Excerpts from Ohio State Journal
October 1869
John Chenoweth of Lisbon, Ohio, aged 52 yrs 1 mo 18 ds, died by suicide after cutting his own throat with a jack knife in his room at the Exchange Hotel in Columbus, Ohio late Sunday night, Oct 3, 1869. He arrived in Columbus on his way home from a pleasure and business trip in which he spent several weeks traveling to Niagara, New York and other points east. He stopped to visit his personal friend there, W F Herbert, who later stated to investigators that he was very concerned at John's highly unusual mental state, in which he appeared to be overly anxious and nervous, hysterically telling him he was being followed by three men from Rochester who were going to rob and kill him. Mr. Herbert saw no evidence that this was true and tried to calm him. John retired to his room at about 10 pm and when Mr. Herbert could not rouse him by the next afternoon he suspicioned something was very wrong and entered the locked room through an outside window where he sadly found John Chenoweth lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Authorities concluded that he apparently had gone insane, causing such a distressing mental unbalance that it drove him to take his own life.
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According to his death date and age, John was born on Aug 16, 1817 in Ohio, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Watson Chenoweth. A bachelor and prominent citizen of Clark County, he was a successful business man in the occupation of farming and cattle trading in which he had greatly profited. He was known to be a very well-tempered man in all his ways but his family said he had lately been experiencing periods of melancholy.
His remains were brought to South Charleston from Columbus on Tuesday, Oct 5th and the funeral service was held on Wednesday, October 6th with interment in the Lisbon Cemetery.
Bio by CarolMHSmith, ref: excerpts from accumulated facts in investigation and death report.
Birthdate calculated by age and death date
October 1869
John Chenoweth of Lisbon, Ohio, aged 52 yrs 1 mo 18 ds, died by suicide after cutting his own throat with a jack knife in his room at the Exchange Hotel in Columbus, Ohio late Sunday night, Oct 3, 1869. He arrived in Columbus on his way home from a pleasure and business trip in which he spent several weeks traveling to Niagara, New York and other points east. He stopped to visit his personal friend there, W F Herbert, who later stated to investigators that he was very concerned at John's highly unusual mental state, in which he appeared to be overly anxious and nervous, hysterically telling him he was being followed by three men from Rochester who were going to rob and kill him. Mr. Herbert saw no evidence that this was true and tried to calm him. John retired to his room at about 10 pm and when Mr. Herbert could not rouse him by the next afternoon he suspicioned something was very wrong and entered the locked room through an outside window where he sadly found John Chenoweth lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Authorities concluded that he apparently had gone insane, causing such a distressing mental unbalance that it drove him to take his own life.
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According to his death date and age, John was born on Aug 16, 1817 in Ohio, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Watson Chenoweth. A bachelor and prominent citizen of Clark County, he was a successful business man in the occupation of farming and cattle trading in which he had greatly profited. He was known to be a very well-tempered man in all his ways but his family said he had lately been experiencing periods of melancholy.
His remains were brought to South Charleston from Columbus on Tuesday, Oct 5th and the funeral service was held on Wednesday, October 6th with interment in the Lisbon Cemetery.
Bio by CarolMHSmith, ref: excerpts from accumulated facts in investigation and death report.
Birthdate calculated by age and death date
Excerpts from Ohio State Journal
October 1869
John Chenoweth of Lisbon, Ohio, aged 52 yrs 1 mo 18 ds, died by suicide after cutting his own throat with a jack knife in his room at the Exchange Hotel in Columbus, Ohio late Sunday night, Oct 3, 1869. He arrived in Columbus on his way home from a pleasure and business trip in which he spent several weeks traveling to Niagara, New York and other points east. He stopped to visit his personal friend there, W F Herbert, who later stated to investigators that he was very concerned at John's highly unusual mental state, in which he appeared to be overly anxious and nervous, hysterically telling him he was being followed by three men from Rochester who were going to rob and kill him. Mr. Herbert saw no evidence that this was true and tried to calm him. John retired to his room at about 10 pm and when Mr. Herbert could not rouse him by the next afternoon he suspicioned something was very wrong and entered the locked room through an outside window where he sadly found John Chenoweth lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Authorities concluded that he apparently had gone insane, causing such a distressing mental unbalance that it drove him to take his own life.
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According to his death date and age, John was born on Aug 16, 1817 in Ohio, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Watson Chenoweth. A bachelor and prominent citizen of Clark County, he was a successful business man in the occupation of farming and cattle trading in which he had greatly profited. He was known to be a very well-tempered man in all his ways but his family said he had lately been experiencing periods of melancholy.
His remains were brought to South Charleston from Columbus on Tuesday, Oct 5th and the funeral service was held on Wednesday, October 6th with interment in the Lisbon Cemetery.
Bio by CarolMHSmith, ref: excerpts from accumulated facts in investigation and death report.
Birthdate calculated by age and death date
October 1869
John Chenoweth of Lisbon, Ohio, aged 52 yrs 1 mo 18 ds, died by suicide after cutting his own throat with a jack knife in his room at the Exchange Hotel in Columbus, Ohio late Sunday night, Oct 3, 1869. He arrived in Columbus on his way home from a pleasure and business trip in which he spent several weeks traveling to Niagara, New York and other points east. He stopped to visit his personal friend there, W F Herbert, who later stated to investigators that he was very concerned at John's highly unusual mental state, in which he appeared to be overly anxious and nervous, hysterically telling him he was being followed by three men from Rochester who were going to rob and kill him. Mr. Herbert saw no evidence that this was true and tried to calm him. John retired to his room at about 10 pm and when Mr. Herbert could not rouse him by the next afternoon he suspicioned something was very wrong and entered the locked room through an outside window where he sadly found John Chenoweth lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Authorities concluded that he apparently had gone insane, causing such a distressing mental unbalance that it drove him to take his own life.
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According to his death date and age, John was born on Aug 16, 1817 in Ohio, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Watson Chenoweth. A bachelor and prominent citizen of Clark County, he was a successful business man in the occupation of farming and cattle trading in which he had greatly profited. He was known to be a very well-tempered man in all his ways but his family said he had lately been experiencing periods of melancholy.
His remains were brought to South Charleston from Columbus on Tuesday, Oct 5th and the funeral service was held on Wednesday, October 6th with interment in the Lisbon Cemetery.
Bio by CarolMHSmith, ref: excerpts from accumulated facts in investigation and death report.
Birthdate calculated by age and death date
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JOHN CHENOWETH
DIED OCT. 3, 1869
AGED 52 Y. 1 M. & 18 D.
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