OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
THOMAS BARTLEY,
ACTING GOVERNOR AND JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF
OHIO.
Singular though it may seem, the
biographies of
Judge Bartley that have appeared from
time to time in
Ohio publications are without exception
incomplete.
Beyond the record of the fact that he
served a short
time as governor to fill out the
unexpired term of Wil-
son Shannon who had been appointed
minister to
Mexico, and had served two terms on the
Supreme
Bench of Ohio, these sketches contain
practically no
information in regard to the life of
this eminent jurist.
An extended search recently for the
date of the death of
Judge Bartley led to the discovery that
a biography of
him satisfactory in every particular
except one has been
found in the New England Historical
and Genealogical
Register, Vol. 40, pages 119-120. Through some over-
sight unexplained, this sketch fails to
mention Judge
Bartley's service as a member of the
Supreme Court of
Ohio.
He was elected to this position in 1851 and
served continuously until 1859,
rendering on the bench
his most distinguished service to the
state of Ohio. The
sketch in the Register is as
follows:
Judge Thomas Wells Bartley, of
Washington, D. C.,
* * * was
born in Jefferson County, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1812, and
died in Washington, D. C., June 20, 1885, aged 73.
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