RICHLAND COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: LONG, Judge Thomas B. (published 1875)
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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA
Richard S. Peale & Co., Publishers, 1875
Page 672

                                JUDGE THOMAS B. LONG
        Judge Thomas B. Long was born near the city of Mansfield, in
Richland county, Ohio, on the twenty-fifth day of October, 1836. His
father's family subsequently lived in Mansfield, Bucyrus, and Springfield,
in that State, and in 1846 removed to the city of Terre Haute, where they
have since continuously resided. Here the subject of this sketch received
an academical education, embracing the studies usually pursued in the
colleges of the land. In 1854, he entered the law office of Hon. R.W.
Thompson, as a student, where he remained for several years, during which
he attended lectures in the law department of the Cincinnati college, and
graduated in the spring of 1856. In the fall of this year he was elected
district attorney for the court of common pleas, and about the same time
was engaged as editor of one of the daily papers of the city, which
position he filled for about two years, when he withdrew for the purpose of
devoting his entire attention to the practice of his profession. In 1860,
he was placed upon the presidential ticket of the Union party as a
candidate for elector, in which capacity he canvassed his district wherever
his services were called for; but, seeing the hopelessness of the success
of his party, he urged all wavering voters to support Stephen A. Douglas
for president. From this time he applied himself diligently to his
professional pursuits and literary studies until the fall of 1870, when he
was elected by the democratic party as judge of the criminal circuit court,
which position he filled so acceptably that, in 1874 -although political
feeling ran high -he received the nomination of both parties, and was
re-elected without opposition.
        Judge Long is a fluent speaker and a graceful writer, and has
acquired some fame as a poet, by various fugitive pieces, and a number of
ballads and songs, which have been set to music and published in the
principal cities of the country.

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