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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Portrait and Biographical Record
of
Auglaize, Logan & Shelby Counties, Ohio
Containing
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens
together with Biographies & Portraits of all the
Presidents of the United States
Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892
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J. D. LAMB
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 468
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ROBERT D. LAMB
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 573
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William Lawrence |
HON.
WILLIAM LAWRENCE, A. M., LL. D., lawyer, jurist,
statesman and author. The Lawrences of the
United States are descendants of Sir Roberts Lawrence,
of Ashton Hall, in Lancashire, England. His
grandson, James Lawrence, in the reign of
Henry III, married Matilda Washington, who
belonged to the family from which George Washington
was descended. The Lawrences in England
were distinguished in politics and otherwise. One
of them was a second cousin to Oliver Cromwell,
and was Lord President of the Protector's Council and a
member of the House of Lords.
Joseph Lawrence was born in what is now
Philadelphia, near Byberry Friends Meeting House, Dec.
2, 1793. He was a soldier in Capt. Benezet's
company of Philadelphia Guards, in the War of 1812.
About 1816, he removed to Ohio, settling near St.
Clairsville, but soon afterward went to Mt. Pleasant,
Jefferson County, where he was married, Oct. 30, 1817,
to Temperance Gilerist, a native of
Berkeley County, Va., born Aug. 6, 1892.
William Lawrence, whose portrait and biography
were here present, was born of these parents at Mt.
Pleasant, June 26, 1819. Mar. 1, 1830, the
parents, with their son and a daughter, Sarah,
removed to a farm then recently purchased by the father
near Richmond, Jefferson County, where they resided
until the spring of 1836. For the first three
years, the son William worked on the farm in the
summer, and attended a common school during the winter,
where he perfected a knowledge of the common branches of
education, surveying and spherical trigonometry, and
before he was thirteen, wrote out in book form a
solution of Gummer's Surveying.
Nov. 1, 1833, our subject became a student in Rev.
John C. Tidball's academy near Knoxville, which was
afterward removed to Richmond. Here he continued
(except that he worked a portion of each summer on his
father's farm) until the spring of 1836. He then
entered the store of James Updegraff, at Mt.
Pleasant, and remained there as clerk until the fall of
the same year, when he became a student at Franklin
College, New Athens, Ohio. He was graduated from
that institution with the degree of A. B., and with the
honors of his class, and so delivered the valedictory
address in the fall of 1838.
He parents having in the spring of 1836 removed to
Pennsville, Morgan County, our subject in November,
1838, commenced the study of law with James L. Gage,
of McConnellsville, and was graduated with the degree of
l. B., at the Cincinnati Law School in March, 1840; was
admitted to practice law by the Supreme Court of Ohio,
at Zanesville, in November, 1810; and was reporter for
the Ohio State Journal in the Ohio House of
Representatives at the session of 1840-41, and a
correspondent for the Zanesville Republican and
McConnellsville Whig Standard. While a law
student, he taught a common school three months at
Pennsville, and a like period at McConnellsville, and
had a somewhat extensive law practice before Justices of
the Peace, by which means he move than defrayed his
expenses. He practiced law in the court at
McConnellsville, in the early part of 1841, but in July
of that year commenced his practice in Bellefontaine,
and has ever since continued vigorously and successfully
engaged in his profession, now more than fifty years,
except when his time was devoted to the duties of the
offices he has filled.
As a lawyer, the name of William Lawrence
appears in many volumes of the Ohio and Ohio State
Reports, in important land and other cases, in the
reports of the Supreme Court of Kansas, and of the
United States. By authority of Atty. Gen.
Williams, he was leading counsel in the great case
of the L. L. & G. Railroad Company vs. the United
States, in which nine hundred and sixty thousand acres
of land were reclaimed by the nation and secured to
settler. From July 15, 1841, to July 15, 1843, he
was a law partner of Benjamin Stanton, afterward
Member of Congress and Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio.
From July, 1851, to February, 1854, he was a law partner
with his law student, William H. West, afterward
Attorney-General of Ohio. Judge of the Supreme
Court and candidate for Governor in 1877. From
April, 1866, to August, 1871, he was law partner of
Emanuel J. Howenstine, and following that for some
years partner with his son, Joseph H. Lawrence.
In that greatest historic
election contest for the Presidency before the Electoral
Commission, under the Act of Congress of Jan. 29,1877,
he was elected by the Republican members of the House of
Represented in Congress to argue two of the four
contetated State electoral votes, Oregon and South
Carolina, and the record shows with what learning and
ability he conducted the contest. His portrait is
found in that great historical painting purchased by
Congress, and now in the Capitol. "The Electoral
Commission," by the distinguished artist, Mr. C.
Adele Fasset, of Washington, D. C.
The great law writer,
Bishop, has quoted with approval from the law
arguments of Judge Lawrence, as in "Bishop of
Statutory Crimes," section 14, note (ed. 1873);
"Bishop's Criminal Law" (ed. 1868), section 219 and note
1; and Paschal in his annotated "Constitution,"
third edition, page 424, says of his work on the "Law of
Impeachable Crimes," used on the impeachment trial of
President Johnson that: "In all that great
trial there is no more accurate and precise learning,
than is to be found in the brief of authorities upon the
law of impeachable crimes and misdemeanors, prepared by
Hon. William Lawrence, of Ohio which was adopted
by Mr. Butler."
His printed briefs in law cases would make several
good-sized volumes, some of which are found in the
Government Law Library at Washington. He has
contributed law papers to sundry publications, and among
them to the America Law Register, the
Cincinnati Law Record, and the Southern Law
Review, including in the latter an extended review
of the works of Joel Prentice Bishop, and of
Bliss on "Code Pleading." He has studied more
branches of the law than members of the profession
generally. As lawyer and judge, he has become
familiar with the constitution and common law of Ohio;
as president of a court-martial for the month at
Cumberland, Md., in 1862, he studied the laws
administered in such tribunals; as a member of the
Judiciary Committee, of the Committee on the Revision of
the Laws, and as Chairman of the Committee on War
Claims, in the popular branch of Congress, he became
familiar with the constitution and laws of the United
States and inter-state and international law, including
the laws of war; and as First Comptroller of the
Department of the Treasury, he became versed in the
national executive common law and in the construction of
statutes.
Judge Lawrence was one of the Ohio lawyers who,
on July 9, 1880, at Cleveland, organized the Ohio State
Bar Association. He is such a devoted student of
the law, that an officer in the Treasury Department (E.
Graham Haywood, law clerk in the First Comptroller's
office, who, like his distinguished father of North
Carolina, is an able and accurate lawyer), well knowing
his taste and habits, has said: "I believe when his call
comes,
(Sharon Wick's NOTE:
This is a really long biography so I will transcribe
upon
request
starting on page 119 and ending
at page 124)
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio. Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 117
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DANIEL B. LINDEMUTH
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 227
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SOLOMON E. LOFFER
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 398
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JOHN F. LUKENS
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 531
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