Wayne County, Ohio - Chapter 9: County, State and National Representation, 1910

Chapter 9: County, State and National Representation

The subjoined is a correct list of the various officers who have served from Wayne county, in various official capacities, since the county's organization in 1812. The members of Congress who have represented districts of which Wayne county formed a part were:

Members Of The Constitutional Convention

The members of the Ohio constitutional convention of 1851-52 were John Larwill, Leander Firestone. M. D.. and E. Wilson; in 1873-74, the sec-

State Senators

Columbia, Stark and Wayne District - Lewis Kinney and Joseph Richardson, 1812 to 1814; John Thompson, 1814 to 1816; John G. Young. 1815 to 1817.

Members Of The House Of Representatives

Stark and Wayne District - Samuel Coulter, 1813 to 1814; William Henry, 1814 to 1815 ; John Harris, 1815 to 1816. I'roin 1816 to 1848, Wavne county formed a representative district.

lVa\ne and Ashland District - Abraham Franks, Jr., and Jacob Miller, 1848 to 1849: Abraham Franks, Jr., and George W. Bull, December, 1849, to 1850; Charles R. Deming and Clinton Wilson, 1850 to 1852.

Judge of the supreme court, Edward Avery and George Rex; Martin WTlker, lieutenant governor and judge of the United States court for the northern district of Ohio; Hugh A. Hart, on the staff of Governor Campbell; John McSweeney, Jr., as trustee of several state institutions; Leander Firestone, as superintendent of the Ohio Asylum for the Insane at Columbus and of the Northern Ohio Asylum for the Insane at Newberg; John Sloane, as secretary of state for Ohio, and secretary of the treasury of the Lhiited States, under President William Henry Harrison; Gen. Reasin Beall, as major-general of the United States army; Louis P. Ohliger, collector of internal revenue; James Newkirk, statistician for the state; Benjamin Jones, a member of the third state board of equalization; Jacob Ihrig, member of the fifth state board of equalization; William Barton, member of the seventh board of equalization.

The Circuit Court

A circuit court was created by an amendment to the constitution, to consist of three judges. The circuit consists of the following fifteen counties : Ashland, Coshocton, Delaware, Fairfield, Holmes, Knox, Licking, Morgan, Morrow, Aluskingum, Perry, Richland, Stark, Tuscarawas and Wayne.

The following members of the bar have acted as judges in this court; Charles Follet, John W. Turner, John W. Albaugh, John I. Adams, Julius C. Pomerene, Charles Kibler, George E. Baldwin, Richard M. Voorhis, Silas M. Douglass, M. H. Donahue, Martin L. Smyzer, John W. Swartz, T. T. Mc- Carty, Frank Taggart, John W. Craine and John Shields.

Clerks Of Common Pleas Court

William Larwill was appointed clerk of this court by the supreme judges of the state of Ohio, for seven years, the length of a term, serving from 1812 to 1826 in all in this office; Levi Cox served from 1826 to 1828; from 1828 to 1852, William Larwill, John Sloane and Samuel L. Lorah conducted the office, though here the record is not cjuite clear as to the years served by these gentlemen. From there on the record is: Benjamin Eason, 1852 to

County Treasurers

William Smith was appointed first county treasurer in 1812. The first executed treasurer's bond on record in the auditor's office is that of Erancis H. holtz, dated 1819, the office to be held by him until the first Monday of the following June. In 1820 a similar bond was executed by Mr. Eoltz. In 1822 Samuel Quimby was appointed to the office, holding it until 1830, when he was duly elected, filling the position for eight more years. James Einley was elected in 1837, and held the office twelve years. The list from the above dates to the present time is as follows: