LOGAN COUNTY OHIO
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Transcribed by Deb.


"Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888)

Logan County
Page 106

Bellefontaine has supplied three Lieutenant-Governors for Ohio.
     1st. Benjamin Stanton, born of Quaker parentage on Short creek, Belmont 
county, Ohio, March 4, 1809.  Was bread a tailor, which appears to have been a 
favorite trade for young Friends, probably from its humanitarian 
aspects-"clothing the naked."  Studied law and was admitted to the bar at 
Steubenville in 1833; came to Bellefontaine in 1834; then was successively 
prosecuting attorney, State Senator, member of the Ohio Constitutional 
Convention in 1851; served several terms as member of Congress and in 1861 was 
elected Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio, and on the same ticket with Governor David 
Tod; in 1866 removed to West Virginia, practiced law there and died a few years 
since.