Ebenezer Lane was a lawyer from the U.S. State of Ohio who served on the Ohio Supreme Court 1830 to 1845. From 1840 until his retirement, he was Chief Justice. Youth Ebenezer Lane was born September 17, 1793 at Northampton, Massachusetts. His father was Captain Ebenezer Lane, a seaman and later a farmer, and his mother was Marian Griswold Chandler Lane, daughter of Matthew Griswold, Governor of Connecticut, and first married to Charles E. Chandler, before marrying Capt. Ebenezer Lane. He enrolled in a boarding school at Leicester, Worcester County, Massachusetts at age eight and at Harvard University at age fourteen, graduating in 1811. Harvard awarded him an honorary Doctor of Law in 1850. He studied law at Lyme, Connecticut under his uncle, Judge Matthew Griswold, and was admitted to the bar in 1814. He practiced at Norwalk, Connecticut beginning Sept. 14, 1814 and moved to Windsor Hill, Connecticut in 1815 to practice. He was named a notary public for Hartford County, Connecticut by Governor John Cotton Smith on May 21, 1816. Move to Ohio On February 20, 1817, Lane left New England with his step-brother, Herman Ely. They travelled by wagon and arrived in Ohio, where Ely owned 10, 423 acres at the future site of Elyria, Ohio, on March 17. He purchased a farm in Elyria, and walked back to New England in twenty days in October and November 1817. He returned by stage to Ohio in February, 1818, and returned to Connecticut by October 1, 1818. He was married October 11, 1818 to Frances Ann Griswold of Lyme, Connecticut, daughter of Roger Griswold, former Governor. The new couple moved immediately to their farm in Elyria. Public service In May, 1819, Lane was elected prosecuting attorney for Huron County, Ohio, and the family moved to Norwalk, Ohio, the county seat, in October, 1819. On February 17, 1824, the Ohio General Assembly elected Lane president judge of the second judicial circuit for a seven-year term, requiring him to travel to courthouses in each county of his circuit to preside. The General Assembly elected Lane to a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court on December 18, 1830 for a seven-year term. He received his commission from Ohio Governor Duncan McArthur on December 31, 1830. He was elected to two more terms, but tendered his resignation to Governor Thomas W. Bartley on December 20, 1844, with an effective date of February