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Ryan, Columbus, O.; C. E. Schenk, J. R.
Schindel, Murray Seasongood,
Frank H. Schaffer, D. H. T. Smith, Rufus
B. Smith, Dr. R. W. Stewart,
Thomas T. Swift, G. S. Sykes, Rev. Geo.
A. Thayer, Bryant Venable,
Emerson Venable, R. O. Venable, Dr.
Chas. E. Walton, J. W. Worth-
ington, F. B. Wiborg, J. O. White,
Charles B. Wilby, Joseph Wilby,
John F. Winslow, Isidor Wise, Paul
Wisenall, E. J. Wohlgemuth,
Everett I. Yowell.
MARTIN DEWEY FOLLETT.
Judge M. D. Follett, one of the
organizers of the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society, a
life member and beginning
in 1895 for some ten years a trustee,
died at his home in Marietta,
Ohio, August 22, 1911.
Concerning his distinguished life we
quote from a memorial pub-
lished by the Washington County Bar
Association of which for many
years he was a most eminent member.
Martin Dewey Follett was born in
Enosburg, Franklin county,
Vermont, October 8, 1826, the son of
Captain John Fassett Follett and
grandson of Martin Dewey Follett. Many
members of his family had
risen to prominence in colonial and
revolutionary times. In 1836 his
father, with his wife and nine children,
came west and settled on a
farm in Licking county, Ohio, where the
subject of our sketch grew
to manhood. Having taught school for
several years, he entered Mari-
etta college and graduated, with highest
honors, in the class of 1853-
having completed the required course in
two years. He received the
degree of Bachelor of Arts; and three
years later was further honored
by having conferred upon him the degree
of Master of Arts. After
being graduated he taught for one year
in the high school at Newark,
Ohio, and for two years in the academy
and public schools at Marietta,
Ohio, and in 1856 was elected
superintendent of the local schools, which
he served two years.
In 1856 he married Miss Harriet L.
Shipman, of Marietta, Ohio,
to whom were born four children, all of
whom are deceased except
Mr. Alfred Dewey Follett, a member of
this bar. Judge Follett was
married a second time in 1875 to Miss
Abbie M. Bailey, of Lowell,
Mass., to whom was born one son, Edward
B. Follett, a judge of the
court of common pleas of this district.
Judge Follett was admitted to the bar in
1858, at the time of
his death being the oldest member of the
bar association, in point of
service; Mr. R. M. Stimson having been
admitted in 1849, but never
practiced; and R. K. Shaw, who was
admitted in 1855 in New York,
but came to Marietta in 1860. At the
October election in 1883, Judge
Follett was elected to the Supreme Court
of Ohio and served there from