Joshua Collett (November 20, 1781 – May 23, 1855)The Supreme Court of Ohio and The Ohio Judicial System - Joshua Collett
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who was a judge on the

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1829–1836.

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Joshua Collett was a native of Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), born November 20, 1781, Kinkead 1895 : 228 read law in Martinsburg, and moved to

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just before Ohio was admitted to the union. Six months later, June 1803, he moved to

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, and was the first lawyer in

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. Reed 1897 : 18-19 Collett was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Warren County in 1810, and served ten years. He was then appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and then re-appointed after seven years. He was appointed in 1829 to the Ohio Supreme Court, and retired from public office in 1836. After the passage of Ohio's Fugitive Slave Act in 1840, Collett announced that in defiance of the law he would keep giving fugitive slaves supplies and directions. Collett was a

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for the Whig Party in 1836 and 1840. Collett was a trustee of

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from 1824 to 1841. One author characterized Collett thus: "He was modest, even to diffidence. ...his learning in the law and studious habits largely compensated for the lack of assurance. ... Throughout life he preserved a character for integrity, virtue, and benevolence." Collett died on his farm near Lebanon May 23, 1855. Collett married Eliza Van Horne on October 18, 1808 in Warren County. They were both

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members. Eliza died in 1846 and Joshua in 1855. Both were buried in Pioneer Cemetery in Lebanon.

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