Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-01-22


who voted in favor of the canal act
the session of the General Assembly
1824-5. He was subsequently electe
Governor of the State, a matter whic
VIII be referred to further alOng.i
JEREMIAH MORROW
was elected and became Governor 1
the close of the BrOwn-Trimble admir-
iStration in 1922. He was thorough
identified with the early history of tn
State. He was IA member of the cor
vention which adopted the constitution
of the State; the first Representative i
Congress from Ohio after the State wa
admitted in 1903, and served in tn
National House of Representative
from 1903 to 1913, when he was sent t
the United States Senate, where he re
mained till 1919. He served as Gov
ernOr from 1922 to 1896. GCverno
Morrow, in connection with GOverno
Dewitt Clinton, of New York, VIII,
had been invited to Ohio on account o
his able advocacy of the canal system
took the fist shovelfull of earth from
the Ohio canal, at the time of the State
celebration of the commencement o
the ork, at Licking Summit, on The
18th of July, 1925, Thomas Ewing being
the orator of the day. Governor Nor
row resided in Warren county.
ALLEN TRIMBLE,
of Highland county, acting Governor
in 1922, was elected to Office and com
menced bis term in 1926; was reelected
as an Adams man over the late Judge
Campbell, the Jackson candidate. He
was the first Governor of Ohio elected
on party ticket. Years afterward he
was candidate for Governor on the
American ticket, but was not elected.
He died in Hillsboro :, few years ago.
He was the father of Rev. DIR. j. NJ.
Trimble, now of this city.
DUNCAN M'ARTHUR.
Trimble's successor as Governor was
Duncan Macarthur, of Ross county,
who aas one of the three Colonies sent
out from Ohio in 1872. His command
and that of Cass were surrendered by
General Hull, and he and Cass were
instrumental in the arrest of Hull, who
was tried, convicted of treason and
sentenced to death, but pardoned on
account of his revolutionary services.
Colonel Macarthur was member of the
State Senate in 1921, and was a MEM
Der of Congress from 1923 to 1925. His
term as Governor comnencedi 1880,
and he was q candidate Tor reelection,
but withdrew from the candidacy to
run for Congress against William Al
len, who afterward became his son-in-
law, and who is now the Governor of
the State. Macarthur was defeated in
the raae for Congress by one vote, and
in this connection we are Informed of Il
matter whici, we believe has never be-
fore been in print. After the result of
the Congressional canvass was an
nounced, McArthur's friends discover
ed an error of i've votes in the countin
one of the townships, in McArthur's
favor, but soon aftefward Aliens
friends discovered u iniscoDnt in an
other township OF precisely the saIne
description, excepting that it was in
Aliens favor, which preserved to
Allen his nIsjority of one Macarthur
returned TO private life after his term
as Governor.
-sset ROBERT LUCAS
became Governor in 1882, having been
elected under the following circum-
stances: Creighton and Douglass, two
prominent Wings of Ross county,
were candidates for congress, and for a
time both declined to withdraw; they
fnaIly agreed, however, to abandon
the field if Macarthur consented to give
up the candidacy for Governor and
run against Allen for Congress. Pre-
yiously an anti-Maaopir Convention
had nominated Darius Lyman, OF Port
age county, for Governor, ard Near
thurs candidacy for Congress Became
involved with q proposition from anti
Masops and Wings to suppQrt Lyman.
Under this state of Affairs Robert Lu-
cas-, the DeiHoeratic candidate, was
elected Governor; he was reelected,
md served till 1886. buying his term
the celebrated Toledo Was broke out.
The boundary line between Ohio and
Michigan was in a disprtc which iR-
volved the question as lu which State
Toledo belonged to, Lucas was for
light, but the matter was finally settled
~ act of Congress. Governor Lucas
vas afterward appointed Governor of
-oya Territory by President Jackson.
JOSEPH VANCE,
If champaign county, was a member
If the General Assembly for many
,ears before he became Governor in
S36, he having speea elected as a
'N.hig. He was also q iPQRlber OF Con-
sress from 1921 TO 1925 w bi!s be was
ioyern0r he issued IA reqaisitioa for
akipg slave back TO kentucky. She
lave was charged with crime, but the 4
general idea ~Ss that the requisiti0nil
vas issued in order to return the man
o servitude. This brought the .Aboli-
ion clement out against Vance and !
prevented his reelection to the Exc
utive Office. Governor Vance was If. |
erward a member OF the State Senate, |
nd was a member of the Constitution |
i Convention of 1851; but during his |
ervice in the last named body he was
feeble, and soon afterward
led of sOftening of the brain.
WILSON SHANNON
vas inaugurated Governor in 1858 and |
erved one term. We have no data of |
ny public position he may have occu-
lied previous 10 that time. lie was
afterward, however, but |
$ he again occupied the Governors |
flee, after an interval of two years,
1e will take up his subsequent history |
n chronological order.
CORNER STONE OF THE CAPITOL.
About the time that Governor Shan
on entered upon his official duties the
ceiling that the old State buildings
we're too modest for the growth and
prosperity of the State took shape in a
agislative expression. An act was
assed on the 2Gth of January, 1888, to
rovide for the erection of a new State
1OuSe at the seat of government. This
vas the occasion of all illumination
nd series of festivities on the part of
he people of Columbus. In March, W.
|. Adams, of Muskingum county,
oseph Ridgeway, Jr., of franklin
ounty, and w. B. Van Hook, of But
,r county, were appointed commits