Background

O’Neall, John Belton was born on April 10, 1793 in Bush River, Newberry District, South Carolina, United States. Son of Hugh and Anne (Kelly) O’N.

Education

Graduate South Carolina. College, 1812.

Career

Admitted to bar, 1814. Entered South Carolina. Militia, rose to major general by 1825.

Became member in South Carolina.

Legislature from Newberry District, 1816, speaker of house, 1822-1828. Elected South Carolina. circuit judge, 1828.

Member South Carolina. Court Appeals, 1830-1835.

Member South Carolina.

Court Law Appeals, circa 1835-1863. President Court Law Appeals and Court of Errors, 1850. Chief justice South Carolina., 1859.

President South Carolina.

Temperance Society, 1841. Became member Sons of Temperance, 1849, state president, 1850, national president, 1852.

Wrote column Drunkard’s Looking Glass in South Carolina. Temperance Advocate; president Columbia and Greenville Railroad President Newberry Agricultural Society.

Trustee South Carolina.

College, 40 years; president Newberry Baptist Bible Society Author: The Negro Law of South Carolina, 1848. Annals of Newberry, 1858.

The Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina, 2 volumes, 1859.

Achievements

• John Belton O’Neall has been listed as a reputable jurist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member South Carolina. Court Appeals, 1830-1835. Member South Carolina.

Court Law Appeals, circa 1835-1863.

Connections

Married Helen Pope, June 25, 1818.

Father:

Hugh O’North.

Mother:

Anne (Kelly) O’North.

Spouse:

Helen Pope