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William Griswold Lane
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William Griswold Lane was born in Norwalk, Ohio in 1824 to
Ebenezer Lane and Frances Griswold. When William was twelve years old he
became acquainted with fellow student
Rutherford B. Hayes, at the Maple Grove Academy, in Middletown,
Connecticut. They became lifelong friends. William Lane attended college at
Yale and Harvard, and spent a year studying law in Berlin, Germany.
After returning to the United States, William practiced law with his father.
In 1850, William married Elizabeth Diodate Griswold. In February 1873
William G. Lane was appointed Judge of Common Pleas for the Fourth Judicial
District.
William G. Lane died in October 1877, at the age of 52. Resolutions from the
Court and Bar of Erie County appeared in the Sandusky Register. One
resolution stated “In this death, the bench and bar have lost an able,
impartial and upright Judge – one of the most esteemed, high minded and
scholarly members of the profession – and this community a citizen of great
mental and moral worth – a man just, honorable and honest in all his
dealings with his fellow men and conscientious and faithful in the discharge
of all the public and private duties that devolved upon him. While we mourn
his loss we delight to honor his memory.”
The Lane family monument at
Oakland Cemetery is a beautiful sculpture in honor of William Griswold
Lane and his family. I.F. Mack wrote in an article in the June 1882
Firelands Pioneer, that Judge William G. Lane was “without doubt, the
wisest counsellor we ever had at our bar.”
A memorial tribute to Judge William G. Lane is on file at the library at
the
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio.
A view below of the Lane Family monument at Oakland Cemetery in Sandusky,
Ohio. Several family members’ names are inscribed on the stone. |
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Thanks to Dorene Paul, Reference Assistant at the Sandusky Library, for
sending this information.
Visit the library at:
http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/2008/10/william-griswold-lane.html |
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