Jessup Nash Couch

Jessup Couch was born on August 3, 1778, in Redding, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale University in 1802.^[1] He came to Chillicothe, Ohio from Connecticut in 1808.^[2] He was elected to represent Ross County, Ohio in the Ohio House of Representatives for the 7th General assembly, (December, 1808 – February, 1809).^[3] Couch was a trustee of Ohio University from 1809 until 1821.^[4]

Couch was appointed July 25, 1815 by Governor Thomas Worthington to fill a vacancy on the Ohio Supreme Court caused by the resignation of Thomas Scott, until the next term would start in February 1816.^[5] He was elected to a seven-year term by the legislature, beginning February 1816.^[5] He served until his death by consumption.^[2] Couch, who never married, died June 30, 1821, aged 42, in Columbus, Ohio.^[5]

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• Gilkey, Elliott Howard, ed. (1901). The Ohio Hundred Year Book: a Handbook of the Public Men and Public Institutions of Ohio ... State of Ohio.
• Reed, George Irving; Randall, Emilius Oviatt; Greve, Charles Theodore, eds. (1897). Bench and Bar of Ohio: a Compendium of History and Biography. Vol. 1. Chicago: Century Publishing and Engraving Company.
• Ohio General Assembly (1917). Manual of legislative practice in the General Assembly. State of Ohio.
• Walker, Charles M (1869). History of Athens County, Ohio And Incidentally of the Ohio Land Company and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta etc. Robert Clarke & Co. pp. 346–348. Couch.