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Edward Tiffin : ウィキペディア英語版 | Edward Tiffin
Edward Tiffin (June 19, 1766August 9, 1829) was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio, and first Governor of the state. ==Biography== Sources indicate that he was born in Carlisle;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Edward Tiffin )〕 however he may have been born in or near Workington〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Ancestors of James Monroe Tiffin )〕 — also in the then county of Cumberland, England. Tiffin attended the Latin school in Carlisle, and became an apprentice to a student of medicine in 1778. Six years later he completed his apprenticeship.〔 His family emigrated to Virginia in 1783,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Ancestors of James Monroe Tiffin )〕 and he began practicing medicine at the age of seventeen.〔 In 1789, he married Mary Worthington of Berkeley County, sister of future Governor of Ohio Thomas Worthington. She died, childless, in 1808. A year after their marriage, the Tiffins joined the Methodist church after hearing the preaching of Thomas Scott, who would be their neighbor and friend for many years.〔Gilmore 1897 : 4〕 Bishop Asbury ordained Tiffin a deacon of the Methodist church November 19, 1792, authorizing him to preach.〔Gilmore 1897 : 5〕 Tiffin and Worthington inherited sixteen slaves when Worthington's father died. They each decided to manumit their slaves and move to the Northwest Territory, where slavery was outlawed.〔Gilmore 1897 : 6〕 Tiffin headed westward, along with Thomas Worthington, in 1798, settling in Chillicothe, Ohio.
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