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General E. R. Eckley, a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, born December 9, 1811, helped to clear up the forests in his native county, clerked for a time, taught school in the fall of 1833, and read law under Judge Johnson. in 1834 went to Mansfield and was made "Master" in a. receivership that engaged him more than a year. He then followed land surveying with a party of government surveyors in Indiana, but the fever and ague drove the party home after a few months stay. He went to Richland County, Ohio and surveyed out the lots of Crestline. In the fall of 1836 he came to Carrollton ; was admitted to the bar in 1837 and practiced law until the Civil War came on. In 1843 he was elected state senator and re-elected in 1845 and again in 1849. He ran for lieutenant governor in 1851 on the whig ticket, but was defeated. In 1853 elected to the House of Representatives in the Ohio Legislature, and was voted for by the whigs for the United States Senate, by the Ohio Legislature. In 1856 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia and voted for Gen. John C. Fremont as President. In 1860 was a delegate to the Lincoln campaign convention in Chicago, but was unable to attend. When the Civil War came on General Eckley was appointed a lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-Sixth Ohio Volunteers regiment and the following December promoted to colonel of the Eightieth Ohio regiment. In the fall of 1863 he was elected to a seat in Congress, served six years and was one of the twenty-two members who opposed immediately giving the Rebels their full rights of citizenship. He was married to Martha L. Brown, and they had five children. He died March 27, 1908; his wife died May 4, 1898.
Ephraim Ralph Eckley Born near Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio , Eckley moved with his parents to Hayesville, Ohio , in 1816. He attended the common schools and was graduated from Vermillion Institute, Hayesville, Ohio . He moved to Carrollton, Ohio , in 1833 and taught school. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1836 and commenced practice in Carrollton. He served as member of the State senate 1843-1846, 1849, and 1850. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio in 1851. He served in the State house of representatives 1853-1857. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1853 to the United States Senate . He served as delegate to the first Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1856. During the Civil War , Eckley served in the Union Army as the colonel of the 26th Ohio Infantry , and later of the 18th Ohio Infantry . At the end of the war, he was brevettedas a brigadier general and mustered out of the army. Eckley was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses (March 4 , 1863 -March 3 , 1869 ). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1868. He resumed the practice of law in Carrollton, Ohio , where he died March 27 , . He was interred in Grand View Cemetery. Source Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia © 2001-2006 Wikipedia contributors <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_R._Eckley?action=history> (Disclaimer <http://www.reference.com/go/http:/wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer>) This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.reference.com/go/http:/www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>. Last updated on Monday May 05, 2008 at 13:48:20 PDT (GMT -0700) View this article at Wikipedia.org <http://www.reference.com/go/http:/wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_R._Eckley> - Edit this article at Wikipedia.org <http://www.reference.com/go/http:/wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Ephraim_R._Eckley&action=edit> - Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.reference.com/go/http:/wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising>
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