Warren County OhArchives Obituaries.....Dunlevy, Anthony Howard  December 8, 1881
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The Western Star
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Anthony Howard Dunlevy

OBITUARY.

A. H. Dunlevy.

Anthony Howard Dunlevy, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of this
county, died at his residence in Lebanon, Thursday evening, December 1, 1881.
The Dunlevy family are not only prominent in the annals of the county, but the
name is prominent in the pioneer history of the State. The deceased, Anthony
Howard Dunlevy, was a son of Judge Francis Dunlevy, who was born in Winchester,
Virginia, in 1761. The elder Dunlevy was one of the pioneers of Ohio, and was a
prominent actor in the Indian wars. He moved to Columbia, Ohio, 8n 1792, where
he for a time taught a classical school. He was a member of the first
Constitutional Convention of Ohio, and as one of the original anti-slavery men
of that early period, voted to strike the word whit out of the Constitution when
it was before the Convention for adoption. He was the first President Judge of
the Southwestern third of the State, which included the then thriving village of
Cincinnati. Judge Francis Dunlevy died in 1839.

A. H. Dunlevy was born at Columbia, December 21st, 1793 and was therefore at the
time of his death, nearly 88 years of age. He came to Lebanon with his father in
1797. He received a classical education, and was a playmate, school-mate, and
afterward fellow law-student with Thomas Corwin in the office of Joshua Collett,
who was one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Both were admitted to
the bar together in 1817. After his admission to the bar Mr. Dunlevy opened an
office at Lebanon and practiced his profession with success. He was Prosecuting
Attorney of Warren County for four years, and in 1837 a Representative in the
General Assembly of Ohio, but he was never an office-seeker. For many years he
was editor and publisher of THE WESTERN STAR, and continued until the last years
of his life to contribute to its columns, as well as to the newspapers of
Cincinnati. He was the author of many valuable papers on the early history of
Warren County, and wrote a small volume on the History of the Miami Baptist
Association, which was published in 1869. He was through life an opponent of
human slavery, an advocate of temperance, and the earnest friend of education.

In 1818 he was married to Lucinda Corwin, cousin of Thomas Corwin and daughter
of Ichabod Corwin, one of the original proprietors of Lebanon. They lived
together in the marriage relation sixty-three years. She died July 14, 1881, in
the eighty-first year of her age.

Mr. Dunlevy was a member of the East Baptist Church at Lebanon, and lived and
died a Christian. He had the full use of his mental faculties and was perfectly
rational until the last. He was sensible of his approaching death and talked of
it as calmly as of any other event. With one who had been so long and so
faithfully devoted to the service of Christ death could have no terrors. He
passed calmly away in the triumph of a faith which was full of the promise of
immortal happiness.

Thus ended a long and well spent life. The deceased believed before the close of
his life, that he was the oldest living person born north-west of the Ohio
river, and that he was the oldest living lawyer of Ohio. He leaves a number of
children, grand children and great great grandchildren.

Source: The Western Star 8 Dec 1881 [copy obtained from obituary collection at
the Warren County Genealogical Society]


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