L.B. Tussing Trustee SubdivisionLewis Benton Tussing, Sr., was deputy clerk of Franklin County Probate Court 1880-1885. Tussing received his law degree in 1886 and formed a partnership with W. A. Donaldson, creating the firm of Donaldson and Tussing.
1922 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map showing the houses in the subdivision
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L. Benton Tussing
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Biographical sketch from the 1909 Centennial History of Columbus, "L. Benton Tussing, who since his admission to the bar in 1886 has built up a substantial and remunerative practice in Columbus, the court, records proving his ability by the many verdicts which he has won, has in all of his legal career been actuated not only by a desire for success, but also by the purpose of sustaining unsullied the purposes of the courts as the highest embodiment of justice and equity. Mr. Tussing was born May 28, 1858, on a farm near Pickerington, Fairfield county, Ohio, his parents being the Rev. George N. and Elizabeth (Harmon) Tussing. His father was born in Madison township, Franklin county, near the Fairfield county line, while the mother's birth occurred across the dividing line in Fairfield county. The Tussings were a Virginian family, the grandfather, Nicholas Tussing, removing from Rockingham county, Virginia. to Franklin county in 1800. Ohio was still under territorial rule, and into its vast wilderness the white settlers had scarcely penetrated, for the forests were the haunt of the redmen who found that nature had here made ample provision for their needs in the abundant supply of fish in the lakes and streams and of game in the woods. With the arduous task of reclaiming the region for the uses of the white race and the preparation of civilization Nicholas Tussing became closely identified. About the year 1816 he entered a quarter section of land in Madison township and thereon resided until his demise. In the maternal line L. Benton Tussing is descended from the Harmon family, also pioneers of Ohio. They settled in Fairfield county, where they acquired more than a thousand acres of land. The Rev. George N. Tussing was a Primitive Baptist minister who sowed the seeds of truth and righteousness in this western wilderness. He passed away in 1906 at the advanced age of eighty-four years, while his widow still survives in Columbus at an advanced age.
The life of L. Benton Tussing in the days of his boyhood and youth is not unlike the life story of most boys of that period. The work of the home farm occupied his attention save when school was in session, his tine being then devoted to the acquirement of an education until sixteen years of age. After leaving the common schools he entered Reynoldsburg Academy and later spent four years in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, where he was graduatd in 1879 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. For four or five years he successfully engaged in teaching in the public schools of Franklin county, and then entered the probate court as chief deputy to Judge John T. Gale, remaining as his assistant for five years. In the meantime he was pursuing a course of law study in the office and under the direction of Hon. J. H. Outhwaite, and was admitted to the bar in 1886, since which time he has been successfully practicing in Franklin and adjoining counties. His knowledge of law principles and precedent is comprehensive, and he sees with almost intuitive perception the relation of the points in litigation. His analyzation is at all times logical and his deductions are sound. In 1890 he was a candidate for probate judge, but was defeated by Judge L. D. Hagerty. He has been admitted to the supreme court of the United States, and since becoming a member of the bar has built up an extensive and important practice. While his clientage makes great demands upon his time, he has yet found opportunity for business activity in other lines, and is president of the Dorr Run Coal Mine Company at Nelsonville and of the Reed Coal & Land Company at Welsh, West Virginia. He is likewise the owner of a farm of about four hundred acres in Licking county and to the operation and improvement of this he gives personal supervision.
Mr. Tussing was married to Miss Julia A. Miller, the youngest daughter of Hon. Thomas Miller, a prominent resident of the capital city who at one time was sheriff of Franklin county, was also one of the owners of the Ohio Statesman, a local newspaper, and the original projector of the street railway system of Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Tussing have three children, Reginald M., Mary E. and L. Benton, aged respectively eighteen, fourteen and four years. Mr. Tussing is a member of Magnolia Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and is in hearty sympathy with the beneficent purposes of the craft. He belongs to
both the State and County Bar Associations and is a member of the Baptist church. While his career has been characterized by no exciting chapter, his course has been marked by steady progress that ultimately reaches the objective point, and his success is seen in his invested interests as well as in the gratifying clientage accorded him in the practice of law.
The life of L. Benton Tussing in the days of his boyhood and youth is not unlike the life story of most boys of that period. The work of the home farm occupied his attention save when school was in session, his tine being then devoted to the acquirement of an education until sixteen years of age. After leaving the common schools he entered Reynoldsburg Academy and later spent four years in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, where he was graduatd in 1879 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. For four or five years he successfully engaged in teaching in the public schools of Franklin county, and then entered the probate court as chief deputy to Judge John T. Gale, remaining as his assistant for five years. In the meantime he was pursuing a course of law study in the office and under the direction of Hon. J. H. Outhwaite, and was admitted to the bar in 1886, since which time he has been successfully practicing in Franklin and adjoining counties. His knowledge of law principles and precedent is comprehensive, and he sees with almost intuitive perception the relation of the points in litigation. His analyzation is at all times logical and his deductions are sound. In 1890 he was a candidate for probate judge, but was defeated by Judge L. D. Hagerty. He has been admitted to the supreme court of the United States, and since becoming a member of the bar has built up an extensive and important practice. While his clientage makes great demands upon his time, he has yet found opportunity for business activity in other lines, and is president of the Dorr Run Coal Mine Company at Nelsonville and of the Reed Coal & Land Company at Welsh, West Virginia. He is likewise the owner of a farm of about four hundred acres in Licking county and to the operation and improvement of this he gives personal supervision.
Mr. Tussing was married to Miss Julia A. Miller, the youngest daughter of Hon. Thomas Miller, a prominent resident of the capital city who at one time was sheriff of Franklin county, was also one of the owners of the Ohio Statesman, a local newspaper, and the original projector of the street railway system of Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Tussing have three children, Reginald M., Mary E. and L. Benton, aged respectively eighteen, fourteen and four years. Mr. Tussing is a member of Magnolia Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and is in hearty sympathy with the beneficent purposes of the craft. He belongs to
both the State and County Bar Associations and is a member of the Baptist church. While his career has been characterized by no exciting chapter, his course has been marked by steady progress that ultimately reaches the objective point, and his success is seen in his invested interests as well as in the gratifying clientage accorded him in the practice of law.