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He is a member of the standing committees on Agriculture, Fees and Salaries, Finance, Insurance, Military Affairs, Railroads and Telegraphs, Roads, Highways and Turnpikes, and Rules.
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THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.
Composed of the Counties of Logan, Union, Marion and Hardin.
WARREN G. HARDING, OF MARION.
It is thoroughly characteristic of the Senator from the Thirteenth District that his hastily written and modestly worded answer to a request for certain necessary personal information, a year or more ago, should take this form: "Warren G. Hard- ing, Senator from the 13th district; born in Blooming Grove, Morrow county, Novem- ber 2, 1865. Has resided in Marion since 1882. Secured an academic education at the old Ohio Central College at Iberia,-not now in existence. Taught school in 1882. Studied law one year, then became a newspaper writer, becoming owner of the Marion Star in 1884. Has it yet. Was nominated for Senate July 17, 1899, at Marion-first whirl in politics-and was elected by nearly 1800."
To this may now be added the later fact that, after his first term in the Sen- ate he was renominated and re-elected to succeed himself, in a district which has but once in the past half century so honored its representative in the Ohio Senate. Sen- ator Harding's personal popularity has broken the "one term" rule in his Senatorial district.
Senator Harding is one of the young men in the Ohio Senate. His earnestness in debate is equalled only by his frankness of statement. His first term of service in the Senate was marked by the fact that he introduced in the Senate, and stood spon- sor in the General Assembly for the bill reported to the Governor by the Municipal Code Commission.
He is a member of the standing committees on Claims, Common Schools and School Lands, Federal Relation, Finance, Industrial Schools for Boys and Girls, Mili- tary Affairs, Taxation, Universities and Colleges, Banks, Building and Loan Associations.
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TWENTY-FOURTH-TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICTS.
Composed of the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Portage, and Summit.
WILLIAM S. HARRIS, OF SAYBROOK.
Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture.
The Republican Senator from the 24th-26th districts was born at Saybrook, Ash- tabula county, in 1846.
He is a farmer by occupation and is of the third generation of his family, who, since 1818, have lived on the farm where he now resides. He was educated in the district schools of his township, and at Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio.
In November, 1893, he was elected to the 71st General Assembly and re-elected in 1895, so that he came to the Senate with four years' experience in the lower House. Mr. Harris is a member of the standing committees on County Affairs, Com- mon Schools and School Lands, Federal Relation, Finance, Medical Colleges and Uni- versities, Penitentiary, Revision, Imbecile Youth, and Taxation.
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TWELFTH DISTRICT,
Composed of the Counties of Miami, Darke and Shelby.
0. E. HARRISON, OF GREENVILLE.
Chairman of the Committees on County Affairs and Enrollment.
Senator Harrison from the Twelfth District, is not only the youngest member of the Senate, but is the first Republican ever elected to that office in the Ohio Sen- ate from Darke county. He was born in his home county twenty-nine years ago. He is a graduate of the Greenville High School, and the National Normal University, where he received the degree Bachelor of Science. For five years he followed the pro- fession of teaching, and rose to the front rank of educators of his section of the state, and became principal of the Franklin, Ohio, High School.
He read law with Judge James I. Allread and was admitted to the bar in 1897, and later entered the firm of Allread, Teegarden & Harrison, since which time he has been identified with some of the most important litigation in his county. He is prominently connected with public affairs; is Secretary of the Darke County Agri- cultural Society; is high in Pythian circles, being now Chancellor Commander of the Greenville Lodge No. 161.
In 1898 he was married to Miss Virginia Eidson, daughter of the late Frank M. Eidson, who was one of the leading citizens of Darke county.
Mr. Harrison is a consistent and steadfast Republican. His election from what has always been considered a Democratic stronghold is a high tribute to him, as no extraordinary political issue or local disturbances entered into the campaign. His district normally over 1,800 Democratic, elected Senator Harrison over Col. W. T. Amos, of Sidney, by a majority of over 600. He is a member of the standing committees on Common Schools and School Lands, Corporations other than Muni- cipal, Judiciary, Railroads and Telegraphs, Public Expenditures, Taxation.
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TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.
Composed of Cuyahoga County.
JOHN F. HERRICK, OF CLEVELAND.
Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs.
John F. Herrick, Democrat, one of the four Senators from Cuyahoga county, was born February 23, 1836, at Wellington, Lorain County, Ohio. Graduated from Oberlin College in 1862. Immediately enlisted in Union Army; was Captain of Co. D, 87th O. V. I .; captured at Harpers' Ferry, Va., by Stonewall Jackson. When exchanged he at once raised a company for the 12th Ohio Cavalry, and was made Major. He was honorably discharged in November, 1865, as Lieutenant-Colonel of 12th O. V. C.
He began the practice of law in Cleveland, and is still a practicing attorney at the Cleveland bar.
He lives on Euclid avenue in East Cleveland, where he has been an active member of the Board of Education, and has served on other municipal boards, and where he ran 54 votes ahead of his ticket in his election to the Senate. He has a wife and six children. The Senator was a Republican until 1896, when he became a .
Democrat. He is a member of the standing committees on Corporations other than Municipal, Federal Relation, Fish Culture and Game, Judiciary, Roads, Highways and Turnpikes, Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, State Buildings.
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FIRST DISTRICT,
Composed of Hamilton County.
LEWIS M. HOSEA, OF CINCINNATI.
Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary.
Senator Hosea, a representative of one of the pioneer families of Southern Ohio, is senior member of the law firm of Hosea, Knight and Jones, well known in Cincinnati; and, while always a Republican and an active factor in various public enterprises, has hitherto declined political honors.
In April, 1861, while yet a student at Antioch College (Green county, Ohio), he enlisted, under the first call of President Lincoln, as private in the 6th Ohio Vol- unteers, and was soon commissioned as Lieutenant and later as Captain in the Regu- lar Army, and served throughout the war, in the field, participating in all the battles of the Army of the Cumberland, from Shiloh to Nashville, receiving official personal mention for gallantry at the battles of Perryville (Ky.) (O. R., Vol. 15, p. 1043), and Chickamauga (O. R. Vol. 30, pt. 1, p. 962). After the battles of Franklin and Nash- ville he served with General James H. Wilson in the cavalry campaign, resulting in the capture of Jeff Davis, and was commissioned Major by Brevet for "gallantry at the battle of Selma and Columbus and in the succeeding campaign in Alabama and Georgia" (O. R. Vol. 49, pt. 2, p. 401).
Resigning from the army early in 1866, Major Hosea graduated at the Cincin- nati Law School, and entered upon the practice of law in 1868; and in later years has been principally engaged in the Federal courts and the United States Supreme Court, and as consulting counsel for manufacturing firms and corporations.
In addition to the duties of professional life Major Hosea has been constantly active in other directions: for example, was for many years a director of the Ohio
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Mechanics' Institute and Chairman of its Department of Science and Arts; associate editor of the Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science; is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; was Commissioner of the Cincinnati In- dustrial Expositions; is Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Miami Medical Col- lege; is lecturer on the Constitution and Federal Practice in the Law School of McDonald Institute; is a member of Hamilton County Bar Association and of va- rious other civic and military societies. Major Hosea is Commander of the Loyal Legion, of Ohio; Commander of Encampment 41 of the Union Veteran Legion; and a member of Jones Post of the Grand Army of the Republic; is married and resides with his family in the suburb. of Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati. He is an ardent advocate of the retention and improvement of our canal system and has spent some time abroad in the study of internal improvements and methods of dealing with questions of public interest.
He is a member of the standing committees on Federal Relation, Insurance, Medical Colleges and Universities, Military Affairs, Rules, Municipal Corpora- tion No. 1, Public Works and Public Lands, Revision, Universities and Colleges, Sol- diers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home.
EIGHTEENTH-NINETEENTH DISTRICTS,
Composed of the Counties of Coshocton, Tuscarawas, Guernsey, all of Monroe, except part of Benton and Bethel townships, and Rinard's Mills precinct : and part of Noble (Beaver, Buffalo, Enoch, Marion, Seneca, Stock, and Wayne townships, and part of Center, Elk, and Jefferson townships, East Union, and part of Dexter precinct ) .
J. EDWARD HURST, OF NEW PHILADELPHIA. Chairman of the Committee on Fees and Salaries.
Senator Hurst, while always, and under all circumstances, a Democrat, and with a long record of efficient party service, is a lover of honest and conservative discharge of public obligations. He was the second youngest member of the Senate of the 74th General Assembly, and, serving his first term from an ordinarily reliable Democratic district, with a record which made his return to the Senate a matter of course. He was re-nominated and re-elected in 1901.
Senator Hurst has held but one local office prior to his election to the Senate, having been appointed Deputy Clerk of the Probate Court in Tuscarawas county in 1891, and holding that position until 1894. He was born near New Philadelphia, De- cember 1, 1866, and with the exception of an absence of a few years in his infancy, has lived his whole life in Tuscarawas county. His education is that bestowed upon him by the common schools of his township, supplemented by diligent study while working on the farm and by a course of instruction of four terms in the Normal School of New Philadelphia. From his twenty-first birthday until his appointment as Deputy Clerk in the Probate Court, he was engaged in teaching the country schools in the winters, and in pursuing his favorite studies in the summer months. He re-
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tired from the Probate office in 1894, and in 1895 was nominated to the General As- sembly, making an unsuccessful fight to overcome the Republican majority in the county in that year. In the campaigns of 1896 and 1900 he was active in the Demo- cratic ranks, stumping the county in the interests of that party.
Mr. Hurst was married to Ellen, the youngest daughter of the Hon. E. R. Benfer, on December 17, 1887, and has two bright little daughters. He is a member of the standing committees on Claims, Finance, Geological Survey, Insurance, Mines and Mining, Municipal Corporation No. 2, Public Works and Public Lands, Sanitary Laws and Regulations, Banks, Building and Loan Associations.
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THIRTIETH DISTRICT,
Composed of the Counties of Huron, Erie, Sandusky and Ottawa.
CHARLES A. JUDSON, OF SANDUSKY.
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Chairman of the Committee on Fish Culture and Game.
Charles A. Judson, Republican Senator from the 30th District, was born August 11, 1856, in Florence township, Erie county, Ohio; lived on a farm until twenty years old; taught district school for several winters; spent one year in the academy at Delaware, Ohio, and four years in Oberlin College, graduating from the latter institution in 1882; came to Sandusky in 1882 and engaged in the practice of civil engineering, which he has followed to the present time; was city engineer of Sandusky for seven years and superintendent of its waterworks for thirteen years. Is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Is secretary and treasurer of The Erie County Investment Company, doing an abstract, loan, real estate and insurance business at Sandusky. He was chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of Erie county during the campaigns of 1899 and 1900.
Mr. Judson was married in 1883 to Roxie E. Lowry of Berlin Heights, Ohio, and has a family of six children. He is a member of the standing committees on Ditches and Drains, Federal Relation, Finance, Geological Survey, Insurance, Pub- lic Printing, Privileges- and Elections, Sanitary Laws and Regulations, Soldiers' and Sailors' Home.
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TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT,
Composed of Cuyahoga County.
JOHN KRAUSE, OF CLEVELAND.
Chairman of the Committee on Sanitary Laws and Regulations.
John Krause, Democrat, one of the four Senators from Cuyahoga County, was born in Cuyahoga county, March 2, 1865. He received his preliminary education in the public schools of Cleveland. Early in life developing a desire for the study of Pharmacy, he entered the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, from which insti- tution he was graduated in the year 1886. In 1887 he embarked in the retail drug trade in Cleveland, and his advancement in his business career has been rapid. Elected trustee of the Cleveland School of Pharmacy in 1896, he was further hon- ored the following year with the treasurership of the institution; at present he is also a member of the Board of Control of the Northern Ohio Drug Association.
In politics a stanch, fearless and consistent Democrat, early in his career he made for himself a high position in the councils of his party. Recognizing his ability and services, the Democracy of Cuyahoga county has made him one of its standard bearers, and the wisdom of its choice has been demonstrated by his splen- did success.
He was married to Miss Emma W. Myers of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1887. He is a member of the standing committees on Fish Culture and Game, Labor, Manu- factures and Commerce, Military Affairs, Mines and Mining, Municipal Corporation No. 1, Public Expenditures, Taxation.
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FIRST DISTRICT,
Composed of Hamilton County.
NICHOLAS LONGWORTH, OF CINCINNATI.
Chairman of the Committee on Taxation.
Nicholas Longworth, Republican, was born November 5, 1869. He is a son of the late Judge Nicholas Longworth, grandson of the late Joseph Longworth, who en- dowed The Cincinnati Art School, and great-grandson of Nicholas Longworth, one of the early residents of Cincinnati. Was educated in Cincinnati, entered Harvard University, and was graduated therefrom in 1891. After spending a year at The Cincinnati Law School he studied for a year at the Harvard Law School, and the following year was graduated from The Cincinnati Law School and admitted to the bar.
He was candidate for the Legislature in 1897, on the Republican ticket and de- feated with the rest of the ticket. Was again a candidate in 1899, and was elected, being one of the three Republicans who were elected to the Legislature in that year, the other two being Harry N. Hoffheimer and the Lieutenant-Governor Carl L. Nip- pert. Was a member of the Republican State Executive Committee in the last Presidential campaign, and is now a member of that body. Is a member of the Blaine Club and of the Stamina Republican League. Elected to State Senate November, 1901, by 14,000 majority. He is a member of the standing committees on County Affairs, Judiciary, Municipal Corporation No. 1, Privileges and Elections, Public Expenditures, Soldiers and Sailors' Home, State Buildings.
During his present term he was elected to Congress.
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NINTH-FOURTEENTH DISTRICTS,
Composed of the Counties of Athens, Hocking, Fairfield, Morgan, Washington, part of Monroe (Rinard's Mills precinct in Washington township, and part of Bethel and Benton townships), Noble, and part of (Brookfield, Jackson, Noble, Sharon and Olive townships, and part of Elk, Jefferson, and Center townships, Forest Grove and Caldwell precincts, and part of Dexter precinct).
DAVID H. MOORE, OF ATHENS. Chairman of the Committee on Finance.
David H. Moore, Senator-elect in the 9-14th Senatorial District, was born Oc- tober 11, 1856. His father's family crossed the Alleghany Mountains from Worces- ter, Massachusetts, with the first Ohio settlers, and arriving at Marietta, where most of them settled, David Moore, grandfather of David H. Moore, continued his journey and settled on Sunday Creek, Trimble township, Athens county, and finally took up a quarter section of land about two miles west of Athens, where he cleared the forest and reared his family.
David H. Moore, after graduating from the Public Schools at the age of 17, went west and spent several years teaching school and working on a farm. He re- turned to Athens, Ohio, in 1876, and entered the First National Bank, as messenger boy, since which time he has followed the banking business as Cashier of the First National Bank and President of the People's Bank at Nelsonville, Ohio.
He has always been an active, hard-working Republican, has been chairman of the County Executive Committee, Trustee of the Ohio University and member of the State Central Committee.
His large experience in business affairs, as a farmer, banker and merchant emi- nently qualifies him to represent one of the largest Senatorial districts in the State, and the confidence in his ability is shown by the Republicans giving him a majority of over 3,100 in the district and his own county giving 2,869 plurality.
He is a member of the standing committees on Claims, Fish Culture and Game, Industrial Schools for Boys and Girls, Insurance, Penitentiary, Taxation, Universities and Colleges, Banks, Building and Loan Associations.
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FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH (JOINT) DISTRICT, Composed of the Counties of Muskingum, Perry, Delaware and Licking.
N. F. OVERTURE, OF DELAWARE.
Chairman of the Committees on Industrial Schools for Boys and Girls, Manufactures and Commerce.
Norman F. Overturf, representing the 15-16 district, was born February 13, 1846, on a farm in Liberty township, Licking county, Ohio. His mother was left a widow with ten children when he was but four weeks old. His early life was spent on the farm and in the district and village schools. Later he was a student at the Normal University, Lebanon, O. At the age of seventeen he began teaching district schools in the winters, and continued at farm labor during the summers. In fall of 1867 the family moved to a farm in Delaware county. Soon after he was regu- larly employed as a teacher in the village school in Madison county, which position he held for seven consecutive years, when, by reason of impaired health, he resumed out-door work, and engaged in timber and lumber business for two years.
A portion of his time had been devoted to law studies, and in 1883, he located in Delaware, Ohio, where he has ever since resided, completed the course in law and was admitted to the bar in 1884.
He has always been a Republican, and has taken a very active interest in pub- lic affairs, having been elected as Justice of the Peace and Township Treasurer in the county, and since residing in Delaware has been elected City Solicitor, twice a member of the City Council, twice as Probate Judge of Delaware county, and three times a member of the City Board of Education, which office he resigned upon his election to the Senate. He is a member of the standing committee on Ditches and Drains, Corporations other than Municipal, Fees and Salaries, Judiciary, Military Affairs, Municipal Corporation No. 2, Railroads and Telegraphs, Roads, Highways and Turnpikes.
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SEVENTH DISTRICT,
Composed of the Counties of Adams, Pike, Scioto and Jackson.
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SAMUEL L. PATTERSON, OF WAVERLY.
Chairman of the Committee on Common Schools and School Lands.
The Republican Senator from the Seventh District is serving his second term in the Senate, having been re-elected in 1901 to succeed himself. He was born in Piketon on the 7th day of September, 1860. His father was of Irish parentage. His mother is of Quaker parentage, being the granddaughter of the Hon. Joseph Lucas, a member of the first General Assembly of Ohio, whose brother was Governor Robert Lucas, and whose grandfather, Edward Lucas, came to America with William Penn, to whom he was related. The present senator was educated in the common schools in Piketon, and later at the Normal University in Lebanon, after which he was a teacher in the public schools for a number of years. Engaging in the hardware business in Piketon, he was elected Mayor of his native town, an office to which he was continuously re-elected for ten years.
Senator Patterson began the study of law while engaged in the hardware busi- ness, as a student under the Hon. John A. Eylar, and was admitted to the bar, and began the active practice of his profession in January, 1895. Always active in poli- tics he has contributed largely to the success of his party in Pike county.
In 1901 he was one of the Ohio Commissioners to the Pan-American Exposition.
Mr. Patterson is a member of the standing committees on Judiciary, Manufac- tures and Commerce, Municipal Corporation No. 1, Public Works and Public Lands, Railroads and Telegraphs.
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TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT,
Composed of Cuyahoga County.
J. G. POMERENE, OF CLEVELAND.
Mr. Pomerene, one of the four Senators of the twenty-fifth District, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, September 10, 1845. He received his early education in the public schools, Frederickburgh Academy and Michigan University, graduating from the Law Department of the latter in the class of '68. In 1868 he located in Cleve- land and began the practice of law, forming a partnership with William Seafert, Esq., afterwards with Hon. W. C. McFarland. In 1872 he abandoned the practice to engage in the business of shorthand reporting, forming a partnership with Benjamin Weaver, the style of the firm being Weaver & Pomerene. Subsequently, in the same business, the firm names were Pomerene & Davies and Pomerene, Davies & Hippard, all of which firms enjoyed an enviable reputation. Since November, 1897, he has devoted his time wholly to the practice of the law, except that in May, 1901, he was appointed and served as a member of the Annual City Board of Equalization for Cleveland, and was elected Secretary of the Board.
Senator Pomerene has always been a Democrat; but has never sought public office. He was elected, as was each of his colleagues, by a plurality of more than two thousand votes, the campaign, on behalf of the Democratic legislative candidates, being fought out upon the issue of equitable and just taxation. On other issues the same district, two years ago, elected the Republican legislative candidates by ma- jorities of more than ten thousand votes.
He is a member of the standing committees on Enrollment, Judiciary, Indus- trial Schools for Boys and Girls, Public Works and Public Lands, Railroads and Telegraphs, Rules, Taxation.
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ELEVENTH DISTRICT,
Composed of the Counties of Clark, Champaign and Madison.
NELSON A. RIGGIN, OF MT. STERLING.
Chairman of the Committees on Corporations other than Municipal, State Buildings.
Senator Riggin of the Eleventh District, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, June 27, 1847. He has resided in Madison county, in and near Mt. Sterling, since he was about ten years of age. He received his nomination to the Senate in a con- vention held at Springfield, June 27, 1901, that being his fifty-fourth birthday. He was nominated by acclamation.
Mr. Riggin received a common school education in Mt. Sterling and later pur- sued his studies in the Ohio Wesleyan University. He was married to Miss Laura E. Thomas in 1871. Their family consists of two daughters: Theia, wife of John A. Miller, cashier of the First National Bank of Mt. Sterling, and Miss Daisy Riggin. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and K. of P. lodges. He is now president of the Mt. Sterling School Board, the cause of education having in him an ardent supporter.
His commercial interests have been along lines of agriculture, stock raising being a specialty. Mr. Riggin has been a most zealous worker in the Republican party and was at the time of his nomination a member of the Madison County Re- publican Executive Committee. In the election of 1901 he received a handsome majority, running considerably ahead of the Republican State ticket.
He is a member of the standing committees on Benevolent Institutions, Library, Municipal Corporation No. 2, Public Works and Public Lands, Railroads and Tele- graphs, Sanitary Laws and Regulations.
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SECOND-FOURTH DISTRICT,
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