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MORDECAI BARTLEY, performed a great service, in that he was the first person to propose in congress conversion of the Section Sixteen lands into a permanent fund for support of the common schools, and by his influence secured passage of law to this end. Mordecai Bartley, thirteenth governor of Ohio, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1783 and in 1809 settled near Mingo. He was adjutant of the Jefferson County regiment in the War of 1812, and afterwards settled in Richland County. He served four terms in congress during which he procured this inportant piece of school legislation.  Return to Family Tales
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