The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-27

6OVcTuOT Oh
Ohio, was born in New Haven, Conn.,, July
81, 1925, and is, therefore, at this time
QSS5) fifty mine years of age. He is the
only son of George and Mary Ann Hoadly
daughter of VIM. Walton Woolsey and
Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey, of New York
City,. His mother was -granddaugh-
ter of Jonathan Edwards, neice of Presi-
dent Dwight, of Yale College, and the eld-
est daughter in q family which en-
braced among its members her younger
brother, President Woolsey, of Yale Col
lege; her nephew, Theodore Winthrop, and
literature as "Susan Coolidge" Governor
Hoadly's father was a man of great learn
ing, ability, strength and purity of charac-
ter. He graduated in Yale College in 1901,
and served as tutor there from 1903 to 1906.
He was educated for and practiced legal
profession, but left the walks of legal
learning for the Office of banker. He was
Mayor of New Haven and afterwards of
Cleveland, Ohio, where he moved with his
family in 1880, and for fifteen years served
acceptably as Justice of the Peace.
The subject of this sketch received his
elementary education at Cleveland, and,
when fourteen years old, was sent to the
Western Reserve College at Hudson, Sum-
NIT County, O., since removed to Cleveland
O., and now known as Adelbert College.
[. D., from his Alma Mater; also,
in 1884, from Yale College, In
1874 he graduated and entered the law
school at Cambridge, Mass, where he
studied one year under the instruction OF
Judge Story and Professor Simon Green
leaf, and after reading one more year in
the law Office of Judge Charles G. Convers,
at the time prominent lawyer of Zanes-
vile, O., he came to Cincinnati in the fall
of 1S46, and entered the law Office of Chase
He was admitted to the bar in August of
the following year.
Young Hoadly at once attracted the at
tention and secured the warm and lasting
friendship of Preceptor Salmon P. Chase,
afterward Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, and was well
aware of the Importance of attaching to
himself young men of ability and promise,
and, after a period of service as q clerk,
Mr.. Hoadly was admitted in 1S49 as a
junior partner in the firm, which took the
name of Chase, Ball & Hoadly. Mr.. Chase
Senator, and withdrew from professional
activity in Cincinnati, and this led to
Hoadly's appearing in important cases
very early in his career. 1t was soon dis
covered that Salmon P. Chase had not
overestimated the abilities of his young
partner.
In 1851 the Legislature elected Mr.. Hoad-
ly Judge of the Superior Court of Cincin-
natl for the residue of the term to which
that court had been limited by the Consti-
tutional Convention. In 1858 he formed a
copartnership with Edward Mills; became
City Solicitor of Cincinnati in 1855,
and in 1859 succeeded Judge Gholson
on the bench of the new Superior
Court. Governors Chase and Tod both
offered Hoadly a seat upon the Supreme
Bench of Ohio, but he declined both ap-
pointments. He was reelected to the
bench in 1864, but resigned to establish the
law firm of Hoadly, Jackson & johnson.
He took an active part in the Constitution
al Convention of 1874, with many other
liberal Republicans,h he Joined the Democrat
ic ranks under the leadership of Tilden and
Hendricks, and in February, 1877, he ap-
peared as counsel for Tilden in the disput-
ed Presidency. In July, 1888, Judge Hoad-
ly was nominated for Governor by the
Democracy at Columbus. Before the cam
paign had fairly begun he was stricken
with malarial fever, which prevented him
from continuing his labors upon the stump
until the last week of the canvass. One
week before the election, however, he re-
turned to his old home, and his trip through
was grand ovation. The tide turned, and
Hoadly was triumphantly elected, having
1889 plurality over Judge Foraker. The
Governor polled such large vote that the
Democrats elected Legislature, which in
turn chose Hon. II. B. Payne as United
States Senator.
Hon. George Hoadly was married in
1851 to Miss Mary Burnet Perry, daughter
of Captain Samuel Perry, one of the ear
liest residents of Cincinnati. Three child.
rem have blessed their union-George(grad.
uated at Harvard University, B. B. in
1879, and LII. B. in 1882; Laura and Ed
ward Mills all, living. Governor
Hoadly is Free Mason and Knight
Templar.