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M. C. Clarke, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; discharged for disability, April 3, 1863.
R. H. Cadwell, enlisted August 20, 1861.
G. F. Case, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; detailed as wagon-master.
W. Downey, enlisted August 20, 1861; killed at Shiloh, April 6, 1862.
W. B. Deerlove, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volun- teer.
J. M. Dutton, enlisted Angust 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer. W. P. Ensign, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer.
O. H. P. Ellenwood, enlisted September 10, 1861; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer.
F. Farrington, enlisted September 10, 1861; discharged for wounds, De- cember 5, 1862.
A. Type, enlisted September 10, 1861; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer.
A. L. Fitch, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volun- teer.
A. C. Fobes, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer. George French, enlisted August 20, 1861; died April 8, 1862.
J. B. Griffin, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volun- teer.
A. Griffin, enlisted September 10, 1861.
J. W. Grimm, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; discharged for disability, March 25, 1863.
John S. Hunter, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; discharged for disability, July 23, 1862.
E. B. Hubbard, enlisted August 20, 1860; promoted to lieutenant Second Cavalry.
W. Hewett, enlisted September 10, 1861; re-enlisted as veteran volun- teer.
M. C. Hudson, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; died May 15, 1863.
W. C. Hall, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; died from wounds, May 8, 1862. James Hattle, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; died from wounds, May 23, 1862.
H. E. Haynes, enlisted September 10, 1861; re-enlisted as veteran volun- teer.
W. E. Jones, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; died October, 1861.
E. A. Jones, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volun- teer.
W. B. King, onlisted August 20, 1861.
L. Kettinger, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; died April 15, 1862.
O. Z. Kebber, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer. W. Loveall, enlisted Aug. 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer.
I. Lewis, enlisted September 20, 1861 : disch. for disability, July 24, 1862. 8. McCord, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer ; promoted to corporal.
O. A. Myers, enlisted Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer.
E. B. Mullen, enlisted September 10, 1861; discharged for disability, July 24, 1862.
L. F. Malone, enlisted September 10, 1861; died August 28, 1863.
E. W. Moore, enlisted August 20, 1861, as vet. volunteer; pro. to corporal. H. L. Musser, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; disch. for disability, Dec. 1, 1862. Wm. McCombs, enlisted August 10, 1861 ; re-enl. as veteran volunteer. O. R. Millard, enlisted Sept. 10, 1861; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer. W. McCollum, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; died May 12, 1862.
M. L. Nye, enlisted Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer. E. Phillips, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; died March 15, 1862.
C. D. Pronty, enlisted September 10, 1861; discharged for disability, August 30, 1862.
A. M. Peabody, enlisted Sept. 10, 1861 ; died from wounds, May 21, 1862. H. W. Perry, enlisted Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer. C. D. Pomeroy, enlisted September 10, 1861.
R. Rae, enlisted August 20, 1861.
W. Reetan, enlisted Sept. 10, 1861 ; disch. for disability, July 22, 1862.
W. W. Reynolds, enlisted Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer. J. M. Richards, enlisted September 10, 1861.
P. S. Race, enlisted Sept. 10, 1861 ; discharged for disability, July 9, 1862.
J. S. Reed, onlisted September 10, 1861 ; died from wounds, May 26, 1862. A. B. Reed.
S. C. Sprague, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; died.
Milo B. Stephens, enlisted Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer.
F. J. Sinclair, enlisted Sept. 10, 1861; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer.
A. O. Shepard, enlisted Sept. 10, 1861; disch. for wounds, July 5, 1862.
W. N. Strong, enlisted September 10, 1861, as veteran volunteer; pro- moted to corporal.
L. F. Sprague, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; died May 12, 1862.
J. D. Sager, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volun- teer.
George Sprague, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; died June 9, 1862.
R. W. Sanderson, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; died June 9, 1862.
R. V. Taylor, enlisted September 10, 1861; discharged for disability, June 16, 1862.
William M. Taylor, enlisted October 18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, July 8, 1862.
George E. Tracey, enlisted August 20, 1861, as veteran volunteer ; pro- moted corporal.
J. B. Thorp, enlisted August 20, 1861; died May 28, 1862.
C. P. Vorce, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer.
S. F. Vradenburg, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran vol- unteer.
L. S. Wilson, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran volun- teer.
W. H. Wheeler, enlisted September 10, 1861.
H. M. Williamson, enlisted September 10, 1861; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer.
B. F. Wright, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; discharged for disability, July 9, 1862.
T. H. Wright, enlisted September 10, 1861, as veteran volunteer; pro- moted to sergeant.
L. W. Walters, enlisted August 20, 1861 ; discharged for wounds, August 27, 1862.
E. P. Walker, enlisted September 10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as veteran vol- unteer.
M. C. White, enlisted August 20, 1861; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer. Seth Barber, enlisted August 20, 1861; re-enlisted as veteran volunteer. Irwin S. Childs, enlisted August 16, 1862 ; promoted to Ist lieutenant.
P. B. Daniels, enlisted August 13, 1862; died January 14, 1864.
H. D. Ensign, enlisted August 13, 1862.
W. H. Halstead, enlisted August 13, 1862.
A. S. Hotchkiss, enlisted August 13, 1862.
S. P. Harvey, enlisted August 21, 1862; discharged for disability, Jan- uary 14, 1863.
S. P. Jones, enlisted August 15, 1862.
B. Moshier, enlisted August 13, 1862.
M. C. Mead, enlisted August 22, 1862.
8. Ostrander, enlisted August 21, 1862.
J. H. Post, enlisted August 13, 1862.
W. H. Pancost, enlisted August 13, 1862.
C. M. Pleasants, enlisted August 13, 1862.
C. E. Roberta, enlisted August 11, 1862.
C. R. Smead, enlisted August 13, 1862 ; promoted to corporal.
J. D. Sanford, enlisted August 13, 1862.
M. Vanderlip, enlisted August 13, 1862; discharged November 27, 1862.
O. H. Wright, enlisted August 13, 1862. V. N. Stone, enlisted October 12, 1863. H. T. Bower, enlisted October 12, 1863.
A. A. Andrews, enlisted February 1, 1864.
F. G. Allen, enlisted February 1, 1864.
A. J. Abbey, enlisted January 28, 1864.
B. Barker, enlisted February 8, 1864.
W. J. Baldwin, enlisted February 2, 1864.
A. J. Bliss, enlisted February 2, 1864.
W. J. Bowers, enlisted February 2, 1864. H. Cook, enlisted February 1, 1864.
W. Chadwick, enlisted January 29, 1864.
F. F. Derby, enlisted February 1, 1864. M. Ernst.
J. Frisle, enlisted February 1, 1804.
C. N. Hadsel, enlisted February 5, 1864.
F. S. Herendred, enlisted February 1, 1864. J. S. Hunter.
James McVitty, enlisted February 1, 1864. S. M. Maddox, enlisted February 1, 1864.
O. Myers, enlisted January 29, 1864.
M. Myers, enlisted February 1, 1864.
L. Moshier, enlisted February 1, 1864.
M. Nolen, enlisted February 5, 1864.
D. Roberts, enlisted February 1, 1804.
D. Root, enlisted February 8, 1864. George Smith.
L. G. Taylor, enlisted February 1, 1864.
J. Wedge, enlisted February 1, 1864.
T. Weed, enlisted February 1, 1864.
B. F. Wright, enlisted February 1, 1864.
FIFTEENTH BATTERY OHIO LIGHT ARTILLERY.+
Corporal Charles Van Epps, promoted February 20, 1865. Corporal Jerome Wellman, promoted March 1, 1865.
DISCHARGED.
Walter G. Hunt, by reason of exp. of term of service, Dec. 18, 1864. Corp. Lewis Keener, by reason of exp. of term of service, Nov. 10, 1864. Corp. Dwight Barber, by reason of exp. of term of service, Nov. 10, 1864. J. E. Cale, by reason of expiration of term of service, Dec. 18, 1864. B. F. Dow, by reason of expiration of term of service, Dec. 18, 1864. James Eddy, for disability, date unknown.
H. L. Knight, for disability, July 7, 1862. Joy Q. Smith, for disability, July 7, 1862.
C. A. Turney, by reason of expiration of term of service, Dec. 18, 1864.
T. T. Ware, for disability, August 15, 1862.
W. R. Ware, for disability, August 15, 1862.
S. C. Warner, for disability, June 8, 1862.
E. Winchester, for disability, October 23, 1862.
J. Williams, A. Olds, M. Miller, Geo. Wood, D. L. Arnold, L. Warner, D. Vrooman, A. W. Vrooman, J. P. Sanford.
OHIO LIGHT ARTILLERY. TWENTY-FIRST BATTERY.
Captain Henry Walley. Sergeant Milton McFarland, enlisted October 25, 1862. John Evarts, James Parker, J. S. Fisher, Isaac Parker, Thomas Fowls, George Manchester, N. Tomlinson, Esek Nichols, Benjamin Curtis, Ezra Holmes, Daniel Mcswain, Samuel Allen (drowned).
TWENTY-FIFTH BATTERY.
H. W. Gage, A. Flint. SECOND OHIO LIGHT ARTILLERY.
Myron Perkins, A. B. Ingersoll, E. Noumans, A. J. Bandle, G. E. Warren. FOURTH OHIO LIGHT ARTILLERY.
M. H. Nye.
+ Mustered into the United States service, at Camp Dennison, Ohio, January 1, 1862; mustered out, June 20, 1865.
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SIXTH OHIO LIGHT ARTILLERY.
Sergeant Thomas Casey, A. Crawford.
SHIELDS' BATTERY.
H. Buffington, S. Campbell, A. Peters, W. Otis, W. Nash, J. Van Looven, C. H. Vial, E. McNally, E. Waite, Orrin Waite, S. Storm, H. Mar- kell.
BARNETT'S BATTERY.
Geo. Stockham, Addison Stockham, Geo. Winchell, H. Corliss, M. Latham, W. Burroughs, George Eddy, Wm. Eddy, Mauly Masher, Aug. Taylor, J. F. Lloyd, E. Coovit, L. Curtiss.
SHERMAN'S BATTERY.
Daniel Cox, Thomas Corns, Ed. McNally, James Dugan, Charles Potter. CARTER'S BATTERY.
C. W. Scoville.
MCNALLY'S BATTERY.
O. J. Humphrey.
SECOND OHIO HEAVY ARTILLERY.
COMPANY H.
Corporals M. R. Parsons, B. F. Pease.
COMPANY M .*
2d lieut. Stephen R. Powell, promoted to Ist lieutenant.
Sergeant J. E. Hewitt, promoted to sergeant-major, June 25, 1865. Sergeant J. M. Loomis.
Corporal George E. Payne, promoted sergeant. Corporal J. F. Brainard, died March 30, 1865. Artificer Thomas S. Atkin.
George L. Atkin, 8. Dorr Barber, Charles L. Baldwin, Byron Churchill, Charles W. Estell, John Goss.
M. F. Hewitt, discharged December 23, 1863. Almyron Hopkins. Emilius A. Hickok, died October 17, 1863. Henry Knight, William Knox, George H. Kellogg. Ezra Nichols, promoted sergeant. R. M. Powers, promoted corporal. Joy Q. Smith, Augustus Searles, James Williams. Van Ness Sherwood, enlisted February 9, 1864.
John Custin, enlisted February 18, 1864. Ervin Custin.
S. C. Warner, enlisted February 18, 1864. Daniel Rowland, Jacob Rowland, Thomas D. Chase, Lucius Fitch, John Buckley.
* Mustered into the United States service September 9, 1863 ; mustered ont August 7, 1865.
MISCELLANEOUS. BATTERY H, FOURTH UNITED STATES ARTILLERY. H. C. Williams. SECOND UNITED STATES ARTILLERY.
H. Stevens. UNITED STATES NAVY.
Joseph Emory, B. H. Heath, J. W. Cook, William Raynolds, Henry Morse, F. Roberts, George Nichols (died in the service), Joseph Plaisted, John B. Hosmer, Perry S. Hosmer, Russell M. Williams. FIFTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY.
Edwin P. Baird, Byron Basley, George Dayton, Amasa Elwell (died of disease contracted in the service), Jerry Evans, Allie Harshman, Alvah Harshman, Horace Hatch (wounded at Harper's Ferry), Simon Percivale, John Waterman.
GUNBOAT SERVICE.
John F. Treat, master commanding gunboat " Marmora." John Kimpton, D. R. Hosmer, A. A. Kingsbury, Cyro Truman, John Mayhew. COMPANY I, THIRD UNITED STATES INFANTRY.
W. W. Carpenter, enlisted June, 1876; now in the service. COMPANY K, THIRD UNITED STATES INFANTRY. Chester Baker.
TENTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY.
A. J. Cross. NINETEENTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY.
C. E. Haywood. FIRST MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
James Bell, A. Garvies.
FIRST CALIFORNIA INFANTRY.
George S. Dickey, killed August 28, 1863. EIGHTY-THIRD PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY.
R. A. Storey, killed May 6, 1864.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. w. O. Charter.
THIRD MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
William Huston. F. W. Johnson, Company H.
EIGHTEENTH NEW YORK CAVALRY.
J. Scott, Company L.
SIXTH UNITED STATES CAVALRY.
Thomas Dodd.
NEW YORK INFANTRY.
P. S. Goodsell, James Savage.
THIRTY-SIXTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
W. H. Peck.
SECOND MINNESOTA INFANTRY.
N. Fowler.
TWENTY-NINTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
Wm. R. Hine, Company F; discharged at the close of the war.
The following were soldiers of the Rebellion, but we have been unable to ascertain the organizations to which they belonged: Mordecai Dodge, Wm. Harrison, Jno. H. Williams, Elah French, Jr., W. C. Dickey, Wm. McClelland, A. H. Loomis, R. M. Murray, Ira Green, J. W. Long, G. W. Dille, M. D. Sawyer, A. K. Houghton (2d O. H. A.), A. C. Ellsworth, Sam Turner, Chas. Scott (Q. M. Dept.), Ahu! Dunn, Charles Whitaker, James Hill, J. Newman, F. Davis, A. C. Miller, William Waist, William R. White, J. Honn, C. Haver, Jno. Bourke, S. Phelps, D. J. Harris, Ezra Ishum, Charles Deany, W. H. Hockning, D. C. Hockning, James Bishop, Ansel Burnett, George Keeney, Edwin Savage, Charles Danforth, Mark Kelley, Henry C. Jewell, Almon Green, Warren Green, Charles Niverson, Franklin Bass, Calvin Bass, Porter Greenfield, Charles A. Greenfield, Clay Robinson, Silas M. Childs, Charles Ellis, Orrin Fisher (surgeon), George St. John, W. Ames, Avery Jones, Peter Devoe, - Shildon, - Robinson, F. Vickers, F. Clover, A. Fuller, D. L. Fenkell, George Goodsell, H. F. Marsh, Edward Henry, Henry Logan, Sherman Logan, C. M. Foot, Switzer Ellis, Johnson Black, John Hatch, Edward Carpenter, T. F. Pat- rick, T. Stockwell, W. Terrill, Ralph S. Foot (assistant surgeon), G. Burroughs, A. Burroughs, R. H. Smith, Z. Washington, J. B. Cosey, A. Blackford, L. Bryant, M. Cassidy, J. Cassidy, J. Phipps, Wesley Somers, Myron Parks, Sheldon Moore, Ralph Heath, Frank Granger, Trumbull Granger, Preserved Curtis, Wm. Plaisted, Charles Johnson, Ansel Stafford, James Hadden, E. Curtis, S. Phelps, A. Phelps, F. Cassell, Colby Fisk, II. Gildersleeve, H. Rundall, H. L. Pitcher, Benj. Jenkins, George Harris, W. Cha- pin, B. Butler, H. Tanner, H. Stratton, James Cassady, James Beckwith, Salmon P. Beckwith, Lucian Beckwith, Elim Dutton, Enoch Morse, Harvey Snedaker, S. D. Steer, C. M. Steer, M. A. Cleveland, John Williams, Napoleon Bonney.
Richard Taylor, enlisted Aug. 20, 1861; wounded at Pittsburg Landing. Henry Colwell, enlisted January, 1864; discharged August 9, 1865. Geo. Northard, enlisted August 22, 1861; wounded at Five Forks; died April 23, 1865.
L. D. Williams, enlisted August 12, 1862; wounded at Perryville, Octo- ber 8, 1862; died October 28, 1862.
A. B. Colwell, enlisted June 3, 1861 ; discharged July 8, 1862. E. O. Hungerford, enlisted April 20, 1861.
Ezra Decker, Frank Basquin, Clyde Derby, Delawan Jones, George A. Frost, H. Harrington, Alden Hazen, H. Knapp, Ira Dewey, M. J. Dewey, Jas. E. Frost, Addison Harley, Myron Fox.
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PETER HITCHCOCK,
chief-justice of Ohio, was born October 19, 1771, at Cheshire, New Haven county, Connecticut,-died March 4, 1854, at Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. He re- ceived a common-school education until his seventeenth year, when he entered Yale College. The means of his father being limited, he was compelled to defray the greater part of the expenses of his education by his own efforts. He taught school during vacations and part of the college terms, in this way supporting him- self, but seriously lessening his facilities for study. Hard-working, painstaking, and correct in life as he was, he yet was unable, because of his difficulties, to graduate in 1801 with more than a fair degree of credit. After leaving college he studied law, and in March, 1804, was admitted to practice. He had studied diligently, and showed such aptitude for his chosen profession that his examina- tion was decidedly creditable. He opened an office in Cheshire, and for two years practiced law with fair success, earning the reputation of being well qualified, dili- gent, and attentive to business. In 1806, having married in the previous year, he decided on trying his fortune in the west, and removed to the Connecticut Western Reserve in Ohio, settling at Burton, Geauga County, where he took up a farm and retained his residence on it until his death. His life at that period was laborious and the rewards scanty. He taught school at times to eke out his scanty means, practiced in the courts when clients could be had, and spent the remainder of his time in clearing up and cultivating the farm. His distance from the county-seat, at a time when travel was slow and tedious, added to the disad- vantages under which he labored. But he steadily won his way in the good opinion of the people. His law business increased, and its territorial scope was enlarged until it extended over the entire Western Reserve, throughout which he soon acquired the reputation of a leading lawyer. In conducting his cases he was compelled to trust principally to the knowledge of the law acquired in his preparatory studies, as books were scarce in that part of Ohio, and his opportu- nities for reading were scanty. Yet he came to the trial of his causes well pre- pared; he was skillful in eliciting and arranging his proofs; he possessed a familiar and persuasive eloquence, united with a happy faculty of taking a natural view of the most intricate and complex case, and so simplifying it as to render it easily understood and clear to men of ordinary comprehension ; and he had talent sufficient to grapple successfully with any amount of new and unexpected matter of law or fact that should happen to be thrown suddenly upon him, and handle it apparently with the same ease that he managed a case composed of the simplest elements. To all this he added the moral influence of a high character for candor, personal integrity, and fairness.
The men with whom he was brought into competition in the bar of the Western Reserve were many of them lawyers of distinguished ability, possessed of intel- lectual and material advantages of which he had been deprived by his circum- stances, yet he held his own with the best of them, and secured and maintained a leading place. The confidence reposed in his abilities and character by his neighbors was shown by his election in 1810 to represent the county in the lower branch of the Ohio General Assembly. On the conclusion of his term in 1812 he was chosen to serve in the Senate, and was re-elected in 1814, and served a portion of the time as speaker. As a member of the General Assembly, whether in the House or the Senate, he occupied a prominent position. In the fall of 1816, at a warmly-contested election, he was returned to the Congress of the United States, and took his seat as representative in that body in December, 1817. Before the close of his Congressional term he was, in 1819, by the Legis- lature of Ohio, elected a judge of the Supreme Court of the State, for the consti- tutional term of seven years. In February, 1826, he was re-elected for a similar term. At the close of his term, in 1833, political differences prevented his re- election, and he was sent by his district to represent it again in the Senate for the term between 1833 and 1835, and for one session of that term he was again speaker of the Senate. In 1835 he was once more returned to his seat on the Supreme bench. On the close of that term partisan opposition kept him out of the position for two or three years; but in 1845 he was again chosen, and retained the place until 1852, when he retired at the age of over seventy years, after a public service in law-making and law-expounding of more than forty years, during which time he had labored with singleness of purpose for the public good, and enjoyed
the respect of political opponents as well as of political friends. His political affiliations had originally been with the party that brought Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe to the presidency, and he took a foremost part in advocating the principles of that party. He sustained the war of 1812, and was a zealous sup- porter of his party's policy. But he advocated the election of John Quincy Adams, and ever afterwards acted with the Whig party, whose principles, he claimed, were the same that he had supported in his former party connection. This al- leged defection excited great animosity on the part of his former political asso- ciates, but as he rigidly guarded himself from carrying his political feelings upon the bench, that animosity gradually died out.
A practical test of public opinion in regard to him was furnished in the elec- tion of delegates to the convention for the revision of the constitution of Ohio, in the spring of 1850. The district in which he resided was entitled to three delegates, and was pre-eminently the home of Freesoilism. That party outnum- bered each of the others by some five hundred or a thousand votes. The Free- Soil men placed in nomination a full ticket of men of their own party. The Whigs and Democrats combined to defeat this ticket. The Whigs had the majority of votes, but not sufficient to give them full claim to two out of the three delegates. It was proposed, therefore, that the Democrats should have the nomination of the Whigs to be placed on the ticket. The offer was accepted, and the Democrats, with great unanimity, named him as their first choice, although he was the great leader of their political opponents, and the man of most influence among them. He then held the office of chief-justice of Ohio, and with much reluctance accepted the nomination. He however did so, and, with the whole ticket, was elected in spite of a severe and bitter opposition, receiving the full Democratic support. He took his seat in the convention at its opening, served faithfully on the most important committees, thoroughly examined every subject discussed, and took a prominent part in the most im- portant debates. He had a thorough knowledge of the old constitution and its workings, and his ripe experience was especially valuable in pointing out the defects of the old system and suggesting remedies. Some of his suggestions were embodied in the new constitution, and others dropped as being too much in advance of public opinion at the time. With the instrument as finally adopted he was not quite satisfied, but he voted for it, believing it to be an improvement on that of 1802, and was anxious for its adoption by the people, and used his influence to that end. His labors in the convention did not prevent the perform- ance of his usual circuit duties on the bench, nor his sitting as a member of the court in banc; but the two offices occupied his whole time, and made that year one of hard work. He had the satisfaction, however, of receiving the hearty approval of his constituents.
As a judge he was laborious, systematic, punctual and attentive, dispatching business with peculiar facility, although not without deliberation. He was rarely, if ever, in a hurry, though always full of business. He readily ascertained the points in a case which were decisive of its merits, and his mind seemed at once to reject everything immaterial. He read all the papers in a case, his retentive memory enabling him to master and hold all the facts contained in them, so that he would, almost uniformly, state with accuracy the exact point upon which the case turned, and name the evidence that bore upon it. This faculty enabled him to concentrate his whole mind upon the question in hand, to recur in debate, without loss of time, to the proof that would correct or strengthen a first impres- sion, and, united with his habit of persevering with an investigation once begun until he had finished it, enabled him to turn off, in perfect manner, a mass of business that quicker, but less methodical minds, would not be able to dispose of with equal promptness and effectiveness. An active and efficient member of society and of the church, he was there, no less than when representing the people in the Legislature, in Congress, and in convention, or while discharging the duties of chief-justice of the State, the same self-possessed, imposing, but modest, unas- suming, unofficious man of influence ; the same unobtrusive individuality of char- acter and sterling rectitude of conduct, in all stations of life, secured the respect and confidence of all who came in contact with him. He possessed a strong physical frame, and during a considerable portion of his life, especially during the last twenty years of it, was favored with good health, and was capable of uncom- monly severe mental endurance. His strong natural faculties had been improved
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by constant habits of sobriety, personal restraint, and untiring industry. He was a sincere Christian, a helper and friend to the needy and afflicted, a liberal sup- porter of benevolent enterprises, a good neighbor, and his domestic affections were especially strong and tender. He was married in 1805 to Miss Nabbie Cook, of his native town, and reared to maturity three sons and four daughters. His death took place at the house of his son, Hon. Reuben Hitchcock, in Painesville, March 4, 1854, when on his way home from attending the Supreme Court at Columbus, where over-work had brought on a severe illness. It was mourned throughout the State as a severe public loss, and resolutions of respect were adopted by the bar generally, and in the Legislature.
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