St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-23
BIOGRAPHICAL,
An Outline of the Distinguished
Jurist's Life Work.

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WASHINGTON, March %. Stanley
Matthews was native of Cincinnati.
o., his birth having occurred July 81,
1924. He was the oldest child of his
fathers second marriage. Until he
was eight years of age the family re-
sided the greater part of the time in
Kentucky, where his father, Thomas
j. Matthews, was a professor of mathe-
MATES in Pennsylvania university. In
1882, having been elected president of
Woodward High school, Cincinnati.
Prof. Matthews returned to that city,
and for the next seven years took charge
of the education of his son. preparing
him for the junior class in Kenyon col
lege, o., where he graduated In the fall
of 1910. Among his fellow students was
Rutherford B. Hayes, afterwards presi-
dent. After devoting two years to the
study of law, Stanley Matthews re-
moved to Maury, county. Tennessee,
where he obtained a position as an as
sistant in a school. Having been adj
mitted to the bar, he commenced his
practice at Columbia, devoting his leis-
ure to editing paper called The Ten
neSSee Democrat. After his return to
Cincinnati in 1874, a vacancy occurring,
he was appointed assistant prosecuting
attorney duringa term of court, dis
charging his duties with such
efficiency as to attract attention. He
subsequently formed the acquaintance
of Dr.. Gamaliel Bailey, who was then
publishing the Cincinnati Herald, an
anti-slavery paper. He became con-
auently succeeding Dr.. Bailey in con-
Quoting its publication. At that time
the
ANTI-SLAvERY FEELING
was running high in Ohio, involving
both parties, and the prominence into
which MI. Matthews name had been
brought, as publisher of this paper,
made him party to the combination
which elected Mr.. Chase United States
senator from that state and resulted in
Mr.. Matthews election, as a "Free
Soiler," clerk of the Ohio house of rep
reSentatives. In 1s49, upon the adjourn
ment of the legislature, Mr.. Matthews
sion; and upon the adoption of the state
constitution, in the following year, he
was elected by the Democrats one of
the three judges of the court of CON-
mon pleas of Hamilton county. He
resigned this position in January,
1858, finding the salary INSULT
cient, and became a member of the
law firm of Worthlngton & Mat
thews. He subsequently served one
full term in the senate of Ohio. Presi-
dent Buchanan appointed him United
States district attorney in 1858. For two
years he discharged the duties of this
Office with great credit, at the end of
which time he rendered his resignation
to relieve President Lincoln of any EN-
barrassment in providing an occupant
for the Office. Upon tender of his SER
vices to Gov. Dennison at the COM
meneement of bostilities, after Mr.. Lin
coin became president, he was ap-
pointed
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
of the Twenty third Ohio infantry.
Rutherford B. Hayes was major of the
regiment and Gen. Rosecrans its col
onel. Lieut.. Col. Matthews served
with his regiment in West Vir-
ginia. He was promoted to the col
onelcy of the Fifty-first Ohio regi-
ment in October, 1861. His regiment
was engaged in service in Kentucky
under Maj. Gen. Buell., becoming after
wards part of the Army of the Cumber-
land. In April. 1868, Col Matthews was
elected by the Republicans judge of the
superior court of Cincinnati, and re-
signed his military command. He filled