The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-11-09

limits of anything that could be called an
advanced civilization, but Columbus, o.,
the home of his latter years, is far east of
the center of population.
When he emigrated to Ohio it was on
the border of the far west when he entered
the United States senate he was accounted
rather as a representative of the east His
first political lessons were from the living
Jefferson and Madison; he witnessed the
phenomenal growth of jackson; outlived
the eleven presidents who succeeded him,
and took the leading part in reconstruct
ing the old party and impressing its doc
trines upon the third generation
He was born Nov. l3, 1918, in Lynch
burg Va, his father being a minister of
the Methodist church, and his mother the
only daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Allen
His mothers half brother, William Allen
but seven years older than himself, walked
from Lynchburg to Chillicothe, o., in
1922, and soon attained such prominence
as a lawyer and orator that at the early
age of % he was elected u member Of con-
gress, beating the popular Whig governor
of the state, Duncan Macarthur, by one
vote and only four years later he was
elected United States senator. After ris-
ing to such high rank in his party that the
nomination for president was practicallv
offered to him, he suddenly retired, re
mained in private life twenty-five years.
then emerged to be elected governor of
Ohio in 1873, in such II phenomenal cam
paign as to give him the political sobriquet
of "Rise-up William" Allen.
Allen G. Thurman went to Chillicothe
with his parents in 1919, and that place
was his home until 1858, when he moved
to Columbus His mother was his best
teacher down to the time he entered the
Chillicothe academy, which institution he
left when Is years old He served as an
assistant in land surveying for short
time, and then studied law with his uncle,
Allen. At 2l he became private secretary
to Governor Robert Lucas, reading law at
odd times with Judge Swayne, of Column
bus. In 1885 he was admitted to the bar
in Chillicothc, and was taken into part
nership by his uncle. In 1888 the uncle
went to the United States senate, and in
1914 Mr. Thurman was elected to the ma
tiOnal house.
On Dec. /, 1915, Mr.. Thurman entered
the Twenty ninth congress as its youngest
member, just as his uncle had entered the
senate the youngest man ever chosen to
that body. He declined a denomination,
and in 1917 returned to the practice of law.
In 1851 he was elected to the supreme
bench of the state and served thereon till
1856, the last year as chief justice This
led to his removal i'm 1858 to Columbus.
His judicial opinions are models of clear
statement and logical adherence to ele-
mentary law. In no other department is
his greatness so generally recognized as
in this. The senator, the politician, the
candidate for vice presidentmay be harshly
criticized, but Judge" Thurman always
commanded respect
Judge Thurman was pronounced war
Democrat, though he cndeavored to avert
a resort to arms. His attitude in that try
ing time was thus explained by him after
ward
81 did all ! could to help TO preserve the
Union without war, but after it began l
thought there was but one thing TO do and
that was to fight it out. l therefore sus-
tanned all constitutional measures that
tended in my Judgment to put down the
rebellion. never believed in the doctrine
of secession "
Judge Ihurman's domestic life was sin
| gularly happy. His son Allen fulfilled the
father S tondest hopes, and in later year'
his family lived in a residence joining thai
OF his father, so that the two families were
as one. Judge Thurman and his wife re
manned lovers through all their days o
wedlock, and her death four years ago wa
agreat blow to the venerable statesman.
Of Judge Thurman's children, AlleI
married Miss Webb, of Baltimore, anC
Ihelr Tour children became the life of tn,
Goupie family residence in Columbus. On,
1aughter OF the judge is the wife Of eS
Governor Mccormick, of Arizona an'
Ihey ilVe at Jamaica, l.. l. The younge
daughter married Lieutenant w. :, Cow
les OF the navy, but was divorced from
nm ana married Mr. Thomas Scott Clifford
native of Spain, Of English parents.