The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . Academy. A farmers boy, he was elected sheriff of Lickingcounty in 1852, serving two years. Appointed Postmaster at Newark by FranklinPierce July, 1855, re-appointed by Buchanan, 1856. Elected sheriff in 1858, servingfour years; elected auditor in 18G3, served seven years; elected to the legislature in1870, and re-elected in 1872; elected Secretary of State-1874, and served two years;appointed Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs in 1878, and served two years;elected to the legislature fro
The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . Academy. A farmers boy, he was elected sheriff of Lickingcounty in 1852, serving two years. Appointed Postmaster at Newark by FranklinPierce July, 1855, re-appointed by Buchanan, 1856. Elected sheriff in 1858, servingfour years; elected auditor in 18G3, served seven years; elected to the legislature in1870, and re-elected in 1872; elected Secretary of State-1874, and served two years;appointed Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs in 1878, and served two years;elected to the legislature from Franklin county, served two years, returned to New-ark and was elected Mayor of Newark in 1892, served two years; elected auditor ofLicking county in 1894, served six years; elected to the 74th and 75th General As-semblies, and is now on his fifth term in the House of Representatives. He is aOampbellite in religion and a Democrat in politics. Mr. Bell is a member of thestanding committees on Asylum for Insane, Federal Relation, Fish Culture and G-ame,and Railroads and Telegraphs. 25 B. A. (385;. MR. BERGHEGGER, of Hamilton County. Hefrman H. Berghegger, Republican, Representative from Hamilton county, wasborn in Hitzhausen, Osnabruck, Germany, December 31. 1853. Within a year afterhis birth his parents came to this country, landing in Baltimore in November, the family came to Cincinnati, which city has been his home since education was obtained in the Lutheran Parochial and public schools of Cincin-nati, and in early life he entered the grocery business. Later, however, he wentinto the commission firm of Pieper & Berghegger, of which he is still a member. In1880 he was married to Miss Mary Luehrmann, and has a family of four and his family are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Berghegger is now one of the oldest commission men in the city of Cincin-nati, i*s a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Taxpayers Association. Inpolitics he
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