Jonas March Tebbetts

Jonas March Tebbetts (January 5, 1820 – January 16, 1913) was an American salesman, reporter, lawyer, prosecutor, judge, abolitionist, unionist, politician, and judge in the United States.

Early life, education, and career He was born in Rochester, New Hampshire. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, and of a committee of the county Democratic Party to nominate representatives for the state legislature. In August 1850, Tebbetts was himself elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives, serving from November 1850 to January 1851, and "earning a reputation as a pro-Union, antislavery Democrat".

Tebbetts became a widower in 1892, while his family was living in Kentucky, and moved to the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, home of his daughter, Lily, where he died at the age of 83.