Axtell, Samuel B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Oct. 14, 1819, in Franklin county, Ohio. He was educated at Oberlin, and Western Reserve colleges; studied and practiced law; emigrated to California in 1851; and was elected a representative from that state to the fortieth and forty-first congresses.
In 1874 he was appointed governor of Utah; in 1875 was appointed to the same position in New Mexico; in 1876 was selected as one of the judges at the Centennial exhibition; and in 1882 was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of New Mexico.