Ebenezer Lane

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He was one of the many able men who have sat on the Supreme Court of Ohio. He had penetrating sagacity and rare intellectual powers, was profoundly versed in the law, and was an omnivorous reader of literature. On the bench he shunned display of learning, and was for the most part content with stating the facts and principles of law which controlled the case; and his opinions, concise, direct, and cogent are conspicuous in the reports for their simplicity and strength.

He came to the Bar when the jurisprudence of Ohio was yet not settled, and brought to its cultivation great general ability, patient research, both in civil and common law and logical power and acumen. His thorough knowledge of the civil law and his varied and extensive and accurate historical learning, qualified him to compare the systems of our several states and of other countries and to educe the great principles which lie at the foundations of all systems of jurisprudence. Ohio will never fully understand how much she is indebted to Judge Lane and those like him, who, before and with him, wrought at the foundation of our social security and general happiness and progress as a State.

C.L. Latimer [2]

Lane Seminary

The Lane Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian institution in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati was endowed in 1829 by a different person named Ebenezer Lane, a Baptist from New Orleans, Louisiana. [17] [18] The subject of this article was not connected with this institution.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Appletons.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Ohio Judicial.
  3. 1 2 Fess, p. 86.
  4. 1 2 3 Goodwin, p. 157.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Newton, p. 301.
  6. 1 2 3 Medico Legal, p. 178.
  7. 1 2 Sandusky Library.
  8. 1 2 3 Newton, p. 302.
  9. Roger Griswold and Marian Griswold Chandler Lane, Ebenezer's Mother, were children of Matthew Griswold, thus making Ebenezer Lane's wife his first cousin.
  10. Goodwin, p. 158.
  11. 1 2 Goodwin, p. 160.
  12. Newton, p. 303.
  13. Newton, p. 304.
  14. Newton, pp. 304–306.
  15. 1 2 3 Newton, p. 307.
  16. Fess, pp. 86, 87.
  17. Nelson & Runk, p. 142.
  18. Shotwell, p. 314.

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Ebenezer Lane
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Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
In office
December 31, 1830 February 16, 1845