| Show AN OLD OHIOAN OH lOANi W W A writing in a late issue of the cleveland Plain dealer gives the following reminiscences of a mao who by name and reputation is known to thousands of our readers enough there are now but comparatively few who saw or knew him personally the stories as to his fear of are of curse mere rubbish and tile the odium which to is spoken of as having attached to him bim because of his bis identify cation with the cormons mormons Mor mons must have been chiefly galling because tile the connection was severed for he was wa re etlee unhappy and unsatisfied until be again sought to renew his bis ment mem barship berB ber bip ship W W A bayt I 1 notice in one of the recent letters or of L E H 11 on mormons cormons and mormon ism iam a reference to oliver cowdery one of the early leading ligh s of the mor mons and I 1 think a coauthor co author of their bible after cowdery left Kt kinland riland her he came to tiffin and commenced the practice of the law he was a small email quiet and retiring man and I 1 remember as a boy of tilleen years year a the rumors that prevailed against him in tiffin he seldom left his house at night andl the windows of his real residence dence were always closely curtained cuna ined aud and his doors constant ly looked locked it was the current impression impressio lm there that because of his desertion des erdon of mormonism he felt that he would be assassinated he presented himself as 0 candidate for ing attorney but the stories about his bis previous connections connection with the then odious church compel belled leda him to 10 withdraw his fame he left tiffin some time lime after afterwards warde went vent to 10 elk horn wis and became prominent pro ir in politics there editing a paper but the mormon story followed him and destroyed his prospects it was said that despairing of success in politics or business outside of mormonism Moi moi monism he returned to its creed and affiliated thereafter until his death with the religionists religion ista of that faith |
