[4] Bishop Asbury ordained Tiffin a deacon of the Methodist church November 19, 1792, authorizing him to preach.

[7] He arrived with a letter addressed to the governor of the Northwest Territory, Arthur St. Clair from George Washington, recommending him for public office.

"[11] He also voted for the expulsion of the other Ohio Senator, John Smith, who had been implicated in the Burr conspiracy.

Tiffin remarried April 16, 1809, to Mary Porter, originally from Delaware, and then of Ross County.

[14] In 1814, he became the Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory, exchanging positions with Josiah Meigs so that he might spend more time near his home in Chillicothe.

Edward Tiffin, formerly Governor of Ohio, and late Surveyor General of the United States, aged 64 years.

[15] No man who has occupied the gubernatorial chair of Ohio has possessed a greater genius for the administration of public affairs than Edward Tiffin, its first governor.

He appeared upon the scene of action in the Northwest Territory in its creative period, when the work of moulding the destinies of a future commonwealth was committed to the care of a very few men.