- Joshua Mathiot
Joshua Mathiot (
April 4 ,1800 -July 30 ,1849 ) was a U.S. Representative fromOhio .Born in
Connellsville, Pennsylvania , Mathiot moved toNewark, Ohio , about 1830.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Newark.He served as prosecuting attorney 1832-1836.He served as mayor of Newark in 1834.Mathiot was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (
March 4 ,1841 -March 3 ,1843 ). Grand worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance in Ohio, and while attending a temperance convention at Sandusky contracted cholera, from which he died inNewark, Ohio ,July 30 ,1849 .He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery.ource
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