History of Ohio

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOVERNOR THOMAS KIRKER From a painting in the Capitol at Columbus. Born in Ireland in 1700; served in the first General Assembly of Ohio as Senator from 1803 to 1815; iis Representative and Speaker of House of Representatives, 1816; as Senator from 1821 to 1825; he became acting Governor when Governor...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOVERNOR THOMAS KIRKER From a painting in the Capitol at Columbus. Born in Ireland in 1700; served in the first General Assembly of Ohio as Senator from 1803 to 1815; iis Representative and Speaker of House of Representatives, 1816; as Senator from 1821 to 1825; he became acting Governor when Governor Tiffin resigned, serving from March 4, 1807, to December 8, 1808; died February 19, 1837. ev' vati, . . J.'...T i') it .'''iiijiO aiU in ijr'; i: i: nii in i'i'iVI n .1:, H ' nqK J.c: ?, i81 i'; f.oKt hnl ii tcrr.jr: i:, ti t ', . viilm ' ..A iiK.11 ' .8: oi)r: i'ir.il oj,70.'. must be pictured. That picture when contemplated from this age abounding in artificiality has all the charms, color and beauty with which nature clothes her own. It is a beautiful picture because that life was close to nature and partook of the inscrutable handiwork of the Maker of all things. Its works were ever great because they were the first echoes of nature's voice, and its works were immortal because that voice never ceased to echo. The sturdy men and brave women who entered upon this life were generously equipped for it. They, as a rule, were the merchant, the farmer, the mechanic, the soldier, the politician, ready to make war, or to make law; to put their hands to the plow or to the helm of state as their country might require. Ever patient, ever industrious, frugal and provident, with a love for learning and a reverence for religion, alert to virtue and quick to resist oppression and wrong. Such were the husbandmen that wrought the wilderness of Ohio into a garden. But there was dross among them. The idle, the dissolute, the wayward, impatient of the restraint of law, the unfortunate, reckless in despair, and the helpless drifted with the tide, but they faded away or bec..