county; 1812, John Barr, of Pickaway county; 1814, Joseph Foos, of Franklin county; 1816, Thomas Johnston, of Franklin county; 1822, Henry Brown, of Franklin county; 1823, James Kooken, of Franklin county; 1824, Joseph Foos, of Franklin county; 1828, Joseph Olds, of Pickaway county; 1831, William Doherty, of Franklin county; 1833, Ralph Osborn, of Franklin county; 1835, Elias Florence, of Pickaway county; 1837, John L. Green, of Pickaway county; 1840, Alexander Waddle, of Clark county; 1844, Alfred Kelley, of Franklin county; 1846, J. Stedson, of Madison county; 1848, William Dennison, Jr., of Franklin county; 1850, Abraham Thomson, of Delaware county; 1851, John Cradlebaugh, of Pickaway county; 1853, Samuel Bartlett, of Franklin county; 1855, Alfred Kelley, of Franklin county; 1857, Augustus L. Perrill, of Pickaway county; 1864, George L. Converse, of Franklin county; 1866, Ansel T. Walling, of Pickaway county; 1868, Robert Hutcheson, of Franklin county; 1870, Adin G. Hibbs, of Franklin county; 1872, John G. Thompson, of Franklin county; 1876, William Miller, of Franklin county; 1878, Charles F. Krimmel, of Pickaway county; 1880, A. R. Van Cleaf, of Circleville; 1881, Horace Wilson, of Columbus; 1882, Horace Wilson; 1883, Aaron R. Van Cleaf, of Pickaway county; 1887, William T. Wallace; 1889, Aaron R. VanCleaf; 1894, Moses B. Earnhart, of Columbus; 1895, Thaddeus E. Cromley, of Pickaway county; 1898, John C. L. Pugh, of Columbus.

STATE REPRESENTATIVES

1803, William Creighton, John Evans, James Dunlap, Elias Langham; 1804, Michael Baldwin, Duncan McArthur, William Patton; 1805, Elias Langham, David Shelby, Abraham J. Williams; 1806, Nathaniel Massie; 1807, Thomas Worthington. Jeremiah McLene, William Lewis; 1808, John Blair, of Franklin county (new district); 1810, John Barr, of Pickaway county; 1812, Gustavus Swan, Franklin county; 1813, Thomas Johnston, Franklin county; 1815, William Ludlow, Franklin county; 1816, Thomas Moore, Franklin county; 1817, Gustavus Swan, Franklin county; 1818, John H. McDowell, Franklin county; 1820, John R. Parish, Franklin county; 1822, David Smith, Franklin county; 1823, James Kilbourne, Franklin county; 1824, George S. Williams, Franklin county; 1826, David Smith, Franklin county; 1827, Thomas C. Flourney, Franklin county; 1828, Joseph Ridgway and Daniel Upson, 1829, William Doherty; 1830, Joseph Ridgway; 1831, Philo H. Olmstead; 1832, Francis Stewart and M. B. Wright; 1833, Philo H. Olmstead; 1834, Adam Reed and John Grubb; 1835, Adam Reed; 1836, Alfred Kelley; 1837, Alfred Kelley and Robert Neil; 1838, James Kilbourne and John W. Andrews; 1839, Buckley Comstock; 1840, James C. Reynolds; 1841, Nathaniel Medbury and Joseph Chenowith; 1843, Samuel Parsons and Cornelius Crum; 1844, Joseph Ridgway, Jr., and Charles McCloud, of Madison; 1845, Joseph Ridgway, Jr., and Edward Fitzgerald, of Madison; 1846, John Noble and Jeremiah Clark; 1847, A. F. Perry and George Taylor; 1848, James Dalzell and David Gregory, of Delaware; 1850, Wray Thomas and Charles L. Eaton; 1851, Edward Cartwright and Edward A. Stanley; 1853, Alexander Thompson and Hiram Hendron; 1855, George M. Parsons and James H. Smith; 1857, William R. Rankin and H. L. Chaney; 1860, Benjamin L. Reese and George L. Converse; 1862, George L. Converse and Otto Dressel; 1864, Otto Dressel and John G. Edwards; 1866, Adin G. Hibbs and J. R. Marshall; 1868, Carl T. Mann and William L. Ross; 1870, Llewllyn Baber and Clark White; 1872, William L. Ross and Clark White; 1874, George L. Converse and John H. Heitman; 1876, George L. Converse; 1877, Henry J. Booth, of Columbus; 1880, Benjamin Rees and W. T. Wallace, both of Columbus; 1881, J. B. Hall and William Bell, Jr., of Columbus; 1883, Casper Lowenstein and Allen O. Myers, of Columbus; 1885, Henry C. Taylor, William Shepard, Hugh L. Chancy; 1887, Lot L. Smith, John B. Taylor, the latter died January 16, 1890; 1890, A. D. Heffner, Lot L. Smith; 1891, Philip H. Bruck, David P. Boyer, Benjamin F. Gayman; 1894, William Felton, Charles Merion,

Jr., Eugene Lane; 1895, Charles Q. Davis, Benjamin F. Gayman, James R. Kilbourne; 1896, Charles Q. Davis, James M. Merryman, Benjamin F. Gayman, James R. Kilbourne; 1898, Benjamin F. Gayman, W. M. Payne, E. J. Bracken.

FRANKLIN COUNTY OFFICERS

PRESIDENT JUDGES

In 1803, Wyllis Sillimman; 1804, Levin Belt; 1805, Robert Slaughter; 1807, Levin Belt; 1810, William Wilson; 1812, John Thompson; 1816, Arris Parish, elected for seven years, resigned 1819, and Frederick Grimke appointed; 1820, John A. McDowell, died in 1823, and Gustavus Swan appointed; 1830, Frederick Grimke; 1834, Joseph R. Swan; 1848, J. L. Torbet, who served until the office was abolished by the new Constitution, February, 1852. In 1851 James L. Bates was elected under the new organization of the courts for five years, beginning the second Monday of February, 1852, he was re-elected in 1856, again in 1861, serving until 1866. In 1867, John L. Green was elected, and was twice re-elected thereafter; 1868, Joseph Olds was elected in district formed of Franklin, Madison and Pickaway counties; 1873, E. F. Bingham was elected to fill the place until then occupied by Judge Olds, and was re-elected in 1878; 1879, Eli P. Evans elected for term of five years.

ASSOCIATE JUDGES

In 1803, John Dill, David Jamison and Joseph Foos; 1808, William Thompson; 1809, Isaac Miner; 1810, Robert Shannon, William Reed and Alexander Morrison, Jr.; 1814, Arthur O'Harra; 1815, William Reed; 1817, Samuel G. Flenniken and David Smith; 1819, Recompence Stansberg; 1820, Abner Lord; 1821, Edward Livingstone; 1822, John Kerr; 1823, Thomas Johnston; 1824, Aurora Buttles and Samuel G. Flenniken; 1829, William McElvain: 1831, Aurora Buttles and Samuel G. Flenniken; 1836, Adam Reed; 1837, William McElvain; 1838, Christian Heyl and Samuel G. Flenniken; 1843, James Dalzell; 1844, John A. Lazell; 1845, John Landes and Christian Heyl; 1851, William T. Martin, who served until the office was abolished by the new Constitution.

PROBATE JUDGES

This office was created by the new Constitution, and in October, 1851, William R. Rankin was elected first Probate Judge of Franklin county for three years, beginning in February, 1852. He was succeeded in 1854 by William Jamison; 1857, Herman B. Albery succeeded William Jamison; January 26, 1858, Herman B. Albery, commissioned for three years; June 26, 1861, Mr. Albery again commissioned for three years; December 16, 1863, John M. Pugh, commissioned for three years. Mr. Pugh took the office and was re-elected five times, going out of office February 9, 1879; succeeded by John T. Gale, who served two terms, retiring February 9, 1885. February 9, 1885, Charles G. Saffin came into the office and served two terms, going out February 9, 1891. February 9, 1891, Lorenzo D. Hagerty took the office and served two terms. February 9, 1897, Tod B. Galloway took the office (he was commissioned November 23, 1896) for the term of three years, his term expiring February 9, 1900, when he was again elected.

CLERKS OF THE COURT

In 1803, Lucas Sullivant; 1810, Lyne Starling; 1815, Abram I. McDowell was appointed, and served until 1836, when he was succeeded by Elijah Backus; March 15, 1838, Lyne Starling, Jr., and resigned February, 1846, Louis Heyle succeeding. In October, 1851, Kendall Thomas was elected under the new Constitution for the term of three years, commencing the second Monday in February, 1852; October, 1854, Alfred Buttles, elected; October, 1857, James Bryan, elected; February 7, 1859, James H. Smith, died in office, and in 1862,

David W. Brooks was appointed; October 22, 1862, commission issued to Thomas S. Shepard; December 14, 1865, Thomas S. Shepard; November 2, 1868, Casper Lowenstein; October 20, 1871, James S. Abbott; October 19, 1874, James S. Abbott; November 6, 1877, Harvey Cashatt; November 1, 1880, Harvey Cashatt, he died in 1883, and John J. Joyce was appointed; October 20, 1883, John J. Joyce, elected; December 3, 1886, John J. Joyce; November 13, 1889, Theodore Beck, died May, 1890, and William H. Simonton was appointed to fill the vacancy. In November, 1890, he was elected to the office for three years, serving up to November 17, 1893, when he was appointed to serve until the first Monday in August, 1894. In 1893, Charles F. Galloway was elected and commissioned for three years, taking the office on August 6, 1894. He was reelected in November, 1896, and again commissioned for three years, the second term commencing August 6, 1897, and expiring August 5, 1900. The present incumbent is John W. McCafferty, who assumed office in August, 1900.

PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS

This office was appointive until 1833. The holders of the position were:-1805, Reuben Bonam; 1810, John S. Wills; 1813, David Scott; 1819, John A. McDowell; 1820, Thomas Backus. From this date (1821) until 1830, the names occur of John R. Parish, James K. Carey, Gustavus Swan, Orris Parrish and William Doherty. In 1830 Joseph R. Swan was appointed, and elected in October, 1833; 1834, P. B. Wilcox; 1836, Moses H. Kirby; 1838, William W. Backus; 1842, Lewis Heyl; 1846, L. H. Webster; 1848, Thomas Sparrow; 1850, B. F. Martin; 1854, George L. Converse; 1856, Milton H. Mann; 1868, E. T. DeLany; 1870, George K. Nash; 1876, Joseph H. Outhwaite; 1878, W. J. Clark; 1880, W. J. Clark; 1882, R. B. Montgomery; 1884, Cyrus Huling, who was re-elected in 1886; 1891, Curtis Williams; 1894, Joseph H. Dyer; 1897, Charles W. Voorhees. Mr. Voorhees died in December, 1398, and his assistants, Florizel Smith and William B. Ford, conducted the office until Lee Allen Thurman was appointed to fill the vacancy.

SHERIFFS

Benjamin White, 1803; was the first Sheriff of Franklin county, and in the same year Adam Hosack was elected. Following are their successors in office: 1807, E. N. Delashmut; 1811, Samuel Shannon; 1815, Francis Stewart; 1819, John McElvain; 1829, Robert Brotherton; 1833, Andrew McElvain; 1837, James Graham; 1841, William Domigan; 1845, John Graham; 1849, John Greenleaf; 1853, Thomas Miller; 1855, William Miner; 1857, Silas W. Park; 1859, George W. Huffman; 1863, William Domigan; 1867, George W. Earhart, who died November 27, 1868; 1869, Samuel Thompson; 1873, William E. Horn; 1877, Josiah Kinnear; 1879, John N. Richenbacher; 1881, Louis Heinmiller; 1885, William H. Barbee; 1887, Brice W. Custer; 1891, James Ross; 1895, Wheeler J. Young; 1897, Wheeler J. Young; 1900, Charles A. Pearce.

COUNTY AUDITORS

This office was created by the Legislature at its session in 1820-21. The Auditor was elected annually until 1824, and since that year biennially. In March, 1821, Joseph Grate was appointed by the Commissioners to serve until the next election, and in October of the same year, Zechariah Mills was elected, serving until his decease, in 1826, when John C. Brodrick was appointed his successor. He was succeeded in 1839 by Frederick Cole; 1845, Smithson E. Wright; 1849, Holdemond Crary; 1853, John M. Pugh; 1857, John Phillips; 1862, Matthias Martin; 1866, Dennis B. Straight; 1868, S. E. Kile; 1874, Levi T. Strader; 1878, Emil Kiesewetter was commissioned for three years; again commissioned October 29, 1881, and served until February 13, 1884. He was succeeded by Frank J. Reinhard, who was elected for two years, and in November, 1887, was re-elected for three years. In November, 1890, Henry J.

Carew was elected for three years, taking the office in October 1891, and serving one term. The present Auditor, William H. Halliday, took the office October 15, 1894, for a term of three years, and again October 15, 1897, for a second term of three years, expiring October 15, 1900.

COUNTY TREASURERS

This office was first filled by appointment by the Associate Judges, and next by the County Commissioners. On January 24, 1827, an act was passed by the Legislature providing for the biennial election of a treasurer. In 1803 Jacob Grubb was appointed treasurer, and held the office until 1827; June, 1827, Christian Heyl was appointed, and served until 1833, when George McCormick was elected, and following is the succession up to the present time:1841, Joseph McElvain; 1845, Joseph Leiby; 1851, O. P. Hines; 1855, James H. Stauring; 1859, John G. Thompson; 1863, Joseph Falkenbach; 1867. Aaron C. Hadley, who resigned, James E. Wright being appointed to fill the vacancy; 1870, Lorenzo English; 1872, James E. Wright; 1877, P. W. Corzilius; 1881, George Beck; 1885, Albert D. Heffner; 1889, Henry Pausch; 1893, Samuel A. Kinnear; 1895, Ossian E. D. Barron; September, 1899, Nelson A. Sims.

COUNTY RECORDERS

Since 1831 the recorders of Franklin county have been elected biennially by the people. Prior to that time the office was filled by appointment, by the judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Lucas Sullivant was appointed to the office in 1804, serving until 1807, when Adam Hosack succeeded him, holding office up to 1813, when Lincoln Goodale was appointed. The latter gave place to Abram J. McDowell in 1817, who continued in office up to 1831, when the position was made elective. The first recorder elected was William T. Martin, who continued in office until October 20, 1846, when Nathan Cole succeeded him, and served continuously for 33 years, or up to 1879. On October 24, 1879, F. M. Senter was commissioned, and served two terms; October 26, 1885, Michael A. Lilley was commissioned and served one term; November 10, 1888, Robert Thompson was commissioned, and served two terms; November 13, 1894, J. W. Peters was commissioned and served one term; in November, 1897, Neville Williams was elected, and went into the office in September, 1898, for the term of three years.

COUNTY COLLECTORS

This office existed from the organization of the county until 1827, when it was abolished, and the treasurer required to collect the taxes. For about the first three years of the existence of Franklin county the chattel tax was received by township collectors, while the county collector attended to the land tax. From 1806 to 1820 the State was divided into four districts, and a collector in each district appointed by the Legislature, for non-resident land tax, while the collection of the chattel and resident land tax devolved upon the county collectors, and from 1820 until 1827 all taxes were collected by the county collectors. The several incumbents of this office were as follows:1803, Benjamin White; 1804, Adam Hosack; 1808, Elias N. Delashmut; 1811, John M. White; 1812, Samuel Shannon; 1815, Francis Stewart; 1818, Jacob Kellar; 1822, Andrew Dill; 1823, Aurora Buttles; 1824, Peter Sells; 1826, Robert Brotherton, who continued until the office was abolished.

COUNTY ASSESSORS

This office was created by act of Legislature, February 3, 1825, prior to which each township elected an assessor at the annual spring election. January 16, 1827, an act was passed requiring the county commissioners to appoint an assessor, who was to serve until the October election, when the office

In the history of the Bar of Franklin county many prominent names have appeared, among them some of the most distinguished legal luminaries in the annals of the State of Ohio.

A gentleman who for half a century was active in the practice of the legal profession, was the late Judge William J. Baldwin, whose career was an exemplification of the highest morale of professional life, whose integrity was unimpeachable, and who ever sought to elevate the standard of the honorable calling which he had chosen for his life vocation. He was an authority on all questions connected with decisions and the general practice of law, and his ability was fully recognized and freely recognized by all his contemporaries.

William J. Baldwin was born on April 30, 1822, and, after attending the public schools, entered Yale College, at New Haven, Conn., and, although graduated from that institution in August, 1842, he still continued to attend the law school connected with that college, until September, 1843, when he came to Columbus. Here he read law in the offices of, and under the direction of Samuel Brush and Matthew J. Gilbert, prominent attorneys of the Capital City.

At the September term of the Supreme Court of Ohio, held in Wayne county in 1844, Mr. Baldwin was admitted a member of the Bar, and at once began the practice of his profession, and continued "in the reins" up to the end of his lengthy and most useful career, with the exception of a short period in which he served as Judge of the Superior Court of Franklin county. The appointment was made by Governor Brough to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Matthews, and during the time Judge Baldwin sat on the bench all cases coming before him were adjudicated in a fair, impartial and dignified manner.

On August 13, 1846, Judge Baldwin was married to Miss Margaret Hoge, daughter of the venerable Dr. James Hoge, the pioneer minister of Presbyterianism in Central Ohio. They had but one child, a daughter -Clara- who in 1870, was married to William J. McComb, the well known real estate operator of Columbus, whose office is at No. 111 1-2 South High street, while his residence is at No. 207 East State street. His wife, Mrs. Clara McComb, nee Baldwin, still continues his most estimable spouse, and both are most favorably known in the community.

Judge Baldwin died on September 29, 1889, and his death was a distinct loss to the community. He was survived by his widow; but that lady, too, has also deceased and gone to her reward, her death occurring two and a half years later.