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Identifier: magazineofamericv18stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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enance he took his seat in court opposite his opponent. PUNCH BOWL PRESENTED TO GENERAL JAMES M. VARNUM BY LAFAYETTE. (From the original in possession of Francis Lawton^ Esq.~\ Elkanah Watson, in his Memoirs, says: Mr. Varnum was one of themost eminent lawyers and distinguished orators in the Colonies. I firstheard him deliver a Masonic oration in 1774. Until that moment I hadformed no conception of the powers and charm of oratory. The effect ofhis splendid exhibition has remained for forty-eight years indelibly fixedupon my mind. I then compared his mind to a beautiful parterre fromwhich he was enabled to pluck the most gorgeous and fanciful flowers, inhis progress, to enrich and embellish his subject. Lavater would havepronounced him an orator from the vivid flashing of his eye and the deli-cate beauty of his classic mouth. 192 GENERAL 1AMES M. VARNUM In August, 1787, General Yarnum became one of the directors in the14 Ohio Company oi Associates, and in the following October was ap-
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HONORABLE JOSEPH BRADLEY VARNUM, I750-182I. (From a painting by Elliott in possession of James M. Varnum, of New York.) pointed by Congress one of the judges of the territory northwest of theOhio. He arrived at Marietta, Ohio, early in June, 1788, to assume his GENERAL JAMES M. VARNUM 193 official duties, and on the Fourth of July delivered an oration there whichwas subsequently published by the Ohio Company. The oration was short,but contained many beauties both in sentiment and language. He assisted Governor Le Clair and the other officials in framing a codeof laws for the territory, but this was his last official act ; for his health,which had been declining when he left home, rapidly became worse, andthe disease from which he suffered terminated fatally on the 10th day ofJanuary, 1789. General Varnums career was active but brief. Admitted to the bar attwenty-two, he was a colonel in the army at twenty-six, a brigadier-generalat twenty-eight, resigned his commission and was elected

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