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the Cincinnati Coal Exchange, Lexington Coal
Exchange, North Carolina Coal Institute,
Knoxville Coal Club and Petersburg Christian
Church. Survivors include his wife, Linda B.
Seibel; sons, J. Gabe and Nathaniel D. Seibel;
daughter, Emily R. Seibel; stepdaughter,
Courtney M. Gibbons; and stepson, Blake K.
Thompson.
Shannon Kelley Ford ’91 passed away May
12, 2008. She was an attorney with Kelley,
Kelley and Kelley, in Bardstown, Ky., and the
firm formerly known as Arnzen, Parry and
Wentz in Covington, Ky. She is survived by
her husband, Joe E. Ford; mother, Ann Ferris
Kelley; and brothers, Victor L. Kelley III and
Scott T. Kelley, M.D. She was preceded in
death by her father, Victor L. Kelley II.
Gerald Dee Hunt ’98 passed away June
9, 2008. An attorney and CPA, he operated
his own business, Gerald D. Hunt PSC. He
was a member of the Northern Kentucky Bar
Association, the Kentucky Society of CPAs and
the AICPA. He is survived by his wife, Michelle
Hunt; sons, Ryan, Eric and Aaron Hunt;
daughter, Rachel Hunt; father, Eugene Hunt;
mother, Alice Hunt; brothers, Ralph, James,
Gary and Dwight Hunt; and sister, Shelby
Spaulding.
Russell C. “Rusty” Maricle, Jr., ’07,
of Manchester, Ky., passed away January
30, 2009. He was an attorney, master
commissioner, member of the Manchester
Pentecostal Holiness Church, veteran of the
U.S. Army, member of the Kentucky Justice
Association, vice president of the Clay County
Justice Association, and member of the
national and Kentucky Association of Realtors.
He is survived by his parents, Honorable R.
Cletus and Judy Maricle; children, Allison,
Russell and Sarah; the mother of his children,
Robin Maricle; and sisters, Donna Leah
Mobley, Meredith Lee Mobley and Linsey
Nichole Maricle.
ALUMNI NEWS
2008 marked the 200th
anniversary of the birth of
Salmon P. Chase
salmon portland chase was born in cornish, n.h., January 13, 1808. after his
father died, the young chase moved in with his uncle in worthington, ohio, in 1820,
and a few years later moved with his uncle to cincinnati. chase graduated from
dartmouth college at the age of 18 in 1826 and then studied law in washington, d.c.,
under u.s. attorney general william wirt. he returned to cincinnati in 1830, was
admitted to the ohio bar, and opened his law practice in an office on third street.
while practicing law in cincinnati, chase became active in the abolitionist movement
and often represented escaped slaves, for which he was referred to as the “attorney
general for fugitive slaves.”
chase was elected cincinnati city councilman in 1840, u.s. senator from ohio in
1849, and governor of ohio in 1855. chase sought the nomination of the republican
party for president in 1860, but the nomination went to abraham lincoln. chase was
again elected u.s. senator in 1860, but he resigned to become secretary of the treasury
under president lincoln as the civil war began.
the war created the need to raise tax revenue. chase responded by creating the
Bureau of internal revenue, later named the internal revenue service, to collect stamp
taxes and internal duties in 1862 and the nation’s first income tax the following year.
to further finance the war, chase created the Bureau of engraving and printing in
1862 to print the government’s first currency. chase was responsible for designing the
early bills and for placing the words “in god we trust” on the currency. the national
banking system was created in 1863. with the nation’s finances in a more favorable
condition, chase resigned as secretary of the treasury in June 1864.
in december 1864, president lincoln nominated chase as chief Justice of the
supreme court of the united states. chase succeeded the late chief Justice roger B.
taney, who wrote the Dred Scott decision. one of chase’s early acts as chief Justice
was to admit the first african-american lawyer to practice before the supreme court.
chase served during the difficult period of reconstruction and presided over the
impeachment trial of president andrew Johnson in 1968. chase served as chief
Justice until he died may 7, 1873. he was initially interred in washington, d.c., and
then reinterred in spring grove cemetery in cincinnati. chase was preceded in death
by three wives and four infant daughters. he was survived by two daughters and by
grandchildren.
in 1877, the founder of chase national Bank, a predecessor to today’s chase bank,
named his newly established bank in honor of his late friend salmon p. chase. from
1918 through 1934, the u.s. department of the treasury honored chase’s service to
the nation by placing chase’s portrait on the $10,000 bill. in 1943, as the cincinnati
ymca law school prepared to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the name of the school
was changed to the salmon p. chase college of law at the request of the students. in
1972, salmon p. chase college of law merged with northern Kentucky state college
(later nKu). the “chase room” at the college of law houses a number of chase’s
personal effects, and the chase law library owns the microfilm edition of the salmon
p. chase papers containing 14,500 documents written by or addressed to chase.
sources: “Biographical directory of the united states congress”; united states department of the treasury, “history of the
treasury”; J.p. morgan chase & co., “the history of our firm”; northern Kentucky university salmon p. chase college of
law; John niven, Salmon P. Chase: A Biography, oxford university press (1995).
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