Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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JUDGE WILLIAM LAWRENCE. the interest of securing the public lands toactual settlers, that Indian treaty sales ofthese lands should be prohibited, as they wereby act of March 3, 1871; thus breaking upone of the most gigantic agencies for squan-dering the public lands and creating monopo-lies. On the 7th of July, 1876, he carriedthrough the House a bill, called the Law-rence Bill, requiring the Pacific railroad com-panies to indemnify the government againstliability and loss on account of the govern-ment loan of credit to the companies, as esti-mated, of $150,000,000. The railroad com-panies resisted this, employing Hon. LymanTrumbull, of Illinois, and Hon. Wm. M.Evarts, of New York, and others, whoseelaborate arguments before the JudiciaryCommittee were met by a voluminous reportand speech by Judge Lawrence, answeringevery opposing argument.—Biog. Cyc. Ohio. 362 LOGAN COUNTY.
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COL. JACOB PIATT,of the American Revolution. JUDGE BENJ. iM. PIATT,Pioneer of Logan, at 80 Ifears. The Piatts of Logan. (Originally published in the Urbana Dally Citizen.) The Piatt Family is of French origin and Huguenot blood. Of course twocenturies of births on this continent and a liberal admixture of Dutch and Irishblood have modified the original conditions that forced the French Puritansfrom their homes to a life in the wilderness. It is a fact, however, that whereany trace of the Huguenot is found, it is marked by the old quality that turned aclass into a race of strong, solid, persistent men. In the persecutions that fol-lowed the revocation of the edict of Nantes, the family fled from the Provinceof Dauphine to Holland, where John Piatt married a Van Vliet, and fromthence John and his wife emigrated to Cuba, and from there to New York, find-ing a home at last in New Jersey. From this ancestry came Col. JacobPiatt, grandfather of A. Sanders and DonnPiatt. He was born May 17,

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