Notes for Matthias CORWIN

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Notes for Matthias CORWIN

Died in 69th year.
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ROSTER OF OHIO SOLDIERS IN WAR OF 1812
Page 59.
. ROLL OF CAPTAIN MATTHIAS CORWIN'S COMPANY,
(Probably Butler County.)
Served from August 11 until November 30, 1812, and from January 5 Until February 11, 1813.
Capt. Matthias Corwin . Lieut. Nathaniel McLean . Ensign John Ruser
Sergt. Jeremiah Smith
. Privates. . Privates. . Privates.
Adams, John . Bell, Simion . Bartleson, Andrew
Bishop, David W. . Birdrall, Henry . Cruters, Ezekial
Dunlary, Howard . Eddy, John . Jones, Henry C.
Lenawred, John . Maish, William . McWhorten, Tyler
Neville, David . Phillips, William . Rush, Abraham
Runlon, Absalom . Ross, Joseph . Reeder, Nficalah
Richardson, Elijah . Reding, James . Skinner, David
Seward, John . Sinnard, Thoman . Timothy, Millard
Townsend, Benjamin . Voorhis, Jacob . Wiles, James
Wooters,, Richard . Wolf, Michael
From Ohio Historical Society Database on line at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/war1812/roster/1812/txt/page0012.txt
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Matthias Corwin
Submitted by admin on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 7:04pm.
By Charlie Zimkus
Three years after Ichabod Corwin’s arrivial in March 1795, his brother Matthias followed him to Lebanon. Matthias brought his family, including four-year-old Thomas.
Tom was one of nine children of Matthias and Patience (Halleck) Corwin. Before young Tom was five years old, the family had lived in three forest homes, two in Kentucky and one in Ohio. In 1798 problems with land titles in Kentucky forced Matthias to
bring his family north into the Ohio Territory. They settled about one half mile northeast of the center of what is now Lebanon, and about one half mile east of Ichabod’s cabin.
Matthias Corwin was an honest and fair man. He held several local and state positions, serving as one of Warren County’s first county commissioners and a justice of the peace. In 1804 he was elected to the first of 11 terms in the Ohio legislature and
spent two of them as Speaker of the House.
But Matthias was a poor farmer, and believed he could only pay for one of his sons to be educated. He chose his oldest, also named Matthias. Tom worked on the family farm and taught himself by reading his brother’s books. Patrick Henry, Henry Clay, and
Thomas Corwin are said to have been the three most eloquent early American statesmen not to have had the aid of an academy or college education.
In 1814 young Matthias Corwin was elected Clerk of Courts of Warren County and Tom left the farm to work in his brother’s office and later studied law under Lebanon lawyer Joshua Collett. In 1818 Tom succeeded his mentor as Warren County’s Prosecuting
Attorney, a position he would hold for ten years. In 1821 he followed in his father’s footsteps when he was elected to the Ohio legislature.
Matthias Corwin died on September 4, 1829, of bilious fever at the age of 69. He is buried in the Baptist graveyard.
http://www.historiclebanonohio.com/?q=matthias [10/2010]
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Warren County Deed Books;
15/48. _/_/1820; Samuel Drake and wife Mary Drake, Lewis Osborn and wife
Amelia & Rhoda Corwin the twor former of Shelley Co., IN, the three latter
of Warren Co., OH give POA to Francis Dill Jr. of Warren Co., OH, the said
Mary, Amelia & Rhoda as the children & heirs of Matthias Corwin lately
deceased. [Note: Either the deed book or the tombstone and county history are wrong about Matthias's DOD]
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See "History of the Miami Baptist association: from its organization in 1797 to a ...
By Anthony Howard Dunlevy" for biography of Judge Corwin.
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