Ozias Bowen (July 21, 1805 – September 26, 1871) was a
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politician in the U.S. State of
Ohio
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who was an
Ohio Supreme Court
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Judge 1856–1858.
Biography
Ozias Bowen was born at
Augusta,
Oneida County, New York
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. He lived in
Fredonia, New York
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until age 15, when he was moved to
Ashtabula County, Ohio
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. He studied law in
Canton, Ohio
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, was admitted to the bar there, and began practice at
Marion, Ohio
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The population was 35,999 at the 2020 United S ...
.
[ Smith 1898 : 66]
Bowen taught school and was a merchant as well as a lawyer. On February 7, 1838, the Legislature elected him Presiding Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit for seven years, to which he was re-elected. In this capacity, Judge Bowen was most famous for delivering a decision on August 27, 1839 that freed a fugitive slave named Bill Mitchell, sparking a battle between proslavery and anti-slavery forces known as
The Marion Riot.
In 1856,
Charles Cleveland Convers
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Charles Cle ...
resigned from the Ohio Supreme Court due to poor health.
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Chase
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appointed Bowen to the judgeship.
He was elected later that year with a plurality in a three-way race over Democrat Carrington W. Seal and American Party nominee Samuel Brush to the remainder of the term.
He was a
presidential elector
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for
Lincoln
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Johnson
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in 1864. He died September 26, 1871 at Marion Ohio.
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Personal life
Bowen's Marion, Ohio residence is owned by the Marion County Historical Association and operates it as th
Stengel-True Museum
Bowen married Lydia Baker, daughter of Eber Baker
Eber Baker (April 27, 1780 – October 6, 1864), Marion, Ohio can be credited as being the founder of Marion, Ohio. Baker was born in either Litchfield or Bowdoin, Maine.
Baker and his first wife, Lydia Smith Baker, came to the vicinity of what ...
on February 17, 1833, in Marion. She died shortly after the birth of her eighth child.[
Judge Bowen's second home in Marion, Ohio is owned by the Marion County Historical Association. Bowen's first home in Marion on East Center Street is the oldest standing house on its original foundation in the city of Marion.][Marion Made: The Ozais Bowen Homes , http://www.marionmade.org/2017/08/ozias-bowen-homes/]
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People from Augusta, New York
1805 births
1871 deaths
1864 United States presidential electors
People from Fredonia, New York
19th-century American judges
19th-century American lawyers