Davis, Thomas, Deardorf, Christian, Denny, John, * George, Thomas, Holcomb, John, Hollister, John, Holmes, Alex., Holmes, William, Hubbard, John, Huff, Abraham, Johnson, Thos., Johnson, Michael H., Justice, James, Livingston Andrew, Maltbie, Benj, Manning, John, Matthews, John, Merriman, Enoch B., Metcalf, George, Miller, Samuel R., Miller, William, Milliken, Daniel, Minor, Theophilis, Mitchell, David, Mitchell, Robert, Monfort, Henry, Morgan, Isaac M., McCulloch, John, MclEhenny, Matthew, O'Bannion, Wm. Oldfield, William, Osborn, Isaac, Page, Ira, Paine, David, Patton, John, Perkins, John, Peters, Gresham M., Piatt, Benj. M., Poor, Hugh, Powers, William, Pollock, John, Prather, Enos, Pratt, William, Preston, William, Pritchard, Nathaniel, Purviance, John, Putnam, Edwin, John C. Wright, of Jefferson county, a member of the Seventeenth Congress, resigned, and was succeeded by David Chambers, of Muskingum. David Jennings, of Belmont county, a member of the Nineteenth Congress, resigned in 1826, and was succeeded by Thomas Shannon, of the same county. William Creighton, Jr., formerly of Ross, then of Pickaway county, a member of the Twentieth Congress, resigned upon receiving the nomination as a Judge of the United States Court, but failed of comfirmation by the Senate. He was succeeded by Francis Muhlenburg, of Pickaway, and was elected to the Twenty-First Congress. John M. Goodenow, of Jefferson county, a member of the Twenty-First Congress, resigned April 14 1830, and was succeeded by Humphrey H. Leavitt, of the same county. During the decennial period from 1820 to 1830, the population increased approximately 100 per cent., rising from 581,295 to 937,903, and entitling it to rank third among the states, in population, as it also did in wealth, resources, education and enterprise. As already noted the system of land valuations had been changed, and the land values, as equalized, had increased from $28,570,146 to $50,086,250, which with $14,589,355 of personal property, made the grand total of wealth, as entered upon the tax duplicate, $64,675,605. The revenues of the State were $232,472, as against $205,346.95. State and local revenues in 1820, and for all purposes $598,595, as against $205,346.95 ten years previously. In other words the population, wealth and resources of the State had doubled in a single decade. In all other respects the State and its people had progressed with similar strides of length and rapidity. PART V.-VOL. I. From 1830 to 1840. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY, 1830-1831. Governor-DUNCAN MCARTHUR. Secretary of State-MOSES H. KIRBY. Treasurer of State-HENRY BROWN. Auditor of State-RALPH OSBORN. Supreme Judges-JOSHUA COLLETT, EBENEZER Lane, John C. WRIGHT, PETER HITCHCOCK. When the Senate met on Monday, December 6, it organized temporarily. Samuel R. Miller, of Hamilton, was elected Speaker, receiving eighteen votes, to sixteen for Edward King. Wm. Larwill was elected Clerk without opposition, and Samuel Bayless was elected Sergeant-at-Arms by eighteen votes, to fourteen for Noyce Stone. This organization was afterward made permanent. On the seventh, Gov. Trimble sent his annual message to the Legislature. "In it he advocated the enactment of such measures as would induce those engaged in retailing ardent spirits to enter some other occupation. The strength of the militia was returned as 116,000. On the ninth, the two Houses met jointly and canvassed the vote for Governor, declaring the result: Duncan McArthur, 49,668 votes; Robert Lucas, 49,186; scat |