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History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III,
page 203-204

CYRUS HULING.  In the early years that he was practicing law at Columbus,
Cyrus Huling earned distinction as a famous prosecuting attorney and showed
a skill in conducting complicated causes that brought him all the practice
he could attend to. In his later years, however, he has busied himself with
enterprises of a business rather than a professional nature.

He represents one of the oldest families in America. The Huling ancestry
goes back to the French Huguenots, who as a result of the massacre of St.
Bartholomew in 1572 were scattered abroad to different countries. The
Hulings found refuge in England, and from there about 1650 James Huling
came to America, locating at Newport, Rhode Island, where he died in 1686.
A later descendant and a direct ancestor of Cyrus Huling was Walton Huling
who located in Dutchess County, New York, in 1750. He and his brother John
were signers of the whig pledge adopted ten days after the battle of
Lexington. This pledge originated in New York, and the Huling Brothers were
among the first signers. This bound the signers "under ties of religion,
honor and love to country to adopt and to endeavor to carry into execution
whatsoever measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress or
resolved upon by our Provisional Convention for the purpose of preserving
our Constitution and of opposing the several arbitrary acts of the British
Parliament." Walton Huling was a soldier of the Revolution with the Fifth
Regiment of Dutchess County. He died in 1823. His son, Alexander, became a
soldier in the War of 1812, and was a founder of the family in Ohio in
1820. He died near North Prairie, this state, in 1828.

Nathan Huling, son of Alexander, was born in 1803, and married Eliza
Wickoff. The youngest of their eight children was Cyrus Huling, who was
born on a farm in Seneca County, Ohio, August 10, 1851. A few days after
his birth his mother died, and he was only four years old when his father
passed away. Until he was seventeen he lived with his guardian, Peter
Brayton. Going out to Illinois he expected to follow the career of farming,
but was strongly attracted to the law. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan
University at Delaware with the class of 1878. In the meantime he had
taught school several winters, being principal of the Marysville, Ohio
School two years. In recognition of his scholarship at Ohio Wesleyan
University he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity when it
was established there. Mr. Huling was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1879. He
formed a partnership with John R. Bowdle, a classmate. In 1885 he was
elected prosecuting attorney on the republican ticket in a county that was
democratic by 3,000. The election that year involving the choice of a
United States senator from Ohio was hotly contested in the campaign and at
the polls, and it was found that ballots were tampered with at the
election, some three hundred being cast out. There followed a large amount
of litigation and general scandal and much bitterness. Mr. Huling handled
much of this investigation and trial work as prosecuting attorney. One
tally sheet case with a jury trial which he conducted in December of 1887
occupied over three months in trial. Associated with him on that case were
such distinguished public men and lawyers as Allen G. Thurman, then Untied
states senator, Judge George K. Nash, Col. J.T. Holmes, and the well known
Chicago lawyer, Luther Laflin Mills. Another extended and bitterly fought
case was that of the Elliotts on account of the murder of Osborne, a case
in which editors of rival Sunday papers figured. Mr. Huling was elected
prosecuting attorney in 1888. The fearlessness and ability with which he
had discharged his duties during his first term again enabled him to
overcome a democratic majority of about 2,500.

Mr. Huling in 1892 formed a partnership with Col. J.T. Holmes,and three
years later succeeded Mr. Holmes in his position in the firm. This firm was
the first to occupy the Wyandotte Building on West Broad Street in
Columbus. During the next fifteen years Mr. Huling was constantly engaged
in a large and important practice until other matters gradually absorbed
his energies. Hei s a director of the Columbus McKinnon Chair Company, is
president of the Broadway Company, owner of the Seneca Hotel, is president
of the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Telephone Company and a director in several
other important companies.

He has served as chairman of the State Central Republcian Committee, and
has been a delegate to a number of the national conventions. He is
affiliated with Magnolia Lodge of Masons, Mount Vernon Knight Templar
Commandery, Scioto Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Alladdin Temple of the
Mystic Shrine, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and Elks, and is a
member of the Columbus Club, the Scioto Country Club. He also belongs to
the Ohio State Historical and Archaeological Society.

In 1875 he married miss Rose Marguerite Hack. She is also a graduate of
Ohio Wesleyan University. Three children were born to their marriage, Mary
Wyckoff, wife of William B. Woodbury; Helen, Mrs. Dr. Arthur W. Newell, and
Frank C. Mr. Huling, while not a communicant has been actively associated
with the work of the First Baptist Church and has served on a number of its
committees.