The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . ointed school examinerof Wyandot county in 1876, and served nine years as such. In 1883 he was electedsurveyor of Wyandot county, and in 1886 re-elected; in 1889 he was elected to thelower branch of the General Assembly and was re-nominated by his party in 1891 atthe April convention. At the senatorial convention in June of the same year, held atTiffin, he was nominated for Senator. He accepted the nomination and his successoras Representative was nominated in the person of Hon. J. J. Smith. H
The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . ointed school examinerof Wyandot county in 1876, and served nine years as such. In 1883 he was electedsurveyor of Wyandot county, and in 1886 re-elected; in 1889 he was elected to thelower branch of the General Assembly and was re-nominated by his party in 1891 atthe April convention. At the senatorial convention in June of the same year, held atTiffin, he was nominated for Senator. He accepted the nomination and his successoras Representative was nominated in the person of Hon. J. J. Smith. He served inthe Senate in the 70th and 71st General Assemblies, and was again elected to theHouse of the 74th General Assembly in 1899. He was re-elected to the present Gen-eral Assembly by a greater majority than he received two years ago. Mr. Gear has always been an unfaltering Democrat. He was elected as one ofthe alternates at large to the National Convention held at Chicago,^ 1892. He is amember of the standing committees on Ditches, Drains and Watercourses, Finance andMilitary Affairs. (424). MR. GEHRETT, of Henry County. Dr. T. M. Gehrett, Democrat, who is serving his second term as the Representa-tive from Henry county, was born at Stoutsville, Fairfield county, Ohio, November27, 1856. In the fall of 1865 his parents moved to Henry county, where he has sinceresided. His boyhood days were spent upon the farm of his father. He attended dis-trict school until the age of sixteen, when he entered Hiram College, taking a fouryears course. At the conclusion of his studies at Hiram College he began the studyof medicine in the Medical College of Ohio, lat Cincinnati, graduating from that in-stitution in 1879. In the fall of 1880 he located at Deshler, Ohio, for the prac-tice of his profession, where he has since been in the active practice of medicine andsurgery. Politically he has always been a Democrat, taking an active part in the coun-cils of his party. He enjoys the distinct
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