The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . dent Lincoln appointed him examiner of pensions,and later on he took an active part in the election ofGen. Grant. His health broke down, and feeling nolonger able to superintend hi
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . dent Lincoln appointed him examiner of pensions,and later on he took an active part in the election ofGen. Grant. His health broke down, and feeling nolonger able to superintend his farm he purchased aresidence at Rockford, where he lived until hisdeath, Oct, 23, 1873. FORD, Seabury, governor of Ohio (1848-50),was born in Cheshire, Conn., in 1801, and removedto Ohio when a child, his father settling at Burton,where the boy was educated in the local 1830 he traveled through the almost unbroken wil-derness to enter Yale College, and was graduated in1824, being, with Mr. S. Witter, who entered withhim, the first student from the new state of Ohio tograduate fram Yale. While in New Haven he waselected the college bully, anhonor conferred only on one whowas noted for strength and home, he began thestudy of law, and completed it inthe office of Judge Peter Hitch-cock, the first chief justice ofOhio, who was his uncle. In 1837he was admitted to the bar. Hetook an
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