Английская Википедия:Ebenezer Lane

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Ebenezer Lane was a lawyer from the U.S. State of Ohio who served on the Ohio Supreme Court 1830 to 1845. From 1840 until his retirement, he was Chief Justice.

Youth

Lane was born September 17, 1793, at Northampton, Massachusetts.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn His father was Captain Ebenezer Lane, a seaman and later a farmer,Шаблон:Sfn and his mother was Marian Griswold Chandler Lane, daughter of Matthew Griswold, Governor of Connecticut, and first married to Charles E. Chandler, before marrying Capt. Ebenezer Lane.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He enrolled in a boarding school at Leicester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age eight and at Harvard University at age fourteen, graduating in 1811.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Harvard awarded him an honorary Doctor of Law in 1850.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He studied law at Lyme, Connecticut, under his uncle, Judge Matthew Griswold, and was admitted to the bar in 1814.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He practiced at Norwalk, Connecticut, beginning Sept. 14, 1814 and moved to Windsor Hill, Connecticut, in 1815 to practice.Шаблон:Sfn He was named a notary public for Hartford County, Connecticut, by Governor John Cotton Smith on May 21, 1816.Шаблон:Sfn

Move to Ohio

On February 20, 1817, Lane left New England with his step-brother, Herman Ely. They travelled by wagon and arrived in Ohio, where Ely owned 10, 423 acres at the future site of Elyria, Ohio,Шаблон:Sfn on March 17.Шаблон:Sfn He purchased a farm in Elyria, and walked back to New England in twenty days in October and November 1817. He returned by stage to Ohio in February, 1818, and returned to Connecticut by October 1, 1818. He was married October 11, 1818, to Frances Ann Griswold of Lyme, Connecticut, daughter of Roger Griswold, former Governor.Шаблон:Sfn[1] The new couple moved immediately to their farm in Elyria.Шаблон:Sfn

Public service

In May, 1819, Lane was elected prosecuting attorney for Huron County, Ohio, and the family moved to Norwalk, Ohio, the county seat, in October, 1819.Шаблон:Sfn On February 17, 1824, the Ohio General Assembly elected Lane president judge of the second judicial circuit for a seven-year term, requiring him to travel to courthouses in each county of his circuit to preside.Шаблон:Sfn The General Assembly elected Lane to a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court on December 18, 1830, for a seven-year term. He received his commission from Ohio Governor Duncan McArthur on December 31, 1830. He was elected to two more terms, but tendered his resignation to Governor Thomas W. Bartley on December 20, 1844, with an effective date of February 16, 1845.Шаблон:Sfn He was Chief Justice from 1840 to 1845.Шаблон:Sfn

Railroad career

In July, 1842, Lane sold his home in Norwalk, and moved to Sandusky, Ohio, which was his home for the remainder of his life. After retiring from the court, he partnered with his son, William G. Lane and Walter F. Stone in that place in a law practice.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He was president of the Columbus and Lake Erie Railroad, Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad and the Junction Railroad.Шаблон:Sfn

In November 1855, Lane was elected Counsel and Resident Director of the Illinois Central Railroad, and removed to Chicago, staying in that office until March 16, 1859.Шаблон:Sfn

Retirement

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Lane's Sandusky home

On March 23, 1859, Lane embarked at Boston, Massachusetts, on the steamer Arabia, bound for Liverpool, England. He toured London, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam. Next he went to Berlin, Prague, Dresden, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Frankfort, Cologne, Switzerland, and Italy. He returned to New York, from London, arriving after more than a year away on April 27, 1860. He visited libraries and museums throughout the trip.Шаблон:Sfn

Lane devoted his remaining years at Sandusky to studies in his personal library of 4000 books, in the English, French and German languages.Шаблон:Sfn Upon his death, this collection was passed to his son, Dr. Ebenezer S. Lane, Jr. of Chicago. It was the only library collection within the city to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Lane's grandchildren donated the collection to the University of ChicagoШаблон:Sfn

Personal

Lane and his wife had three children, Dr. Ebenezer S. Lane, of Chicago, Frances Elizabeth, wife of Alfred Cheseborough of Detroit, and William Griswold Lane, lawyer and judge from Sandusky, who married Elizabeth Griswold of Lyme, Connecticut in 1850.Шаблон:Sfn He was a member of the Episcopal Church.Шаблон:Sfn The New England Historic Genealogical Society elected him a member in 1856, and he was a member of the New York Historical Society, Ohio Historical Society and Chicago Historical Society.Шаблон:Sfn He died at Sandusky on June 12, 1866, and his funeral was at his home on June 14. He is interred at Oakland Cemetery in Sandusky.Шаблон:Sfn

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Lane Seminary

The Lane Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian institution in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati was endowed in 1829 by a different person named Ebenezer Lane, a Baptist from New Orleans, Louisiana.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The subject of this article was not connected with this institution.

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  1. ↑ Roger Griswold and Marian Griswold Chandler Lane, Ebenezer's Mother, were children of Matthew Griswold, thus making Ebenezer Lane's wife his first cousin.
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