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T HOMAS WELLES BARTLEY was born February II, 1812, in Jefferson County, Ohio. His ancestors had emigrated from Northumberland County, England, and settled in Loudon County, Va., but subsequently removed to Fayette County, Pa. Thomas Bartley graduated from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, with a degree of bach- elor of arts ; studied law in Washington City, and was licensed to prac- tice at Mansfield, Ohio, in 1834. Having very soon taken a leading position at the bar, he was elected Attorney-General of the State, and served as such for four years; after which he was appointed United States District Attorney, and served in that office for four years. Elected subsequently to the Legislature, he served one term in the House, and four in the Senate, of the General Assembly of Ohio. Being Speaker of the Senate when Governor Shannon resigned, he became the Governor of Ohio in 1844, and administered the duties of that office until the inauguration of his father, Mordecai Bartley, the closing month of the year. In 1851 he was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of the State, and having served two terms, he again began the practice of his profession in Cincinnati, but the ill-health of his family induced him to remove to Washington City in 1869.
MORDECAI BARTLEY 1844-1846
УЗЯТЯАЯ ТАЭЗАЯОМ DA81-AA81
M ORDECAI BARTLEY, the thirteenth Governor of Ohio, was born in Fayette County, Pa., 1783. In 1809 he settled as a farmer in Jefferson County, Ohio, near the mouth of Cross Creek. In the war of 1812 he raised a company of volunteers under Harrison. After the war he opened up a farm in the wilderness of Richland, and by hard work and strict economy, saved enough money to engage in merchandising in Mansfield. He was very successful in the mer- chandise business, and by his influence for the higher ideals of life and politics, did much for his town and the county in which he lived. In 1823 he was elected to Congress, and served four terms; he was the first to propose the conversion of the land grants of Ohio into a perma- nent fund for the support of common schools; this made him very popular, and in 1844 he was nominated and elected Governor of Ohio on the Whig ticket. His State papers showed marked ability, and he was considered by even his most bitter partisans a very able and conscientious man. He declined a second nomination, preferring to pass the remainder of his days in the practice of law, and in farming. He was very successful as a lawyer and a farmer, but rather preferred the quietude of his farm to the strenuous life of a lawyer and politician. On account of his perfect habits, he lived to a ripe old age, being eighty-three when he died, October 10, 1870.
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WILLIAM BEBB 1846-1849
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W ILLIAM BEBB was born in 1802, on the Dry Fork of White- water, in Morgan Township. He was of Welsh stock. During the Mexican war, 1846-1848, Mr. Bebb was elected Governor of Ohio, by the Whig party, and after his term expired he retired to private life. He was a well-informed man; rather tall, with a dark complex- ion, and at times noted for his easy eloquence; he was especially strong as a jury lawyer ; it was said his appeals to a jury were very touching. His old home is yet standing in the southern part of the county. He removed to Rock River, Ill., early in the fifties, where he had a large farm. He was very successful as a farmer, but being very peculiar and conscientious, he felt that he should do something for his countrymen; so he sold his farm, went to Europe, organized, and led a colony of Welsh Colonists from Wales to Scott County, Tenn. The colony was broken up by the Civil war. Bebb lived to be Pension Examiner under Lincoln, and helped in the election of Grant. Governor Bebb, although very peculiar, was a very broad-minded, conscientious man, and did much for the county, State and country in which he lived. After the abandonment of the colony in Tennessee he went to Illinois, and pur- chased a home at Rockford, and there spent the remainder of his days. He lived to be seventy-one years of age, and died at his home in Rock- ford, Ill., in 1873.
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SEABURY FORD 1849-1850
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S EABURY FORD was born in Cheshire, Conn., in 1801. His parents removed to Geauga County, Ohio, when he was but a child. In 1820, with a companion, he traveled through an almost un- broken wilderness to New Haven, Conn., for a four years' absence, to obtain an education at Yale College. They both graduated, and were the very first to do so from the young State of Ohio. He studied law, and was long in political life, serving as Speaker of both branches of the State Legislature. He was one of the most efficient men known to the Legislative history of the State. The classical education which he ob- tained under adverse conditions, taught him the true lesson of self- reliance, and this together with that which is often called good, "com- mon sense," fitted him for a useful life, both to himself and his State. His letter to his son, advising him to avoid public life until he had ac- cumulated a fortune sufficient to render himself entirely independent of any official salary, has the true ring, and is characteristic of the man. In 1849 he was elected Governor of Ohio, and very soon after his term expired he was stricken with paralysis, from which he never recovered. Death came in the prime of life, and at the beginning of what promised to be a wonderful career.
REUBEN WOOD 1850 1851-1853
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REUBEN WOOD was born at Royalton, Vt., in 1793. When the war of 1812 broke out he was temporarily living with an uncle in Canada, where he was studying the classics and reading law. He was subjected to military service against his own country. To this he would not submit, and though placed under guard succeeded at the hazard of his life in effecting an escape in a small boat across the entire width of Lake Ontario to Sackett's Harbor. He then worked on a farm to aid his widowed mother, and studied law. In 1818 he emi- grated to Cleveland, and engaged in the practice of his profession. He was three times elected to the State Senate; in 1830 was elected Presi- dent-Judge of the Third Judicial District; in 1833 became Judge of the Supreme Court, by the unanimous vote of the Legislature; in 1841 he was re-elected by the same vote, and for three years was the Chief Justice. He was elected Governor by the Democratic party in 1850, by a majority of 11,000, and re-elected under the new constitution in 1851 by a majority of 26,000. He resigned to accept the position of Consul at Valparaiso, Chili, and later became Minister. The climate of Chili proved too deleterious; he resigned, and returned home to pass the remainder of his days on his noble farm, "Evergreen Place," on the margin of the beautiful lake he loved so well. He died in 1864.
WILLIAM MEDILL 1853, Acting 1854-1856
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W ILLIAM MEDILL was born in New Castle County, Del., in 1802. He removed to Lancaster, Ohio, in 1832, entering at once on the practice of the law; then served three years in the State Legis- lature, and four years-from 1839 to 1843-in Congress. Early in President Polk's administration he was made First Assistant Post- master-General, but resigned to accept the Commissionership of Indian Affairs, in which office he introduced many needed reforms. In 1851, he was selected as President of the convention which constructed the second constitution of the State. He was very influential in that body, and was the only member, out of one hundred and five, who rose to the Governorship. In 1853, Governor Medill, being then Lieutenant- Governor, succeeded to the Governor's office upon resignation of Gov- ernor Wood, and he was elected to that office the same fall. He sub- sequently held the position of First Comptroller of the United States Treasury, serving through all of President Buchanan's administration, and two months under President Lincoln. His public career then ended, and he returned to Lancaster, where he was held in the highest esteem by the people. Although Governor Medill was a man of cul- ture, of fine manners, and fond of society, he never married. He died at his home in Lancaster, September 2, 1865.
SALMON P. CHASE 1856-1860
ЗГАНО . Я ИОМЛАС 0081-0281
S 'ALMON P. CHASE was born January 13, 1808, in the town of Cornish, New Hampshire. His father was of English, and his mother of Scotch descent. His father died when he was yet a boy, and the family was left in straitened circumstances. He entered Dart- mouth College, paying for his college expenses by school teaching, graduating in 1826. He then went to Washington, where he taught a classical school and studied law with William Wirt. Having been admitted to the bar in 1830, he settled in Cincinnati to practice his profession, his age then being twenty-two years. When the Liberty party was organized in Ohio Mr. Chase was foremost, and almost singly wrote the platform. In 1849, by a coalition between the Free · Soilers and the Democrats in the Ohio Legislature, Mr. Chase was elected to the United States Senate. In 1855 he was elected Governor of Ohio by the newly formed Republican party. In 1857 he was re- elected Governor. When Mr. Lincoln was called to the Presidency, March 4, 1861, he made Mr. Chase Secretary of the Treasury. On June 30, 1864, Mr. Chase resigned his position as Secretary of the Treasury, and on the nomination of President Lincoln was confirmed on the 5th of December, 1864, Chief Justice of the United States, an office he filled until his death. In his politics he was a Democrat; his sole reason for ever leaving this party being the slavery question. He died in New York, May 7, 1873, of paralysis.
WILLIAM DENNISON 1860-1862
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W TILLIAM DENNISON, the first of Ohio's trio of War Govern- ors, was born at Cincinnati, November 23, 1815. He gradu- ated from Miami University, and entered upon the study of law in Cincinnati, in the office of Nathaniel G. Pendleton and Stephen Fales. In 1840 he was admitted to the bar. He prac- ticed law until 1848, when he was elected to the Ohio Senate by the Whig party. About this time he became interested in banking and railroads, and was made President of the Exchange Bank, and also of the Columbus and Xenia Railroad Company. In 1856 he was a dele- gate to the convention which inaugurated the Republican party, and the same year took a prominent part in the convention which nomi- nated John C. Fremont for the Presidency. In 1860 he was elected Governor of Ohio by the Republicans. He was elected Chairman of the Republican convention at Baltimore, which in 1864 renominated President Lincoln, and was by him appointed Postmaster-General, holding that position until 1866. In 1880 he was a leader of the friends of Senator John Sherman in the effort to secure his nomination in the National Republican Convention of that year. Governor Dennison accumulated a handsome fortune in his private business, and contrib- uted largely to Dennison College, at Granville, Ohio. He died at his home in Columbus, June 15, 1882.
DAVID TOD 1862-1864
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D AVID TOD, the second of Ohio's War Governors, was born in Youngstown, February 21, 1805. He studied law, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1827. As a lawyer he was very successful, and soon accumulated a fortune by his talents and industry. He had a strong love for politics, and was an able campaign speaker. In 1838 he was elected as a Democrat to the State Senate; in 1840 gained great reputation as an orator, while canvassing the State for Van Buren. In 1844 he was the Democratic candidate for Governor, being defeated by 1,000 votes; from 1847 to 1852 he was United States Minister to Brazil, under President Polk's administration; return- ing to the United States, he rendered very effective service in the campaign resulting in the election of President Pierce. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Charleston Convention, was chosen Vice- President of that body, and presided over it when the Southern wing of that body withdrew. In 1861 he was nominated for Governor of Ohio by the Republicans, and elected by a majority of 55,000. His administration, during the most trying times of the war, was zealous, painstaking, and efficient. His continued effort for recruiting the army, his fatherly care and sympathy with Ohio soldiers in the field, and their families at home, his vigorous measures to repel the invasion of the State, are the distinguishing features of an able administration. He died at Youngstown, his birth place, November 13, 1868.
JOHN BROUGH 1864-1865
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J OHN BROUGH, the last of the three "War Governors of Ohio."
was born in Marietta, in 18II. He was the son of an Englishman, who came over in 1806, with Blennerhassett; his mother was a Penn- sylvania lady; it was from her he inherited his strong traits of char- acter. He was bred a printer, and to enjoy the benefit of a course of study in Athens College, entered a printing office in Athens. In 1839 he was elected State Auditor. He entered upon the duties of his office at a time when the whole country still felt the effect of the panic of 1837, and when the State of Ohio was peculiarly burdened with lia- bilities, for which there appeared to be no adequate relief. Mr. Brough devoted himself to reconstructing the whole financial system of Ohio, and retired from office in 1846 with a high reputation as a public officer. When the Civil War was at its height he made a speech at Marietta, declaring slavery destroyed by the act of rebellion, and he was immediately put before the people by the Republican Union as a candidate for Governor, and was elected by the largest majority ever given in any State, up to that time. Governor Brough was a statesman. His views of public policy were broad and catholic, and his course was governed by what seemed to be the best interest of the people, without regard to party expediency or personal advancement. He died in Cleveland in 1865, in the midst of his labors, worn out by his excessive application in the service of his State and country.
CHARLES ANDERSON 1865-1866
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C HARLES ANDERSON was born June 1, 1814, at Soldiers' Re- treat, his father's home, nine miles from Louisville, Ky. His father was aide-de-camp to Lafayette. His brother Robert was the Major Anderson commanding Fort Sumter, in April, 1861. Charles Anderson graduated at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1833. Studied law in Louisville, and was admitted to practice. He removed to Dayton, and September 16, 1835, married-Miss Eliza J. Brown, of that city. In 1844 he was elected to the Ohio Senate. His efforts in behalf of the colored race, and for the repeal of the "Black Laws," made him unpopular with his constituency, and at the close of his term he made a tour through Europe. On his return to Ohio he practiced law in Cincinnati for eleven years in partnership with Rufus King. In 1859 he went to Texas, and on November 20, 1860, he addressed a large gathering of people at San Antonio, advocating in the strongest and most pathetic language the perpetuity of the National Union. He received many letters threatening his life, and later was confined as a political prisoner. He escaped to the North, and was appointed Colonel of the Ninety-third O. V. I. He was severely wounded at the battle of Stone River. In 1863 he was nominated and elected Lieutenant- Governor on the ticket with John Brough, and on the death of the latter, succeeded to the office of Governor. He was a man with fine sense of honor, tall and elegant in person, of brilliant qualities, and the ideal gentleman personified. He died at Kuttawa, Ky., September 2, 1895.
JACOB DOLSON COX 1866-1868
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JACOB DOLSON COX was born in Montreal, Canada, October 27, 1828. His parents were natives of the United States, and had but a temporary residence in Canada. The following year his parents re- moved to New York. In 1846 he entered Oberlin College, gradu- ating in 1851, and in 1852 removed to Warren as Superintendent of the High School, which position he held for three years; in the meantime he studied law, was admitted to the bar and began practice in 1854. In 1859 he was elected to the Legislature, where he was re- garded as one of the radical leaders. He was firm in his conviction against negro slavery, but never offensive or disposed to treat his opponents with disrespect. Shortly after this he was commissioned by President Lincoln Brigadier-General of the United States Volunteers. With the assistance of Gen. Rosecrans he laid out Camp Dennison, and was in command there until July 6, 1861, when he was assigned to the command of the "Brigade of the Kanawha," in West Virginia. Later he was assigned to the Army of Virginia, under General Pope. At the battle of South Mountain, when General Pope fell, he succeeded to the command, and shortly after this was commissioned Major-Gen- eral. On April 16, 1863, General Cox was placed in command of the District of Ohio, also a division of the Twenty-third Corps. He served in the Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville campaigns, and fought the battle of Kingston, N. C., March 14, 1865, and then united his forces with General Sherman's army. He resigned from the army, after the close of the war to accept the office of Governor of Ohio, and was inaugurated January 15, 1866. From March, 1869, till Decem- ber, 1870, he was Secretary of the Interior under President Grant, but resigned on account of a disagreement with certain measures of the administration; returning to Cincinnati, he resumed his legal practice. He died at Magnolia, Mass., Aug. 4, 1900.
EDWARD FOLLENSBEE NOYES 1872-1874
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EDWARD FOLLENSBEE NOYES was born in Haverhill, Mass., October 3, 1832, and becoming an orphan, served five years ap- prenticeship in the office of the Morning Star, a religious newspaper, published at Dover, N. H. He then prepared and "went through" Dartmouth College, graduating near the head of his class, moved to Cincinnati and graduated in the Cincinnati Law School in 1858. When the Civil War broke out he was one of the Literary Club who enlisted. He changed his law office into recruiting headquarters and was commissioned July 27, 1861, Major of the Thirty-ninth Ohio Infantry, and later its Colonel. He was with his regiment in every march and every battle and skirmish in which the command was engaged, until he lost a leg in an assault on the enemy's works at Ruff's Mills, in the Atlanta campaign. While yet on crutches he reported for duty to General Hooker and was assigned to command of Camp Dennison and later was commissioned Brigadier-General. In 1871 he was elected Governor of Ohio. In 1877 he was appointed by his old friend and club mate, President Hayes, Minister to France. During his service there he was sent on a special mission to the East, visiting all the countries that border on the Mediterranean. He re- signed in 1881 and resumed his law practice in Cincinnati. He possessed fine oratorical powers and was remarkable for his enthusi- astic and cheery disposition. He was so beloved by the soldiers that he induced a larger number of veterans to re-enlist in his regiment than was secured in any other in the National Army from Ohio. He died September 4, 1890.
WILLIAM ALLEN 1874-1876
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W ILLIAM ALLEN was born in Edenton, N. C., in 1807. His parents dying during his infancy, his sister, the mother of Allen G. Thurman, took charge of his rearing and education. In 1821 Mrs. Thurman removed to Chillicothe, leaving her brother in an academy at Lynchburg, Va. Two years later he followed her and completed his education at Chillicothe. He began the study of law in the office of Judge Scott and completed it with Colonel Edward King, with whom he was associated in a partnership after his admission to practice, when not yet twenty-one years of age. He was tall and impressive in appearance, with a powerful voice, so penetrating that he was given the sobriquet of "Ohio gong." In 1832 he was elected to Congress by the Democrats, by a majority of one. He was the youngest man in the Twenty-third Congress, but was recognized as a leading orator and made a strong impression in a speech on the Ohio boundary question. In August, 1837, he made a strong speech at a banquet in Columbus, which unexpectedly led to his nomination to the Senate, to succeed Hon. Thomas Ewing. Before the close of his first term he was re-elected to the Senate. In August, 1873, Senator Allen was elected Governor of Ohio, being the only candidate on his ticket not defeated. He was renominated in 1875 by the Democrats, but was defeated on the "green-back" issue by R. B. Hayes. Governor Allen died at "Fruit Hill" in 1879.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES 1868-1872 1876-1877
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ЗАУАН .Я сяоляантия ST81-8881 ГГАР - аГар
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES was born in Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1822. His parents, Rutherford and Sophia Hayes, came to Ohio in 1817, from Windham County, Vermont. He received his early education in common schools, attended an academy at Norwalk, Ohio, and in 1837 went to Isaac Webb's school at Middletown, Conn., to pre- pare for college. In 1842 he graduated at Kenyon College, valedic- torian of his class. He studied law with Thomas Sparrow, of Colum- bus, Ohio, was graduated at the Law School of Harvard University in 1845. On May 10, 1845, he was admitted to the bar at Marietta, Ohio, and began practice at Lower Sandusky (now Fremont), where in April, 1846, he formed a partnership with Hon. Ralph P. Buckland. At the outbreak of the war he was elected Captain of the military company formed from the celebrated Cincinnati Literary Club. In June, 1861, he was appointed Major of the Twenty-third O. V. I. General Hayes' very gallant and meritorious military career has been overlooked in the prominence given his political life; an examination of his record in the army shows that such brave, gallant and able service has rarely been equaled, even in the annals of the late war. In August, 1864, while General Hayes was in the field, he was nominated by a Republican District Convention, in Cincinnati, as a candidate for Congress. He was elected by a majority of 2,400. In 1866 he was re- elected to Congress. In 1867 he was the Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio, and elected over Judge Thurman. In 1869 he was re-elected Governor of Ohio, over George H. Pendleton. In 1875, not- withstanding his well known desire not to re-enter public life, he was again nominated Governor of Ohio, and although he first declined the
honor, he was subsequently induced to accept, and after a hard fought canvass was elected over William Allen. This contest, by reason of the financial issue involved, became a national one, and was watched with interest throughout the country, and as a result he was nominated for the Presidency on the seventh ballot of the National Republican Convention, which met at Cincinnati, June 14, 1876. The administra- tion of President Hayes, although unsatisfactory to the machine poli- ticians, was a wise and conservative one; meeting with the approval of the people at large. By the withdrawal of the Federal troops, and restoration of self-government to the Southern States, prepared the way for a revival of patriotism and the remarkable material develop- ment that has since ensued. Governor Hayes, soldier, statesman and philanthropist, died at Fremont, Ohio, January 17, 1893.
THOMAS LOWRY YOUNG 1877-1888
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T HOMAS LOWRY YOUNG was born at Killyleagh, Ireland, December 4, 1832. With his parents he landed in this country, at the age of twelve, and at sixteen enlisted in the regular army, serv- ing ten years and retiring as orderly-sergeant. Soon after he removed to Cincinnati. In 1861 he was commissioned Captain in General Fremont's Body Guard and served until January, 1862, when the guard was disbanded. In August, 1862, he recruited a company for the 118th Ohio Infantry. He rose to be Colonel and served until September, 1864, when he was honorably discharged on account of sickness. At the battle of Resaca, Colonel Young led the charge on the enemy's center, his regiment losing in a few minutes 116 out of 270 men engaged. For this and other acts of gallantry, he was bre- vetted Brigadier-General. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in April, 1865, and in October was elected a representative to the Ohio Legislature, serving two years. In 1871 he was chosen State Senator for one term. In 1875 he was elected Lieutenant-Governor, and March, 1877, became Governor, when Rutherford B. Hayes as- sumed the presidency. Governor Young's rise from obscurity of an emigrant boy to the governorship of a great State, is a high tribute to American Institutions, as well as to his own integrity in civil life and unflinching courage as a soldier. He died at Cincinnati, Ohio, July 20, 1888.
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