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Hartley, became the chief executive, in De He was admitted to the bar in 1835, a"d began the practice at once, and continued so cember, 1844. In 1851, he was elected a judge of the to do until 1851, when he was elected a judge Supreme Court of Ohio, serving two terms. of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He was On retiring from the Bench he went to married to Mary Dun, daughter of Walter Cincinnati, Ohio, and began the practice of Dun of Kentucky, in November, 1844. In that same year he was nominated and elected law, but soon removed to Washington city. John A. Corwin was elected judge of to Congress from his district. He declined the Supreme Court from Champaign County are-nomination and re-election, as he wished

to give his attention in 1853, but was not to his law business. on the bench long Being elected to a until he resigned. He place on the Supreme was a very eccentric Court bench in 1851, man, and not pos he drew the term of sessed of good habits. four years, the last When he died in 1863 two of which he was the papers contained Chief Justice. He about a four-line no refused a re-nomina tice of his death. tion to a place on Allen G. Thurthe bench, and again MAN was born in turned his attention Finchburg, Virginia, to the practice of his November 13, 1813. profession. He was His father was the retained in leading Reverend P. Thurcases all over the man; his motherwas State and his time the daughter of Col was fully taken up onel Nathaniel Allen with cases in the of North Carolina, higher State courts the adopted son and and in the Federal nephew of Joseph courts. His opinions Hews, who was one are contained in the of the signers of the JACOB BRINKERHOFF. first five volumes of Declaration of Inde the " Ohio State Re pendence. He came, ports," and are notable for clearness and with his parents, to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1 8 19, residing there until 1853, at which the forcible manner in which the law is set period he removed to Columbus, where he out. His opinions have always been con still resides. His education was obtained sidered, by members of the Bar, as among from private instruction given by his mother the best. He has always been an ardent Democrat, and his voice has done more for and in attendance at the Chillicothe Acad emy. He read law under his uncle, the the Democrats of Ohio than that of any other late Governor Allen, who was at that time one man. In its darkest days, when hope United States Senator of Ohio, and with had apparently fled, Judge Thurman was Noah H. Swayne, who afterward became a always found standing firmly by that party, justice of the Supreme Court of the United the principles of which he so much loved. When the young men were anxious to States.