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436 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
1868, and received his early education in the public schools of Milan.
After graduation there he attended Northwestern University at Ada,
Ohio, from 1888 to 1893. He was admitted to the bar in 1893 and at
once began the practice of his profession in Sandusky.
John F. Hertlcin is a representative of the solid German element
of Erie County, Avhere he was born. For many years he taught school
and fitted himself for his profession in the law office of King & Ramsey.
His service as clerk of the courts made him more familiar with the
records than any other laAvyer at the bar, and by his industry and ability
he commands a clientage creditable to any lawyer in a small city.
Malcolm Kelly is the oldest lawyer of our har in point of years. He
practiced at Port Cljnton hefore serving a term as common pleas judge,
after which he removed to Sandusky. There is probably no lawyer in
Sandusky Avho knows more about the Ohio Reports than Judge Kelly.
His opinion on technical questions of laAV is therefore valuable.
Judge Edmund B. King, senior member of the law firm of King &
Ramsey, is recognized as one of the leading attorneys not only of Sandusky
but of the State of Ohio. Judge King has been in active practice
of the laAV in Sandusky since 1875, except for a feAV years Avhen he served
Avith distinction as one of the three judges of the Circuit Court in this
circuit, and for a very short period when he lived in Portland, Oregon.
During his career he has been a most active worker for the success and
Avelfare of the republican party, and to this day has not sAverved in his
loyalty to that political association. He has for many years been an
intimate friend of former Senator Joseph B. Foraker, and was ahvays
one of the senator's most trusted advisers when the latter was in political
life.
Judge King Avas born at Medina, Ohio, July 4, 1850, and spent most
of the first tAventy years of his life on a farm, attending school in winter
until he Avas eighteen, and aftenvards for five years teaching in country
schools. He attended Oberlin Academy for about tAvo years and BaldAvin
College for another two years. He studied LIAV in an office and was admitted
to the bar in August, 1873. He began practice at once in his
home county and Avas elected prosecuting attorney in 1874, serving tAvo
years. In 1875 he moved to Sandusky and has lived here practically all
of the time since.
Judge King AA'as a presidential elector in 1888 and Avas elected to the
circuit bench in 1894, resigning in 1899 to resume the practice of his
profession. Tn 1911 he Avas elected a member of the fourth constitutional
convention, in Avhose deliberations he took a leading part. Judge King
is a member of all of the Masonic bodies and has been accorded the thirtythird
degree. He- has been a leader among Ohio Masons for a great
many years.
Judge King possesses an unerring instinct for the salient point of a
case, and a poAver of clear and concise statement seldom equalled. He
has done considerable reading and spent a great deal of his leisure Avith
books. If his lot in life had been cast in a different community he Avould