The biographical encyclopœdia of Ohio of the nineteenth century:

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOP_EDIA.
valued companion of all his associates. In 1840 he united
with the Fifth Presbyterian Church of Philad(lelphia. lie
is now an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati. He has been married twice: first, in I840, to
Martha Jy. Northrop, of Philadelphia, and lastly, in I868, to
Clara A. Hewitt, of Cincinnati.
when he died. On the Igth instant a meeting was held in
the large reception-room of the Senate chamber, for the
purpose of giving expr ession to the deep sorrowv of his
many friends. At this meeting Chief-Justice Chase presided. Many elegant but merited tributes were there paid
the honored dead. Among the speakers were Chase,
Seward, Sherman, Davis and others. A committee consisting of Hons. R. B. tlays, Benjamin Eggleston, Samuel
Shellabarger, J. A. Garfield and Major Swain was appointed to accompany his remains to Ohio. They reached
his home on the 22d instant. The casket containing all
that was mortal of Ohio's favorite son lay in state in his
library until the 26th instant, where it was visited by large
numbers of his numerous friends and admirers. On that
day, as the sun was descending the western hills, the last
funeral rites were performed, and the sorrowing multitude
bade a final adieu to their eloquent orator, great statesman
and dearly beloved friend.
ORWIN HA S, THOMAS, Lawye r and Statesman, was
born in Bourbon county, K e ntucky, July 29th,
I794. In I798 his father with his f amily re o a moved from Kentucky to Ohio and located at
} Lebanon, Warren county, where his distinguished
son lived, a nd wahere his remain s aBow repose.
M atthew Corwin, the father, was a representative man in
the legislat ive h alls of the S t ate and on the bench, and died
in I829. Du ring th e war of i8I2 Thomas Corwin, then a
lad of seventeen, won the title of " The Wagoner Boy " by
dri ving his father's tea m to the fronti er, carrying supplie s t o
our almost fam ish res e lened armies. we commenced reading law
in I8i6, and was a dmitted to the bar i n 1817; was appoi nted to thoe offic e of Prosecuting Attorney, March 24th,
i8t8, and performed th e d uti es o at of that office till I830. In
i822 his public c areer commence d; i n th at year he was
elected a m emb er of the lower House of the General Assemt )ly of Ohio. Soon after his election, on November
I3th, 1822, he was married to Sarah Ross, sister of the late
Hon. Thomas R. Ross, who served three terms in the loweer
II ouse of Congress. The nuptials were celebrated in the
same house in which be lived at the time of his death, and
in which his widow, Mrs. Corwin, now eighty years of age,
resides. Having serv ed his term in the General Assembly,
he resum ed the practice of his profession until I829, when
he w as again elected to the Gene ral Assembly. In I 830o
h e was elected a Representative to C on gress, and continued
to represent his district till I84o0, when he was no minated
for Governor at Columbus, on February 22d, and that year
was elected to that office; hie resigned his seat in Congress,
to take effect the following May.' In I842 he was a candidate again for Governor, but w as defeated. In I845 he
was electe S eUnd toe e the United States enate. In 85 he was
appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Fillmore.
In I858 and in i86o he was re-elected to Congress. In
I86I President Lincoln appointed him Minister to Mexico,
and he sail ed for th a t country on April ith, I86I, one day
before the firing on Fort Sumter. He returned to the
United States in I864, when, at the age of seventy, he
again commenced the. practice of law in Washington City.
On the evening of December I5th, I865, while attending
an evening party given by James C. Wetmore to the distinguished men of Ohio, among whom were Chase, Wade,
Sherman, Schenck, Bingham, Ward and others, Governor
Corwin was stricken down with apoplexy, and in two hours
was unconscious, and thus lingered until the isth instant,
SRAMBLE, DAVID D., M. D., was bornl, Decem ber I ith, 1839, at Montgomery, Hamilton county,
Ohio. His parents were among the early settlers
e a of the county, and of English origin. He at tended school some little, and worked until his
fourteenth year, when, having gathered a little
money, hle entered Farmers' College, at College Hill, Ohio.
After completing his college course be entered the intermediate school at Montgomery as a teacher. At the exp~iration of a year and a half be was appointed principal of
the same school. This position he held for two years and
a half. During the time he was engaged in this school he
lived and studied medicine with Dr. William Jones, of
Montgomery. At the age of twenty he entered the Ohio
Medical College as a student. He attended two courses
of lectures, and graduated in the spring of i862. Immediately afterward he was appointed House Physician in the
Commercial Hospital, and served for one year. In i863
he located on Broadway, Cincinnati, in general practice,
and was at the same time appointed District Physician in
the Thirteenth Ward. In the fall of the same year he was
appointed Physician of the Pest House. This position he
resigned, after holding it for three years and a half. In
I866 he accepted the chair of Anatomy in the Cincinnati
College of Medicine and Surgery. During this time he
served as Treasurer of the college. This professorship he
held until 1872, when he was transferred to the chair of
Su'gery and made Dean of the college. These two positions he still occupies. He is a member of the American
Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the
Cincinnati Medical Society and the Cincinnati Academy
of Medicine. Ile is one of the proprietors of the Cincinnati Afedicat oews, an able medical monthly, and is one
of its editors. A large private practice is now enjoyed by
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