The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . enlisted in Union Army; was Captain of , 87th O. V. I.; captured at Harpers Ferry, Va., by Stonewall Jackson. Whenexchanged he at once raised a company for the 12th Ohio Cavalry, and was madeMajor. He was honorably discharged in November, 1865, as Lieutenant-Colonel of12th O. V. C. He began the practice of law in Cleveland, and is still a practicing attorney atthe Cleveland bar. He lives on Euclid avenue in East Cleveland, where he has been an activemember of the Board of Education, and ha
The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . enlisted in Union Army; was Captain of , 87th O. V. I.; captured at Harpers Ferry, Va., by Stonewall Jackson. Whenexchanged he at once raised a company for the 12th Ohio Cavalry, and was madeMajor. He was honorably discharged in November, 1865, as Lieutenant-Colonel of12th O. V. C. He began the practice of law in Cleveland, and is still a practicing attorney atthe Cleveland bar. He lives on Euclid avenue in East Cleveland, where he has been an activemember of the Board of Education, and has served on other municipal boards, andwhere he ran 54 votes ahead of his ticket in his election to the Senate. He has awife and six children. The Senator was a Republican until 1896, when he became aDemocrat. He is a member of the standing committees on Corporations other thanMunicipal, Federal Relation, Fish Culture and Game, Judiciary, Roads, Highways andTurnpikes, Soldiers and Sailors Home, Soldiers and Sailors Orphans* Home, StateBuildings. (349) FIRST DISiTRICT,Composed of Hamilton LEWIS M. HOSEA, of of the Committee on Judiciary. Senator Hosea, a representative of one of the pioneer families of SouthernOhio, is senior member of the law firm of Hosea, Knight and Jones, well known inCincinnati; and, while always a Republican and an active factor in various publicenterprises, has hitherto declined political honors. In April, 1861, while yet a student at Antioch College (Green county, Ohio), heenlisted, under the first call of President Lincoln, as private in the 6th Ohio Vol-unteers, and was soon commissioned as Lieutenant and later as Captain in the Regu-lar Army, and served throughout the war, in the field, participating in all the battlesof the Army of the Cumberland, from Shiloh to Nashville, receiving official personalmention for gallantry at the battles of Perryville (Ky.) (O. R., Vol. 15, p. 1043),and Chickamauga (O. R. Vol. 30, pt. 1, p.
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