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Legislative Council-Robert Oliver, Washington County ; Jacob Burnet, James Findlay, Hamilton County ; David Vance, Jefferson County ; Solomon Sibley, Wayne County. Robert Oliver was elected President.
Officers of the House-Speaker, Edward Tiffin ; Clerk, John Riley ; Doorkeeper Edward Sherlock.
Representatives -- Joseph Darlington, Nathaniel Massie, Adams County ; Moses Miller, Francis Dunlavy, Jeremiah Morrow, John Ludlow, John Smith, Jacob White, Daniel Reeder, Hamilton County ; Zenas Kimberly, John Milligan, Thomas McCune, Jefferson County ; Edward Tiffin, Thomas Worthington, Elias Langham, Ross County ; Edward Paine, Trumbull County ; Ephraim Cutler, William Rufus Putnam, Washington County ; Frances J . Chabert, George MeDougal, Jonathan Schieffelin, Wayne County.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Temporary Officers-President, William Goforth ; Secretary, William McFar- land.
Permanent Officers- President, Edward Tiffin ; Secretary, Thomas Scott; As- sistant Secretary, William McFarland.
Members-Joseph Darlington, Israel Donaldson, Thomas Kirker, Adams County ; James Caldwell, Elijah Woods, Belmont County ; Philip Gatch, James
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Sargent, Clermont County ; Henry Abrams, Emanuel Carpenter, Fairfield County ; John W. Browne, Charles Willing Byrd, Frances Dunlavy, William Goforth, John Kitchel, Jeremiah Morrow, John Paul, John Reily, John Smith, John Wilson, Hamilton County ; Rudolf Bair, George Humphrey, John Milligan, Nathan Upde- graff, Bazaliel Wells, Jefferson County ; Michael Baldwin, Edward Tiffin, James Grubb, Thomas Worthington, Nathaniel Massie, Ross County ; David Abbot, Samuel Huntington, Trumbull County ; Ephraim Cutler, Benjamin Ives Gilman, Rufus Putnam, John McIntire, Washington County.
NOTES.
1. The foregoing synopsis of the Territorial Government has been compiled from an article entitled "Our Territorial Statesmen," by Isaac Smucker, in the Magazine of Western History for January, 1885.
STATE GOVERNMENT .?
GOVERNORS.
Name.
County.
Term.
Arthur St. Clair 1 .
1788-1802
Charles W. Byrd ?
Hamilton
1802-1803
Edward Tiffin 3
Ross
1803-1807
Thomas Kirker 4
Adams
1807-1808
Samuel Huntington
Trumbull
1808-1810
Return Jonathan Meigs
Washington
1810-1814
Othniel Looker *
Hamilton
1814
Thomas Worthington
Ross
1814-1818
Ethan Allen Brown6
Hamilton
1818-1822
Allen Trimble *
Highland
1822
Jeremiah Morrow
Warren
1822-1826
Allen Trimble
Highland
1826-1830
Duncan MeArthur
Ross
1830-1832
Robert Lucas
Pike
1832-1836
Joseph Vance
Champaign
1836-1838
Wilson Shannon
Belmont
1838-1840 .
Thomas Corwin
Warren .
1840-1842
Wilson Shannon ?
Belmont
1842.1844
Thomas W. Bartley
Richland
1844
Mordecai Bartley
Richland
1844-1846
William Bebb
Butler
1846-1849
Seabury Ford &
Geanga
1849-1850
Reuben Wood.9
Cuyahoga
1850-1853
William Medill 10
Fairfield
1853-1856
Salmon P. Chase .
Hamilton
1856-1860
William Dennison
Franklin
1860-1862
David Tod
Mahoning
1862-1864
John Brough " +
Cuyahoga .
1864-1865
Charles Anderson +
Montgomery
1865-1866
Jacob D. Cox
Trumbull
1866-1868
Rutherford B. Hayes
Hamilton
1868-1872
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State Governors-Continued.
Name.
County.
Term.
Edward F. Noyes
Hamilton
1872-1874
William Allen.
Ross
1874-1876
Rutherford B. Hayes 12
Sandusky
1876-1877
Thomas L. Young +
Hamilton
1877-1878
Richard M. Bishop
Hamilton
1878-1880
Charles Foster
Seneca
1880-1884
George Hoadly .
Hamilton
1884-1886
Joseph B. Foraker
Hamilton
1886-1890
James E. Campbell
Butler
1890-1892
William McKinley
1892
1. Arthur St. Clair, of Pennsylvania, was Governor of the Northwest Territory, of which Ohio was a part, from July 13, 1788, when the first civil government was established in the Territory, until about the close of the year 1802, when he was removed by the President.
2. Secretary of the Territory, and was acting Governor of the Territory after the re- moval of Governor St. Clair.
3. Resigned March 3, 1807, to accept the office of United States Senator.
4. Return Jonathan Meigs was elected Governor on the second Tuesday of October, 1807, over Nathaniel Massie, who contested the election of Meigs on the ground " that he had not heen a resident of this State for four years next preceding the election as required by the Constitution," and the General Assembly, in joint convention, decided that he was not eligible. The office was not given to Massie, nor does it appear from the records that he claimed it. but Thomas Kirker, acting Governor, continued to discharge the duties of the office until December 12, 1808, when Samuel Huntington was inaugurated, be having heen elected on the second Tuesday of October in that year. 5 Resigned March 25, 1814, to accept the office of Postmaster-General of the United States.
6. Resigned January 4, 1822, to accept the office of United States Senator.
7. Resigned April 13, 1844, to accept the office of Minister to Mexico.
8. The result of the election in 1848 was not finally determined in joint convention of the two houses of the General Assembly until January 19, 1849, and the inauguration did not take place until the twentysecond of that month.
9. Resigned July 15, 1853, to accept the office of Consul to Valparaiso.
10. Elected in October, 1853, for the regular term, to commence on the second Monday of January, 1854.
11. Died August 29, 1865.
12. Resigned March 2, 1877, to accept the office of President of the United States.
# Acting Governor. Succeeded to office, as President of the Senate.
tActing Governor. Succeeded to office as Lieutenant-Governor.
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORS.1
William Medill
1852-1854
Thomas L. Young? 1876-1877
James Myers
1854-1856 H. W. Curtiss3 1877-1878
Thomas Ford
1856-1858 Jabez W. Fitch .
1878-1880
Martin Welker
1858-1860 Andrew Hickenlooper 1880-1882
Robert C. Kirk
1860-1862
R. G. Richards .
1882-1884
Benjamin Stanton
1862-1864
John G. Warwick 1884-1886
Charles Anderson
1864-1866
Robert P. Kennedy4 . 1886-1887
Andrew G. McBurney
1866-1868
Silas A. Conrad5
1887-1888
John C. Lce
1868-1872
William C. Lyon . 1888-1890
Jacob Mueller
1872-1874
William V. Marquis
1890-1892
Alphonso Hart
1874-1876
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1. Under the new Constitution of 1851, term two years. Until the year 1852, when the new State Constitution went into effect, the presiding officer of the Senate was elected by the Senate, and called Speaker. Since 1852, the Lieutenant-Governor has been the presiding offieer of the Senate, and called President.
2. Became Governor, vice Rutherford B. Hayes, who resigned March 2, 1877, to become President of the United States.
3. Acting Lieutenant-Governor, viee Thomas L. Young.
4. Resigned to take a seat in Congress.
5. Acting Lientenant-Governor, vice Robert P. Kennedy.
SECRETARIES OF STATE.I
William Creighton, Jr.º
1803-1808
Wilson S. Kennon
1862-1863
Jeremiah McLene
1808-1831
William W. Armstrong
1863-1865
Moses H. Kirby
1831-1835
William H. Smiths
1865-1868
B. Hinkson3
1835-1836
John Russell
1868-1869
Carter B. Harlan
1836-1840
Isaac R. Sherwood
1869-1873
William Trevitt
1840-1841
Allen T. Wikoff
1873-1875
John Sloane
1841-1844
William Bell, Jr.
1875-1877
Samuel Galloway
1844-1850
Milton Barnes
1877-1881
Henry W. King
1850-1852
Charles Townsend
1881-1883
William Trevitt
1852-1856
James W. Newman
1883-1885
James H. Baker
1856-1858
James S. Robinson
1885-1889
Addison P. Russell
1858-1862
Daniel J. Ryan
1889-1892
Benjamin R. Cowen4 . 1862
C. L. Poorman .
1. From 1802 to 1850 the Secretaries of State were elected for three years by joint ballot. of the Senate and House of Representatives. Since 1850, they have been elected by the people fer a term of two years.
2. Resigned in December, 1808.
3. Resigned in February, 1836.
4. Resigned in May, 1862.
5. Resigned in January, 1868.
AUDITORS OF STATE.1
Thomas Gibson2
1803-1808
Robert W. Taylor3
1860-1863
Benjamin Hough
1808-1815
Oviatt Cole
1863-1864
Ralph Osborn
1815-1833 James H. Godman
1864-1872
John A. Bryan
1833-1839 James Williams
1872-1880
John Brough
1839-1845
John F. Oglevee
1880-1884
John Woods
1845-1852
Emil Kiesewetter
1884-1888
William D. Morgan
1852-1856
Ebenezer W. Poe
1888-1896
Francis M. Wright .
1856-1860
1. Until the adoption of the constitution of 1851 the Auditer of State was elected for a term of three years; since 1851 the term of office has been four years.
2. Resigned.
3. Resigned in April, 1863.
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TREASURERS OF STATE.1
William McFarland
1803-1816 W. Hooper 1865-1866
Hiram M. Curry?
1816-1820
S. S. Warner
1866-1872
Samuel Sullivant
1820-1823 Isaac Welsh+ 1872-1875
Henry Brown
1823-1835 Leroy W. Welsh 1875-1876
Joseph Whitehill
1835-1847
John M. Millikin
1876-1878
Albert A. Bliss
1847-1852
Anthony Howells
1878-1880
John G. Breslin
1852-1856
Joseph Turney
1880-1884
William H. Gibson3
1856-1857
Peter Brady
1884-1886
A. P. Stone
1857-1862
John C. Brown
1886-1892
G. V. Dorsey
1862-1865
1. Prior to the adoption of the Constitution of 1851, the Treasurer of State was elected for a term of three years; afterwards for a term of two years.
2." Resigned in February, 1820.
3. Resigned in June, 1857.
4. Died November 29, 1875, during his official term.
ATTORNEYS-GENERAL.1
Henry Stanbery
1846-1851
Chauncey N. Olds
1865-1866
Joseph McCormick
1851-1852
William H. West
1866-1870
George E. Pugh
1852-1854 Francis B. Pond
1870-1874
George W. McCook
1854-1856
John Little
1874-1878
Francis D. Kimball
1856
Isaiah Pillars
1878-1880
C. P. Wolcott
1856-1861
George K. Nash
1880-1884
James Murray
1861-1863
James Lawrence
1884-1886
L. R. Critchfield
1863-1865
Jacob A. Kohler
1886-1888
William P. Richardson
1865
David K. Watson
1888-1892
1. Term of office, two years.
COMPTROLLERS OF THE TREASURY.1
W. B. Thrall
1859-1862 Moses R. Brailey
1865-1871
Joseph H. Riley
1862-1865 William T. Wilson
1871-1877
1. Term of office three years. The office was abolished in Jannary, 1877.
ADJUTANTS GENERAL.
Cornelius R. Sedan
1803
Charles W. Hill
1862-1864
Samuel Finley
1803-1807
Benjamin R. Cowen
1864-1868
David Ziegler
1807
E. F. Schneider
1868-1869
Thomas Worthington
1807-1809
William A. Knapp
1869-1874
Joseph Kerr
1809-1810
James O. Amos
1874-1876
Isaac Van Horn
1810-1819
A. T. Wykoff
1876-1877
William Daugherty
1819-1828
Charles W. Karr
1877-1878
Samuel C. Andrews
1828-1837
Luther M. Meily
1878-1880
William Daugherty
1837-1839
William H. Gibson 1880-1881
Jacob Medary, Jr.
1839-1841
S. B. Smith
1881-1884
Edward H. Cumming
1841-1845
E. B. Finley
1884-1886
Thomas W. H. Mosely .
1845-1851
H. A. Axline
1886-1890
J. W. Wilson
1851-1857
Morton L. Hawkins?
1890-1891
H. B. Carrington .
1857-1861
Thomas P. Dill
1891-1892
C. P. Buckingham .
1861-1862
E. J. Pocock
1892
1. Term of office two years.
2. Resigned March 1, 1891.
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JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT.
Under the Constitution of 1802 :
Name.
County.
Name.
County.
Samuel Huntington
Cuyahoga
Gustavus Swan
Franklin
Return Jonathan Meigs
Washington
Elijah Hayward
Hamilton
William Sprigg
Jefferson
John M.Goodenow
Jefferson Ross
Daniel Symmes
Hamilton
Reuben Wood
('nyahoga
Thomas Scott
Ross
John C. Wright
Jefferson
Thomas Morris
Clermont
Joshua Collett
Warren
William W. Irwin
Fairfield
Ebenezer Lane
Huron
Ethan Allen Brown
Hamilton
Frederick Grimke
Ross
Calvin Pease
Trumbull
Matthew Birchard
Trumbull
John McLean
Warren
Nathaniel C. Read
Hamilton
Jessup N. Couch
Hamilton
Edward Avery
Wayne
Jacob Burnet
Hamilton
Rufus P. Spalding
Summit
Charles R. Sherman
Fairfield
William B. Caldwell
Hamilton
Peter Hitchcock
Geauga
Rufus P. Rauney
Trumbull
Under the Constitution of 1851 :
Thomas W. Bartley
Richland
George W. Mellvaine
Tuscarawas
John A. Corwin
Champaign
William H. West
Logan
Allen G. Thurman
ROSS
Walter F. Stone
Eric
Rufus P. Ranney
Trumbull
George Rex
Wayne
William B Caldwell
Hamilton
William J. Gilmore
Preble
Robert B. Warden
Franklin
W. W. Boynton
Lorain
William Kennon
Belmont
John W. Okey
Franklin
Joseph R. Swan
Franklin
William W. Johnson
Lawrence
Jacob Brinkerhoff .
Richland
Nicholas Longworth
Hamilton
Charles C. Converse
.
Muskingum
John H. Doyle
Lucas
Ozias Brown
Marion
William H. Upson . Summit
Josiah Scott
Butler Martin D. Follett
Washington
Milton Sutliff
Trumbull
Selwyn N. Owen
Williams
William V. Peck
Scioto
Gibson Atherton
Licking
William Y. Gholson
Hamilton
William T. Spear
Trumbull
Horace Wilder
Ashtabula .
Marshall J. Williams
Fayette
Hocking H. Hunter
Fairfield Thaddeus A. Minshall . Ross
William White
Clark
Franklin J. Dickman
. Cuyahoga
Luther Day
Portage
Joseph P. Bradbury
John Welsh
Athens
SUPREME COURT COMMISSION.
Served from 1876 to 1879 :
Josiah Scott
Crawford Luther Day1
Portage
W. W. Johnson
Lawrence Thomas Q. Ashburn' . Clermont
Hamilton
D. Thew Wright 1. Appointed vice Richard A. Harrison, from Franklin County, who resigned in January, 1876.
wen
.
.
George Tod
Trumbull
Henry Brush
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2. Appointed vice Henry C. Whitman, from Hamilton County, who resigned in March, 1876.
Served from 1883 to 1885 :
Moses M. Granger . Muskingum
Charles D. Martin
Fairfield
George K. Nash
Franklin
John McCauley . Seneca
Franklin J. Dickman . Cuyahoga
CLERKS OF THE SUPREME COURT.1
Rodney Foos
1866-1875
Dwight Crowell
1881-1884
Arnold Green .
1875-1878 J. W. Cruikshank
1884-1887
Richard J. Fanning
1878-1881
Urban H. Hester
1887-1892
1. Term of office, three years,
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.1
Alexander McConnell . 1836-1838
Levi Sargent
1861-1864
John Harris
1836-1838
John F. Torrence
1862-1865
R. Dickinson
1836-1845 James Gamble
1863-1864
T. G. Bates
1836-1842 James Moore
1864-1871
William Wall
1836-1838
John M. Barrere
1864-1870
Leander Ransom
1836-1845
Philip D. Herzing 1865-1877
William Reyan
1839-1840
Richard R. Porter
1870-1876
William Spencer
1842-1845
Stephen R. Hosner
1872-1875
Oren Follett
1845-1849
Martin Schilder
1875-1881
J. Blickensderfer, Jr.
1845-1852
Peter Thatcher
1876-1879
Samuel Forrer
1845-1852
J. C. Evans
1877-1880
E. S. Hamlin
1849-1852
George Paulº
1879-1885
A. P. Miller
1852-1855
James Fullington
1880-1883
George W. Manypenny
1852-1853
Stephen R. Hosmer
1881-1884
James B. Steedman
1852-1856
Leo Weltz3
1883-1884
Wayne Griswold
1853-1857
Ilenry Weible
1883-1886
J. Blickensderfer, Jr.
1854-1858
John P. Martin
1884-1887
A. G. Conover
1856-1860
C. A. Flickinger4
1885-1891
John Waddle
1857-1860
Wells S. Jones
1886-1889
R. L. Backus
1858-1861
William M. Hahn
1887-1890
John L. Martin
1859-1862
Frank T. McColloch
1891-1894
John B. Gregory 1860-1863
1. Term of office, three years.
2. Rečlected.
3. Appointed vice Stephen R. Hosmer, deceased.
4. Reëlected.
CANAL COMMISSION.
William H. Gibson. Served from April 11, 1888, to April 11, 1890. A. H. Latty. Served from April 11, 1888, to April 11, 1890. C. F. Baldwin.2 Served from April 11, 1888, to July 26, 1888.
Robert M. Rownd. Appointed April 26, 1888, to succeed C. F. Baldwin, re- signed. Served until April 11, 1890, when the Commission expired by limitation of law.
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PHOTOGRAPHED BY BAKER.
Residence off the late Peter Ambos, 1201 South High Street, built in 1864.
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The Commission was revived by act of General Assembly, passed April 18. 1890, and the following members were then appointed for the term of two years : W. E. Boden, Robert M. Rownd, A. H. Roose.
1. The Commission was originally created by act of the General Assembly, passed March 28, 1888, for the purpose of establishing, by actual survey, the boundaries of the canal property of the State, including channels, reservoirs, basins, etc. The members were ap- pointed for a term of two years.
2. Resigned April 26, 1888.
COMMISSIONERS OF COMMON SCHOOLS.1
Samuel Lewis2
1837-1840 Charles S. Smart 1875-1878
Hiram H. Barney
1854-1857 J. J. Burns 1878-1881
Anson Smythe .
1857-1863 D. F. De Wolf 1881-1884
C. W. H. Cathcart3
1863 Leroy D. Brown 1884-1887
Emerson E White
1863-1866
Eli T. Tappan"
1887-1888
John A. Norris4
1866-1869
John Hancock"
1888-1891
William D. Henkle5
1869-1871 C. C. Miller8
1891-1892
Thomas W. Harvey
1871-1875
1. Term of office, three years.
2. From 1840 to 1854 the Secretaries of State were ex-officio commissioners of common schools.
3. Resigned in November, 1863.
4. Resigned in June, 1869.
5. Resigned in September, 1871.
6. Died October 23, 1888.
7. Appointed to succeed Eli T. Tappan, deceased. Died in office June 1, 1891. 8. Appointed vice John Hancock, deceased.
COMMISSIONERS OF RAILROADS AND TELEGRAPHS.1
George B. Wright ? 1867-1871 James S. Robinson 5 1880-1881
Richard D. Harrison 3 1871-1872 Hylas Sabine 1881-1885
Orlow L. Wolcott 1872-1874 Henry Apthorp . 1885-1887
Jobn G. Thompson 1874-1876 William S. Cappeller 6 1887-1890
Lincoln G. Delano
1876-1878 James A. Norton ? 1890-1892
William Bell, Jr. 1878-1880
1. Term of office two years.
2. Resigned in October, 1871.
3. Died in April, 1872.
4. Resigned in December, 1875.
5. Resigned in February, 1881.
6. Removed by the Governor.
7. Appointed vice W. S. Cappeller and reappointed for a full term. SUPERVISORS OF PUBLIC PRINTING.1
L. L. Rice
1860-1864 William J. Elliott 1879-1881
William O. Blake
1864 J. K. Brown 1881.1885
W. H. Foster
1864-1867
W. C. A. de la Court 1885-1887 L. L. Rice 1867-1875
Leo Hirsch 1887-1891
Charles B. Flood
1875-1877
S. V. Hinkle
1891-1893
William W. Boud
1877-1879
1. Term of office, two years. 9
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SUPERINTENDENTS OF INSURANCE.'
William F. Church
1872-1875
Henry J. Reinmund 1884-1887
William D. Hill
1875-1878 Samuel E. Kemp
1887-1890
Joseph F. Wright
1878-1881
W. H. Kinder
1890-1893
Charles H. Moore
1881-1884
1. Term of office, three years.
COMMISSIONERS OF LABOR STATISTICS.1
H. J. Walls
1877-1881
Alonzo D. Fassett ? 1887-1890
Henry Luskey
1881-1885
John McBride 3
1889-1892
Larkin McHugh
1885-1887
1. Term of office, two years.
2. Legislated out of office.
3. Appointed vice Fassett.
INSPECTORS OF MINES.1
Andrew Roy
1874-1878
Andrew Roy
1880-1884
James D. Poston
1878-1879
Thomas B. Bancroft
1884-1888
David Owens
1879-1880
Robert M. Hazeltine 1888-1892
1. Term of office, four years.
INSPECTORS OF WORKSHOPS AND FACTORIES.1
Henry Dorn
1885-1889
William Z. McDonald 1889-1893
1. Term of office, four years.
DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSIONERS.1
S. H. Hurst
1886-1887
Edward Bethel 1890-1892
F. A. Derthick 1887-1890
Term of office, two years.
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.1
Thomas C. Hoover, M. D. Appointed in 1886. Reappointed at expiration of term.
H. J. Sharp, M. D. Appointed in 1886.
D. H. Beckwith, M. D. Appointed in 1886 for four years.
T. Clark Miller, M. D. Appointed in 1886 for two years.
W. H. Cretcher, M. D. Appointed in 1886. Died in 1889.
Professor E. T. Nelson. Appointed in 1887.
John D. Jones, M. D. Appointed in 1886. Resigned in 1889.
S. P. Wise, M. D. Appointed in 1886. Reappointed in 1889. Joseph L. Anderson, M. D. Appointed in 1889 vice J. D. Jones, resigned. S. A. Conklin, M. D. Appointed in January, 1889, for unexpired term of W. H. Cretcher.
William T. Miller, M. D. Appointed in 1890.
A. J. Scott, M. D. Appointed vice J. L. Anderson in 1891.
C. O. Probst, M. D., Secretary of the Board.
1. Term of office, seven years. The Board was constituted in 1886. The Attorney- General of the State is ex-officio a member of the Board.
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STATE GEOLOGIST.
1869-John S. Newberry, LL. D. 1872-E. B. Andrews, LL. D. 1875-Edward Orton, LL. D.
CODIFYING COMMISSION. 1875-1879.
M. A. Daugherty John W. Okey1
George B. Okey' Luther Days
John S. Brazee4
1. Resigned.
2. Succeeded John W. Okey.
3. Resigned. 4. Succeeded Luther Day.
COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION.1
1863-Bevus Speyer.
1. Office established in 1863; abolished in 1867.
INSPECTOR OF STEAM BOILERS.1
1869-Charles M. Ridgway.
1. Office established in 1869; abolished in 1870.
INSPECTORS OF QAS.
1867-Theodore G. Wormley. 1877-Ezra S. Dodd.
INSPECTORS OF OILS.
1878-1879-F. W. Green. 1879-1880-William B. Williams.
1880-1884-Louis Smithnight.
1884-1886-(part) David C. Ballentine.
1886-(part) Louis Smithnight.
1886-1890-George B. Cox. 1890-1892-J. H. Dowling.
UNITED STATES LAND CLAIMS.
1878-Charles J. Wetmore. 1878-Horace P. Clough. 1881-George H. Foster. 1885-Charles W. Constantine.
1888-George H. Foster.
REGISTERS OF VIRGINIA MILITARY LANDS.
1857-William A. Moore. 1866-Robert C. Smith.
1874-James E. Cox. 1875-Victor Gutzweiler, Jr. 1876-Robert C. Smith. 1878-William T. Higgins. 1878-T. Y. McCray.
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FISH AND GAME WARDENS.
1886-L. K. Buntain.
1890-George W. Hill.
SUPERINTENDENTS OF STATE HOUSE.
1860 -- William A. Platt. 1862-William M. Awl.
1868-John H. Grove.
1870-Charles M. Ridgway.
1. The foregoing synopsis of the State Government has been compiled from the annual report of the Secretary of State, Honorable James S. Robinson, for the year 1887, with supple- mentary additions mostly taken from W. A. Taylor's Hundred Year Book and Official Register, published in 1891.
Origin of the City.
CHAPTER VII.
FRANKLINTON. I.
In the spring of 1795 a surveying party of Kentuckians appeared in the woods on Deer Creek, within the present confines of Madison County. The leader of the party was Lucas Sullivant, the pioneer explorer of Central Ohio and founder of Franklinton.
Mr. Sullivant was at that time about thirty years of age. Born in Meeklen- burg County, Virginia, in 1765, he participated, at sixteen, in an expedition to re- pel an Indian invasion of his native State. Cast upon his own resources early in life, he gained influential friends, one of-whom was Colonel William Starling, whose second daughter he afterwards married. By diligent improvement of his time and means, he qualified himself as a Land Surveyor, and found in the hos- pitable wilderness of Kentucky, then an outlying county of Virginia. a useful field for the exercise of his talents Mr. Sullivant first located at Paris, in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and became owner of a fine tract of land in that vicinity. Subsequently he resided several years in Washington County with a family named Treacle, whose name he gave, after his arrival in Ohio, to the stream now known as Little Darby Creek, in the western part of Franklin County. Mr. Sullivant's biographer' describes him at his maturity as a man " of medium height, muscular and well proportioned, quick and active in his movements, with an erect carriage and a good walk, a well-balanced head, finished off with a cue, which he always wore ; a broad and high forehead, an aquiline nose, and a blue-gray eye, a firm mouth and square chin. He was firm and positive in his opinions, but courteous in manners and expression, prompt and decisive to act upon his own convictions, and altogether a man of forcible character, exercising an influence over those with whom he came in contact."
After Mr. Sullivant's arrival in Kentucky, Virginia authorized her soldiers to appoint a surveyor of the lands which she had reserved for them from her cessions to the National Government. Their choice fell upon Colonel Richard C. Ander- son, who had served with distinction as an officer of the Continental Army .? On July 20, 1784, Colonel Anderson opened an office for the survey and distribution of the Virginia bounty lands, under the protection of a frontier stockade and block- house on the present site of the city of Louisville. Among the deputy surveyors whom he appointed were Nathaniel Massie, Dunean McArthur, Lucas Sullivant, John O'Bannon, Arthur Fox and John Beasley.
Mr. Sullivant was assigned to the northern portion of the Virginia Military District, where we find him at the opening of this chapter. His party had been
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organized at Limestone, now Maysville, Kentucky, and comprised about twenty men, including assistant surveyors, chain-carriers, scouts, porters, and other helpers. While running bis lines on Deer Creek he encountered a mounted French trader accompanied by two Indians. Soon after this party had passed him, Mr. Sullivant heard shots, and going back found, to his dismay, that his rear guard had fired on and killed the Frenchman, and put his Indian companions to flight. Sullivant reprimanded bis men severely for this unprovoked and unneces- sary attack, well knowing that it could not fail to incite early retaliation from the Indians at the villages on the Scioto. Some of his companions scoffed at his ap- prehensions, but so sure was he of coming trouble, that he resolved to shift the scene of his operations just as soon as he could close his work in that neighbor- hood.
His fears were soon realized. While he was running bis last lines, four days after the affair of the Frenchman, Sullivant descried a band of Indians, larger than his own party, crossing the prairie at a considerable distance. This was a hostile expedition sent out from the Mingo villages then clustered about the present site of Columbus. Sullivant proposed fight, but his men were averse to it, and remained concealed in the high grass while the warriors passed by unsuspect- ing that near at hand were the very men whose scalps they were looking for. But the Indians did not miss their opportunity. After they had passed, and Mr. Sullivant had cautioned his men to be quiet, and not to use their firearms, he re- sumed his work, which he was just finishing, at nightfall, when a flock of wild turkeys flew up into the trees near by. Tempted by these birds, the men disobeyed orders, and fired several shots. Sullivant warned his companions to be ready, for the Indians were still within hearing, and would soon be upon them. He had scarcely ceased when the warriors rushed at them with a whoop and a volley.
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