1. Ebenezer Lane was a lawyer from the US State of Ohio who served on the Ohio Supreme Court 1830 to 1845.
25 Facts About Ebenezer Lane
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Ebenezer Lane's father was Captain Ebenezer Lane, a seaman and later a farmer, and his mother was Marian Griswold Chandler Lane, daughter of Matthew Griswold, Governor of Connecticut, and first married to Charles E Chandler, before marrying Capt.
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Ebenezer Lane enrolled in a boarding school at Leicester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age eight and at Harvard University at age fourteen, graduating in 1811.
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Ebenezer Lane studied law at Lyme, Connecticut, under his uncle, Judge Matthew Griswold, and was admitted to the bar in 1814.
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Ebenezer Lane practiced at Norwalk, Connecticut, beginning Sept 14,1814 and moved to Windsor Hill, Connecticut, in 1815 to practice.
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Ebenezer Lane was named a notary public for Hartford County, Connecticut, by Governor John Cotton Smith on May 21,1816.
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On February 20,1817, Lane left New England with his step-brother, Herman Ely.
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Ebenezer Lane purchased a farm in Elyria, and walked back to New England in twenty days in October and November 1817.
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Ebenezer Lane returned by stage to Ohio in February, 1818, and returned to Connecticut by October 1,1818.
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Ebenezer Lane was married October 11,1818, to Frances Ann Griswold of Lyme, Connecticut, daughter of Roger Griswold, former Governor.
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In May, 1819, Ebenezer Lane was elected prosecuting attorney for Huron County, Ohio, and the family moved to Norwalk, Ohio, the county seat, in October, 1819.
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Ebenezer Lane received his commission from Ohio Governor Duncan McArthur on December 31,1830.
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Ebenezer Lane was elected to two more terms, but tendered his resignation to Governor Thomas W Bartley on December 20,1844, with an effective date of February 16,1845.
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In July, 1842, Ebenezer Lane sold his home in Norwalk, and moved to Sandusky, Ohio, which was his home for the remainder of his life.
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Ebenezer Lane was president of the Columbus and Lake Erie Railroad, Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad and the Junction Railroad.
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In November 1855, Ebenezer Lane was elected Counsel and Resident Director of the Illinois Central Railroad, and removed to Chicago, staying in that office until March 16,1859.
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On March 23,1859, Ebenezer Lane embarked at Boston, Massachusetts, on the steamer Arabia, bound for Liverpool, England.
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Ebenezer Lane toured London, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam.
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Ebenezer Lane returned to New York, from London, arriving after more than a year away on April 27,1860.
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Ebenezer Lane devoted his remaining years at Sandusky to studies in his personal library of 4000 books, in the English, French and German languages.
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Ebenezer Lane's grandchildren donated the collection to the University of Chicago.
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Ebenezer Lane died at Sandusky on June 12,1866, and his funeral was at his home on June 14.
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Ebenezer Lane was one of the many able men who have sat on the Supreme Court of Ohio.
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Ebenezer Lane had penetrating sagacity and rare intellectual powers, was profoundly versed in the law, and was an omnivorous reader of literature.
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Ebenezer Lane came to the Bar when the jurisprudence of Ohio was yet not settled, and brought to its cultivation great general ability, patient research, both in civil and common law and logical power and acumen.