Asper, Joel F
soldier, journalist, congressman, was born April 20, 1822, in Adams county, Pa. He studied law and came to the bar in 1844, writing frequently for the newspapers; was elected a justice of the peace in 1846, and in 1847 prosecuting attorney for his county. He was a delegate to the Buffalo convention of 1848; editor of the Western Reserve Chronicle in 1849, and of the Chardon Democrat in 1850. In 1861 he raised a company and was mustered into the volunteer army as captain, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1866 he started a paper at Chillicothe, Mo., called the Spectator, and, while editing that journal and practicing law, was, in 1868, elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-first congress. He died Oct. 1, 1872, in Chillicothe, Mo.