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barnabas burns

barnabas burns -lrb- june 29 , 1817 -- october 13 , 1883 -rrb- was an ohio lawyer , businessman , and politician .
burns was born in fayette county , pennsylvania in 1817 , the youngest of three children of andrew and sarah -lrb- caldwell -rrb- burns .
burns 's father was an irish immigrant and his mother was also of irish ancestry .
in about 1820 , the family moved to richland county , ohio , where andrew worked as a farmer .
he was educated in the public schools there and taught school after graduating .
he married urath gore , a maryland native , and with her had five children .
in 1840 , burns was hired as deputy clerk of courts in richland county .
in 1846 he was elected , as a democrat , to represent the area in the ohio state senate , serving two terms .
he read law at the office of thomas w. bartley and samuel j. kirkwood and was admitted to the bar , practicing in the county seat , mansfield .
in 1860 , burns ran for a seat in the federal house of representatives , losing to the incumbent , republican john sherman .
he also served as a delegate to the 1860 democratic national convention .
at the outbreak of civil war , burns supported the union and considered himself a war democrat .
the governor , david tod , offered burns the colonelcy of the 86th ohio infantry ; he accepted , but served very little because of chronic lung problems .
he did serve as judge advocate at a military trial later in the war .
in 1863 , while serving as chairman of the ohio democratic party , burns wrote to general ulysses s. grant , asking permission to nominate him for president as a democrat at the upcoming state convention -lrb- grant was not interested -rrb- .
after the war , burns continued his political activity , running for congress again in an 1868 special election that followed the sudden death of cornelius s. hamilton ; he lost by 385 votes to john beatty .
the same year , he served as a delegate to the 1868 democratic national convention .
burns was also a delegate to ohio 's 1873 constitutional convention -lrb- the resulting constitution was rejected by the voters . -rrb-
that same year , burns ran for lieutenant governor , and lost to republican alphonso hart by just 635 votes .
burns also entered the business world after the war , organizing the mansfield saving bank in 1869 and serving as its first president .
by 1870 , he owned property worth $ 40,000 .
he served on the board of education and was trustee of an orphanage in xenia , as well as being one of the founders of the mansfield lyceum and library .
he was also a member of the oddfellows and the richland county bible society .
