12 Facts About Joseph Darlinton

Joseph Darlinton was an American politician in the US state of Ohio and in the Northwest Territory prior to Ohio statehood.

Joseph Darlinton served as a delegate to the convention that drafted the first state constitution for Ohio.

Joseph Darlinton became a ferryman, but tired of that, and brought land across the river in the Northwest Territory, and moved there in the spring of 1797.

Joseph Darlinton was elected an Adams County Representative to the Northwest Territory House of Representatives, which met off and on in three sessions between September 1799 and January 1802.

Joseph Darlinton ran for the Ohio State Senate for the first general assembly.

John Beasley won, but Joseph Darlinton contested the election and was seated.

Joseph Darlinton was elected 1803 by the legislature as associate judge of the court of common pleas, and resigned in 1804.

Joseph Darlinton was a Trustee of Ohio University from 1804 to 1815.

Joseph Darlinton was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas in Adams County August 3,1802, and was re-appointed up till August 1847.

Joseph Darlinton owned the land, and laid out the town of Winchester, Ohio.

Joseph Darlinton named it for Winchester, Virginia, where he grew up, but never re-visited.

Joseph Darlinton died August 2,1851, in an epidemic of Cholera, which he had dreaded all his life.