BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio
edited by
Hon. Bert S. Bartlow, W. H. Todhunter, Stephen D. Cone, Joseph J. Pater,
Frederick Schneider and Others To which is appended
A Comprehensive Compendium of Local Biography and Memoirs of Representative
Men and Women of the County.
Illustrated
Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Publishers
1905
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ELIJAH
VANCE was born February 1, 1801, at Bel Air, Maryland, and came
to Ohio in 1816, locating in Cincinnati. In 1821 he removed to
Lebanon, this state, where he studied law with Judge Dunlevy,
being admitted to the bar in 1826. Afterwards he came to Hamilton and
followed the practice of his profession. He was elected
prosecuting attorney of Butler county, serving from 1839 to 1843, and
was then elected a member of the state senate, being made speaker of
that body. In 1843 he was elected common pleas judge of the
judicial district composing the counties of Butler. Clinton,
Greene and Warren and in 1850 was member of the state constitutional
convention, taking a leading and prominent part in the debates of that
body. He was again elected prosecuting attorney. serving two terms
from 1865 to 1870, and in 1879 was elected city solicitor. For
number of years he was trustee of Miami University and several times a
member of the Hamilton board of education. His death occurred on
January 1, 1871.
Source: Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio - Publ. B. F. Bowen
& Co., Publishers - 1905 - Page 879 |
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