Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-03-15
THE NORTHWEST
THE CElTEN lal iIiIIlI !;
by w.FARRAND FELCH.
Copyrighted. All rights reserued.



THE OHIO UNIVERSITY.
The incipiency of the Ohio University was
fraught with the unusual delays and hesitan.
cy. Meanwhile DIR. Lindley constituted the
whole faculty. In 1872, Mr.. Artemus Saw
yer, a graduate of Harvard, was appointed as
sistant. In 1915. the first degree of Bachelor
of Arts awarded in Ohio was conferred by the
Ohio University on Thomas Ewing, who had
entered the university three years previously,
spending his vacations in laying out county
roads, surveying, etc, to raise the means to
carry him through. The pecuniary embar-
rast ments of the the university were not over.
come until 1920 when it was organized
The settlement at Amesville, Athens coun-
ty, was begun about year after that at
Athens, by Judge Ephraim Cutler and George
Ewing with their families. The former was
the son of Dr. Manasseh Cutler, the MANA
ger of the Ohio Company, and one of the
original associates. They came in 1897 and
were so well pleased with the land that they
determined to locate; in the autumn of l797
they made second visit Mr.. Ewing brought
his family in March, 1898, and nearly year
later came Judge Cutler and Benz. Brown
with their families. In May, 1900, Silvanus
Ames, afterwards known as Judge Ames,
came with his family from Delpre and settled
near Mr.. Cutler, where he died in 1923. This
beUIl6lu6uI WIS very III 1IS IOuuu-
ers, who were all distinguished men. Judge
Ames was the father of Bishop Ames of the
M. Z. Church; Capt. Brown was the father of
Gen. John Brown and Judge A. G. Brown,
and George Ewing was the father of Hon.
Tho mas Ewing.
JUDGE CUTLER.
Ephrain Cutler was born at Edgartown,
Dukes county, Mass, April 18th, 1867. He
did not receive college education, but be-
came self educated man. In 1887 he mar
ried Miss Leah Atwood, of Killingeley, and
in 1875 accepted the agency of the Ohio Com
pany, in which he had been a shareholder
from the beginning. He settled at Water
ford and remained there until 1899, when he
removed to Ames. In 1901 he was elected to
represent Washington county in the Lsgisla-
ture, and he, with his colleague, VIM. R. Put
nam, were the only two who voted against the
measure for State Government.
The mob threatened to attack the house
where they boarded in Chillicothe, on this
occasion, rs their vote made them very un-
popular. In 1902 he was was one of the four
delegates from Washington county to draft
the State constitution. Article III, estab-
fishing the Judicial system of the State, was
almost wholly shaped and drafted by him,
and he was also very
DETERMINED IN HIS OPPOSITION TO SLAVERY.
"And to Ephraim Cutler, more than to any
other man, posterity is indebted for shutting
and barring the door against the introduction
into Ohio of the monstrous system of African
slavery. In 1918, Judge Cutler was elected q
county, and IN 1924 as a Senator in the Ohio
Senate. He was very valiant in the interest
of education. He died in Washington county
six miles below Marietta, July 8, 1853.
His son, VIM. z. Cutler, was born at this
place, July II, 1913, was member of the
Legislature from 1874 to 1916, offcia.
ing as speaker during his last term; was
member of the constitutional convention of
1850; afterwards was for some years President
of the Marietta and Cincinnati R. R.: was q
Representative of the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress, and bas been for years officially con-
nected with the above mentioned road.
George Ewing, we have already mentioned
among the eminent men of Marietta. He was
commonly called Lieut.. Ewing; he was ma.
tive of Salem, New Jersey, and was in the
Continental army, where he won his title
After the war he came to Ohio county, West
Virginia, and afterwards, in 1898, to the Wat.
erford settlement on the Muskingum in the
spring of 1898, encouraged and assisted BY
Judge Cutler, he removed to Amesville, II
miles from the frontier settlements; he filled
many minor offices, and in 1918 removed tt
Indiana, where he died in 1880.
HON. THOMAS EWING.
Thomas Ewing, son of George Ewing, was
born in Ohio county, West Virginia, Decem
benz 26, 1888, and came with his father tx
Ames township, in 1898. Judge Ewing's per
sonal "reminiscences, as given in the "Histo
~ of Athens county," are very interesting
and we have taken several extracts:
"My father entertained the impression thai
would one day be scholar, though quite
unable to lend me any pecuniary aid. grew
up with the same impression until, in my
nineteenth year, almost abandoned hope
On reflection, however, determined to max,
one more effort to earn the means to procur
an education" He then gives graphic &C
count of his struggles, in the "Canawht
Salines." Here he was engaged for thre
years in vacations. II went to Kanawha tn
third year, and after q severe summers labo
returned home with about six hundred dol
lars in money, but sick and exhausted. In
stead, however, of sending for physician,
got Don Quixote, recent purchase, from tn
library, and laughed myself we'll in about tel
regular student, and continued my studie
here till the spring of 1915, when left,
pretty good, though an irregular scholar
During my academic term went to Gallipo
his and taught school a quarter and studie
French" While pursuing his studies, hewa
occasionlly employed by the Commissioner
of Athens county as surveyor. After finish
ing his studies at Athens, he read Blackston
athome, and in July, 1916, went to Lancaste
to study law with Gen. Beecher.
II was admitted to the bar in August, 1871
after fourteen months of very diligent stud
the first six months about sixteen hours
day. made my first speech at Circlevillt
the November following. Gen. Beecher fir
gave me a SANDER case to study and prepar
Ispent much time with it, but time wastet
as the cause was continued the first day
the court. He then gave me a case of col
tract, chiefly in depositions, which studie
diligently, but that also was continued.
few minutes afterward case was calle,
and Gen. Beecher told me that WI
ready-the jury was sworn. witnesses calle'
and the cause went on. In the examinatio
of one of the witnesses, I thought discove
ed an important fact. not noticed by eitht