History of Richland County Ohio United States of America

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Winfield Scott Kerr, representative, was born at Monroe, Richland county, Ohio, June 28, 1852; son of Alexander and Ursula (Gladden) Kerr, and grandson of Solomon Gladden. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1879, and settled in practice at Mansfield, Ohio. He was a member of the Ohio state senate, 1888-92, and a Republican representative from the fourteenth Ohio district in the 54th, 55th and 56th congresses, 1895-1901, serving in the 56th congress as chairman of the committee on patents.

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

John Whitnah Leedy, governor of Kansas, was born in Richland county, Ohio, March 8, 1849; son of Samuel K. and Margaret (Whitnah) Leedy, grandson of John Leedy, a pioneer of Richland, Ohio, and a descendant of Abram Leedy, a native of Berne, Switzerland, who settled in Fredericksburg, Md., about 1720. In 1863 he tried to enlist in the Union army and was rejected on account of his youth, but remained with the company until the close of the war. He was a clerk at Pierceton, Ind., 1865-68; and worked on a farm at Carlinsville, I11., 1868-75. In 1875 he was married to Sarah I. Boyd of Frederickton, Ohio, where he lived until 1881, and then purchased a farm near Leroy, Kan. He was originally a Republican, but from 1872 voted the Democratic ticket until the Populist party was organized in which he became a leader. He was state senator in the Kansas legislature, 1892-96; and governor of Kansas, 1897-99. He was defeated for re-election in 1898 by W. E. Stanley, Republican. In the spring of 1901 he settled in Valdes, Alaska.

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

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