Constitutional Conventions.
In the Constitutional Convention that met in Cin- cinnati in 1851 and adopted Ohio's present constitu- tion. Perry county was represented by John Lidey, of Reading township. Mr. Lidey was a soldier in the war of 1812 and at one time represented Perry county in the lower House of the Legislature. In 1871 the people of Ohio again voted for a Convention. It met in 1873 and our county was represented by Col. Ly- man J. Jackson. Col Jackson was a descendent from New England Puritans and has the reputation of being141
the First Volunteer from Perry County in the Civil War. At that time he was Prosecuting Attorney of the county, but resigned to organize a company of which he was Captain. He was afterward appointed Colonel of the 159th O. V. I. After the war he repre- sented the Fifteenth District, consisting of Perry and Muskingum counties, in the Ohio Senate. The Con- stitution of 1871 was never ratified by the people of Ohio became of the clause licensing the liquor traffic.142