Strong, Luther M
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 23, 1838, near Tiffin, Ohio. He enlisted as a private in the fortyninth Ohio volunteer infantry early in 1861, and was elected captain of company Gand promoted to major and lieutenantcolonel. He was senior officer of the regiment and in command thereof from about the time of the fall of Atlanta until after the battle of Nashville; and resigned March 13, 1865, on account of a wound. He is a successful lawyer of Kenton, Ohio; was a member of the board of education for many years; and was elected to the senate of the state of Ohio in 1879 and re-elected in 1881. He was appointed judge of the court of common pleas by Governor Charles Foster to fill a vacancy; and was elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.