Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . ce-president of the Americanphilosophical society, and made several contribu-tions to its Transactions, among which was an Account of the Transit of Venus over the collegiate lectures on natural philosophy, anda biography by Rev. R. Patterson, were publishedafter his death (2 vols., 1809). and also a volume ofhis sermons, with a memoir (Philadelphia. 1812). EWING, Thomas, statesman, b. near ^YestLiberty, Ohio co., Va., 28 Dec, 1789 : d. in Lancas-ter, Ohio, 20 Oct., 1871. His father. George in the Revolutionary army, and remove
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . ce-president of the Americanphilosophical society, and made several contribu-tions to its Transactions, among which was an Account of the Transit of Venus over the collegiate lectures on natural philosophy, anda biography by Rev. R. Patterson, were publishedafter his death (2 vols., 1809). and also a volume ofhis sermons, with a memoir (Philadelphia. 1812). EWING, Thomas, statesman, b. near ^YestLiberty, Ohio co., Va., 28 Dec, 1789 : d. in Lancas-ter, Ohio, 20 Oct., 1871. His father. George in the Revolutionary army, and removed withhis family in 1792 to the Muskingum river, andthen to what is now Athens county. Ohio. In thisunsettled district young Ewings education wasnecessarily imperfect. His sister taught him toread, and in the evenings he studied the fewbooks at his command. In his twentieth year heleft his home and worked in the Kanawha salt es-tablishments, pursuing his studies at night by theliaht of the furnace-fires. He remained here till 394 EWING EWING. bill,the he had earned enough money to clear from debtthe farm that his father had bought in 1192, andhad qualified himself to enter the Ohio univer-sity at Athens, where, in 1815. he received therlrst degree of A. B. that was ever granted in theNorthwest, lie then studied law in Lancaster, was admitted to thebar in 1816, andpractised withsuccess for fif-nvn years. In1831-7 he servedas U. S. senatorfrom Ohio, hav-ing been chosen asa Whig. He sup-ported the pro-tective tariff sys-tem of Clay, andadvocated a re-duction in therates of postage, bank, and therevenue collec-tion bill, knownas the force-He opposed the removal of the deposits fromU. S. bank, and introduced a bill for the settle-ment of the Ohio boundary question, which waspassed in 1836. During the same session he broughtforward a bill for the reorganization of the generalland-office, which was passed, and also presented amemorial for the abolition of slavery.
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