American soldier, born at Newark, OH, on the 3rd of August 1824; educated at Western Reserve and Yale universities, graduating at the latter in 1845. He studied law in Newark, practiced there, and was elected mayor in 1856 and 1857; was elected to the legislature in 1857 and 1859, and was speaker of the house in 1858. He entered the army as lieutenant-colonel of the Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteers at the opening of the war, and was prominent throughout its course, commanding a division in General Sherman’s march to the sea. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, January 12, 1865; major-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865; full brigadier-general, May 31, 1865. After the war he settled in Alabama, practiced law and became state chancellor in 1868; was appointed United States judge of the fifth circuit in 1869, and an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1880. He died in Washington, DC, on the 14th of May 1887.
