bined he was now fast hastening to the end of his earthly career when, on the first day of July, 1829, General William Lytle of Cincinnati appeared at his bedside and laid before him the commission of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, making him, Lytle, Surveyor-General of the Northwest; also an order from the department to Tiffin commanding him to turn over to Lytle, as his successor, the office and its belongings. This was promptly done, together with some five thousand dollars of unexpended money then on hand, and just six weeks later, on Sunday evening, August 9, 1829, Edward Tiffin, conscious to the last moment, and having lived sixty-three years and two months, peacefully and calmly breathed his last breath amid a circle of weeping relatives and friends.

Few persons have gone to death by a more painful and difficult path than was his; but he trod it with the courage, resignation and unwavering faith of a Christian hero.

The faithful Williams, who was present at the supreme moment, wrote a few days later: "He has long been conscious of approaching death; and contemplated that event not only calmly, but with joyous anticipation of exchanging mortal sufferings for angelic happiness."

The Scioto Gazette of August 12, 1829, contains an obituary notice and account of the funeral, which took place upon the afternoon of the 10th

and was attended by all of the prominent citizens of the town and surrounding country. The editorial, after brief recountal of his life and public services, summarizes his character with the statement that "in all the various relations of parent, husband, neighbor and citizen he has been rarely equalled and never excelled. As a public servant he was inflexibly just, upright, independent and firm-an honest and conscientious man."

His remains now rest under a fitting marble monument in the beautiful cemetery known as Grandview, upon a hill just south of and overlooking the city of Chillicothe, where also are interred the bodies of three other governors of OhioThomas Worthington, Duncan McArthur and William Allen—and the remains of Nathaniel Massie, Thomas Scott, William Creighton and many others of Edward Tiffin's contemporaries, close friends and co-laborers in the great events which shaped the destinies of magnificent Ohio; and whose tombs are often the objective points of reverential pilgrims from abroad.

APPENDIX A

EXISTING PORTRAITS OF GOVERNOR TIFFIN

IT is much regretted by the descendants and relatives of Governor Tiffin that no good portrait of him is in existence. The only one taken from life is a miniature in profile which, while it is tolerably accurate in preserving the outline of his features, utterly fails to give his characteristic expression and the contour of his head (which was large and full, especially in the measurements from forehead to occiput) as represented by all of his familiar friends who have left descriptions of him.

Mr. Williams describes him as being "about five feet six or seven inches in height; of pretty heavy body and comparatively light limbs; his head large; face full, round and florid; hair thin, and early becoming bald in front; and his countenance one of the most expressive I have ever seen, especially when animated. He was remarkable for the activity and quickness of his movements." Mr. Williams also says of the miniature portrait (from which all other alleged portraits, including the engraved one herein used as a frontispiece, have been copied): "It altogether fails to give the striking and fine expressions of the features of the original." The late Hon. Allen Latham, in a letter to Dr. Comegys, written about twenty-five years ago, corroboratively says:

"My recollections of Governor Tiffin are: that he was of medium height; rather portly; large head and full, florid face of English type. That his gestures when speaking were

very graceful; and that he possessed a most musical voice. The then young ladies and gentlemen of Chillicothe flocked to hear him preach or read the Episcopal service; as he often did when that church had no rector; although he was a Methodist. All citizens regarded him as one of the best of He was exceedingly kind to young people. If he had any enemies, I never knew of them. I regarded him as the most accomplished gentleman I have ever seen."

men.

His surviving daughters fully coincide with these criticisms upon the portrait and the copies from it.

APPENDIX B

THOMAS JEFFERSON

STATE RIGHTS AND THE REBELLION

HAVING published in the Chillicothe Leader, in 1888, a brief sketch of Edward Tiffin's life-in the course of which paper I had alluded to the subjects with which this note is headed-there appeared in the next issue of said newspaper the following communication:

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"COLONEL GILMORE CORRECTED.

[The following interesting communication has been sent to the Leader for publication. It is from the pen of one of Chillicothe's learned students of history, and is a timely contribution. It will, of course, receive Colonel Gilmore's attention.]

"Editors Leader: Colonel W. E. Gilmore, in his 'Tiffin Memoir,' says: 'Mr. Jefferson was undoubtedly the author, as he was the especial champion, of the State's Rights resolutions of Kentucky and Virginia-the famous resolutions of 798 and 1799. . . By them, and the resulting deductions, Mr. Jefferson sowed the dragon teeth which sprang up armed men, both North and South, in 1861.'

"I inquire if Colonel Gilmore's political prejudices against Mr. Jefferson have not led him into error? Thomas Jefferson was the statesman of his age. He was not perfect, but as an ardent patriot was as near perfection as any man then living.