D
Pike, Scioto and Lawrence.
27th
1828
1829
William Kendall, Nat'l R
Pike, Scioto, Lawrence and Jackson.
28th
1829-1830
Robert Lucas, D
Pike, Scioto, Lawrence and Jackson.
29th-30th
1830-1832
David Mitchell, Nat'l R
Scioto. Pike and Jackson.
31st-32d
1832-1834
John James, Nat'l R
Pike, Lawrence, Scioto and Jackson.
33d-34th
1834-1836
William Kendall, W
Pike, Lawrence, Scioto and Jackson.
35th
1836-1837
John Patterson, D.
Adams, Brown and Scioto.
36th-37th
1837-1839
Charles White, D.
Adams, Brown and Scioto.
38th-39th
1839-1841
John Glover, D ..
Adams, Brown and Scioto.
40th-41st
1841-1843
Simeon Nash, W
Gallia. Lawrence and Scioto.
42d -- 43d.
1843-1845
Moses Gregory, W
Gallia, Lawrence and Scioto.
44th-45th
18.15 -- 1847
Joseph J. Coombs, W
Gallia, Lawrence, Scioto and Jackson.
46th-47th
1847-1849
William Kendall, W
Scioto, Gallia, Lawrence and Jackson.
48th-49th
1849-1851
William Salter, W
Adams, Pike, Lawrence and Scioto.
Under Constitution of 1851.
50th
1852-1853.
Oscar F. Moore, W.
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
51st
1854-1855.
Thomas McCauslin, D
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
52d
1856-1857 ...
Hezekiah S. Bundy, R.
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
53d
1858-
-1859 ..
George Corwine, D ..
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
54th
1860
-1861
William Newman, D.
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
55th
1862 --- 1863
Benjamin F. Coates, D.
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
56th-57th
1861-
-1867
John T. Wilson, R
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
58th-59th
1868-
-1871
James Emmitt, D
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
80th-61st
1872-1875
James W. Newman, D
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
62d
1876-1877
I. T. Monahan, D.
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
63d
1878-1879
Irvine Dungan, D
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
64th-65th
1880-1883
John K. Pollard, R.
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
66th-67th
1884-1887
John W. Gregg, R
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
68th-69th
1888-1891
Amos B. Cole, R.
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
70th-71st
1892-1895
Dudley B. Phillips, R
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
72d-73d.
1896-1899
Elias Crandall, R
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
74th
1900-190 -...
Samuel L. Patterson, R
Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto.
General Joseph Darlington
was born July 19th, 1765, within four miles of Winchester, Virginia, on a plantation owned by his father, Meredith Darlington. It was a pleasant home with delightful surroundings, as the writer can testify.
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He was the fourth of seven children, six sons and a daughter. He grew up on his father's farm, getting such education as the times af- forded. 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 of age, six hundred of the prisoners, British and Hes- sians, taken at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, were kept on his father's plantation, from that time until the close of the war. 1 part of them were lodged in his father's barn and he spent much of his time listening to their wonderful stories of travel and adventure. These stories filled him with a desire to see the world and when he was twenty-one, he begged his father to give him money that he might travel. He went to Philadelphia, and from thence took a sea voyage to New Orleans, and returned by way of the Ohio river. He lived very extravagantly and spent his money freely, while seeing the world. On his return trip from New Orleans, he met Miss Sarah Wilson, at Romney, W. Va., and promptly fell in love with her. She was an heiress and owned slaves and a great deal of land. She had many suitors, but Darlington was the best looking and won the lady, They were married at Romney, March 18th, 1790. At the ceremony he was dressed in a ruffled shirt, coat, waistcoat, knee breeches, silk stockings, great shoe buckles and had a wonderful suit of hair, pomaded and powdered, and done up in a queue as long as a man's arm. They resided in Romney until about the close of 1790 and then went to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where his wife owned a farm. There they united with the Presbyterian Church, and there two of their sons were born. While in Fayette County, General Dar- lington was a County Commissioner, and began his long career of office holding. In October, 1794, he and his wife and their two chil- dren came to Limestone, Kentucky, where they lived until 1797. He went from there to the mouth of Cabin Creek, where he kept a ferry. 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 10th, 1797, he was appointed its Judge of Probate, by Governor St. Clair. In 1803, he removed to West Union and built a double hewed log house in the hill opposite Cole's spring. He was a member of the Legislature from Adams County from November 24th, 1799, until January 29th, 1801. He also represented the same county from November 23rd, 1801, until January 23rd, 1802. He was one of the three members from Adams County in the first Constitutional Convention which sat from No- vember Ist, 1802, until the 29th of the same month. At that time he was a Republican and opposed to Governor St. Clair, and, on No- vember 3rd, he voted against listening to a speech from Governor St. Clair. On November 6th, he was appointed on the committee to pre- pare the second article of the constitution, and on the 8th of Novem- ber, he presided over the committee of the whole. He was on the
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committee to prepare the third article on the judiciary, and on the committee to print the journal of the convention. He was present at every session in the first Legislature of the state. He was in the Sen- ate and served from March Ist, 1803. until April 16th, following, at which session Scioto County was organized by an act of the Legis- lature. On the 16th of April, 1803, he was elected one of the first three Associate Judges of Adams County, but resigned February 16th, 1804, as the work was too slow for him. On September 10th, 1804, he was commissioned by the Governor, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ist Regiment, Ist Brigade; 2nd Division, Ohio Militia, and thus became Lieutenant-Colonel Darlington. This Brigade was commanded by General Wiliam Lucas of Scioto County, who departed this life, Sep- tember 10th, 1805. He had been appointed on the 22nd of October, 1804. He is buried in the Lucas burying ground in Rush Township. March 17th, 1806, Colonel Darlington was made a Brigadier General to take the place of Gen. Lucas. He was appointed a Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County, August 3rd, 1802, and held this office by successive appointments until August, 1847. He was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court from this county about the same time, and held that office until his death on the 2nd of August, 1851. He served as Recorder of Adams County from 1803 to 1810, and again from September 1813 until 1834. Any one examining the old records in the Recorder's office and Clerk's office of Adams Coun- ty will find whole volumes written out in his old-fashioned copper plate . style. He always used a quill pen and a soft piece of buckskin for a penwiper. In 1885, he became an elder in the Presbyterian Church at West Union and held that office the remainder of his life. His personal appearance would attract notice anywhere. He was above average height, somewhat corpulent, had fine regular features, dark brown eyes with heavy brows, and a large head and forehead. He had a manly bearing which impressed all who knew him. The business of his office was admirably systematized and all his habits of daily life were regular and methodical. It is said of him that he did the same thing every day and at the same hour and moment for fifty years. His neighbors set their clocks by him, as he went and returned from his office with such exactness as to time. He had a habit of winding his watch at a certain hour every day, and while writing in the Clerk's office, he would lay it down beside him, and when the hands pointed to that hour, he would take it up and wind it. He was a man of ex- cellent judgment and many matters of his neighbors were submitted to him, and when he decided, his disposition was acquiesced in as satisfac- tory to all sides. When the Whig party was formed, he became a Whig. While not anti-slavery in his views, he was opposed to the war with Mexico. He was an entertaining talker and always had something useful and instructive to say. He had much dignity, his life was on a plane above the ordinary and the people who knew him
GOV. THOMAS KIRKER.
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well felt that they were looking up to him. His whole soul, con- science, principles, opinions, worldly interests and everything in his life was made subservient to his religion. His life made all who knew him feel that there was truth and reality in the Christian relig- ion, and he lived it every day. In his opinion his crowning earthly honor was that he had served fifty years in the Presbyterian Church. Four years before his death, he had retired from all public business. All his life he had had a dread of the Asiatic cholera. When that pestilence visited West Union in the summer of 1851, the first victim died June 26th. By some irony of fate, he was the last and died of the dread disease on the last day it prevailed, August 2nd. There were but four persons present at his interment. Had he died of any ordi- nary disease, the whole county would have attended. General Dar- lington was a fair example of the good and true men, who built well the foundation of the great state of Ohio.
Governor Thomas Kirker
was born in Ireland in 1760, and lived in that country until he reach- ed the age of nineteen. His father then emigrated to Lancaster Coun- ty, Pennsylvania. His father died soon after their removal to Amer- ica. He remained in Lancaster County until 1790. Nothing is found of his life in that period, but in that year he married Sarah Smith a young woman of excellent family and great worth. She was several years his junior. Soon after his marriage, they removed to Kentucky, running the gauntlet of Indian hostilities as they floated down the Ohio river. In 1794, they crossed the Ohio and settled in Manches- ter, Adams County, Ohio. In 1796 he removed to Liberty Township, Adams County. At that time he had a wife and several children. They were the first settlers to locate in the county outside of Manches- ter. He was a member of the first Court of Quarter Sessions held in the County under the Territorial Government at Manchester, in . September, 1797. He was also a County Commissioner under the territorial government. He was the leading man in that settlement and was usually the foremost in public matters of all kinds. By common consent he settled quarrels among his neighbors who looked to him for counsel. He had a reputation for good judgment. When delegates were elected to the first Constitutional Convention in 1802, he was sent as one of them. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature from Adams County from March Ist, 1803, until April 16th, 1803. He entered the Ohio Senate at the second leg- islative session, closing February, and served in that body continuous- ly until the thirteenth legislative session, closing February 16th, 1815. In that time he was Speaker in the Senate in the fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh and thirteenth sessions. From No- vember 4th, 1807, to December 12th, 1808, he was acting Governor of the State by reason of a vacancy in the office of Governor and his then being Speaker of the Senate. At the fifteenth legislative ses-
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sion December 15th, 1816, until January 28, 1817, he was a member of the House and its Speaker. At the twentieth legislative session, beginning December 3rd, 1821, he was again in the Senate form Adams and served in it continuously until February 8th, 1825. On January 17th, 1821, he was appointed an Associate Judge from Adams County, and served until October 30th, 1821, when he resigned. In 1824, he was presidental elector and voted for Clay. From 1808 until his death, he was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in West Union, O., and his son William, was also an elder in the same church from 1826, during his father's lifetime. He sat in the Leg- islature longer than any one man except John Bigger of Warren Coun- ty, who served in 21 sessions. Mr. Kirker was not a brilliant man, but he was honest, conscientious and possessed of sound judgment and integrity that was unselfish and incorruptible. He was respected, es- teemed, and exerted an influence that was felt in the entire circle of his acquaintance. He died February 20th, 1837. He reared a family of thirteen children, and has a host of decendants, in different parts of the United States. He succeeded Governor Tiffin, March 4th, 1807, when he resigned to enter the United States Senate and served to the end of his term. He served as Governor one year, or until December 12th, 1808, when Samuel Huntington succeeded him. The vote stood Huntington, 7,293 ; Worthington, 5,601 ; Kirker, 3,397.
Jean Pierre Roman Bureau (De Montrou)
was born at Beton Bazoche, Canton de Villier, St. George Arondise- ment de Provins, Department de Seine et Marne, March 2Ist, 1770. Roman Grandjean was his god-father and Francoise nee . le Vicaine (Fromonte), was his god-mother. His father was an officer who served with distinction in the army under the reign of Louis XV., re- turning home only to have a severe quarrel with his father. He left home, and, being very angry, vowed never to return and to go where he would never be heard from. His mother's maiden name was Marie Romaine Cruchet. She was the daughter of a distinguished and wealthy surgeon of Paris. In addition to one brother, Toussaint, who was in the army and died an old bachelor, he had four sisters: An- gelique, the wife of M. Clar's ; Genevieve, the wife of M. Galbot ; Ro- maine, who died young ; and Marie Rose, the wife of Doctor Naret. Playing one day with two companions young Bureau attempted a high jump from a tree and paid the penalty for his recklessness with a fractured hip. Although he received the utmost skill that love and the science of the best surgeons of Paris could bring to bear, his in- jury was pronounced a compound one and hopelessly incurable. His mother, a woman of great piety and force of character, was not dis- mayed ; placing the suffering lad on a well padded pillion securely fas- tened upon the back of a sure-footed ass, this valiant woman made, on foot, a pilgrimage to the shrine of our Lady of Liesse, walking beside her stricken son. At the end of nine days, their fervent prayers were
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answered, and miraculously cured, the boy left his crutches on the walls of the little chapel and returned to Paris. He always had a slight lameness, a reminder, no doubt, of the favor granted him by Heaven. The medal given the lad at Liesse after his cure is in the possession of the family of one of his grand-daughters, the late Mrs. Madeline Vin- ton Dahlgren. Witnessing with dismay some of the excesses of that awful French Revolution, young Bureau emigrated to America. His passport was executed and delivered February 14th, 1790, and was signed by Louis, King of France, and the Comte de Montmarin. Em- barking February 19th, 1790, he arrived at Alexandria, Virginia, May 3rd, 1790, and the same year went to Gallipolis, Ohio, where already a few French emigrants had settled. Enduring his share of the toils and sufferings incident to a new settlement but not having the phys- ical strength nor inclination for manual labor he changed his location to Marietta, where his fine education enabled him to open a French school for the youth of the place, which he conducted with great suc- cess, giving satisfaction to both patrons and scholars. In December, 1792, he returned to Gallipolis, Ohio, where he remained and became a successful merchant, occupying at different times the positions of Clerk of the Court, Justice of the Peace, Postmaster, etc. Very few men filled so many offices, conferred by their fellow-citizens, with so much credit to themselves and so much satisfaction to their consti- tuents, as Mr. Bureau. He was Major in the first regiment of mil- itia organized in Gallia County, hence his title. He was naturalized February 10th, 1806, and was Postmaster at Gallipolis from Arpil Ist, 1806, to October 3rd, 1807. From December 7th, 1807, until Febru- ary 22nd, 1808, he represented Washington, Muskingum, Gallia and
Athens Counties in the House. He was then elected to represent Gal- lia and Scioto Counties in the Senate, and served from December 5th. 1809, to February 12th, 1812, during the eighth, ninth and tenth sessions. At the fourteenth legislative session, from December 3rd, 1832, until March 9th, 1835, he represented Gallia and Meigs Counties in the House. In the great question which arose at that time relative to the right of the Legislature to instruct Senators from Ohio in Congress, Bureau advocated the right to instruct and again showed his grasp of affairs, and that he possessed a true and broad concepton of a Republican form of Government. He retired from public life and engaged in the business of merchandising, which he continued as long as he had the physical ability to attend to the labors thereof. When salt was discovered in Virginia, in the valley of the Kanawha, he at once commenced borings which resulted in his be- coming a very successful salt manufacturer. February 19th, 1799, he married Madeline Francoise Charlotte Marret, third daughter of Jos- eph and Madeline Marret, who had been of the same party as Bureau when, in 1790, he fled from France, and had also gone to Gallipolis. She was at the time of her marriage, a pretty, witty and vivacious
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young girl of fifteen, slight, of medium height, with dark brown eyes and black hair, and straight, well-cut features. At that time there was no Justice of the Peace in that part of Ohio, and being obliged to obtain one from Point Pleasant, the ceremony was performed in a boat on the Ohio river so as to be within the jurisdiction of Virginia. She died on June 22nd, 1834. The children of this marriage were : Madeleine Romaine, born November 20th, 1799, married Doctor Fran- cis Julius Le Moyne of Washington, Pennsylvania ; Romaine Made- leine, born January 6th, 1802, became the wife of the Hon. Samuel Finley Vinton, one of Ohio's most distinguished men and whose daughter was the late Mrs. M. V. Dahlgren; Marie, born February 26th, 1810, and died April 2nd, 1810; and Charles Louis Valcoulon, born August 25th, 1812. The latter spent some years in Athens Col- lege, Ohio, and later, studied medicine and practised his profession. Major Bureau's daughters were given every educational advantage at that time to be obtained, going to school in Chillicothe, Gallipolis, and finally to Mme. Grileau's French boarding school in Philadelphia. The journey to the latter place was made by the young girls on horse- back from Wheeling, accompanied by their father and the negro man servant following in a wagon with the baggage. Major Bureau died in Gallipolis, December 31st, 1854, aged 81 years and 10 months. He was buried in the same enclosure with his wife, daughter Mary, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Vinton and their son, John, in the old graveyard at Gallipolis. He was of medium height, broad shouldered and very strong. He was fair, and had blue eyes, rather heavy eyebrows and close trimmed hair and beard, full forehead and head. He had all the quick wit and observation of a Frenchman, and was exceedingly vi- vacious and polished in manner and bearing. He was a devoted and generous parent, husband and friend. He made money and, al- though he spent it freely, he left quite a large property. He was one of the most esteemed, popular and useful men of Gallia County and respected by all who knew him. It may well be said of Mr. Bureau that he was well fitted to be a leader to his countrymen, and in no in- stance was he ever known to betray the confidence reposed in him. To such men, its founders, the State of Ohio owes much. By their hard- ships and bravery it was reclaimed from the wilderness and savages, and their wisdom and untiring zeal gave it the solid foundation upon which its greatness and stability now depend.
Governor Robert Lucas
was born at Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Virginia, April Ist, 1781. His father was William Lucas, born in 1742, in Virginia. He was a Revolutionary soldier. He enlisted February 13th, 1777, for three years in Captain Nathaniel Welch's Company, also known as Captain Taliaferros' Company and as Captain Thomas Minor's Com- pany in the Second Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Wil-
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liam Brent and also by Colonel Gregory Smith. His name last ap- pears in 1770. His wife Susannah was born in 1745.
He is said to have owned lands and negroes, but to have been hostile to the institution of slavery. He had five sons and three daughters. His sons were Joseph, Robert, John, William and Samuel. William and John came to the mouth of the Scioto in 1796, and lo- cated land at the mouth of Pond Creek. Their father voted for Jef- ferson, in Virginia, for President in 1800, and at once started for Adams County in the Northwest Territory. He located near Lu- casville. His wife died May 4th, 1809, and he died in July, 1814. Both are buried at Lucasville and their graves marked. His daugh- ters all married, one a Buckles, one a Creamer, and one a Sternberger. Joseph Lucas, through a daughter, is an ancestor of the Hibbs fam- ily. Robert Lucas, our subject, was the most distinguished of the family. He was but nine years old when he came to the Northwest Territory. He had a private tutor who taught him mathematics and surveying, and he was an excellent surveyor before his majority. That occupation enabled him to keep busy and make money. He was Surveyor of Scioto County in 1805, and was Justice of the Peace in 1806. On April 4th, 1810, he married Eliza Brown, daughter of John Brown, the first citizen of Portsmouth. The ceremony was said by William Crull, Justice of the Peace. She died in two years, leaving an infant daughter. On March 7th, 1816, he married Miss Friendly A. Sumner, the ceremony being performed by William Pow- er, Justice of the Peace. Robert Lucas had a great deal of military spirit and soon became prominent in the Ohio Militia. As early as 1804, he was a Bridge Inspector with the rank of Major. In 1807, he had a Militia Company in Portsmouth and was its Captain. In 1808, he was elected to the House as Representative of Scioto County. In 18II, he was lister of Wayne Township.
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