History of Clinton County Ohio United States of America

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Andrew Jackson Harlan, representative, was born in Clinton county, Ohio, March 29, l815; son of Jonathan and Hannah (Morrison), and grandson of Enoch and Edith (Carter) Harlan. He taught school at Evansville, Ind., 1836-38, when he removed to Marion, Ind., and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was clerk of the house of representatives of the state, 1842-43; represented Grant county in the state legislature, 1846, 1847 and 1848; was a Cass and butler elector in 1848, and a representative in the 31st and 33d congresses, 1849-51 and 1853-55. In congress he opposed the Missouri compromise and was censured by his party when he joined the Republicans. In 1861 he settled in Dakota Territory and was a member, and speaker of the house of delegates, 1862-63. He removed to Savannah, Mo., in February, 1863; was a member of the state legislature, 1864-68, and speaker, 1866-68. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1864, 1868, and 1876, and a candidate for lietenant-governor of Missouri in 1870. He removed to Wakeeney, Kansas, in 1885; was postmaster, 1889-94, and returned to Savannah, Mo., in 1894.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

General Charles Anthony, Lawyer, was born in Richmond, Virginia, March 31st, 1798. His parents were Joseph and Rhoda Anthony, both members of the Society of Friends, who removed to Clinton county, Ohio, in 1811, and engaged in the occupation of farming. Their son was carefully educated and sent to Cincinnati to study law, where he was admitted to the bar about 1820. In 1824 he removed to Springfield, where his superior acquirements soon gave him position at the head of the bar. He was especially distinguished as a jury advocate. He was three times a member of the lower branch of the Legislature, and was chosen Speaker. In 1833 he was also elected to represent his district in the Senate, where he served one term. He was a Grand Master in the order of Free Masons, and from an early period of his life a devout and active member of the Presbyterian Church. While a member of the Legislature he succeeded in reforming the policy of the State in the management of its prisons, securing all the reforms and committing the government to humanitarian and reformatory principles in its treatment of the criminal class. He derived his military title from his connection with the State militia. General Anthony was twice married; on March 23d, 1820, to Elizabeth Evans, of Cincinnati, who died in 1841, leaving four children and having lost five; in 1844 he married Mary E. Hulsey, of Springfield; with her he had seven children, four of whom, together with their mother, survived him. He died in Springfield, May 10th, 1862, and was buried with distinguished honors by the Masonic fraternity and the Clark county bar.

From: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.

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