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 | | His son, Hugh Boyle Ewing (1326-1905), served throughout the Civil War in the Federal armies, rising from the rank of colonel (r861) to that of brigadier-general (1862) and brevet majorgeneral (1865), and commanding brigades at An,tietam and Vicksburg and a division at Chickamauga; and was minister of the United States to the Netherlands in 1866I87o. |
 | | Another son, Thomas Ewing (1829-1896), studied at Brown University in 1852-1854 (in 1894, by a special vote, he was placed on the list of graduates in the class of 1856); he was a lawyer and a freestate politician in Kansas in 1857-1861, and was the first chiefjustice of the Kansas supreme court (1861i862). |
 | | Thomas graduated at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, in i815, and in August i816 was admitted to the bar at Lancaster, where he won high rank as an, advocate. |
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