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THE BENCH AND BAR
THE BAR OP ERIE COUNTY
By E. B. King
CHAPTER XXXV
Erie County, though small in area and formed from Huron County
in 1837, has since that time possessed a number of able and notable laAVyers,
among those best knoAvn who were not in active practice in 1875,
when I moved to Sandusky, were John F. Campbell, blind in his later
life and for many years a partner of L. S. Beecher, also blind; Ebenezer
AndreAvs and Philip R. Hopkins of Milan; William II. Hunter, AVIIO Avas
a member of Congress in 1837-39; Eleutheros Cooke, also in Congress in
; John Wheeler; Cuyler Leonai'd; John W. Sloane; James M. Root,
a member of Congress 1846-52; Bernard Miner; Pitt Cooke, son of
Eleutheros Cooke, and at one time a partner of L. S. Beecher; 0. C.
McLouth; Frank D. Parish; Rush R. Sloane and Waldo F. Converse.
The five last named Avere not in practice, but all of them living here
except Parish, AVIIO then lived in Oberlin. Beside the foregoing, Ebenezer
Lane Avas a district judge from 1824 to 1830 and judge of the
Supreme Court of Ohio from 1830 to 1845, AVIIO took high rank among
the judiciary of Ohio; and Walter F. Stone, AVIIO AA-as a Common Pleas
judge from February, 1867 to 1871, and Supreme Court judge from
then till 1874, Avhen a short pei'iod after his resignation he died in December,
1874. Tn his less than three years service in the Court of Last
Resort he had given promise of becoming one of the ablest of his contemporaries.
As one looks back over only four decades, it is to emphasize Avhat
changes may occur in so brief a space. In October, 1875, I took up my
permanent residence in Sandusky, and found among my felloAv lawyers
the folloAving, none of whom but C. W. Sadler and C. C. Bitner, long
since retired from practice, and myself are now among the living:
Homer GoodAvin and LeAvis II. GoodAvin, as H. & L. GoodAvin; Lucas
S. Beecher and John T. Beecher, as firm of L. S. & J. T. Beecher; S. F.
Taylor and Arthur Phinney, as the firm of Taylor & Phinney; Walter
W. BoAven and Edmund B. King, AATIO then formed the firm of BoAA'en
& King; Cooper K. Watson and B. F. Lee, as the firm of Watson & Lee;
John Mackey; E. B. Sadler and Charles W. Sadler, as the firm of E. B.
& C. W. Sadler; A. W. Hendry; Frederick W. Cogswell; Horatio Wildman;
James M. Root; Jabez G. BigeloAV; Samuel C. Wheeler; Charles
L. Hubbard; E. C. Boyd; C. C. Bitner; James Lloyd DeWitt; William
G. Lane, Common Pleas judge; Elisha M. Colver, Probate judge.
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