Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-08-25
THE GOVERNORS OF OHIO.
jefferson County has Furnished Four OF Ihem
-Tlffin, Worthington, Morrow and Lucas


A Gazette reporter dropped into the
Office of State Superintendent Lewis
Yesterday and found him engaged in
tabulating the work of the State nor
NAL schools, which he says have just
completed the most prosperous year
in the history Of their existence.
by the way" said Professor Lewis,
who is well-known historian as well
as educator, II notice that the press
of our State express pride in the fact
that Hon. Lawrence L. Neal, candi-
date for Governor of Ohio, is West
Virginian. Do you know that if he
should be elected he will be the fifth
West Virginian who will have been
chosen to fill the gubernatorial chair
in that great State ?
No" said the Eews man, who
were they
THE first of these SAID Superin-
tendent Lewis, was DIR. Edward
Tinin, who was born in 1866, and was
a resident of Berkeley (now Jefferson
county, as is shown by the records OF
the University of Pennsylvania, from
the medical department Of which he
was graduated when b 1T eighteen
years of age. In 1889 he married
Mary Worthington Of Charlestown,
the present seat OF justice Of JetTer-
son county, and in 1896 with his broth
er-in-law, Thomas Worthington, and
Robert Lucas, he removed to Chilli
Gothic Ohio, then in the Northwest
Territory He became the first com
monwealth governor upon the admls-
sion of the State in 1903, and served
two terms, the last being character
lied BY the Burr Blennerhassett con
spiracy. Later lie became L. ).
Senator, and in 1909 President Madi-
SOP appointed him the chief Of the
national land Office, and in 1914, when
the British burned the national cap
itol, Ex-Governor Tiilln was one of
the few heads Of bureaus who saved
the records OF his Office. He died in
1929.
The second was Thomas WOrthing-
ton. the brother-in-la Of the former,
with whom he went to ChilicOthe in
1896. Young Worthington was born
near Charlestown, Jefferson county,
in 1869. He held many positions of
trust and honor and became governor
of the State in 1916. He died at Chill
Gothic in 1927.
The third was Jeremiah Morrow,
who was born at or near Shepherds
town, then in Berkeley county, DC
tober 6, 1771, and in 1875 he found q
home in the Northwest Territory,
later becoming II resident of what Is
now Warren county, Ohio, where he
died in 1852: While governor of the
State, in 1926, he entertained the
Duke of Sake Weimer who that year
was the guest Of the nation.
The fourth West Virginian to be-
come governor of the great State
was Robert Lucas, the boy who ac-
companied Edward Tiflin and Thomas
Worthington to Ohio in 1886 He was
born near Shepherdstown, jefferson
county, April /, 1871, his father hav-
ing been a captain in the Revolution
airy army and descendant Of Will
liam Penn. During the war of 1912,
Robert Lucas served on the northern
frontier. He rose to prominence rap
idly. In 1892 he was chairman Of the
acknowledgements convention which
nominated Andrew Jackson for a sec
ond presidential term, and the same
year he was elected governor of Ohio,
defeating General Macarthur by but
one vote. In 1913 he was appointed
governor of Iowa and died at Iowa
City in 1853.
And now if Larry Neal is elected
the fifth West Virginia governor of
Ohio, all West Nirginans will feel II
natural State pride in this admins
tration. - Charleston Gazette