KNOX COUNTY OHIO 
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Henry Howe LL.D.
Knox County

The Hon. Columbus Delano was born in Shoreham, Vt., June 5, 1809; 
removed to Mount Vernon in 1817;  was admitted to the bar in 1831.  He
was eminently successful as an advocate and criminal lawyer.  In 1847 he
lacked but two votes for nomination for Governor;  was a delegate to the
convention that nominated Lincoln and Hamlin in 1860;  also chairman of
the Ohio delegation in the Baltimore convention that nominated Lincoln
and Johnson in 1864.  He was appointed State-Commissary General of Ohio
in 1861,  and filled the office with great acceptance.  He was a member
of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1863,  and a member of Congress
in 1844, 1864, and 1866.  In March, 1869, he was appointed by President
Grant Commissioner of Internal Revenue,  and very greatly improved the
organization of that bureau.  In 1870 he succeeded Jacob D. Cox as
Secretary of the Interior,  and resigned in 1875.  The honorary degree
of LL.D. was conferred on him by Kenyon College,  and he was one of the
trustees of that institution,  in connection with which he endowed a
grammar school called Delano Hall.
He has been prominently identified with the agricultural and wool
interests of Ohio;  is President of the national Wool Growers
Association,  and is an able and indefatigable advocate for the
protection of domestic wool from foreign competition.