14 Facts About Barnabas Burns

Barnabas Burns was an Ohio lawyer, businessman, and politician.

Barnabas Burns's father was an Irish immigrant and his mother was of Irish ancestry.

Barnabas Burns was educated in the public schools there and taught school after graduating.

Barnabas Burns married Urath Gore, a Maryland native, and with her had five children.

In 1840, Barnabas Burns was hired as deputy clerk of courts in Richland County.

Barnabas Burns read law at the office of Thomas W Bartley and Samuel J Kirkwood and was admitted to the bar, practicing in the county seat, Mansfield.

In 1860, Barnabas Burns ran for a seat in the federal House of Representatives, losing to the incumbent, Republican John Sherman.

Barnabas Burns served as a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention.

At the outbreak of Civil War, Barnabas Burns supported the Union and considered himself a War Democrat.

Barnabas Burns did serve as judge advocate at a military trial later in the war.

In 1863, while serving as chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, Burns wrote to General Ulysses S Grant, asking permission to nominate him for president as a Democrat at the upcoming state convention.

Barnabas Burns entered the business world after the war, organizing the Mansfield Saving Bank in 1869 and serving as its first president.

Barnabas Burns served on the board of education and was trustee of an orphanage in Xenia, as well as being one of the founders of the Mansfield Lyceum and Library.

Barnabas Burns was a member of the Oddfellows and the Richland County Bible Society.