Ashland-George McConnell and John Taylor. Ashtabula-Abel Krum. Athens-Arthur B. Monahan. Auglaize-George W. Andrews. Belmont-Isaac Welsh. Brown-Newton A. Devore. Butler-Christopher Hughes. Champaign-John P. Musson. Clermont John E. Myers. Clinton-Beebe Truesdale. Columbiana-Jonathan K. Rukenbrod. Coshocton-James Gamble and Joseph N. Fellows. Crawford-John S. Reisinger. Cuyahoga-Richard C.Parsons and C.T.Blakeslee. Darke John L. Winner. Defiance, Paulding and Williams - Calvin L Noble. Delaware-Raymond Burr. Franklin-Benjamin L. Reese and George L. Con verse. Gallia-George House. Geanga-Peter Hitchcock. Greene-Aaron Harlan. Resigned; A. M. Reed successor. Guernsey James W. Watt. Hamilton-William J. Flagg, William Jessup, William Jones, Patrick Rogers, John Schiff, Joseph Jonas and Joseph F. Wright. Hancock-John Westcott. Hardin and Wyandot-James M. White. Highland-John H. Jolly and C. B. Miller. Miller resigned; Henry L. Dickey, successor. Hocking--Manning Stiers. Holmes-William S. Tanneyhill. Huron-Alexander McPherson and Robert Mc Cune. Jackson and Vinton-Alexander Pierce. Jefferson-James S. Scott. Knox-William B. Cox. Lake-Matthew H. Clapp. Lawrence-Elias Nigh. Licking-William B. Woods and William Parr. Lorain-Walter F. Herrick and John M. Vincent. Mahoning-Jesse Baldwin and Joseph Bruff. Trumbull--Robert H. Walker. Tuscarawas-Lorenzo C. Davis. Union-James W. Robinson. Warren-James Scott and Mahlon Wright. Washington-John Haddon. Wayne William C. Moore. Wood and Ottawa-William S. Woods. William Dennison, Governor, was born in Cincinnati, November 23, 1815, and died in Columbus, June 15, 1882. His father and mother emigrated from New Jersey to Ohio and settled in the Miami Valley in 1805. Being in easy circumstances, they gave their son a good education, and he was graduated from Miami University, in 1835. with high honors. After leaving college he entered the law office of Nathaniel G. Pendleton, at Cincinnati, and in 1840 was admitted to practice. The same year he married a daughter of William Neil, one of the most prominent citizens of Columbus, and removed to that city. He represented the Franklin-Delaware district in the State Senate for one term, having been elected as a Whig in 1848. In 1852 he was an elector on the National Whig ticket and a strong supporter of General Scott. He was one of the founders of the Republican party in Ohio, and a delegate to the first National Convention of that party. In 1859 he was elected Governor on the Republican ticket, as the nineteenth Executive chosen by the people of Ohio. As the first "War Governor "his name will always be enrolled with the patriots who rallied to the support of the Union in the hour of greatest danger, and his injunction, "Ohio must lead in the war," was faithfully observed by the people, no State achieving greater prominence in defense of the imperiled Union. He was chosen as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864, and elected as its Permanent Chairman. On the retirement of Montgomery Blair from President Lincoln's Cabinet, Governor Dennison was called to take his place as Postmaster General. He was retained by President Johnson, but when the "policy" of the latter became fully defined, Mr. Dennison resigned. He was appointed a Commissioner of the District of Columbia in 1875, and remained in that office until 1878. He then retired from active business and enjoyed the privacy of his home until his death, his only appearance being as delegate at large from Ohio at the Republican National Convention of 1880. Robert C. Kirk, Lieutenant Governor, was born at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, February 26, 1821. His parents were Pennsylvanians. After at tending the schools at Mount Pleasant, he entered Franklin College at Athens, Ohio, but did not graduate. He left school to begin the study of medicine in his native village, and took a course in a medical university at Philadelphia. He then removed to Fulton County, Illinois, and began the practice. Abandoning his profession, a few years later, he returned to Ohio and engaged in mercantile pursuits at Mount Vernon. He then removed to Winona, Minnesota, for a year, returning again to Mount Vernon. In 1855 he was elected a member of the State Senate and in 1859 Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. Three years later President Lincoln appointed him Minister to the Argentine Republic. He resigned the position in 1866 and returned to Ohio. In 1869 President Grant reappointed him as such Minister, but he resigned again in 1872, and the next year was appointed by Governor Noyes Commissioner to represent Ohio at the Vienna Exposition. In 1875 he was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Thirteenth Ohio District, and since his retirement from that office he has remained in private life at Mount Vernon. William Yates Gholson, Supreme Judge, was the son of Thomas Gholson, a member of Congress from Virginia from 1808 to 1816, and was born on his father's plantation in 1807. He was graduated from Princeton with high honors in 1825, studied law and was admitted to the bar. After graduating at the Princeton law school he removed to Mississippi, where he practiced his profession for several years. Holding decided anti-slavery opinions he abandoned the South as a place of residence and removed to Cincinnati. Here his abilities were promptly recognized and he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of that city in 1854. While holding this office several of his close friends insisted that he should be chosen Judge of the Supreme Court of the State, and succeeded in getting the support of the delegates to the Republican State Convention and he was nominated and elected. Immediately after the election Judge Swan resigned and Judge Gholson was appointed to the vacancy. He, however, resigned before the expiration of his term. He was both a noted lawyer and an effective political speaker. He died September 21, 1870, in Cincinnati. Robert Walker Tayler, Auditor of State, was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1812, and died, of paralysis of the brain, at Washington City, February 25, 1878. His father and mother were James Tayler and Jane Walker Tayler, whose parents had come to America from the north of Ireland. The family removed to Youngstown, Ohio, while Robert was an infant. He received a common-school education, attended a German school one winter, and the Youngstown academy, studied law in Canfield, and after serving one year as Deputy County Clerk of Trumbull county, he was admitted to the bar. In 1839 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of that county, holding the office four years. He again removed to Youngstown, and it was afterward his proud boast that he was the first openly avowed anti-slavery man in that city. He was cashier of the Mahoning County Bank from 1850 to 1860, at the same time practicing his profession. In 1851 he was Mayor of Youngstown, and in 1855 he was elected to the State Senate and reelected in 1857. He was elected Auditor of State in 1859, and such was his ability that it was said that he saved Ohio in its darkest hour." In 1863 he was appointed First Comptroller of the United States Treasury by Mr. Lincoln, upon Secretary Chase's earnest recommendation. He held the office fifteen years and was popularly designated "the watch-dog of the Treasury." It was once said of him that he saved the Government millions by his inflexible integrity." John Belli Gregory, Member of the Board of Public Works, was born in Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, May 29, 1830. He was graduated from the high school in his native city at the age of twenty. In 1850 he was employed as division engineer on the Scioto & Hocking Valley Railroad, and in 1853 was promoted to be assistant civil engineer, completing the road from Portsmouth to Hamden. In 1857 he was appointed resident engineer for the southern district of the Ohio canal. In 1859 he was nominated and elected on the Republican ticket as a member of the Board of Public Works. 1862 he was renominated, but suffered defeat along with the other Republican candidates. In 1880 he was, by appointment of Governor Foster, made Chief Engineer of the Public Works of the State, remaining in that office for several years. In It will be observed that Major William Dennison Bickham, late editor and proprietor of the Dayton Daily Journal, was among the delegates to this Convention, and it may be said of him that for thirty years he remained a leading figure in the Republican party of Ohio. He was a radical of the radicals, an undoubted "stalwart" in the fullest sense of that term. There was nothing half-way, lukewarm or indifferent about his advocacy of Republican measures and Republican candidates. Such a thing as a quiet campaign was not known in Dayton, and his habit of stirring up the people has been since continued by his paper. His style of warfare was an everlasting attack, and the opposition well knew the vigor and effectiveness of his trenchant blade. However, he never cherished personal animosities, and was always ready to do justice to a foe, or spread the mantle of charity over the faults of the weak. After a protracted and peppery campaign, he would settle down to the enjoyment of a hardearned victory, or philosophize with good nature over a signal defeat, and figuratively shake hands all around with friend and foe. He led a busy life. Early cast upon his Early cast upon his own resources, he energetically set out to hew his way in the world at whatever honorable employment first came to hand. Loving excitement and adventure, and fearless then as ever after, when quite a young man, he struck out" for the mines of California, and after perilous adventures on land and sea, was washed ashore from a wrecked vessel, and took up the work of a miner on the Pacific Coast. Thence he drifted into journalism, having previously learned the trade of printer, and there found his true element. As a writer he was terse and strong. There was never any mistake as to his meaning, and he never covered a plain but disagreeable truth with rosy words or involved sentences. Of humor he was possessed to a large extent, and could, as occasion demanded, launch into poetic and ornate description, quite different from his political editorials. With all his versatility as a writer, his recognized forte" was in paragraphing, the most difficult and effective work of an editor. His sententious paragraphs were widely copied and gave the Journal a reputation throughout the country. In political management he had large experience in constructing local, State and National tickets and platforms. He was a delegate to twenty or more State Conventions and several National Conventions. The nomination of Hayes in 1876 has been largely attributed to him. Long before the Convention assembled he predicted that he would receive the Presidential nomination and foretold just the manner in which it would be brought about. He was an intimate and valued friend of Hayes, Garfield, Sherman, Schenck, Chase, McKinley, Foster and Foraker, and many other politicians of National renown. For himself he never sought office and insisted that no editor could do so without a sacrifice of his influence. When the war broke out he went to the front on General Rosecrans' Staff, as war correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, was in a number of battles and wrote what is acknowledged to be the best published description of the battle of Stone River. In 1863 he took charge of the Dayton Journal, after its office had been burned by a mob, and made it one of the most influential and widely quoted dailies in the West. While war correspondent he wrote The Fourteenth Army Corps" and later "From Ohio to the Rocky Mountains." He was born in Cincinnati March 30, 1827; educated at Bethany College, West Virginia; at twenty was city editor of the Louisville Courier; in 1850 went to California, where he was first a miner and then a reporter on San Francisco papers. Returning to Ohio in 1854 he was employed by the Cincinnati Columbian, the Evening Times and the Commercial, as city editor, and then as legislative and Washington correspondent, until the war of the Rebellion, when he was assigned to duty in the field as war correspondent of the Commercial, becoming widely known as "W. D. B." From May, 1863, he made his home in Dayton, where he remained in active editorial work until his death in March 1894. CHAPTER VII. N° THE CAMPAIGN OF 1860. O chapter in American politics is of greater importance or more thrilling interest than the events of 1860, in which Ohio bore a conspicuous part. The first Democratic State Convention convened in Armory Hall, Columbus, on Thursday, January 5th. It was called to order by George W. Manypenny, Chairman of the State Central Committee. William Halpin, of Hamilton County, was elected Temporary Chairman, and Edward Kinsman, of Cuyahoga, and J. M. Nash, of Mahoning, Secretaries. At the afternoon session, William B. William B. Woods, of Licking, was elected Permanent Chairman, and Kinsman and Nash continued as Secretaries. The great contest of this Convention, as of every other that year, was over the question of instructing for the Little Giant," Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, for President; and the resolution to that effect prevailed by a vote of 242 to 94. George E. Pugh, of Hamilton, then a member of the United States Senate and the first native of Ohio that had been chosen to the office, and Daniel P. Rhodes, of Cuyahoga, a cousin of Mr. Douglas, were elected Delegates-at-large to the National Convention at Charleston, S. C., on the first ballot, and George W. McCook, of Jefferson, and Hugh J. Jewett, of Muskingum, on the third. All four were able and determined supporters of Douglas and a tower of strength to him in the contentions at Charleston and Baltimore, which resulted in his nomination by Indeed, it the dominant wing of the party. was Senator Pugh's fervid eloquence that, perhaps for the first time, awakened the Southern leaders to a realization of the fact that the Northern Democracy were no longer willing to blindly submit to their dictates, but had convictions on the slavery question that they would fight for-and, if need be, die for-as bravely as their Republican fellow citizens, a fact they abundantly verified within the next five years. "We will show these men of the lowlands," said Governor Shepley, of Maine, in the Charleston Convention; who have said that there is no Northern Democracy, that, 'There are hills beyond Pentland, And it was in this spirit that Douglas was nominated. The Republican State Central Committee and members of the Legislature and State Board of Equalization held a conference in the House of Representatives at Columbus, on Friday evening, January 20th. It was decided to hold a State Convention on Thursday, March 1st, to appoint delegates to the second Republican National Convention at Chicago, and nominate candates for the State offices, and the Presidential electors-at-large at another State Convention, to be held after the National Convention had adjourned. A resolution |