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Hon. GENERAL HARMAR.
WILLIAM GOFORTH.
Cincinnati, 14th August, 1790.
The court being opened, present, William Goforth, William Wells, William McMillan, John S. Gano .*
Captain Ferguson, Captain Pratt, Captain Strong, and several other officers appeared, agreeable to General Harmar's orders, and informed the court that, in consequence of the troops being debauched by spirit- nous liquors, punishment had become frequent in the army, and that the men were sickening fast, and that the sickness, in the opinion of the doctors, was in a great degree brought on by excessive hard drink- ing, and the officers complained of three houses which had retailed to the troops, to wit: Thomas Cochran, Matthew Winton, and John Scott. These charges were supported by evidence, and Thomas Coch- ran and Matthew Winton, each with a security, were bound by their recognizance at the next general quarter sessions of the peace, to be holden at Cincinnati, for the county of Hamilton, on the first Tuesday in November next, in the sum of two hundred dollars, and in the meantime to refrain from retailing spirituous liquors to troops without a written permission from their officers; and John Scott in the sum of thirty dollars. The court being adjourned without day.
The prompt circumstance with which, after the good old English style, the early courts were opened in this wilderness west, may be inferred from the following court report, which appeared in the Centinel of the Northwest Territory for April 12, 1794:
On Tuesday, the 11th inst., the General Court opened at this place, agreeably to adjournment from October last, before the Honorable Judge Turner. The procession from the Judge's chambers to the pub- lic ground was in the following order:
Constables, with Batons.
Sheriff and Coroner, with White Wands. Goaler.
The Honorable Judge.
Clerk, with a Green Bag.
Judges of the Common Pleas.
Justices of the Peace.
Attorneys, Messengers, etc.
While the stalwarts were away fighting the Indians, those pioneers who retained at home, in this county at least, entitled themselves to the pecuniary regards of the county commissioners by killing wolves, panthers and wild-cats. If a boy killed a "big wolf," the scalp, properly certified, would bring two dollars; and if a man killed one of these wild animals less than six months old, he got one dollar and twenty-five cents. If the com- missioners thought a man should be engaged in abler business than killing "five-months' wolves or sucking wild-cats," they would beat him down to three scalps for a dollar. In 1797, the commissioners set apart two hun- dred dollars to kill wolves and wild-cats with. In the year 1800 Joseph Moore killed a wolf, James Pelliciew five, John Smith, Rowland Hindle, Joseph Williams, Stephen Wood, Joseph Walker, John Vincent, Robert Terry, John Shaw, Cale Seward, William Smally, John Dearth, James Bunnel, Peter Balfell, Jesse Anthony, and Joseph Sutton, killed one wolf each; James Mills five, Max Parhagon six, James Ross two, Daniel Gibson two, Robert Mckinney four, John McCormick two wolves and a wild-cat, Peter Murphy three "old" wolves, John McKain two, William Dowder two, James Dement two, Alexander Huston two, Samuel Gregory three, James Flynn eight, Benjamin Truman two, Elijah Chapman four, Emmanuel Burget and John Spencer one and a half apiece, Nathan Abbott two. The scalps were properly certified, and one hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-five cents paid to the slayers. There was money and some fun in the scalp trade; and there was scarcely a boy, doctor, preacher, or lawyer but could relate a personal adventure connected with them and tell how much his "scalp fetched."
April 24, 1809, James Lyon, William Cullum, Enos Hurin, James Ewing and John Mahard were severally commissioned justices of the peace for the township of Cincinnati. Job Foster and Joseph Jenkins were similarly commissioned for the township of Springfield ; Garah Markland and Stephen Wood for the township of Miami and Judah Willey for the township of Colerain, all to continue in office for three years from the third day of that month.
On the twenty-first of February, 1809, Griffin Yeat- man was appointed and commissioned notary public in and for the township of Cincinnati, "to continue in office for three years, if he shall so long behave well. "
*From this quadruple and august presence, it would seem that this was a full session of the court of general quarter sessions of the peace.
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CHAPTER XX.
CIVIL LIST OF HAMILTON COUNTY.
THE roll of honor in the public offices of civil life, for the county of Hamilton, is almost as imposing in its way as the military roster. The county has been singularly fortunate in the eminent usefulness to which its repre- sentative citizens have attained, and, in general, in their public and private character. It has furnished to the country one President of the Federal Union, in the per- son of General William Henry Harrison; and another, General Rutherford B. Hayes, although not elected from Cincinnati, was once a resident of the city, as was also one chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, Hon. Salmon Portland Chase. The number of citizens of this county who have filled high positions in the President's cabinet, in the diplomatic and consular service of the country, in the service of the State other- wise than as governor, and in various capacities too nu- merous to make a roll of the incumbents practicable in this work, is very great indeed. We present herewith a partial, but sufficiently indicative civil list of the county. All available sources of information, and a vast deal of time, has been exhausted in the effort to make the list complete; but we must rest with the names here given. It is believed that they, with dates, so far as given, are noted with approximate exactness, though some errors will doubtless appear.
GOVERNORS.
Charles Wylling Byrd, secretary of the Northwest Ter- ritory, and acting governor of the territory after the re- moval of General St. Clair, near the close of 1802, until the institution of the State government, March 3, 1803; Othinal Looker, acting governor of the State of Ohio, April 14th to December 8, 1814, by reason of the resig- nation of Governor R. J. Meigs, to accept the office of postmaster general of the United States. Ethan Allen Brown, governor from December 14, 1818, to January 4, 1822, when he resigned to become United States sen- ator from Ohio. Salmon P. Chase, governor from Janu- ary 14, 1856, to January 9, 1860. Rutherford B. Hayes, January 13, 1868, to January 8, 1872. When Governor Hayes was re-elected, in 1875, he was a resident of San- dusky county, and resigned March 2, 1877, to accept the office of President of the United States. Edward F. Noyes, from January 8, 1872, to January 12, 1874. Thomas L. Young, March 2, 1877, to January 14, 1878, in place of Governor Hayes, resigned. Richard M. * Bishop, January 14, 1878, to January 14, 1880. [Of the thirty-five governors and acting governors which the Northwest Territory and the State of Ohio have had, Hamilton county furnished seven, or just one-fifth. Jeremiah Morrow also, who was elected Governor from Warren county, was originally a citizen of Hamilton county.]
TERRITORIAL DELEGATE IN CONGRESS.
William Henry Harrison, 1799. Resigned to accept the office of governor of the Territory of Indiana. Wil- liam McMillan, 1800-01, vice Harrison, resigned.
UNITED STATES SENATORS.
John Smith, 1803-08 .* Ethan Allen Brown, 1822-5, vice William A. Trimble, of Highland county, who died in 1822, from the effects of a wound received at Fort Erie, in the War of 1812. William Henry Harrison, 1825-8. Resigned to accept appointment as minister to Colombia. Jacob Burnet, 1828-31, vice Harrison, re- signed. Salmon P. Chase, 1849-55 ; also 1861, but re- signed to take a place in the cabinet as Secretary of the United States treasury. George E. Pugh, 1855-61. Stanley Matthews, 1877-9, vice John Sherman, resigned to take the portfolio of secretary of the treasury. George H. Pendleton, 1879 -.
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.
William Henry Harrison, 1816-17, vice John Mc- Lean, of Warren, resigned; also 1817-19, James W. Gazlay, 1823-5; James Findlay, 1825-33; Robert T. Lytle, 1833-5, resigned October 16, 1834, and re- elected November 8, 1834; Bellamy Storer, 1835-7; Alexander Duncan, 1837-41, and 1843-5; Nathaniel G. Pendleton, 1841-3; James J. Faran, 1845-9; David T. Disney, 1849-55; Timothy C. Day, Scott Harrison, 1855-57; George H. Pendleton, 1857-65; William S. Groesbeck, 1857-9; John A. Gurley, 1859-63; Alexan- der Long, 1863-5 ; Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Eg- gleston, 1865-9; Peter W. Strader, 1869-71 ; Job E. Ste- venson, 1869-73; Aaron F. Perry, 1871-2, resigned; Ozro J. Dodds, 1872-3, vice Perry; Milton Sayler, Henry B. Banning, 1873-9; Benjamin Butterworth, Thomas L. Young, 1879-83.
MEMBERS OF THE FIRST STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CON- VENTIONS.
The First Convention, 1802 .- Charles W. Boyd, John W. Browne, Francis Dunlavy, William Goforth, John Kitchel, Jeremiah Morrow, John Paul, John Reily, John Smith, John Wilson.
The Second Convention, 1851 .- William S. Groes- beck, George W. Holmes, J. Daniel Jones, Adam N. Riddle, Charles Reemelin, Edward C. Roll, John Strubel.
The Third Convention, 1873 .- Rufus King, Richard M. Bishop, Samuel F. Hunt, Charles W. Rowland, Elias
* By resolution of the Ohio legislature, passed December 19, 1806, Mr. Smith was requested to resign his seat in the Senate, on the ground that he did not attend to his duties as senator. Tucker's Life of Jef- ferson has the following note upon the subject :
"John Smith, a senator from Ohio, was one of those involved in the conspiracy of Aaron Burr, and was indicted by a grand jury at Rich- mond. As soon as he attended the Senate, on the twenty-seventh of November, 1807, a committee was appointed to inquire whether he should be permitted to hold his seat in that body. On the thirty-first of December, the committee having made a report against him, he was allowed to defend himself against the report there adduced by counsel and by adducing testimony, both oral and written. After the evidence was heard, and several postponements of the investigation at his in- stance, the question of his expulsion was taken on the ninth of April, when, there being nineteen yeas and ten nays, and consequently not two-thirds for his expulsion, it was determined in the negative. He kept his seat, and voted during the remainder of the session, and on returning to Ohio resigned his seat."
Return J. Meigs, of Marietta, was then elected to fill the vacancy. In 1847, a book entitled "The Victim of Intrigue -- A Tale of Burr's Conspiracy," by James W. Taylor, to vindicate the reputation of Sena- tor Smith from the charge of implication in the conspiracy, was pub- lished in Cincinnati by Roberts & Jones.
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H. Johnson, Julius Freiberg, George Hoadly, John W. Herron, Joseph P. Carberry, John L. Miner (in place of Josiah L. Keck, resigned).
MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF THE TERRITORY.
Jacob Burnet, James Findlay.
MEMBERS OF THE TERRITORIAL ASSEMBLY.
1799-1800 .- William McMillan, William Goforth, John Smith, John Ludlow, Aaron Caldwell, Isaac Martin, Robert Benham; 1801-2 .- John Ludlow, John Smith, Francis Dunlavy, Moses Miller, Jeremiah Morrow, Dan- iel Reeder, Jacob White.
SPEAKERS IN THE LEGISLATIVE HOUSES.
Senate .- Daniel Symmes, Second and Third general assemblies; Samuel R. Miller, Twenty-ninth and Thirty- first; David T. Disney, Thirty-second and Thirty-third, and at the extra session of 1835; James J. Faran, For- tieth and Forty-first. (After the adoption of the consti- tution of 1852, the lieutenant governor presided over the senate.)
House of Representatives .- Micajah T. Williams, Twenty-third general assembly; David T. Disney, Thir- ty-first; James J. Faran, Thirty-seventh; A. J. Cunning- ham, Fifty-ninth.
STATE SENATORS.
First general assembly-Francis Dunlavy, Jeremiah Morrow, John Paul, Daniel Symmes; Second-John Big- ger, W. C. Schenck, Daniel Symmes, William Ward; Third - Daniel Symmes; Fourth-Cornelius Snider, Stephen Wood; Fifth-Stephen Wood, William McFar- land; Sixth-Stephen Wood, Hezekiah Price (to fill un- expired term of John Taggart, resigned); Seventh and Eighth-Stephen Wood, Hezekiah Price; Ninth-Oth- niel Looker, Aaron Goforth (to fill the place of Alexan- der Campbell, resigned); Tenth-Elnathan Stone (to fill vacancy caused by death of Aaron Goforth), Othniel Looker; Eleventh-John Jones, Francis McCormick; Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth-John Jones, Oth - niel Looker; Fifteenth - Othniel Looker, Ephraim Brown; Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Ephraim Brown, George P. Torrence; Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Eph- raim Brown, William H. Harrison; Twentieth, Twenty- first, and Twenty-second-Ephraim Brown, Benjamin M. Piatt; Twenty-third -- Clayton Webb, Nathaniel Guilford (to fill vacancy of Benjamin M. Piatt, resigned); Twenty- fourth-Clayton Webb, Nathaniel G. Pendleton; Twenty- fifth-N. G. Pendleton, Stephen Wood; Twenty-sixth- Stephen Wood, Andrew Mack; Twenty-seventh-Andrew Mack, Jonathan Cilley; Twenty-eighth-Jonathan Cilley, Ethan A. Brown; Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth-Jonathan Cilley, Samuel R. Miller; Thirty-first-Samuel R. Mil- ler, Alexander Duncan; Thirty-second - Alexander Duncan, David T. Disney; Thirty-third and extra session-David T. Disney, Henry Morse; Thirty- fourth-Henry Morse, William Price; Thirty-fifth -- John H. Garrard, William Price; Thirty-sixth-John H. Garrard, William Oliver; Thirty-seventh - Wil- liam Oliver, George W. Holmes; Thirty-eighth, Thirty- ninth, and Fortieth-George W. Holmes, James J. Far- an; Forty-first-James J. Faran, Oliver Jones; Forty-
second and Forty-third-Oliver Jones, David T. Disney; Forty-fourth-Oliver Jones, J. H. Ewing; Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth-J. H. Ewing, Charles C. Reemelin; Forty- seventh-J. H. Ewing, John H. Dubbs; Forty-eighth- John H. Dubbs, William F. Johnson (seat of latter con- tested and given to Lewis Broadwell); Forty-ninth- Lewis Broadwell, William S. Hatch; Fiftieth-Edwin L. Armstrong, Adam N. Riddle, John L. Vattier; Fifty- first-George H. Pendleton, John Schiff, William F. Con- verse; Fifty-second-Stanley Matthews, William F. Con- verse, George W. Holmes; Fifty-third - William S. Hatch, A. B. Langdon, Charles Thomas; Fifty-fourth- Thomas M. Key, E. A. Ferguson, George W. Holmes; Fifty-fifth-Benjamin Eggleston, Thomas H. Whetstone, William S. Groesbeck ; Fifty-sixth -- Benjamin Eggleston, Thomas H. Whetstone, Thomas H. Weasnor (at the ad- journed session, Joshua H. Bates took the seat of Mr. Weasnor, resigned); Fifty-seventh-Warner M. Bateman, S. L. Hayden, G. B. Hollister; Fifty-eighth-Thomas R. Biggs, Henry Kessler, John F. Torrence; Fifty-ninth- Thomas H. Yeatman, Michael Goepper, Samuel F. Hunt, Nathaniel Lord, jr .; Sixtieth -- John Schiff, Joseph F. Wright, Thomas L. Young; Sixty-first-William Pitt Wallace, Vachel Worthington, Stephen H. Burton; Sixty- second-Joshua H. Bates, Henry Kessler, E. F. Klein- schmidt, E. P. Ransom; Sixty-third-James M. Arm- strong, William T. Forrest, Henry C. Lord, Theodore Marsh; Sixty-fourth - Benjamin Eggleston, Charles Fleischmann, Josiah Kirby.
REPRESENTATIVES.
First General Assembly-Thomas Brown, John Big- ger, James Dunn, William James, Robert McClure, Wil- liam Maxwell, Thomas McFarlan; Second - Samuel Dick, William Dodds, Abner Garrard, Ephraim Kibby, Ichabod Miller, John Wallace, Stephen Wood, William McClure; Third-Stephen Wood, Hezekiah Price, Ju- dah Willey; Fourth - John Jones, Hezekiah Price, Adrian Hagerman; Fifth - Ethan Stone, John Jones, Hezekiah Price; Sixth -- Othniel Looker, Zebulon Foster, John Jones; Seventh-Othniel Looker, William Perry, James Clark ; Eighth - Othniel Looker, James- Clark, William Ludlow; Ninth-John Jones, Peter Bell, Sam- uel McHenry; Tenth-Peter Bell, John Jones, Ogden Ross; Eleventh-Peter Bell, Ogden Ross, William Corry; Twelfth-Zebulon Foster, Peter Bell, Ephraim Brown; Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Jacob Burnet, Ephraim Brown, Peter Bell; Fifteenth-Arthur Henry, Daniel Hosbrook, Benjamin M. Piatt; Sixteenth and Seven- teenth-Andrew Mack, Samuel McHenry, Peter Bell ; Eighteenth-Peter Bell, Samuel McHenry, William Corry; Nineteenth-Zacchens Biggs, Clayton Webb, Mi- cajah T. Williams; Twentieth-Clayton Webb, Micajah T. Williams, John T. Short, Samuel R. Miller ; Twenty- first-Benjamin Ayres, William Disney, Samuel Rees, Micajah T. Williams; Twenty-second-Samuel Rees, William Disney, Daniel Hosbrook, Micajah T. Williams; Twenty-third-Micajah T. Williams, William Corry, Sam- uel McHenry; Twenty-fourth - Samuel McHenry, Charles G. Swain, Elijah Hayward; Twenty-fifth-Elijah
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Hayward, Charles G. Swain, William Corry; Twenty- sixth-Elijah Hayward, Peter Bell, John C. Short; Twenty-seventh-Elijah Hayward, Robert T. Lytle, Alexander Duncan; Twenty-eighth-David T. Disney, Samnel Rees, George Graham, jr., Alexander Duncan ; Twenty-ninth-Daniel Stone, Samuel Rees, Leonard Armstrong; Thirtieth-Alexander Duncan, David T. Disney, Daniel H. Hawes, John Burgoyne; Thirty-first -D. T. Disney, Samuel Bond, Israel Brown, Adam N. Riddle; Thirty-second-Adam N. Riddle, Samuel Bond, William C. Anderson, John Burgoyne; Thirty-third-Wil- liam C. Anderson, Samuel Bond, John C. Short, Elijah Hotchkiss; Extra session, 1835-Samuel Bond, Elisha Hotchkiss, John C. Short; Thirty-fourth-William Conc- lin, James J. Faran, Andrew Porter, Daniel Hosbrook ; Thirty-fifth-Israel Brown, George W. Holmes, James Armstrong; Thirty-sixth-James J. Faran, James Given, A. F. Carpenter; Thirty seventh-James J. Faran, Israel Brown; Thirty-eighth-Robert Moore, Thomas J. Hen- derson ; Thirty-ninth -- A. F. Carpenter, John M. Coch- ran, John Reeves; Fortieth-Robert Moore, William Hatch, James H. Ewing, Oliver Jones; Forty-first --- Israel Brown, Archibald Gordon, William Wakefield ; Forty-second -- James H. Ewing, William Wakefield, John Snyder; Forty-third-Israel Brown, Charles Ree- melin, James H. Ewing, Jacob Flinn; Forty-fourth- John McMakin, Charles Reemelin, Thomas J. Galla- gber, Jacob Flinn; Forty-fifth -- William S. Smith, Wil- liam F. Converse, John McMakin, John B. Warren; Forty-sixth-Edward L. Armstrong, William F. Con- verse, William S. Smith, John B. Warren; Forty-seventh -George E. Pugh, Alexander N. Pierce, Henry Roed- ter, Alexander Long, Edward L. Armstrong; Forty-eighth -Alexander Long, John Bennett, Henry Roedter, George E. Pugh, Andrew Purdon; Forty-ninth-Peter Zinn, James Iliff, John Bennett, John Schiff, Andrew David- son; Fiftieth-William H. Lytle, Benjamin T. Dale, James Shuble, Thomas F. Eckhart, John B. Staetler, An- drew Davidson, Richard H. Stone, Oliver Brown. At the adjourned session, Henry Brachman, vice Jacob Struble, deceased ; Fifty-first -- H. B. Brown, Joseph E. Egley, Nelson Cross, John B. Krauth, E. Bassett Lang- don, John N. Ridgway, George Robinson, Thomas . Wright ; Fifty-second-Joseph E. Egley, E. B. Langdon, William M. Corry, James P. Holmes, George C. Robin" son, Charles Thomas, Ebenezer T. Turpin, John P. Slough; Fifty-third-George C. Robinson, Patrick Rodgers, Hun- ter Brooke, 'Aaron C. Bagley, Isaac C. Collins, Joseph J. Bobmeyer, James Saffin, Joseph T. Wright; Fifty-fourth -William J. Flagg, John Schiff, Joseph Jonas, Patrick Rodgers, Joseph F. Wright, William Jones, William Jes- sup; Fifty-fifth-Peter Zinn, George Keck, William Stanton, Milton Sayler, William J. Flagg, James Hus- ton, Amzi McGill, Henry Brachman, Theodore Marsh; Fifty-sixth -- William Stanton, George Keck, Henry Brachman, Amzi McGill, James Huston, J. M. Cochran, S. L. Hayden, John K. Green, Josiah Kirby ; (adjourned session-N. P. Nixon took the place of George Koch, deceased) ; Fifty-seventh-Henry Kessler, William Stan- ton, N. P. Nixon, J. M. Cochran, Gustav Tafel, M. P.
Gaddis, Thomas L. Young, F. H. Oberkline, George B. Wright (at the adjourned session, Griffith M. Bunce and Charles E. Cist, to take the places, respectively, of Maxwell P. Gaddis and George B. Wright, resigned); Fifty-eighth-Henry C. Borden, Robert S. Coleman, George Cist, Henry G. Kennett, Frederick W. Moore, William H. Scott, George W. Skaats, Jacob Wolf, Henry Warnkin; Fifty-ninth-Henry M. Bates, Thomas A. Corcoran, A. J. Cunningham, Ozro J. Dodds, Thomas J. Haldeman, James H. Hambleton, George H. Hill, John K. Love, Augustus Ward, Ernest F. Kleinschmidt ; Sixtieth - John M. Brunswick, John M. Cochran, Thomas A. Corcoran, Robert Creighton, John J. Fallis, Thomas J. Haldeman, John A. Shank, Robert O. Strong, Charles P. Taft, John M. Wilson (at the ad- journed session H. F. Brashear and M. W. Olin, vice. re- spectively, Robert Creighton and R. O. Strong, resigned); Sixty-first-Chapman C. Archer, George W. Boyce, John J. Geghan, James S. Gordon, Paul A. J. Huston, Edwin W. Miller, Elbert P. Newell, John M. Patterson, Thomas E. Sater, James L. Haven; Sixty-second-S. W. Bard, L. Burckhardt, Gabriel Dirr, H. P. Goebel, John E. Naylor, George W. Skaats, Peter F. Stryker, R. M. White, W. P. Wiltsee, John W. Zumstein; Sixty-third- Lloyd S. Bunn, Milo G. Dodds, William Jessup, Fred- erick Klimper, Benjamin F. Lovelace, William B. Loder, Joseph G. Sexton, John Sullivan, Irwin B. Wright; Sixty-fourth-Lewis M. Dayton, Charles C. Davis, Jo- seph E. Heart, William H. Hill, Frank Kirchner, D. Gano Ray, Peter Stryker, Lewis Voight, George W. Wil- liams.
JUDGES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS AND OF THE GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS OF THE PEACE.
William McMillan, William Goforth, William Wells, (appointed by Governor St. Clair, January 4, 1790, under the territorial organization).
The first justices of the peace were appointed for the county at large, and sat on the bench with the justices of the quarter sessions. The original appointments of 1790 were John S. Gano and Benjamin Stites, of Columbia; Jacob Tapping, and George McCullum. Others were added from time to time, of whom we have only the name of Henry Weaver, of Tucker's Station, appointed by Governor St. Clair in 1794, and of those whose names appear upon the records of the court from 1790 to 1802, as follows: We give only the year of their first appear- ance on the record :
1792, Aaron Caldwell; 1793, John Armstrong, James Barrett; 1794, John Mercer; 1795, Stephen Wood, John S. Wallace; 1796, Thomas Gibson, John Beasly; 1797, Nathan Ellis; 1799, Ignatius Brown, William Bunn, Ich- abod B. Miller, Asa Kitchell, Jacob White, Alexander Martin; 1800, Olear Todd; 1801, James Findlay, Joseph Prince, Emanuel Vantrees, Cornelius Sedam; 1802, Wil- liam Armstrong, Samuel Robb.
JUDGES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
1803, Thomas Gibson, presiding judge, three associ- ates; 1804, Michael Jones, presiding judge; 1805, Francis Dunlavy, presiding judge for fourteen years; associ-
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ates, James Silvers (to at least 18:9), Luke Foster (1803- 10). [Mr. Dunlavy was the first judge on the first circuit, which embraced Hamilton, Butler, Warren, Clermont, Montgomery, and Greene, and afterwards Clinton and. Preble counties.] 1804-6, Matthew Nimmo, associate ; 1807, William McFarland, associate; 1808-10, John Matson, associate; 1810-16, Stephen Wood, associate ; 1811, James Clark, associate; 1817, Othniel Looker, as- sociate; 1818, William Burke, associate; 1819, George P. Torrence, presiding judge until 1832; John C. Short ; 1820-22, Othniel Looker, James Silvers, Peter Bell; 1823-4, Samuel R: Miller; 1825-6, Patrick Smith, Benja- min Piatt; 1825-9, Peter Bell, Patrick Smith, John Jolley. [It is quite certain that one or more of these gentlemen held the office before and after these dates; but we only know that they were holding in these years.] 1829-31, Enos Woodruff. [A similar remark is true of Mr. Wood- ruff, as also of Mr. Rees and many others named below -in nearly all cases, probably where but a single year is given in connection with a name. If the dates of their several terms could be completed, many of the gaps ob- servable in the list would doubtless be filled.] 1831, Samuel Rees; 1831-6, Thomas Henderson; 1834, John M. Goodenow; 1834-6, John Burgoyne, Jonathan Cilley ; 1836, David K. Este; 1839-40, N. C. Read, Joseph Brown, Richard Ayres; 1839-45, Henry Morse; 1845-6, William B. Caldwell; 1845, Israel Brown; 1845-51, Rob- ert Moore; 1846-51, James Saffin ; 1846-51, John A. Wise- man ; 1850, Samuel M. Hart; 1851, Robert B. Martin.
[Under the New Constitution. ]
1852, Stanley Matthews, Donn Piatt; 1852-61, A. G. W. Carter; 1858-67, M. W. Oliver; 1858-61, Patrick Mallon; 1860-1, Isaac C. Collins; 1861-7, Nicholas Headington; 1861-77, Charles C. Murdock; 1867-72, Joseph Cox (also 1877, -, in place of Judson Harmon) ; 1867-77, Manning F. Force; 1872, -, Jacob Burnet, Wil- liam L. Avery; 1877-8, Judson Harmon ; 1877, -, Nich- olas Longworth, Robert A. Johnston; 1878, -, Fayette Smith, Frederick W. Moore.
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