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Ward, Durbin 1819-1886
Lawyer; born in Augusta, Ky., Feb. 11, 1819; settled in Fayette county, Ind.; admitted to the bar in 1842; prosecuting attorney of Warren county, O., in 1845-51; served throughout the Civil War; won distinction at the battle of Chickamauga, where he was severely wounded; promoted lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 31, 1862, and brevetted brigadiergeneral in October, 1865; was United States attorney for the southern district of Ohio in 1866-68; elected to the State Senate in 1870; and drew up the plan of the present circuit court system of Ohio.
He died in Lebanon, O., May 22, 1886.