The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . e subject of this ordinance, be,and the same are hereby repealed and declared null and void. Done by the United States in Congress assembled, the 13th day ofJuly, in the year of our Lord, 1787, and of their sovereignty and in-dependence the 12th. Cha. Thomson^ Secy. Who was the Author of the Obdinance of 1787?—There has been somediversity of opinion as to the individual to whom the honor of the paternity of thatdocument rightfully belongs. Soine have claimed it for Mr. Jefferson, though hedid
The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . e subject of this ordinance, be,and the same are hereby repealed and declared null and void. Done by the United States in Congress assembled, the 13th day ofJuly, in the year of our Lord, 1787, and of their sovereignty and in-dependence the 12th. Cha. Thomson^ Secy. Who was the Author of the Obdinance of 1787?—There has been somediversity of opinion as to the individual to whom the honor of the paternity of thatdocument rightfully belongs. Soine have claimed it for Mr. Jefferson, though hedid not claim it himself. The honor of drafting that instrument, on which the con-stitutions of all the northwestern states are founded, belongs of right to NathanDane, a revolutionary patriot of Massachusetts. He was its author,—he reported itto Congress and persevered in explaining, and impressing it on their attention tillthey became satisfied of its merits and adopted it by a unanimous vote, Mr. Jeffer-son being in France at the tinae.—Burnetts Notes on the North-Western Territory,pp. RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, nineteenth president of the United States, was bornat Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1822; graduated at Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1842, and atHarvard Law School in 1845 ; began the practice of law at Fremont, Ohio ; removed toCincinnati in 1849; was city solicitor from 1858 to 1861; was appointed, June 27, 1863,major Iwcnly-third Ohio Volunteers, of which W. S. Rosecrans was the first colonel andStanley Matthews (afterwards justice U. S. Supreme Court) lieutenant-colonel. He waspromoted October 24, 1861, from which date he commanded the Twentythird until December, 1862. In the brilliant action of South Mountain (1862) he receiveda severe wound in the left arm which compelled him to leave the field. A^ter the battleof Aatietam the regiment was returned to West Virginia, where, November 30, 1862, herejoined it as colon
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