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Associate Judges. - William Wetmore, February, 1808, resigned in December, 1809; Aaron Norton, from February, 1808, to February, 1815; Amzi Atwater, February, 1808, to February, 1815; Samuel Forward (vice Wetmore resigned), February, 1810, to February, 1815; Elias Harmon, February, 1815, to February, 1836; Samuel King, Jr., February, 1815, to February, 1820; Alva Day, February, 1815, to February, 1829; Augustus Baldwin, February, 1820, to February, 1827; Elkanah Richardson, February, 1827, to February, 1834; George B. DePeyster, February, 1829, to February, 1836; Charles Sumner, February, 1834, to February, 1840; Ira Selby, February, 1836, to February, 1843; Joseph Lewis, February, 1836, to February, 1843; Jeremiah Moulton, March, 1840, to March, 1847; Jonathan Foster, February, 1843, to February, 1850; Thomas B. Selby, February, 1843, to February, 1850; Isaac Swift, March, 1847, to January, 1852; Isaac Brayton, February, 1850, to January, 1852; Luther L. Brown, March, 1850, to January, 1852.
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Prosecuting Attorneys .- Asa D. Keyes, 1808; Thomas D. Webb, from January, 1809, to April, 1810; Benjamin Tappan, 1810; Thomas D. Webb, 1811, to 1812; Peter Hitchcock, 1813, to 1814; Calvin Pease, 1815, to Febru- ary, 1816; Darius Lyman, March, 1816, to 1818; Jonathan Sloane, 1819; Darius Lyman, 1820, to 1828; Lucius V. Bierce, January, 1829, to January, 1839; Daniel R. Tilden, January, 1839, to January, 1844: Luther Day, Janu- ary, 1844, to January, 1846; Robert F. Paine, January, 1846, to January, 1848; Luther Day, January, 1848, to January, 1851; Samuel Strawder, Janu- ary, 1851, to January, 1856; Ezra B. Taylor, January, 1856, to January, 1858; Joseph D. Horton, January, 1858, to January, 1860; Philo B. Conant, Janu- ary, 1860, to January, 1862; Alphonso Hart, January, 1862, to January, 1865; Horace H. Willard, January, 1865, to January, 1868; E. L. Webber, Janu- ary, 1868, to January, 1870; C. A. Reed, January, 1870, to January, 1874; George F. Robinson, January, 1874, to January, 1878; O. S. Ferris, January, 1878, to January, 1880; Joseph D. Horton, January, 1880, to September, 1882; John Meharg, September, 1882, to January, 1884; I. T. Siddall, Janu- ary, 1884, term expires in January, 1887.
In the early days of mud roads and log-cabins, the lawyers rode the circuit with the Judge, on horseback, from county to county, equipped with the old- fashioned leggins and saddle-bags. The party usually had their appointed stop- ping places where they were expected, and, on their arrival, the chickens, dried apples, maple sugar, corn dodgers and old whisky suffered, while the best story- tellers regaled the company with humor and anecdotes. Among the pioneers of Portage County were some who possessed a fair knowledge of the law, and two at least who were full-fledged lawyers-Benjamin Tappan and Asa D. Keyes. Upon the organization of the county, and the selection of Ravenna as the seat of justice, lawyers' offices began to make their appearance in the vil- lage. The disciples of Blackstone and Kent seem to have always looked upon Ravenna as a fruitful field for their profession, for there has been no period of its history when it has not contained one or more of the leading attorneys of northeastern Ohio.
Hon. Benjamin Tappan was the first lawyer to locate in Portage County. He was born in Massachusetts, in 1773, received a good education in his native State, and there read law and was admitted to the bar. In the summer of 1799 he located in what is now the southeast corner of Ravenna Township, and built the first log-cabin in that subdivision. In the summer of 1800 he went to Connecticut, and married Miss Nancy Wright, and with his young bride returned to his cabin in the primeval forest of this county. In 1803 he was chosen to represent the Trumbull district in the Ohio Senate, and served one term. The act erecting Portage County designated his house as the temporary place for holding the courts of said county, until a seat of justice should be selected. By this time he had removed to the second residence built by him, which stood on the farm now owned by Marcus Heath, about one mile east of Ravenna. His father was the owner of the south division of lots in Ravenna Township, and had appointed his son Benjamin as his agent, and as such the latter laid out the old town plat of Ravenna, early in 1808, which was sub- sequently selected by the State Commissioners for the seat of justice of Port- age County. About 1809 Judge Tappan left this county and located at Steubenville, though for several years afterward he attended court at Ravenna, and was the Prosecuting Attorney in 1810. He became President Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, and in 1833 was made United States District Judge. His name is widely known as the compiler of "Tappan's Reports." In 1826 Judge Tappan was one of four Gubernatorial candidates, yet strange to say
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received only seven votes in Portage County. In December, 1838, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate, Thomas Ewing being his Whig opponent, and served until 1845. After a long and useful public career, Judge Tappan retired from active life, and died in 1857, at the ripe age of eighty-four.
Asa D. Keyes, whose father, Daniel Keyes, settled in Shalersville Town- ship in 1807-08, was, doubtless, the second resident attorney of the county. He was a native of Connecticut and a young man of considerable talent but of intemperate habits. At the first session of the Court of Common Pleas of Portage County, beginning August 23, 1808, Mr. Keyes was appointed Prose- cuting Attorney and served in that capacity until the close of the year. Little further is known of him, and he must have removed from the county at an early day. He once hired a horse of Judge Amzi Atwater to go to Warren, and on his return said to the Judge, that he believed he had changed the bridle. "Yes," said Judge Atwater, " and the horse too -- that is a better horse than I let you have." It was afterward discovered that Keyes, and a Squire Tyler, of Hubbard, had been imbibing pretty freely all day, and on getting ready to leave Warren were so " full" that each mounted the other's horse, and rode home without having the faintest knowledge of the comical blunder,
Hon. Darius Lyman was the next attorney to open an office in Ravenna. He was born in Litchfield County, Conn., July 19, 1789, graduated at Will- iams College, in 1810, studied law in Norfolk, Conn., was admitted to prac- tice and came to Ravenna in 1814. He was Prosecuting Attorney from 1816 to 1818, and again from 1820 to 1828, and represented Portage County in the Ohio Legislature from 1816 to 1820. From 1828 to 1832 he served in the State Senate, and was elected to the same position in 1833 and in 1849, serving one term at each period. In 1832 he was the Whig and Anti- Masonic candi- date for Governor of Ohio, but was defeated by Robert Lucas, the Democratic nominee. He continued in the practice of law at Ravenna until his election to the office of Probate Judge in the fall of 1854, in which position he served nine years. Judge Lyman was neither an orator nor a brilliant advocate, but his love of justice and unswerving integrity gave him influence with Court and jury, and made him a formidable competitor. After retiring from the Probate Judgeship, in 1864, he removed to Cleveland, where he died about ten years ago. He was twice married and was the father of six children. His eldest son, Prof. Darius Lyman, Jr., has served twenty years in the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C., and a grandson, Henry D. Lyman, has been Second As- sistant Postmaster General.
Hon. Jonathan Sloane settled in Ravenna in 1816, where he continued in the practice of his profession until 1837, in which year he retired from active life. He was born in Pelham, Mass., in November, 1785, and graduated at Williams College in the class of 1812. Soon after graduating he commenced reading law in the office of Jonathan Lyman, Esq., of Northampton, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in 1816. He then came West, took up his residence in Ravenna, and soon gained an honorable position at the bar. He was Pros- ecuting Attorney in 1819, a member of the Legislature in 1820-22, was in the Ohio Senate 1822-24 and 1826-28, and represented the Fifteenth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 1833 to 1837. From the commencement of Mr. Sloane's resi- dence in Ravenna, he was the general agent of the Tappan family for the sale of their lands in this section, which position he held many years, and by means of which he became well and favorably known to most of the early settlers, being always lenient and obliging to those who purchased land
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of him. He took an active part in obtaining the charter of the Pennsylvania & Ohio Canal, and the successful completion of this then important public work was greatly due to his influence and efficient efforts in its behalf. At the expiration of his second term in Congress he gave up the practice of law, and gradually withdrew from business life. He never married, and physical infirmities growing upon him, he retired from society many years before his death, which occurred April 25, 1854, always relishing, however, the visits of his old friends and associates. Mr. Sloane possessed none of the graces of oratory, but during his prime he was a forcible, energetic advocate, and a sound and able counsellor, achieving the distinction of being the best Chancery lawyer on the Western Reserve.
Gen. Lucius V. Bierce comes next in the order of time. He was a native of Litchfield County, Conn., but came to Ohio when young; graduated from the Ohio University at Athens, where he subsequently studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Ravenna in September, 1825. Gen. Bierce became quite distinguished as a criminal lawyer throughout northern Ohio, and was Prose- cuting Attorney of Portage County from 1829 to 1839. He remained in Ravenna until October, 1851, at which time he removed to Akron, where he followed the practice of his profession until his death, about ten years ago. From 1862 to 1864 he represented the Twenty-sixth Senatorial District in the Ohio Assembly, and held various other offices. He was twice married, but left no children. He devoted considerable time to writing historical sketches of the Western Reserve, exhibiting considerable taste and ability in literary pursuits.
At the close of 1825 we find but three resident attorneys in what is now Portage County, viz .: Darius Lyman, Jonathan Sloane and Lucius V. Bierce. But there were a number of visiting attorneys who practiced regularly at this bar from the time the county was organized, among the most prominent of whom might be mentioned John S. Edwards, Robert S. Parkman, Elderkin Potter, Calvin Pease, Thomas D. Webb, Peter Hitchcock, Benjamin Tappan, John C. Wright, Elisha Whittlesey, Reuben Wood, Van R. Humphrey, George D. Norton, Andrew W. Loomis and a Mr. Metcalf, all of whom won their way to high positions. Among later visiting lawyers we find Gregory Powers, D. K. Carter, Wyllis Sillman, Samuel W. McClure, Eben Newton, Henry McKin- ney and Milton Sutliff.
William Turner was admitted to the bar in Ravenna in January, 1828, and about the same time John Pearson opened an office in the village. Turner was a fine classical scholar, and after many years' practice removed to Wooster, abandoned the profession and subsequently died in Cleveland. Little is remembered of Pearson, who did not remain long in this county.
William S. C. Otis was also one of the pioneer lawyers of Portage County. He came to Ravenna at an early day, and was associated in law practice with Hon. Jonathan Sloane, under the firm name of Sloane & Otis. Through legal ability Mr. Otis attained to an eminent position at the bar in Portage and surrounding counties. He removed to Akron and afterward to Cleveland, and became somewhat famous as a railroad lawyer, devoting most of his time to that branch of practice. Mr. Otis died in Cleveland a few years ago. A more exhaustive sketch of this gentleman will be found among Ravenna Township biographies.
Hon. Rufus P. Spalding was born at West Tisbury, Mass., May 3. 1798, graduated at Yale College in 1817, read law in the office of Chief Justice Zephaniah Swift, of Connecticut, and was there admitted to practice. In 1820 he opened an office at Little Rock, Ark., but after remaining there a year and
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a half, returned East and located at Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. He continued the practice of his profession at Warren until 1838, when he removed to Ravenna, where he soon became recognized as a leading attorney, and represented Portage County in the Ohio Legislature from 1839 to 1840. In the latter year he removed to Akron, and in 1841-42 served another term in the Legislature, representing the new county of Summit. The General Assembly of 1848-49 elected him a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, for the term of seven years, but through the Constitution of 1851 the office became elective by the people, and his term thus expired after three years' service. On leaving the bench he removed to Cleveland, and in October, 1862, was elected, as a Republican, to Congress, re-elected in 1864 and again in 1866. Upon the expiration of his third term he returned to the practice of law. He has been twice married, three children surviving from the first marriage. Judge Spaulding, though yet living in Cleveland, has not been engaged in active practice for some years, as he is now (March, 1885,) within two months of being eighty-seven years old. As a lawyer and statesman he achieved a wide reputation. He possessed in his prime a profound knowledge of the law, great power as a debater, and the ability of strongly impressing both courts and juries, while his dignified appearance and manner heightened the effect of his arguments.
Hon. Daniel R. Tilden was born in Lebanon, Conn., in November, 1807, came to Ohio about 1830, studied law with Rufus P. Spalding at Warren, Ohio, and was there admitted to the bar in 1837. The same year he entered into partnership with his preceptor, and in 1838 both came to Ravenna, opened an office and remained in law practice together until 1839. In 1839-40 he was a member of the law firm of Sloane & Otis, and from 1839 to 1844 was Prosecuting Attorney of this county. About this time he went into partnership with John L. Ranney, under the firm name of Tilden & Ranney, which con- tinued until his removal to Akron in 1850. He practiced his profession in Akron until 1852, when he removed to Cleveland. Mr. Tilden was elected to Congress from the Portage District in 1842, re-elected in 1844 and served until 1847. Soon after settling in Cleveland he was elected Probate Judge, and at the close of his present term will have held the position thirty-three years. During all the years of Mr. Tilden's legal practice, he sustained the reputation of being an able advocate, a good lawyer and an honorable member of the profession. As a legislator he was loyal to his own convictions of right, and the best interests of his constituents.
John L. Ranney was born in Blandford, Mass., November 14, 1815, and in 1824 his father removed with his family from the East, to Freedom Township, Portage Co., Ohio. The educational advantages of John L. were limited to the common schools, and a brief academic course. He read law in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, with his brother Judge R. P. Ranney and Senator B. F. Wade. After being admitted to the bar, he settled in Ravenna, and soon after formed a partnership with Daniel R. Tilden, under the firm name of Tilden & Ranney. This law firm continued business until Mr. Tilden's removal to Akron in 1850. Subsequently the firm of Ranney & Taylor was organized, and later the law firm of J. L. & H. C. Ranney, which continued until Febru- ary 22, 1866, the time of J. L. Ranney's death. He was the Democratic can- didate for Congress in 1858, and was President of the First National Bank of Ravenna from its organization to the close of his life. If not so distinguished as his brother, Judge Rufus P., he may be safely classed among the leading lawyers of his time in this county. He was a gentleman of high intelligence, strict integrity and untiring industry in the prosecution of his professional labors.
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Hon. Luther Day. For biography of this gentleman see personal sketches under heading of Ravenna Township.
Ebenezer Spalding came from Connecticut to Ravenna about 1840, where he engaged in the practice of law. He was Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas from 1852 to 1855, and subsequently followed his profession until November, 1861, when he removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he died in August, 1866.
Christopher P. Wolcott located in Ravenna a few years after Ebenezer Spaulding, whence he removed to Akron. He became quite a prominent law- yer, and was Attorney-General of Ohio from 1856 to 1861.
Hon. Robert F. Paine studied law with Daniel R. Tilden, was admitted to practice, and opened his first office at Garrettsville, whence in March, 1846, he came to Ravenna. He represented Portage County in the Ohio Legislature in 1844-45, and was Prosecuting Attorney in 1846-48. In the latter year he removed to Cleveland, where he was subsequently elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. If not profound, Judge Paine is adroit and successful as a jury lawyer, and has won and retained a large practice at the Cleveland bar, of which he is still an active member.
Hon. Ezra B. Taylor was born in Nelson Township, Portage Co., Ohio, July 9, 1823. He acquired an academic education, and studied law at Gar- rettsville with Hon. Robert F. Paine. After his admission to the bar, in August, 1845, he commenced practice in Garrettsville, whence he removed to Ravenna in 1847, and for some years was the partner of John L. Ranney. He was Prosecuting Attorney in 1856-58, and for many years was recognized as one of the leading lawyers of the Portage County bar. He removed to War- ren in 1861, was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, vice Judge Servis, deceased, and in October, 1877, elected as his own successor. In Sep- tember, 1880, he resigned the Judgeship, and the same fall was elected to Congress by the Republican party, and has been twice re-elected, being now in his third term.
Hon. O. P. Brown was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., March 11, 1817, and in 1829 removed with his parents to St. Catharines, Canada, and the fol- lowing year to Ashtabula County, Ohio. He received a good common school education, and taught for several winters to assist him in completing his higher scholastic and professional studies. At the age of twenty he entered the law office of Wade & Ranney in Jefferson, Ohio, and read with this cele- brated firm until 1839, when he was admitted to practice. He immediately opened an office in Chardon, Geauga County, and was soon regarded as a ris- ing young man of fine promise. While at Chardon he assisted in establishing the Jeffersonian Democrat, which he edited one year. In the fall of 1850 he ran against Hon. Peter Hitchcock for a seat in the Constitutional Convention, and after a splendid campaign was defeated by only 180 votes. In 1852 he removed to Ravenna, and formed a partnership with Samuel Strawder. He was the first Mayor of Ravenna, elected in 1853, and re-elected the following year. He was the State Senator from the Portage-Summit District in 1856- 58, and in September of the latter year was one of the Republican candidates in this district for Congressional nomination, and on the twenty-second ballot received exactly half the votes of the convention, but after the next ballot he withdrew from the contest. 3 In the fall of 1863 he was elected Probate Judge of Portage County, and took his office in February, 1864, but disease had laid its heavy hand upon him, and being unable to attend to his official duties, he resigned on the 9th of May following, and died June 25, 1864. Judge Brown was a genial man of fine natural endowments, and highly gifted as a popular
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speaker. Rising at times to true eloquence, he then exhibited great powers of persuasion, and produced a marked effect upon his audience. He was at once the champion of temperance and freedom, and did all in his power to stem the tide of strong drink and abolish the curse of slavery.
Hon. Philo B. Conant, though yet an active member of the bar, has been so long and prominently associated with it that he can with propriety be classed among its later pioneers. He was born in Windham Township, Por- tage Co., Ohio, August 3, 1837; studied law with a maternal uncle, Alexander Bierce, in Canton, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in Ravenna in 1850. He began practice in 1853, and in 1860-62 served as Prosecuting Attorney. In 1867 he was elected to the State Senate, but resigned in August, 1868, to accept the Common Pleas Judgeship, in which position he served ten years. Judge Conant is recognized as a lawyer of good abilities, and both upon the bench and at the bar has ever been guided by conscientious convictions of justice and right. Upon retiring from the bench in October, 1878, he resumed the practice of his profession, in which he has since been actively engaged.
Joseph D. Horton was born in Randolph Township, Portage Co., Ohio, January 3, 1833. For several years he lived in Nelson Township, there enjoyed brief academic advantages, and followed teaching a short time. In 1853 he entered the law office of Ranney & Taylor, in Ravenna, and was admitted to the bar in 1855. Soon after his admission the firm of Taylor & Horton was formed, and subsequently Judge Luther Day became a member of the firm, which as Day, Taylor & Horton, existed three years. The old firm of Taylor & Horton was then resumed, but subsequently took in John Meharg, who, however, retired from the firm upon taking the office of Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, but which he again entered in 1882. Mr. Horton died September 14, 1882, after a professional experience of twenty-seven years. He was Prosecuting Attorney in 1858-60, and again in 1880-82. He was Mayor of Ravenna several terms, and during the early part of the war was Military Commissioner of the county. He represented Portage County in the Constitutional Convention of 1873, ranking as one of its ablest members. In his professional life, Mr. Horton was engaged in nearly every prominent trial, and among the members of the bar his conclusions and opinions upon points of law were usually accepted as sound. As an illustration of the position he occupied in his profession, the following anecdote is told by one who knew him well. Some years ago a group of lawyers were discussing a knotty point of law, and none could clear it up. "There comes Horton," said Judge Tay . lor, "ask him, he knows more law than all of us." This frank expression of Judge Taylor's seems to be the opinion of nearly every lawyer who knew Mr. Horton, for his assistance was generally sought whenever intricate questions were involved.
Hon. Alphonso Hart came to Ravenna from Trumbull County, Ohio, in July, 1854, and with R. E. Craig purchased the Portage Sentinel of Samuel D. Harris, Jr., one of the founders of the paper. He conducted the Sentinel until the close of 1857, but during this time had read law and was admitted to the bar. In 1863 the firm of Hart & Reed was formed and lasted ten years. Mr. Hart soon gained a prominent position at the bar, was Prosecuting Attor- ney from 1862 to 1865, State Senator in 1864-66, and again represented this district in the Ohio Senate in 1872-74. He was the Presidential Elector from this Congressional district.in 1872, and cast his vote for Grant and Wilson. In 1873 he was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio, and in that year removed to Cleveland. He afterward went from Cleveland to Hillsboro, Ohio, where he was elected to Congress. During his term in Congress he was recognized as a sound thinker and an able, ready debater.
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Among the attorneys who have been members of this bar in the past are Samuel Strawder, Lyman W. Hall, F. W. Tappan, Archibald Servoss, N. L. Jeffries, E. Ferry, H. H. Willard, J. W. Tyler, O. W. Strong, Edward P. Bas- sett, Lester L. Bond, J. S. Hinman, James Hall, B. F. Curtiss, William Mc- Clintock, H. B. Foster, G. F. Brown, L. D. Woodworth, H. C. Ranney, J. Crowell, O. A. Taylor, C. W. Leffingwell, J. G. Hole, A. W. Beman, H. A. Waldo, J. H. Terry, E. L. Webber, S. E. Fink, E. W. Stuart, Will Pound, A. A. Thayer, I. N. Frisbee, F. O. Wadsworth, A. J. Dyer, W. L. Marvin, H. C. Sanford, M. G. Garrison and M. A. Norris.
The present bar of Portage County embraces twenty-nine attorneys, some of whom, however, are not very actively engaged in the profession. The law- yers of Ravenna are Philo B. Conant, Michael Stuart, William B. Thomas, Cornelius A. Reed, John Meharg, Andrew Jackson, Gideon Seymour, John Porter, George F. Robinson, David L. Rockwell, Seth D. Norton, Isaac T. Siddall, Bradford Howland, John H. Dussel, Augustus S. Cole, James H. Nichols, Isaac H. Phelps, Orion P. Sperry, Arthur E. Seaton, Mark W. Phelps and James W. Holcomb. In Kent there are S. P. Wolcott, O. S. Rockwell, W. W. Patton and T. W. Peckinpaugh. In Garrettsville we find O. S. Ferris, E. W. Maxson and R. S. Webb; and C. D. Ingell, at Mantua Station.
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