Person:Philemon Ewing (1)

Graduated 1838 from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and entered the study of law. Admitted to the Bar in 1841 and joined his father to form the firm of T. Ewing & Son. "In both State and Federal courts, through his grasp of the philosophy of the law and his judicial temperament, he won a place beside his illustrious father. He was also the main support of his father in his political life and labours, and was an active figure first in the Whig and then in the Republican party. In 1862 he was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Being opposed to the Reconstruction measures of his party he took part in the Liberal Republican movement. He was nominated to the supreme bench of Ohio in 1873. During the sixties and seventies he engaged in the banking business, and was prominent in the development of the Hocking Valley coal-fields. The later years of his life were spent in retirement. ... He was a man of wide culture and a writer of vigorous and limpid English. He was ever foremost where the interest of the Church were concerned, and was a delegate from the Diocese of Columbus to the Catholic Congresses of 1889 and 1893." (Source: The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 5, p. 673)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ohio Genealogical Society. Fairfield County Chapter. Genealogical abstracts from the Lancaster (Ohio) Gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio: Fairfield County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, 1998)
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2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Ohio Genealogical Society. Fairfield County Chapter. Cemeteries of Berne Township. (Lancaster, Ohio: Fairfield County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, c1983)
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