Isaiah Pillars was a lawyer in the U.S. state of Ohio who served in the Ohio House of Representatives and was Ohio Attorney General 18781880.
Isaiah Pillars was born March 17, 1833 in Jefferson County, Ohio, and spent part of his youth in Carroll County before being moved to Risden in Seneca County, where his mother died when he was eight years old. At age sixteen, he began teaching school, and attended the Seneca County Academy and Heidelberg College in Tiffin. He read law in the office of his brother James Pillars. He was admitted to the bar at ageand commenced practice at Lima, Ohio in 1855. In 1862 he was made commandant of Camp Lima by Governor Tod with rank Colonel, and organized the 99th, 118th and 81st Ohio Infantry regiments.
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