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Biographical Note
Thomas Ewing (1789-1871)
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1789, Dec. 28 | Born near West Liberty, Ohio County, Va. |
| 1792 | Moved with family to Marietta, Ohio |
| 1798 | Moved with family to Ames Township, Athens County, Ohio |
| 1809-1812 | Worked intermittently at the Kanawha, Va., saltworks |
| 1812-1815 | Attended Ohio University, Athens, Ohio |
| 1815-1816 | Studied law in the office of Philemon Beecher, Lancaster, Ohio; admitted to the bar in 1816 |
| Circa 1817-1822 | Prosecuting attorney, Fairfield County, Ohio |
| 1820 | Married Maria Wills Boyle |
| 1823 | Defeated as a candidate for the Ohio legislature |
| 1829 | Adopted William T. Sherman |
| 1830 | Elected to United States Senate on Whig ticket |
| 1836 | Appointed William T. Sherman to United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Defeated in bid for reelection to the Senate; resumed his law practice at Lancaster, Ohio |
| 1841 | Appointed secretary of the treasury by William Henry Harrison, resigning when Harrison's successor, John Tyler, vetoed a bill for rechartering the Bank of the United States; resumed law practice |
| 1849 | Appointed by Zachary Taylor to organize the Home Department (later Department of the Interior) |
| 1850 | Appointed to the United States Senate to complete the unexpired term of Thomas Corwin who became secretary of the treasury |
| 1851 | Retired from public service, resuming his law practice |
| 1851-1869 | Practiced law, largely before the Supreme Court of the United States |
| 1861 | Appointed delegate to the Peace Convention, Washington, D.C. |
| 1871, Oct. 26 | Died, Lancaster, Ohio |
Thomas Ewing (1829-1896)
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1829, Aug. 7 | Born, Lancaster, Ohio |
| 1848 | Private secretary to Zachary Taylor |
| 1852-1854 | Attended Brown University, Providence, R.I. |
| 1854-1857 | Lived in Cincinnati, Ohio; attended Cincinnati Law School; admitted to bar in 1855 |
| 1856 | Married Ellen Ewing Cox |
| 1857 | Moved to Leavenworth, Kans., where he practiced law as a member of the firm of Ewing, Sherman, and McCook |
| 1858-1861 | Instrumental in exposing voting frauds under the Lecompton constitution and in bringing Kansas into the Union as a free state |
| 1861 | Elected the first chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court; represented Kansas at the Peace Convention, Washington. D.C. |
| 1862 | Resigned as chief justice; appointed colonel of the Eleventh Kansas Volunteers |
| 1863, Mar. | Promoted to brigadier general after the Battle of Prairie Grove, Ark. |
| 1863-1864 | Assigned to command the border district which included Kansas and the western part of Missouri; issued Order No. 11 (25 Aug. 1863) which depopulated counties in Missouri in an effort to rout outlaws hiding there |
| 1864 | Assigned to command the St. Louis, Mo., district Participated in the Battle of Pilot Knob, St. Louis, Mo. |
| 1865 | Resigned commission; breveted major general Defended Samuel Bland Arnold, Edward Spangler, and Samuel Mudd on charges of conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865-1870 | Practiced law, Washington, D.C. |
| 1870 | Moved to Lancaster, Ohio |
| 1873-1874 | Member of the Constitutional Convention of Ohio |
| 1877-1881 | Represented the Lancaster, Ohio, congressional district in the United States House of Representatives |
| 1879 | Ran unsuccessfully as Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio |
| 1882 | Moved to Yonkers, N.Y. |
| 1882-1896 | Practiced law, New York, N.Y. |
| 1896, Jan. 21 | Died, New York, N.Y. |
Thomas Ewing (1862-1942)
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1862, May 21 | Born, Leavenworth, Kans. |
| 1879-1881 | Attended the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio |
| 1882-1888 | Student and tutor at Columbia University's School of Mines and Law School, New York, N.Y. |
| 1888-1890 | Assistant examiner, Patent Office, Washington, D.C. |
| 1890 | LL.B., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. |
| 1891 | Admitted to the bar, New York, N.Y. |
| 1891-1913 | Practiced law in New York, N.Y., specializing in patent law |
| 1894 | Married Anna Phillips Cochran |
| 1902 | Published Jonathan, A Tragedy (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co. 148 pp.) |
| 1913-1917 | Commissioner of patents |
| 1917 | Resigned as commissioner of patents; resumed law practice in New York, N.Y. |
| 1917-1942 | Practiced law in New York, residing in Yonkers, N.Y. |
| 1942, Dec. 7 | Died, Yonkers, N.Y. |