1789, Dec. 28Born near West Liberty, Ohio County, Va.1792Moved with family to Marietta, Ohio1798Moved with family to Ames Township, Athens County, Ohio18091812Worked intermittently at the Kanawha, Va., saltworks18121815Attended Ohio University, Athens, Ohio18151816Studied law in the office of Philemon Beecher, Lancaster, Ohio; admitted to the bar in 1816Circa 18171822Prosecuting attorney, Fairfield County, Ohio1820Married Maria Wills Boyle1823Defeated as a candidate for the Ohio legislature1829Adopted William T. Sherman1830Elected to United States Senate on Whig ticket1836Appointed 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, Ohio1841Appointed 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 practice1849Appointed by Zachary Taylor to organize the Home Department (later Department of the Interior)1850Appointed to the United States Senate to complete the unexpired term of Thomas Corwin who became secretary of the treasury1851Retired from public service, resuming his law practice18511869Practiced law, largely before the Supreme Court of the United States1861Appointed delegate to the Peace Convention, Washington, D.C.1871, Oct. 26Died, Lancaster, Ohio
Thomas Ewing (1829-1896)
1829, Aug. 7Born, Lancaster, Ohio1848Private secretary to Zachary Taylor18521854Attended Brown University, Providence, R.I.18541857Lived in Cincinnati, Ohio; attended Cincinnati Law School; admitted to bar in 18551856Married Ellen Ewing Cox1857Moved to Leavenworth, Kans., where he practiced law as a member of the firm of Ewing, Sherman, and McCook18581861Instrumental in exposing voting frauds under the Lecompton constitution and in bringing Kansas into the Union as a free state1861Elected the first chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court; represented Kansas at the Peace Convention, Washington. D.C.1862Resigned as chief justice; appointed colonel of the Eleventh Kansas Volunteers1863, Mar.Promoted to brigadier general after the Battle of Prairie Grove, Ark.18631864Assigned 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 1864Assigned to command the St. Louis, Mo., districtParticipated in the Battle of Pilot Knob, St. Louis, Mo.1865Resigned commission; breveted major generalDefended Samuel Bland Arnold, Edward Spangler, and Samuel Mudd on charges of conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln18651870Practiced law, Washington, D.C.1870Moved to Lancaster, Ohio18731874Member of the Constitutional Convention of Ohio18771881Represented the Lancaster, Ohio, congressional district in the United States House of Representatives1879Ran unsuccessfully as Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio1882Moved to Yonkers, N.Y.18821896Practiced law, New York, N.Y. 1896, Jan. 21Died, New York, N.Y.
Thomas Ewing (1862-1942)
1862, May 21Born, Leavenworth, Kans.18791881Attended the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio18821888Student and tutor at Columbia University's School of Mines and Law School, New York, N.Y. 18881890Assistant examiner, Patent Office, Washington, D.C.1890LL.B., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.1891Admitted to the bar, New York, N.Y.18911913Practiced law in New York, N.Y., specializing in patent law1894Married Anna Phillips Cochran1902Published Jonathan, A Tragedy (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co. 148 pp.)19131917Commissioner of patents1917Resigned as commissioner of patents; resumed law practice in New York, N.Y.19171942Practiced law in New York, residing in Yonkers, N.Y.1942, Dec. 7Died, Yonkers, N.Y.From the guide to the Thomas Ewing Family Papers, 1757-1941, (bulk 1815-1896), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)