18 Facts About Samuel Lahm

Samuel Lahm was a lawyer, politician, and US Representative from Ohio for one term from 1847 to 1849.

Samuel Lahm was born on April 22,1811, in Leitersburg, Maryland, to John Lahm.

Samuel Lahm attended a school near Leitersburg for two years and taught at a school in the winter.

Samuel Lahm then attended Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania, but did not graduate.

Samuel Lahm intended to return to Leitersburg, but moved to Canton, Ohio, to open a practice.

Samuel Lahm was a member of the Lyceum debating society in Canton.

Samuel Lahm served as the master of chancery from 1837 to 1841 and prosecuting attorney of Stark County from 1837 to 1845.

Samuel Lahm was selected as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1844 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Samuel Lahm was elected as lieutenant colonel and later appointed as a brigadier general in the state's antebellum militia, and commanded the 2nd Brigade, 6th Division of Ohio during the Mexican War.

Samuel Lahm served as a member of the Ohio Senate from 1842 to 1844.

Samuel Lahm served as chairman of the committee on public institutions.

Samuel Lahm was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

Samuel Lahm lost election to Ohio's 18th congressional district in 1856.

Samuel Lahm served as a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention.

In 1838, Samuel Lahm married Almira Webster Brown, daughter of Daniel Brown of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and a relative of Daniel Webster by marriage.

Samuel Lahm later married Henrietta Faber of Pittsburgh in 1855.

Samuel Lahm was the father of Frank Samuel Lahm, a noted expatriate and pioneer balloonist, and the grandfather of Brigadier General Frank Purdy Lahm, aerial pioneer, student of the Wright brothers, and the first military officer to fly an airplane.

Samuel Lahm died at his home on West Tuscarawas Street in Canton on June 16,1876.