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 . 138 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA. •was elected governor of Ohio in 1810, and continuedto bold that office until 1814. During the war withGreat Britain it is said that he outstripped al
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 . 138 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA. •was elected governor of Ohio in 1810, and continuedto bold that office until 1814. During the war withGreat Britain it is said that he outstripped all theother governors in the country by his promptness andenergy and the general efficiency which he displayedin organizing the militia. In March, 1814, Mr. Meigswas appointed by President Madison postmaster-general, and being continued in that office by Presi-dent Jlonroe, remained in the cabinet until the endof 1833, when he retired from public life. He diedMarch 39, 1825. WOBTHINGTOIT, Thomas, governor of Ohio(1814-18), was born in Jefferson county, Va., , 1769. His parents were wealthy, and after re-ceiving an excellent education, in 1796 he joinedwith Edward TiiHn and a partyof explorers, visited Marietta,Cincinnati, and other settlementsalong the Ohio, finally locatingin the Scioto Valley. He soldhis property in Virginia, freedhis slaves, and removed to ChU-lioothe, where he purchased alarge tract of land and erectedthe firs
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