The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1852-06-11
BIOGRAPHICAL.
From Livipgston's Law Magazine.
Hon. George B. Way.

Of John Wilkes, the famous Englisl
statesman. Anne Wilkes, sister o
John, married joseph Brevieu. The is
sue Of that union was three sons, John
Joseph and james. John the eldest
commenced the study OF law IN Lnndon
lie forsook his studies to come TO Ameri
ca, where he married three years before
the close Of the Revolutionary War. HI
entered our army as recruit, at the age
I Of twenty, and retired from services at The
lclose Of the war with the commission o
Captain by brevet. Three months after
wards he lnrrried Mary Swope, daughter
of Rev. Bendict Swope Pastor Of the
German Lutheran Church at Baltimore
Mary Matilda Brevie,t, second daughter
of John and Mary Breviett. was born ia
Baltimore in 1880. She was married to
Andrew Way in 1909. He was a, the
time printer oCongress ;nWashingtoncity
George B. Way, the subject Of the
memoir, was born at Baltimore, on the
4,h day ofMay, 1911. The early years
Of his life were spent in Washington city.
No expense was spared in his eduction,
When IN his ninth year, he was sent TO a
select school, twelve miles distant from
Washington, where he remained two
years. He then entered the Iesuis's
Academy at Washington, which after two
vears of tuition, he left TO go To 81.
Joseph's College, Beardstown, Kentucky
At the age Of sixteen he returned to
Washington. After visit Of few
weeks, he was sent TO Yale College,
where he was placed under the guardian
ship Of Professor Chauneey Goodrich and
Hon David Daggett. '
While at Yale, he boarded at one Of
the houses specially provided for the STU
denis in commons. The poor fare at
this establishment soon became a subject
of general complaint among the students,
who, after waiting suitable time
for il 10 be improved, enumerated
their grievances in a round robin, ad-
dressed to the trustees and faculty, in
which they threatened rebellion, and
withdrawal from the College, unless a
change took place. This instrument was
signed by majority Of the students in
college. lis defiant tone was deemed by
The faculty too gross breach Of college
discipline TO 60 unpnnished. They sought
in vain TO ascertain the names Of the ring
leaders in the outbreak. Six students,
WHO we're supposed TO be more active
than others, were expelled. This act Of
random Justice so incensed the other stu.
dents that they presented TO the faculty,
as the only alternative of their con,inu-
ance in college, the restoration off ex.
PEELED members. The faculty declined
TO comply with II, and one hundred and
forty of the students, Mr.. Way among the
number, withdrew from the college and
took quarters in ,hecity. II was now The
turn of the faculty to present alternatives
Letters were written TO tho parents of.he
rebellious students, pleading for return,
but without efftc,. After spending a few
weeks in New Haven, Mr.. Way returned
to Washington, and from thence soon
afterwards, he went to Miami University,
at Oxford, in the State of Ohio. Here,
after year of close application he com.
pleted his collegiate course Of study. aud
lef, the University without waiting for its
hon0rs. s,fru ta
During the period that young Way had
thus spen, in school and in colleges, he
made good improvement Of his time
He became familiar with the language
and sentiments of the Latin and Greek
classics, and excelled in bellies letters
and general literature. He also made
himself master ofa pure English style as
a writer, and as a ready and able dehater
stood foremost among bis fellow students.
Some of his efforts, While in college; are
remembered as fine specimens of elo-
quence and argument. ,f
i Having made choice Of the law as q
profession. Mr.. Way went Immediately
from Oxford to Steubenvile, where he
became a student at law in the Office of
lion. John G.. Wright, then and now one
of the most distinguished lawyers in Ohio.
During the two years Of his residence
there, be applied himself closely to the
study of his profession. The knowledge
of elementary principles which he obtain
ed while under the instructions Of Judge
Wright, laid the foundation for his sue
cess as ready and accurate lawyer. His
course of study embraced all, or nearly
all, the elementary writers, commencing
with Coke and Bacon. He reserved for
his first years Practice, tbs task Of famil-
iarizing himself with The decisions and
cases.
Mr.. Way was admitted to an examina-
tion at the Supreme Court for Madison
County, Ohio, in the year 1882, fcw
month before he had attained the age of
iwenty-one. He Immediately opened an
office in the delightful villale Of Urbana, !,
the county seat Of Champaign CO., and
then the home Of his mother, who, on the
death Of his father, had. moved :here
with his brother while he was student
He entered upon the profession with
grea, zeal, but failed to realize from it