Joseph Benham

[1] In his book Old Court House, Judge Carter reported that Benham "wore a large buff vest and a brown broadcloth frock coat.

[4] Ten years later, in 1835, Benham became one of three law professors at the Cincinnati College where Jacob Burnet (an associate of his father in the first popularly elected legislature in Ohio) served on the board of trustees.

[5] In 1839 Benham was one of several persons interviewed by the Ohio Democratic Party to possibly receive their nomination to the U.S. Senate to replace U.S.

On January 1, 1858, he was re-interred in the Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati; his wife Maria was buried there July 3, 1884.

Their son, Calhoun Benham, became a U.S. District Attorney for California, and later served in the Confederate Army.