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nearly every measure for the promotion of the public weal,
during the twenty-five years of residence in the Queen City,
and has been the recipient of unusual marks of esteem firom
his fellow-citizens. Among other positions of trust and
honor, he has been Chairman of the Board of Public Improvements, Chairman of the Finance Committee, President
of Council, State Senator, and Representative in Congress.
The coal famine of 1857 occurred during his term as Chairman of the Finance Committee, and with his usual humanity
and energy he proceeded to secure an appropriation of
i[oo,ooo to relieve the distressed, which he obtained despite
the most determined opposition of interested partie.-, and reduced the price of coal from eighty cents to twenty-five
cents per bushel. In I863 there occurred a repetition of
this circumstance, and again our sulbject became the champion of the oppressed, and secured a like appropriation,
thus averting the threatened calamity. Again during the
prostration of all l)ranches of industry incident to the outl)realk of the wtr of rebellion, when the families of men
who had gone forth in response to their country's call
were left dependent upon those who remained at home, he
devoted himself assiduously to the succor of these women
and hapless innocents from their im-ipenidinig peril, and having secured an appropriation of $ioo,ooo from Council, he
was privileged to disburse to some 3700 families the mean-is
to preserve them from actual want until employment could
be obtained(l. During his official term in the Senate, a hill
was presented in January, I862, levying a tax of threequarters of a mill for the relief of the families of Ohio volunteers. Oppositi'on wits made, and in the w.arm discussion
which followed he took a leading part, and urged its passage in his usual eloquent and forcible style, winining high
encomiums fi-om the loyal press for his unflinching patriotism. It was due to his efforts, too, that the Legislature
ceded to Cincinnati that portion of the canal extending from
Broadway to the Ohio river, and City Council appropriately
recognized this service by unaniimously naming it Eggleston
avenue, in accordance with a suggestion coming -fiom the
Legislature. In I864 his name was brought before the
Repulilican Convention of the First District for the Congressional nomination, as the competitor of the late Hon. Salmonl P. Chase, and, having been nominated, defeated his
I)emocratic opponent, Hon. George E. Pugh, by over 3000
majority, though the district had been considered Democratic. Being unanimously renominated in I866, he was,
triumphantly re-elected over Hon. George H. Pendleton.
His career in Cong,ress was characterized by the same fearless ability which he had exhibited in the discharge of his
other official duties. He dr-ew and obtained the passage of
the bill making Cincinnati a port of entry, and secured the
first national appropriation for the enlargement of the Louisville Canal. During the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
he stood firmly by his conviction of right and justice, and
throughout his career was the arduous supporter of measures
to secure the back pay of soldiers and the pensions of the
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manner that leaves no doubt in the minds of any as to his
real feelings and motives. I-Ie was marr-ied in I837 to L.
M. Wagai, of Clevelnd, Ohio, twho deceased in i 864,
leaving himi two childlen. In April, i 967, he miarried Mary
E., daughter of the late Johnl H. Davis, of Cincinnlati, and
this union has beels sealed b~y the birth of four children.
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ZYMASE, HON. OAKLEY, Lawyer, ex-Judge, Jour nalist, Representative in the Sixtieth and Sixty first General Assemt, lies of Ohio, now Chief Clerk
in the Ohio Department of State, was born il
G6S<;>: Hartford, Hartford county, Connecticut, Junie 29th,
I824. He is the son of Ambrose Case and Esther
(Chapman) Case. He was educated preliminarily in the
common schools of his native county; also, for a term, in the
Granville College and the Ohio University, at Athens, his
parents having removed with him to this State in I840, settlinig in Hockinig county. On the completion of his course
of studies, lie found employment in the printing-office of the
-ockiizg Sentinel. In I845 he became the owner by purchase of this journal, and during the following thirteen
years ",as its publisher and editor. The Seitz/nel was conclucted as a weekly paper, and was Democratic in its politics.
In I86o he was elected Prolbate Judge of Hocking county,
and] served in that capacity for six years, two terms. In
I866, having read law while holding the Prol)ate Judgeship,
he was admitted to the bar, and at Once entered on the practice of his profession in flocking county. During i868 and
I869 he officiated as Mayor of Logan, the county-seat, and
ill I87I was elected to the House on the Democratic ticket,
and in I873 was re-elected to the same position. In the
followingi year he resigned his seat in the House in or-ler- to
accept the office of Chief Clerk of the Ohio Departmenlt of