The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-24

BIOGRAPHICAL.
George Hunt PendIoton. ssnntor.Eleet from Ohio.

George Hunt PendletOn. senatOr.Eleet from Ohio.
from Cleave's Biographical CyClOpedia of ohio.l
Pendleton, George Hunt lawyer and
statesman, born at Cincinnati July Io,
1895 the eldest son of Nathaniel Greene
Pendleton. AT eight years Of age he was
sent to the Woodward High School, but
two years later he was transferred to the
school of the late o. M. Mitchell, after
wards General Mitchell and when the
Cincinnati College was organized, with
DR.. w. H. McCuffey as President and
Mr.. Mitchell as Professor of Mathemat-
les, young Pendleton became one OF its
students, and he began the study of lam
guages and the higher branches of maths
ematics. He remained at this institution,
where he attained high reputation as a
scholar until IS4I, from which time until
1874 he pursued his classical studies unN
der the tuition of able teachers at his IA
theirs house. In 1874 he sailed for Eus
rope, and during the two years following
completed suchan extended tourthrough'
out Europe and the East as few Ameri'
cans of that day had accomplished. He
first visited France, Belgium and Switzer'
land, spending the winter in Rome, Ma
ples and Florence. On the opening Of
spring he ourneyed to Vienna by way
Of Bologna, Ferrara and Venice. From
Vienna he went by way of Prague to
Berlin, and thence to Holland by way of
Hanover. After visiting Amsterdam,
the Hague and Leyden, he crossed the
sea to London, in order to observe the
English Parliament, then in session, and
hear the speeches of Sir Robert Peel,
Lords Brougham and Russell, and other
of the British statesmen of the time,
Returning to Germany, he spent some
time as a student at the University OF
Heidelberg, whence, in company with a
party of German students, he presently
set out on a pedestrian tour through
Southern Germany and Switzerland. He
also visited and explored afoot many
points of interest in Northern Italy, and
then sailed from Trieste for Greece, Wis
iting the Ionian Isles on the voyage.
Taking a guide at Patras, he traversed
on horseback the Morean Peninsula,
passing over the sites of Sparta and
Messenia, Corinth and Argos. After
visiting Athens and the places of classic
fame in its vicinity, he rode over the
plain of Marathan, and passing north
wardly, sought the site of Thebes,
and the battle fields of Cheronea and
Themopyle. Thence he passed across
Mount Parnassus to the shrines of the
Delphic oracle. Returning to Athens,
he took ship for Constantinople, whence
he sailed for Beyrout, stopping on the
way at Smyrna, Rhodes and Cyprus.
From Beyrout he journeyed to Baalbec
and Damascus, thence to Jerusalem,
taking in the way Nazareth and the
mountains of the blessing and the curse.
From the scenes of sacred history he set
out by way of GAIA to cross the desert,
by camel conveyance, to Cairo. This
Journey across the desert occupied twenN
ty days. After examining the relics of
Egyptian antiquity, and observing the
modern condition of the country, Mr.,
Pendle.on embarked at Alexandria for
Trieste, and thence returned to Heidel-
berg, which, after brief stay, he left
for Paris. Thence he visited England,
Scotland and Ireland, before embarking
for home, He now began the study OF
law at Cincinnati, in the Office of Stephen
Fales, and in I847 was admitted to the
bar, Soon after he formed partnership
with the late George E. Pugh, which was
continued until the latter's election to
the Office of Attorney General of Ohio in
1852. In 1858 Mr.. Pendleton was nomi'
mated by the Democratic party for State
Senator from Hamilton county, and was
elected by very large majority. Dur
ing the entire session of the Legislature,
upon which devolved the duty of adopt.
ing the laws of the State to the new
Constitution, he showed such energy and
ability, and took so prominent apostion,
although the youngest member in the
Senate, that in 1854, before his term was
ended, his friends put him forward as a
candidate for Congress in the First Ohio
District, and he was nominated over
David T. Disney, who had for six years
previously been the Democratic Repre-
Sentative. The Fusion and Know
Nothing candidates, however, were SC
successful in this campaign that only
about twenty Democrats were elected to
the National House of Representatives
from the whole North, and Mr.. Pendle"
ton was among those defeated. But in
1856, the Know-Nothing agitation hav-
ing subsidized, and the Anti.Nebraska
Fusion having lost force, Mr.. Pendleton
unanimously adopted, was triumphantly
elected, and took his seat in Congress ir
December, 1857. During the contest
between Mr.. Buchanan's administration
and the South, on the one side, and the
mass of the Northern Democracy, head
ed by Stephen A. Douglas, on the other
upon the question of the admission ot
the territory of Kansas, Mr.. Pendle
ton acted with the friends of Mr.. Doug
las Opposing the administration under
the Lecompton Constitution on the
ground of fraud and illegality in it
adoption.) In 1858 Mr.. Pendleton wa'
again nominated for Congress, his oppo
nent this time being T. c. Day, who il
1854 Hdu uCiCdtCO lllillj AhS SaliA APol6 II
sharply contested one, was generally
unfortunate for the Democracy, Mr.
Pendleton being the only one on the
ticket who was elected, and by small
majority. In 1860, at the time of the
division of the Democratic party at the
Charleston Convention, he warmly sup
ported Mr.. Douglas, and in October O
that year was renominated for Represen'
tative, his competitor then being Judge
Oliver M. Spencer. On sectional ques'
.tions-which at this period had beer
brought to bloody issue-Mr. Pendletor
was always moderate and conservative
avoiding equally both the Northern anc
Southern extremes of expression. He
believed that the war could have beer
averted, was in favor of the Crittender
Compromise, and did all he could to pre-
vent secession and preserve the Govern
ment by the equitable settlement of sec
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