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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
of
COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876
by William E. Hunt. -
Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers
1876
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SAMUEL
KETCHUM died June 29, 1871, aged about forty-three
years. His father was from the State of New York.
With good common education, he entered upon active life.
He was well known as the treasurer of Coshocton county, and
from his difficulties growing out of that position he found
relief only in death. Having plead guilty to the
charge of embezzlement, he was sentenced to the penitentiary
for five years, and became an inmate of that institution on
the 1st of March, 1870. His health rapidly failed him,
and in fifteen months he was pardoned, on representations
made by the warden and physician, by Governor
Hayes, and returned to his home. While in prison,
he professed thorough penitence, and claimed to have little
hope for the present life, and none for that to come, save
by the mercy of God in Christ Jesus.
In the hope of this mercy, he passed away —recognized by the
world as a man of considerable refinement and of generous
impulses, to be pitied, however much blamed. An aged,
faithful mother, a wife true when all else failed, and two
children bitterly lamented his death.
Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO - 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. -
Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers -
1876 - Page 260 |
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