. Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2 . its should be but slowly recognized. ForStanton was a patriot of so firm and indomi-table a character that his purity and single-mindedness belittled and humiliated thecrowd of greedy egotists who pushed to thedoors of the treasury, and the same qualitieseven obscured the g
. Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2 . its should be but slowly recognized. ForStanton was a patriot of so firm and indomi-table a character that his purity and single-mindedness belittled and humiliated thecrowd of greedy egotists who pushed to thedoors of the treasury, and the same qualitieseven obscured the greatness of all but thegreatest of his contemporaries. When the names of Lincoln and Grant have beenwritten there is no other that deserves to belinked with that of Stanton. He was aheaven-sent minister, if ever there was , the organizer of battles, was less toFrance in the crisis of the Revolution thanour War Secretary was to the salvation ofthe Union, So just, so pure, so incorrup-tible, so patriotic was he that it seems almosta work of supererogation to attempt thedefence of his memory against the baseaspersions of his enemies who 4with hisdarkness durst affront this light. His wasa soul which could afford to disregard thespite of men, having taken for its standardfrom the beginning the judgment of Benjamin Tappan was born inNorthampton, Mass., May 25, 1773,and died in Steubenville, April 12,1857. He was the son of BenjaminTappan, a Congregational pastor, andSarah Holmes, the great-niece of Ben-jamin Franklin. The original familyname was Topham. The Tappans werelargely clergymen and educated Tappan received a public-school education, and was apprenticedto learn copper-plate engraving andprinting. Subsequently he studied lawand was admitted to the bar, and beganpractice in 1799 at Steubenville; waselected to the Legislature in 1803;aide to Gen. William Wadsworth inthe war of 1812 ; after which he servedfor seven years as President Judge ofthe Fift
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