M. B. Chadwick
The Daily Republican
Wednesday Evening, July 23, 1884
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OUR CANDIDATES
Sketches of the Men Nominated on the People's Ticket
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FOR REPRESENTATIVE
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Mr. M. B. Chadwick, candidate for Representative in the Legislature, was born April 12, 1820 in Hamilton county, Ohio. When sixteen years of age he entered Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, but after two and a half years of study was obliged to leave the institution on account of failing health. After some years he began the study of law and graduated at the Law College in Cincinnati. In 1847 he was admitted to the bar at Eaton, in Preble county, Ohio, and in 1849 was elected Prosecuting attorney for that county, serving one term. Health failing again, Mr. Chadwick purchased a farm and has ever since devoted himself to the cultivation of the soil as a means of support. In 1864, he removed to this county, where he has since lived. In 1870 he was elected trustee of Hanover township, was re-elected in 1872 and for the third term in 1874. In 1868, Mr. Chadwick was the Republican candidate for Representative against the late Isaac Odell, and though defeated made a good race, reducing the usual majority. He is again the candidate for Representative and no man in the county is better qualified to fill such a trust satisfactorily. Though a farmer of many years' experience and familiar with the needs of that class, he has the additional advantage of being a good lawyer. Hence he is peculiarly fitted to legislate wisely for an agricultural population like that of Shelby county. The farmers of Shelby county could send no one of their fellow-citizens to the Capitol who would better understand their desire and how to act for their benefit. Mr. Chadwick is a good speaker, well posted in the history of the county, and its political parties for half a century. He was a Henry Clay Whig in the days of that great old party, when the tariff was the principal issue, and now that the question has again appeared in politics, Mr. Chadwick will be able to tell the farmers of Shelby county all about it. He has been educated to believe in protective tariff, and as a farmer himself has made a study of the tariff in its relations to the agricultural class. Mr. Chadwick is a man of purest personal character, and universally esteemed. He is liberal in his views, charitable towards the opinions of others, always courteous towards political opponents, and a first-class citizen in all respects. The people of Shelby county would make a mistake if they failed to avail themselves of his services in the Legislature. He is just the kind of man needed at this juncture, and Shelby county has long felt the need of some member in the Legislature who was competent for more than to answer to his name when the roll was called. By sending Mr. Chadwick to the Legislature we will have a member who can exercise influence and do much towards securing such legislation as farmers demand.
Other biographies in this series (see date above) are:
John Clark, Treasurer
Ithamer Spurlin, sheriff
James E. Smith, Commissioner
Andrew Cherry, Comm.
William Henry Barlow, Comm.
William R. Norris, Surveyor
Henry Powell, Coroner
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