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 . 140 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. HARTLEY, Mordecai, governor of Ohio(1844-46), was bom in Fayette county, Pa., Dec. 16,1783. His father was a farmer, and until he hadreached the age of
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 . 140 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. HARTLEY, Mordecai, governor of Ohio(1844-46), was bom in Fayette county, Pa., Dec. 16,1783. His father was a farmer, and until he hadreached the age of sixteen the boy helped farm thepaternal acres, obtaining hisschooling after the usual fashionof country boys at that time—at the nearest district schooland in the intervals of farmlabor. In 1809 he went to Jef-ferson ,near the mouthof Cross creek, where he settledas a farmer on his own the breaking out of the warof 1812 with Great Britain heraised a company of volunteers,and was with Gen. Harrison incommand of his company withthe rank of captain. After thewar was over he removed toRichland county and openedup a farm in the ?wilderness ofthat neighborhood. In themeantime he had saved money,and this he invested in a stockof merchandise and started astore in Mansfield. Mr. Bartley was in the statesenate in 1817, and from 1818 to 1833 was reg-istrar of the land ofiice. In the latter year he waselected a member of co
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