Ohio History Journal

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OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL

OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL

SOCIETY

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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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